This Year In The Business_ The Best Quotes Of 2014

QUOTE | “You ever feel like what we’re doing is too much like pornography?” – Trip Hawkins, EA and Digital Chocolate founder, asking an odd question while talking about the difficulty of monetizing games. Today we round up the best quotes in the business of video games from this past year … QUOTE | “I was so fed up of people telling us we should do free-to-fucking-play, in-app-fucking purchases, whatever the fuck that is, and that consoles were dead. So fuck all of those people and their fucking shitty stance.” – Graeme Struthers of Devolver, talking about why he’s happy to see next-gen consoles doing well. QUOTE | pg168 ทางเข้า “Nintendo continues to underperform even our very low expectations. However, it is more of a business failure than a product failure.” – Analyst David Cole of DFC Intelligence, with other analysts, discussing what happened in 2013 and predicting what will happen in 2014 QUOTE | “It’s always struck me as a little odd how resentful players are in the F2P business model about paying a couple dollars when they don’t think twice about paying $50 for the same amount of fun or gameplay time.” – Veteran designer Steve Meretzky, talking about the evolution of free-to-play games QUOTE | “This change will be enough to push the Xbox One installed base higher than PS4 in the U.S. and Canada in 2015.” – IDC analyst Lewis Ward, commenting on Microsoft’s decision to release a Kinect-less Xbox One for $399 QUOTE | “I’m sure that they’re trying to stay away from controversy. I get it, but it still makes me sad.” – Tina Gong, creator of HappyPlayTime, talking about Apple’s rejection of the app ทางเข้า w88 ใหม่ ล่าสุด featuring a vagina to educate young women about female masturbation QUOTE | “I think we are right at that tipping point where we have a lot of great content that is about to be released for [the Wii U] that’s going to tempt gamers into buying the system.” – Scott Moffitt, EVP of sales and marketing for Nintendo of America, talking about how the Wii U is about to have a 3DS-like turnaround QUOTE | “It will start to tail off because the people who play the games will recognize when they’re about to be nickled and dimed, and stop playing them.” – MMO pioneer Richard Bartle, arguing that free-to-play games have a “half-life” and will soon start to fail QUOTE | “The PC is decimating console, just through price. Free-to-play has killed a hundred AAA studios.” – Veteran Doom designer John Romero, on how the advance of free-to-play games has permanently changed the games business QUOTE | “It’s kind of a passive attitude they’re taking, and to me it’s kind of a pathetic thing.” – Legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto, explaining why Nintendo isn’t going to try to make games specifically for a casual audience like they used to on the Wii QUOTE | “There was a time when spines were pulled out of players, and we don’t have to do that anymore.” – Veteran designer Sid Meier, explaining why he thinks game designers should create bk8สล็อตฟรี a “positive climate.” QUOTE | “We’ve basically seen Metacritic all but become obsolete right now… We get obsessed with it…but it doesn’t really matter, as far as the sales of the game.” – Double Fine COO Justin Bailey, talking about what things have and have not influenced the sales of their games QUOTE | “In a way that we expected, we knew that we were going to have to change our plans from the moment the game went live.” – Bungie COO Pete Parsons, talking about how they are hard at work modifying and extending Destiny QUOTE | “If these folks had their way, none of those people would be able to buy Grand Theft Auto.” – Take-Two president Karl Slatoff reacting to Australian protestors who got GTA V pulled from some retailers; ultimately Slatoff believes “if you don’t like it and it’s offensive to you, then you don’t buy it.” image via Shutterstock