You, sir, are NOT a troll. Wish I had modpoints left...
On the other hand, I do not think that nasty DRM and a lockdown on the side of the manifacturer are on the same level...
The big difference is that we know for a fact that this was made at the same time as the full game, during its production. The point of DLC is bringing content to the people which was created later on for the game. Right now they are just selling pieces of the game.
Next up: Mass Effect 2 in-game gear to be sold separately. Publisher quoted: "We believed that the vendor system in the first game was very good, but in order to give the player the real experience of buying weapons from a merchant, we have created an online weapons shop which can be accessed from within the game. Players of course have the option to play through the whole game using only biotics. Think of the weapons as DLC with a bang!"
If any of you ever saw german handwriting, you would easily see how this is a vast improvement! Every holiday I spend literally hours decyphering my relatives greeting cards...
I must disagree. I'm an experienced gamer and breezed through Portal like through a dream. Excited at the game, I let my older non-geek brother have a try. He was utterly confused at the controls, and the portal gun, even though he's seen me play it before. I let him play from the beginning, thinking that the game eases the player very much into it. But he couldn't pass the first 4 rooms without my help.
I agree with the author of this article, First Person perspective might be totally intuitive if you played other similar games before, but it's scary and disorienting for anybody else.
I don't own an X-Box, so this might not be a 100% accurate, but as far as I know, all internet access goes through Microsoft's X-Box Live service. Champions Online being an MMO, they are totally dependent on MS
Actually, the pigeons are after the packing foam. They are easily defeated with a cat and a baguette!
I believe you want to figure out how to make that game run, if only because it's absolutely amazing... and I am sure there is a relatively simple solution
So what you are saying is that academic research has nothing to worry about while corporate research does?
That does still mean that a major part of today's researchers are impaired, and seemingly the best funded ones.
I believe that cash prizes, as you call them, are in fact a good incentive. Give a company government funding, as long as it produces some useful research in its' own field, and then releases it into the public domain in such a way that further research will be unhindered.
This of course leads to new questions, such as how big those prizes have to be for a company to accept those terms, or how you define "useful research". But still, government subsidized corporate research could go very far. Look at SpaceShipOne, for example...
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They sure put a lot of effort in the Citadel and City 17 sets for the upcoming Half-Life movie...
How many people buy iPhones? How many people use the internet daily? How many countries buy hi-tech weapons for huge prices every day?
Where I work we eliminate former high school football players during the interview.
Where do you hide the bodies?
Mod... parent... up!!!
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You, sir, are NOT a troll. Wish I had modpoints left... On the other hand, I do not think that nasty DRM and a lockdown on the side of the manifacturer are on the same level...
The big difference is that we know for a fact that this was made at the same time as the full game, during its production. The point of DLC is bringing content to the people which was created later on for the game. Right now they are just selling pieces of the game.
I see the potential for a new sig... may I?
DLC = DownLoadable Content. And I take it you never served in the army, have you?
Next up: Mass Effect 2 in-game gear to be sold separately. Publisher quoted: "We believed that the vendor system in the first game was very good, but in order to give the player the real experience of buying weapons from a merchant, we have created an online weapons shop which can be accessed from within the game. Players of course have the option to play through the whole game using only biotics. Think of the weapons as DLC with a bang!"
they could have just raised the price of the game and stuck it in. Would make me feel less of a sucker
It's a hard job...
He is most likely the guy in charge...
Nah, how about tubes?
But think of the children!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stop shoving me, I'm sliding down at my own pace!
If any of you ever saw german handwriting, you would easily see how this is a vast improvement! Every holiday I spend literally hours decyphering my relatives greeting cards...
Dunno, most of the torrents found on various websites still use the TPB trackers, which is sometimes porblematic
I must disagree. I'm an experienced gamer and breezed through Portal like through a dream. Excited at the game, I let my older non-geek brother have a try. He was utterly confused at the controls, and the portal gun, even though he's seen me play it before. I let him play from the beginning, thinking that the game eases the player very much into it. But he couldn't pass the first 4 rooms without my help. I agree with the author of this article, First Person perspective might be totally intuitive if you played other similar games before, but it's scary and disorienting for anybody else.
I don't own an X-Box, so this might not be a 100% accurate, but as far as I know, all internet access goes through Microsoft's X-Box Live service. Champions Online being an MMO, they are totally dependent on MS
Actually, the pigeons are after the packing foam. They are easily defeated with a cat and a baguette! I believe you want to figure out how to make that game run, if only because it's absolutely amazing... and I am sure there is a relatively simple solution
Or of the mixture of the two chemicals in Grim Fandango?
Most of my papers are written by picking my nose in the dark!
I really think you have misunderstood what I wrote: The best funded ones are the corporate researches, who are still impaired by the patent system.
So what you are saying is that academic research has nothing to worry about while corporate research does? That does still mean that a major part of today's researchers are impaired, and seemingly the best funded ones. I believe that cash prizes, as you call them, are in fact a good incentive. Give a company government funding, as long as it produces some useful research in its' own field, and then releases it into the public domain in such a way that further research will be unhindered. This of course leads to new questions, such as how big those prizes have to be for a company to accept those terms, or how you define "useful research". But still, government subsidized corporate research could go very far. Look at SpaceShipOne, for example...