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S.T.A.G.E. on 05 February 2011
endoftheworld166 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Kantor said:

Releasing a year-late port at full price is never a good idea, and almost without exception, your game will bomb.

Why would PS3 owners who have never played Mass Effect suddenly want to buy this shiny but still old RPG with its complicated universe, when for the same price, they could buy a brand new game?

They don't know what they're missing, but they'rle not going to pay $60 to find out.


Mass Effect 2 is worth more that 3/5 of the PS3's library. It is worth the money, especially with all the DLC. I have put 35 hours into the game and I am still not finish with my first play through. This is with all of the DLC.

2/5s of ps3 library is 258 games, so yeah why would anyone pay full price for an old game when there are 258 better games


Then I retract my statement. Mass Effect 2 is better than the majority of the PS3 library (including some exclusives). If it wasn't for the PS3 getting Mass Effect 2 I would've bought another Xbox. That triology is the only reason I kept buying xboxes.



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heruamon on 05 February 2011
themanwithnoname said:
heruamon said:
Darth Tigris said:
Reasonable said:

I know, but what it means is that MS is often exposed to the risk of loss of exclusives, particularly now when globally, most popular titles sell roughly the same on each console.  For most developers this means multi is the safest route to go.  I don't mean MS has to own the studios outright, but it should engage in deals where it owns the IP fully and the developer is just developing it.  That way they keep control.

The whole 'sorta exclusive' is just a weak position to be in IMHO.

Your average 360 owner, though, doesn't really care about if a game is exclusive or not.  They just want to know if they can play it on the 360.

As for the ip/dev situation you mentioned, I'd really be suprised if the really talented independent studios out there would agree to a work-for-hire situation like that.  Most really want to retain the rights more than anything.

 

 

My major gripe is that the game only got ONE decent DLC (Lair of the Shadow Broker), when it had been promised that we would receive major content.  I wasted my credits downloading all those worthless ones that could have been packaged in one decent DLC for a lot cheaper price.  I'm pretty disgusted with Bioware and EA over the piss poor DLCs the game received.  I just want ME3 to conclude the series, and I'm not getting ANY MORE DLC after that game is over.

Overlord's good too. I'd like a full blown expansion pack for once, instead of these small add-ons.

 

Yeah...overlord wasn't that bad...but they should have bundled ALL of them into one $19.99 expansion ala GT4 and maybe do 3 of those...one in the early fall...one in early spring, and one in late Fall, to lead into ME3.  Mass Effect gamers have invested a lot of time into the universe, and I just felt we got shafted by Bioware and EA...which is fine, since I'll probably Gamefly ME3 when it's launch, to show them my appreciation.



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oniyide on 05 February 2011

@carl2291  holy crap!!! thats not that great all things considered. Its sad that it sold that little its really a good game and should have more sales. I wonder why the ME2 sales are so inflated???



S.T.A.G.E. on 05 February 2011
heruamon said:
Darth Tigris said:
Reasonable said:

I know, but what it means is that MS is often exposed to the risk of loss of exclusives, particularly now when globally, most popular titles sell roughly the same on each console.  For most developers this means multi is the safest route to go.  I don't mean MS has to own the studios outright, but it should engage in deals where it owns the IP fully and the developer is just developing it.  That way they keep control.

The whole 'sorta exclusive' is just a weak position to be in IMHO.

Your average 360 owner, though, doesn't really care about if a game is exclusive or not.  They just want to know if they can play it on the 360.

As for the ip/dev situation you mentioned, I'd really be suprised if the really talented independent studios out there would agree to a work-for-hire situation like that.  Most really want to retain the rights more than anything.

My major gripe is that the game only got ONE decent DLC (Lair of the Shadow Broker), when it had been promised that we would receive major content.  I wasted my credits downloading all those worthless ones that could have been packaged in one decent DLC for a lot cheaper price.  I'm pretty disgusted with Bioware and EA over the piss poor DLCs the game received.  I just want ME3 to conclude the series, and I'm not getting ANY MORE DLC after that game is over.

