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Corgstradamus said:
When you first start playing Thief, you sort of feel like the bashing is unjust. Then once you get to the 4th chapter, you are right there on the bandwagon. I'll wait for Thief to hit $4.99 before I pick it up again. Having unfinished games irritates me.
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Nope, it looked boring from the very beginning. I've got such a hankering to go for the Dishonored plat now, though. :joystick:

 
Corgstradamus said:
So when did Amazon's fees go from 15% to 20% for selling games? I think I am going to start selling some of my games if you guys are interested. First things first after reading what you guys have said, I want to see if I can get $60 for my Destiny Guardian Edition. Let me know if you know anyone that is interested.
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I think it might have started when they raised the standard shipping rate for books/games/movies/whatever from $2.99 to $3.99, but I'm not sure.

TheCAGChampIsHere said:
20%?!?!?

Holy shit, and to think how annoyed I was getting at eBay and PayPal's 13%.
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Honestly, selling through Amazon is so fast and easy compared to eBay in terms of both paying for shipping and getting the money transferred to your bank account that I don't mind the higher cut. You pay for the convenience.

 
Vigilante said:
I think it might have started when they raised the standard shipping rate for books/games/movies/whatever from $2.99 to $3.99, but I'm not sure.

Honestly, selling through Amazon is so fast and easy compared to eBay in terms of both paying for shipping and getting the money transferred to your bank account that I don't mind the higher cut. You pay for the convenience.
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I use the eBay app on my phone. Take pics, and in less than a minute the listing is posted. Can't get much faster or easier than that.

As far as paying for the shipping, 3 clicks or so and that's done. Print the label and put it in the mailbox. My money is available as soon as the item is paid for. eBay is by no means inconvenient.

 
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Backlog_Overload said:
I use the eBay app on my phone. Take pics, and in less than a minute the listing is posted. Can't get much faster or easier than that.

As far as paying for the shipping, 3 clicks or so and that's done. Print the label and put it in the mailbox. My money is available as soon as the item is paid for. eBay is by no means inconvenient.
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Huh. I might have to start using that app, then. I only have selling experience with eBay the old-fashioned way, via laptop.

 
I've used eBay and Amazon, been lucky to sell stuff with almost no problems except one transaction where I listed the item carefully and the person then decided to return saying I listed it wrong. I like the eBay app for listing stuff and wish Amazon had one like that.

 
SJD said:
I've used eBay and Amazon, been lucky to sell stuff with almost no problems except one transaction where I listed the item carefully and the person then decided to return saying I listed it wrong. I like the eBay app for listing stuff and wish Amazon had one like that.
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Yeah, the primary factor in my preferring Amazon to eBay is how eBay will always side with the buyer if they decide to return an item or, worse, open a case because they "never received" it or it "wasn't as described".

 
Vigilante said:
Huh. I might have to start using that app, then. I only have selling experience with eBay the old-fashioned way, via laptop.
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Yeah I looked at posting one via the website, and was just like screw this I'm going back to the app. Way easier, definitely recommend it. Plus it makes this satisfying "cha-ching" sound when you have a bid or something sells.

 
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Vigilante said:
Yeah, the primary factor in my preferring Amazon to eBay is how eBay will always side with the buyer if they decide to return an item or, worse, open a case because they "never received" it or it "wasn't as described".
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My only bad apple came from selling on Amazon. So yeah.

 
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-09-15-microsoft-buys-mojang-and-minecraft

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Is there any point to the arm band accessory for the Warlock in Destiny?

Also, Stotch, when do you plan on playing? I'd like to do strikes, farm for legendary gear, and/or play Salvage to get relics for the trophy.
 
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Wow on the Minecraft purchase. 2.5 billion. I don't understand how it could possibly be worth that much, but maybe Microsoft knows what it's doing?

 
Look Microsoft wasting 2.5b on Mojang is awesome. Now Sony can spend money on games that actual matter without fear of being outbid. Dumb move by MS but that's par for the course. Ever since the XBONE launch with almost every move they have made I'm really extremely happy I bought a PS4 as my 1 console this gen.

 
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Sometimes businesses like Microsoft just have so much cash that they need to buy something to appease investors.   Is Minecraft the only property that this company has going for it?

 
Looks like I am one of the highest scoring teams in the league!!  ingram, Spiller, and Edleman have been great surprises.

Oh and I drafted Kirk Cousins knowing RG3 would either get injured or lose the starting job!!  Boom!!!  my backup QB is better than some peoples starters!

 
bestkeeper14 said:
Looks like I am one of the highest scoring teams in the league!! ingram, Spiller, and Edleman have been great surprises.

Oh and I drafted Kirk Cousins knowing RG3 would either get injured or lose the starting job!! Boom!!! my backup QB is better than some peoples starters!
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Black Sunday. Enough said.
 
Also part of the Minesoft news is that the three founders of Mojang are apparently leaving the studio as part of this purchase. I guess that Notch dude said that owning Minecraft was too much of a burden and prevented him from working on other things. Because I'm sure releasing new skins as microtransaction DLC was sooooo difficult. I mean for some of they they had to use entirely different color palettes!
 
