30 million active users who are already comfortable buying virtual goods on the internet on a regular basis?
Would you prefer they try to market their game with in-game purchases to grandmothers who are struggling to learn how to use email, and always pay in cash or check at Walmart?
Spiral Knights is one of the titles. It's been in beta for something like two years now. The art style is somewhere between Crystal Chronicles, FF9 and World of Warcraft, plays sort of like Legend of Zelda, A Link to the Past. The first hour or so is quite a bit of fun, but I haven't played past that. It plays sort of like how I would imagine a MMO of Diablo or Torchlight would play out.
Why on earth would you kill the golden goose? Every point update generates huge amounts of free advertising and probably sells a hundred thousand copies. Notch doesn't seem to do much development on Minecraft anymore, but hiring a full time developer to work on it would easily pay for itself for another year or two.
The boiling temperature of water @ 10,000 ft is only about 10 degrees lower than at sea level. For aeronautics purposes anything under 10k ft is mostly the same density. That might be different for a heavily laden cargo plane, but 10k ft is a pretty safe design envelope.
I'm pretty sure the landing gear is designed to crumple on impact. My buddy's dad was the plant manager at a helicopter manufacturer in Mexico and had lots of auto rotation stories where the pilot and passengers walked away from the "landing".
I promise I'm not a microsoft plant, but, this far in to the game it's going to take some serious marketing muscle and simply attrition to break in to the consumer smartphone mindspace. Long term, consumers are going to increasingly ditch desktops for mobile consumer devices like tablets, laptops and smartphones. Microsoft is very weak in these markets. Someone finally got the smart idea to do a ground-up rebuild of their consumer mobile device OS, and tie it in with their desktop OS (win 8).
Expect failure. A lot.
But in the long game, Microsoft seems to have a winning strategy of providing a similar, united experience with their phone, mobile and desktop products. It's fuzzy to see from here, but in 2-3 years I can see them gaining some marketshare and mindspace. Not a lot, mind you, but it's likely they'll eek out a profit, or at least use it to prop up their desktop/enterprise buisness for another decade.
Seeing Rage demoed back to back with Fallout 3 freshly in our minds, Borderlands having been released three months prior and New Vegas looking shiny and new at E3, there was a bit of buyer apathy when we saw YAPAOWG (yet another post-apocolyptic open-world game).
Rage simply exists to fund the engine it's built around. It's nice when you develop a new engine for the next 3-5 years worth of games, and can pay for all of it's development in a single title. Everything after that is pure profit.
Bethesda has iDtech, EA has Frostbite (and others), and then there's always Crytech and Unreal, but it's nice to have an inhouse engine for use with your other titles.
Twitter is asynchronous IRC for journalists with a low barrier of entry. No wonder they love talking about it.
For marketing types, it fits a niche somewhere between word of mouth and press releases for informing customers, without being so formal as to attract the attention of financial houses.
And for tweens it allows them to express their every "individual" thought to their friends in real time.
I don't use it except to keep track of a few things like the whitehouse feed and one or two programmers of games I play.
Unity on the netbook is pretty slow, clunky and unintuitive. It's sort of like they reverse-engineered the apple dock from a blurry, static screenshot and forgot to add smoothness and right click context menus, drag and drop functionality, etc. Someone way up the decision chain did someone a favor without reviewing it personally.
"Massive usability disaster" is an understatement. I tried lodging my complaints about 10.10 unity on the netbook and got shouted down on the official forums. 10.04 is nearly ideal, but 10.10 is slow as molasses and not at all intuitive or structured around getting things done in an expeditious manner. It's even more frustrating for "power users". I heard a rumor that Unity from 10.10 netbook edition was going to get rolled into a later desktop release. I hope not.
Can we stop using version numbers and start dating them correctly with the release year? I couldn't tell you what version of Chrome I'm using, let alone what the newest version of IE XP will allow you to install. Version numbers are pretty meaningless at this point.
Ok, so Google is no longer supporting a 2 year old browser, a 5 year old browser, and the 4 year old mac browser. I had to wiki that. Does anyone actually keep tabs on version dates? IE 7 still sounds new to me. Maybe I'm just getting old.
Agreed. When I was in college in the early 2000s, my cousins (aged 13-18) were playing entirely different games than I was. I wasn't very aware of free MMOs, yet all of them could give me a list of ten popular ones, along with the pros and cons of each. They had never heard of iD software, let alone the games they make (Quake, Doom, etc).
He's ideal for the role for a kids's show; however Moffatt, as Matt Smith pointed out ITFA, Doctor Who has become a show too scary for kids. The end of the most recent episode with Pond screaming until the credits was just a bit disturbing and is giving my female friends nightmares. Moffatt is an amazing story-teller, but often times he'll turn it to 11 for dramatic effect, when really the story only calls for a 7 in what's really a kid's show.
However, I signed on for an mmoRPG when I got WoW and thats not what I'm getting anymore.
