I said Halo for XBox, not XBox 360. The original Halo was produced by Bungie, which MS eventually bought.
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I said Halo for XBox, not XBox 360. The original Halo was produced by Bungie, which MS eventually bought.
that's a hard game to play. Customers always lose....how do we defeat in app purchases?
But this isn't a platform exclusive software...
Exactly, the Android version does exist, but is intentionally being delayed. That is just down right dirty pool.
It's easy to trust ANY other company over EA. Electronic Arts was voted the Worst Company In America, second year in a row.
http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/electronic-arts-named-worst-company-america-again-170932002.html
That's naive. Exclusivity windows are just the same.
There is a reason Street Fighter II for example, was released on the SNES nearly a year before the Sega Genesis version appeared.
The whole reason the Turbo Graphics 16, one of the most successful game consoles in Japan with a massive catalog of game, died in the USA. Sega and Nintendo had locked up titles either as 1-2 year exclusives, or flat out exclusivity.
Halo was created by Bungie, who got bought by Microsoft before the first Halo game was ever released.
Sony paid RockStar for exclusive rights to GTA 3 and Vice City and San Andreas for a year. After contract expired they were free to develop it on other platforms. Microsoft paid Bethesda for exclusive rights to the DLC for Skyrim. There's a long list of these examples.
Why should it even matter? Apple paid for these exclusive rights fair and square it sounds like. Honestly don't see it as an issue.
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Halo had been developed to run on Mac (game was pretty much ready for release) and Microsoft paid them not to. MS then purchased Bungie outright. I see nothing wrong with MS doing so as it was an extremely prudent business decision.
As if the deal is 100% confirmed.
EA should be on the bottom of everyone's list of "companies to believe", with all the BS fine-print-customer-screwing schemes they regularly pull.
No
It's very different
Paying to make something for me, if different to paying you to withhold it from someone else.
The end result may be the same, but they are very different things
Paying a company to make a game exclusively for your system (which happens all the time) involves paying to ensure the game isn't made available to your competitors. The result are the same because they are the same.
It's a timed exclusive... Why does this seem to be going over every ones heads... Maybe I didn't read the article carefully and missed something.
hmm.. strategic timed platform exclusivity is par for the course in the games industry now. if anything EA will have been aware of it and shopped around for the best promotional partner. They do this for DLC all the time. EA have absolutely no loyalty to any platform/s.
if anything this is a bigger sign that Apple have "made it" in the games industry than most things.
if anything this is a bigger sign that Apple have "made it" in the games industry than most things.
Yup, sounds like there's plenty of potential for another round with DoJ...
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and you'd not do exactly the same?..
It says right there in the article: "If the report is accurate, it would be the first known instance of Apple paying developers outside of the standard App Store revenue." In this way, they are something special.
I call BS. Apple won't say good morning to you without a non-disclosure agreement. If Apple really did pay for exclusive rights, this nitwit probably heard it second or third hand and most likely didn't have any real details.
Simple: You jailbreak your way through them. Or you just... don't buy the IAP items. It's apparent that these "freemium" games get enough dollar votes from other people to be produced.
The whole gaming industry works this way. All exclusivity is usually a deal like this. The problem now is this EA employee may have cost EA some money/marketing. BTW, EA hasn't had any integrity since the 80's.
EA VP is a disgruntled Android fan and couldn't hold it anymore? Or maybe he got a smaller cut of the truck load than he felt he deserved?
Agree. I don't think anyone even knew it was exclusive for a small time. Who would buy an iDevice to play a silly game like that?
Anyway, I wouldn't put it past Apple since now the MBAs are running the show.
Blunt question: Do you have proof of that? Or should I take this comment as the typical senseless trolling that typically happens on this forum?
I disagree. I don't think they need to do this at all. The app store still has FAR superior apps compared to the Google Play store. Nothing has changed as of recently and Apple isn't doing anything differently.
If anything, I could imagine apple paying a little bit extra (pocket change for apple is literally a truckload of cash i mean lets be real) just to have them delay it on android so that iOS users would be playing it in front of their GS4 co-workers and friends and making them jealous of not having it.
Either way, who cares?
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You do realize he was being sarcastic, right?
I'd bet anything money exchanges hands for placement on the featured page. Really why would a shopping app for Sears or target be an editors choice? It's shady **** the worst part is apple can't even fill in the indie devs on small things like ranking changes