Look... I'm sorry but 15 years ago games were $10-$15.
Where was that imaginary land?
$50 was the standard with carts creeping up to $60-$70 in the N64 era.
The PSX did bring prices down around $40 in a lot of instances and yes MS and Sony have forced prices back up to $60 in this generation.
So yes game prices have gone up in this generation for 2 of the 3 main consoles but prices were never $10-$15 15 years ago unless it was bargin bin rubbish no one wanted.
Clearly you didn't read the article or lack comprehension because that was the whole point in that having to worry about selling the maximum number of copies will mean a lack of variety and experimentation which is exactly what's happening with normal disc based games.
Being a good game does not equal good sales otherwise companies would make good games and not rubbish like baby and cooking sims on the DS.
But perhaps you're not bothered and eagerly await to but Baby-Momma on the DS.
Taxes are abused like cigarette tax money going towards roads rather than health care as we were told it would. I doubt most of our money goes where it was supposed to go. For that reason alone we should stop paying until they stop treating us like a source of unlimited money.
Back in the 90's when it was quite popular to sue tobacco companies and put large tax increases on cigarettes, myself any many others said this was just the beginning and continue this tactic and use it for junk food or anything deemed bad.
They have to do it. If the cigarette tax works then fewer people smoke. Tobacco tax money goes towards more things than health. It even goes towards road maintenance. So a lot of things the government does relies on that money and they won't give it up. If it comes to it, they'll tax you for taking a shit and causing pollution.
Some of my anti-smoking friends thought I was full of shit for thinking they'd extend this sort of thing for things other than cigarettes. I was right and in some ways I don't care. The mentality of only protecting the rights you like and no others is lame and if people are going to hold that attitude then fuck 'em. Maybe they'll realise the error of their ways once they're taxed for everything.
BTW, I wasn't totally against some sort of method of making smokers pay for their healthcare. Mainly because it's generally poor people who smoke and they can end up getting free healthcare. But it should have been done through a system that's basically forces them to buy healthcare. Because the government has lied and isn't using all, if any of the money, to cover the cost of smoker's healthcare. It's a nicer little earner for the government that will be used on many more things. It has to be. The US is in an incredible amount of debt and it has to be paid off some how.
You're right opinions are different and I don't want IE or WMP and I'm not mentally incompetent so I know how to get Firefox without IE. So where's my choice? That's all I want.
Spotify runs great and uses very little resources. I doubt there is much, if any, shit code in it.
They've made a program that run exceptionally well under Wine. The only problem I've found is the banner ads don't let you click through (no big loss there) to their web site. But I'm sure there are Linux people that want more than that and they're trying to give it. The fact that they are being relatively friendly towards Linux means there is probably a good reason they're releasing the binary only. For all we know there is some sort of agreement with music companies not to completely open it up and they're at least trying to give us the next best thing.
Yes it could be better but they're at least catering to our small group. There's no need to be a completely ungrateful shit about it.
I do think SF4 is great but if 2D fighters weren't a dying genre, I think people's view of it would be a bit different. That's what I like about Capcom. Not only do they make great games but they make a variety of games, from fighters to racers, shooters, etc. which is good for consumers and shows real talent unlike companies like Epic that only make one type of game with one type of story line, character set, etc.
I know BioShock has RPG elements but the point was it's not that different from previous games. Wolfenstein was probably was a bad example but that video was showing just very boring gunplay within pretty graphics. Which has been done in the System Shock titles and will probably be done again if there is a BioShock 3.
Do you mean mobile broadband as in on a phone or mobile broadband as in a USB stick that goes in your laptop?
In the case of the USB stick then yes people could easily run into that limit with iPlayer, itunes, etc.
But even with mobile phone, eventually more of these bandwidth intensive things will come to phones so why allow this deceptive practice? If most people don't hit the limit then there should be no problem advertising the limit. Clearly they don't understand what the word unlimited means.
