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oniyide on 13 January 2014
Scoobes said:
Counterstrike seemed to do just fine, as have a number of MMO shooters.

I'm pretty sure marketing won't (or shouldn't) be a problem when it actually comes time to sell.

but were they charging 60 dollars for those shooters? thats the big question.

We can say people dont play FPSs for shooters till we're blue in the face but even if that were true human nature will look at this game and be like "60 bucks for one mode? Pah!" How much of you can honestly say you would have bought so many CODs if it only had a MP mode? how much of you at full price?



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oniyide on 13 January 2014
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Cause people actually play fps for their single player...


by that logic BIoshock should have flopped as a series



kirby007 on 13 January 2014
oniyide said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Cause people actually play fps for their single player...


by that logic BIoshock should have flopped as a series

I wouldn't class bioshock as a shooter mainly



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Fusioncode on 13 January 2014

This is a weak excuse. How hard is it to market a first person shooter nowadays? Nobody buys COD or BF for their single player, they buy it to play multiplayer.



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oniyide on 13 January 2014
kirby007 said:
oniyide said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Cause people actually play fps for their single player...


by that logic BIoshock should have flopped as a series

I wouldn't class bioshock as a shooter mainly

if Bioshock isnt a FPS then what is it? you primarily shoot things



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kirby007 on 13 January 2014
oniyide said:
kirby007 said:
oniyide said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Cause people actually play fps for their single player...


by that logic BIoshock should have flopped as a series

I wouldn't class bioshock as a shooter mainly

if Bioshock isnt a FPS then what is it? you primarily shoot things

adventure/rpg



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oniyide on 13 January 2014

are people aware that there are more FPSs than just BF and COD?



oniyide on 13 January 2014
kirby007 said:
oniyide said:
kirby007 said:
oniyide said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Cause people actually play fps for their single player...


by that logic BIoshock should have flopped as a series

I wouldn't class bioshock as a shooter mainly

if Bioshock isnt a FPS then what is it? you primarily shoot things

adventure/rpg


yeah no. the game is classifed as a FPS thats what the actual game makers classify it as. What makes it an adventure? there are no puzzles to solve. RPG? Did you play the last one? If anything the reduced some of the RPG elements. 



kirby007 on 13 January 2014
oniyide said:
kirby007 said:
oniyide said:
kirby007 said:
oniyide said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Cause people actually play fps for their single player...


by that logic BIoshock should have flopped as a series

I wouldn't class bioshock as a shooter mainly

if Bioshock isnt a FPS then what is it? you primarily shoot things

adventure/rpg


yeah no. the game is classifed as a FPS thats what the actual game makers classify it as. What makes it an adventure? there are no puzzles to solve. RPG? Did you play the last one? If anything the reduced some of the RPG elements. 

wtf your right its actually classified as survival horror fps...



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Scoobes on 13 January 2014
oniyide said:
Scoobes said:
Counterstrike seemed to do just fine, as have a number of MMO shooters.

I'm pretty sure marketing won't (or shouldn't) be a problem when it actually comes time to sell.

but were they charging 60 dollars for those shooters? thats the big question.

We can say people dont play FPSs for shooters till we're blue in the face but even if that were true human nature will look at this game and be like "60 bucks for one mode? Pah!" How much of you can honestly say you would have bought so many CODs if it only had a MP mode? how much of you at full price?

Considering the number of people that pay for CoD and only play MP (even those that play both SP & MP considering SP is barely 5 hours long) every year, I think it'll do fine.




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