It's an intriguing
move by a major player in an industry so many love to claim the major players are standing still; it's the most aggressive move to embrace self - publishing of any major publisher to - date; and, it's a potentially troublesome acquisition for Penguin thanks to ASI's history.
Not exact matches
And yet, the clock is ticking for the most valuable company in the world, as the aggressive
moves made
by the other
major players could squeeze Apple out before it even has a chance to get in the game.
Personal care and cosmetics companies are increasingly focusing on recyclable and sustainable packaging, as evidenced
by recent
moves among
major players Unilever, Procter & Gamble and Lush Cosmetics.
With all the strange goings on this season, I think there is a good chance that at least two of the
players targeted
by Arsenal for a transfer
move to north London last summer will be regretting their decision, as both Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez were wanted
by Arsene Wenger after playing
major parts in the amazing Premier League title win of the Foxes.
I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the
major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved
by FA Cups or a few
players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name
players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big
moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision
The young
players have now taking it upon themselves to acquire the
major skill set to be a better
players by moving to other leagues.
The Gunners boss has been told that he will be handed a significant transfer budget but the Arsenal manager will look to subsidise
major moves by selling
players he feels have under - performed.
By acquiring such a high - caliber
player at a minimal financial cost, the Red Sox have maintained the flexibility to make another
major move in free agency.
Rooney has been linked to the Chinese Super League,
Major League Soccer and Everton, whilst also being wanted
by Stoke City, a
move with was seemingly rejected with the
player himself saying that he would only play for two Premier League clubs, the only two he has played for; Manchester United and Everton.
Gameloft's Dungeon Hunter franchise has gone through some
major changes during its life on the App Store, the biggest one being the switch from premium to freemium, a
move that was seen as anathema
by many
players.
A
move like this from a
major player (and one backed
by Amazon no less) is a huge
move in a market that, so far, has taken its sweet time catching up to the digital age.
- the team has been adding weapons one
by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed
by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning
players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any
major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled
by getting 8
players with similar rank points, and then they're split
by weapons - the rank point gap between S +
players is bigger than ordinary
players - only about one in 1,000 active
players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10
players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall
player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked
players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born
by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born
by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the
player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run
by a Japanese person - each time the
player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters
moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten
by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing
That's a
major concern
moving forward; whether eSports will thrive with such a large publisher controlling every aspect of its very being — there's always been an aspect of competitive gaming that's felt fresh and free, driven
by the hunger of pro
players to prove that they are the very best on the planet without the interference or support from publishers.
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