It's a shame that the No. 10 petition site doesn't actually provide decent outcomes for popular petitions. I'm sure getting people to sign up for a petition related to this sort of tactic wouldn't be that hard.
It's much more unlimited than water and if there's no competition then how can you honestly say that they're going to be the one and only good company and charge a fair price?
England still has the problem of companies offering unlimited bandwidth that doesn't exist. There is a clear abuse of the word unlimited amongst ISPs.
I'm fine with caps when I'm told what I get for what I pay for and not "hey we're giving unlimited bandwidth but oh hey don't use more than 2 gbps per month and we'll shape the shit out of your traffic between noon and 9pm".
ISPs should be forced to advertise only what you get and tell you what they do to your traffic so you know exactly what you're getting. If they do that then fine, put limits on it. I fully understand that limits need to exist.
If you try to keep the competition out of an area the the gov should cap your fees and that's not the same as getting unlimited amounts of a more scarce resource, like clean water, for one fee.
The problem is that there are too many similar games and sequels of successful series. So everything feels similar which generally isn't that fun after awhile. We're lacking variety which doesn't necessarily need total innovation. Companies do have to innovate and if,on their first try, it's not quite right that is not an excuse to go back to to the same old thing.
But innovation isn't just about completely changing everything. We don't need completely new control schemes to innovate. Just don't make every damn game feel the same.
Yes the graphics are nice but that was exceptionally boring to watch. If you give it early 90's graphics it's effectively Wolfenstein 3D. Where is the innovation in fun that really makes it exciting to those that have played most FPS games? There is none and quite frankly it looks like something to pass on. I don't care how many scripted sequences it has, we've had those, done properly, since at least Half life 1 and it's not really that exciting anymore no matter how good the graphics are.
I think we just need more variety. Look at Street Fighter 4. It's not really that innovative. It's SF but in 3D. But a lot of people think it's great. I personally think that's because you don't really get fighters these days. They've sort of died out. So to get one that's of decent quality is a great thing. So companies just need to quit copying each other and repeating so much crap.
To be fair it shouldn't matter when it happened and maybe if people would create games, movies, etc that bring these things up straight away (rather than 50 years later) then people will think about war a bit more and maybe not be so happy to jump into the next one.
My point was that it shouldn't matter. Even if every other large company doesn't have a pub why shouldn't MS? Innovation is about doing things others don't and maybe bring change across the whole industry and while there is no direct benefit to the consumer, they will benefit by MS making their employees happier as, hopefully, the quality of their work should improve.
I do believe serious music fans do buy more music from downloading. The problem is that there are a lot of people that don't. A lot of chavs and barely literate people who are just getting into computing see the internet as a way to save money not expand their musical tastes.
Mind you that doesn't mean I believe the RIAA should keep pushing to sue people. They do need to focus on more options but we shouldn't pretend that downloading the music is the only way to sample it. We need to keep most people out of file sharing before they ruin it like newsgroups.
That is why I think something like Spotify is excellent as you get to listen to what you want when you want with the odd few ads thrown in after songs which I'm happy with and I can buy tracks from within Spotify if I want to.
I actually use it a lot, not so much because of the cost but because you install it anywhere and have access to all your playlists.
I don't think there is a problem with having a beer during lunch. I do it on occasion and it helps that my employer provides a bar.
I was commenting more on his comment "BUT yet when it comes to drinking while I sip my beer the others get piss drunk, do idiotic things, and generally make a complete a** out of themselves."
You find that sort of activity more frequent in the UK and Ireland than the continent.
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Look... I'm sorry but 15 years ago games were $10-$15.
Where was that imaginary land?
$50 was the standard with carts creeping up to $60-$70 in the N64 era. The PSX did bring prices down around $40 in a lot of instances and yes MS and Sony have forced prices back up to $60 in this generation.
So yes game prices have gone up in this generation for 2 of the 3 main consoles but prices were never $10-$15 15 years ago unless it was bargin bin rubbish no one wanted.
