When you CLOSED the last parenthesis of your C code and realized that no one could follow your programming but you, even when you formatted it perfectly.
Will he be re-imbursed for his time? Imagine how much you could have made in 14 years. Another 2.5 Million perhaps (given that he works in real estate)
Gamers aren't demanding, every investor is. Real Estate, Stock Markets, you name it, basically they cover all your points in their own right. 1) They want results asap 2) They'll cut corners to achieve #1 3) They'll go to someone who's better at #1 with better results 4) They'll influence other stock holders to follow their decision 5) They complain when it isn't perfect.
Gamers are just covered in Cheetos so its very very easy not to take them seriously.
(Seriously though, I think it'll require you to be at least 18 or 21 before you can INVEST in a game, like legally.)
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"information which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity, such as their name, social security number, biometric records, etc. alone, or when combined with other personal or identifying information which is linked or linkable to a specific individual, such as date and place of birth, mother's maiden name, etc"
It's true. Unless you end up pairing two students who think they can program better than their counterpart.
Then you get 2 students handing in seperate Code, both amazing in their own right, saying that they wrote it themselves and had no help from their partners, insisting they get a better grade in the class.
And then the consequences of the pair of students with NO programming experience, and are having trouble learning, and end up handing you a page that is well documented but not at all functional.
Guess what! We've stopped Shackling people in chains and calling them our slaves!... Oh those guys still in chains? Yeah we can't take them off once they're in em.
They imply that this environment causes this behaviour, which might be true. Just like living under a Power-line, Cell phone tower, and beside a nuclear power plant, MIGHT cause some cancerous effects.
You do not OWN full rights to it, to do whatever you want with it. While morally you do know harm, legally there are laws.
I cannot copy a CD and sell it to my friends. I mean, physically, yes its possible but that is against the law.
The idea behind selling used games is just a slightly more legal version of this. The game has been sold, right? Someone returns it, getting a portion of what they paid for it. Often, a crappy portion, like 10 bucks for a 60 dollar game. Someone comes along and buys that used game for 30 bucks. Not only did the Company make 50 dollars for you renting the game, but they also made another 30 on top for the sale. Overall, an extra 20 dollars in THEIR pocket for essentially giving the same merchandise to 2 people. Is there more than 1 physical copy? No. How many people experienced the game? 2. How much profit does the company get, 1. And Game retailers take the rest.
Considering they ALREADY markup the price - and don't pay royalties - it should be considered theft.
When was the last LAN party I went to? I host one at least every month. StarCraft, Civilizations, Gary's Mod, and more - - Old and New Games.
All of my friends now own a laptop, and they realized one day that I own all the great games (including the X-wing & Tie Fighter Series, oh yeah!), and so one day instead of just playing Halo on the 360 like usual, they thought "Hey we should bring over our laptops and install UT2K4 and play it some time"
Its not even really a big deal, and they probably don't even see 5 or 6 people on my wireless as a lan party persay. But theres something about getting together within poking distance that makes these games so much more enjoyable. When You're sitting next to someone, and you hear the tiny voice go "Battle Cruiser Operational" and you see his smirk, its not the same as a;) over the in-game chat.
If Blizzard and EA start adopting this policy of no LAN, only online - I won't follow. The CD-Key system works PERFECTLY fine. If you're silly enough to lose your CD key for one reason or another you deserve to, and if you happen to get a working CD because its been inactive for ages, what's the real bother? We all purchased our SC & BW CD's when the game came out, and it'll be like that for the fans who want to play their games, which is enough to make money.
As someone else asked "Are you willing to give up video gaming altogether once all the major publishers of PC games have switched to this business model?"
Yes. I will stop buying new games if this is the kind of crap they start doing. The days will be long gone when social gaming was an Intimate experience. And thats the reason I still have LAN parties, while I can.
I misstyped my password and my USB key melted. Now I lost the company thousands of dollars worth of spreadsheets, Ruined a perfectly good USB port on my computer, and now it smells kinda funny...
The average user has used a computer before though, the only people who benefit unfamiliar settings like this are children who've never used a computer before - and they sure don't have money to buy a new computer. Every teenager now has at least experienced XP - or at minimum Vista. So why change it up on everyone again?
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Given that Chocolate is an Aphrodisiac, I hope that change would be for the better.
uhhh*WINK* ;)
Pre-Menopausal.
When you CLOSED the last parenthesis of your C code and realized that no one could follow your programming but you, even when you formatted it perfectly.
Yes, its expensive. Remember when a Gig of RAM was this much?
Guess what, its dirt cheap now.
Give it a year, everyone will have a Terrabyte on their iPhone 10.0's
Remember that article a while ago about China banning Gold Farming?
You think whoever passed the bill is finding alternative ways to enforce the law?
Time to start the Super Mario Bros Marathon, since I'm sure that will appease to a larger crowd. What should I raise money for?
Will he be re-imbursed for his time? Imagine how much you could have made in 14 years. Another 2.5 Million perhaps (given that he works in real estate)
Is to assist this open source project!
