The summary is ridiculous. I'm not a blind Microsoft fanboy, but if you're going to criticize them... do it using real points. I really don't think that "appearing where not wanted" and "hard to get rid of" apply. Yeah, you know microsoft, always giving away free copies of Windows and writing worms to install Office on everyone's machines for free. Windows also has that horrible anti-reformat feature that makes it impossible to wipe the disk and install Linux. If only they could make it so that you have to *choose* to install Office, or SQL Server, or Visual Studio...
I am not a Warhammer expert... but from what I've read the final battles are all based around huge cities that you siege and attack. Apparently the scale is massive enough that it certainly would make sense for it to be the sort of thing that an entire group of people did together. There were originally going to be a ton of cities but I think they've cut it back to two or something for now just to get the game out... they'll add more as time goes on.
Like I said, I'm not that interested in it, so someone can point out anything I've gotten wrong.
Seriously... the cost / benefit ratio there has gotta be something like - Costs a ton / gains us almost nothing. If I'm trying to run a profitable business I'm going to say... don't bother. It's the same reason you don't see the newest WWII FPS's marketed for people over 80. It's a tiny market segment... you won't make enough money to make producing the product worth your time. Sorry!
Riiiight, that's worked out great against Intel... AMD is the only competitor that's ever even gotten close to breaking into the CPU market against them and they're suffering right now. If you think someone else will just magically pop-up with the hundreds of millions (billions?) necessary to invent, prototype, test, produce, and market a new set of graphics cards... you're pretty frickin' optimistic.
Except that the failing chips ARE IN LAPTOPS... and don't have anything to do with the desktop parts as far as I know. I've had two 8800 GTSs for over a year and they've been working just fine. So has my friend's 8800 GTS that he's had for about as long.
I agree; I don't think I've *ever* gotten a "wonderful" corporate e-mail. I don't give my work e-mail to friends, and I don't use it for online forms... so I get neither personal communication nor entertaining junk mail.
The only e-mail I read immediately is any e-mail from my boss, or someone on my current team. Otherwise I just ignore it until later... or delete it. E-mail really isn't much of a distraction if you proactively manage it.
blawr, I hate quicktime. Unless a video *has* to be ridiculously high quality why bother to host it yourself anyway? Just put it on youtube... then you don't have to pay for the bandwidth... or you know, get slashdotted. (Yes, I know she/he's at a university but her/his tuition is footing the bill).
After seeing a few stories about EA support like this I have my doubts about whether or not you'd get any additional installs or just how pain free that process would be.
How many do you get / how often do you have to call before they cut you off? I rebuild my machine pretty regularly for one reason or another (hardware upgrades, "cleaning up", playing with different configurations...) and I generally reinstall all of my favorite games immediately after I do. I don't want to have to jump through a hoop every time I want to install a game I purchased. It's like calling GM and asking them if I can drive my car every morning after the first 1,000 times I've driven it. It's madness.
Steam is the exact opposite of this ridiculous garbage. Steam is actually my favorite way to purchase games now... I just buy a game once and then every time I rebuild I just leave my computer to download and install all of my games again overnight - simple.
Yeah, i have 3TB of HDD's on my desktop. Someone let me know when they make 3TB SSD's that i can afford.
Yeah, but you don't really need all of that to be on SSD. I'm up to about 3.5 TB of storage between my home server and my PC. about 300 GB of that is on Raptors... and that's plenty. It's got my OS and apps / games that I want to be fast and my photoshop scratch files. Pictures, music, other crap... that can all just sit on my slower 1 TB drives. I'd treat an SSD the same way - fast, expensive storage for stuff that I want to be fast.
Ambient music really sets the tone for what you're doing within a game. World In Conflict is a great example. The music in that game was really compelling. It reinforced what was happening both in your mission and in the overall story of the game.
As for people mentioning counter-strike... does counter-strike even come with music? I can't remember any... I think its just got sound effects...
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I can't decide whether he's serious, just being funny, or a troll... although, this is slashdot so it's probably just all three.
