The real question is whether they would buy the game at the higher price if there were no used market (that is, they're out for a bargain) or whether the lower price convinced them to buy something they wouldn't buy normally.
Not really viable. Game stop routinely sells used copes of a game for $55-57 while the new copy is $60 and get plenty of takers! It seems lots of people are willing to save $2-5 dollars (3%~) and take the risk of scratches, no manual, etc. No matter what the price for new, lots of people would still buy the cheaper used copy
To be blunt, you guys are delusional. E3 is at least twice as important as all other events combined. It basically works all year long as a marketing device and the industry loves it. Every game magazine and web site runs months of pre E3 speculation and sneak peeks and rumors. The coverage takes up at least twice the amount of space in pages then any other event. Then for months afterwords the announcements are talked about. There is no better place to announce a new title or accessory if you want the most people to see it or talk about it. Of course it's for the press and industry. Having a few thousand press there is much better for your product when they go write about it then a few thousand fans. Any one who follows game news, lurks game forums, knows E3 is THE event of the year to wait for. Whether by merit or just recognition, E3 is here to stay. Millions of people are not watching the PAX videos. Millions watch the E3 videos. To restate, it is a industry event. Not a fan event with some industry people coming along, like comiccon.
It's all about the DRM, they had to make something that would fool the industry players into thinking the DRM worked. The only thing special about HDMI was to be HDMI complicit, a device has to send and receive some signal letting it know the line is not being tapped. It's all completely silly, it's quite easy to order non-complicit HDMI recorders that only pretend to play along because god forbid you buy a movie and make a back up. To get Hollywood to release their movies on blu-ray the blu-ray makers had produce something that would delude them into thinking they couldn't copy hi-def copies. This was back when that was the last thing they had to talk about. "but but VHS was different, each copy degraded with use! We can't let them have prefect hi-def copies!" That's why it became the blu-ray stranded. Of course it was the DRM.
btw I laugh whenever I refer to HD-TV's as 'hi-def' Lulz, our PC's have had better resolution for years and years
Rupert Murdoch and his news corp would argue everything and anything should be in US control.
That being said if someone gave better suggestions then vague ideas about giving it over to the UN, I would support it.
persnolly I would like a lightweight INDEPENDENT international body to run it as a private entity. I.E the board of directors would be composed of one member from each joined country. The countries involved would be those with a lot of internet infrastructure. Of course it would be western biased, who cares. Although, china and Russia would likely get seats. It would still be biased but it would be in enough different hands for one country to not have too much power. Every few years it could add members as it deemed them worthy.
There is no reason we need to give every single country a say in it (sorry), and that's what giving it to the UN would be doing. It's main propose would to keep the status quo it's in, and not to become moral or political czars. All that kind of stuff can and should be done at the ISP level and the national law level. YOu have a problem with it, you go through your national courts and legislature. On a personal note the more you add layers to government, the more disenfranchised you become. Giving another censorship power to the UN is scary. I can sue my state, or defend myself in courts, or have a group like the EFF help me sue them, It's already pretty impossible to influence the national leaders, but at least I have the courts after the fact if they make weird decisions. I can't even/lobby/ the UN. Someone from Florida sitting in DC has no idea whats best for me, and barely has my interests at heart, some one from Thailand, sitting in international territory at the UN in New York is 100 times worse./rant
The idea might have lots of problems, but my point is give me a better idea then what we have, not just different one and say it's better just because it's not the US.
What a foolish endear for Microsoft to pursue. The Gaming console market is not the set-top box market, not yet. The reason the ps3 failed and bankrupted Sony Computer Entertainment division is because they added $150 dollars worth of development costs and hardware to each unit to try to be more then a game console. Most gamers don't care, and everyone else doesn't want to buy a game machine for it's add-on uses. I can see the thinking, expand on the 360 market, add new features, use what you already have to expand your market share in other areas. The truth is, there is no real brand loyalties when the next generation comes. The ps2 to ps3 gap is proof of that.
TFA points:, old games were good because A. controls, B. lvl design, C. something about interacting with everything else.
isn't that like saying old movies were good because of the acting, direction, and the rest? Or Books are good because of the A. Characters, B. Setting, and C. plot?
Couldn't you say the same thing about good 3d games? 'Deus Ex is awesome because of A.: Swesome moveset that was clearly grasped, responsive, and just limited enough. B. Awesome lvl design. and C. The interaction of the rest'?
God I hate how the media makes stories about nothing that go nowhere that people just eat up.
The real scary part of this for me is not the government, more on that in a sec, but your girlfriend/boyfriend/housemate. Anyone who feels like he/she wants to do some snooping now has a treasure chest of stuff to take out of context.
I hope no one here is naive enough to use the "if you have nothing to hide..." line.
Getting back to the government, most cases are not high profile law&order style procedural deals. I could easily see local lawyers taking porn sites as evidence you killed her, technology sites as evidence you were researching bombs, map sites that you were researching crimes, and I can see local judges allowing it, and local jury's believing it.
