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    A Dream, Friends, and Money: r/Overwatch News&Discussion
 I've been a bronze player for 8 seasons and
 have never left. AMA
 u/Adsyoung
 The title says it all. Abuse me with your questions and
 don't tread lightly. Adz11919 is my tag for proof. Ask
 away friends
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 Write a comment
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 loves2spoogeguys 1h
 With the tensions rising with the U.S government, how
 does this play out for the rest of the world?
 8
 Adsyoung1h
 As a non-American I can say for certain that it has
 improved our relations with other Pacific nations.
 Australians now have less reliance on the US and have
 turned more to China for increasing trade and
 development.

 _jaybe Th
 How much money could you have made if you had gone to
 work instead of wasting 8 seasons in bronze games?
 .0
 Adsyoung59m
 If I could put a monetary value on it. I would say 90
 hours over 8 seasons, at $39 an hour, about $3510
 jaybe 50m
 so you could have unlock the full cast of battlefront II
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 Adsyoung49m
 True. Or like 60,000 overwatch lootboxes

 TheSteeldrake Chibi Ana 1h
 Did Noah have woodpeckers on the ark? If he did, where
 did he keep them?
 0
 Adsyoung56m
 On the crows nest. Back then it was called the pecker
 nest.

 Bus OW Chibi Lúcio 1h
 What sort of things do you see happen during games that
 remind you that you are in bronze?
 .0
 Adsyoung58m
 Guarantee hanzo and widow pick every game. 5 dps
 players minimum and a rein shield on the payload but
 always facing the wrong way.

 gOnk-droid fadda 13m
 Have you ever had a dream in which you ranked up?
 .0
 Adsyoung13m
 I dreamt once there was a league worse than bronze
 called 'wood and I was demoted into it.
 gOnk-droid fadda 11m
 The horror.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                A Dream, Friends, and Money: r/Overwatch News&Discussion
 I've been a bronze player for 8 seasons and
 have never left. AMA
 u/Adsyoung
 The title says it all. Abuse me with your questions and
 don't tread lightly. Adz11919 is my tag for proof. Ask
 away friends
 46 Comments
 Write a comment
 Best
 loves2spoogeguys 1h
 With the tensions rising with the U.S government, how
 does this play out for the rest of the world?
 8
 Adsyoung1h
 As a non-American I can say for certain that it has
 improved our relations with other Pacific nations.
 Australians now have less reliance on the US and have
 turned more to China for increasing trade and
 development.

 _jaybe Th
 How much money could you have made if you had gone to
 work instead of wasting 8 seasons in bronze games?
 .0
 Adsyoung59m
 If I could put a monetary value on it. I would say 90
 hours over 8 seasons, at $39 an hour, about $3510
 jaybe 50m
 so you could have unlock the full cast of battlefront II
 .0
 Adsyoung49m
 True. Or like 60,000 overwatch lootboxes

 TheSteeldrake Chibi Ana 1h
 Did Noah have woodpeckers on the ark? If he did, where
 did he keep them?
 0
 Adsyoung56m
 On the crows nest. Back then it was called the pecker
 nest.

 Bus OW Chibi Lúcio 1h
 What sort of things do you see happen during games that
 remind you that you are in bronze?
 .0
 Adsyoung58m
 Guarantee hanzo and widow pick every game. 5 dps
 players minimum and a rein shield on the payload but
 always facing the wrong way.

 gOnk-droid fadda 13m
 Have you ever had a dream in which you ranked up?
 .0
 Adsyoung13m
 I dreamt once there was a league worse than bronze
 called 'wood and I was demoted into it.
 gOnk-droid fadda 11m
 The horror.
                
            

            
            
        

    



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            




    Tumblr, Blog, and Dawn: neillblomkamp:

Until Dawn (2015) Developed by Supermassive Games
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    80s, Bad, and Christmas: Chris Kohler @kobunheat 18m
 We have ET. WE HAVE ET pic.twitter.com/fIPTXgsyoo
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 Close up. pic.twitter.com/inSKukib24
 ATARI
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lightspeedsound:
videogamesarepurehappiness:

maqdaddio:

ask-gallows-callibrator:

vergess:

coelasquid:

derples:

raisehelia:

cavebae:

estpolis:

mrdappersden:

They did it, they fucking did it.

holyfducjk

HISTORY

holy shit!

can someone explain this to me

Thirty years ago a legendary ET game came to fruition, so awful that as the tale told, all unsold copies of it were buried in a pit in New Mexico. A documentary film crew has just unearthed the stash, proving the legend true.

