The General Pooter Games Thread.

[eldargal]

There is a new Entertainment Software Association [URL="http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/ESA_EF_2014.pdf"]survey on the video game industry[/URL] out covering 2013. I've [URL="http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?32827-A-Crash-Course-in-Feminism-Mk-II-(or-why-everyone-should-be-a-feminist)&p=429301#post429301"]addressed the feminist aspects here[/URL]. 48% of gamers are women, up 1% on the previous year and another survey found 37% of console gamers are women.


But there are other interesting thingies:

3% of video games released are Strategy and 31% are Action.
38% of best selling video games were Strategy and 3% were Action
7% of games are RPGs, 12.5% of best selling games were RPGs
2.3% of games released are Casual, 28% of best selling games are Casual
Sports gamres are 12% of those released and 0.3% of best sellers. Lol.

Interesting that Action games are the biggest chunk of the industry but not particularly well performing while strategy games are quite a small part and the best performing.

[Wolfshade]

I wounder how much of this is to do with re-playability.

A strategy game you can replay loads of times as there is no "right way" to do something. Whereas Action games tend to be more one dimensional, follow this narrative and complete the level by performing these actions.

RPGs as well have this great re-play ability (or the better ones) and allow you to complete a task different ways.

How many of the sports games are just FIFA n+1 or PES n+1 which each year just produce a re-skin of the existing game and not make any fundamental improvements?

[Psychosplodge]

[Gotthammer]

Yours?

[Wolfshade]

Consoles can be suspended from Xbox Live for a number of reasons including, but not limited to:
•Console tampering: Physically opening the Xbox and modifying it to play illegitimate software.
•Online fraud: Attempting to social engineer users, take over Xbox Live accounts, or other fraudulent activities.
•Repeat egregious violations: Multiple actions taken on accounts on the console by the Enforcement team for disrupting the service or impacting users.

Customer Support for Xbox Live cannot undo an Xbox Live suspension for a console. Xbox Live console suspensions may also include permanent suspensions of Xbox Live accounts as well.

[url]http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/consoleban[/url]
Hmm,

[eldargal]

Lern2PC.

[Psychosplodge]

No, but its shocking they do this.

[Wolfshade]

Is it?

These are our rules play by them or GTFO.

More importantly OpenXcom has just released v1.0 so you can play XCOM on 64bit machines [url]http://openxcom.org/2014/06/openxcom-1-0/[/url]

[Psychosplodge]

That you can't open it to dust or replace fans/heatsink compound?

[Gotthammer]

You can do that, it's people who mod them so they can rip full games to the hard disk and play non x-box games they target since they don't actually buy anything.