DigitalBattle: "Have we as gamers become so entitled and snobby that a great game like Arkham City is no longer enough, the cover needs to be perfect as well?"
(Batman: Arkham City, Culture, PS3, Xbox 360)
I believe a cover is part of the package and experience as a whole. Riddling your game's case with praise about it is ridiculous. Let the game speak for itself, in this day and age you can simply go online anytime to find reviews of a game and see if it's worth your purchase. We don't need reviews splayed all over the front cover, ruining great artwork. They should have faith in their own product, that it'll speak for itself and not have to shove all that in your face is all I'm saying.
it's not the most attractive of things, but who really cares about the cover. frankly, it should be the least of your concerns.
are you the type of person who sits and stares at the box the whole time you're playing the game? i'm personally tired of seeing gamers cry about every little thing.
if the game is a broken pile of garbage, then complain all you want about its functionality. if you don't like how something looks, shut your mouth and deal with the fact that that's how it was designed.
I care about the cover. I don't like buying games without original covers if I can at all help it.
See, I'm a collector. I like to look at my collection as much as I like to play it. So something like a crap-looking case bothers me. For me, it's already bad enough that a manual consists of two black and white pages now. I never cared if the controls were in there; I liked reading about the game. There's no little synopsis of the story anymore, no mini profile of the main characters. Just the basic controls and some health warnings.
Now you're telling me that as long as the game runs fine, I shouldn't complain about the packaging? That I should settle for something that looks like a Smart car when I could have something that looks like a Corvette(we're assuming the same performance, mind you)?
I'll pass. I want as complete a package as possible. I want aesthetics AND performance. If the case in the picture is the GOTY case, it's undeniably ugly, and that alone would be enough to make me not want to buy, because it shows that they didn't care enough about their appearance to put their best foot forward.
Would you hire someone for a high-ranking position if they came to the interview looking like a slob?
The cover will NEVER prevent me from buying a game ever...
But that doesn't mean I don't go out and say "this cover sucks" or "this cover is the worst cover ever" or "hey this cover looks awesome."
I'm personally tired of people taking other people's opinions so personally and I'm tired of people not being able to express their opinion without being call entitled, snobby, or crying..
I have a simple take on this and it's painfully obvious. WB Games is making a statement here, and it's one that conveys their belief that consumers are, frankly put, F'N IDIOTS!
Seriously, there's a 4% measure of how much real-estate the actual title takes on that box. The remaining 96% is primarily Batman covered in giant, out-of-place quotes and marketing tactic. This serves as a prime example that WB has no confidence in the consumer to discern what makes a Game of the Year title, or that it, somehow, means it's filled with value-rich content.
There's one way to do it, like WB Games displays here. Then there's another way. Let's take a look at how a Game of the Year Edition should be, selling itself on the confidence of the experience and nothing more...
Fact is the cover is ugly. Its like they are already advertising the game to you even though you are going to buy it. It screams buy me buy me buy me buy me in a very loud way.
This cover is ugly as hell and TBH Batman doesn't need any magazines approval. Batman is the ultimate superhero game and that's it. Any fan would buy this, not for the cover but OH wait for the GAME!!!
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Why does it concern you that people don't like the cover?
People can't call something "the worst thing ever" or a "tragedy" without being called entitled or snobby now?
are you the type of person who sits and stares at the box the whole time you're playing the game? i'm personally tired of seeing gamers cry about every little thing.
if the game is a broken pile of garbage, then complain all you want about its functionality. if you don't like how something looks, shut your mouth and deal with the fact that that's how it was designed.
See, I'm a collector. I like to look at my collection as much as I like to play it. So something like a crap-looking case bothers me. For me, it's already bad enough that a manual consists of two black and white pages now. I never cared if the controls were in there; I liked reading about the game. There's no little synopsis of the story anymore, no mini profile of the main characters. Just the basic controls and some health warnings.
Now you're telling me that as long as the game runs fine, I shouldn't complain about the packaging? That I should settle for something that looks like a Smart car when I could have something that looks like a Corvette(we're assuming the same performance, mind you)?
I'll pass. I want as complete a package as possible. I want aesthetics AND performance. If the case in the picture is the GOTY case, it's undeniably ugly, and that alone would be enough to make me not want to buy, because it shows that they didn't care enough about their appearance to put their best foot forward.
Would you hire someone for a high-ranking position if they came to the interview looking like a slob?
But that doesn't mean I don't go out and say "this cover sucks" or "this cover is the worst cover ever" or "hey this cover looks awesome."
I'm personally tired of people taking other people's opinions so personally and I'm tired of people not being able to express their opinion without being call entitled, snobby, or crying..
It's not just bargain seekers who buy these editions of games.
Seriously, there's a 4% measure of how much real-estate the actual title takes on that box. The remaining 96% is primarily Batman covered in giant, out-of-place quotes and marketing tactic. This serves as a prime example that WB has no confidence in the consumer to discern what makes a Game of the Year title, or that it, somehow, means it's filled with value-rich content.
There's one way to do it, like WB Games displays here. Then there's another way. Let's take a look at how a Game of the Year Edition should be, selling itself on the confidence of the experience and nothing more...
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