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UK Video Game Tax Cuts Sabotaged?
ninjacheeseburger writes "Develop recently published an article claiming that the UK government was put under pressure by one of the biggest game companies in the world to cancel planned tax breaks for video game developers. This company had apparently viewed game tax relief as a measure that would have given the UK an unfair advantage over other nations."
So you've calculated the price elasticity of demand for every product in the economy and combined them into a weighted average?
If you did that in your head I'll be really impressed.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Yeah, but then they'd have to start redesigning multiplayer so that it would only match you with the same caste!
No, it was probably Activision/Blizzard, they're bigger than EA now, and Bobby Kotick, the CEO, is a big bully.
it's all steve jobs fault http://kotaku.com/5559201/a-delightful-chat-with-the-most-hated-man-in-video-games
Remember, the zero percent chance of sunshine is a bonus to nerds who prefer damp dank dark basements to ply their neferious trade.
Putting a game company on Hawaii is a surefire way to not get any talent what so ever. Proof? Name a single game company from a lush tropical paradise.
Nope, instead they are from the coldest frozen wasteland in the world: Canada. Nothing like sub-zero temperatures and a complete absence of sunlight for half of the year to drive a coder to his warm PC and start cranking out software.
Open a development shop on the north-pole and you will get the best MMORPG ever produced in six months time.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
They move here for the footba... never mind.
This is my LAST post on Slashdot. Most people I'm sure would be grateful. You IDIOTs who marked me Troll will never see me again. Slashdot is a waist (sic for all the grammar Nazis who can only argue through logical fallacies). If people can't tell the difference between a Troll and a very thoughtful analogy that took over an hour to refine, then something is VERY, VERY wrong.
You people are VERY quick to insult me (when you don't have Moderator points). And VERY quick to moderate up VERY simple, thoughtless, and generally very Right-wing biased arguments. I know, I'm a Loser and an Idiot, as you often call me. I'm not good enough to be here. So no more for me. I no waiste my time, and YOU no waiste your time. Have fun in your homogeneous geek-fanboy gather-place.
Teenages are a dificult people because need to explore how fit on the world. Countrys are somewhat like that, because has to fit in the world. Lets look at the japanese, for a success story, from the medieval ages to industrial ones, really quickly. A country with not natural resources, but a powerfull industry. Other countrys rich in resources are poor. Countrys like Irak are poor in a way, even with the oil.
Yeah Japan is really a model teen, except for that rather Emo-ish isolation phase they went through, followed by some rather violent delusions of grandeur, and the fact that they are now a certifiable workaholic with at least one recent fairly bout of burnout.;)