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October Wrasslin' |OT| I'm seein' double here...

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Matt Hardy deleted a tweet from last night where he really sounded not happy about not being on Raw.
It was a picture of some seafood place in the same city and he said something like "due to things beyond my control I am sorry about not being at Raw tonight, but I do like seafood."

Well, nobody's happy his brother is hurt.

Viseral didn't deserve to get done dirty like that

Was it dirty? They couldn't get things together.
 

Browny

Banned
What's up with all the Guy Fieri pics on the last page?
Everyone loves Guy Fieri, that's what. The Godfather of Wrasslegaf.

I wonder if he's ever wrestled a match - I like the idea of entering him into the Avatar Rumble...

Hasney - your glitch thread is amazing.
 
It's pretty tricky. The line of what is acceptable and what is not in that instance isn't really legally consistent. That plus the fact that Matt and Reby were openly warring with Nordholm about it (not to mention the legal stuff WWE were already in with Sinclair) makes me understand WWE's pause.

Ah, I suppose it's not as simple as I thought then.
 

Sephzilla

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EA's comment about Visceral's Star Wars project gives me a faint impression that EA wanted the game to be multiplayer heavy while Visceral wanted to keep it single player. Everything about their statement is "WE'RE MAKING A SHIFT IN DEVELOPMENT TO MEET OUR MARKET DEMANDS"
 
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EA's comment about Visceral's Star Wars project gives me a faint impression that EA wanted the game to be multiplayer heavy while Visceral wanted to keep it single player. Everything about their statement is "WE'RE MAKING A SHIFT IN DEVELOPMENT TO MEET OUR MARKET DEMANDS"

If you're not meeting market demands, you go out of business

go ahead and apply this to WWE
 

Egg0

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EA's comment about Visceral's Star Wars project gives me a faint impression that EA wanted the game to be multiplayer heavy while Visceral wanted to keep it single player. Everything about their statement is "WE'RE MAKING A SHIFT IN DEVELOPMENT TO MEET OUR MARKET DEMANDS"

They're going to make Destiny, but Star Wars.
 
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EA's marketing demands are not necessarily the same as what the market is actually wanting/demanding though

Lemme tell you what they're not demanding

More single player only games

People want games as a service
 
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Yet Mario Odyssey, Spider-Man, and Last of Us 2 are games that have a ton of hype behind them

please back it up with numbers early next year what the biggest revenue gainers were for 2017

Hype on Neogaf does not mean it's making significant money. the market is about GaaS

On top of that TLOU2 isn't single player focused, like the first one. It was a GaaS
 
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something like For Honor has brought in a stupid amount of revenue, stomps the shit out of most games

Sure, it ain't for me, might not be for you, but we're not the target audience
 

Sephzilla

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I'm not a fan of the Games as a Service / lootbox driven future but I've kind of begrudgingly accepted it because an overwhelming majority of consumers have bought in to it. Marks will overlook scummy business practices as long as Overwatch continues to appease their waifu simulator needs, for example
 
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If the public at large accepted paying for online multiplayer despite demonstrable evidence that it was not needed, then GaaS is what they get.

It's great for me. I love GaaS. I love a game that I don't ever have to be done with. I play because it's fun, not because it has an ending.

Sure, I like single-player or non-GaaS plenty. But I love a game I can always, always come back to.

I'm not a fan of the Games as a Service / lootbox driven future but I've kind of begrudgingly accepted it because an overwhelming majority of consumers have bought in to it. Marks will overlook scummy business practices as long as Overwatch continues to appease their waifu simulator needs.

You didn't like OW's gameplay? Tons of fun.
 

Dynedom

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Sephzilla

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You didn't like OW's gameplay? Tons of fun.

I never found Overwatch to be particularly entertaining for me but in the same vein I was never a huge fan of Team Fortress or Unreal so I also just understand that twitch shooters aren't my thing. Plus the lootbox system in Overwatch is scummy as fuck and I don't really care to support it.

Arkham Knight is Russo overbooking: The Game

Knight's Russo swerves at least make sense though. City's twists at the end make absolutely no sense and only exist for the sake of saying "look guys, a plot twist"
 
I'm not a fan of the Games as a Service / lootbox driven future but I've kind of begrudgingly accepted it because an overwhelming majority of consumers have bought in to it. Marks will overlook scummy business practices as long as Overwatch continues to appease their waifu simulator needs, for example

Take NeoGAF, for example, it has people who are against this type of stuff, but those people are willing to pay for those things for various reasons.
 
I'm glad lootboxes/service games only became a thing recently. I would have been one of those marks wasting tons of money during my CoD years.
 
GaaS works fine for certain types of games, Overwatch for instance being structured the way it is don't bother me, fighting games could benefit from the format and in some cases kinda are.

The problem is trying to make single player focused titles take on these attributes.

Arkham Knight is Russo overbooking: The Game

I was hyped for that Scarecrow push but he still got buried by the Joker in the end.
 

Dynedom

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Knight's Russo swerves at least make sense though. City's twists at the end make absolutely no sense and only exist for the sake of saying "look guys, a plot twist"

Who do we blame for introducing a novel/interesting gimmick match (the Batmobile) and then running it into the ground?

I was hyped for that Scarecrow push but he still got buried by the Joker in the end.

Gotta put Joker over
 

Pikma

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I'm glad lootboxes/service games only became a thing recently. I would have been one of those marks wasting tons of money during my CoD years.
I used to be a CoD mark for a span of 2 or 3 years but I quit as soon as they started implementing microtransactions that impacted the gameplay
 

Dynedom

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I'm honestly happy to just find a working PS1 and PS2 and go through a giant backlog of jRPGs and other retro titles for the rest of my natural life if gaming is going down the toilet.

