Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "A Brutal Tradeoff - Crunchtime Versus Results" video.

  1. Call of depression Intimate warfare : Right? I mean, we all remember COD Modern Warfare, while all the rest are a blur of games that merge into one another, anyway. So, annual releases are hardly producing, “Classic Games,” anyway? Lower quality, and worse working conditions, should be an unsustainable business model? The fact that we, the consumer, just hand over our cash, without asking too many questions is on us. Maybe it’s time for Gamers to organise? A powerful consumer group, that lobbies the games companies and exposes practices, is what’s needed. Instead of former gaming magazines, that have become internet shills, or just plain advertisers, for the games companies? There’s not enough real journalism, like Upper Echelon, in this world. But, if consumers acted en masse, things would change
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  2. Maki Hashimoto : Not me personally. It’s just that I used to occasionally click on links like that, only to find it was some advert, a Propaganda political site (that I’d now just given an extra hit to) or some other nonsense. So, then I’d feel cross, and wish I was in the same room as the person who’d just tricked me; in the same way that people do, when they get one of those computerised phone calls, that pretends to be a real person. Not everyone even gets annoyed by them. But, I do, when I’m had. So, a quick sentence of context, would solve the problem, for me? Like, “This link is to such & such, which relates to the issue in x manner,” or whatever? But, you’re probably right? It’s probably just my boggle. No offence intended ✌️
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  3. Eldrad with a hat on : You would have thought that companies would have figured out a better way to deal with Crunch Time, after years of annual releases? They have to be either stupid or just plain greedy, not to have figured it out by now?
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  4. Upper Echelon Gamers : Serious question, here: Is there a Consumer Group, lobbying on behalf of Gamers? An international, or nationally, powerful consumer group, certainly should exist, shouldn’t it? If gamers behaved in a coordinated fashion, refusing to buy, or pre-order games, when issues of cruel practices toward staff would have a positive effect, one would think? The latent power, waiting to be tapped into, by organising gamers into a block of consumer power, seems to be untapped? Why is this? Or, is there a group I don’t know about? It certainly seems that now is the time? Games Company practices only seem to be getting worse, regardless of excellent exposes like this. It frustrates me, that consumers are not doing more to help themselves, and the, “little people,” in the industry, when they have SO MUCH power, if only they could act as one? After all, it is we, the consumer, who hold the purse strings in the end? . . . ✌️
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  5. Kexsky : Did you delete your comment to me? I see the first lines of it, in, “Latest Comments,” but it’s not here, on the thread, for some reason? Stuff about, “New Zealand, GDP,” etc? . . .
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  6. Kexsky : From the little I could see, wouldn’t that be all the more reason to form a Consumer Group? The more, “power,” these companies have, the more influential a group would be, that could influence sales, by coordinated action? I have no idea how feasible such a thing would really be? Not my field of expertise, but someone will step into that vacuum, sooner or later, as the market is crying out for a body, unconstrained by government boundaries, legislation, or background political goals, and just working FOR the gamers
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  7. Maki Hashimoto : You should say something about your link, rather than just leaving it there, without any comment. It could be a Malware Trap for all anyone knows? Not saying it is, but, with respect, just dumping a link is rather like a robot phone call; people find it rude and annoying
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