Lostplanet22 said:
Your 25% is just a wild guess and all a big 'IF'. And Cliffy B heard a lot of Doom in his years.
Posted by Unrealfan27:
Dear Epic and Cliffy B.
First of all I wanted to say thanks for giving me a great times with your games and for listening all this years to your fans.
Sadly I can not say I am still happy and i am really sorry to know that my favourite company will go down fast.
Who's stupid idea is it to make Gears of war an Exclusive for Xbox 360? First of all it were the PC gamers that made Epic big and so you screw us
with making one major game exclusive for Xbox 360. I guarantee you that 90% of the Epic fans will not buy it. Pay to play it online on a console that will not sell? I really hope that after the game flopped you will still have enough money to make other games because I will be sad to see you go down.
Greets one of your biggest fans.
This is like one of the most civil reactions Epic and especially Cliffy got. He got a lot of hatemail some were treating his wife (while he was not married). And he totally proved them all wrong and made Gears of war one of the most biggest franchises of this generation... People go so far to get tatoos buy books and comics and maybe still a movie coming!!!
And you know what is sad? Cliffy felt sorry and made Gears of war also on PC later (people can fly made the port) and it sold horrible when the game was free to play online, had more story content and extra missions , more maps and even a map creator...
Cliffy B could easy laughed with the ones who said his Gears of war was going to be a failure, he could do it on a lot of occassions and he didn't. I feel very hard to disagree with him on plenty of occassions and I believe in him making an always online game a success.
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but why implement something that is no cost to you? even with the bad port of Gears it still cost them something to make it, I find it hard to belive that thery're losing money from having offline feature(s). but I think our conversation in getting lost in gears; though epic games probably has the money to run their servers for quite some time, but what about the smaller devs or indie devs who're trying to put themselves on the map? it's not that certain companies wouldn't make a profit but they're definitely losing out on some serious money if my said example happened.
the thing is IF this were to be implemented one would not truly own their game; companies will eventually have to end online services for a game and that would make the players copy obsolete. I don't know about I still play some old games from about 10+ years ago. not everyone buys the console of the current gen, I still see people buying PS2's from gamestop!(though I think that coming to an end) Say some kid buys game years down the line only to find out that it's just a lump of plasctic because the online services have been terminated.
