However, for fans of Final Fantasy XII, it is a wonderful continuation of the story - a welcome chance to revisit well-loved locations and characters. Even for those who weren't won over by FFXII, it stands in its own right as an impressive and enjoyable game - and one which you don't even need to have finished the original RPG to appreciate. Definitely one for your shopping list when it appears in Europe next year.
recently, I have found 1up reviews, while well worded, and acurate for a niche hardcore gaming group, to be overly critical and not indicative of overall sales. While this review may effect a small number of buyers, I would say that over all it is fairly insignificant, and the game should sell well. I think the drastic stock drop in response to this review is an over reaction. It will sell well regardless.
Final Fantasy XII spin-off Revenant Wings is neither a true role-playing game nor a full-fledged real-time strategy game. It does sort of resemble each -- in fact, it spends most of its time oscillating between the two -- but don't be fooled. It's actually an odd hybrid that incorporates elements of both genres yet ultimately works like neither.
@zukaus, I think he's defining "getting screwed" as him paying his price of 35 DKP for game x, but then a bunch of trades going off at a much lower price, drastically lowering the Phase 2 IPO price. So he's automatically a loser on paper, to the tune of 7 DKP per share, in his example. Regardless of where the position ends up, he's a loser right off the bat, is what I think he's driving at.
@zukaus, It was my understanding that the Phase II price is made off of the average of all the bids places, with weight given to the larger bids over smaller bids, so if you place a 1000 share order at 25 and someone else puts a 10 share order at 35 your order will weight more heavily on the price than theirs will.
In general I find the pay off is not worth tying up my money for that long, so I wait for phase II to roll around before I take positions on stocks.
I'm sorry but your math is difficult to follow. It seems like you automatically assume that if the current highest bid is at 15 DKP and the current lowest ask price is at 35 DKP in Phase 1 then the stock will open in Phase 2 at approximately 25 DKP which is just not always going to be true.
I can't be sure but I believe the Phase 2 price is determined by getting the mean or some average of all trades that actually went through. So all trades actually went through at 35 DKP then the Phase 2 price should be at 35 DKP regardless of the bid and ask prices. Perhaps there were even other orders that went through earlier at 40 or 45 this could cause the Phase two IPO to open up even higher.
Obviously the phase 2 price can vary a lot and if you think the current best ask price is going to be higher than what you believe the Phase 2 IPO will settle at then you are right, don't buy, wait. But what's to stop you from putting in your own bid to buy shares at 28 DKP or 25 DKP? How about 15.01 DKP? Maybe you can get in at an even better price.
All I'm saying is that trading in Phase 1 can be profitable and not every trade is a ripoff. Phase one is high risk, high reward.
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VGChartz claims 900,000 copies sold for the game globally. Stock may be a bit high.