Of course they could get most of this from ISP logs, but that would be just that much harder to get, and wouldn't come with screen shots.
News flash, 10-K's can gives lots of interesting information about public companies, and one of the glories of the internet is most of them can be had for free on demand.
I can't tell if this is satire or real:
http://gamingisstupid.com/2009/05/06/the-chair-story-revival/
"Scott quickly got to the point. Max Payne was going to do gangbusters⦠and 3DR had some other stuff up their sleeves that would be generating so much revenue for 3DR that they could continue on indefinitely⦠or at least another 5-10 years⦠without making a dime on internal development. Scott being the marketing buff he is (and Mark Rein being pretty much the same for Epic), they got this idea for how to generate the biggest story in the history of gaming. DNF being a monster hit is fine, but it wouldnâ(TM)t make âoeforeverâ history. As you can tell from the name and what Iâ(TM)m about to describe, Scott and George apparently had this idea from the very start but werenâ(TM)t sure they were going to act on it, but there wasnâ(TM)t any harm in using a name that would play into it. So in order to make âoeForeverâ history there was only one way to do that, and that is to turn it into something completely unprecedented in the industry. Turn it into the sort of thing that will be talked about 100 years from now."
"The plan was actually pretty simple⦠create the longest developed game in history that eventually is one of the greatest games ever made. You have the time to work on it properly (no shit), so given the intelligence and talent of all the people involved, it was a pretty good bet. All 3DR had to do was make money on other stuff. All Epic had to do was open up a wide channel between the two companies. 3DR would serve as a research house for future Epic engine updates, but also give 3DR everything they did as well. The boots on the ground just had to keep the drum beating and keep the image of business as usual going."
The development seemed like a joke to the key players. If you saw the pictures of their offices, they were basically arcades/play pins. The developers openly admitted they spent more time playing games ('research') then developing, and were proud of it. Take two years ago offered a huge bonus if they finished the game sooner, which they turned down.
I have a sinking suspicion they were the spoiled rich kids of development, and it ruined them. They made a ton load with the first 3d duke, and were in control of that money, and spent the last 10 years burning it. Like the rich kids, it's 10 years later, the moneys run out, and they have no job history or skills to go on because life's been one big party.
Avian Flu, Bird Flu. West Nile, etc. The funny part is after the fact most people who got all worried won't even feel stupid afterwords. They will just move on instead of learning something.
The real tragedy is one day a real threat will happen but will be treated by people as every other time the news cried wolf
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To be blunt, you guys are delusional. E3 is at least twice as important as all other events combined. It basically works all year long as a marketing device and the industry loves it. Every game magazine and web site runs months of pre E3 speculation and sneak peeks and rumors. The coverage takes up at least twice the amount of space in pages then any other event. Then for months afterwords the announcements are talked about. There is no better place to announce a new title or accessory if you want the most people to see it or talk about it. Of course it's for the press and industry. Having a few thousand press there is much better for your product when they go write about it then a few thousand fans. Any one who follows game news, lurks game forums, knows E3 is THE event of the year to wait for. Whether by merit or just recognition, E3 is here to stay. Millions of people are not watching the PAX videos. Millions watch the E3 videos. To restate, it is a industry event. Not a fan event with some industry people coming along, like comiccon.
Because we should be able to reprint books, movies cd's and stock pile 35,000 discs.
It's all about the DRM, they had to make something that would fool the industry players into thinking the DRM worked. The only thing special about HDMI was to be HDMI complicit, a device has to send and receive some signal letting it know the line is not being tapped. It's all completely silly, it's quite easy to order non-complicit HDMI recorders that only pretend to play along because god forbid you buy a movie and make a back up. To get Hollywood to release their movies on blu-ray the blu-ray makers had produce something that would delude them into thinking they couldn't copy hi-def copies. This was back when that was the last thing they had to talk about. "but but VHS was different, each copy degraded with use! We can't let them have prefect hi-def copies!" That's why it became the blu-ray stranded. Of course it was the DRM.
btw I laugh whenever I refer to HD-TV's as 'hi-def' Lulz, our PC's have had better resolution for years and years
Bluray is the new Laser Disk
Rupert Murdoch and his news corp would argue everything and anything should be in US control.
/lobby/ the UN. Someone from Florida sitting in DC has no idea whats best for me, and barely has my interests at heart, some one from Thailand, sitting in international territory at the UN in New York is 100 times worse. /rant
That being said if someone gave better suggestions then vague ideas about giving it over to the UN, I would support it.
persnolly I would like a lightweight INDEPENDENT international body to run it as a private entity. I.E the board of directors would be composed of one member from each joined country. The countries involved would be those with a lot of internet infrastructure. Of course it would be western biased, who cares. Although, china and Russia would likely get seats. It would still be biased but it would be in enough different hands for one country to not have too much power. Every few years it could add members as it deemed them worthy.
