There is a difference between a hardcore gamer and an addicted gamer. There are people who live for games and their jobs are usually good enough to provide enough money to pay the rent, food and their subscription.
You may have met them if you played Everquest, Asheron's Call, Anarchy Online, Ultima Online, Planetside, Star Wars Galaxies, et al. I have met many people who do nothing but play games, they get up in the morning, eat cereal while the computer is booting up (some don't log out), from then on they only get up to go to the bathroom or get more food, then late at night they fall asleep. Some try to hold down McJobs (sadly they work the schedule around the time when they want to play).
Not all are the nerdy types, majority are just average folks who are either unhappy with the life they have or found a better one online.
All these academics can analyze things to death, but the addicted gamers are not the ones who will sit around and answer their silly surveys, they have bigger and better things to kill in the game.
libwww is quite buggy, not well documented, leaks memory, not thread safe and quite limited in functionality. I had a lot of problems using it under high volume (works great with 1 user hello world apps tho):)
I would stay far away from anything atari based and tape recorders. Having used them in the early 80s, they were extremely unreliable (I would spend 60-70 minutes loading a copy of zaxxon only to have it hit some audio blip along the way, finish loading and crash). The data stored is not in any redundant form, so any degredation or damage will mean it is forever lost.
Try eBay for atari 1050 or similar floppy disk drive then store 65K per floppy (or 130K if you use a hole puncher and make them 2-sided):)
As another outlet, you can download an atari emulator (stella and similar) and store your files on a PC file system (not sure if a linux atari emulator exists).
1) Its not Star Wars. Its EQ in Space, only there is no Space, so its basically EQ with Wookies. [cut]
You are contradicting yourself, if you have never played any other MMORPG, how can you pass opinion on SWG and compare it to other MMORPGs that you have never played?
I was a hardcore IE supporter and user, never really had any plans on switching until I read here that Mozilla allows tabbed browsing and ability to prevent unrequested popups. I tried it, used it and I don't want to use IE anymore. IE would take up 20meg per instance on some web pages (big memory hog), Mozilla takes about 30meg for all the instances running. I have already started recommending it to people. RIP IE:)
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Social behavior is not necessarily a system of logic.
I think is is as non zero-sum game as it can get now. Sure there are goal, but no one really knows what their goal is and people spends months interacting and finding something to do. Some will chose to do nothing and some will set their own goals. Very non-linear, very MUD, very addicting.
That was one boring corporate speak interview...from the sounds of it, this will fail. I want it to succeed, but from the sounds of the high level corporate speak, I doubt it.
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What's mine is mine, what's yours should be mine also if I can profit from it.
There is a difference between a hardcore gamer and an addicted gamer. There are people who live for games and their jobs are usually good enough to provide enough money to pay the rent, food and their subscription.
You may have met them if you played Everquest, Asheron's Call, Anarchy Online, Ultima Online, Planetside, Star Wars Galaxies, et al. I have met many people who do nothing but play games, they get up in the morning, eat cereal while the computer is booting up (some don't log out), from then on they only get up to go to the bathroom or get more food, then late at night they fall asleep. Some try to hold down McJobs (sadly they work the schedule around the time when they want to play).
Not all are the nerdy types, majority are just average folks who are either unhappy with the life they have or found a better one online.
All these academics can analyze things to death, but the addicted gamers are not the ones who will sit around and answer their silly surveys, they have bigger and better things to kill in the game.
libwww is quite buggy, not well documented, leaks memory, not thread safe and quite limited in functionality. I had a lot of problems using it under high volume (works great with 1 user hello world apps tho) :)
I would stay far away from anything atari based and tape recorders. Having used them in the early 80s, they were extremely unreliable (I would spend 60-70 minutes loading a copy of zaxxon only to have it hit some audio blip along the way, finish loading and crash). The data stored is not in any redundant form, so any degredation or damage will mean it is forever lost.
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Try eBay for atari 1050 or similar floppy disk drive then store 65K per floppy (or 130K if you use a hole puncher and make them 2-sided)
As another outlet, you can download an atari emulator (stella and similar) and store your files on a PC file system (not sure if a linux atari emulator exists).
2) I've never played MMORPGs prior to this
1) Its not Star Wars. Its EQ in Space, only there is no Space, so its basically EQ with Wookies. [cut]
You are contradicting yourself, if you have never played any other MMORPG, how can you pass opinion on SWG and compare it to other MMORPGs that you have never played?
I was a hardcore IE supporter and user, never really had any plans on switching until I read here that Mozilla allows tabbed browsing and ability to prevent unrequested popups. I tried it, used it and I don't want to use IE anymore. IE would take up 20meg per instance on some web pages (big memory hog), Mozilla takes about 30meg for all the instances running. I have already started recommending it to people. RIP IE :)
Social behavior is not necessarily a system of logic.
I think is is as non zero-sum game as it can get now. Sure there are goal, but no one really knows what their goal is and people spends months interacting and finding something to do. Some will chose to do nothing and some will set their own goals. Very non-linear, very MUD, very addicting.
As a die hard Microsoft user and developer for over 10 years, I can safely say windows is going down and not too soon. Long live linux!
That was one boring corporate speak interview...from the sounds of it, this will fail. I want it to succeed, but from the sounds of the high level corporate speak, I doubt it.