Then make this message self destruct.
Gamers aren't demanding, every investor is. Real Estate, Stock Markets, you name it, basically they cover all your points in their own right.
1) They want results asap
2) They'll cut corners to achieve #1
3) They'll go to someone who's better at #1 with better results
4) They'll influence other stock holders to follow their decision
5) They complain when it isn't perfect.
Gamers are just covered in Cheetos so its very very easy not to take them seriously.
(Seriously though, I think it'll require you to be at least 18 or 21 before you can INVEST in a game, like legally.)
"information which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity, such as their name, social security number, biometric records, etc. alone, or when combined with other personal or identifying information which is linked or linkable to a specific individual, such as date and place of birth, mother's maiden name, etc"
It's true. Unless you end up pairing two students who think they can program better than their counterpart.
Then you get 2 students handing in seperate Code, both amazing in their own right, saying that they wrote it themselves and had no help from their partners, insisting they get a better grade in the class.
And then the consequences of the pair of students with NO programming experience, and are having trouble learning, and end up handing you a page that is well documented but not at all functional.
Guess what! We've stopped Shackling people in chains and calling them our slaves! ... Oh those guys still in chains? Yeah we can't take them off once they're in em.
My computer rendered the o in botnet.
OR - if you get a real job, at a real company, they'll give you their unwanted outdated computers for FREE.
Seriously! Build a massive render farm out thousands of 286's!
They imply that this environment causes this behaviour, which might be true. Just like living under a Power-line, Cell phone tower, and beside a nuclear power plant, MIGHT cause some cancerous effects.
However, that doesn't make it CONTAGIOUS.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Contagious
It's a good thing I pirated a copy of the Pirate Bay, otherwise my money would end up going to the music industry!
I insisted that we start renting games instead of buying them, but my roomate seems content on spending 60 bucks on a crap game like Transformers 2.
But then he goes out and grabs Red Faction at the same time, so its like... almost even?
LoL. The Telescopes we've built don't have the resolution to see the rovers and/or the flag.
We can show you pics of what we believe to be the lunar landing module, only because its a longer shadow then most of the craters you would expect.
On the day Left 4 Dead got released, here in the UK it was cheaper to buy the DVD version from Amazon that download it from Steam.
Then someone somewhere lost money, and it wasn't Valve or Steam.
Ummm. Not quite.
You do not OWN full rights to it, to do whatever you want with it. While morally you do know harm, legally there are laws.
I cannot copy a CD and sell it to my friends. I mean, physically, yes its possible but that is against the law.
The idea behind selling used games is just a slightly more legal version of this. The game has been sold, right? Someone returns it, getting a portion of what they paid for it. Often, a crappy portion, like 10 bucks for a 60 dollar game. Someone comes along and buys that used game for 30 bucks. Not only did the Company make 50 dollars for you renting the game, but they also made another 30 on top for the sale. Overall, an extra 20 dollars in THEIR pocket for essentially giving the same merchandise to 2 people. Is there more than 1 physical copy? No. How many people experienced the game? 2. How much profit does the company get, 1. And Game retailers take the rest.
Considering they ALREADY markup the price - and don't pay royalties - it should be considered theft.
Lifestyle Lift Revenue went up by 300K last month...
When was the last LAN party I went to? I host one at least every month. StarCraft, Civilizations, Gary's Mod, and more - - Old and New Games.
All of my friends now own a laptop, and they realized one day that I own all the great games (including the X-wing & Tie Fighter Series, oh yeah!), and so one day instead of just playing Halo on the 360 like usual, they thought "Hey we should bring over our laptops and install UT2K4 and play it some time"
Its not even really a big deal, and they probably don't even see 5 or 6 people on my wireless as a lan party persay. But theres something about getting together within poking distance that makes these games so much more enjoyable. When You're sitting next to someone, and you hear the tiny voice go "Battle Cruiser Operational" and you see his smirk, its not the same as a ;) over the in-game chat.
If Blizzard and EA start adopting this policy of no LAN, only online - I won't follow. The CD-Key system works PERFECTLY fine. If you're silly enough to lose your CD key for one reason or another you deserve to, and if you happen to get a working CD because its been inactive for ages, what's the real bother? We all purchased our SC & BW CD's when the game came out, and it'll be like that for the fans who want to play their games, which is enough to make money.
As someone else asked "Are you willing to give up video gaming altogether once all the major publishers of PC games have switched to this business model?"
Yes. I will stop buying new games if this is the kind of crap they start doing. The days will be long gone when social gaming was an Intimate experience. And thats the reason I still have LAN parties, while I can.
I misstyped my password and my USB key melted. Now I lost the company thousands of dollars worth of spreadsheets, Ruined a perfectly good USB port on my computer, and now it smells kinda funny...
The average user has used a computer before though, the only people who benefit unfamiliar settings like this are children who've never used a computer before - and they sure don't have money to buy a new computer. Every teenager now has at least experienced XP - or at minimum Vista. So why change it up on everyone again?
I'll See Me In court!!!