Seriously... if you have any IT skills at all just switch jobs if you're being abused. Take all of your friends with you... and when you leave, tell them why. They may not get the message the first time around... but they will when everyone starts to threaten to do what you just did.
At least someone knows how the electoral college works. Wow, I'm tired of seeing all of this garbage about Bush winning by cheating. Whether or not you like him is immaterial - the fact is he was elected by the electoral college.
That's the problem with compromise... It conditions you to accept what you previously never would have accepted. They are slowly taking away more and more freedoms... but because they're biting off small pieces no one complains. Privacy? nothing to hide, nothing to lose! right? Voting? Why would they rig it? Both parties wouldn't agree to that, would they?
Stop the compromise and stop these ridiculously crappy voting machines. I don't want that garbage finding its way into my state.
You're right about overpopulation. Sadly... Idiocracy is brutally true. The educated types are the ones having 1 kid and the "I made it to the 9th grade but then I got pregnant and I've since made 10 more illegitimate babies all of which were exposed to drugs during my pregenancy" are the ones having so many children that america still has a positive birth rate above just replacing who's already here. I realize that's a generalization but honestly, look around... who has 10 kids and who doesn't?
My understanding is that Mythos was free to play... Maybe developing a free game at the same time as you're trying to develop a for-profit game was an issue. It seems like you'd want to spend your money making the profitable game and then make freebies once you've got a revenue stream going that covers your costs...
I felt the same way until I saw a Knights of the Old Republic tabletop game ad here on slashdot just now. It immediately inspired me to go to Boston and create a whack-a-mole style game that alternates between the heads of JarJar and George Lucas. These kids need an educational game to teach them about who ruined star wars and what they should do about it.
Sure it does! It's above the lip-syncing little girl and the remarkably heterogeneous "culturally diverse" parade! Sadly there are no fireworks above the stadium... You need a mind storms computer to make those.
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Bloody frickin' hilarious. You need points like that ad needed more funny.
The summary is ridiculous. I'm not a blind Microsoft fanboy, but if you're going to criticize them... do it using real points. I really don't think that "appearing where not wanted" and "hard to get rid of" apply. Yeah, you know microsoft, always giving away free copies of Windows and writing worms to install Office on everyone's machines for free. Windows also has that horrible anti-reformat feature that makes it impossible to wipe the disk and install Linux. If only they could make it so that you have to *choose* to install Office, or SQL Server, or Visual Studio...
The two aren't necessarily exclusive... he just needs to familiarize himself with this song by Jonathan Coulton.
I am not a Warhammer expert... but from what I've read the final battles are all based around huge cities that you siege and attack. Apparently the scale is massive enough that it certainly would make sense for it to be the sort of thing that an entire group of people did together. There were originally going to be a ton of cities but I think they've cut it back to two or something for now just to get the game out... they'll add more as time goes on.
Like I said, I'm not that interested in it, so someone can point out anything I've gotten wrong.
Seriously... the cost / benefit ratio there has gotta be something like - Costs a ton / gains us almost nothing. If I'm trying to run a profitable business I'm going to say... don't bother. It's the same reason you don't see the newest WWII FPS's marketed for people over 80. It's a tiny market segment... you won't make enough money to make producing the product worth your time. Sorry!
Riiiight, that's worked out great against Intel... AMD is the only competitor that's ever even gotten close to breaking into the CPU market against them and they're suffering right now. If you think someone else will just magically pop-up with the hundreds of millions (billions?) necessary to invent, prototype, test, produce, and market a new set of graphics cards... you're pretty frickin' optimistic.
Except that the failing chips ARE IN LAPTOPS... and don't have anything to do with the desktop parts as far as I know. I've had two 8800 GTSs for over a year and they've been working just fine. So has my friend's 8800 GTS that he's had for about as long.
I agree; I don't think I've *ever* gotten a "wonderful" corporate e-mail. I don't give my work e-mail to friends, and I don't use it for online forms... so I get neither personal communication nor entertaining junk mail.
The only e-mail I read immediately is any e-mail from my boss, or someone on my current team. Otherwise I just ignore it until later... or delete it. E-mail really isn't much of a distraction if you proactively manage it.
