The Stroke of Wally World!!

[PsychoSy]

I have always said that in any business, never let any of your retailers have more than 15% of your gross sales. Why? Because once any single one of them grabs more than 20% of your gross sales, they will turn around and tell you how to run your business. They'll dictate every facet of it.

This steaming pile of excremento de toro involving Wal-Mart again is a prime example of this theory at work. We already know that Wal-Mart dictates to major record labels and artists to make certain concessions in order to get their music carried by Wal-Mart as they don't lose 15-20% of their potential royalties.

Now, Wal-Mart is doing the same thing to the console and PC gaming industry and it has pissed off the reknowned "Levelord" and a slew of other developers who claim it is downright censorship.

Here's the rest of the steaming pile...

http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,55955,00.html

[DaveW]

Interesting read. I didn't realize that Napalm was the Walmart only version of NAM. I figured Napalm was just the US version of the game.

I'm glad there is an EB nextdoor to my Walmart.

[vampireuk]

Wal-Mart's critics say its limitations on video games are unnecessary. Since all titles sold by the retailer must already contain a label from the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, consumers can make their own decisions about buying a particular game

Amen to that, why we have to have a bunch of conservative morons preaching family values to us I dont know. I hope one day the idiots that run this company pull their heads out of their ass just long enough so I can see the look on their face as I run them down in a Challenger 2:mad:

[saturnotaku]

It's because of this kind of stuff that people need to wake up and go to Best Buy, EB or any other retailer to buy their games. It's not like Wal-Mart's prices are that much lower than Best Buy's anyway.

I have no problem with stores not wanting to sell M-rated games to minors, but this type of cr@p crosses the line. Unfortunately it doesn't appear as though the small developers can do a darn thing about it. :(

OT - when I saw the phrase "Wally World" in the topic, I initially thought Sy was talking about my old church, St. Walter parish heheh.

[DaveW]

I'm sure they would make an exception for Doom III. That would be an example of their double standards.