To me it seems like they are trying to double dip. If I buy a game, go online and play it for a few months, and then sell it to omeone else and they go onnlie to play, there is no difference in the server cost beyond adding that [lyers tats to the game. I'm simply giving up my reserved slot to someone else.
It's like the Other OS fiasco again. Whe they came out with the PSN, it was free. You have the game, you go online, no fees, you just enjoy it. Now they're saying "Oh actually, now you have to make sure it's a new gamely purchased game or you're out of luck." If they were so worried about the cost of maintaining servers and the like then they should have factored tht in to the cost of the console or the should have made the service into something like Xbox Live. As for the markeing speak, how is decreasing the number of players available forplay enhaning the experience?
I've had just as much fun with Donkey Kong Returns as I had with the SNES series. Great game. Same goes for Mega Man 9 on the Wii Store. Bionic Commando Rearmed was good fun as well. It is possible to make games like they used to. You just have to look at the plethora of indie titles that are available on the Wii Store, XBLA, etc. Super Meat Boy anyone? That's Nintendo hard.
Yes, that is very true, but it's a new company releasing it now. The same guys that did Borderlands. There have already been playable demos this last year.
Well, of course it was noteworthy. The quark-gluon plasma never would have been noticed if one of the Canadians hadn't dropped maple syrup in to the Collider.
Jammie Thomas, after losing the forth round of her case against the RIAA, was found dead inside her home early this morning. Early reports indicate it appears to have been suicide. Jammie Thomas was recently ordered by the court to pay the RIAA the amount of 1.5 Million dollars after illegally downloading 24 songs 4 years ago....
Hey, they can look at my data. It will bore them to death.
They'll find my four trillion digits of pi boring until they realize that every trillionth digit is the start of a datetime stamp followed by geographic coordinates indicating when and where I'm going to kill next. How many people have to die before they realize that it's GMT with no adjustments for daylight savings!?
Sincerely,
- Pi Killer
-- Surgeon General's Warning: Reading this post may cause death [veoh.com].
Never has a post and accompanying signature fit so well together. It's like chocolate and peanut butter!
Meanwhile companies like WizKids and Games Workshop continue to showtheir complete disdain for their customers and the fans of their products as well as their utter inability to properly market their games.
Wow. This part of the Terms of Service for Games Workshop is pretty disturbing:
"SUBMISSIONS Any notes, e-mails, online messages or bulletin board postings, ideas, suggestions, concepts, designs, or other material submitted to any physical GW company address or to any web site owned or controlled by GW and/or to any e-mail addresses contained in or on those web sites ("GW Web Sites") will become the property of GW throughout the world and GW shall be entitled to use the material for any type of use forever, including in any media whether now known or hereafter devised. When you submit any material to any physical GW company address or any GW Web Sites, you agree, offer, warrant, and represent, both explicitly and tacitly (and GW accepts) that you are assigning all intellectual property rights in that material to GW and that GW has the right to use that material at any time entirely in its own discretion for whatsoever purpose including for commercial, promotional, and advertising purposes without any obligation (including any financial obligation) to you now or at any time in the future. You waive and relinquish any rights, including "moral rights," that may exist in any content to the furthest extent permissible by law and agree not to assert any rights over that content. We are afraid that in order to protect ourselves legally, this is the only way we can operate. If you are unhappy with this policy, then please do not post or send any material to GW.
Is this just Games Workshop being incredibly greedy, or is this SOP for online sites now?
How did this get rated insightful? Funny? Sure. But if this was meant to be taken seriously, then, well, damn, someone needs to consult his encyclopedia.
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FLUUUUUUUUSSSSSSH!
To me it seems like they are trying to double dip. If I buy a game, go online and play it for a few months, and then sell it to omeone else and they go onnlie to play, there is no difference in the server cost beyond adding that [lyers tats to the game. I'm simply giving up my reserved slot to someone else.
It's like the Other OS fiasco again. Whe they came out with the PSN, it was free. You have the game, you go online, no fees, you just enjoy it. Now they're saying "Oh actually, now you have to make sure it's a new gamely purchased game or you're out of luck." If they were so worried about the cost of maintaining servers and the like then they should have factored tht in to the cost of the console or the should have made the service into something like Xbox Live. As for the markeing speak, how is decreasing the number of players available forplay enhaning the experience?
