I think the gaming community would shrink considerably if all the on screen action had to be performed 1:1... The Street Fighter tourneys would be a must see event!
The whole, "using in-game currency to pay for the subscription." seems like a good idea. Could it apply to free to play business models as a whole, where dedicated players can earn their subscription and premium content.
It makes me sad that PS3 owners never got a chance to play through ME1... Never got to talk down Wrex, never had to decided if Kaiden or Ashley died... Having played through all three I couldn't imagine just jumping into ME2...
As far as I'm aware, with the companies that have gone under in the UK, if you have bought a gift card or have some sort of credit with a company (pre-orders, pre-purchase etc.) you are classed as a creditor to that company so when the administrators come in and start counting up the assets whatever is recoverable is used to pay off the companies debts to it creditors. The unfortunate situation is that the thousands of people with gift cards and pre-orders are a very long way down the list of creditors and after the big boys are done with the company there is rarely enough to make the effort of claiming the tiny percentage your £10 gift card affords you. It basically comes down to, the company can't give you what it hasn't got... Not really fair but there it is... And spare a thought for the poor folk who still have their jobs but have the sword of unemployment swinging over their heads who have to deal with rightfully angry customers...
I might be in the minority here, but I like the ending as it stands. I think the point a lot of people are missing is that this was Shepard's story, one in which his whole battle against indoctrination makes sense, but it's not the end of galaxy's story or this reaper cycle...
Japanese hardware sales, March 19 - 25: April Fools' Day edition
Apr 2nd 2012 2:24AM (Joystiq)Assassin's Creed on Kinect makes people look like Fools, also it's April
Apr 1st 2012 7:24PM (Joystiq)Transformers: Fall of Cybertron devs explain how gameplay has transformed
Mar 29th 2012 12:06PM (Joystiq)EVE Online players can use in-game currency to pay for real-life graphics cards
Mar 27th 2012 4:06AM (Joystiq)EVE Online players can use in-game currency to pay for real-life graphics cards
Mar 26th 2012 7:45PM (Joystiq)Amazon knocks some space bucks off Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 downloads this week
Mar 26th 2012 5:39PM (Joystiq)277 GAME stores shuttered, 40% of workforce let go, gift cards suspended
Mar 26th 2012 5:31PM (Joystiq)Child's Play shuts down fundraiser aimed at changing Mass Effect 3's ending
Mar 26th 2012 2:40AM (Joystiq)Japanese hardware sales, March 12 - 18: Mad Men edition
Mar 26th 2012 12:54AM (Joystiq)Rumor: More Virtua Fighters discovered in Dead or Alive 5's demo code
Mar 23rd 2012 5:39PM (Joystiq)