Steam have it sussed, lower the unit price and sell more games and the lower the price then less piracy too.
As the distribution costs are next to nothing as opposed to physical media distribution then profits go up as the number of units goes up despite having to have a larger amount of sales to generate that profit.
Maybe that $60 game needs to be sold for $20 or even $10 at launch?
There has been many a game I've bought for under £10 on Steam even if it has not been a core game genre I like just to try out and if I get a few days out of it then am happy. Have it at £45 and I'll never buy it unless I'm pretty sure I'll really like it.
Even easier, just buy US products and not ones made in China because that is the only way production will move back to the US.
So once you've made the choice to boycott imports from China you just have to persuade the rest of your citizens to do the same and everything else will follow.
LOL, who is going to do that exactly? All the CEOs who outsourced it in the first place as they jet off to their tax havens whilst the US ship sinks?:)
Have to second this comment, for a friends family I replaced their ageing infected Windows 98 machine with Ubuntu desktop and recently did the same with their daughters laptop.
With most of what they do being in the the cloud coupled with console for games and open office being good enough for their needs they have not missed the transition, in fact they would not go back.
It's not a solution for everyone but for an average person that has smartphones, games consoles and lives on facebook etc then it is perfectly viable.
That's what Ubuntu is for, a great fix for their completely trashed infected Windows machine that they love because 'my machine is really fast now' and also means that they can't install the shite that got it infected in the first place!
I agree they used to make products I'd want to buy and now they simply don't. Propitiatory technologies that will be out of date in a few years and DRM that prevents me using devices as I want just doesn't sell to me.
Sony, be a content company or end user company but don't try and be both as there are too many conflicts of interest.
And yet all those who have recently protested or are currently protesting for a more democratic form of government in their country would probably disagree with you.
GIven that history, if you were charged with Israeli security, which policy would you pick? It's time for other people in the region to demonstrate that friendly Israeli gestures will be rewarded, because up until now, they have not been.
How about something like the Marshal plan, the alternative is to eventually go Roman on the Palestinians really.
When you say "bulldozing people's homes", by people you mean the family of suicide bombers whom encourage their children to carry out suicide attacks for large cash payments?
And this was established by due process perhaps or are all families guilty by the fact they are Palestinians and all Arabs are wanna be suicide bombers?
And when you say "Attacking schools with helicopter gunships when the children are outside playing" by 'outside playing', did you perchance mean to say 'playing human shield for the Hezbollah terrorists with mortars and rocket launchers'?
White phosphorus is very discriminate for example?
And when you mention"herding people into ghettos", I don't think it's very nice to bring Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan's abandonment of their citizens into this discussion, I mean we were talking about Israel right?
Palestinians in the Gaza strip have nothing to do with these governments.
Yeah but maybe if those 7 nations have nukes then maybe they might have to try real dialog rather than kinetic attacks which can escalate into nuclear warfare.
You're right the Israeli government is not alone in belligerency and oppression in the region but for some reason the western governments tend to hold them up as some kind of great example and ignore what they are doing to their neighbors.
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Steam have it sussed, lower the unit price and sell more games and the lower the price then less piracy too.
As the distribution costs are next to nothing as opposed to physical media distribution then profits go up as the number of units goes up despite having to have a larger amount of sales to generate that profit.
Maybe that $60 game needs to be sold for $20 or even $10 at launch?
There has been many a game I've bought for under £10 on Steam even if it has not been a core game genre I like just to try out and if I get a few days out of it then am happy. Have it at £45 and I'll never buy it unless I'm pretty sure I'll really like it.
Even easier, just buy US products and not ones made in China because that is the only way production will move back to the US.
So once you've made the choice to boycott imports from China you just have to persuade the rest of your citizens to do the same and everything else will follow.
LOL, who is going to do that exactly? All the CEOs who outsourced it in the first place as they jet off to their tax havens whilst the US ship sinks? :)
But now I won't as the DRM is broken by design.
Have to second this comment, for a friends family I replaced their ageing infected Windows 98 machine with Ubuntu desktop and recently did the same with their daughters laptop.
With most of what they do being in the the cloud coupled with console for games and open office being good enough for their needs they have not missed the transition, in fact they would not go back.
It's not a solution for everyone but for an average person that has smartphones, games consoles and lives on facebook etc then it is perfectly viable.
That's what Ubuntu is for, a great fix for their completely trashed infected Windows machine that they love because 'my machine is really fast now' and also means that they can't install the shite that got it infected in the first place!
It's why we don't have this shit in the UK.
If it's nobody's business (and it is wrong that I'm expressing my opinion, because it's not my business) why it is then posted on /.?
Because not everyone on Slashdot has the passion and dreams of an accountant!
So what £10k per day is nothing in the big scheme of things.
You ever wonder why people push the envelope and break records?
If you'd rather see £10,000 spent on something else then get sponsorship and go do it.
I agree they used to make products I'd want to buy and now they simply don't. Propitiatory technologies that will be out of date in a few years and DRM that prevents me using devices as I want just doesn't sell to me.
Sony, be a content company or end user company but don't try and be both as there are too many conflicts of interest.
Then they could deal with their "Arabs who live in one particular geographic area problem".
You're right, the west has appeased Israel for too long, time for action!
Yes they could really deal with their 'Palestinian Problem'.
And yet all those who have recently protested or are currently protesting for a more democratic form of government in their country would probably disagree with you.
And yet if there had not been the occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1987 there would be no Hamas......
GIven that history, if you were charged with Israeli security, which policy would you pick? It's time for other people in the region to demonstrate that friendly Israeli gestures will be rewarded, because up until now, they have not been.
How about something like the Marshal plan, the alternative is to eventually go Roman on the Palestinians really.
But the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are territories occupied by Israel and there are still Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
Taken in the context of illegal occupation by Israel then how would you view the actions of Hamas?
When you say "bulldozing people's homes", by people you mean the family of suicide bombers whom encourage their children to carry out suicide attacks for large cash payments?
And this was established by due process perhaps or are all families guilty by the fact they are Palestinians and all Arabs are wanna be suicide bombers?
And when you say "Attacking schools with helicopter gunships when the children are outside playing" by 'outside playing', did you perchance mean to say 'playing human shield for the Hezbollah terrorists with mortars and rocket launchers'?
White phosphorus is very discriminate for example?
And when you mention"herding people into ghettos", I don't think it's very nice to bring Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan's abandonment of their citizens into this discussion, I mean we were talking about Israel right?
Palestinians in the Gaza strip have nothing to do with these governments.
Wouldn't that be down to Argentina to resolve?
Yeah but maybe if those 7 nations have nukes then maybe they might have to try real dialog rather than kinetic attacks which can escalate into nuclear warfare.
Look at India and Pakistan.
Later Irgun's forces merged into the the IDF and there is a path from Irgun through Herut to todays Likud party.
You're right the Israeli government is not alone in belligerency and oppression in the region but for some reason the western governments tend to hold them up as some kind of great example and ignore what they are doing to their neighbors.
You're correct, it was an alleged nuclear research facility which I guess makes it all right then.
But in Hamas's case they can point around them and say "It's the fault of the Jews' and they wouldn't be wrong would they.