i think Turbine DDO and frogster Rom are pretty decent examples of what works, you dont get any epic gear for cash, but you don't have to grind for standard items, and you can get faster lvling potions, containers and improved running speed (mounts etc) for real cash... to me it's pretty well balanced. they both can use a lot more content tho, but then, can't we all:)
I've been playing DDO (casually) for about a year now and so far i paid 150 euros (about) on content and extra character classes. That's about the same as a subscription i guess, diff. being, i almost have all content xept a few high level packs and they don't whip out new zones every month so after 2 years it gets cheaper(ish?)
i like the game very much anyway, on a personal note
a private wow server is nothing but a database. The player uses the original client (the client contains all the graphics, character and mob models, sfx and so on)
The private server software (as far as i know) is developed by few hakzor teams who know their bits and bytes pretty well.
Thus : the player is actually the one who gets to decide wether he/she infringes copyright or not. You can download any wow-iso anywhere, just like you can download anything else anywhere.
You just install wow from your cds/dvds like you would when you pay blizz and connect to their servers but before you start it up you edit one (maybe two) configuration files so the program connects to a different ip.
The software used for the server however is (that's what they claim) not a copy of what blizzard is running on their wowhardwarefarm so, i guess it's a bit of a twilight zone. People charging money for warez however... i can see how that is bound to go wrong.
I don't know how i know all this, perhaps i used to spend too much time on shady irc channels
as long as the main idea is 'because they made money and didnt pay blizzard' i think i kinda agree, but it remains outlandish. Nice warning, keep your warez free:)
yea i was thinking the same thing, will super obama come and bomb belgium in the name of copyright if i digitize a record from my grandma and put it on youtube ?
i have to agree completely, it's a sad fact that commercialization of 'new' (what's new?) technologies take way too much time. I don't know how much the first 8086 or 286 machines cost but aroundhere it was like 2.5k euros (converted approx), something the average family couldnt spare at all...sad fact, the world is too slow, maybe we should feed it more meth:p
maybe some parts of chinesse culture are still too complicated to be judged by western moral standards, after all, they have a few thousand years on us
who cares, let them eat cake, it's not as if ubuntu's going anywhere and besides : flawed os means more jobs in IT:) it takes only one good admin to run a decent server farm but you need a lot of helpdesk for ppl who don't know their pc from a calculator. I say let them have it, Linux didnt get any worse over the last years because it has a great community that believes and sticks to it, making it better out of 'devs-honour' and sense of achievement instead of need for profit. It's bound to surpass windows like this, anytime. If people prefer to install on os that's over a 100 euros with an office suite they only use about 5% of for an extra 100 euros, why not? It's Darwin all over again:p
91 out of 1000 is porn, thats like 0.9% of torrent content by authors who probably don't mind ? Where did they select these torrents? From a 'warez' site or from somewhere else ? It's unclear. I'm not going hippiecrite here but i would also like to question the legality of some copyright claims and repeat the fact that whoever gets downloaded the most probably also sells the most copies of his or her POPular product. I feel really sorry for Lars if he has to wait another month for his new swimming pool, but hypothetically speaking, if i would know where to find these criminals, i'd be happy to use their services because i'm a huge fan of that band Try before you Buy. 90% of games is crap, 90% of movies is crap. Are there any statistics on how many lady Gaga songs were downloaded over the last year? Does she look hungry to you? No, she's not even skinny. Do Hollywood movie companies make losses because of piracy or because of their own constructs to evade taxes ?
Did Turbine go bankrupt since their flagship went free to play? Will Lotro stick to the old business model and sue its customer base instead of adapting?
On moral grounds i say the big companies are the wrong doers here, on legal grounds ofcourse, he who writes the law is always right, right? I hope the day comes sooner when these hogs see that all the money spent on lawsuits is in fact money wasted, money that could have been used to develop new ways of making money or adapting their old companies to compete with the new ones who are customer-friendly (giving out a product and then letting people decide if they WANT to pay for it, i say that's pretty customer friendly)
Then again, like someone above here said, who cares? Look what happened when they criminalized the sales of alcohol:p
i have both an xbox 360 (cos sony is more hitler than microsoft sometimes?) and a pc rigged for gaming. The pc goes to games like unreal tournament (still , yes) and battlefield bad company 2, games that would tike ages just to make a 180 degree turn with a joypad. But for the likes of final fantasy, tekken or street fighter, i prefer the joypad and just laid back playing in my lazy seat or on my bed.
