Universal Batman: Arkham Underworld

I didn't look like there was a forum thread on this yet (even though there was an article on the front page about it a while back) so I figured I would start one.

Here's the official site: [URL="http://www.arkhamunderworld.com]www.arkhamunderworld.com[/URL]

I was wondering if anyone here had gotten into the beta or heard any rumored release dates.

I'm surprised there hasn't been more news on this. I figured it would be released pretty close to the release of Arkham Knight (which is next week), but maybe not?

 

No, no. It's both freemium and popular, therefore we aren't allowed to like it, or anything even remotely similar to it.

Oh, and if a game like that contains popular characters or themes that we ARE allowed to like, then we have to hate it even more because it ruins our childhoods or something along those lines.

 

Here's some steps you can take in response.

Step 1: Learn about the new game that is a re-skin of a popular game and decide you don't like it.
Step 2: Ignore it and move on, and don't begrudge those who enjoy it.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Everyone profits.

I really don't get the point of people griping about games they don't play. I don't like first person shooters, and I have my own negative opinions about the genre in general, but I would never consider even reading a thread on a first person shooter, let alone posting something in it.

I understand the negative opinions around Clash of Clans and similar games. I even have a lot of those opinions, myself. I just don't understand the compulsion to bring those negative opinions up every time something even slightly related is being discussed.

Life is too short to waste time discussing the shortcomings of a game in a thread you'll never even play.

 

So are Starbucks, McDonalds, Wal-Marts, cheesy pop bands, reality tv shows, etc. That's the nature of business. It's supply and demand. If you don't like what's in supply, don't sit around gripping about it. Create a new demand for something different.

All that you show to the makers of the games you complain about is that you aren't part of the demographic that the game is being marketed to. What you need to show is that there is another demographic that is worth marketing to. Just saying you hate freemium game models and the whales that support them doesn't produce the demand for something different or give the devs anything to work with.

The game industry is a business. Business is driven by money. Right now, the money is largely in freemium games. Would you go to your job for less pay, just because someone wanted you to? Nope. So you have to somehow show that there can be just as much money in premium games. Complaining about freemium games only tells the devs how you are NOT going to give them money. They need to know how you WOULD give them money, and that it would be worth the effort. Just saying that you only want to drop a dollar or two power game isn't going to be very compelling. A few voices in the crowd saying they would spend $30-$40 per game isn't going to be very compelling, either.

Don't waste time stewing over the problem. Focus on the solution.

 

Of course not. I started the discussion. This was the direction it turned. I didn't bring you to this thread, you came to it.

My replies to things posted in here are not hypocritical, as you seem to think. There's a big difference from responding to comments in a discussion that I started to going into a thread about a topic I don't care for and complaining about it.

 

By "topics you don't care for", in this context, I mean discussions on games you don't care to play.

It's like those people who have some conviction about something other people like and they just have to interrupt and proclaim their disapproval. Like hearing someone talking about a new menu item at McDonald's and butting in to educate them on how unhealthy the fast food chain is and how fat they are making everyone. Or seeing some guys checking out their new iPhones and telling them about the horrible labor practices the company uses overseas to produce the devices. I could go on with plenty of examples.

It's not that your opinion is invalid (it's very valid), or even that your opinion is different (in fact, as I stated earlier, I share many of the same negative opinions about Clash of Clans and other similar freemium games as you). The point is that this wasn't the topic to discuss those opinions.

Imagine this scenario, maybe it will help you understand my point. You're at a family gathering and you overhear some of your relatives asking each other what they thought of the latest episode of some crappy reality tv show that you have never even watched. You immediately walk over and school them on how stupid and mindless shows like that are and how people like them who watch those kinds of shows keep the tv producers making more and more of them. Those relatives would not likely be very appreciative of such an interjection. It's not that you're wrong, but that it just wasn't the right time to share those opinions.

Hopefully that helps you understand where I'm coming from.

 

I had figured that they would try to release this alongside Arkham Knight, but that apparently wasn't the plan. When is this ever coming out of soft launch?