A customer enters a bakery for the first time and buys a chocolate cake. After taking it home and eating it, the customer is pleasantly surprised by how delicious this bakery's chocolate cake is. Soon the customer begins to try other flavors of cake, and each one is as good as the last. Eventually the customer touts this bakery as its favorite in the entire county.
Over the years, however, the bakery slowly shifts its focus from cakes to cookies. Though the customer doesn't mind cookies, obviously cake is more preferable. Soon the bakery's most popular item is its renowned chocolate chip cookies. The customer laments the loss of cake, but buys the chocolate chip cookies none the less.
One day, to the customer's delight, the bakery begins to make cupcakes, citing them as the spiritual successor to cake. With only one bite of a chocolate cupcake, the customer is immediately satisfied by the familiar taste, so much so that the customer buys a cupcake every week!
On one of those weeks, the customer notices a sign outside of the bakery: "If you enjoy our chocolate chip cookies," the sign advertises, "perhaps you should try our new chocolate chip cupcakes!"
"Chocolate chips?", the customer fumes, "in cupcakes?! This is the last straw!" The customer walks away, without even tasting the new chocolate chip cupcakes, denouncing the bakery, its chef, and its patrons as "having lost it," though no really knowing what that means.
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#2
Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:04
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Bad analogy. Cupcakes are always good.
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:05
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The fact of the matter is; I have been with BW for a long time, I know a lot of their fans.
They are let down, they have been let down for a while, now. They are sick of it.
They are let down, they have been let down for a while, now. They are sick of it.
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:07
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I been a loyal fan since 97 Baldurs Gate and Neverwinter and we get nothing.Lucy_Glitter wrote...
The fact of the matter is; I have been with BW for a long time, I know a lot of their fans.
They are let down, they have been let down for a while, now. They are sick of it.
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:08
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So, what you're saying here is that we need to try DA2 and learn more about it instead of just deciding not to buy it. I like your analogy, and agree. But I'm going to continue complaining because it's starting to become fun. (no, seriously, I like it.)
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:08
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Well i am sort of now getting let down.Lucy_Glitter wrote...
The fact of the matter is; I have been with BW for a long time, I know a lot of their fans.
They are let down, they have been let down for a while, now. They are sick of it.
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:09
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Bad analogy. It'd be more like if they started making chocolate chip cookies with icing on them and calling them cupcakes.
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:12
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Or putting dog crap in a pan and calling it hot fudge.
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:13
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People need to play the game before crying and complaining about a feature they've never even seen before. Its getting ridiculous, seeing some people bash the game with their ridiculously close-minded thought processes.
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:13
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Dileos wrote...
Or putting dog crap in a pan and calling it hot fudge.
but they're not decorating it to lie to you, they're telling u its dog crap
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:14
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Maverick827 wrote...
A customer enters a bakery for the first time and buys a chocolate cake. After taking it home and eating it, the customer is pleasantly surprised by how delicious this bakery's chocolate cake is. Soon the customer begins to try other flavors of cake, and each one is as good as the last. Eventually the customer touts this bakery as its favorite in the entire county.
Over the years, however, the bakery slowly shifts its focus from cakes to cookies. Though the customer doesn't mind cookies, obviously cake is more preferable. Soon the bakery's most popular item is its renowned chocolate chip cookies. The customer laments the loss of cake, but buys the chocolate chip cookies none the less.
One day, to the customer's delight, the bakery begins to make cupcakes, citing them as the spiritual successor to cake. With only one bite of a chocolate cupcake, the customer is immediately satisfied by the familiar taste, so much so that the customer buys a cupcake every week!
On one of those weeks, the customer notices a sign outside of the bakery: "If you enjoy our chocolate chip cookies," the sign advertises, "perhaps you should try our new chocolate chip cupcakes!"
"Chocolate chips?", the customer fumes, "in cupcakes?! This is the last straw!" The customer walks away, without even tasting the new chocolate chip cupcakes, denouncing the bakery, its chef, and its patrons as "having lost it," though no really knowing what that means.
Only problem is in this case CAKE BETTER THEN COOKIES and CUPCAKES!
You dont mess with whats not broken and Biowares RPG formula was going strong and selling strong!
Stupid analogy
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Or putting dog crap in a pan and calling it hot fudge.
Thats far more accurate analogy then the OPs
Modifié par Kalfear, 10 juillet 2010 - 04:15 .
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:14
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Maverick827 wrote...
A customer enters a bakery for the first time and buys a chocolate cake. After taking it home and eating it, the customer is pleasantly surprised by how delicious this bakery's chocolate cake is. Soon the customer begins to try other flavors of cake, and each one is as good as the last. Eventually the customer touts this bakery as its favorite in the entire county.
Over the years, however, the bakery slowly shifts its focus from cakes to cookies. Though the customer doesn't mind cookies, obviously cake is more preferable. Soon the bakery's most popular item is its renowned chocolate chip cookies. The customer laments the loss of cake, but buys the chocolate chip cookies none the less.
One day, to the customer's delight, the bakery begins to make cupcakes, citing them as the spiritual successor to cake. With only one bite of a chocolate cupcake, the customer is immediately satisfied by the familiar taste, so much so that the customer buys a cupcake every week!
On one of those weeks, the customer notices a sign outside of the bakery: "If you enjoy our chocolate chip cookies," the sign advertises, "perhaps you should try our new chocolate chip cupcakes!"
"Chocolate chips?", the customer fumes, "in cupcakes?! This is the last straw!" The customer walks away, without even tasting the new chocolate chip cupcakes, denouncing the bakery, its chef, and its patrons as "having lost it," though no really knowing what that means.
