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GAF Votes FOTY 2012 Thread: Fail Of The Year
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Mass effect 3 ending
what happened with war z?
what happened with war z?
VeryGooster
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Would have to go with 38 Studios' financial debacle.
2nd place is Sony for being their own worst enemy regarding marketing and selling Vita. The proprietary memory cards and their prices are ridiculous.
3rd place is Mass Effect 3 and the overwhelmingly negative response to the ending.
2nd place is Sony for being their own worst enemy regarding marketing and selling Vita. The proprietary memory cards and their prices are ridiculous.
3rd place is Mass Effect 3 and the overwhelmingly negative response to the ending.
Nominating a system as failed when it's still going is stupid. As low as the chance of a Vita resurgence is you run the risk of looking like a moron by picking it now in case it does.
Windom Earle
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Wii U hardware and Nintendo's marketing strategy.
In terms of the scale of the failure, though, it has to be the biggest. The PSP was hardly a rip-roaring success, but it's sold over 70 million systems. At this rate, Vita might not even hit 7 million before Sony puts it out of its misery. Hell, people are talking about 3DS as unsuccessful, and it's currently outselling Vita by over 20 to 1 in Japan.
False advertising. Randomly banning users. Just got pulled from Steam. Stole their ToS from another game and in general have been a source of controversy for seeming like a quick cash in by another dev on DayZ's success. Also, TotalBiscuit's vid is hilariously damning.
Oh, and one of their devs is here on GAF!
Liquid_Bike
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Mass Effect 3 orginal ending takes the cake for me.
BlazingDarkness
Member
Diablo III
I will take that risk. Vita couldn't even break 15k units in December in Japan. It is a dead system.
VeryGooster
Banned
Valve is apparently now offering refunds for War Z. heh
Anyone who thinks the Vita is dead before even waiting for the price drop next year is out of his mind or blissfully ignorant. It's the perfect handheld, which (gaming on) is all the craze after iOS - (especially since it can actually do console quality). People are broke. WiiU is even doing worse than Vita.
They need extra convincing.
They need extra convincing.
Fairly sure the Vita is almost halfway to that already.
I know right? So preposterous. Not only that, it hasn't had its first Xmas in NA yet.
Phonomezer
Banned
I think WarZ has already won.
If the PSN hack was this year, then it easily has to take the crown.
Zynga's failures should be in consideration. Huge profile company that went down the shitter. FarmVille really was a fad.
Silicon Knights having to recall their games & destroy them is embarrassing. But I kinda felt they would lose their lawsuit ever since it was announced.
38 Studios was just another studio failing & closing. 'Twas even better because it happened to that cunt Schilling. Fuck him, and his flawed opinions. But in the end, it was just another studio closing. The studio getting taxpayer money to locate in NH isn't anything new either. Local & state govts make those sort of deals with private businesses regularly (something conservatives don't want their voters to know).
ME3's ending fiasco was pretty bad because it was the first time I've seen a dev basically admit they were wrong. But I am glad BioWare improved the ending. Much, much better ending, IMO.
PSV sales are not surprising to anyone who paid attention to the portable gaming market. It shouldn't even be in the Top 5 of 2012 FotY. It's 'failure' was incredibly easy to see before it ever launched.
Yup, extra bonus hatred for Halo 4 being an X360 exclusive. It's not all that different from when CoD had the Mtn Dew sponsorship, or Uncharted 3 doing so with Subway.
Game 'Journalists' have been little more than another marketing arm for devs/pubs for about as long as I can remember. They should be called Enthuasist Press. The #1 gaming magazine (Game Informer) being owned by Game Stop is a prime example of this.
Zynga's failures should be in consideration. Huge profile company that went down the shitter. FarmVille really was a fad.
Silicon Knights having to recall their games & destroy them is embarrassing. But I kinda felt they would lose their lawsuit ever since it was announced.
38 Studios was just another studio failing & closing. 'Twas even better because it happened to that cunt Schilling. Fuck him, and his flawed opinions. But in the end, it was just another studio closing. The studio getting taxpayer money to locate in NH isn't anything new either. Local & state govts make those sort of deals with private businesses regularly (something conservatives don't want their voters to know).
ME3's ending fiasco was pretty bad because it was the first time I've seen a dev basically admit they were wrong. But I am glad BioWare improved the ending. Much, much better ending, IMO.
PSV sales are not surprising to anyone who paid attention to the portable gaming market. It shouldn't even be in the Top 5 of 2012 FotY. It's 'failure' was incredibly easy to see before it ever launched.
Yup, extra bonus hatred for Halo 4 being an X360 exclusive. It's not all that different from when CoD had the Mtn Dew sponsorship, or Uncharted 3 doing so with Subway.
Game 'Journalists' have been little more than another marketing arm for devs/pubs for about as long as I can remember. They should be called Enthuasist Press. The #1 gaming magazine (Game Informer) being owned by Game Stop is a prime example of this.
Majmun
Member
And the WiiU hasn't done that either in most European countries...
Should we call it dead too?
Neuromancer
Member
It certainly has the most threads on it.
They wanted to say price drop but couldn't encourage that.
Are you really comparing the Netherlands appetite for gaming hardware to Japan?
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Itchy//Tasty
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Yeah, I'd throw my vote down for Silent Hill HD. What a clusterfuck.
Was waiting for this. Bravo, did not disappoint.
I'm going to prepare an I told you so youtube account and plan a party for the turnaround
djplaeskool
Member
-DoritosGate
-38 Studios
-Zynga
-38 Studios
-Zynga
Seriously. Can GAF members be nominated for this award?
spandexmonkey
Banned
38 Studios catastrophic collapse without doubt. Millions lost, lives destroyed, a state in peril, nothing else was quite that bad.
Or perhaps avatars?
When people are using the term "Doritos-gate," they're talking about a lot more than that funny photo with Geoff shilling snack chips. People lost jobs over this and it developed into a massive, industry-wide embarrassment.
Again, for anyone who hasn't looked at it yet, at least skim this post.
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Is there a Vita owner that doesn't love the Vita?
Dark_AnNiaLatOr
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Black Ops Declassified was such a buzzkill. That's where my vote goes. Also RE6, what I played of the demo was a pos.
Are there vita owners at all? HAHAHA FOTY!!!
atomic moth
Member
My vote is for Capcom's bullshit DLC policies.
I don't think it'll win since recent events are stronger is our memories. But let me ask you this:
Of all the dumbassery that has gone on this year, how much of it was not only tolerated, but supported by fans? And not only fans, but NeoGAF members?
Capcom convinced people that they should pay more than $60 for a title and the lemmings believed it. I had to argue with people who were literally asking me how I was going to make up for the missing revenue provided by on disk DLC if Capcom decided not to go that route and just offer it as part of the game.
It is this years biggest mess and it showed how a weak-minded half can ruin it for the those who just want their videogames back.
I don't think it'll win since recent events are stronger is our memories. But let me ask you this:
Of all the dumbassery that has gone on this year, how much of it was not only tolerated, but supported by fans? And not only fans, but NeoGAF members?
Capcom convinced people that they should pay more than $60 for a title and the lemmings believed it. I had to argue with people who were literally asking me how I was going to make up for the missing revenue provided by on disk DLC if Capcom decided not to go that route and just offer it as part of the game.
It is this years biggest mess and it showed how a weak-minded half can ruin it for the those who just want their videogames back.
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