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Re: It's Hard To Blame Them...

From Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject Re: It's Hard To Blame Them...
Date 2024-10-31 17:31 -0700
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On 10/26/2024 5:49 PM, Xocyll wrote:
> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
> entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
> say:
> 
>>
>> So, there's some new information from Circana (a market research
>> group; it's okay if you've never heard of them) showing the top-ten
>> selling PC/console games from the last 23 years*. I put a list of the
>> highest-selling games each year below.
>>
>> And, you know, looking at the list, I can't help but think. I give
>> companies like EA and Ubisoft and BlizzaVision a hard-time for
>> constantly putting out uninspired sequels year after year rather than,
>> you know, investing in something new that might challenge gamers more
>> than the same ol' pabulum... but at the same time, it's hard to blame
>> them.
>>
>> People BUY that shit. Happily. Year after year. If you have the choice
>> of pouring your heart and soul (and a lot of money) into a new project
>> that may or may not be accepted by the masses versus some garbage
>> project you can easily hack up without much effort, can you really
>> blame somebody if they go the easy route?
>>
>> Triple-A publishers are a definite scourge on the hobby... but we
>> gamers deserve a lot of the blame too. 12 years Call of Duty was the
>> best selling game! No wonder the industry is in the state it is.
>>
>>
>> 2000	Pokemon Gold/Silver
>> 2001	Madden NFL 2002
>> 2002	Grand Theft Auto Vice City
>> 2003	Madden NFL 2004
>> 2004	Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
>> 2005	Madden NFL 2006
>> 2006	Madden NFL 07
>> 2007	Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
>> 2008	Rock Band
>> 2009	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
>> 2010	Call of Duty: Black Ops
>> 2011	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
>> 2012	Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
>> 2013	Grand Theft Auto V
>> 2014	Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
>> 2015	Call of Duty: Black Ops III
>> 2016	Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
>> 2017	Call of Duty: WWII
>> 2018	Red Dead Redemption
>> 2019	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
>> 2020	Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War
>> 2021	Call of Duty: Vanguard
>> 2022	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2022)
>> 2023	Hogwart's Legacy
> 
> I can happily announce I bought exactly *none* of these games.
> 
> Oh wait, older games on list, vice city and san andreas I did buy.
> 
> Interesting GTA 4 is not on the list, which since it would not install
> cause of the need for MS's game service, that they fucking cancelled!
> 
> GTA5 was never even an option.
> 
> Never even thought about buying any of the Call of Shitty games.

I sort of bought GTA V and RDR as I bought a used XBox 360 that had them 
among other games as a bundle.  Didn't finish either though.

The rest nah.

That's a lot of CoD.

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It's Hard To Blame Them... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-10-26 11:53 -0400
  Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2024-10-26 14:06 -0400
    Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-10-27 11:56 +0000
    Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) - 2024-10-27 14:11 +0000
      Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2024-10-27 14:16 -0400
        Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) - 2024-10-29 16:02 +0000
          Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2024-10-29 14:24 -0400
            Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) - 2024-11-01 20:08 +0000
              Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2024-11-02 09:05 -0400
          Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-10-30 09:37 +0000
      Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> - 2024-10-31 06:53 -0700
        Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-10-31 14:55 +0000
          Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> - 2024-11-01 22:07 -0700
            Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-11-02 11:29 +0000
              Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> - 2024-11-02 09:04 -0400
                Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-11-04 08:51 +0000
              Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2024-11-02 09:08 -0400
                Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-02 10:24 -0400
            Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-02 10:18 -0400
  Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> - 2024-10-26 20:49 -0400
    Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-10-27 11:40 +0000
      Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) - 2024-10-27 13:11 +0000
        Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-10-27 11:40 -0400
          Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> - 2024-10-27 19:17 -0400
        Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-10-28 08:43 +0000
      Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> - 2024-10-27 15:47 -0400
    Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> - 2024-10-27 19:12 -0400
    Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-10-28 03:00 +0000
    Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2024-10-30 00:02 +0200
      Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> - 2024-11-02 09:10 -0400
    Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> - 2024-10-31 17:31 -0700
  Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-10-27 10:44 -0700
  Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-10-28 01:55 +0000
  Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... PW <iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> - 2024-10-27 20:19 -0600
    Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-10-28 08:48 +0000
      Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-10-28 16:20 -0400
        Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-10-29 11:03 +0000
          Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-10-29 12:07 -0400
            Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-10-30 09:42 +0000
              Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-10-30 16:39 -0400
                Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-10-31 09:17 +0000
                Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-10-31 10:06 -0400
                Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-11-01 11:37 +0000

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