I'm sure this has some other meaning, but when I read this, it comes out as "the game being 7 years old and people realizing that the sun hasn't burnt out yet and have decided to venture outside once again" to me. I know that's rude and crude and lacking tact, but Without further context it just reads as "I'm getting sick of this shit and no matter what you do to freshen it up, it still feels old to me".
The rising cost of goods in third world countries is the result of lag time in the cost of globalization and the reduced cost of transporting commodities.
Because the people buying this game were going to buy it anyways? The controversial opening scene in MW2 didn't seem to temper demand for that game. Announcing a controversial business plan, and then culling dissent by saying "oh that isn't really what we meant. details to follow...."
I think the game being 7 years old and people realizing that the sun hasn't burnt out yet and have decided to venture outside once again is what has caused a "caused a ~12% decrease in player population since Cataclysm release".
I saw "black ops" for sale in rural Mexico at the regional department store for the USD equivalent of $120. Most of the people within a day's walking distance lived in rough-hewn timber houses whose most advanced features were a roof and steps leading up to it. So $100 is not the upper limit for the price of a game. A new 125cc motorcycle cost $1000 usd and a 500ml (20oz) Coca-Cola cost $1.20 in the same store to give you a sense of scale of how overpriced it was.
MW3: The Best Way to Generate Publicity is Start A Controversy
Step 1: Create rumors of a really bad idea, like pay to play online subscriptions Step 2: Vehemently deny those rumors you made up Step 3: Announce that those rumors are actually true Step 4: As soon as the established media goes to print, retract those claims and publish corrections Step 5: Sit back and cackle while the spergelords are corrected by the other spergelords that read the corrections, generating buzz for you Step 6: Profit!
There is no ???. This is planned out month^H^H^H^H^H years in advance.
I wouldn't mind a direct comparison to their desktop counterparts, either. It's always so hard to equivocate the mobile versions to a more oft benchmarked version.
iPads have screens that can break. I hope this is a suppliment, rather than outright removal of the paper copies. I'm not *that* old, but I still feel that I could look up "stuck aileron" in the glossary and then find the correct page in the manual faster than I could type those words in on the touchscreen and wait for it to return the results. Especially when we're losing 5000ft of altitude per minute, everyone is panicing, and the whole plane is shaking.
The PS3 can barely drive 960x480 resolution at low details. It blows up the image for a 1080p TV. Now a pair of dirt cheap (relatively) 6950's can drive a 5000x2500 resolution image at max details and 4-8X MSAA. Amazing.
True, but two 6950s occupy 60%+ of the internal space of a "fat" PS3.
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30 million active users who are already comfortable buying virtual goods on the internet on a regular basis?
Would you prefer they try to market their game with in-game purchases to grandmothers who are struggling to learn how to use email, and always pay in cash or check at Walmart?
Spiral Knights is one of the titles. It's been in beta for something like two years now. The art style is somewhere between Crystal Chronicles, FF9 and World of Warcraft, plays sort of like Legend of Zelda, A Link to the Past. The first hour or so is quite a bit of fun, but I haven't played past that. It plays sort of like how I would imagine a MMO of Diablo or Torchlight would play out.
Agreed, ddos isn't newsworthy unless it hits a service that actually affects meatspace (like a CC processor). There's also no lasting impact.
Why on earth would you kill the golden goose? Every point update generates huge amounts of free advertising and probably sells a hundred thousand copies. Notch doesn't seem to do much development on Minecraft anymore, but hiring a full time developer to work on it would easily pay for itself for another year or two.
The boiling temperature of water @ 10,000 ft is only about 10 degrees lower than at sea level. For aeronautics purposes anything under 10k ft is mostly the same density. That might be different for a heavily laden cargo plane, but 10k ft is a pretty safe design envelope.
I'm pretty sure the landing gear is designed to crumple on impact. My buddy's dad was the plant manager at a helicopter manufacturer in Mexico and had lots of auto rotation stories where the pilot and passengers walked away from the "landing".
I promise I'm not a microsoft plant, but, this far in to the game it's going to take some serious marketing muscle and simply attrition to break in to the consumer smartphone mindspace. Long term, consumers are going to increasingly ditch desktops for mobile consumer devices like tablets, laptops and smartphones. Microsoft is very weak in these markets. Someone finally got the smart idea to do a ground-up rebuild of their consumer mobile device OS, and tie it in with their desktop OS (win 8).
Expect failure. A lot.
But in the long game, Microsoft seems to have a winning strategy of providing a similar, united experience with their phone, mobile and desktop products. It's fuzzy to see from here, but in 2-3 years I can see them gaining some marketshare and mindspace. Not a lot, mind you, but it's likely they'll eek out a profit, or at least use it to prop up their desktop/enterprise buisness for another decade.
Seeing Rage demoed back to back with Fallout 3 freshly in our minds, Borderlands having been released three months prior and New Vegas looking shiny and new at E3, there was a bit of buyer apathy when we saw YAPAOWG (yet another post-apocolyptic open-world game).
