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Biggest shitstorm of the generation?
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They went from dominating the market to barely being second place. They lost billions of dollars. I cant really say its still a good outcome for them.
In regards to FF 13 for the 360, once it turned out that FF13 was a bad game I dont think it really mattered anymore.
SMT
this show is not Breaking Bad why is it not Breaking Bad? it should be Breaking Bad dammit Breaking Bad
Microsoft Xbox 360 Red Rings of Death
Zelda Skyward Sword 7.5/10 - which got GiantBomb founder canned from Crapspot
Mass Effect 3 - Shitty Ending -=- DLC
Gyakuten Kenji II No Releasu Westo
Megaman Legends 3: Fuck to the Fans!
Microsoft Xbox One Shitty DRM + Spycam policy
Shitstorm started with MS, and ended with MS.
Zelda Skyward Sword 7.5/10 - which got GiantBomb founder canned from Crapspot
Mass Effect 3 - Shitty Ending -=- DLC
Gyakuten Kenji II No Releasu Westo
Megaman Legends 3: Fuck to the Fans!
Microsoft Xbox One Shitty DRM + Spycam policy
Shitstorm started with MS, and ended with MS.
It has to be the RRoD, how can anything even come close?
A major new console with a 50%+ failure rate, I went through 4-5 of these stupid things and I've never had a console fail on me before in my life.
Complete disaster and although the PSN hack was terrible and embarassing in its own way, I don't feel it comes close to the RRoD debacle.
A major new console with a 50%+ failure rate, I went through 4-5 of these stupid things and I've never had a console fail on me before in my life.
Complete disaster and although the PSN hack was terrible and embarassing in its own way, I don't feel it comes close to the RRoD debacle.
Jaded Alyx
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You guess?
It released on the Wii before it released on the Gamecube if that's what you're wondering.
Wat.
Xv Elite vX
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Most of the things people already mentioned and of course the fact that PSO 2 still has not released in America!
This explains quite a bit
Dick Justice
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New Vegas PS3 ran like dogshit for me. Was having lock-ups at least once every hour of gameplay. I dread to think how badly the DLC ran. Fallout 3 was fucking horrendous in that regard. Seriously, the main game was alright for the most part, then, presumably due to a combination of a large save file and Bethesda's incompetence with optimizing the fucking content, the DLCs had constant frame drops (sub-10 FPS was a frequent occurrence), and a LOT of freezing.
SMT
this show is not Breaking Bad why is it not Breaking Bad? it should be Breaking Bad dammit Breaking Bad
Deified Data
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Either FFXIII on 360, Epic Mickey on Wii, or the PSN hack.
RRoD definitely deserves the top spot. Most 360s have failed at least once - some have had to be replaced multiple times. Shit's inexcusable.
RRoD definitely deserves the top spot. Most 360s have failed at least once - some have had to be replaced multiple times. Shit's inexcusable.
Commanche Raisin Toast
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A third option, something that shouldn't have been as big of a shitstorm but it was anyway: the psn hack.
I've seen so many companies getting hacked after that and before that. Somehow they got grilled for it but others didn't. Blows my mind. If people want to hack you they will. Period.
I've seen so many companies getting hacked after that and before that. Somehow they got grilled for it but others didn't. Blows my mind. If people want to hack you they will. Period.
That and the VF5 fiasco were both the shitstorms of legend.
Sweet Aunt Nancys Panties
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Because they knew their network was substandard and did nothing to fix it until they were forced to. And also the fact that they waited a week to inform their users that their credit cards, passwords etc were compromised. To claim too much was made of that is mind boggling.
LOL the comments are hilarious, it's so obvious that the man is acting.
PSN Hack and RROD are tops for me as well.
Diablo 3 and SimCity are up there too.
I also think the initial reaction to the FPS Shadowrun was pretty insane and quite the shitstorm.
Denis Dyack, Too Human and the NeoGAF vortex was the most entertaining shitstorm of this generation.
Diablo 3 and SimCity are up there too.
I also think the initial reaction to the FPS Shadowrun was pretty insane and quite the shitstorm.
Denis Dyack, Too Human and the NeoGAF vortex was the most entertaining shitstorm of this generation.
RROD is the worse for me too. I actually gave up in the end. I hated the feeling of being paranoid about the RROD happening any second while playing.
I've never finished Lost Odyssey.
PSN hack was nothing to me, a couple of weeks break, and I got free games. Yay!
The Living Tribunal
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1) PSN hack.
2) RRoD
3) FFXIII 360
2) RRoD
3) FFXIII 360
And that's only a tiny portion of it.
I so wish I could travel back to that day and watch the meltdowns unfold live again. Damn that shitstorm was hilarious and utterly idiotic.
I wonder if I can find the GAF meltdown thread.
Don't forget the death threat.
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Oh yeah of course! Damn.
Beerman462
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I didn't know there was a video. I always thought it was just a NeoGAF post.
That1BlackGuy
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Xbox 360 RRoD, thank goodness I didn't purchase one back then that was some bullshit.
zerokoolpsx
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RROD and PSN outage.
Hardware failure and accounts compromised isn't fun to deal with.
All the other titles going multiplat or timed exclusive doesn't even compare to these two.
Hardware failure and accounts compromised isn't fun to deal with.
All the other titles going multiplat or timed exclusive doesn't even compare to these two.
XANDER CAGE
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RROD and the PSN outage are probably the actual biggest deals. They were huge business blunders that exposed the uglier side of this gen - Microsoft's rush to get hardware to market, and Sony's gross incompetence when it came to networking.
That being said, FFXIII going to 360 and the continuing trend of former exclusives going multiplatform shortly after that is probably the biggest shitstorm. It's nowhere near as important in the grand scheme of things, but it stirred up so many loud, passionate, and dumb emotions in a lot of people.
That being said, FFXIII going to 360 and the continuing trend of former exclusives going multiplatform shortly after that is probably the biggest shitstorm. It's nowhere near as important in the grand scheme of things, but it stirred up so many loud, passionate, and dumb emotions in a lot of people.
Guileless
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I bought a PS2 in may 2001, and it still purrs like a kitten.
Well every major PS2 3rd party exclusive went multiplatform this gen. It was the slow death of the 3rd party exclusive.
The entire Playstation brand has had to evolve this generation due to the death of the 3rd party exclusive, and I think Sony's done a pretty good job. Now it seems crazy to publish a big game exclusively to one platform if you have the option to go multiplat.
RedAssedApe
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RROD and PSN hack.
DinnerRevealer
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It's Fragmaster from Something Awful
bodyofanamerican
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The one and only:
599 US dollars.
599 US dollars.
The Prospector
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Bioware in general. With DA2, Mass Effect 3's ending fiasco, and how disappointing TOR was, these guys seemed to have tarnished their line of work so quickly.
Puppet Shadow
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Yup, my choices for those two questions as well.
Aeriscloud
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How did I not know about this video?
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