Who's going to feed all of these underprivileged lawyers once they stop being hired to sue students, 10 year old girls and dead grandmothers? Think of the henchmen! Won't somebody pleeeeeeeeeeease think of the henchmen!
This is a nice zen aspect to gaming, one I've found myself often experiencing as I crunch numbers while speccing and gearing in world of warcraft.
It's also sort of similar to something I call the Zen of gaming difficulty - The hardest setting to learn on any game is "easy", while "impossible" is the simplest to master. While playing through Easy mode for the first time, you have no ide what you're up against, you face bosses for the first time, get surprised by twists and turns and keep having to look at your manual because you forget how to do your special moves. As you get better and tackle the hardest setting, you only have the tiny variations and subtle nuances to overcome, at which point you are pretty much a master of this game.
The logical absurdity can be one-upped once more here. Has the RIAA considered that each one of us who hears a song carries a permanent illegal copy of the song stored within their brain as a pattern of neuron connections?
When crafting his movie, Abrahms had two choices: either make a fully faithful canonic trek movie that would disinterest the public at large and get an outcry from hardcore trekkies, or make a fun, action-packed blockvusters that would get the larger public excited and get an outcry from hardcore trekkies. Seems like he made the most financially sound choice, seeing how hardcore trekkies are never satisfied with the end result anyway.
There's been some rumblings from console devs that they're wanting to put DRM on it to prevent used sales. Seems they're convinced that somehow, because they only profit once, that's unfair if the game trades hands again. You know, just like how car manufacturers couldn't survive if people bought used cars.
I'm surprised that nobody at GM has yet thought to blame used cars sales for their recent debacle. Or why Freddie and Fannie didn't blame realters for their near-collapse. [sarcasm] Because nothing destroys a business like the selling of used goods! [/sarcasm]
This is the same patch which, due to the sweeping stat and equipment changes, will allow players who have a character at level 50 or higher to create a brand new character already at level 50.
I don't know about everyone else, but the last thing I'm looking for in a party is someone who just started playing his character yesterday, doesn't know how to play his new class and didn't buy half his spells because "he didn't think they looked useful." Lord knows there's been a lot of incompetent death knights in WoW, though mercifully time passing has culled a lot of the chaff by now.
Clearly you haven't had your unlimited bandwidth contract revoked without prior warning yet, as your ISP is probably the last on the planet to still offer those. You should be getting your "pay-as-you-use" notification by mail any day now.
When I have to fill out a "secret question" with an answer that's all too easy to look up, I just make up an answer no one will figure out but me. If someone trying to get into my account tries to guess what was "the color of my first car", how are they going to know the answer if I made up a word that doesn't even exist?
The profit margin on this would be razor thin, as opposed to their usual titles while hogging as much materials, manpower and distribution ressources as a full-profit title... so lack of profit would kill that idea as soon as the numbers get crunched.
Your product has genuinely impressed and/or otherwise made a positive impact with me. I downloaded a cam of The Dark Knight when it initially came out, but then went and saw the movie twice in a cinema, and now also own a copy of the DVD. The cam has also now been deleted. So did Warner Bros lose money from me downloading that cam? I think not.
Back when I had no idea what The Matrix was about, a friend burned me a copy of the downloaded AVI on disc. I was so impressed with it that since then, I've seen all the movies in theater, bought the DVDs and the Animatrix box set. Big media companies need to realize that well thought-out free downloads are not harmful to their consumer base, but can intice them into becoming loyal repeat customers. Artists who have understood this have implemented succesful free tryouts and still made money with their products (Radiohead comes to mind)
It may not be especially difficult, but it can be horribly expensive, especially for a community mod website with (most likely) a shoestring budget and very limited ressources. Buying new furniture after a house fire is not difficult to do, unless you work part time at minimum wage...
This story simply refuses to die, much to the enjoyment of gamers everywhere. I guess it's reasonable for us to get some schadenfreude mileage out of it, considering we've been fed the same when it's ready line for 12 years now...
Since there is apparently no legal issue with car companies issuing GPS-enabled remote engine locks, the police should simply start renting cars to their suspects. Problem solved!
