proved virtually impossible to upgrade titles. So, six months after launch
Kinect stands about where it did on day one: good enough, for now. But the lack
of major new games this year and Microsoft's relative silence about the device
(well, until yesterday) could be a good sign. Microsoft is too smart to not see
that it got lucky with Kinect – and that if it just rides the FIFA Coins status quo, the
device's novelty will only take it so far. After all, even Apple finally wised
up to the fact that accidental success was no substitute for having a plan to
both improve its standing and move things forward.
Digital game retailer Good Old Games has denied that changes in its privacy
policy have any link to the recent Australian censorship of The Witcher 2, the
forthcoming game from sister company CD Projekt RED. As we reported recently,
there has been speculation that a move by the Cheap FIFA 18 Coins company to cease tracking its
customers’ regions based on IP addresses (instead allowing them to specify their
own location) was specifically designed to allow Australians to purchase
uncensored edition of the game.Trevor Longino, the head of PR and marketing
at Good Old Games, denied the allegations, telling Gamasutra that the policy
change "has nothing specific to do with Australia in particular. Our new policy
simply reflects the way we think global digital distribution should be.""We're
not stupid, of course and realize that some users may abuse this to obtain a
version of a game that is not approved by their local Certification Board," he
said."
.com has always been about giving our users the power of choice; if they
willingly choose to violate their local censorship laws, we can't condone that,"
he explained."Given how easy it is to fifaah circumvent the protections that most
retailers use (like geo-IP location), no one can control it, and we don't think
our approach is inherently more open to exploitation than any other. We trust
our users not to pirate our games, and we trust that they won't abuse this new
feature either," he