There is no reason we need to give every single country a say in it (sorry), and that's what giving it to the UN would be doing. It's main propose would to keep the status quo it's in, and not to become moral or political czars. All that kind of stuff can and should be done at the ISP level and the national law level. YOu have a problem with it, you go through your national courts and legislature.
On a personal note the more you add layers to government, the more disenfranchised you become. Giving another censorship power to the UN is scary. I can sue my state, or defend myself in courts, or have a group like the EFF help me sue them, It's already pretty impossible to influence the national leaders, but at least I have the courts after the fact if they make weird decisions. I can't even
The idea might have lots of problems, but my point is give me a better idea then what we have, not just different one and say it's better just because it's not the US.
What a foolish endear for Microsoft to pursue. The Gaming console market is not the set-top box market, not yet. The reason the ps3 failed and bankrupted Sony Computer Entertainment division is because they added $150 dollars worth of development costs and hardware to each unit to try to be more then a game console. Most gamers don't care, and everyone else doesn't want to buy a game machine for it's add-on uses.
I can see the thinking, expand on the 360 market, add new features, use what you already have to expand your market share in other areas. The truth is, there is no real brand loyalties when the next generation comes. The ps2 to ps3 gap is proof of that.
TFA points:, old games were good because A. controls, B. lvl design, C. something about interacting with everything else.
isn't that like saying old movies were good because of the acting, direction, and the rest? Or Books are good because of the A. Characters, B. Setting, and C. plot?
Couldn't you say the same thing about good 3d games? 'Deus Ex is awesome because of A.: Swesome moveset that was clearly grasped, responsive, and just limited enough. B. Awesome lvl design. and C. The interaction of the rest'?
God I hate how the media makes stories about nothing that go nowhere that people just eat up.
The real scary part of this for me is not the government, more on that in a sec, but your girlfriend/boyfriend/housemate. Anyone who feels like he/she wants to do some snooping now has a treasure chest of stuff to take out of context.
I hope no one here is naive enough to use the "if you have nothing to hide..." line.
Getting back to the government, most cases are not high profile law&order style procedural deals. I could easily see local lawyers taking porn sites as evidence you killed her, technology sites as evidence you were researching bombs, map sites that you were researching crimes, and I can see local judges allowing it, and local jury's believing it.
Of course they could get most of this from ISP logs, but that would be just that much harder to get, and wouldn't come with screen shots.
News flash, 10-K's can gives lots of interesting information about public companies, and one of the glories of the internet is most of them can be had for free on demand.
I can't tell if this is satire or real: http://gamingisstupid.com/2009/05/06/the-chair-story-revival/ "Scott quickly got to the point. Max Payne was going to do gangbusters⦠and 3DR had some other stuff up their sleeves that would be generating so much revenue for 3DR that they could continue on indefinitely⦠or at least another 5-10 years⦠without making a dime on internal development. Scott being the marketing buff he is (and Mark Rein being pretty much the same for Epic), they got this idea for how to generate the biggest story in the history of gaming. DNF being a monster hit is fine, but it wouldnâ(TM)t make âoeforeverâ history. As you can tell from the name and what Iâ(TM)m about to describe, Scott and George apparently had this idea from the very start but werenâ(TM)t sure they were going to act on it, but there wasnâ(TM)t any harm in using a name that would play into it. So in order to make âoeForeverâ history there was only one way to do that, and that is to turn it into something completely unprecedented in the industry. Turn it into the sort of thing that will be talked about 100 years from now." "The plan was actually pretty simple⦠create the longest developed game in history that eventually is one of the greatest games ever made. You have the time to work on it properly (no shit), so given the intelligence and talent of all the people involved, it was a pretty good bet. All 3DR had to do was make money on other stuff. All Epic had to do was open up a wide channel between the two companies. 3DR would serve as a research house for future Epic engine updates, but also give 3DR everything they did as well. The boots on the ground just had to keep the drum beating and keep the image of business as usual going."
The development seemed like a joke to the key players. If you saw the pictures of their offices, they were basically arcades/play pins. The developers openly admitted they spent more time playing games ('research') then developing, and were proud of it. Take two years ago offered a huge bonus if they finished the game sooner, which they turned down. I have a sinking suspicion they were the spoiled rich kids of development, and it ruined them. They made a ton load with the first 3d duke, and were in control of that money, and spent the last 10 years burning it. Like the rich kids, it's 10 years later, the moneys run out, and they have no job history or skills to go on because life's been one big party.
Avian Flu, Bird Flu. West Nile, etc. The funny part is after the fact most people who got all worried won't even feel stupid afterwords. They will just move on instead of learning something. The real tragedy is one day a real threat will happen but will be treated by people as every other time the news cried wolf
that is the worst feature, puts the game on easy mode, plus PC games have had this forever, it's called the quick save button.