ProfessorStotch said:
Also part of the Minesoft news is that the three founders of Mojang are apparently leaving the studio as part of this purchase. I guess that Notch dude said that owning Minecraft was too much of a burden and prevented him from working on other things. Because I'm sure releasing new skins as microtransaction DLC was sooooo difficult. I mean for some of they they had to use entirely different color palettes!
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Notch hasn't been working on Minecraft for a while. Also none of them worked on the console versions. The PC version didn't have pay-for skins and such. Of course now that Microsoft owns it, that could change. Notch seems to have been super mega stressed by how huge it got. He wants to work on small stuff again.

 
bestkeeper14 said:
Looks like I am one of the highest scoring teams in the league!! ingram, Spiller, and Edleman have been great surprises.

Oh and I drafted Kirk Cousins knowing RG3 would either get injured or lose the starting job!! Boom!!! my backup QB is better than some peoples starters!
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I'm glad I didn't need the 34 points that Antonio Gates left on my bench, and won even with a zero in one of my RB spots. Would have beat quite a few actually.

Also, Jordy.
 
Not to interrupt the MSFT love fest, but they have a lot of money. A lot. I've read close to 90 billion in offshore cash. Cash that won't be repatriated. So "investing" in foreign companies like Nokia and Mojang is still exponentially cheaper than paying taxes here. Not even fucking close. Not suggesting that's why they did it but yeahhh. This is nothing.

But on principle, I agree. 2.5B still seems like a lot for any single property...especially in a nascent stage. Kids do love Minecraft, though, no doubt. Seems like a generational thing so maybe it'll pay off in the end.
 
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ProfessorStotch said:
Also part of the Minesoft news is that the three founders of Mojang are apparently leaving the studio as part of this purchase. I guess that Notch dude said that owning Minecraft was too much of a burden and prevented him from working on other things. Because I'm sure releasing new skins as microtransaction DLC was sooooo difficult. I mean for some of they they had to use entirely different color palettes!
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TheCAGChampIsHere said:
Some of these indie developers really piss me off. Yeah, making millions of dollars is so burdensome. Poor you, I feel so bad.
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I think with Notch, it was a quicker and larger rise to fame than most. I mean shit it just sold for $2.5 billion. Imagine working on a game in your basement and then being asked to control a company and all that went along with it. I think it's just something he never really wanted. He hasn't really been vocal (in a bad way) like a lot of other indie developers and I think he just did the best with what he had in front of him. He can't be all bad he shared his profits with everyone at the studio(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/markus-notch-persson-gives-3-million_n_1317396.html). At this point he just wants to step away. If I was him I'd take a few years off, go have some fun and if he wanted to develop again (which he doesn't even have to) do it under a new unknown company name.

 
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Backlog_Overload said:
Interesting to hear that they still plan to make Minecraft games available on Playstation platforms. I guess it makes the most sense money-wise.
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They probably wouldn't have if they weren't already on the Sony platforms. Yanking support away / delisting them would have invoked a rage that might have even dwarfed the "no used games on XBone" shit storm.

 
I was reading some college football stories on SB Nation and there was a link to a story about MMA I checked out.  It mentioned a Japanese woman fighter who was "built like a brick shithouse" and so I looked up her name, Rin Nakai, on Google (warning, there are many that are NSFW).  I don't recall ever seeing a Japanese dude as jacked as she is.  If I did not read that article to know she was a fighter I would have probably thought this was shopped.  She is either a freak of nature, has been pumping some HGH for a while, or both.

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jkam said:
I think with Notch, it was a quicker and larger rise to fame than most. I mean shit it just sold for $2.5 billion. Imagine working on a game in your basement and then being asked to control a company and all that went along with it. I think it's just something he never really wanted. He hasn't really been vocal (in a bad way) like a lot of other indie developers and I think he just did the best with what he had in front of him. He can't be all bad he shared his profits with everyone at the studio(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/markus-notch-persson-gives-3-million_n_1317396.html). At this point he just wants to step away. If I was him I'd take a few years off, go have some fun and if he wanted to develop again (which he doesn't even have to) do it under a new unknown company name.
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$2.5 billion. If you give that to me, I'll do whatever the fuck you want and not say a word. Even before that, he was raking in enough to have absolutely nothing to complain about. Ooooooh being a millionaire is sooooo hard.
 
OMG, an actual story in the non-Animus portion of the game, I always wondered why they had those pointless talky-talk sessions out of it in Assassin's Creed 2 since it didn't amount to anything. It's a vestigial tail left over from when it had a function in the original game, like how they kept doing "flashbacks" in Lost until the end because that's how they had always done it even though they had outlived their usefulness several seasons ago. Why is this game bad again? Must get worse in the final 1/3rd of the game I guess?

 
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To be fair, it is stressful to have a lot of money and be (somewhat) famous.  But people with money really need to stop commenting publicly about being stressed.   It just doesnt look good when you can buy anything you want in this world to deal with your stress. 

The rest of us have to pray we can find a good supply of drugs.

 
ProfessorStotch said:
$2.5 billion. If you give that to me, I'll do whatever the fuck you want and not say a word. Even before that, he was raking in enough to have absolutely nothing to complain about. Ooooooh being a millionaire is sooooo hard.
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You are equating running a company full time with being a millionaire. So if you had the opportunity to sell your company for $2.5 billion and do nothing (or whatever you wanted), or to keep running your compnay for another "X" amount of years you'd choose to keep running the company? Shit if I had 5 million I'd quit work tomorrow but maybe that's just me.

 
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