If only the latter would be ported (and not dumped like most) to the pc platform then i dont see why anyone would buy a console but as for now. Both have advantages, try performing a 10 hit combo in Tekken 6 or Street Fighter 4 with a keyboard...
Ah,the days of being impressed by vector graphics:) Those WERE two of the best dos games ever, then again, i think i can still name more good dos games than windows live games atm.... this would put them in direct competition with Eve i suppose.
i know, it's a bit hypocritical. If i had to kill my own animals i'll be eating humans in no time or turn veg. I try not too eat too much meat but i guess no one here is free from sin. You're right. Still i think there's a difference between just going out and shooting animals in the wild 'for sport' or killing them to stuff them and put them on display (and we're not talking museum here) and me eating dead animal for food.
it seems a bit lame to drink it outside anything other than a stuffed taxidermist imo... everything's illegal now, how come these whateveropaths escaped the rulepushers ? hunting animals with guns and stuffing animals to whatever purpose it is, is something i can not agree with. I wouldn't mind if hunters were allowed to hunt eachother but that would probably not do since it would involve some sort of risk and i suppose most of them are pretty much cowards (what else would it take to get your kicks out of shooting animals with hi powered rifles or shotguns from a distance? skill? bravery? 'culling the population'? don't make me laugh) . Hunting for anything other than necessity is to me a crime and taxidermy... stuffing dead animals is, to me, a bit sick... When we take over the world tonight, Pinky, we will shoot these people to their own planet where they have nothing to hunt and stuff but eachother. Then again, when we take over the world, Pinky, selling drink in plastic bottles will also be a capital offense:p
I don't think they're ready yet
Well, maybe trying to tackle the new world power will teach them a lessen in how to achieve a trade-vietnam victory ? Saddest part is this witchhunt is paid for with your dollars and not with the industries...
i still run the top end 3,333ghz core2duo cpu and i didnt even have to overclock it yet (well, only just once for fun and challenge ofcourse) because it lacks the power to run some app or game, i'm not even sure if there's a lot of software that actually makes decent use of 4 separate cores yet. As for games, most are shitty console ports that wouldnt run decently on a pc if you installed 4 quadcore cpus in the middle of the crossfire. I'm waiting to upgrade.
Windows is a necessary evil for people who play games. Don't get me wrong, they came a long way, windows 7 is pretty stable from what i've experienced, nothing like the good old days of bsod98, but it's a hog, it eats resources, and the desktop environment is impractical and hasnt really changed since 3.11 as far as i can see, just some bells and jingles. If microsoft grew a brain and they released some 'windows for games' version, without all the crap that gets loaded but you really don't need i'd switch in an instant. If publishers ported games to run on linux i'd probably get rid of windows alltogether. To me it's the desktop that makes ubuntu so much more fun and practical to work with.
Monopolysoft made a great move by providing a 'standard' platform for games with directx...
Yes, first thing that struck me when i played the first mission of the free nasa gama (the moonbase simulator) where you have to repair the oxygen supply system was that it wouldn't have been broken at all if they only dug in and constructed their base underground. But i guess you can't start out without having at least a base camp on the surface, unless they can build some mega digdugtransformerspacerobot that does it all before they arrive. But with the political bullshit they have to endure they'll probably be shooting firecrackers 5 years from now.
from a very interesting explanation by mister Brian Cox is that just mapping what's out there is not enough by far. We get saved from a lot of deepspace attacks (we all know the giant bugs are responsible ofcourse) by our huge nephews Saturn and Jupiter, who sit quietly closer to the outskirts of our solar system, attracting a lot of 'space debris' into the rings, or into orbit. BUT, they are also responsible for changing the trajectory of objects that happen to be fast and/or massive enough to escape their gravitational pull. I'm no supercomputer, and i dont think we have enough observatories to even try and calculate probability on risks like that but it does seem very possible that one of those pre-pre-pre-historic spacboulders could just get launched towards our blue planet. If it's big enough to survive the friction fight with our atmosphere, it could be big enough to cause some major damage. Big, what is big? Well if our earth fits into the red spot on Jupiter, which is (supposedly just a storm) then i suppose something REALLY big could get into the slingshot and if our cousin feels nasty, we might end up with more than just broken glass...
