If ever, this article is the case for your comment. Dishwasha, what the living fuck are you doing with your life. Answer that and then maybe, just maybe, coherent answers will abound.
What started as the Team Fortress 2 nonsense store which allowed the purchasing of hats in a first person shooter(!), has progressed to a total overhaul of how Valve sell their products. Portal 2 is now fast becoming the flagship example, with, wiat for it, hats available for purchase, along with little flags and such. DLC (I feel a bit sick every time I say or type that) is the devil that you cant' avoid. If Activision put a human shit in a box and sold it as Call of Duty (or Modern Warfare, whichever they own) material DLC, for let's say £5 / $9, it's guaranteed they would make a profit. Call of Duty: Human Chemical Warfare in a Box.
Pretty much every game you buy now has this so called downloadable content, right from the game's release. There's no relevant analogy here, even the most coherent slashdot analogy wouldn't be able to ascribe to the bizarre concept of selling an entertainment product with parts loped off and sold along side it. A great example is the add-on content to Railworks 2. A £25 game with £800(sic) of DLC. Have a look if you don't believe me. http://store.steampowered.com/app/24010/
Bottom line, there's a huge amount of money to be made on the DLC market and any game company would be stupid not to dip into that pool. And it's a damned shame.
Just to pick up on the fingerprint system idea, they don't make that blip as they search through every file (and good grief am I glad about that). We can get a ping on a hit if we want, as in just about any other software for doing anything ever, but the search gets shifted to my / one of my colleagues screens then anyway, so there's not really much point unless your "afk".
Not a "CSI" btw, just a lowly fingerprint tech, £16k a year if your curious.
It's quite interesting that the blipping in films / tv programs is essentially acceptable and useful as a tool to convey an edgy tech setup. I wonder what will denote this in the future.
What he's doing is completely legal. Quite how much money he makes would be interesting to see, anyone buying a 3d package would surely do a small amount of research. Law of averages will prevail I suppose.
He's been doing this for ages, and does it with various other software packages.
You should go down to the bookies and put all the money you have on that. You'll probably only get odds of something like 44/50, but at least you'll profit a bit.
Out of curiosity, do all broadband suppliers have different contracts or is there a standard in what you buy vs. what you end up getting after a few months?
For example, if I get an "unlimited" (that word can't go without inverted commas when related to broadband) package, but end up a few months later with a revised cap, can I cancel the contract or am I still bound by a "we can change this at any time" clause?
In my opnion, all online profile pictures should be run through a recapture type system to weed out that bizarre duck face phenomenon. Why do people do it?????????
You don't sign/agree to an EULA when you sit down at a slot machine...
That's an interesting point, what are the legalities when it comes to using these machines? I understand that even now you can be kicked out of a casino for counting cards on traditional black jack, but theres no law against it.
Does anyone know how far someone can take a slot machine exploit before it becomes illegal?
Yes, the courts apply copyright law, but that's not the point. Here, don't copy this string:
lksndf098sdfjn23409fgjnvdclkr098245n
I sell that string for 20 English pence, and if you ctrl+c and ctrl+v and don't pay me, thats piracy. And you don't even get a tasty chicken dinner or a box of cakes for your trip to court.
Yuo just made the common mistake of comparing copying software to actually stealing property.
The PC gaming market remains huge despite "piracy", and many people, myself included, are more than happy to pay for a well made and enjoyable software product.
Due to the unfinished and broken nature of a lot of games, and no demos or shareware to allow people to try before they buy, makes software piracy a tool for many, not just a source of getting free stuff.
I don't consider it sad in the slightest. Buying a little pet lizard in an MMO for £5... now that perhaps is a little sad.
.. it's quite often cheaper that the download equivalent. Even Valve releases are generally cheaper retail than they are on Steam (in the UK at least).
Also in other cases (eg Mount and Blade Warband) localised tax, for example VAT here in the UK), adds too much to make it viable to make an online direct download purchase. For me it would have been circa £26 download, whereas online hard copy on play.com (other websites are available) it cost £18.
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That's what I was thinking, maybe they were all asleep, or having an all-weekend orgy on the holodeck.
"I've already told you to shut up with my mouth"
Dota 3 is coming in 2017, then we get HL3, as far as I can tell. It's will be a 5 minute long mobile flash game where you have to collect jewels.
Brilliant observation! Also, the original DoD is a great game, worth picking up if you don't mind your details being published to the internet.
If ever, this article is the case for your comment. Dishwasha, what the living fuck are you doing with your life. Answer that and then maybe, just maybe, coherent answers will abound.
Sarah Connor? *ding ding-aling* Come with me if you want a backy.
There are only 1500 pairs, and they're all going to be auctioned on ebay, for charity.
http://www.slashgear.com/nike-mag-official-details-released-in-full-08178190/
Check your email while that paypal thing is going round and round and round and round, just like a game console loading icon.
