Some people make games for the love of making them.
I doubt that many would disagree that Cave Story, Iji, Knytt, Dwarf Fortress, or Seven Days a Skeptic are excellent examples of their genre.
All of them are given away free.
The article implicitly assumes both that game developers only make games for the money, and that a front-loaded payment model is the only way to go; both of which are not necessarily true. For example, Tarn Adams (Dwarf Fortress) earns his living entirely through donations. People torrenting his game actually help him by decreasing the bandwidth cost of his website.
So no degree of piracy or lack of piracy is ever going to cause good single player PC games to cease to exist, and, similarly, you'll be able to get piles of cool stuff for free... well, as long as net neutrality holds out, at least.
I know how this one goes. First you start taking the eyes out of blowflies for 'solar energy research', but before you know it it's all gone downhill and you're pulling the wings off butterflies to make your product the right shade of red.
Man, when I was growing up in the 80s my dad tried to get a 'real' chemistry set for me.
It was a piece of shit. They had four or five warning labels on a pouch of IRON FILINGS of all things, and there was nothing there anywhere near as dangerous as anything under the kitchen sink or in the bathroom closet. Boring as hell.
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Some people make games for the love of making them.
I doubt that many would disagree that Cave Story, Iji, Knytt, Dwarf Fortress, or Seven Days a Skeptic are excellent examples of their genre.
All of them are given away free.
The article implicitly assumes both that game developers only make games for the money, and that a front-loaded payment model is the only way to go; both of which are not necessarily true. For example, Tarn Adams (Dwarf Fortress) earns his living entirely through donations. People torrenting his game actually help him by decreasing the bandwidth cost of his website.
So no degree of piracy or lack of piracy is ever going to cause good single player PC games to cease to exist, and, similarly, you'll be able to get piles of cool stuff for free... well, as long as net neutrality holds out, at least.
Hey, go easy on him. It's not like anyone else actually bothers to RTFA.
I know how this one goes. First you start taking the eyes out of blowflies for 'solar energy research', but before you know it it's all gone downhill and you're pulling the wings off butterflies to make your product the right shade of red.
Weren't there some pretty big claims about the iphone's dpi?
First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then a whole bunch of people laugh at you.
Then nobody professes an unironic love for disco ever again.
Not really. Monopolies always try to smack down their competitors.
That's exactly why we're doing it, Kif.
Those Sandesertian bastards will never see it coming.
But I don't wanna go beyond the rim!
This isn't the first time a company shipped malicious hardware.
About 20 or 30 years ago Apple shipped some keyboards with malware on them.
Not that much, actually. The apprentice system tended to keep teens under their master's thumbs.
I knew a guy who set up his own private pumped water storage to take advantage of the change in price of electricity between day and night.
He bragged about being paid both ways, since he sold the granite and made a profit on the construction as well.
And *that* resembles an article in Science News from last millennium.
It's not a new idea.
Typically Candlejack is nice enough to hit submit for people who get inter-
You mean like dance dance revolution?
It's pretty easy to build a high quality pad for cheap - make it a family project while you're at it.
It is possible to habitually shoot snakes and be completely justified in doing so.
Indeed. One might, for example, be Samuel L. Jackson.
That's FOX's job.
There are exactly two kinds of dangerous snakes in my area. They're easy to recognize.
So if you see a snake that you can't identify, it's harmless.
At least we're close to exterminating the Guinea Worm. (Only 3185 cases left, total. The parasite only infects humans.)
One of the few things that Jimmy Carter actually did right.
Woosh!
A man convinced against his will
retains his old opinion still
Man, when I was growing up in the 80s my dad tried to get a 'real' chemistry set for me.
It was a piece of shit. They had four or five warning labels on a pouch of IRON FILINGS of all things, and there was nothing there anywhere near as dangerous as anything under the kitchen sink or in the bathroom closet. Boring as hell.
Of course, that scene wasn't how it actually happened, but whatever.
Or, to use a food analogy:
"I don't need to be a five-star chef to know you're feeding me bullshit".
And whatever you do, never ever call them "spelunkers".
They hate that.
Make your own minis and use a piece of string to measure distance.