It seems every year is starting to be the "The year of PC gaming death."
And, we all know that every year is the year of linux on the desktop and that the year of Duke Nukem is coming.
Thus, clearly, next year will be the year of playing Duke Nukem on a dead linux desktop*.
*: According to the latest casting of bones, the prophecy can also be interpreted as: "Penguins will nuke ducks dead from the top of their desks". But I don't think that will happen next year.
Does someone seriously think the current requirements on some PC games are unavoidable?
If computer hardware stops growing at the same pace we've grown accustomed, what will die isn't PC gaming but game software careless programming.
Just as games in a single console have better graphics as time passes (on the same hardware), even a full stop in PC hardware would just force a cleaning and perfectioning of base algorithms.
Traditionally, this reasoning ends by pointing at the high quality graphics and ridiculously low requirements on the last Blizzard game, but it's been a while since they released a new one. I'd just wait to see the requirements of D3 or SC2 before talking about the effects of a slow down in affordable computer hardware on games quality and future.
And with "just" they may be referring to the justice meaning. As in "Space's Justice is closer than expected". And "bit" might be about the binary unit, as in "it's a 1 closer or 0 closer.". Finally, the term "closer" could be about the baseball relief pitcher who closes the game.
So, for all we know, the title could perfectly mean:
"Euclidean's three extent dimensions are applying justice a little one or an equally little zero, relief pitcher who finishes the game, than expected"
If it was only one gun, rather than 99.999/100 of the weapon production on the world, I would see your point. As a sword fight practicioner, I really hate all the gun buying going on. I'd bet that's the reason we don't see another grand master sword forge is due to gunfights.
i.e.: Your personal feelings and/or situation don't make reality right or wrong.
It's worse than that; it's a new justification for the RIAA to ask for money.
RIAA: "Pirates are generating losses of millions of dollars. They force us to pay large amounts to every ISP so they enforce our demands."
"Now when we catch a pirate we'll of course ask for compensation of all those millions."
Soon sending a song through the web will bring larger fines than experimenting with nuclear weapons at home.
I can see the prison conversations. "What are you here for?" "Eating babies. And you?" "Whistling a song in public." "Friking depraved garbage! I hope you rot in hell."
Don't lose hope. Maybe there's a natural occurrence of an aluminum coated barium titanate powder immersed in a polyethylene terephthalate plastic matrix.
For all we know, that could be the composition of the droppings of a rare butterfly.
Some day, someone will find a way of creating a computer from wood and stone. And then I won't feel inferior to car mechanics because of my uselesness in a post-apocalyptic scenario.
(Yes, I know a car is more useful than a computer in the first months, but years of gaming must have prepared me for fending the radioactive zombies till a new order is established.)
1 - I make a cracked server app and release it in public domain. 2 - Someone unrelated to you or me runs the app in a public server and releases the IP to a semi-public list of cracked servers. 3 - You pay 20$ to have your console cracked, or directly buy it cracked for +15$. 4 - You download the list and connect to the servers.
The point is:
IF 5 - They push harder and make intrusive systems. 6 - More people make the effort of joining the pirate network. 7 - More people get involved and add their effort. For example an app that reunites the cracked servers IPs and keeps the lists up to date or a worm that infects machines and installs a distributed cracked server or whatever else. 8 - The pirate network becomes easier to use so less geeky people join.
> What's wrong with just making decently entertaining games that people are actually willing to go out and buy?
It's simply harder and more expensive.
They follow the thief line of thought: "Why work if I can just steal?"
That's what happens when the objective is not to make a good product but a good profit. It happens everywhere, it's just sadder in the entertainment industry.
"Mom. I need your credit card to buy a potion to turn my in-game pants blue." "You have ten seconds to say you were kidding, before I send you to a boarding school."
A game can be purchased much before it's released. Based on videos made without a single in-game image, previews and interviews with the designers, people are ready to spend money on a still non existing game.
Will 2009 see the turning point between "Pay to be sure to have your copy as soon as it's out and get some little extra" and "Pay so the game is made"?
I would advance money on many games like Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, Anything that ends in (Total War), etc.
Maybe not everyone can do it at first, just as not every mmorpg can ask for monthly money and expect to finish the game with the massive revenue. But some could start and set the rules of the new trade.
You got it wrong, he wasn't talking about fox, the animal, but about Fox Mulder.
Dark energy is what took his sister to a distant galaxy and that distance is growing every day. The FBI are closing escape routes, but the dark energetic abductor has still much galaxy to run.
The glimer of fur thing must be a reference to the sister.
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It seems every year is starting to be the "The year of PC gaming death."
And, we all know that every year is the year of linux on the desktop and that the year of Duke Nukem is coming.
Thus, clearly, next year will be the year of playing Duke Nukem on a dead linux desktop*.
*: According to the latest casting of bones, the prophecy can also be interpreted as: "Penguins will nuke ducks dead from the top of their desks". But I don't think that will happen next year.
Does someone seriously think the current requirements on some PC games are unavoidable?
If computer hardware stops growing at the same pace we've grown accustomed, what will die isn't PC gaming but game software careless programming.
Just as games in a single console have better graphics as time passes (on the same hardware), even a full stop in PC hardware would just force a cleaning and perfectioning of base algorithms.
Traditionally, this reasoning ends by pointing at the high quality graphics and ridiculously low requirements on the last Blizzard game, but it's been a while since they released a new one. I'd just wait to see the requirements of D3 or SC2 before talking about the effects of a slow down in affordable computer hardware on games quality and future.
