No, people that steal wouldn't buy if they couldn't steal. The price of the dvd themselves + the burning is very cheap and the theft is really only worth the physical amount. People that steal likely aren't going to be buying if they couldn't steal. If they can't steal physically they will turn to downloading or getting a blockbuster membership and turn to ripping/burning. If anything, this added ability will just make the checkout lines in Best Buy take longer. Oh, it will also increase the production costs and the machine that will 'validate' the dvd will likely INCREASE the cost. I'm not an endorser of people stealing, but I doubt this would have anything but a negative effect. Hell, if the 'validation' fails 1 outta 100 times the whole system will likely collapse and it will just be a huge waste of money.
would really have time to play any games with the whole 'fighting to survive' thing going on, but I can't decide unless I know if multi-player would be allowed or not.
I think that reason would rank VERY low on the list. Not many people game with a mac and the customer base they are largely gaining (college students that think macs are special/unique/fashion statement) are usually too busy screaming about how great their macs are and would rather be dead then appear as a nerdy MMORPGer. However they still feel fine playing NES and ranting about how every game since has sucked, and that the Beatles were the best bang every and how all music since has sucked. Or maybe that was just my personal experience for the last 4 years...
Reasons I feel WoW has succeeded:
-older MMORPGer players were getting bored with the generic grind style game that had little content.
-simple game play on the surface for younger players
-complex setups when fully leveled determining what skills/gear to have for nit-pickers (the ones who "NEED" an extra.25%)
-plethora of quests that weren't just: go here, kill 10 things, come back (sure it had many, but it also had others)
-two well defined sides with well defined classes (not too few, not too many)
-attractive graphic/art design
-Simple PvP design
-large and hard instances (although it originally didn't come with these)
-warcraft legacy (although I don't think that is the main reason for success, if it was SWG would be the biggest)
-it is the biggest and the most well known, it became like a snowball rolling down a hill, just kept growing bigger and at a faster rate
The next successful MMORPG will occur when players have gotten udderly bored with WoW and another game comes out that bring out something that seems new or genuinely is new.
Virtual rape is a ridiculous notion and the author of that wired article really has me shaking my head.
"There is no question that forced online sexual activity -- whether through text, animation, malicious scripts or other means -- is real; and is a traumatic experience that can have a profound and unpleasant aftermath, shaking your faith in yourself, in the community, in the platform, even in sex itself."
If you are that 'emotional displaced' by a goddamn video game you need some help since you have forgotten that real life and virtual life are two entirely different things. Raped in a video game, WGAF, raped in real life...now THATS traumatic. To insinuate that 'virtual victims' have endured any of the same stress of victims in real life is a disservice to the latter.
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Something about a nuclear powered space ship blowing up in the upper atmosphere on take-off/landing just doesn't seem appealing to me...wonder why?
No, people that steal wouldn't buy if they couldn't steal. The price of the dvd themselves + the burning is very cheap and the theft is really only worth the physical amount. People that steal likely aren't going to be buying if they couldn't steal. If they can't steal physically they will turn to downloading or getting a blockbuster membership and turn to ripping/burning. If anything, this added ability will just make the checkout lines in Best Buy take longer. Oh, it will also increase the production costs and the machine that will 'validate' the dvd will likely INCREASE the cost. I'm not an endorser of people stealing, but I doubt this would have anything but a negative effect. Hell, if the 'validation' fails 1 outta 100 times the whole system will likely collapse and it will just be a huge waste of money.
but have no fear, there still holds the possibility that Jar-Jar Binks with appear again. There is still hope, don't give up on the idea!!
Sarcasm aside, provided Lucas has no hand what-so-ever in the project it might work.
would really have time to play any games with the whole 'fighting to survive' thing going on, but I can't decide unless I know if multi-player would be allowed or not.
I think that reason would rank VERY low on the list. Not many people game with a mac and the customer base they are largely gaining (college students that think macs are special/unique/fashion statement) are usually too busy screaming about how great their macs are and would rather be dead then appear as a nerdy MMORPGer. However they still feel fine playing NES and ranting about how every game since has sucked, and that the Beatles were the best bang every and how all music since has sucked. Or maybe that was just my personal experience for the last 4 years... Reasons I feel WoW has succeeded: -older MMORPGer players were getting bored with the generic grind style game that had little content. -simple game play on the surface for younger players -complex setups when fully leveled determining what skills/gear to have for nit-pickers (the ones who "NEED" an extra .25%)
-plethora of quests that weren't just: go here, kill 10 things, come back (sure it had many, but it also had others)
-two well defined sides with well defined classes (not too few, not too many)
-attractive graphic/art design
-Simple PvP design
-large and hard instances (although it originally didn't come with these)
-warcraft legacy (although I don't think that is the main reason for success, if it was SWG would be the biggest)
-it is the biggest and the most well known, it became like a snowball rolling down a hill, just kept growing bigger and at a faster rate
The next successful MMORPG will occur when players have gotten udderly bored with WoW and another game comes out that bring out something that seems new or genuinely is new.
Virtual rape is a ridiculous notion and the author of that wired article really has me shaking my head. "There is no question that forced online sexual activity -- whether through text, animation, malicious scripts or other means -- is real; and is a traumatic experience that can have a profound and unpleasant aftermath, shaking your faith in yourself, in the community, in the platform, even in sex itself." If you are that 'emotional displaced' by a goddamn video game you need some help since you have forgotten that real life and virtual life are two entirely different things. Raped in a video game, WGAF, raped in real life...now THATS traumatic. To insinuate that 'virtual victims' have endured any of the same stress of victims in real life is a disservice to the latter.