First thing I'd do is uncover a copy of Here Comes The Pain, the greatest wrestling video game I apparently never played.
 
I'm honestly happy to just find a working PS1 and PS2 and go through a giant backlog of jRPGs and other retro titles for the rest of my natural life if gaming is going down the toilet.

First thing I'd do is uncover a copy of Here Comes The Pain, the greatest wrestling video game I apparently never played.

Hell yeah
 

Pikma

Banned
To be fair, I don't even play the kind of AAA games that usually have these shitty lootboxes

Can't remember the last time I bought a game made by either Ubisoft, WB, Activision or EA, for example. They simply don't make anything that I could ever find appealing, do whatever the fuck you want with your products, I won't buy them anyway.
 
As someone with next to no interest in competitive multiplayer

limited time and interest to spend on grindy psychology tricks

and thinks destiny looks and sounds like the dullest thing ever (even people who play loads of it can seemingly barely muster a defense of it)

the next few years are going to be rough
 
I used to be a CoD mark for a span of 2 or 3 years but I quit as soon as they started implementing microtransactions that impacted the gameplay
Had my run from W@W to Modern Warfare 3. Had a crew of friends that'd play all the fucking time. Modern Warfare 3 was the only game I bought for the year it was active. Maybe the only one I played too.

Those were the days.
I'm honestly happy to just find a working PS1 and PS2 and go through a giant backlog of jRPGs and other retro titles for the rest of my natural life if gaming is going down the toilet.

First thing I'd do is uncover a copy of Here Comes The Pain, the greatest wrestling video game I apparently never played.
If my laptop could run PCSX2 that's all I'd play.
 
TNA: We Just Need Pizza

IMPACT Wrestling and Crust & Crate Fast Fired Pizza Pub Joint Press Conference & Autograph Signing Session

Wrestling Stars Bobby Lashley & Eli Drake to Taste First-Ever IMPACT PIZZA & Drink

IMPACT Wrestling and Crust & Crate Fast Fired Pizza Pub have announced a press conference for Friday, October 20, starting at 3pm ET at Crust & Crate, located at 105-325 Marche Way, in the Lansdowne Park area of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

The two companies will announce details of the formal partnership over the next month, as IMPACT Wrestling will hold six back-to-back nights of high-flying pro wrestling action, kicking off Sunday night, November 5, with Bound For Glory – the company’s premier annual pay-per-view, which will be broadcast live worldwide.

Bound For Glory will be held at Aberdeen Pavilion in Ottawa, and there will be wrestling shows Monday through Friday, November 6-10, at Aberdeen Pavilion for the company’s weekly TV show, which airs every Thursday night on Pop TV in the U.S., and the Fight Network and GameTV in Canada.

IMPACT superstar Bobby Lashley and reigning IMPACT World Champion Eli Drake will attend the Press Conference, along with representatives from Crust & Crate, who will serve as the Title Partner with IMPACT Wrestling over the next month.

At the Press Conference, Crust & Crate Fast Fired Pizza Pub will unveil the first-ever IMPACT PIZZA – with Lashley and Drake set to eat slices from the inaugural IMPACT PIZZA, along with the IMPACT official signature beverage. George Hanna, President, Gabriel Pizza Franchise Corporation also will be available to discuss the launch of both the IMPACT PIZZA and Drink, which will be available exclusively at Crust & Crate from November 4-10.

Crust & Crate will serve as the host for the official post-IMPACT party every night from November 5-10, with nightly appearances by select members of the IMPACT roster.

The media and public are invited to the press conference and tasting, starting at 3 p.m. on Friday, October 20. Lashley and Drake will be in Ottawa on Thursday and Friday, October 19-20, and this will be their only autograph signing while in Ottawa.

WHO: Bobby Lashley & Eli Drake

WHAT: IMPACT Wrestling Coming to Ottawa

WHEN: Friday, October 20, starting at 3 p.m. ET

WHERE: Crust & Crate Fast Fired Pizza Pub (105-325 Marche Way, Ottawa)

About IMPACT Wrestling

IMPACT Wrestling is one of the world’s largest wrestling entertainment properties, creating more than 200 hours of original content annually across television and other digital platforms. IMPACT specializes in events, products, merchandise and music, as well as the management and promotion of professional wrestlers. The roster features such greats as Eli Drake, Bobby Lashley, Moose, EC3, Eddie Edwards, James Storm, the high-flying X-Division, plus the lovely and lethal Knockouts, including Sienna, Rosemary and Gail Kim, as well as talent from international partner promotions such as Johnny Impact, Naomichi Marufuji and El Hijo del Fantasma. Its highly successful flagship, IMPACT!, broadcasts in more than 120 countries around the world, including Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Pop (a joint venture of CBS Corporation and Lionsgate) in the United States, Fight Network and GameTV in Canada, Sony Six in India, Spike UK in the United Kingdom and SuperSport in Africa.

About Crust & Crate Fast Fired Pizza Pub

Crust & Crate is Ottawa’s favourite little pizza pub serving up fast fired Al Forno style pizzas and gastropub fare in a colourful, cocktail inspired, wine infused, craft beer loving environment. The décor – plank floors, weathered brick, open ceilings and stacked crates – has a unique old warehouse atmosphere. Crust & Crate is a casual dining restaurant created by renowned Gabriel Pizza Franchise Corporation – known for its award-winning products, service and quality brand. Crust & Crate serves the national capital region with two locations at Lansdowne Park and Shopper’s City East. Visit www.CrustandCrate.com for more information.
 
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