In mine and my friends cases, the purchase had already happened. You can close that popup screen.
What a bunch of d**gh** those censorship k*o***as** are.
Goddamn really a really a word for censorship? Jesus fuckin christ.
Jehovah Jehovah Jehovah, also I bet someone at "fanfare" has short back and sides. Stone the cunt to death.
...from Jimmy Whales. har har har, hilarious I know.
Currently petitioning for a preview button on slashdot that doesn't take 20 seconds to confirm 50 characters of text.
What started as the Team Fortress 2 nonsense store which allowed the purchasing of hats in a first person shooter(!), has progressed to a total overhaul of how Valve sell their products. Portal 2 is now fast becoming the flagship example, with, wiat for it, hats available for purchase, along with little flags and such. DLC (I feel a bit sick every time I say or type that) is the devil that you cant' avoid. If Activision put a human shit in a box and sold it as Call of Duty (or Modern Warfare, whichever they own) material DLC, for let's say £5 / $9, it's guaranteed they would make a profit. Call of Duty: Human Chemical Warfare in a Box.
Pretty much every game you buy now has this so called downloadable content, right from the game's release. There's no relevant analogy here, even the most coherent slashdot analogy wouldn't be able to ascribe to the bizarre concept of selling an entertainment product with parts loped off and sold along side it.
A great example is the add-on content to Railworks 2. A £25 game with £800(sic) of DLC. Have a look if you don't believe me. http://store.steampowered.com/app/24010/
Bottom line, there's a huge amount of money to be made on the DLC market and any game company would be stupid not to dip into that pool. And it's a damned shame.
Are you drunk or are you an alien who doesn't understand the concept of a turn of phrase?
I must have missed something, could you elaborate?
You'd be surprised how close to the mark you are. A couple of services have been proposed (rather lame link here http://www.tgdaily.com/sustainability-features/52886-team-touts-underground-physical-internet) that would deliver goods to UK homes with a series of tubes (I kid you not).
I would assume that maybe groceries could be delivered to you in less than the time it takes for the preview button to work here.
Has anyone said "space dust" yet? There's a joke in that somewhere.
Just to pick up on the fingerprint system idea, they don't make that blip as they search through every file (and good grief am I glad about that). We can get a ping on a hit if we want, as in just about any other software for doing anything ever, but the search gets shifted to my / one of my colleagues screens then anyway, so there's not really much point unless your "afk".
Not a "CSI" btw, just a lowly fingerprint tech, £16k a year if your curious.
It's quite interesting that the blipping in films / tv programs is essentially acceptable and useful as a tool to convey an edgy tech setup. I wonder what will denote this in the future.
What he's doing is completely legal. Quite how much money he makes would be interesting to see, anyone buying a 3d package would surely do a small amount of research. Law of averages will prevail I suppose.
He's been doing this for ages, and does it with various other software packages.
You should go down to the bookies and put all the money you have on that. You'll probably only get odds of something like 44/50, but at least you'll profit a bit.
Out of curiosity, do all broadband suppliers have different contracts or is there a standard in what you buy vs. what you end up getting after a few months?
For example, if I get an "unlimited" (that word can't go without inverted commas when related to broadband) package, but end up a few months later with a revised cap, can I cancel the contract or am I still bound by a "we can change this at any time" clause?
In my opnion, all online profile pictures should be run through a recapture type system to weed out that bizarre duck face phenomenon. Why do people do it?????????
You don't sign/agree to an EULA when you sit down at a slot machine...
That's an interesting point, what are the legalities when it comes to using these machines? I understand that even now you can be kicked out of a casino for counting cards on traditional black jack, but theres no law against it.
Does anyone know how far someone can take a slot machine exploit before it becomes illegal?
Has anyone made the wireless hotspot joke yet?
Yes, the courts apply copyright law, but that's not the point. Here, don't copy this string:
lksndf098sdfjn23409fgjnvdclkr098245n
I sell that string for 20 English pence, and if you ctrl+c and ctrl+v and don't pay me, thats piracy. And you don't even get a tasty chicken dinner or a box of cakes for your trip to court.
Yuo just made the common mistake of comparing copying software to actually stealing property.
The PC gaming market remains huge despite "piracy", and many people, myself included, are more than happy to pay for a well made and enjoyable software product.
Due to the unfinished and broken nature of a lot of games, and no demos or shareware to allow people to try before they buy, makes software piracy a tool for many, not just a source of getting free stuff.
I don't consider it sad in the slightest. Buying a little pet lizard in an MMO for £5... now that perhaps is a little sad.
.. it's quite often cheaper that the download equivalent. Even Valve releases are generally cheaper retail than they are on Steam (in the UK at least).
Also in other cases (eg Mount and Blade Warband) localised tax, for example VAT here in the UK), adds too much to make it viable to make an online direct download purchase. For me it would have been circa £26 download, whereas online hard copy on play.com (other websites are available) it cost £18.