Epic complained about piracy then used game sales and now $1.00 apps. Basically their problem is everything except their lack of innovation and complete reliance on making the same game in a prettier package every year and charging a high price.
Epic's games lack decent scripts and stories. They're all a bit samey and lacking any real variety or innovation. They rely on making games prettier than their last ones which is expensive. They can't compete against cheaper games but the thing is no one was ever really happy to pay $60 for a game especially when it's yet another sequel with another hulking space guy spouting cheesy rubbish.
A blu-ray disc offers nothing more than a nicer picture. Admittedly it's a much nicer picture but you need the right TV for it too which yet another cost on top of the already more expensive discs. But other the nicer picture I can't do anything new with them like (legally and easily) convert it to a digital file.
I own nearly 500 DVDs there is no way in hell I'm going to replace even a 1/5 of those for blu-ray. I suspect most people feel the same way about their existing DVD collection and then if you look how people are quite happy to buy low quality mp3s and listen to them on shitty ipod earphones you can pretty much assume people aren't as fussed about quality as new functionality and freedom which blu-ray does not provide.
Likewise relying on another country's currency for your loans is a dumb idea. Especially when that country can't keep its own finances in order and likes to piss away copious amounts of money on fighting brown people.
And this is why Geocities web devs were the best. They almost always provided a lo-fi and hi-fi version of their content. They look out for their customers.
People would bitch if they milked their titles. They put great care into them and release them when they're happy with them and people moan they take too long. Some people claim Steam is damaging PC gaming by making it Valve centric. Valve puts more effort into Steam and doesn't actually publish a lot of content to draw attention away from 3rd parties and people moan they put too much time into Steam.
They should keep up with what they're doing. The fact people can't wait shows they're doing a fabulous job which they probably wouldn't do if they rushed their games.
Which they recycled a lot of. It's not they made yet another witch model all from scratch for LFD2. As far as balancing the game that is going to be much easier when you're coming hot off of the original and the sequel is more or less an expansion pack. Don't get me wrong. I love LFD2 and I'm glad I paid for it but the effort put into the second will almost certainly have been less than the first on every front.
I'm in the Philippines at our Manila office. From what I can see from the other westerns (mainly older ones) coming out at night money certainly does buy you love or a very acceptable facsimile.
My machine is quite good what kills it is the fucking McAfee and landesk software. They won't let me have Linux either despite the fact I develop software that runs on linux and it would easily make life ten times easier. It pretty much comes down to help desk nazis even if I was ok with keeping the windows partition and if anything was cocked up on Linux then I couldn't sit there and claim I can't work until they fix it.
Only an idiot would have donated money and no realised he'd settle in a second if it meant removing the risk of years fighting and being made bankrupt.
From what I can tell FB ads are nothing but the dregs of the internet. They've never really been targeted at me except now after about 6 months of activity in Python related groups I now get the same ad asking me if I want to teach python which no doubt points to some questionable school.
The ads I see on facebook rarely have anything in common with my tastes. More often than not they've been about credit cards, credit checks and toned abs. With my awesome financial management and lack of care for the perfect abs I'm not sure how they figure I'd ever click those.
Remember when a article would take up one page and was split out among 13 pages with 6 billion ads surrounding the tiny bit of content on each page? Those were the days.
I know you're just trolling and poorly at that but Apple does contribute to open http://www.opensource.apple.com/. Their contribution to open source is why you can find a alternative distributions even if the following is like open solaris sized at best.
Sorry but you're living in imaginary land. Many PC gaming went years without DRM. Why would they change it all of the sudden and pay for third party DRM to add to the cost of their software and piss off their customers?
For instance Starsiege: Tribes didn't have much if anything in the way of DRM and was subjected to rampant piracy. They then increased control over Tribes 2 and that was due to nothing but the piracy of the first title. There wasn't some guy sitting there and thinking Tribes 1 was too nice to people and decided to just fuck them for the sequel.
Globally Microsoft is now in third place. http://www.next-gen.biz/news/report-ps3-passes-xbox-360-worldwide Not to mention Kotaku is, in my opinion one of the shittiest game sites around. They'll be relevant once their site has something more than fluff pieces and fanboyish trolls.
The Wii won't be around long enough to sink as low as Microsoft has. The WIi most certainly will be the first one to step into the next generation. It has the weakest hardware so of course it will run out of steam sooner and it has been an huge success. Where else can it go from here so might as well move onto the next system.
Given the increase of DRM because of piracy and its effect on those of us who are honest and the changes happening to laws which again ruin it for those of who are honest then no I would not say it's harmless at all and no I shouldn't have to pirate stuff and risk viruses or anything else to try and avoid DRM on software.
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Epic complained about piracy then used game sales and now $1.00 apps. Basically their problem is everything except their lack of innovation and complete reliance on making the same game in a prettier package every year and charging a high price.