But, ofcourse, i'm sure the superpowers of lady Gaga and Megamindy will save us.
Only thing i don't understand is why a lot of people think my kind of escapism is worse than theirs (but that has nothing to do with this... or does it:p
i still don't grasp the concept of a peaceful war, that is - invading a country to set your own laws and impose your culture on theirs (dont get me wrong, i'm glad someone keeps the fundamentalists ( does not equal muslim) at bay - but sending your army somewhere and then expecting your soldiers not to shoot back if they get shot at or bombed seems very weird to me. And then in addition spending billions of dollars on researching 'harmless' weapons? I'm a bit posessed (does not equal obsessed) by Orwell and to me this looks like big brother found a really good excuse to find both a perfect testing ground AND approval of the folks back home to research and test the very weapons to keep themselves in check. This is not uncanny, this is downright SCARY
and i thought my little shitty country had the worst of it , seems like kindergarten mentality in the senate is more common than i thought. It's a sad fact how these people keep bickering for years over stuff that doesn't even relate to what they should be doing or to the promises they got elected for. Global warming? Global warning is in order.
Ofcourse the only purpose of this is to get faster to blasphemers so they can be put on trial by fire before the Irish inquisition. After all if they burn they were innocent ?
i have no problem using my real name at all, i can see why some countries would require it for buying phones, though i don't see why you could only buy one phone? Thats like saying to the black market : yes please, do sell those bootleg phones lol. But why people would be MADE to give up real names on forums i don't see any legitimate reason for that except fear and the need of the former generations to desperately try to control a future that they don't understand. What's these people gonna do 20 years from now ?
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no one likes a catholic priest but i feel this geek squad is just being lame ...
take a closer look, it's alien DOGS
i think Turbine DDO and frogster Rom are pretty decent examples of what works, you dont get any epic gear for cash, but you don't have to grind for standard items, and you can get faster lvling potions, containers and improved running speed (mounts etc) for real cash ... to me it's pretty well balanced. they both can use a lot more content tho, but then, can't we all :)
I've been playing DDO (casually) for about a year now and so far i paid 150 euros (about) on content and extra character classes. That's about the same as a subscription i guess, diff. being, i almost have all content xept a few high level packs and they don't whip out new zones every month so after 2 years it gets cheaper(ish?)
i like the game very much anyway, on a personal note
a private wow server is nothing but a database. The player uses the original client (the client contains all the graphics, character and mob models, sfx and so on) The private server software (as far as i know) is developed by few hakzor teams who know their bits and bytes pretty well. Thus : the player is actually the one who gets to decide wether he/she infringes copyright or not. You can download any wow-iso anywhere, just like you can download anything else anywhere. You just install wow from your cds/dvds like you would when you pay blizz and connect to their servers but before you start it up you edit one (maybe two) configuration files so the program connects to a different ip. The software used for the server however is (that's what they claim) not a copy of what blizzard is running on their wowhardwarefarm so, i guess it's a bit of a twilight zone. People charging money for warez however ... i can see how that is bound to go wrong.
I don't know how i know all this, perhaps i used to spend too much time on shady irc channels
as long as the main idea is 'because they made money and didnt pay blizzard' i think i kinda agree, but it remains outlandish. Nice warning, keep your warez free :)
wow, i never even heard of it ... if it's that good maybe i should download and see what the hype is about ;-) nice way to get a free commercial anyway
yea i was thinking the same thing, will super obama come and bomb belgium in the name of copyright if i digitize a record from my grandma and put it on youtube ?
