Goodbye, "Majestic"

fonixmunkee writes: "Ack, looks like EA is stopping the very cool, ground-breaking game 'Majestic.' The article is here. I got hooked on this from the very start, and in turn got a bunch of friends into it. It's cool to be out for a fancy dinner and have the game calling you threatening your life. Oh well, I'm sure a new spinoff will rise up."

Comments

Re:Why Slashdot Sucks

[Nand Gates]

Let's theorize what goes on in the average day of the slashdot editors: 10:42 AM - get out of bed. 10:45 AM - first Dr Pepper of the day. 10:46 AM - unglue keyboard from desk, check stock market. 10:56 AM - find a few interesting tech stories on the web. This is easy, since users send them to us all the time. 11:04 AM - post said stories to slashdot, disregarding spelling and journalistic impartiality. 11:08 AM - start playing Quake 3 (or whatever the game of the moment is). 3:15 AM - go to sleep. If I'm wrong about anything, it's that they get up even later than that. And I couldn't figure out what time that order the pizza for dinner. But they have pepperoni on them.

It sounds to me like someone has Slashdot editor envy.

Content - The content of slashdot is, admittedly, targeted towards geeks. But apparently not very smart ones. Regardless of the target audience, the content is never challenging - it never pushes the reader to think.

Wow. You must be one smart cookie. Since I cannot say that I have read every article that has ever been posted on Slashdot it would seem that I am in no position to argue with you.

One word for you slashdot folks: dictionary. Try one on for size.

I'll stick to clothes thank you.

Re:No, it's just a game

[aussersterne]

Ummm, I'm a fairly "radical" liberal by most standards, so while I don't argue with the bulk of your post, I do resent being called Republican. I'm not. Republicans would love this stuff -- if they can get everybody hooked, just look at the profit potential involved.

My point is not that God will nail you for participating in games, nor that blacks or Arabs should be restricted from playing.

My point is that people are playing "reality" games and watching "reality" TV while in Afghanistan and Palestine and Argentina people are "really" struggling to live, rather than paying to be threatened to die.

I'm saying -- how hedonistic and selfish is it to spend your money and your time entertaining yourself with fake death threats instead of using those same resources to do some good in the world? Is it really that entertaining to devalue your own life and those of your playing friends? And isn't it an insult to do so while others around the world are trying to save their own lives?