Well I guess that the 'stated objectives of the game' have changed then.
Reminds me a bit of 'Ultimate Team' in FIFA09 (and soon FIFA10) where you can earn points to pay the wages of a top team, but realistically you'd have to buy the card packs in order to fund having a top team, making a two tier system where you can only compete by spending real money.
That isn't an example of irony at all, unless you are following the "Alanis Morissette" theory whereby anything can be called ironic without consideration of it's actual relevence to irony.
MMORPGs are a different kettle of fish to single player games though. Who really would want to invest time into building a character, when it's gonna be lost when the world ends in a couple of months time? The journey may be fun, but if you know that you'll never be able to finish it then it's not half as interesting.
Seems a bit pointless really. As an RPG I assume that it is designed to have a long play-time (what with levels or other character development mechanisms).
Why bother to invest time in such a game that'll be gone in a few months time?
> This kind of careless attitude towards security wouldn't fly in the corporate world. It's only because it's the government doing it that security is so lax.
It was a private company, Atos Origin, which lost the data.
I don't understand why it has to be RFID though. Wouldn't a barcode or a printed number on the card essentailly do the same job? I can't imagine that you'd be allowed to just wave your card in the air as you amble through passport control, it'll be checked by a human at least.
Slashdot Mirror
Yup, that'd be my guess too.
SMS is old hat Granddad, get with the new twitter/mash-up/facebook party. ;)
Yeah, because knowledge about computing has everything to do with intelligence, eh?
Well I guess that the 'stated objectives of the game' have changed then.
Reminds me a bit of 'Ultimate Team' in FIFA09 (and soon FIFA10) where you can earn points to pay the wages of a top team, but realistically you'd have to buy the card packs in order to fund having a top team, making a two tier system where you can only compete by spending real money.
It sucks, but it is the way it is.
This 'story' should be held up as an example of all that is wrong with the slashdot story submission process.
Are they meant to be really badly photoshopped? Is that part of the charm?
> It's even less likely to work on the console market, where sales are driven purely by graphics and not gameplay.
[citation needed]
It's quite surprising that such an error can stay on the front page for this long. Don't the editors actually look at the site at all?
You must be unlucky or the cause.
That isn't an example of irony at all, unless you are following the "Alanis Morissette" theory whereby anything can be called ironic without consideration of it's actual relevence to irony.
I'm guessing that they've done a little bit of research before going down this road.
I've never seen one before - no one has - but I'm guessing it's a white hole.
MMORPGs are a different kettle of fish to single player games though. Who really would want to invest time into building a character, when it's gonna be lost when the world ends in a couple of months time? The journey may be fun, but if you know that you'll never be able to finish it then it's not half as interesting.
Could just be me of course :)
Seems a bit pointless really. As an RPG I assume that it is designed to have a long play-time (what with levels or other character development mechanisms).
Why bother to invest time in such a game that'll be gone in a few months time?
If it is anything like Nintendo's European efforts, good luck with actually getting anything worthwhile.
The best you'll end up with is a crappy wallpaper as they'll only have 5 DS cases available between the hundreds of thousands of users.
'You steal my PC and ... if I can deliver a signal to that PC that turns it off, hey, I'm good now,'
Apart from not having a laptop or your data anymore.
I'm not sure that can be described as being 'good'.
> the downloadable content for the game is mostly done already
Then include it in the retail release.
Greedy wankers.
Oh dear.
You should take more care when wiping
Another more:
More likely to actually end up in your hand.
Well done, a pat on the back for you.
I'm glad you found such merriment in making someone else's day that much shitter.
Go you.
> This kind of careless attitude towards security wouldn't fly in the corporate world. It's only because it's the government doing it that security is so lax.
It was a private company, Atos Origin, which lost the data.
EA stopped churning out rubbish some time ago.
I don't understand why it has to be RFID though. Wouldn't a barcode or a printed number on the card essentailly do the same job? I can't imagine that you'd be allowed to just wave your card in the air as you amble through passport control, it'll be checked by a human at least.
You don't get the mainstream press interested in a new phone being released, but they were all out for the iPhone.
Live by the sword and all that.
'going out of its way to do more than it's required to do under the law to protect free expression.'
AKA
'going out of its way to do more than it's required to do under the law to protect their image.'
Did anyone suggest it would?