The problem is, if you funnel this kind of information into people within the US, they'll accuse you of spreading anti-American propaganda. People will receive it, but if they try to disseminate it, they;ll come up against a massive counterinformation engine. And that's when you face the problem - it doesn't matter if something is honest or dishonest, it's whether it's perceived as propaganda that matters. Truth is now officially a low priority.
They'd have been better using Eyetoy Play. Trust me, it's very energetic. The Athletics on the 2nd one in particular. Even has a calorie counter, just like DDR!
It's sickening that a supposedly model country will stoop to lows like this just to get their way. We're supposed to be setting a positive role model in place! Then again, our boys are, so all the US is doing is making their rep worse.
Or it may be the case that governments, especially their secret arms, have always behaved this way and now it gets out more frequently and is disseminated more widely.
I don't know whether this happens to coincide with a rising tide of ignorance, bigotry and superstition (especially in the U.S., bizarrely), or whether it simply casts a light on things that otherwise remain invisible.
I think we can be more specific than that. There will be a poor, buggy release, and then before the game is even on the shelves there will be a patch that fixes some of the problems but introduces others. Then the gameplayers will go to the game's forums to complain, and be assured that there will be another patch to fix the remaining problems. Next, the publisher will fire all but three of the remaining programmers. Then there will be a six month silence, then one of those devs will pop up on the forums and claim they are "still working on support for the game". Thereafter, nothing until the heat death of the universe.
Alternatively we could go the Tribes 3 route, and have a vital balancing patch finished between Gold and Release.
Then the publishers stall for a while, and new bugs are isolated and fixed.
Then, about a year later, the publisher (Sierra in this case) decides that not enough new people would buy the game for paying Irrational Games to release the patch to be economically viable, and a potentially excellent game dies a great death.
In addition, we may be in the process of seeing the first game to get feature creep after going gold.
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It's sickening that a supposedly model country will stoop to lows like this just to get their way. We're supposed to be setting a positive role model in place! Then again, our boys are, so all the US is doing is making their rep worse.
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I don't know whether this happens to coincide with a rising tide of ignorance, bigotry and superstition (especially in the U.S., bizarrely), or whether it simply casts a light on things that otherwise remain invisible.
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THQ have moved/sacked almost all the team, and:
"We don't care what shape the game will ship in anymore, - said one of the THQ bosses to an IGN journalist, - the game must ship in 2006".
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I predict buggy release with little of the promises forfilled...
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You know, the usual.
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Then the publishers stall for a while, and new bugs are isolated and fixed.
Then, about a year later, the publisher (Sierra in this case) decides that not enough new people would buy the game for paying Irrational Games to release the patch to be economically viable, and a potentially excellent game dies a great death.
In addition, we may be in the process of seeing the first game to get feature creep after going gold.
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