Peeved at Ipad early launch!!!???

[vektsilver]

I am feeling a little ticked off that TellTale gave the Ipad first dibs on Sam N Max when its the PC community on this website that has been faithfully buying the game from the start.

Evey time I see pre-order for this game or ToMI, I jump right on it only to be told my pre-order launch is now going to be after the Ipad folks. Who might I mention dont really have a huge install base yet.

Seems like a disservice to the loyal customer base to me. Anyone else feel the same ?

[elzbenz]

How is it any different...? we're getting S&M3 at the same time as it was originally planned.

Not to mention we will get some new S&M fans from the ipad version.

EDIT: In other words, if you don't have an ipad, you may as well forget that it was ever released early for another console, It's better than having a buggy PC/Mac/PS3 version...

[Macfly77]

Originally Posted by vektsilver

Seems like a disservice to the loyal customer base to me. Anyone else feel the same ?

Well, a lot of the people who posted in all the other threads about the iPad release.
For example, see here or here.
I don't feel peeved at all however (and yet, I'm one of the most loyal fans, having bought every Telltale game but CSI, all of them on preorder since the first season of Sam & Max and I even paid $19.99 for the first Bone game back in September 2005!).
As has been stated in those other threads (and already in this one!), the early release on iPad does not affect the PC, Mac or PSN release in any way and anyone who preordered on those systems will still get the game when they expected to when they preordered it.
If anything, some problems might be found and fixed before the PC, Mac and PSN release thanks to the earlier iPad release.
All I want to say is good for Telltale and I hope the iPad version sells well!

[Yohmi]

I'm with Telltale since the first Bone game. I'm a loyal customer. I've pre-ordered Season 3. I don't have an iPad. I'm not peeved. Not even a very little bit. Such amount of jealousy and selfishness is disgusting, all the hatred I read on the other threads makes me puke. And I feel ashamed for all those overreacting movement. Get a life, it eases to understand the world you're living in and teaches patience.

Oh, and by the way, do you remember the gametap's deal ? Goldfish.

[stemot]

I was peeved, until I found out that the Ipad version ran like a bag of shit. Now I'm gloating.

[Rather Dashing]

I was slightly annoyed. Now I don't care.

Still hate the actual device, but this release? Meh. Doesn't affect me or the conditions I ordered under. Direct Telltale customers still get the best treatment overall.

[Hayden]

I don't care, I didn't care, I never will care about things like this in the future. How many days earlier than the PC release was it? 9 days? Oooh...

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by haydenwce27

I don't care, I didn't care, I never will care about things like this in the future. How many days earlier than the PC release was it? 9 days? Oooh...

Some people seem to outrage when a game is released 3 hours later on steam. This has to be hell for them.

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by der_ketzer

Some people seem to outrage when a game is released 3 hours later on steam. This has to be hell for them.

Remember the Screaming Narwhal launch? =D

[Hayden]

Originally Posted by der_ketzer

Some people seem to outrage when a game is released 3 hours later on steam. This has to be hell for them.

Yes, but in this case (with the iPad), it's only a minority who are getting the game early. As vektsilver said, "the iPad folks don't have a huge install base yet". If it was the other way around, then it would be bad - if there were a large number of iPad buyers who had already bought the game, played it, and began flooding the forums while the PC users where forced to wait around while the stampeed of iPadders began to swarm around them spoiling everything (story, jokes, plot, characters, etc.). But that's not the case, it's only a small number of people who have the privilege of playing this game early, and good for them. They're not spoiling anything for us, so how does them getting the game early actually affect us - the answer is, it doesn't. I say we just suck it up and wait for the 15th.

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

Remember the Screaming Narwhal launch? =D

No. Since I live in germany I will miss the release of the games most times. I'm used to it by now.

Originally Posted by haydenwce27

[...]But that's not the case

I am really wondering why that is. Maybe people are playing around with the hardware and not buying games yet?

[LuigiHann]

I can't even comprehend why anyone would be upset about this.

[JedExodus]

Originally Posted by der_ketzer

No. Since I live in germany I will miss the release of the games most times. I'm used to it by now.

When Tales came out I feverishly tapped my F5 button into the wee hours, if only to play for a bit so I could postulate on the puzzles and plot the next day in work while I was half-asleep

[Hayden]

Originally Posted by LuigiHann

I can't even comprehend why anyone would be upset about this.

I know, it's like when you're back in the first grades of school and you're jealous of another kid's toy.

[mathman77]

I'm not very upset, after all, we get it next week!

[Macco]

Wii players: are you upset that you do not receive your games the same time as PC players? PC/Mac players: do you own iPad? If not (to both), it doesn't really matter. If you can't play, you can't play. If you want to play, get the friggin platform.

I'm from Finland. It was common in 90's that we received games half a year to a year after US players. And no one really complained. But, of course, that was before internet.

[NeatNit]

I have mixed feelings about this. I'm very happy for TellTale that they've been given the opportunity to be one of the launch apps for the iPad, and am glad they will get the extra money. I am not mad at TellTale. On the other hand, I have always been jealous if someone else gets the game days, hours, or even minutes before I did. Not insane WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS SHIT jealous, but jealous nontheless.
The fact that it runs like crap is somewhat comforting, although it's sort of safe to assume TellTale will at least try to patch that. Still, on the positive side, it's safe to assume that won't happen before the PC release.
What angers me the most is that, once again, the rich get it first. No, wait, that's not it. It's that the rich AMERICANS get it first. I've always been screwed for living in Israel, there's nothing here. The iPhone only arrived earlier this year (not that I care much, it's just an example). And over there, across the sea and the ocean, a lucky enough person to live in the right place and have the money for it, gets it before I did. AGAIN. This is supposed to be one of the things that internet-based distribution is supposed to eliminate.

But, of course, as fate had it, a kid in my school was in America that day, and got himself an iPad. He doesn't really like sharing it.
That makes me even more jealous, because he's rich enough to travel to USA and back and get himself an iPad, and think nothing of it.

He won't get SaM, that's for sure, but this is a pretty messed up world.


In the end I only hate one thing - apple. Here is how apple works:
1. Find something cool that they can use.
2. Develop it so it's all smooth.
3. Attatch it to crappy hardware and sell it. No, wait, sorry. I meant steal money.
4. Make a "new version".
5. Sell it for more, screwing over the previous customers.
6. "One more version, then we're done with it."
7. Make a "new product".
8. Sell it for ten times its cost. Again.
9. Profit!
10. ?


Let me tell you what the question mark is. The question mark is some point in the future when everyone will realise what the apple morons are doing, and murder every single employee. Amen to that.




Conclusion: Apple, fuck you.

[Hayden]

The previous post is rated 'M' for medium coarse language.

[Ripcord]

Yes, someone is aiming for an aneurism before 20. And hopefully a deleted post.

[NeatNit]

Oh, come on, I'm only saying what I think... True, I got 'a little' sidetracted, but it's sorta relevant and I think it's pretty much true. As I stated in the post I'm not mad at TellTale, because they barely had any choice here, it would have been kind of stupid in some ways not to take this opportunity if they could.