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  • UK Resistance: The War is Over

  • Pike 04/05/2011

    So, a three page eulogy over a dull little website that no one will miss?

    Why?     Reply -100

  • Black Ops is best selling game ever in US

  • Pike 11/03/2011

    Why is the 360 selling so well all of a sudden? Is it the Kinect that has taken off? Reply 0

  • Are pre-owned sales killing gaming?

  • Pike 06/12/2010

    "don't give the consumer the fair value of their game", she told me. "When you have traded a game with a high street retailer, they then sell that game on for a large profit, which shows the game is worth more than what they give to the consumer who has traded the game in."

    This quote only illustrates that she doesn't understand the concept of value. The reason a retailer like GAME can charge such a discrepancy between purchase price and re-sale price of used games is that they provide a service, by lowering transactions costs, for both sellers and buyers of used games and the discrepancy in price is what they charge for that service.

    The service they provide to sellers is that they decrease the time looking for a customer, you'll get your money, or store credit, straight away without a need to find a buyer on ebay or similar. They also remove the risk of having a potential buyer not transfering payment after recieving a game or removing the cost of insuring against such fradulent behaviour.

    The service they provide to the buyer is quality control. A person buying a used game from a high street retailer generally has a much easier time ensuring that the game they buy is in acceptable condition and, unlike when you buy online from another consumer there is very little risk that you will be stuck with an unusable copy that you paid good money for. This means a buyer who buys his game from say GAME will be prepared to pay more for the same game when buing at GAME compared to buying from some stranger online. So the potential profit margin for someone who sells their games privately will not be comparable to what GAME can charge.

    In short, Ratcliffe doesn't understand that value isn't objective or at least pretends to, to promote her business concept.     Reply +10

  • Dragon Age 2

  • Pike 26/08/2010

    UL: It's hard to judge the changes without actually playing the new game, something I eagerly look forward to, however even if the camera can be moved a fair bit in DA:O it is still locked and can't be moved completely freely. Personally I never felt that it was to much of an issue. It almost never prevented me from taking a planned action, but I guess others found it to be more of an issue. Reply 0

  • Pike 25/08/2010

    I didn't really understand this paragraph - the camera wasn't locked to your character in the original was it? And stamina (presumably you meant health here) and mana potions didn't take up a number slot, you could put them anywhere you wanted.

    The camera was locked to the character you were currently controlling in DA:O. I assume that what the potion thing means they will have a separate dedicated slot, outside of the quickbar.     Reply 0

  • Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days

  • Pike 17/08/2010

    Hmm, shame. I kind of enjoyed the demo.

    But then Mafia II is just around the corner, so I'll save my money for that instead.     Reply 0

  • Homefront

  • Pike 14/06/2010

    Are you saying that South Korea, a rich prosperous west friendly democracy suddenly becomes an militaristic expansionist power after uniting with their dirt poor northern neighbour, for no reason?

    Mmmkay. That sure sounds more plausible.     Reply 0

  • Eurogamer expands into Sweden

  • Pike 05/05/2010

    Goddamn foregin journalists coming here stealing the jobs and women of honest hard working Swedish game writers! Reply 0

  • Dragon Age: Origins

  • Pike 19/10/2009

    tldr Reply -27

  • E3: James Cameron's Avatar: The Game

  • Pike 04/06/2009

    2D or 3D. Doesn't matter. As long as I get the choice to slaughter tree hugging hippies, even if they are blue aliens, I'm sold. Reply +1

  • Editor's blog: Darkfall aftermath

  • Pike 06/05/2009

    Well, it was fun for a while, but could the Darkfall fanboys please go back to pissing in bottles in front of PCs in their parent's basments now, please? Reply 0

  • Pike 06/05/2009

    I reaqd that list, Silver. It's just some bulletpoints with things theat particular fanboy disagreed with. It doesn't specify in which way the review is actually factually incorrect.

    The points about how the combat system is bad are just matters of opinions, for instance. There is no objective measure to determine wether or not a control system is floaty. That is just an opinion.     Reply 0

  • Pike 06/05/2009

    So far no one has managed to point out any factual errors in the review, besides some possible misunderstandings regarding running and performing actions at the same time. Reply 0

  • Pike 06/05/2009

    I can't, Barton! I spent all my money on shiny clothes for my pixie in FreeRealms! Reply 0

  • Pike 06/05/2009

    Then why the fuck are they charging money to play the damned thing, if it's not even finished? Reply 0

  • Pike 06/05/2009

    This isn't the one and only review of Darkfall.

    Actually, so far, it is.     Reply 0

  • Pike 06/05/2009

    Those casino sites only cater to carebears though.

    True hardcore gamers only use online casinos that steal your identity.     Reply 0

  • Pike 06/05/2009

    A quick check in Alexa shows EG's traffic rank to be 5533. out of all websites in the world. In the gaming category it ranks as 120. In that category the only review sites above it are Gamespot, Gamespy, 1UP and IGN. I'd say that's fairly profilic.

    Most other sites on the top 100 list for gaming related sites are WoW related.     Reply 0

  • Darkfall Online

  • Pike 06/05/2009

    I know I'm being controversial here, but I just have to point this out.





    Worse than Halo.


    Better than Killzone 2 though.     Reply 0

  • Pike 06/05/2009

    its still in its infantile stages

    No shit, Wally. I hadn't figured that out by the game's fanbase already.     Reply 0

  • Pike 06/05/2009

    Fucking 300k+ UID carebears coming in here acting as if their opinions matter when they didn't post here during the Halo - 8/10 controversy. Reply 0

  • Pike 06/05/2009

    Good luck aventurine, you have ennemies ... you're in the truth !

    People who don't like unpolished garbage are the enemies of truth now?

    Good one.     Reply 0

  • Pike 06/05/2009

    Well, Darkfall fans, seems a fair amount of people who played the game agree with the review.

    So, who to believe, the raving loons, or the game's detractors?     Reply 0

  • Pike 05/05/2009

    Well, sweatshop78, balanced comments on the review. Sadly I suspect those will be drowned out by the fanboy shitstorm we'll start seeing coming in now.

    Now personally the "hardcore" playstyle Darkfall does't appeal to me in the slightest. However if the main portion of the games fanbase had been reasonable, like you, it would have been sad to see reviews like this of a dedicated niche title. However, since the majority of the fanbase seems to consist of raving douchebags I find it merely amusing.     Reply 0

  • Pike 05/05/2009

    I'd imagine proper hit detection and fluid controls are rather essential parts of a good PvP game. What else is there to discuss in that regard? Reply 0