Wrath of Dagon

Debatable. That's the law, and anyone should be able to see a 13 yr old doesn't have the judgment required.

A child can not give consent. Edit: Also he needs to be punished for fleeing from justice, also a very serious felony (but not if you donate to the Bill Clinton library)

I think that was shipped to retailers, not sold. If ME did exctremely well, they'd announce the totals, which they didn't.

Halo 1 actually had a good story, it really gave you a sense of exploration and mystery. Halo 2 of course totally destoyed the setting.

You have to have a reasonable return on investment, or else you investment loses value. So let's say a reasonable return would be at least 5%, i.e. $43 million / year, nothing Bioware ever had before I'm pretty sure. But as you say, a successful MMO with say 2 million subscribers would probably give them around $200 million a year in profits, of course this has to be shared with LA, but still more than a reasonable return. (Edit: This doesn't count the development costs of the MMO of course, so they would also have to be factored in).

May be bad marketing is better than good marketing, everyone's talking about it afterall.

Because it's very understandable why AoD has been in development for a long time (not forever), and I have a lot more faith in Vince than in corporate beancounters. Besides with AoD we're told about everything that's going on, with AP all we get is the usual marketing line. Also, I've never believed AP would sell well to tell the truth, regardless of its merits.

Yes, but profits are supposed to exceed what you can get by buying treasury bonds for that amount. If they make their money back in 50 years it's not exactly a brilliant business move.

FTW, but it would be more expensive in the US, because we always want everything for nothing.

I can guaranty EA will never make their $860 million back on Bioware. The only way that could happen is if TOR is as big as WoW, and chances of that are slim and none.

Why did they keep saying Aliens RPG was on hold when they had really cancelled it?

You may have failed your English class, so I'll explain. "This" in your post refers to something I've done, so it implies that I'm a stupid fan. Regardless of your belief, you did not actually say all fans are stupid. Now go to hell.

It's possible I misread your comment to start with as my bashing Patrick so I thought you edited that later when you actually edited something else. You did call me stupid, but whatever, it's always a mistake to get in the mud by responding to you in any way.

Are they forcing you to at least keep her on the ship? I'd assume so given his statement. The forced party member mechanics is a bit odd I agree. If you'd prefer, they could make the game so that all the NPCs are ones that Patrick likes. This is why fans are stupid. Companies get bashed for towing the party line, yet they use their words against them when they're being honest. Of course, why someone is interested in the sequel to a game he hates is even more entertaining. So you edit your post before someone can catch you and then you call people stupid? Edit: Heh http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/09/27...powerful-bitch/

And you say you "haven't seen anything that bad..." Examples? Patrick said he loathes the character and will never take her into his party. Of course he can't very well say that a fellow writer sucks.

You should be able to hold a court-martial right on the ship, so you can "thin out the herd".

http://www.gamebanshee.com/news/static/EkV...VAuEeZwXRoC.php lol lol lol And to think all this time I thought Patrick was the one who wrote that. Sorry Patrick.

Wait for the price to go down, otherwise it's a total rip-off.

I agree with this, but bad writing is such an industry-wide problem atm, that I think it is really difficult to criticize any single developer as being particularly offensive. Certainly at the very least criticizing Bioware's writing while Bethesda's around seems pretty ludicrous. I haven't seen anything that bad from Bethesda, of course I only played Oblivion so I don't know about other games. Despite your lack of fondness for Thane, do you like fish sticks? Are you trying to imply I'm a homosexual?

That is not the case at all. There's nothing in the US constitution which authorizes the federal government for wealth redistribution of any kind whatsoever.

Interest falling rapidly. Seriously, Bio needs to hire some better writers, this is worse than the crap dialog in ME1. Or may be they're writing for 12 yr olds on purpose. Edit: Also first fish guy Thane, and now this monstrosity. Are they trying to make the most unattractive characters possible?

We're glad too. Funny how people can afford cell phones and big screen TV's and cable but not insurance. Still, it's true healthcare is unreasonably expensive for the average working person, mostly because since insurance pays, the consumer doesn't care how much his treatment costs.

We don't, Barry Dunham and his crew do.

Invest it in natural gas futures.

I'd bet on the second. Edit: Why Sega would want to finace another 8 months of development is beyond me, probably letting us down gently.