I don’t think people fully grasp just how awful it was. This one game, by the sheer merit of its unmatched shittiness, destroyed the video game and console market so thoroughly that the at home video game nearly went the way of the 8-track player.
It was literally so awful that it nearly changed the entire course of technology.

how can a video game possibly be that bad

People don’t really understand why it was terrible though, and the reasons why are extremely important and relevant especially today.
The game itself is bad, yes. It was built up to be an exciting hit for kids to play at Christmas in 1982. So much in fact, that retailers bought WAY more stock then could every be sold based on the hype.
However, people at the time liked the game. It looks bad now, but the game itself was pretty on par with the times. It wound up selling 1.5 million copies. Which would be great, except Atari was expecting to sell 4-5 million.
While initial reception was positive, critics started panning the game as critics do. While it was no worse than most other games at the time, it was stil frustrating and hard to play. It could not live up to the hype that had been built and negative press built up quickly.
But what was ALSO happening was a flood of cheap imitations on the market. ET is a licensed game, and like all licenses comes at a higher markup. So if you wanted to buy a game for yourself or your kid, would you buy 1 game, or 2 for the same price?
Atari was also screwing around with how they handled their distributors. Just before the game went to public, but AFTER the game had been bought and shipped, Atari announced that they were cancelling every existing contract with distributors and signing with only a select few.
So distributors, now pissed off and with an abundance of games that were NOT selling and with prices slashed horribly to sell games that people were quickly losing interest in, retailers put their claims to return a collective 2.5-3.5 million copies back to Atari. Atari, unable to recycle the cartridges or resell them in any way, wound up burying them in the Nevada desert.


This caused the Video Game Crash of the early 80s that put a dark mark on video games until Nintendo (and in some small part other game companies) to revive later. 
 It was the perfect storm. An over-hyped overpriced game sold to an increasingly frustrated and over-saturated market with retailers scrambling to make a dime while Game Devs blame the market for poor sales.

Some say the proverbial planets are aligning again, with way too many consoles putting way too samey games on the market at way too high a cost with a strong dependence on Pre-orders and pre-order exclusives.

Wanna give the game a shot?  Internet Archives actually has a copy of it at this link:
https://archive.org/details/E.T._The_Extra-Terrestrial_1982_Atari_NTSC

this is like the dutch tulip bubble of our times

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                80s, Bad, and Christmas: Chris Kohler @kobunheat 18m
 We have ET. WE HAVE ET pic.twitter.com/fIPTXgsyoo
 Expand
 4, Reply
 Retweet ★ Favorite More

 Chris Kohler @kobunheat-4m
 Close up. pic.twitter.com/inSKukib24
 ATARI
 75
 Expand
 Reply Retweet FavoriteMoe
lightspeedsound:
videogamesarepurehappiness:

maqdaddio:

ask-gallows-callibrator:

vergess:

coelasquid:

derples:

raisehelia:

cavebae:

estpolis:

mrdappersden:

They did it, they fucking did it.

holyfducjk

HISTORY

holy shit!

can someone explain this to me

Thirty years ago a legendary ET game came to fruition, so awful that as the tale told, all unsold copies of it were buried in a pit in New Mexico. A documentary film crew has just unearthed the stash, proving the legend true.

I don’t think people fully grasp just how awful it was. This one game, by the sheer merit of its unmatched shittiness, destroyed the video game and console market so thoroughly that the at home video game nearly went the way of the 8-track player.
It was literally so awful that it nearly changed the entire course of technology.

how can a video game possibly be that bad

People don’t really understand why it was terrible though, and the reasons why are extremely important and relevant especially today.
The game itself is bad, yes. It was built up to be an exciting hit for kids to play at Christmas in 1982. So much in fact, that retailers bought WAY more stock then could every be sold based on the hype.
However, people at the time liked the game. It looks bad now, but the game itself was pretty on par with the times. It wound up selling 1.5 million copies. Which would be great, except Atari was expecting to sell 4-5 million.
While initial reception was positive, critics started panning the game as critics do. While it was no worse than most other games at the time, it was stil frustrating and hard to play. It could not live up to the hype that had been built and negative press built up quickly.
But what was ALSO happening was a flood of cheap imitations on the market. ET is a licensed game, and like all licenses comes at a higher markup. So if you wanted to buy a game for yourself or your kid, would you buy 1 game, or 2 for the same price?
Atari was also screwing around with how they handled their distributors. Just before the game went to public, but AFTER the game had been bought and shipped, Atari announced that they were cancelling every existing contract with distributors and signing with only a select few.
So distributors, now pissed off and with an abundance of games that were NOT selling and with prices slashed horribly to sell games that people were quickly losing interest in, retailers put their claims to return a collective 2.5-3.5 million copies back to Atari. Atari, unable to recycle the cartridges or resell them in any way, wound up burying them in the Nevada desert.


This caused the Video Game Crash of the early 80s that put a dark mark on video games until Nintendo (and in some small part other game companies) to revive later. 
 It was the perfect storm. An over-hyped overpriced game sold to an increasingly frustrated and over-saturated market with retailers scrambling to make a dime while Game Devs blame the market for poor sales.

Some say the proverbial planets are aligning again, with way too many consoles putting way too samey games on the market at way too high a cost with a strong dependence on Pre-orders and pre-order exclusives.

Wanna give the game a shot?  Internet Archives actually has a copy of it at this link:
https://archive.org/details/E.T._The_Extra-Terrestrial_1982_Atari_NTSC

this is like the dutch tulip bubble of our times

                
            

            
            
lightspeedsound:
videogamesarepurehappiness:

maqdaddio:

ask-gallows-callibrator:

vergess:

coelasquid:

derples:

raisehelia:

cavebae:

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