Release Date situation insight from reviewer perspective

[79cricket]

Zepages, yeah I agree maybe for the next version we should move around the crease more. Still I still enjoy the Nets after this much time and just shows how the full game will be when released.

 

[arajay]

Nice try, but I'll tell you a fact about these people that are complaining about the release day/marketing, THEY DONT READ!

No they are getting p...ed off with the waiting and not hearing anything.

 

[Snowy]

Which is their own fault for not reading the limited information that we actually have access to.

 

[sami ullah khan]

Good things make you wait. There is nothing to be pissed off about.

 

[Fissionmailed]

No they are getting p...ed off with the waiting and not hearing anything.

Nope, we have heard plenty and there's no reason to go mad just yet.

 

[Biggs]

As for watch dogs. Its connected to Assassin's Creed Series. The game was delayed because of bad reviews that they were going to get and the game has been down graded a lot from the original vision of the game. Then again Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed games are basically bunch side missions. Also Watch Dogs is Assassin's Creed in modern day setting. Hopefully the delay will allow them to get back on track to the original vision that they had for the game.

I've always assumed it used to be part of the modern-day setting inside or part of an AC title (ACIII?), then some producer got dollar signs in his eyes and it was split-off from whatever game it was supposed to be part of into a whole new game entirely because; Money.

Everything I saw looked ridiculously ambitious though, not really surprised they've had problems getting it all to click. I wouldn't say the AC series are just "a bunch of side missions" because narratively the first 3 games (AC, ACII and AC:Brotherhood) is some absolutely incredible storytelling. They started to lose their way around "Revelations" not being all that "Revelatory" as by then the main writer had left the franchise and it had melted down into basically a money-printing machine by the time ACIII rolled around and shit the bed, creatively and story-telling it was a wet-fart end to a series that demanded more.

With ACVI they've pulled back to a "less is more" storyline-wise and filled it full of side-missions and fancy bells and whistles, but it's less "Assassin" now and more gimmickry than ever before.

I'm almost glad they're not touching Prince of Persia because those early games, especially Sands of Time, are replayable to this day and we'll always have those games. Like AC, ACII and ACB & R I've played each of those games right the way through more than twice each, such fulfilling stories and that's, at the heart, what the Prince of Persia games were about too...

 

[BigAntStudios]

No they are getting p...ed off with the waiting and not hearing anything.

If nothing has changed what would I post?

 

[Snowy]

Well that should keep them at bay for a couple of days at least...

 

[Crossy333]

Hahahahaha Snowy you're so funny sometimes.

 

[khanjoiya456]

If nothing has changed what would I post?

.....
About posting u should Follow the fonz......
Post before u think :-D

 

[Orangzeb]

If nothing has changed what would I post?

don't worry I'm here....

meanwhile I tell you from where IPL got their horn music FROM

 

[Owl]

Do people really not understand that TruBlu are running a condensed marketing campaign? Creates awareness when the product is out as opposed to six months prior to release when most people not in the know would have forgotten.

Or are people just frustrated as the release date and the beginning of the marketing campaign are inextricably linked?

 

[blockerdave]

The classic example is, if you are going to court you want a judge who is disinterested but not uninterested.

Unfortunately people have mixed the two up for so long that the error is almost "correct", just like many other words.

the one that usually grinds my gears is people using fortuitous as a synonym for fortunate

 

[whiteninness]

the one that usually grinds my gears is people using fortuitous as a synonym for fortunate

Yeah me too. Do people really think that everything that happens by chance is fortunate? How did getting hit by that bus feel?

A few others:

compliment vs complement
when to use "whom"
when to use "myself"

Probably useless to try to teach these since we still haven't passed year two class with your/you're and they're/their/there.

 

[blockerdave]

Do people really not understand that TruBlu are running a condensed marketing campaign? Creates awareness when the product is out as opposed to six months prior to release when most people not in the know would have forgotten.

Or are people just frustrated as the release date and the beginning of the marketing campaign are inextricably linked?

i think everyone understands it's a condensed marketing campaign, i think people are wondering how condensed, maybe concerned that we're running out of time even for a condensed campaign...

until Ross' comment yesterday perhaps we thought more territories = bigger budget = longer campaign, not more territories + same budget = shorter campaign

there's also the vagueness/ambiguity in the announcement, being "towards the end of March 2014 to coincide with the tournament between the major cricket nations that is occurring at that time"... which is obviously a reference to the WT20... which starts on 16 March - 10 days away.

Now the bit between 16-21 march doesn't really include the "major" nations, but the WT20 proper starts 22 March - 16 days away. that's already pretty condensed mate...

that's why people are wondering why they're not hearing anything.

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when to use "myself"

i once had a supervisor try to correct a letter i wrote to a client saying i should write 'yourself' instead of 'you' as it was "more formal"... she did not appreciate my lecture on the correct use of reflexive personal pronouns, but nevertheless the letter remained unedited.