i have to agree completely, it's a sad fact that commercialization of 'new' (what's new?) technologies take way too much time. I don't know how much the first 8086 or 286 machines cost but aroundhere it was like 2.5k euros (converted approx), something the average family couldnt spare at all...sad fact, the world is too slow, maybe we should feed it more meth :p
maybe some parts of chinesse culture are still too complicated to be judged by western moral standards, after all, they have a few thousand years on us
really? How odd human memory works then must have it twisted with elite somewhere. I stand corrected :)
who cares, let them eat cake, it's not as if ubuntu's going anywhere and besides : flawed os means more jobs in IT :) it takes only one good admin to run a decent server farm but you need a lot of helpdesk for ppl who don't know their pc from a calculator. I say let them have it, Linux didnt get any worse over the last years because it has a great community that believes and sticks to it, making it better out of 'devs-honour' and sense of achievement instead of need for profit. It's bound to surpass windows like this, anytime. If people prefer to install on os that's over a 100 euros with an office suite they only use about 5% of for an extra 100 euros, why not? It's Darwin all over again :p
91 out of 1000 is porn, thats like 0.9% of torrent content by authors who probably don't mind ? Where did they select these torrents? From a 'warez' site or from somewhere else ? It's unclear. I'm not going hippiecrite here but i would also like to question the legality of some copyright claims and repeat the fact that whoever gets downloaded the most probably also sells the most copies of his or her POPular product. I feel really sorry for Lars if he has to wait another month for his new swimming pool, but hypothetically speaking, if i would know where to find these criminals, i'd be happy to use their services because i'm a huge fan of that band Try before you Buy. 90% of games is crap, 90% of movies is crap. Are there any statistics on how many lady Gaga songs were downloaded over the last year? Does she look hungry to you? No, she's not even skinny. Do Hollywood movie companies make losses because of piracy or because of their own constructs to evade taxes ? Did Turbine go bankrupt since their flagship went free to play? Will Lotro stick to the old business model and sue its customer base instead of adapting? On moral grounds i say the big companies are the wrong doers here, on legal grounds ofcourse, he who writes the law is always right, right? I hope the day comes sooner when these hogs see that all the money spent on lawsuits is in fact money wasted, money that could have been used to develop new ways of making money or adapting their old companies to compete with the new ones who are customer-friendly (giving out a product and then letting people decide if they WANT to pay for it, i say that's pretty customer friendly) Then again, like someone above here said, who cares? Look what happened when they criminalized the sales of alcohol :p
i have both an xbox 360 (cos sony is more hitler than microsoft sometimes?) and a pc rigged for gaming. The pc goes to games like unreal tournament (still , yes) and battlefield bad company 2, games that would tike ages just to make a 180 degree turn with a joypad. But for the likes of final fantasy, tekken or street fighter, i prefer the joypad and just laid back playing in my lazy seat or on my bed. If only the latter would be ported (and not dumped like most) to the pc platform then i dont see why anyone would buy a console but as for now. Both have advantages, try performing a 10 hit combo in Tekken 6 or Street Fighter 4 with a keyboard ...
Ah,the days of being impressed by vector graphics :) Those WERE two of the best dos games ever, then again, i think i can still name more good dos games than windows live games atm .... this would put them in direct competition with Eve i suppose.
i know, it's a bit hypocritical. If i had to kill my own animals i'll be eating humans in no time or turn veg. I try not too eat too much meat but i guess no one here is free from sin. You're right. Still i think there's a difference between just going out and shooting animals in the wild 'for sport' or killing them to stuff them and put them on display (and we're not talking museum here) and me eating dead animal for food.
it seems a bit lame to drink it outside anything other than a stuffed taxidermist imo ... everything's illegal now, how come these whateveropaths escaped the rulepushers ? hunting animals with guns and stuffing animals to whatever purpose it is, is something i can not agree with. I wouldn't mind if hunters were allowed to hunt eachother but that would probably not do since it would involve some sort of risk and i suppose most of them are pretty much cowards (what else would it take to get your kicks out of shooting animals with hi powered rifles or shotguns from a distance? skill? bravery? 'culling the population'? don't make me laugh) . Hunting for anything other than necessity is to me a crime and taxidermy ... stuffing dead animals is, to me, a bit sick ... When we take over the world tonight, Pinky, we will shoot these people to their own planet where they have nothing to hunt and stuff but eachother. Then again, when we take over the world, Pinky, selling drink in plastic bottles will also be a capital offense :p
I don't think they're ready yet
Well, maybe trying to tackle the new world power will teach them a lessen in how to achieve a trade-vietnam victory ? Saddest part is this witchhunt is paid for with your dollars and not with the industries...
i still run the top end 3,333ghz core2duo cpu and i didnt even have to overclock it yet (well, only just once for fun and challenge ofcourse) because it lacks the power to run some app or game, i'm not even sure if there's a lot of software that actually makes decent use of 4 separate cores yet. As for games, most are shitty console ports that wouldnt run decently on a pc if you installed 4 quadcore cpus in the middle of the crossfire. I'm waiting to upgrade.
