Posts by Sentura

  • Diablo 3

    From the video it sounds like they put a band aid on a severed leg. D3's skill system is so inherently flawed that none of these changes can ever make up for it. The paragon points just made me laugh.

  • Dahell is happening in Kiev


    Clear logic doesn't justify Russia's entry into Ukraine, son, no matter who you are. Letting the propaganda get to your head and claiming it to be logical to destroy a country and people is a funny way of showing rationality. You talk about genocide from Ukraine - if anyone is going to be doing genocide, it's most likely going to be forced by unmarked soldiers fed into the country.


    There are no two sides if this becomes war. This is more than just Crimea. Don't be so naive to believe that it will start and end there.

  • Early adopters of new stuff

    I'd like to see some source material for these market shifts you speak of. It'd be interesting to take a look at what sort of puppeteering is going on up high.


    I also don't think it's as simple as investors knowing what's going to happen. When the economy crashed some years ago, it did so despite people at the helm with years of experience and supposed lessons learned made it crash. What makes you think investors in our sector will fare differently? I'm not saying it's going to happen just yet, but as the games industry grows in relation to the ever-expansive consumer demand, I'm seeing this as a potential pitfall of the near future.

  • Early adopters of new stuff

    Quote from Sigma

    In any group of transactions there will always be a select group of consumers whose price elasticity of demand is inelastic. That is their consumer behavior (demand) does not respond to changes in price (or over-pricing in monopoly settings like console video games). Thus you get the early adopter phenomenon where-in those people will buy the product knowing that a price drop exists sometime in the uknown future. They do this for a multitude of reasons including those mentioned in the article (specifically support of the company itself and not necessarily the product) and exemplified by HP's response (thanks for that by the way!); although typically this behavior is reserved for non-luxury necessities such as water and electricity.


    What you are experiencing Sentura is the fact that your individual demand for games and games related hardware/content is, in fact, sensitive to price (elastic) and you tend to not be an early adopter. In either event there is nothing wrong with it as the early adopters encourage renewed investments into the industry--especially in these higher profits seeking times. While it may not be the best economic practice for an individual consumer, as HP mentioned, it encourages the total economy and is a good group behavior for the health of the industry.


    Where'd you get the "fact" that I'm sensitive to price? The price doesn't matter - what matters is what I can use the newly acquired product for. Had the lineup been 4 stellar games + a puss4 or xboner for 1000 euro I'd probably have considered it as well.


    Also, while I appreciate that early adopters have their own intrinsic reasons to fuel the economy, I don't think it's necessarily good as a whole for the economy to sell too much. I can easily imagine a scenario wherein too many sales of a console lead to a flood of investments that will crash over time, like a game industry bubble. With everything that's already going on in the industry, I'm certainly not interested in having that looming on top. But then again, what do I know, I do level design not world economy hurr durr

  • Early adopters of new stuff

    Good point with voting with your wallet, I didn't actually consider that. I don't usually do fandom of hardware, especially when there's no immediate use for it, so I always thought it was funny people wanted to burn money on stuff like that. On the other hand, I hear about people buying new consoles and stuff even when they don't actually have the money for it, as if it was some sort of event warranting purchase in and of itself. Not that it is any of my business, people can do whatever they want - but it seems to me that many have an almost religious trust in the product sometimes. I get that you can be a fan of company - I got a PS3 fairly early (not on release, though), but is there a point where it's too far?


    The incentive seems to always be lost on me since launch titles have a horrible reputation for being pushed out in time for the release, rather than being the flagship products they should be - which is something I've always speculated about as well. I can't argue with people buying them, even sometimes for apparently sound reasons, but I can't help but think how different it would be if the flagship products were actually worthwhile.

  • Louie Turner - Level Designer

    Just as an addendum: Scripting is generally cool, but looking at flowcharts isn't interesting for neither HR nor designers. It's much better to show the intended purpose of the scripting than just showing the scripting - it's a means to an end, not an end in itself.

  • Louie Turner - Level Designer

    Change your first page to a showcase IMO, rather than just having it in the menu on the left. Also, some descriptions on your level pages would be nice, instead of just a gallery. If applicable, since you're a designer and not an artist, show some videos of how your levels play (it's hard to do this properly in multiplayer levels).