For those of us, like me, that do not have the time to invest in EQ or SWG, this isn't such a bad idea. I only have time to play a hour or two a month these days, and I am not going to pay 15 dollars a month, per game for that. I could see paying a dollar though for one hour when I was in the mood to play for a bit. If they had something like this, I wouldn't have had to cancel my accounts.
The only way I could see this succeeding though is if it was a alternative method of payment. By having it as a second payment option, it could potentially draw in new customers and keep some of the ones around who do not play as much as they used too. If they completely replaced their payment options with this method, it would do nothing but chase away the hardcore gamers.
Who knows what they would have devoleped back then if they had better hardware. That is a pointless argument because the technology was not there at the time.
My point is they are adding new features every year. The game is not just a roster update like others have said. Those are all new features that were added this year on Madden. They were not there on 01, 02, and 03. All three of those previous versions were on the same platform for me, the ps2.
I never said the older versions of Madden sucked. I never said ANYTHING sucked. You are putting words in my mouth. I know how it was playing on the older systems becuase I was playing on them at the time, and having a good time.
Are you insane? The new Madden has more new features in it than any other Madden in quite some time.
The new playmaker control is awesome. You can change the direction of the run before you even snap the ball now. You can also change the route of the receivers. This is all without having to call a audible and completely change the play/formation. While on defense you can also change the way your defense reacts after the snap of the ball. You can pull every one in to stop a run, or you can pull them back to cover a pass. While running the ball at any time, you can also you it to call for blocks. None of this was possible before, and it is very hard to live without once you get used to it.
They also improved the franchise mode of the game by leaps and bounds. Not only do you just play season after season, now you can do some stuff a owner would do. These are things like set the prices of various stadium prices to improve you bottom line, like parking, concession prices, souvenir prices and ticket prices. Heck, you can even pick up the team and move them to a new city. Once you get to the new city, you can design the stadium and new jerseys.
With all of those new features, it hardly sounds like just a roster update to me.
"This is in stark contrast to Sega, Sony, and SNK who tend to make a lot of 'Me-too' products."
I do not think I would include Sega in there. Remember the Dreamcast? That console was far ahead of its time. It was the first one to come with a modem and have games with online play. Also, remember VMU's? Those had lots of potiental that went unused. You could play mini games on them when not hooked up to the controller, and in some games like NFL2k, you could accually use the VMU to choose which play you were going to use so your firend couldn't see.
A few you forgot were grouped together with Pac-Man and Called the Saturday Supercade. Some of the cartoons on there were Pitfall, Frogger, Donky Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Q-Bert and Pole Position.
Didn't Sonic also have his own show there for a while?
To me it seemed that the skills system they added in was mostly filler. Something to give you something to do so you do not realize there is noting to do.
All there was to do in the game was the skills system. That meant playing a guitar in game for a few hours, or even doing telemarketing. I paid 50 dollars and then 10 dollars a month to play a game where my character is a telemarketer?
That last two days I played, the only thing I could find that would even keep me the slightest bit amused was to be random peoples janitor. Thats right, the only thing I could find in the game to keep me amused was cleaning up after people and doing their dishes.
Besides the skills system that was added as a afterthought, the game is nothing more than a glorified IRC that costs money.
It was that bad. It was basically a chat room with Sims. You would sit there endlessly working on skills that had no relevence to the game and chatting. That is it, nothing more.
I cancelled my subscription about 4 days into my free 30 days.
This collection is legal though. Possessing a rom without accually owning it is still illegal. Even if the company that made the rom is no longer in buisness.
There has to be a limit though on how many times one can recycle a idea, and it still be entertaining.
My example was the last Sim City. It was fun, I guess. They added a few new features, and improved the graphics. At the heart of the game, it was still Sim City. I played the previous versions so much before, there wasnt enough there to keep me interested for more than a hour.