Clearly you didn't read the article or lack comprehension because that was the whole point in that having to worry about selling the maximum number of copies will mean a lack of variety and experimentation which is exactly what's happening with normal disc based games.
Being a good game does not equal good sales otherwise companies would make good games and not rubbish like baby and cooking sims on the DS.
But perhaps you're not bothered and eagerly await to but Baby-Momma on the DS.
Taxes are abused like cigarette tax money going towards roads rather than health care as we were told it would. I doubt most of our money goes where it was supposed to go. For that reason alone we should stop paying until they stop treating us like a source of unlimited money.
Yes because a company trying to take Linux seriously and include it in a legit music product is stupid.
If binaries don't hide anything then why not bring it up with Spotify. They may very will tell you exactly why they've done it the way they have.
Back in the 90's when it was quite popular to sue tobacco companies and put large tax increases on cigarettes, myself any many others said this was just the beginning and continue this tactic and use it for junk food or anything deemed bad.
They have to do it. If the cigarette tax works then fewer people smoke. Tobacco tax money goes towards more things than health. It even goes towards road maintenance. So a lot of things the government does relies on that money and they won't give it up. If it comes to it, they'll tax you for taking a shit and causing pollution.
Some of my anti-smoking friends thought I was full of shit for thinking they'd extend this sort of thing for things other than cigarettes. I was right and in some ways I don't care. The mentality of only protecting the rights you like and no others is lame and if people are going to hold that attitude then fuck 'em. Maybe they'll realise the error of their ways once they're taxed for everything.
BTW, I wasn't totally against some sort of method of making smokers pay for their healthcare. Mainly because it's generally poor people who smoke and they can end up getting free healthcare. But it should have been done through a system that's basically forces them to buy healthcare. Because the government has lied and isn't using all, if any of the money, to cover the cost of smoker's healthcare. It's a nicer little earner for the government that will be used on many more things. It has to be. The US is in an incredible amount of debt and it has to be paid off some how.
It'll go towards paying the debt for the violence in Iraq.
The worst condition I ever had to code in was severe drunkenness. I'll never code in that condition again. My comments make no sense!
WTF is a Eurodollar supposed to be? It's just Euro, spanky.
Your mom dropped you on your head as a child, didn't she?
You're right opinions are different and I don't want IE or WMP and I'm not mentally incompetent so I know how to get Firefox without IE. So where's my choice? That's all I want.
Spotify runs great and uses very little resources. I doubt there is much, if any, shit code in it.
They've made a program that run exceptionally well under Wine. The only problem I've found is the banner ads don't let you click through (no big loss there) to their web site. But I'm sure there are Linux people that want more than that and they're trying to give it. The fact that they are being relatively friendly towards Linux means there is probably a good reason they're releasing the binary only. For all we know there is some sort of agreement with music companies not to completely open it up and they're at least trying to give us the next best thing.
Yes it could be better but they're at least catering to our small group. There's no need to be a completely ungrateful shit about it.
I do think SF4 is great but if 2D fighters weren't a dying genre, I think people's view of it would be a bit different. That's what I like about Capcom. Not only do they make great games but they make a variety of games, from fighters to racers, shooters, etc. which is good for consumers and shows real talent unlike companies like Epic that only make one type of game with one type of story line, character set, etc.
I know BioShock has RPG elements but the point was it's not that different from previous games. Wolfenstein was probably was a bad example but that video was showing just very boring gunplay within pretty graphics. Which has been done in the System Shock titles and will probably be done again if there is a BioShock 3.
She's clearly 18 but shaves and just happens to like to dress like a school girl. What's the harm in that?
Do you mean mobile broadband as in on a phone or mobile broadband as in a USB stick that goes in your laptop?
In the case of the USB stick then yes people could easily run into that limit with iPlayer, itunes, etc.
But even with mobile phone, eventually more of these bandwidth intensive things will come to phones so why allow this deceptive practice? If most people don't hit the limit then there should be no problem advertising the limit. Clearly they don't understand what the word unlimited means.
