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greenmedic88 on 10 November 2010
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darthdevidem01 said:
greenmedic88 said:
darthdevidem01 said:
Lyrikalstylez said:

I aplaud all you purchasers for Destroying the videogam industry!!!

Expect loser Activision to release one every year

Not sure how this is "destroying" the industry

The game seems to be good in terms of quality.

He probably means "I'm not a CoD player and would like to see a franchise that I am enthusiastic about sell as well instead." 

Or he may just be one of those guys who frowns on any franchise getting "too comfortable" to the point where it gets guaranteed sales records despite doing little to push the envelope by simply giving mainstream gamers more of what they want. 

But if a game sells over 10m copies, I'm really not sure how that's "killing the industry" by generating tons of revenue and mainstream media attention. 

Excellent post!

And I agree with the bolded!

One argument he could use though is COD: Black Ops resulting in attention going away from New IP's causing them to have lower sales....but the again thats life. Any market has that kind of a problem, from the movie business to other things.

That would be the "RDR Effect." It literally stole sales from all other games that launched within the same timeframe (like Alan Wake) by simply offering the best play value for mainstream players. 

Although in all fairness, RDR was a brand new IP, not without risk. 

And anyone releasing a game in the same timeframe as a CoD game, should know their intended audience well enough so as to avoid losing too many sales to the current most popular FPS franchise. 

Besides, who actually argues that blockbusters are "bad for the industry" because they command more sales clout than the competition?