Good grief. Not everything is a conspiracy! You people watch far too much X-Files. OK, so they put an SDI interface on every DVD player, jacking up the price at least 100%. Now what? How many TV sets can handle a digital input? Next to none. Use a little common sense.
This has NOTHING do to with the/. holy crusade against the MPAA. Most DVD players don't have a digital out, because simply put, there are practically NO TVs or monitors that can accept a direct digital stream. DVD is a consumer technology, and an SDI interface would cost more than the rest of the DVD player combined, and is useless for almost everyone at this point. Once we have affordable display technology that can handle SDI, *THEN* we'll see DVD players with this capability as well.
"Other than Half-Life, all the games by Looking Glass (well, not the golf or flight sim ones) are the only reason that I still have a Windows partiton. "
And Half-Life was *very* similar to System Shock in many ways...
Who cares if they had announced their next big product? Regardles, Looking Glass was one of the most consistent groundbreakers in both gameplay and technology. They practically invented the FPS with Underworld, and then re-invented it as the first person "sneaker" with Thief. Terra Nova was the first squad-based FPS game... see "Tribes" three years later... Let's not forget that Half-Life owes a HUGE debt to LG's original System Shock.
For me, it is a big loss. I just hope the LG/Irrational teams pop up soon, as the Roberts brothers did with MS, or Warren Spector did with Ion Storm.
No, stock prices reflect the current perceived value of a company, nothing more. Yeah, most of the tech stocks value are based on future potential - that's also why they are incredibly bad investments.
"Why should this sort of discussion involve only games? What about other software that's out-of-print and no longer supported? "
Mainly because games are fun regardless of age, and the nostalgia aspect can't be ignored. How many people have fun or get nostalgic with Linux 0.001x? DOS 2.0? Wordperfect 1? CP/M?
I'd even pay a buck or two per game if it would change their minds. How hard would it be to set up an e-com site that allowed instant downloads of old ROMs? I'd buy a few dozen...
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I work in the music industry, and went to school for four years learning the biz, so don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about.
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Anyway, Eidos and EA hold the rights to all Looking Glass games - I doubt they're going to open the source anytime soon.
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And Half-Life was *very* similar to System Shock in many ways...
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For me, it is a big loss. I just hope the LG/Irrational teams pop up soon, as the Roberts brothers did with MS, or Warren Spector did with Ion Storm.
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Open source software is a nice concept, but by it's very nature very few people will be able to make a living by it.
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Mainly because games are fun regardless of age, and the nostalgia aspect can't be ignored. How many people have fun or get nostalgic with Linux 0.001x? DOS 2.0? Wordperfect 1? CP/M?
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2) The person reading your email is a part-time, min. wage tech support lackey who has no clue what you're talking about
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