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    What if video game companies were people (Pic)

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Ajfountains, Feb 7, 2013.

  1. Ajfountains

    Ajfountains Notebook Deity

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    Saw this and found it hilarious. Not sure who to give original credit to. So what do you all think? Agree/Disagree/Suggest your own.

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  2. Zymphad

    Zymphad Zymphad

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    I so disagree.

    Valve - The spy, you think he's your neighbor and friend, but he's not. He's just another Activision hiding and lurking.

    Blizzard - The creepy insurance friend. He was once your friend, but now, he tries to sell you insurance and whenever you think you're meeting for drinks, it's really to sell you more insurance.

    EA - The investor / Gamer. He's multiple personalities. Cause honestly, some of the best games I play are EA. Truly awesome games.

    Microsoft - The wife beater. Cause we're all married to Microsoft, using Windows, yet Microsoft continuously beats on us and cheats on us with the prostitute, consoles.

    Bethesda - The failure. Never can do anything right, always has defective products that have issues that everyone else have to say, it's ok, we'll fix it for you, because we know you're too incompetent.

    Epic Games - A prostitute. Nvidia is its pimp.

    ID Software - The downtrodden. Bethesda and Zenimax just walks all over it and spits on it.
     
  3. Ajfountains

    Ajfountains Notebook Deity

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    looks like this came from dorkly.com so all props to Julia Lepetit and Andrew Bridgman Videogame Companies Are Your Friends - Dorkly Comic

    Ahahahaha that is so wrong, but when I think of it, so true.....So does that make Linux a support group for battered women?
     
  4. Cakefish

    Cakefish ¯\_(?)_/¯

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    Where is Ubisoft and Take-Two and ID?

    My view of Valve:

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  5. moviemarketing

    moviemarketing Milk Drinker

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    That was hilarious, nice post.

    Have to agree with all of them except, I have never played any Microsoft or Sony consoles before, so I have no idea what they were talking about there.
     
  6. Gunnkeeper

    Gunnkeeper Notebook Consultant

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    EA should be the guy that ruins the things you kinda care for

    and activition should be the scam artist lol
     
  7. Cakefish

    Cakefish ¯\_(?)_/¯

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    Microsoft uses a point system where you must purchase (with real money) 'Microsoft Points' to be able to buy DLC, XBLA Games etc etc. You can only buy these points in bundles meaning you have to pay a set amount to purchase even the cheapest item - so, to be able to get a certain DLC worth, say 80 points, you'd have to buy the smallest pack available which I think is 400 or 800, something like that. Basically a way to get people spending more than they need to.

    Sony's reputation on security was damaged in 2011 when hackers hit the PSN and stole millions of account details and forced it to be shut down for several weeks and taken offline. During this time no one could play multi-player games online. I believe credit/debit card info may have been stolen too. Hit Sony hard.
     
  8. Defengar

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    Also, MS makes you pay 50 bucks a year for Xbox live so you can play online, and they put adds on your Xbox's UI. The red ring reference is to the fact when an Xbox stops working, the light on the console (a green ring), turns red.

    Sony doesn't make you pay for online play, and they don't put adds on the UI of the PS3.
     
  9. ton247

    ton247 Notebook Evangelist

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    Poor Sega :(

    *cradles his Genesis*
     
  10. thegreatsquare

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    I'm guessing Ubisoft would be the guy who you lost touch with because he acted like a jerk to everyone.

    LOL @ Vavle=Cat
     
  11. WARDOZER9

    WARDOZER9 Notebook Consultant

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    I'd change valve to :

    Always has good ideas but never quite caught on to the whole "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." mantra leading to compulsive fixing of things that worked until they don't. Also loves to constantly get you worked up about new project's he's working on only to flake out at the last second leaving you hanging, sometimes for years on end.
     
  12. aboineg

    aboineg Notebook Guru

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    They should add Rockstar as that hardcore and extreme friend who never fails to disappoint! at least thats how they are for me
     
  13. jaug1337

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    Hahhaahahha I laughed so hard