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Simon Ludgate's Comments

Comment In: The Demo Is Dead, Part 2 [Blog - 06/05/2013 - 05:38]

From what I understand, the ...

From what I understand, the 6 represents people who bought the full game THROUGH the demo. However, this ignores people who may have downloaded the demo and bought the full game later through another method. You wouldn 't have any way of knowing if they played the demo first or ...

Comment In: OMGPOP layoffs: 'A weight has been lifted off our shoulders' [News - 06/05/2013 - 04:07]

This reminds me of Shay ...

This reminds me of Shay Pierce 's story. I wonder if he 'll reconnect with the OMGPOP team now that they 're free of Zynga 's yoke r n r nhttp://gamasutra.com/view/news/167244/Turning down Zynga Why I left after the 210M Omgpop buy.php

Comment In: 'If you're backwards compatible, you're really backwards.' [News - 05/22/2013 - 01:53]

If the cost to add ...

If the cost to add backwards compatibility to the PS4 was less than the cost of a new PS3, I would add backwards compatibility as a SEPARATE OPTION. People who want it can pay more for it. r n r nConsidering my PS3 broke down a while back, I would ...

Comment In: Opinion: Xbox One Wasn't Built For You [Blog - 05/22/2013 - 06:45]

I think my intent was ...

I think my intent was to agree with Leigh, in so far as she points out that the press conference seemed to suggest you was the target market in terms of everyone in her third paragraph . r n r nI interpreted her article as suggesting that Microsoft was somehow ...

Comment In: XBLA dropped for Xbox One, all games lumped together [News - 05/22/2013 - 06:51]

a 50-hour RPG epic r ...

a 50-hour RPG epic r n r nYeah, right, like we 'll ever see one of THOSE on the Xbox One...

Comment In: Xbox One is Microsoft's biggest play for living room domination [News - 05/21/2013 - 01:41]

My first thoughts were you ...

My first thoughts were you know all that task-switching stuff you 've been doing on your computer since, like, forever You can do that on Xbox now. Which is a good thing, because I often wished I could do more task switching, but it fails to answer the key question ...

Comment In: Valve's wearable computing ace discusses the challenges facing VR [News - 05/16/2013 - 08:29]

Why does no one ever ...

Why does no one ever talk about the problem of strain on the lens to have the eye focus on an image an inch away, no nevermind the fact that the lens never changes focus when things are meant to be moving closer or farther away Depth perception does not ...

Comment In: EA (still) won't be paying gun manufacturers [News - 05/08/2013 - 03:57]

Apparently, EA has never paid ...

Apparently, EA has never paid gun manufacturers to license their guns. So this is basically like someone who 's never smoked publicly declaring that they 're giving up smoking. r n r nhttp://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/05/no-ea-wont-license-guns-in-its-2013-games-but-it-never-has/

Comment In: Diablo III Economy Broken by an Integer Overflow Bug [Blog - 05/08/2013 - 03:10]

I 'd point out that ...

I 'd point out that a similar dupe happened in Asheron 's Call, whereby trying to buy too many expensive items rolled the cost into negative values and the store owner would hand you tons of cash for buying tons of pricey things. They dragged their heels for a few ...

Comment In: 'Democracy is a killer, sometimes, in making games' [News - 05/01/2013 - 12:17]

I think there are two ...

I think there are two interpretations worth considering. r n r nA If you are confident in the process that produces the blue, then you shouldn 't question the blue. r n r nB On the other hand, if you have no process that produces the blue or if you ...

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