Epic's games lack decent scripts and stories. They're all a bit samey and lacking any real variety or innovation. They rely on making games prettier than their last ones which is expensive. They can't compete against cheaper games but the thing is no one was ever really happy to pay $60 for a game especially when it's yet another sequel with another hulking space guy spouting cheesy rubbish.
A blu-ray disc offers nothing more than a nicer picture. Admittedly it's a much nicer picture but you need the right TV for it too which yet another cost on top of the already more expensive discs. But other the nicer picture I can't do anything new with them like (legally and easily) convert it to a digital file.
I own nearly 500 DVDs there is no way in hell I'm going to replace even a 1/5 of those for blu-ray. I suspect most people feel the same way about their existing DVD collection and then if you look how people are quite happy to buy low quality mp3s and listen to them on shitty ipod earphones you can pretty much assume people aren't as fussed about quality as new functionality and freedom which blu-ray does not provide.
Likewise relying on another country's currency for your loans is a dumb idea. Especially when that country can't keep its own finances in order and likes to piss away copious amounts of money on fighting brown people.
And this is why Geocities web devs were the best. They almost always provided a lo-fi and hi-fi version of their content. They look out for their customers.
People would bitch if they milked their titles. They put great care into them and release them when they're happy with them and people moan they take too long. Some people claim Steam is damaging PC gaming by making it Valve centric. Valve puts more effort into Steam and doesn't actually publish a lot of content to draw attention away from 3rd parties and people moan they put too much time into Steam.
They should keep up with what they're doing. The fact people can't wait shows they're doing a fabulous job which they probably wouldn't do if they rushed their games.
Which they recycled a lot of. It's not they made yet another witch model all from scratch for LFD2. As far as balancing the game that is going to be much easier when you're coming hot off of the original and the sequel is more or less an expansion pack. Don't get me wrong. I love LFD2 and I'm glad I paid for it but the effort put into the second will almost certainly have been less than the first on every front.
You're supposed to say it twice.
I'm in the Philippines at our Manila office. From what I can see from the other westerns (mainly older ones) coming out at night money certainly does buy you love or a very acceptable facsimile.
While I don't mind as such that they're doing it when are they going to do something before someone else rather than after?
My machine is quite good what kills it is the fucking McAfee and landesk software. They won't let me have Linux either despite the fact I develop software that runs on linux and it would easily make life ten times easier. It pretty much comes down to help desk nazis even if I was ok with keeping the windows partition and if anything was cocked up on Linux then I couldn't sit there and claim I can't work until they fix it.
I believe you win.
Seriously a $25 savings for a life of ads? Fuck that shit.
Only an idiot would have donated money and no realised he'd settle in a second if it meant removing the risk of years fighting and being made bankrupt.
Clearly you've never seen console fanboys beat on each other. Sony doesn't need to fake comments.
From what I can tell FB ads are nothing but the dregs of the internet. They've never really been targeted at me except now after about 6 months of activity in Python related groups I now get the same ad asking me if I want to teach python which no doubt points to some questionable school.
The ads I see on facebook rarely have anything in common with my tastes. More often than not they've been about credit cards, credit checks and toned abs. With my awesome financial management and lack of care for the perfect abs I'm not sure how they figure I'd ever click those.
I'm surprised it didn't claim Google causes cancer.
Remember when a article would take up one page and was split out among 13 pages with 6 billion ads surrounding the tiny bit of content on each page? Those were the days.
I know you're just trolling and poorly at that but Apple does contribute to open http://www.opensource.apple.com/. Their contribution to open source is why you can find a alternative distributions even if the following is like open solaris sized at best.
Awww boo hoo, go fuck off to Bing if it's that hard to avoid a feature on Google that isn't obtrusive.
Some people feel they're owed a bonus. They don't understand the concept of a bonus and that's why these people don't deserve a bonus.
Sorry but you're living in imaginary land. Many PC gaming went years without DRM. Why would they change it all of the sudden and pay for third party DRM to add to the cost of their software and piss off their customers?
For instance Starsiege: Tribes didn't have much if anything in the way of DRM and was subjected to rampant piracy. They then increased control over Tribes 2 and that was due to nothing but the piracy of the first title. There wasn't some guy sitting there and thinking Tribes 1 was too nice to people and decided to just fuck them for the sequel.
Globally Microsoft is now in third place. http://www.next-gen.biz/news/report-ps3-passes-xbox-360-worldwide Not to mention Kotaku is, in my opinion one of the shittiest game sites around. They'll be relevant once their site has something more than fluff pieces and fanboyish trolls.
The Wii won't be around long enough to sink as low as Microsoft has. The WIi most certainly will be the first one to step into the next generation. It has the weakest hardware so of course it will run out of steam sooner and it has been an huge success. Where else can it go from here so might as well move onto the next system.
Given the increase of DRM because of piracy and its effect on those of us who are honest and the changes happening to laws which again ruin it for those of who are honest then no I would not say it's harmless at all and no I shouldn't have to pirate stuff and risk viruses or anything else to try and avoid DRM on software.