Yes to (my understanding of) the first question. The only things preventing you from giving copies of the game to all your friends are the fact that it is illegal and your own ethics.
Re. password protection, I think it is a weak form of DRM.
If I kick all pirates in the nuts until they start bleeding out their mouth, who's going to crack the DRM when the publishers find another excuse for it? Remember that DRM usually stops game rentals and resale.
There's money to be made with DRM, so I would expect publishers to keep it, pirates or no pirates.
Have to disagree with you regarding gamer keyboards - standard generic versions do not come with led lights, macro keys, windows key lock, and the ability to handle a zillion keys pressed at the same time (Logitech G15). That last point is important - I've had keyboards that didn't handle 3 key combinations correctly.
From the wikipeida article: "If one accumulates matter at normal density (1 g/cm3, for example, the density of water) up to about 150,000,000 times the mass of the Sun, such an accumulation will fall inside its own Schwarzschild radius and thus it would be a supermassive black hole of 150,000,000 solar masses."
Quite fat, that momma.
Thousands panic as previously mocking, unlikely to be fulfilled conditional dares and promises suddenly became payable in the near future.
In other news, stocks for "When pigs fly" are at an all time low as customer trust wavers, and demand for freezing equipment hits an all time high as a certain not to be named power figure decides he's had it up to here with the heat.
If you'll excuse me, I'm off to eat my hat.
I don't play MMOs (yet). I do, however, play a lot of PC games. Quoting your last line:
That's a lot of people who have already decided they like MMOs and _are_ looking for a new MMO to play...
Define 'new'? My impression is that 'new' means it actually brings additions/changes to the known formula.
If the players who leave WOW were looking for more of the same, why leave in the first place?
I will pay for a good clone of X-COM 1 or 2 (silent prayer), but what really excites me is the next game I will find that will be as dear as X-COM is to me while being entirely different.
Let the Vanguard team try going wherever they want. I read a quote once that goes along these lines: The greatest advances in science aren't the ones that came after a "Eureka!", rather the ones that came after a "That's funny..."
(Points to whoever comes up with the original quote and/or whoever said it)
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Yes to (my understanding of) the first question. The only things preventing you from giving copies of the game to all your friends are the fact that it is illegal and your own ethics.
Re. password protection, I think it is a weak form of DRM.
Also the hooker you hired yesterday gave you herpes.
Your mod, sir, is awesome. Thanks for all the effort you put in it.
The FSM approves.
If I kick all pirates in the nuts until they start bleeding out their mouth, who's going to crack the DRM when the publishers find another excuse for it? Remember that DRM usually stops game rentals and resale. There's money to be made with DRM, so I would expect publishers to keep it, pirates or no pirates.
Have to disagree with you regarding gamer keyboards - standard generic versions do not come with led lights, macro keys, windows key lock, and the ability to handle a zillion keys pressed at the same time (Logitech G15). That last point is important - I've had keyboards that didn't handle 3 key combinations correctly.
Anybody clicked this? Is it goatse?
From the wikipeida article: "If one accumulates matter at normal density (1 g/cm3, for example, the density of water) up to about 150,000,000 times the mass of the Sun, such an accumulation will fall inside its own Schwarzschild radius and thus it would be a supermassive black hole of 150,000,000 solar masses." Quite fat, that momma.
In other news, stocks for "When pigs fly" are at an all time low as customer trust wavers, and demand for freezing equipment hits an all time high as a certain not to be named power figure decides he's had it up to here with the heat. If you'll excuse me, I'm off to eat my hat.
this? http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/01/18/1724200/Sharks-Seen-Swimming-Down-Australian-Streets
I do this regularly with Baldur's Gate series (~ 1 year cycle). The mods help too.
I don't think that the monkey *did* this mission as much as it was *done* to him... Kudos to the little (evolutionary) cousin either way.
This is the quote that sent a shiver down my spine (Mercury 6, John Glenn): http://mercury6.spacelog.org/00:00:05:18/#log-line-318
Depends - I'd risk braving those viruses and worms (with a good anti virus program of course) if it means I can run my favorite games.
Think of it this way - with the machine gun control app, you can have all the 'girlfriends' that you want.
That's a lot of people who have already decided they like MMOs and _are_ looking for a new MMO to play...
Define 'new'? My impression is that 'new' means it actually brings additions/changes to the known formula.
If the players who leave WOW were looking for more of the same, why leave in the first place? I will pay for a good clone of X-COM 1 or 2 (silent prayer), but what really excites me is the next game I will find that will be as dear as X-COM is to me while being entirely different.
Let the Vanguard team try going wherever they want. I read a quote once that goes along these lines: The greatest advances in science aren't the ones that came after a "Eureka!", rather the ones that came after a "That's funny..."
(Points to whoever comes up with the original quote and/or whoever said it)
Shareware.