Windows is a necessary evil for people who play games. Don't get me wrong, they came a long way, windows 7 is pretty stable from what i've experienced, nothing like the good old days of bsod98, but it's a hog, it eats resources, and the desktop environment is impractical and hasnt really changed since 3.11 as far as i can see, just some bells and jingles. If microsoft grew a brain and they released some 'windows for games' version, without all the crap that gets loaded but you really don't need i'd switch in an instant. If publishers ported games to run on linux i'd probably get rid of windows alltogether. To me it's the desktop that makes ubuntu so much more fun and practical to work with. Monopolysoft made a great move by providing a 'standard' platform for games with directx ...
Yes, first thing that struck me when i played the first mission of the free nasa gama (the moonbase simulator) where you have to repair the oxygen supply system was that it wouldn't have been broken at all if they only dug in and constructed their base underground. But i guess you can't start out without having at least a base camp on the surface, unless they can build some mega digdugtransformerspacerobot that does it all before they arrive. But with the political bullshit they have to endure they'll probably be shooting firecrackers 5 years from now.
from a very interesting explanation by mister Brian Cox is that just mapping what's out there is not enough by far. We get saved from a lot of deepspace attacks (we all know the giant bugs are responsible ofcourse) by our huge nephews Saturn and Jupiter, who sit quietly closer to the outskirts of our solar system, attracting a lot of 'space debris' into the rings, or into orbit. BUT, they are also responsible for changing the trajectory of objects that happen to be fast and/or massive enough to escape their gravitational pull. I'm no supercomputer, and i dont think we have enough observatories to even try and calculate probability on risks like that but it does seem very possible that one of those pre-pre-pre-historic spacboulders could just get launched towards our blue planet. If it's big enough to survive the friction fight with our atmosphere, it could be big enough to cause some major damage. Big, what is big? Well if our earth fits into the red spot on Jupiter, which is (supposedly just a storm) then i suppose something REALLY big could get into the slingshot and if our cousin feels nasty, we might end up with more than just broken glass ...
But, ofcourse, i'm sure the superpowers of lady Gaga and Megamindy will save us.
Only thing i don't understand is why a lot of people think my kind of escapism is worse than theirs (but that has nothing to do with this ... or does it :p
i still don't grasp the concept of a peaceful war, that is - invading a country to set your own laws and impose your culture on theirs (dont get me wrong, i'm glad someone keeps the fundamentalists ( does not equal muslim) at bay - but sending your army somewhere and then expecting your soldiers not to shoot back if they get shot at or bombed seems very weird to me. And then in addition spending billions of dollars on researching 'harmless' weapons? I'm a bit posessed (does not equal obsessed) by Orwell and to me this looks like big brother found a really good excuse to find both a perfect testing ground AND approval of the folks back home to research and test the very weapons to keep themselves in check. This is not uncanny, this is downright SCARY
and i thought my little shitty country had the worst of it , seems like kindergarten mentality in the senate is more common than i thought. It's a sad fact how these people keep bickering for years over stuff that doesn't even relate to what they should be doing or to the promises they got elected for. Global warming? Global warning is in order.
Ofcourse the only purpose of this is to get faster to blasphemers so they can be put on trial by fire before the Irish inquisition. After all if they burn they were innocent ?
i have no problem using my real name at all, i can see why some countries would require it for buying phones, though i don't see why you could only buy one phone? Thats like saying to the black market : yes please, do sell those bootleg phones lol. But why people would be MADE to give up real names on forums i don't see any legitimate reason for that except fear and the need of the former generations to desperately try to control a future that they don't understand. What's these people gonna do 20 years from now ?