 


Theres one more major bit of content coming and then Bioware is letting go of Mass Effect 2 support for good.



S.T.A.G.E. on 05 February 2011
oniyide said:

@carl2291  holy crap!!! thats not that great all things considered. Its sad that it sold that little its really a good game and should have more sales. I wonder why the ME2 sales are so inflated???


The whole point is to garner more support for Mass Effect 3 across all systems. By the time Mass Effect 3 comes out the PS3 should have nearly 600-800k copies of Mass Effect 2 sold. All the support should help towards Mass Effect 3 selling nearly 4 million or more across all platforms.



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Uberkiffer on 05 February 2011

All I can say is that unless it cost very little to make ME2 for the PS3, this is another example of EA's poor company strategy.  I love ME, and I am stoked that more users can have the opportunity to play the game.  I think this is simply a case of "hey, ME sells great on PC and 360, lets put it on ps3.. oh we can't put ME1 on there, so lets put ME2 on there a full year after release on the others." Brilliant!  I do not see how this is profitable, or how they thought it could be, whatsoever.  Oh well, gamers get the win!



heruamon on 05 February 2011
Uberkiffer said:

All I can say is that unless it cost very little to make ME2 for the PS3, this is another example of EA's poor company strategy.  I love ME, and I am stoked that more users can have the opportunity to play the game.  I think this is simply a case of "hey, ME sells great on PC and 360, lets put it on ps3.. oh we can't put ME1 on there, so lets put ME2 on there a full year after release on the others." Brilliant!  I do not see how this is profitable, or how they thought it could be, whatsoever.  Oh well, gamers get the win!

It will sell 1million LTD...according to some...time will tell.



"...You can't kill ideas with a sword, and you can't sink belief structures with a broadside. You defeat them by making them change..."

- From By Schism Rent Asunder

oniyide on 05 February 2011

@S.T.A.G.E  I was referring to the actually ME2 PC, 360 and DD sales. according to the link that was posted, ME2 had sold about 1.6mil, period. that includes all those platfoms. I thought it had done much better and it seems that VGC might have overtracked it. Which sucks cause im 12 hours in and im loving it. sure acutally fighting can be more fluid but its all good. 



endoftheworld166 on 05 February 2011
S.T.A.G.E. said:
endoftheworld166 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Kantor said:

Releasing a year-late port at full price is never a good idea, and almost without exception, your game will bomb.

Why would PS3 owners who have never played Mass Effect suddenly want to buy this shiny but still old RPG with its complicated universe, when for the same price, they could buy a brand new game?

They don't know what they're missing, but they'rle not going to pay $60 to find out.


Mass Effect 2 is worth more that 3/5 of the PS3's library. It is worth the money, especially with all the DLC. I have put 35 hours into the game and I am still not finish with my first play through. This is with all of the DLC.

2/5s of ps3 library is 258 games, so yeah why would anyone pay full price for an old game when there are 258 better games


Then I retract my statement. Mass Effect 2 is better than the majority of the PS3 library (including some exclusives). If it wasn't for the PS3 getting Mass Effect 2 I would've bought another Xbox. That triology is the only reason I kept buying xboxes.

A majority is only 51% which is less then 3/5ths, simple math is fun, I'm just messing with you but seriously use common sense and check your facts before making statements like that lol



S.T.A.G.E. on 05 February 2011
Uberkiffer said:

All I can say is that unless it cost very little to make ME2 for the PS3, this is another example of EA's poor company strategy.  I love ME, and I am stoked that more users can have the opportunity to play the game.  I think this is simply a case of "hey, ME sells great on PC and 360, lets put it on ps3.. oh we can't put ME1 on there, so lets put ME2 on there a full year after release on the others." Brilliant!  I do not see how this is profitable, or how they thought it could be, whatsoever.  Oh well, gamers get the win!


Bioware and EA are happy with the sales, but this came way before EA as a company had billions in losses. Lets hope Crysis 2 helps. I seriously doubt it will because no one but serious gamers know of the title.