I've had just as much fun with Donkey Kong Returns as I had with the SNES series. Great game. Same goes for Mega Man 9 on the Wii Store. Bionic Commando Rearmed was good fun as well. It is possible to make games like they used to. You just have to look at the plethora of indie titles that are available on the Wii Store, XBLA, etc. Super Meat Boy anyone? That's Nintendo hard.
Now I need to go and get some paper towel, because the sarcasm is dripping down my monitor and all over my desk!
It'll be Microsoft's less effective version of AdBlock Plus and NoScript?
Like some actors, he's just getting into character.
Yes, that is very true, but it's a new company releasing it now. The same guys that did Borderlands. There have already been playable demos this last year.
Um, Duke Nukem Forever has a release date now, May 3rd, 2011.
This is off topic, but I have to ask: Your username, is it Wheel of Time related?
Well, of course it was noteworthy. The quark-gluon plasma never would have been noticed if one of the Canadians hadn't dropped maple syrup in to the Collider.
What the Hell is a Bateria? It's not like Midichlorians, is it?
Jammie Thomas Found Dead Inside Home.
Jammie Thomas, after losing the forth round of her case against the RIAA, was found dead inside her home early this morning. Early reports indicate it appears to have been suicide. Jammie Thomas was recently ordered by the court to pay the RIAA the amount of 1.5 Million dollars after illegally downloading 24 songs 4 years ago....
Damn, ninja'd. Good show sir.
Don't you mean "sudden 'jailbreak' of common sense"?
Anyone else hoping to see a splotch of green in the Antarctic besides me?
Um, anyone remember the last time Australia asked for an Apology?
The only group here showing contempt for the family and the public is the Parents Television Council.
...Who's going to keep an eye on Germany when the data is in their hands? I'd rather Google have it than the government.
Hey, they can look at my data. It will bore them to death.
They'll find my four trillion digits of pi boring until they realize that every trillionth digit is the start of a datetime stamp followed by geographic coordinates indicating when and where I'm going to kill next. How many people have to die before they realize that it's GMT with no adjustments for daylight savings!?
Sincerely,
- Pi Killer
--
Surgeon General's Warning: Reading this post may cause death [veoh.com].
Never has a post and accompanying signature fit so well together. It's like chocolate and peanut butter!
Well, it must be just the Telus employees, because my fiance and I love those commercials. Especially the fiance. They're really cute.
Whatever they use, it sure as hell gets them High!
"...a few other interesting details such as 'a gruesome account of a 17th century blood transfusion."
Great, that's what the internet needs. More "Twilight" slashfic...
Meanwhile companies like WizKids and Games Workshop continue to show their complete disdain for their customers and the fans of their products as well as their utter inability to properly market their games.
Wow. This part of the Terms of Service for Games Workshop is pretty disturbing:
"SUBMISSIONS
Any notes, e-mails, online messages or bulletin board postings, ideas, suggestions, concepts, designs, or other material submitted to any physical GW company address or to any web site owned or controlled by GW and/or to any e-mail addresses contained in or on those web sites ("GW Web Sites") will become the property of GW throughout the world and GW shall be entitled to use the material for any type of use forever, including in any media whether now known or hereafter devised. When you submit any material to any physical GW company address or any GW Web Sites, you agree, offer, warrant, and represent, both explicitly and tacitly (and GW accepts) that you are assigning all intellectual property rights in that material to GW and that GW has the right to use that material at any time entirely in its own discretion for whatsoever purpose including for commercial, promotional, and advertising purposes without any obligation (including any financial obligation) to you now or at any time in the future. You waive and relinquish any rights, including "moral rights," that may exist in any content to the furthest extent permissible by law and agree not to assert any rights over that content. We are afraid that in order to protect ourselves legally, this is the only way we can operate. If you are unhappy with this policy, then please do not post or send any material to GW.
Is this just Games Workshop being incredibly greedy, or is this SOP for online sites now?
"18 Foot Multitouch Wall and New Multitouch Tech Hit the Streets"! I hope no one was crushed underneath!
How did this get rated insightful? Funny? Sure. But if this was meant to be taken seriously, then, well, damn, someone needs to consult his encyclopedia.