Visiting the Village: Episode 36
Welcome to all our new listeners! This week, Ian and I bang on about charity, the death of console gaming, MMO’s for children and all kinds of other delights. Enjoy it with your face!
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2 Responses to “Visiting the Village: Episode 36”
§ December 18th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Ok, here we go:
. I second it.
- music game industry: no, it doesn’t need rescuing. As far as I am concerned it can die in peace. To me it looked like a fad.
As for DJ hero, just another way to squeeze more money while this game genre is still popular.
- AppStore: one of you (I think it was Ian?) made a very … interesting statement on the blog regarding Apple and Microsoft
- @beta testing: lol, that what happens when you run out of brain electrodes …
- I consider myself a harcore PC gamer, and I don’t have a PC in the living room (laptops do not count). As for throwing it around … I don’t plan to break anything in my house, so no thanks. So yes, I do think they dropped the ball.
- translations: well, I guess finding good translators is the hardest part.
Some people ask fans to translate their products. Obviously, french fans doing the french translation, italian fans doing the italian translations etc.
The advantage of asking fans is that they WILL KNOW EVERYTHING about the game. They’re fans. That rules out errors like “No russians”.
- I like the PC people vs. Console people MMO
- there’s a difference between financial failure and strategy failure. In a financial failure you only lose money, but not market share. In a strategy failure, you lose your place in the market.
§ December 18th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Ha ha, the regular Herr Alien deconstruction! Love it!
1. Ooh, so you’re calling fad? I’m going to have to say you’re wrong on that one – we’ll see music games for the next…forever. Music games will never go away now – fact.
2. That would be Ian. Yep, I’m with both of you on that.
3. I have no brain electrodes left.
4. Yep, where’s the ball? They don’t have it.
5. It’s really not. Translators who wouldn’t make that kind of error are not hard to come by – yes, good naturalistic translators are less common. But that’s what the localisation agent is for.
6. I just want to see how it works in practise – I think it could be HILARIOUS.
7. That is a distinction you could make between two kinds of business failure, granted. I’m not sure that distinction is directly implied by the use of the term “strategic failure” though.