![]() In addition, loading your contacts from Outlook is better. You now have the option to quickly email the file to yourself. New! This update improves the sharing of a local file in File Explorer with Microsoft Outlook contacts. This feature gives you quick access to important account-related notifications. You can also add extra security steps to keep you from being locked out of your account. The account backs up all your data and helps you to manage your subscriptions. A Microsoft account is what connects Windows to your Microsoft apps. New! This update expands the roll out of notification badging for Microsoft accounts on the Start menu. It's not a perfect solution, but it takes the sting out of buying a game that you've been looking forward to that looks lousy on the shelf.This update addresses security issues for your Windows operating system. It's all left up to the marketing people who may not even understand the games they're peddling that well to begin with. The problem with understanding them is that they won't be the ones reading this post or posts like it. The real target audience here is the one Levine describes. I get most of my games either as review code/copies or I purchase them as digital downloads with no box at all. Then again, I probably don't count anymore. On the other hand, can't we have both? Can't we have a cover that would draw eyeballs from the casual shopper and accurately represent the new game? Or at least do something clever like the hidden dragon in the cover of Dragon Age: Inquisition? I think a handful of people bought that game.įor me, personally, a game with a heap of demons on the cover and a dude with a big gun playing king of the hill on top would be way more likely to catch my attention. Does it matter what gamers on reddit and NeoGaf think, gamers tuned in to their favorite games with a hyper-awareness that most consumers will never possess? Or what game journalists think? Or what game journalists who are also just contributors think? The only thing that really matters about the DOOM box-art is whether it draws eyeballs and gets the "undecided voters" of gaming consumerism to pick up a copy at GameStop. The question then becomes how much it matters if we dislike the new DOOM box-art. The old adage "Don't judge a book by its cover" may be true, but its equally true that many people do-judging books, movies, games and bottles of wine by how appealing their packaging is. In other words, it doesn't matter how pretty or creative a game's cover-art is if nobody picks it up and buys it in the first place. ![]() ![]() And start to read about it, start to think about it.” Look at this girl, Elizabeth on the back. “I wanted the uninformed, the person who doesn’t read IGN… to pick up the box and say, okay, this looks kind of cool, let me turn it over. And I didn’t have a lot of money back then. I remember I picked it up… looked at it and I said, I have no idea what this game is. “Would I buy that game if I had 60 bucks and I bought three games a year… would I even pick up the box? I went back to the box for System Shock 1, which was obviously incredibly important - that game was incredibly influential on me, System Shock 2 was the first game I ever made. Trust me, I was heavily involved with the creation of those characters and I love them.” And I tried to step back and say, if I’m just some guy, some frat guy, I love games but don’t pay attention to them… if I saw the cover of that box, what would I think? And I would think, this is a game about a robot and a little girl. “I looked at the cover art for BioShock 1, which I was heavily involved with and love, I adored. Game director Ken Levine explained at the time that the generic cover was purely a financial decision, a decision to lure in gamers who didn't read gaming magazines and who bought on impulse rather than months of research and hype. But perhaps the most important is that of BioShock Infinite, which had a totally generic cover when it could have had these works of art instead. This is all reminiscent of lots and lots of other instances of disappointing video game covers. You can see those here, here, and my personal favorite here, though it's actually just a rip-off of this painting. Users on reddit have made their own versions of the box-art as well. Be sure to point that out and underline why it makes everything I say meaningless!) (**Waves at NeoGaf.** Just a contributor here folks.
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