What? The reaction has literally the opposite of that. People are head over heels for it.
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What? The reaction has literally the opposite of that. People are head over heels for it.
skLaFarebear
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Damn 
Hope Johnny V is doing alright
Hope Johnny V is doing alright
giant_frying_pan
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That's a bit of a shocker. How can you have access to all that IP and not succeed?
Or maybe that's what the Disney top brass put to the Infinity teams?
Or maybe that's what the Disney top brass put to the Infinity teams?
Keyser Soze
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Disney seem to have one of these big panic attacks every few years... to be honnestI was much more annoyed then when they shuttered Blackrock as I loved Spilt/Second and Pure.
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Noray
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I'm pretty surprised. With Disney, Marvel and Star Wars in the same thing, you'd think it prints money. I'm guessing kids just don't play console/PC games anymore, at least not enough. All the money's going to mobile And why not? They cost a fraction of the cost to develop, and the profit margins are way higher than on physical goods.
Sucks.
And why not? They cost a fraction of the cost to develop, and the profit margins are way higher than on physical goods.Sucks.
Swap "Uncharted 4" for "Civil War" and the post would remain equally insane.
I've mentioned it before but Disney Infinity always looks like the only toys to life product that doesn't gross me out by its very existence. Everything about it looks like it's a well made product. Too bad it didn't work out for the people that seemed to put way more effort than should be necessary to make that idea work with Disney IP.
Amiibos actually sell super well, because most people don't buy them to use them in video games.
BreezyLimbo
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I'm not surprised Disney is getting out of the games business. The return for the amount of money they put into it wasn't worth it. Which, these days, is far too common for AAA budget games.
Mobile games.
Keyser Soze
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Hopefully Disney start allowing people to license the Marvel IP now for console releases if they are not going to focus on doing anything themselves
I want a big budget console Marvel game to arrive at some point
Captain America in the style of Uncharted is guaranteed fun time!
I want a big budget console Marvel game to arrive at some point
Captain America in the style of Uncharted is guaranteed fun time!
Incandenza
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Damn, I was under the impression Infinity was a success.
Sleeping Lesson
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Does this make a big-budget Avengers-related game more or less likely? It's crazy there hasn't already been a dozen, let alone any.
Salty Catfish
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Bummer for Johnny V. Wonder what he'll get up to next.
same here. I just assumed it was doing well.
That's what I am hoping as well. Let's get Marvel out of the mobile ghetto.
Nintendo only has so many characters to exploit. There's probably about 10 million Nintendo fanboys that will buy anything released by them. It's gotta come to an end sooner or later.
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Noray
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I mean, Disney shuttered their games division. Probably less likely, if anything. They shitcanned that first-person Avengers game a few years ago too. I'd like it, but it's so much riskier than shitting out a bunch of F2P games because one or two of them will inevitably stick.
bigwinnerx
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Johnny V does tens if not hundreds of thousands of air miles slinging that product then it just gets snuffed out. That sucks. Def sorry to hear. It seemed like it was doing well.
Sleeping Lesson
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You're probably right, but it might still be worth their while to license out to EA or whoever to shit out some Battlefront-tier third person action game. Wait I don't want that.
I'm at a loss for words. Accusing people of being irrational or morally deficient simply because they are proud of their home is something that seems beyond belief.
stump sock
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I understand he's really good at twitter
You already heard about it. Don't need to get your news from GB. Isn't like they are going to call up JV and ask him how he feels getting shit canned.
Disney took a look at Infinity, and then the Star Wars/EA deal, and realised why are they fucking around making their own shit when the managed risk with a eager partner is basically how they do all their other business anyway.
And there's the issue - Infinity was well made by several really good studios. The toys too.
But when it comes to merch, Disney is used to lucrative and low-risk licensing deals with toys and apparel manufacturers, and strong-arming retailers for prime placement. The game business doesn't work the same and that $147 write-off is massive in comparison to what they spend to (co-)produce their other merch.
And there's the issue - Infinity was well made by several really good studios. The toys too.
But when it comes to merch, Disney is used to lucrative and low-risk licensing deals with toys and apparel manufacturers, and strong-arming retailers for prime placement. The game business doesn't work the same and that $147 write-off is massive in comparison to what they spend to (co-)produce their other merch.
I'm not accusing anyone of anything. I'm saying I personally don't understand it.
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Noray
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I don't think he's saying that, more that there is very little reason to be proud of America or being born in America.
stump sock
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basically they came to the same conclusion LucasArts did before they got bought out.
there's more to a country than their government and what makes the news. if there was "very little reason" to be proud, nobody would fucking live here.
MassiveNights
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That is a pretty hard L for Johnny V. Damn.
bigwinnerx
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I don't consider myself terribly patriotic and certainly not to the level of wearing flags on pants or buying terrible beer because it says America on it. But I have felt waves of patriotism in a couple instances. Once, working outside of DC on 9/11 and having people who were at the Pentagon come back to the office the next day to tell us about what happened and the camaraderie that occurred over the next long while as a result. And then working overseas in London in 2002 and "representing" the USA then and other times when I'm abroad. Dunno if that's patriotism in either instance, but, both probably close...
My love for the country has nothing to do with government actions and our involvement in world affairs.
And this.
Hyrule Warrior
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If JV gets another gig within Disney, at least we won't have to keep hearing him shill for Disney Infinity...always hated the game, and was tired of hearing about it.
Exactly.
SatelliteOfLove
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It puts this toxic fixation on favorites. The worst uses that ickiness to squelch criticism of their ickiness.
"Brands are MY friends!"
That's a scary visual given Goddamn Nightmare People last year.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark!
EdReedFan20
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Remember, Matt Pascual was also there.
stump sock
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there's a lot of bad shit and a lot of things we should be doing better and a lot of things that will probably never get fixed, but what makes a country is it's people and we certainly have our fair share of good ones. you won't see me waving a flag while firing a gun into the air, but dismissing a giant landmass and 320 million people is kind of pathetic.
Salty Catfish
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I'm expecting black armbands during MPP6 tomorrow night.
It really doesn't.
Twin Tails
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Cause they are playing Mario Party right?
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Noray
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you really believe that? ok.
That's convenient. "I'm proud of my country but not the bad parts".
And let me be clear, just as I think it's ludicrous to be proud of where you were fucking born, especially a very bad country like America, neither am I blaming anyone for living there. People don't have the luxury to pick up and move and even if they did it's not an easy thing to uproot yourself, especially if you're living comfortably. Anyway that's probably enough politics for today.
Oh yeah, that`s right. Hope they land on their feet, I`m sure they will.
Beastcast could have some interesting talking points. Some interesting information out of that EA thing.
Like Battlefront sold 14+ million but only 43k play that thing. They also only have 10% of people buying Premium. Considering the bonus stuff EA as announced for BF1 so far, I am willing to bet Premium is done. Microtransactions everywhere instead.
Like Battlefront sold 14+ million but only 43k play that thing. They also only have 10% of people buying Premium. Considering the bonus stuff EA as announced for BF1 so far, I am willing to bet Premium is done. Microtransactions everywhere instead.
It really does.
Uncharted has always been some writers trying to write Indiana Jones while channeling a drunk Joss Whedon
Salty Catfish
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Pretty staggering numbers but also not surprising, at least based on my anecdotal experience. When that game came out, a TON of people on Facebook were talking about playing it -- people who I never see talking about games, ever. It was perfectly timed with the new movie, combined with the gap between marquee Star Wars game releases.
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