Smart money says that over the next five years, a whole lot of these people will be mysteriously refused insurance coverage, or be denied payment for "pre-existing conditions" that were never reported to their insurers...
I've worked tech support a long time, and three years ago we already had dozens of calls every week about wireless network signals disrupted by those bargain bin 2.4 GHz cordless phones
First, it doesn't say that the RIAA "stopped" doing anything. To "discontinue" does not mean to "stop," it means "to break the continuity of."
Oh, I get it now! The RIAA means that they want to break the continuity of the lawsuits, so that instead of going opening arguments, then statements, then evidence, then verdict, they skip straight to the part where the defendant gives them money, and do away with all this due process nonsense.
Seriously. After all this time in development, do they really think that players want to spend that much time having Duke look at the floor? No really, when the level boss knocks you back in a heated battle, the last thing a player wants is to stare at the floor for several seconds while more missiles may or may not be coming his way. How would we even know until we exploded?!?
People hurting themselves acting like idiots, singing badly, ranting and being angry for the world to see. Exactly what am I getting here that I can't already get for free on my daily subway commute?
With a little luck, this DRM will end up on the entire network of a major corporation (we could only dream it's IBM or Microsoft!) and lock up their operations so BADLY that the entire corporate world will lash out with lawsuits. The resulting backlash could spell the end of DRM for good.
For 150 dollars an hour, a lawyer will never tell you any idea of yours is bad, even if it's suing McDonalds because your hot coffee is (gasp!) HOT, and should not have been poured all over your crotch.
Now, the Futurama spaceship in contrast works by moving the universe aroud itself. Way cooler, isn't it?
This concept is a real winner because it overcomes the inertia issue that's always been associated with having a ship full of squishy organic passengers. If the ship doesn't move at all, there's zero inertia to turn your soft gooey insides into messy jumbled jello.
He'll live in infamy now as the poster boy for software companies living on hype instead of delivered products. This is how cautionary tales are made, folks!
Good luck with that. It's worked so well in the past for everyone whose games I've seen land in the discount clearance bin shortly before the servers shut down for good.
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Who's going to feed all of these underprivileged lawyers once they stop being hired to sue students, 10 year old girls and dead grandmothers? Think of the henchmen! Won't somebody pleeeeeeeeeeease think of the henchmen!
It's also sort of similar to something I call the Zen of gaming difficulty - The hardest setting to learn on any game is "easy", while "impossible" is the simplest to master. While playing through Easy mode for the first time, you have no ide what you're up against, you face bosses for the first time, get surprised by twists and turns and keep having to look at your manual because you forget how to do your special moves. As you get better and tackle the hardest setting, you only have the tiny variations and subtle nuances to overcome, at which point you are pretty much a master of this game.
The logical absurdity can be one-upped once more here. Has the RIAA considered that each one of us who hears a song carries a permanent illegal copy of the song stored within their brain as a pattern of neuron connections?
When crafting his movie, Abrahms had two choices: either make a fully faithful canonic trek movie that would disinterest the public at large and get an outcry from hardcore trekkies, or make a fun, action-packed blockvusters that would get the larger public excited and get an outcry from hardcore trekkies. Seems like he made the most financially sound choice, seeing how hardcore trekkies are never satisfied with the end result anyway.
There's been some rumblings from console devs that they're wanting to put DRM on it to prevent used sales. Seems they're convinced that somehow, because they only profit once, that's unfair if the game trades hands again. You know, just like how car manufacturers couldn't survive if people bought used cars.
I'm surprised that nobody at GM has yet thought to blame used cars sales for their recent debacle. Or why Freddie and Fannie didn't blame realters for their near-collapse. [sarcasm] Because nothing destroys a business like the selling of used goods! [/sarcasm]
This is the same patch which, due to the sweeping stat and equipment changes, will allow players who have a character at level 50 or higher to create a brand new character already at level 50.
I don't know about everyone else, but the last thing I'm looking for in a party is someone who just started playing his character yesterday, doesn't know how to play his new class and didn't buy half his spells because "he didn't think they looked useful." Lord knows there's been a lot of incompetent death knights in WoW, though mercifully time passing has culled a lot of the chaff by now.
