27th April 2008, 10:38 PM
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/04/excl...inter.html
This is the part I found really interesting:
If this is "how the business works" then "the business" is an idiot, a rich idiot. No, being rich does not justify the choices you made in life retroactively somehow, and this is really just arse behavior.
Basically they are saying "Hey, for you to have the privilage of us making a profit off of selling your games, we should also make an additional profit from game sales we in no way have anything to do with at all". By the way, <a href="http://www.illwillpress.com/newused22.html">this</a> is the best commentary I've yet seen, if lacking in any real reason for it to be animated.
This is the part I found really interesting:
Quote:Gabe: Robert said we could talk about that deal with GameStop.
We had a meeting with GameStop to talk about selling a boxed version of the game. Once we had a bunch of episodes together, we would collect them and put them in a box, you know? And GameStop said, oh, that's fantastic. We'd love to do it, we'd love to carry the game... but it's not going to be available anywhere else, is it?
And Robert said, well, we're going to digitally distribute it first.
They got really upset. And they said, no, you can't do that. We can't have it in our store if it's coming out digitally first. And he said, well, I'm sorry, that's the way it works. We're publishing our game and we can say where it goes. And so the deal that they tried to strike with Robert was okay, well, listen: If you cut us in on the profits from online distribution, and XBLA, and everything it comes out on, then we'll think about carrying it in the store. Just, what assholes.
So we're not going to be seeing this game in GameStop, is what you're saying.
Gabe: Probably not.
If this is "how the business works" then "the business" is an idiot, a rich idiot. No, being rich does not justify the choices you made in life retroactively somehow, and this is really just arse behavior.
Basically they are saying "Hey, for you to have the privilage of us making a profit off of selling your games, we should also make an additional profit from game sales we in no way have anything to do with at all". By the way, <a href="http://www.illwillpress.com/newused22.html">this</a> is the best commentary I've yet seen, if lacking in any real reason for it to be animated.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)