| Azzanation said: |
Honestly ... I don't even know if I disagree with you. Your points are very confusing and sometimes don't even seem like they're about the same topic .. ?
First I responded when you were talking about Tomb Raider's developers and how they should have "stuck to their guns" just like Platinum and kept the game exclusive (how is it sticking to your guns if the plan was never for the game to be permanently exclusive?). I responded by saying that would make the game sell less than half of what it's currently sold, and how that wouldn't be a good business move.
Somehow my response to that lead to you talking about how people always want exclusives but then bitch when they get them? Uhhh ... that's not what we were talking about at all and is completely random. Unless your point is that the backlash against the game's exclusivity made the PS4 version sell more because people were mad at the exclusivity ... which doesn't make any sense.
Then you said your point was that developers should be able to tell people to fuck off and keep exclusivity ... which is odd, because I never disagreed with that. And even that point doesn't make sense, because SE never wanted to keep Tomb Raider as an exclusive.
And finally you said that if gamers don't like exclusive deals they should put their money where their mouth is. I'm sorry, what? The entire reason people don't like exclusive deals is because THEY CAN'T put their money where they want to spend it. Unless your point is that they should have bought the game more in the past to keep it from being exclusive ... which again doesn't really make sense because that's hindisght, and your two examples Bayonetta and Tomb Raider both sold better as multiplat titles in their entire history than they ever did as exclusives. Tomb Raider in particular always sold more on Playstation than Xbox, and Bayonetta becoming an exclusive had more to do with Sega's handling of money and not a lack of sales.
I'm willing to say it might just be me being stupid, but I honestly feel like all your previous points were pretty jumbled.
