You guys have any burning questions? About anything? This is Ask Me Stuff, which does exactly what it says on the tin. Leave me a question in the comments below and I’ll endeavour to answer it before the day is out.
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Are you against the ‘unique-per-store’ pre-order bonuses and the ‘bite-sized’ DLC. (Sorry Mark if the question has already come up before!)
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he is!
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It bugs the shit out of me.
Anyone think a collective bargaining group to buy games is feasible?
organise large group discounts and $40-$50 day 1 release game prices?
Instead of having to wait a few months or buy second hand.
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As great as that sounds, who would you approach with this? I just can’t imagine too many retailers taking you up on it. Although it is a good idea…
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Unless you plan on buying direct from the supplier…
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Y just wanted to put the idea out their for someone smarter or with the right connections to make it happen.
I think if publishers tried hi volume, low margin prices for quality products, we would try more games sooner, and they would make more money in the long run.
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Most stores like EB and such don’t even get them for that price from their suppliers afaik.
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y the $40-$50 price range is also to account for the inevitable dlc.
Games to me are worth $60 max (all dlc included), after that i’ve got better things to spend it on.
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That’s all well and good that you think games are only worth a certain amount and such but that’s not going to change the facts of the situation :S
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Yeah, that’s the biggest part of the problem here, I think. A lot of people bag the retailers for ripping us off, but as far as I’m aware the higher dollar hasn’t flowed through to any kind of reduction in the wholesale price of games, which means retailers hands are pretty much tied. They can’t pass on the savings to consumers if they’re not seeing any savings themselves.
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Well, JB typically run a loss for their day one sales for major titles, don’t they? Yes, they bump the price back up a few days later, but we should give them some credit. It’s just that the specialist game stores can’t compete with that on a mass scale.
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Yeah, but selling at a loss isn’t sustainable. The whole point is they should be able to sell at that price (and lower) and still make a profit if the wholesalers/distributors weren’t lining their own pockets with the benefits of the high dollar.
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Well I’m sorry, but I’m not interested in gold mines, oil wells, shipping or real estate.
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What would I have liked to of been?
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Everything you hate.
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There is a man, a certain man, who likes to smoke, enjoys a joke, and wouldn’t get a bit upset if he were really broke, with wealth and fame: he’s still the same, I bet you five you’re not alive if you don’t know his name.
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Mark? Did you send my Witcher 2 prize? Did you? I mean, first there’s windows and doors that are also portals, transitions and tangible building blocks between different levels of entropy. This is what happens when a house falls to ashes and dust and the natural order of all things returns like it always does. Justin Timberlake bringing sexy back just one more time, vines entangled inside the abandoned warehouse downtown. Stars descend into people and people descend into Earth – falling endlessly through this bending fabric – this is eternity. Circles inside circles.
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But – and this is the second most important part – imagine there’s 10 million people behind you, they’re pushing you forward through this endless sequence of doors and windows, their forward momentum feels something like infinite, you can’t turn back and start again from the very beginning.
An army of 10 million pushing you forward through time. But if you (an immovable object) could fight back through an unstoppable force – you could travel back in time and make everything better again.
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There are windows and doors, but the the truth is, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know . . . that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You want me on that wall, you need me on that wall.
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LOOK HERE FIRST FOR THE FULCRUM AROUND WHICH EVERYTHING MUST FIRST SATELLITE. (this is the beginning for the second time)
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And this is what it means to travel back in time, back to the Witcher 2 prize from where this once started. Here we are and, if it’s OK with you, can I/you give the prize to Bish. This is important.
I liked his competition entry best. I already have a bicycle and a kayak so you can understand my life is complete. I mean, I’ll never be picture perfect Beyonce, but everything I’m not made me everything I am.
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And so it is that the prize moves ever forward through the doors and windows amongst a few good men forever towards bish; this is how I understand it to be in things I have seen from afar and the misadventures that have already taken away everything I once believed in and held true.
Confined between doors, windows and walls inside spacetime at the very mercy of the mountainous 2nd law of thermodynamics and the union forever,
Plainview.
The union forever!
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Plainview my friend, I have nought but respect for you, but some of what you say here astounds me. How can you consider yourself trapped? Can you not escape from the doors, the windows and walls? You are the free-est man I know, escaping from the harsh everyday life, with your Kayak, I feel that you could rule the world, or at least your own little world. Separate yourself from all this.
You can find the true path.
Believing in you,
Blaghman.
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it’s me!!!!
Rosebud?
I just got some Plainview in my eye!
Plainview?
PLAINVIEW!
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Blaghman?
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Plainview! *starts running towards you, wind streaming through my hair, ignoring the fact that I just changed perspective*
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*runs towards Blaghman* [but it’s too late]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HzIVc2vwVE (Remembering Charlie Sheen before the fall . . . or: how I learned to stop worrying and run like Willem Dafoe).
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What is it about pushing buttons that we as human’s find so fun and amazing? (From children and ATM’s to Video Games)
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Hmm buttons… I don’t necessarily agree we find it so fun and fascinating. Going down your list of examples.
Children = Well, they enjoy anything. They like eating mud. I dunno if there is much basis for an argument here.
ATMs = Necessity. I can’t think of a way for these to work effectively without buttons really, I don’t consider them fun that’s for sure.
Games = Necessity once again. The Wii, Move and Kinect have showed us that gaming is still fun when the button aspect is reduced or removed – I honestly think buttons are nothing more than a means to an end.
Just my 2c
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I think childeren want to do it cos they see adults do it.
You should see my son learn by observation, he’s a little champ (also a little chimp, but that runs in the family).
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See I’ve always considered it as some sort of joy we take from a simple task that produces an unrelated result.
CHILDEREN…heh.
Do you think we should have a kotaku ‘ask me stuff’ wiki where past questions and answers are archived?
This would help to avoid repetition and the questions could be refreshed every month or two in case you change your opinion on something.
Question that I’m sure has been asked before, but would love to know – what game is featured in the “Ask Me Stuff” screenshot? Looks fun as hell!
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