That's what shii said.
Both halves of the video are up now.
blawr, I hate quicktime. Unless a video *has* to be ridiculously high quality why bother to host it yourself anyway? Just put it on youtube... then you don't have to pay for the bandwidth... or you know, get slashdotted. (Yes, I know she/he's at a university but her/his tuition is footing the bill).
After seeing a few stories about EA support like this I have my doubts about whether or not you'd get any additional installs or just how pain free that process would be.
How many do you get / how often do you have to call before they cut you off? I rebuild my machine pretty regularly for one reason or another (hardware upgrades, "cleaning up", playing with different configurations...) and I generally reinstall all of my favorite games immediately after I do. I don't want to have to jump through a hoop every time I want to install a game I purchased. It's like calling GM and asking them if I can drive my car every morning after the first 1,000 times I've driven it. It's madness.
Steam is the exact opposite of this ridiculous garbage. Steam is actually my favorite way to purchase games now... I just buy a game once and then every time I rebuild I just leave my computer to download and install all of my games again overnight - simple.
Yeah, i have 3TB of HDD's on my desktop. Someone let me know when they make 3TB SSD's that i can afford.
Yeah, but you don't really need all of that to be on SSD. I'm up to about 3.5 TB of storage between my home server and my PC. about 300 GB of that is on Raptors... and that's plenty. It's got my OS and apps / games that I want to be fast and my photoshop scratch files. Pictures, music, other crap... that can all just sit on my slower 1 TB drives. I'd treat an SSD the same way - fast, expensive storage for stuff that I want to be fast.
Ambient music really sets the tone for what you're doing within a game. World In Conflict is a great example. The music in that game was really compelling. It reinforced what was happening both in your mission and in the overall story of the game.
As for people mentioning counter-strike... does counter-strike even come with music? I can't remember any... I think its just got sound effects...
I can't decide whether he's serious, just being funny, or a troll... although, this is slashdot so it's probably just all three.
Seriously... if you have any IT skills at all just switch jobs if you're being abused. Take all of your friends with you... and when you leave, tell them why. They may not get the message the first time around... but they will when everyone starts to threaten to do what you just did.
5. No profit here... just sadness.
Sadly all of our patriots are in Iraq and the blood being shed isn't for our liberty... We've got a couple tyrants over here though! Water away!
At least someone knows how the electoral college works. Wow, I'm tired of seeing all of this garbage about Bush winning by cheating. Whether or not you like him is immaterial - the fact is he was elected by the electoral college.
That's the problem with compromise... It conditions you to accept what you previously never would have accepted. They are slowly taking away more and more freedoms... but because they're biting off small pieces no one complains. Privacy? nothing to hide, nothing to lose! right? Voting? Why would they rig it? Both parties wouldn't agree to that, would they?
Stop the compromise and stop these ridiculously crappy voting machines. I don't want that garbage finding its way into my state.
You're right about overpopulation. Sadly... Idiocracy is brutally true. The educated types are the ones having 1 kid and the "I made it to the 9th grade but then I got pregnant and I've since made 10 more illegitimate babies all of which were exposed to drugs during my pregenancy" are the ones having so many children that america still has a positive birth rate above just replacing who's already here. I realize that's a generalization but honestly, look around... who has 10 kids and who doesn't?
ZOMG funniest thing I've ever read on here. only thing you left out was an awesome video link... Like this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g_arzPICEA
My understanding is that Mythos was free to play... Maybe developing a free game at the same time as you're trying to develop a for-profit game was an issue. It seems like you'd want to spend your money making the profitable game and then make freebies once you've got a revenue stream going that covers your costs...
I felt the same way until I saw a Knights of the Old Republic tabletop game ad here on slashdot just now. It immediately inspired me to go to Boston and create a whack-a-mole style game that alternates between the heads of JarJar and George Lucas. These kids need an educational game to teach them about who ruined star wars and what they should do about it.
Sure it does! It's above the lip-syncing little girl and the remarkably heterogeneous "culturally diverse" parade! Sadly there are no fireworks above the stadium... You need a mind storms computer to make those.