Rage simply exists to fund the engine it's built around. It's nice when you develop a new engine for the next 3-5 years worth of games, and can pay for all of it's development in a single title. Everything after that is pure profit.
Bethesda has iDtech, EA has Frostbite (and others), and then there's always Crytech and Unreal, but it's nice to have an inhouse engine for use with your other titles.
Twitter is asynchronous IRC for journalists with a low barrier of entry. No wonder they love talking about it.
For marketing types, it fits a niche somewhere between word of mouth and press releases for informing customers, without being so formal as to attract the attention of financial houses.
And for tweens it allows them to express their every "individual" thought to their friends in real time.
I don't use it except to keep track of a few things like the whitehouse feed and one or two programmers of games I play.
Unity on the netbook is pretty slow, clunky and unintuitive. It's sort of like they reverse-engineered the apple dock from a blurry, static screenshot and forgot to add smoothness and right click context menus, drag and drop functionality, etc. Someone way up the decision chain did someone a favor without reviewing it personally.
"Massive usability disaster" is an understatement. I tried lodging my complaints about 10.10 unity on the netbook and got shouted down on the official forums. 10.04 is nearly ideal, but 10.10 is slow as molasses and not at all intuitive or structured around getting things done in an expeditious manner. It's even more frustrating for "power users". I heard a rumor that Unity from 10.10 netbook edition was going to get rolled into a later desktop release. I hope not.
Can we stop using version numbers and start dating them correctly with the release year? I couldn't tell you what version of Chrome I'm using, let alone what the newest version of IE XP will allow you to install. Version numbers are pretty meaningless at this point.
FF 3.5 - June, 2009
IE 7 - October, 2006
Safari 3 - June, 2007
Ok, so Google is no longer supporting a 2 year old browser, a 5 year old browser, and the 4 year old mac browser. I had to wiki that. Does anyone actually keep tabs on version dates? IE 7 still sounds new to me. Maybe I'm just getting old.
Agreed. When I was in college in the early 2000s, my cousins (aged 13-18) were playing entirely different games than I was. I wasn't very aware of free MMOs, yet all of them could give me a list of ten popular ones, along with the pros and cons of each. They had never heard of iD software, let alone the games they make (Quake, Doom, etc).
He's ideal for the role for a kids's show; however Moffatt, as Matt Smith pointed out ITFA, Doctor Who has become a show too scary for kids. The end of the most recent episode with Pond screaming until the credits was just a bit disturbing and is giving my female friends nightmares. Moffatt is an amazing story-teller, but often times he'll turn it to 11 for dramatic effect, when really the story only calls for a 7 in what's really a kid's show.
I'm sure this has some other meaning, but when I read this, it comes out as "the game being 7 years old and people realizing that the sun hasn't burnt out yet and have decided to venture outside once again" to me. I know that's rude and crude and lacking tact, but Without further context it just reads as "I'm getting sick of this shit and no matter what you do to freshen it up, it still feels old to me".
Go back to reddit.
The rising cost of goods in third world countries is the result of lag time in the cost of globalization and the reduced cost of transporting commodities.
...Internet censors you?
Because the people buying this game were going to buy it anyways? The controversial opening scene in MW2 didn't seem to temper demand for that game. Announcing a controversial business plan, and then culling dissent by saying "oh that isn't really what we meant. details to follow...."
Oh wait, I've been trolled.
I think the game being 7 years old and people realizing that the sun hasn't burnt out yet and have decided to venture outside once again is what has caused a "caused a ~12% decrease in player population since Cataclysm release".
I saw "black ops" for sale in rural Mexico at the regional department store for the USD equivalent of $120. Most of the people within a day's walking distance lived in rough-hewn timber houses whose most advanced features were a roof and steps leading up to it. So $100 is not the upper limit for the price of a game. A new 125cc motorcycle cost $1000 usd and a 500ml (20oz) Coca-Cola cost $1.20 in the same store to give you a sense of scale of how overpriced it was.
Welp.
MW3: The Best Way to Generate Publicity is Start A Controversy
Step 1: Create rumors of a really bad idea, like pay to play online subscriptions
Step 2: Vehemently deny those rumors you made up
Step 3: Announce that those rumors are actually true
Step 4: As soon as the established media goes to print, retract those claims and publish corrections
Step 5: Sit back and cackle while the spergelords are corrected by the other spergelords that read the corrections, generating buzz for you
Step 6: Profit!
There is no ???. This is planned out month^H^H^H^H^H years in advance.
I wouldn't mind a direct comparison to their desktop counterparts, either. It's always so hard to equivocate the mobile versions to a more oft benchmarked version.
iPads have screens that can break. I hope this is a suppliment, rather than outright removal of the paper copies. I'm not *that* old, but I still feel that I could look up "stuck aileron" in the glossary and then find the correct page in the manual faster than I could type those words in on the touchscreen and wait for it to return the results. Especially when we're losing 5000ft of altitude per minute, everyone is panicing, and the whole plane is shaking.
True, but two 6950s occupy 60%+ of the internal space of a "fat" PS3.
What are your credentials for this statement?