Clearly you haven't had your unlimited bandwidth contract revoked without prior warning yet, as your ISP is probably the last on the planet to still offer those. You should be getting your "pay-as-you-use" notification by mail any day now.
When I have to fill out a "secret question" with an answer that's all too easy to look up, I just make up an answer no one will figure out but me. If someone trying to get into my account tries to guess what was "the color of my first car", how are they going to know the answer if I made up a word that doesn't even exist?
The profit margin on this would be razor thin, as opposed to their usual titles while hogging as much materials, manpower and distribution ressources as a full-profit title... so lack of profit would kill that idea as soon as the numbers get crunched.
Your product has genuinely impressed and/or otherwise made a positive impact with me. I downloaded a cam of The Dark Knight when it initially came out, but then went and saw the movie twice in a cinema, and now also own a copy of the DVD. The cam has also now been deleted. So did Warner Bros lose money from me downloading that cam? I think not.
Back when I had no idea what The Matrix was about, a friend burned me a copy of the downloaded AVI on disc. I was so impressed with it that since then, I've seen all the movies in theater, bought the DVDs and the Animatrix box set. Big media companies need to realize that well thought-out free downloads are not harmful to their consumer base, but can intice them into becoming loyal repeat customers. Artists who have understood this have implemented succesful free tryouts and still made money with their products (Radiohead comes to mind)
They'll go into their bankruptcy when it's ready!
It may not be especially difficult, but it can be horribly expensive, especially for a community mod website with (most likely) a shoestring budget and very limited ressources. Buying new furniture after a house fire is not difficult to do, unless you work part time at minimum wage...
This story simply refuses to die, much to the enjoyment of gamers everywhere. I guess it's reasonable for us to get some schadenfreude mileage out of it, considering we've been fed the same when it's ready line for 12 years now...
You can't try to kill the second-hand market without seriously hurting the first-hand market.
Since there is apparently no legal issue with car companies issuing GPS-enabled remote engine locks, the police should simply start renting cars to their suspects. Problem solved!
Smart money says that over the next five years, a whole lot of these people will be mysteriously refused insurance coverage, or be denied payment for "pre-existing conditions" that were never reported to their insurers...
I've worked tech support a long time, and three years ago we already had dozens of calls every week about wireless network signals disrupted by those bargain bin 2.4 GHz cordless phones
First, it doesn't say that the RIAA "stopped" doing anything. To "discontinue" does not mean to "stop," it means "to break the continuity of."
Oh, I get it now! The RIAA means that they want to break the continuity of the lawsuits, so that instead of going opening arguments, then statements, then evidence, then verdict, they skip straight to the part where the defendant gives them money, and do away with all this due process nonsense.
Seriously. After all this time in development, do they really think that players want to spend that much time having Duke look at the floor? No really, when the level boss knocks you back in a heated battle, the last thing a player wants is to stare at the floor for several seconds while more missiles may or may not be coming his way. How would we even know until we exploded?!?
People hurting themselves acting like idiots, singing badly, ranting and being angry for the world to see. Exactly what am I getting here that I can't already get for free on my daily subway commute?
With a little luck, this DRM will end up on the entire network of a major corporation (we could only dream it's IBM or Microsoft!) and lock up their operations so BADLY that the entire corporate world will lash out with lawsuits. The resulting backlash could spell the end of DRM for good.
For 150 dollars an hour, a lawyer will never tell you any idea of yours is bad, even if it's suing McDonalds because your hot coffee is (gasp!) HOT, and should not have been poured all over your crotch.
Now, the Futurama spaceship in contrast works by moving the universe aroud itself. Way cooler, isn't it?
This concept is a real winner because it overcomes the inertia issue that's always been associated with having a ship full of squishy organic passengers. If the ship doesn't move at all, there's zero inertia to turn your soft gooey insides into messy jumbled jello.
He'll live in infamy now as the poster boy for software companies living on hype instead of delivered products. This is how cautionary tales are made, folks!
Good luck with that. It's worked so well in the past for everyone whose games I've seen land in the discount clearance bin shortly before the servers shut down for good.