It's a shame that the No. 10 petition site doesn't actually provide decent outcomes for popular petitions. I'm sure getting people to sign up for a petition related to this sort of tactic wouldn't be that hard.
It's much more unlimited than water and if there's no competition then how can you honestly say that they're going to be the one and only good company and charge a fair price?
You'd have to be really slow to believe that.
England still has the problem of companies offering unlimited bandwidth that doesn't exist. There is a clear abuse of the word unlimited amongst ISPs.
I'm fine with caps when I'm told what I get for what I pay for and not "hey we're giving unlimited bandwidth but oh hey don't use more than 2 gbps per month and we'll shape the shit out of your traffic between noon and 9pm".
ISPs should be forced to advertise only what you get and tell you what they do to your traffic so you know exactly what you're getting. If they do that then fine, put limits on it. I fully understand that limits need to exist.
If you try to keep the competition out of an area the the gov should cap your fees and that's not the same as getting unlimited amounts of a more scarce resource, like clean water, for one fee.
Only because they think Texas is all there is to America.
The problem is that there are too many similar games and sequels of successful series. So everything feels similar which generally isn't that fun after awhile. We're lacking variety which doesn't necessarily need total innovation. Companies do have to innovate and if,on their first try, it's not quite right that is not an excuse to go back to to the same old thing.
But innovation isn't just about completely changing everything. We don't need completely new control schemes to innovate. Just don't make every damn game feel the same.
Case in point, the BioShock 2 gameplay footage: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/47807.html?type=mov
Yes the graphics are nice but that was exceptionally boring to watch. If you give it early 90's graphics it's effectively Wolfenstein 3D. Where is the innovation in fun that really makes it exciting to those that have played most FPS games? There is none and quite frankly it looks like something to pass on. I don't care how many scripted sequences it has, we've had those, done properly, since at least Half life 1 and it's not really that exciting anymore no matter how good the graphics are.
I think we just need more variety. Look at Street Fighter 4. It's not really that innovative. It's SF but in 3D. But a lot of people think it's great. I personally think that's because you don't really get fighters these days. They've sort of died out. So to get one that's of decent quality is a great thing. So companies just need to quit copying each other and repeating so much crap.
You could say the same about Texas.
To be fair it shouldn't matter when it happened and maybe if people would create games, movies, etc that bring these things up straight away (rather than 50 years later) then people will think about war a bit more and maybe not be so happy to jump into the next one.
My point was that it shouldn't matter. Even if every other large company doesn't have a pub why shouldn't MS? Innovation is about doing things others don't and maybe bring change across the whole industry and while there is no direct benefit to the consumer, they will benefit by MS making their employees happier as, hopefully, the quality of their work should improve.
I do believe serious music fans do buy more music from downloading. The problem is that there are a lot of people that don't. A lot of chavs and barely literate people who are just getting into computing see the internet as a way to save money not expand their musical tastes.
Mind you that doesn't mean I believe the RIAA should keep pushing to sue people. They do need to focus on more options but we shouldn't pretend that downloading the music is the only way to sample it. We need to keep most people out of file sharing before they ruin it like newsgroups.
That is why I think something like Spotify is excellent as you get to listen to what you want when you want with the odd few ads thrown in after songs which I'm happy with and I can buy tracks from within Spotify if I want to.
I actually use it a lot, not so much because of the cost but because you install it anywhere and have access to all your playlists.
I don't think there is a problem with having a beer during lunch. I do it on occasion and it helps that my employer provides a bar.
I was commenting more on his comment "BUT yet when it comes to drinking while I sip my beer the others get piss drunk, do idiotic things, and generally make a complete a** out of themselves."
You find that sort of activity more frequent in the UK and Ireland than the continent.
Saying the UK is not part of Europe is like saying Hawaii is not part of the US.
While water does separate the UK from the continent that doesn't make the UK a lesser part of Europe. That and the UK used to be a physical part of the continent as well. http://www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/background/channelform.htm