The fact that the customer doesn't mind chocolate chip cookies throws this off target. If they disliked cookies, and the bakery stopped making cake, a customer would soon go to a new bakery, or find something new to enjoy outside of desserts.
No one is going to partake of something they don't like.
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:16
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This is, by far, the greatest - and truest - thing I have ever read. I applaud you.
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:17
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errant_knight wrote...
Maverick827 wrote...
A customer enters a bakery for the first time and buys a chocolate cake. After taking it home and eating it, the customer is pleasantly surprised by how delicious this bakery's chocolate cake is. Soon the customer begins to try other flavors of cake, and each one is as good as the last. Eventually the customer touts this bakery as its favorite in the entire county.
Over the years, however, the bakery slowly shifts its focus from cakes to cookies. Though the customer doesn't mind cookies, obviously cake is more preferable. Soon the bakery's most popular item is its renowned chocolate chip cookies. The customer laments the loss of cake, but buys the chocolate chip cookies none the less.
One day, to the customer's delight, the bakery begins to make cupcakes, citing them as the spiritual successor to cake. With only one bite of a chocolate cupcake, the customer is immediately satisfied by the familiar taste, so much so that the customer buys a cupcake every week!
On one of those weeks, the customer notices a sign outside of the bakery: "If you enjoy our chocolate chip cookies," the sign advertises, "perhaps you should try our new chocolate chip cupcakes!"
"Chocolate chips?", the customer fumes, "in cupcakes?! This is the last straw!" The customer walks away, without even tasting the new chocolate chip cupcakes, denouncing the bakery, its chef, and its patrons as "having lost it," though no really knowing what that means.
The fact that the customer doesn't mind chocolate chip cookies throws this off target. If they disliked cookies, and the bakery stopped making cake, a customer would soon go to a new bakery, or find something new to enjoy outside of desserts.
Then all these doomsayers need to stop buying Bioware games.
Except they WILL buy these games. So that really wouldn't work.
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:17
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Of course you have to take into account that that little bakery has been bought out by a conglomerate who has a history of mass producing it's goods, using sub par pre-made frozen crap instead of fresh, homemade goods in order to shave costs and using catchy advertising and widely appealing flavors in order to get people to look past the cheap ingredients and increase it's bottom line.
Modifié par TheMadCat, 10 juillet 2010 - 04:21 .
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:22
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LPPrince wrote...
errant_knight wrote...
Maverick827 wrote...
A customer enters a bakery for the first time and buys a chocolate cake. After taking it home and eating it, the customer is pleasantly surprised by how delicious this bakery's chocolate cake is. Soon the customer begins to try other flavors of cake, and each one is as good as the last. Eventually the customer touts this bakery as its favorite in the entire county.
Over the years, however, the bakery slowly shifts its focus from cakes to cookies. Though the customer doesn't mind cookies, obviously cake is more preferable. Soon the bakery's most popular item is its renowned chocolate chip cookies. The customer laments the loss of cake, but buys the chocolate chip cookies none the less.
One day, to the customer's delight, the bakery begins to make cupcakes, citing them as the spiritual successor to cake. With only one bite of a chocolate cupcake, the customer is immediately satisfied by the familiar taste, so much so that the customer buys a cupcake every week!
On one of those weeks, the customer notices a sign outside of the bakery: "If you enjoy our chocolate chip cookies," the sign advertises, "perhaps you should try our new chocolate chip cupcakes!"
"Chocolate chips?", the customer fumes, "in cupcakes?! This is the last straw!" The customer walks away, without even tasting the new chocolate chip cupcakes, denouncing the bakery, its chef, and its patrons as "having lost it," though no really knowing what that means.
The fact that the customer doesn't mind chocolate chip cookies throws this off target. If they disliked cookies, and the bakery stopped making cake, a customer would soon go to a new bakery, or find something new to enjoy outside of desserts.
Then all these doomsayers need to stop buying Bioware games.
Except they WILL buy these games. So that really wouldn't work.
Well I for one will actually stick to my word should I choose to boycott DA2.
Obviously, I'm going to wait until I know more about the game before making that declaration though.
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:24
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TheMadCat wrote...
Of course you have to take into account that that little bakery has been bought out by a conglomerate who has a history of mass producing it's goods, using sub par pre-made frozen crap instead of fresh, homemade goods in order to shave costs and using catchy advertising and widely appealing flavors in order to get people to look past the cheap ingredients and increase it's bottom line.
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:30
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Wow. I really like that analogy. Good job.
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 04:42
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Really? A more valid comparison would be if they took the sugar out of the cakes and continued selling them as chocolate cakes, or better yet as the fantastic next step of evolution for chocolate cakes.
Modifié par bjdbwea, 10 juillet 2010 - 04:44 .
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Posté 10 juillet 2010 - 05:01
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TheMadCat wrote...
Of course you have to take into account that that little bakery has been bought out by a conglomerate who has a history of mass producing it's goods, using sub par pre-made frozen crap instead of fresh, homemade goods in order to shave costs and using catchy advertising and widely appealing flavors in order to get people to look past the cheap ingredients and increase it's bottom line.
what people dont seen to get is that games are not made for fun ,but for money and if they(developers,publishers)see a change to make some more money they will do it.Just because you dont like it they are not going to change . and about the catchy advertising what do you want then to do.....to only show the bad points of the games and not atract any audience and dont sell copies ? they need the money to live man,of course you could say that they are already rich, but money ends, and they need the money to make new games cause the developers aren´t there just cause they love video games they are there to make a live for them, because as i said before they are there to make money ,not to grant wishes to you or me or anyone here
also....the cake is a lie
Modifié par LOLZAO, 10 juillet 2010 - 05:02 .
