Sentences with phrase «publisher greed»

Microsoft challenges gamers to spot resolution difference, EA didn't learn the right lesson from Dungeon Keeper, Shooter Publisher greed pushing gamers away, and Hearthstone's pricing model.

I think publisher greed also play a huge factor (fixing prices).

Not exact matches

Our team previously built Aeria Games into a $ 100M gaming publisher and our advisors are founders from top global gaming publishers including Electronic Arts, GREE, and Bigpoint as well as senior execs from Perfect World, Glu, and Electronic Sports League (ESL).

This is not greed due to distributors such as 3M, Baker & Taylor or Overdrive, but the publishers.

I can still afford their books and not support the publishers» greed.

In a way the greed of the publishers put the bookstores out of business.

Traditional publishers have tried to do the same with ebooks — but the 21st century reader knows that those prices are simply driven by greed.

The kind generated by minds so consumed with their own immediate greed that the thought of more than one person reading a library book or aftermarket sales of used books neither of which puts money in the pockets of the publishers was anathema.

In an online world, it will be much easier to teach publishers the consequences of corporate greed and an unconscionable lack of empathy.

I'm disgusted with the greed of these publishers, and I'd like to see the DOJ investigate whether price - fixing is going on (I suspect it is considering how fast other publishers are falling in line, and the fact that Apple apparently already had agreements to set prices as high as $ 15.)

A final note on the greed of publishers: When I first started reading ebooks one of my big problems was the time and technology gap.

Let's jump straight into the third reoccurring theme, availability and / or the greed of publishers.

There is zero cost to the publisher to reproduce that item, therefore, it's pure greed driving that price.

At The Guardian, Dan Gillmor detailed how publishers» greed had led him to give up on ebooks, also noting that the publishers put themselves at Apple and Amazon's mercy with their obsession with digital rights management.

Guy Spier's publisher describes his book as revealing «his transformation from a Gordon Gekko wannabe, driven by greed, to a sophisticated investor who enjoys success without selling his soul to the highest bidder.»

It's not Call of Duty's fault that the industry is fuelled mostly by greed, leading to publishers and developers attempting to clone whatever is popular.

They're also both guaranteed hits that would succeed on name recognition alone, but such is the greed of their publishers that they've tried to squeeze as much money out of players as they can by what seems the most underhand means possible.

We know they are more proof of the greed that drives those publishers and platform holders.

Join Senior Vice President of Business and Corporate Development at GREE, Shanti Bergel and other publisher - investors in this informative panel.

In a new blog post, the analytics firm argues that «the loot box controversy hampered Star Wars Battlefront II out of the gate» as shown by the game's monthly active users compared to its predecessor's, and that the resulting dumpster fire has caused publishers to rethink lootboxes and self - regulate or at least modulate their greed — an effect we've already seen in the MMO industry too.

This is the first time that the greed of publishers is pushing video gaming into potentially POLITICAL territory.

And to top it all off, the publisher sometimes known for excessive greed isn't keeping any of the proceed for themselves; all of the money will be split between Humble Bundle and a number of great charities.

Splinter Cell: Conviction occupies a unique place in a gaming hall of shame already full of the greed, shortsightedness and incompetence of publishers who seem to hold the PC gamer in contempt; unique because whereas many of these other games are second - rate console ports, converted to PC to make a quick buck at the customer's expense, Splinter Cell: Conviction is a genuinely good game, but with its needlessly restrictive and ill - conceived DRM all but compromises both the accomplishments of its designers and the good will that would otherwise be flowing from a grateful PC gaming public.

Yep, these greed freaks across the board, from publishers and sadly increasingly from developers, see the lack of ability to charge $ 100 for games, can be made up in other contemptuous ways.