I am getting very tired of the term addiction being overused these days. True addiction is a very harsh thing. Try picking up a Heroin habit for a couple of months and you might see what a real addiction is. If someone stops playing EQ before they level up, do they start having withdrawl? No, they just go to bed or go listen to their girlfriend/wife bitch at them for playing too much.
The airlines are already loosing millions, and now they would have to spend billions to replace or modify the planes to use hydrogen as a fuel. That would surely drive the airlines out of buisness.
I agree. This is one of the most insane things i have heard of in a long time. Next thing you know I wont be able to use the t'inator. It does basically the same thing, but changes all the pages to be like Mr T made em. But seriously though, do these lawyers even have a legal leg to stand on? How can it be a copywright violation if they dont have anyone elses pages on their servers, the data only passes through it. If this is the case, wouldnt the anonymizer have the same legal problem. I really hope this isnt the case. I find the anonymizer to be a very helpful tool for my job.
This is just another reason why geeks should be the only ones allowed on the net. Fuck corporate America.
How could he sell it? He could easily. We have this thing in america, its called the stock market. Here people buy and sell stock. He would sell his stock here. Or, we also have something here in america called a corporate buyout. I am sure the are a ton of companies out there that would love to be the primary shareholder in MS. In a world where one can sell a empty box on ebay, saying no one would buy bill's MS stock is one of the most idiotic things I have heard in quite some time. roche
ummmmm.....this is 100% wrong. ftp.redhat.com is up. i just tried it. couldn't get in myself, but thats just because the anonymous user limit was reached. here is a list of the mirror sites to use when that happens http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html roche
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The Cube has been $99 for a while now, not $150.
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For those of us, like me, that do not have the time to invest in EQ or SWG, this isn't such a bad idea. I only have time to play a hour or two a month these days, and I am not going to pay 15 dollars a month, per game for that. I could see paying a dollar though for one hour when I was in the mood to play for a bit. If they had something like this, I wouldn't have had to cancel my accounts.
The only way I could see this succeeding though is if it was a alternative method of payment. By having it as a second payment option, it could potentially draw in new customers and keep some of the ones around who do not play as much as they used too. If they completely replaced their payment options with this method, it would do nothing but chase away the hardcore gamers.
Who knows what they would have devoleped back then if they had better hardware. That is a pointless argument because the technology was not there at the time.
My point is they are adding new features every year. The game is not just a roster update like others have said. Those are all new features that were added this year on Madden. They were not there on 01, 02, and 03. All three of those previous versions were on the same platform for me, the ps2.
I never said the older versions of Madden sucked. I never said ANYTHING sucked. You are putting words in my mouth. I know how it was playing on the older systems becuase I was playing on them at the time, and having a good time.
Are you insane? The new Madden has more new features in it than any other Madden in quite some time.
The new playmaker control is awesome. You can change the direction of the run before you even snap the ball now. You can also change the route of the receivers. This is all without having to call a audible and completely change the play/formation. While on defense you can also change the way your defense reacts after the snap of the ball. You can pull every one in to stop a run, or you can pull them back to cover a pass. While running the ball at any time, you can also you it to call for blocks. None of this was possible before, and it is very hard to live without once you get used to it.
They also improved the franchise mode of the game by leaps and bounds. Not only do you just play season after season, now you can do some stuff a owner would do. These are things like set the prices of various stadium prices to improve you bottom line, like parking, concession prices, souvenir prices and ticket prices. Heck, you can even pick up the team and move them to a new city. Once you get to the new city, you can design the stadium and new jerseys.
With all of those new features, it hardly sounds like just a roster update to me.
"This is in stark contrast to Sega, Sony, and SNK who tend to make a lot of 'Me-too' products."
I do not think I would include Sega in there. Remember the Dreamcast? That console was far ahead of its time. It was the first one to come with a modem and have games with online play. Also, remember VMU's? Those had lots of potiental that went unused. You could play mini games on them when not hooked up to the controller, and in some games like NFL2k, you could accually use the VMU to choose which play you were going to use so your firend couldn't see.