And with "just" they may be referring to the justice meaning. As in "Space's Justice is closer than expected". And "bit" might be about the binary unit, as in "it's a 1 closer or 0 closer.". Finally, the term "closer" could be about the baseball relief pitcher who closes the game.
So, for all we know, the title could perfectly mean:
"Euclidean's three extent dimensions are applying justice a little one or an equally little zero, relief pitcher who finishes the game, than expected"
And if you really drink much beer
you rime service with yesteryear.
If it was only one gun, rather than 99.999/100 of the weapon production on the world, I would see your point. As a sword fight practicioner, I really hate all the gun buying going on. I'd bet that's the reason we don't see another grand master sword forge is due to gunfights.
i.e.: Your personal feelings and/or situation don't make reality right or wrong.
Every year is the year of the ratbastard!
It's worse than that; it's a new justification for the RIAA to ask for money.
RIAA: "Pirates are generating losses of millions of dollars. They force us to pay large amounts to every ISP so they enforce our demands."
"Now when we catch a pirate we'll of course ask for compensation of all those millions."
Soon sending a song through the web will bring larger fines than experimenting with nuclear weapons at home.
I can see the prison conversations.
"What are you here for?"
"Eating babies. And you?"
"Whistling a song in public."
"Friking depraved garbage! I hope you rot in hell."
Great!
And here I was, thinking I'd never find an example of simultaneous sadness and laughter.
Don't worry, It happens in the best families. You can take off the paper bag now.
There's something disturbing in your analogy.
For instance, where's the car?
Don't lose hope. Maybe there's a natural occurrence of an aluminum coated barium titanate powder immersed in a polyethylene terephthalate plastic matrix.
For all we know, that could be the composition of the droppings of a rare butterfly.
Look at it this way: If the incubator was a car...
Ok, that's all.
This gives me hope.
Some day, someone will find a way of creating a computer from wood and stone. And then I won't feel inferior to car mechanics because of my uselesness in a post-apocalyptic scenario.
(Yes, I know a car is more useful than a computer in the first months, but years of gaming must have prepared me for fending the radioactive zombies till a new order is established.)
Indeed.
However I don't really mind that they sell all info regarding Mr. X Smith, who currently lives in n123 Candy st. / Magicland.
1 - Create Miis for all your family.
2 - Buy a Wii adult game.
3 - ????
4 - ????
5 - ????
6 - Nope, no profit here. Maybe for your shrink?
They got an early version and reprogrammed the missing parts.
It was not as hard as it may seem. Just a matter of free time at an office where having a visual studio opened is expected.
1 - I make a cracked server app and release it in public domain.
2 - Someone unrelated to you or me runs the app in a public server and releases the IP to a semi-public list of cracked servers.
3 - You pay 20$ to have your console cracked, or directly buy it cracked for +15$.
4 - You download the list and connect to the servers.
The point is:
IF 5 - They push harder and make intrusive systems.
6 - More people make the effort of joining the pirate network.
7 - More people get involved and add their effort. For example an app that reunites the cracked servers IPs and keeps the lists up to date or a worm that infects machines and installs a distributed cracked server or whatever else.
8 - The pirate network becomes easier to use so less geeky people join.
You can join a pirated server with thousands of players. How many more do you need to play a four players game?
Your reasoning only really applies to MMORPGs and yet some people play in WOW pirated servers.
> Plus, any online connection forces you to have a legal purchased copy.
Or a pirated server on the near-by PC.
Let's go on with the arms race. We'll see if the result pleases them.
> ironically, the reason people are moving towards microtransactions and online games is precisely because of games piracy.
Oh, yes, of course! It has nothing to do with getting more money.
What was I thinking! If they blamed it on pirates that must be the reason.
Thanks for correcting my mistake.
Now we can discuss how pirates where the reason of inventing new taxes on everything vaguely related to music.
> What's wrong with just making decently entertaining games that people are actually willing to go out and buy?
It's simply harder and more expensive.
They follow the thief line of thought: "Why work if I can just steal?"
That's what happens when the objective is not to make a good product but a good profit. It happens everywhere, it's just sadder in the entertainment industry.
Actually:
"Mom. I need your credit card to buy a potion to turn my in-game pants blue."
"You have ten seconds to say you were kidding, before I send you to a boarding school."
A game can be purchased much before it's released. Based on videos made without a single in-game image, previews and interviews with the designers, people are ready to spend money on a still non existing game.
Will 2009 see the turning point between "Pay to be sure to have your copy as soon as it's out and get some little extra" and "Pay so the game is made"?
I would advance money on many games like Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, Anything that ends in (Total War), etc.
Maybe not everyone can do it at first, just as not every mmorpg can ask for monthly money and expect to finish the game with the massive revenue. But some could start and set the rules of the new trade.
I believe there will be another Einstein who will shed light upon this "mistery" and everything will be simple again.
Simple again?
Whan was the last time everything was simple?
I'm thinking caveman's "If you don't know how something works, it must be a spirit".
You think that's air you're breathing now?
You got it wrong, he wasn't talking about fox, the animal, but about Fox Mulder.
Dark energy is what took his sister to a distant galaxy and that distance is growing every day. The FBI are closing escape routes, but the dark energetic abductor has still much galaxy to run.
The glimer of fur thing must be a reference to the sister.