I took Sunday completely off, and spent the evening with my girlfriend taking in some culture at Video Games Live which was in town.
It was an entertaining show, and strangely enough my first time in the Jack Singer Concert Hall, which is a very nice venue. The Megaman set to kick things off was very well done, and the featured pianist did an excellent FF medley which contained a solid minute of "At Zanarkand", which is quite iconic. Even though it's not a real favorite of mine, I'd always thought that hearing One Winged Angel performed by a live orchestra/choir would be great, and it was. I was very happy when the encore was arguably my favorite video game track ever, "Time's Scar" from Chrono Cross - a game which was saved from being a huge disappointment by having one of the greatest soundtracks of all time. At any rate, it was definitely worth the money (wasn't cheap), and I'd go again.
I finished up Radiant Historia for the DS very recently, and while it barely held my attention through to completion, it felt average at best. I'll be trying out LoH: Trails in the Sky for the PSP next, which has been reviewed quite well.
2 comments:
Do you really think game quality will go down that much? The US market doesn't account for a big proportion of any of the top 3 sites. The rest of the world is still playing. I'm also willing to bet that a large proportion of the Regs are US-based, leaving more space at the tables for the fish from other countries.
The US market accounts for a very significant portion of the traffic on Stars, and more than half of FTP's traffic. It's a big deal. You are correct that the fish:reg ratio in the US was very likely the worst of any country because of how difficult it was to deposit, which helps the immediate situation. For now it's not the end of the world, but when a chunk of the US regulars move out of the US and are back playing without any of the US fish, it could be very ugly.
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