I would hardly call those "me too" products.
A few you forgot were grouped together with Pac-Man and Called the Saturday Supercade. Some of the cartoons on there were Pitfall, Frogger, Donky Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Q-Bert and Pole Position.
Didn't Sonic also have his own show there for a while?
To me it seemed that the skills system they added in was mostly filler. Something to give you something to do so you do not realize there is noting to do.
All there was to do in the game was the skills system. That meant playing a guitar in game for a few hours, or even doing telemarketing. I paid 50 dollars and then 10 dollars a month to play a game where my character is a telemarketer?
That last two days I played, the only thing I could find that would even keep me the slightest bit amused was to be random peoples janitor. Thats right, the only thing I could find in the game to keep me amused was cleaning up after people and doing their dishes.
Besides the skills system that was added as a afterthought, the game is nothing more than a glorified IRC that costs money.
It was that bad. It was basically a chat room with Sims. You would sit there endlessly working on skills that had no relevence to the game and chatting. That is it, nothing more.
I cancelled my subscription about 4 days into my free 30 days.
The last line in the first article says, "Oh, and God drops no loot."
This collection is legal though. Possessing a rom without accually owning it is still illegal. Even if the company that made the rom is no longer in buisness.
There has to be a limit though on how many times one can recycle a idea, and it still be entertaining.
My example was the last Sim City. It was fun, I guess. They added a few new features, and improved the graphics. At the heart of the game, it was still Sim City. I played the previous versions so much before, there wasnt enough there to keep me interested for more than a hour.
My copy has the commericals from the 70's when it aired. The commericals are the best part IMO.
On April 1st, i is hard to take anything seriously......
This would be a lot cooler if they had modded up a Power Glove to use with this.
I am getting very tired of the term addiction being overused these days. True addiction is a very harsh thing. Try picking up a Heroin habit for a couple of months and you might see what a real addiction is. If someone stops playing EQ before they level up, do they start having withdrawl? No, they just go to bed or go listen to their girlfriend/wife bitch at them for playing too much.
The airlines are already loosing millions, and now they would have to spend billions to replace or modify the planes to use hydrogen as a fuel. That would surely drive the airlines out of buisness.
There are 3 channels that look like they play techno. They are....
Ch 80 The Move Dance One Nation, Underground
Ch 81 BPM Dance The Spirit of the Weekend, All the Time
Ch 82 Club 82 Dance Urban Dance Music.. In the Mix.. 24/7
I dont care if it kills my karma, but thatnk you for the mirror.
Is there any info on how he pulled this off? a kernel is nice, but info is better!
roche
64 megs of ram minimun to run????? Whats the deal with that???
roche
If you dont want to get spam on your primary email account, just use a hotmail account for forums. Its simple enough.
roche
I agree. This is one of the most insane things i have heard of in a long time. Next thing you know I wont be able to use the t'inator. It does basically the same thing, but changes all the pages to be like Mr T made em. But seriously though, do these lawyers even have a legal leg to stand on? How can it be a copywright violation if they dont have anyone elses pages on their servers, the data only passes through it. If this is the case, wouldnt the anonymizer have the same legal problem. I really hope this isnt the case. I find the anonymizer to be a very helpful tool for my job.
This is just another reason why geeks should be the only ones allowed on the net. Fuck corporate America.
roche
How could he sell it? He could easily. We have this thing in america, its called the stock market. Here people buy and sell stock. He would sell his stock here. Or, we also have something here in america called a corporate buyout. I am sure the are a ton of companies out there that would love to be the primary shareholder in MS. In a world where one can sell a empty box on ebay, saying no one would buy bill's MS stock is one of the most idiotic things I have heard in quite some time.
roche
ummmmm.....this is 100% wrong. ftp.redhat.com is up. i just tried it. couldn't get in myself, but thats just because the anonymous user limit was reached. here is a list of the mirror sites to use when that happens http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html
roche