You will always have a way to demo a product before you play it. Either existing fans will draw you in, or you'll try it at your local retailer in the demo kiosk they set up.
Demos may stick around as smaller studios see it as a way to draw in new customers. But for big companies like Crytek and EA, who have already released more than one multi-million dollar game seller, they don't need to draw in new customers, that will happen naturally. They need to retain old ones.
There are two games. One you know nothing about other then its being developed by the same studio that produced 2 other titles you loved. The other one, you played the demo, and weren't impressed.
Which one are you going to buy?
This is the kind of trend the market is following.
No - there is a difference in it that I think most people would agree on. With a trailer, you are trying to build hype for the movie. Get its name out there and make it desirable to watch.
A demo, on the other hand, tend to works the opposite way for gamers. I grab a demo which means I'm already interested in seeing what the game is like. I use the demo to determine whether or not I want to purchase it.
I can't remember the last time I went out of my way to look up a movie trailer to see if I wanted to see the movie. It HAS happened, but not nearly on the same scale.
Free Demo's will probably be phased out over time. As big studios go on, they'll make the Beta open to select purchasers of other titles of theirs. See example; Halo:Reach Beta open to ODST buyers. Or Blizzard's Beta entries being determined by how much you play their other successful games.
Its reached a point where consumers can help developers out in beta testing - and that studios can selectively choose who to test it so they know their target audience better. A good symbiotic relationship, if you ask me.
When I was 16 I learned about SQL injection and inserted fake records into the high school database. I'll admit, my vulgarity probably wasn't necessary. I got a very firm slap on the wrist from the principal and my parents, and a very firm handshake by the IT Teacher. The next year I finished all the programming (VB) modules in the Computer Technology class, and did web page design (basic HTML, no scripts or css). In my last year, the IT teacher approached me about helping him rebuild the system I broke into in my first year. I of course felt obligated, knowing the damage I COULD have done.
Man... Good times...
I look back on it now and it seems obvious why I could never keep a girlfriend...
But they can't help a student out of a tree for safety concerns!
At what point did our Education Society lose all common sense?
It seems like those who work in education aren't the smartest.
I think its because we've built this conception of "those who can't do, teach". A society where being a teacher isn't glorious, when it should be. Just make it harder to become a teacher and pay them more... Like a doctor or a Lawyer.
When I read the headline I was certain it was referring to the time required to complete a single game of Civilization. I just concluded a single-player civ4 game on standard speed and spent around that amount of play time. It's certainly a change of pace from games like Starcraft where 2 hours is epically long.
Ha - Hahaha!
Man, I know I've spent Well over 48 hours in a single player civ game - and multiplayer has taken over 100 hours of game time to even reach a level nearing climax.
As for Starcraft, 2 hours isn't epic. I'd say 2 hours is breaching what one might call a long-ish game. A quick game is about 20 minutes. A regular game is about an hour. An Epically long game, which is to say, 3 players on an 8 player Map, goes from 9 pm till 6 am, with all players remaining till the last 20 minutes.
Likewise I suppose, while the 500m sprint is usually a game of skill, theres nothing stopping a meteorite from pummeling you into the clay dirt and losing the race.
It's all a matter of chance really. Albeit, the odds of being dealt a crap hand are pretty high, and being hit by space rock are...
Future generations will look back and conclude that some people REALLY did have to TOO much time and trivial stuff to share.
Which is why its important that we store this information. We know what the history books are going to say. We know that the War on Terror will come out to either be a horrible attrocity that human kind should never try to re-attempt, or it will be declared a huge success that ushered in a new era of peace and stability. People will ask "I wonder what was going through peoples heads?"
And this is the PERFECT example. It will show that a lot of people didn't do anything, and they'll probably infer it to be Apathy.
but most people tweet about mundane crap, not what happened on Capitol Hill. i.e., signal to noise will be horrible for trying to decipher What the Hell Happened...
Not really. I enter "White house" on Twitter's own search features and there is only about 30% noise, 70% stuff relevant to my topic.
So, in the year 31000 when they discover this data cache from the year 2010, they'll have search algorithms better than we could possibly concieve.
You are not a google customer just because you use their search or gmail. The advertisers are their customers. YOU are their product. They don't sell search, they sell eyeballs.
The same dynamics apply. If Google pisses off its "Product" base, and everyone goes over to Bing, Google will make less money because advertisers won't pay them as much.
I'm curious what makes this company different or the protest different from other instances of the same wholesale of userbase information to any bidder
In this case, DDO would lose its customer base. Facebook and Google don't have many alternatives with an equal product where selling the information isn't still occuring.
However, theres still a handful of MMO's out there not doing this, which one could easily jump ship for.
Slashdot is full of programmers. Slashdot hates Flash.
So while I'm sure this book might apply to a few people here on this site, I'm sure most of us will just come around shouting the same old anti-adobe stuff until we get the next "Here's a vulnerability!" adobe-news posting.
What "actions" have these posters done? Expressed an opinion? Given the racial nature of the story, I imagine those comments were quite disgusting and racist. I do not support them. But similarly, the notion that every instance of anonymous speech must be ferreted out, and the 'perpetrators' held to 'account' is just wrong.
I think the rest of your comment makes you sound like a bit of a nut, but within that frenzied rant you hit a moment of actual coherant fluid thought. Not that I don't agree with the whole statement you are making, just drifting off from the issue at hand really.
That issue is anonymity on the internet. My gripe basically boils down to this; If you are going to disallow someones anonymity on the internet because of any punishable law, you should then have to go back and punish everyone who has ever broken any punishable law under the guise of anonymity on the internet. This is of course impracticle, so throw that idea out of the window.
IF this is against your idea of how things should be run, propose a bill that suggests you CAN aquire information from anonymous sources in the FUTURE. You can't just choose to change the laws for one scenario, especially when its the one being dealt with. This would be like an Umpire changing the amount of Bases in Baseball to 3 instead of 4, mid-game, with all bases loaded. It'd be an outrage.
So please, if you are going to attack the freedom that is anonymity - do so in the proper manner. I have no problems with Lawyers and Judges trying to reform things so long as they abide by the same rules that I do when I want things done differently. A powdered wig should not be able to make demands like that.
I don't know if I'd say its necessarily siphoning off just the left leaning though. I've voted Conservative for the 3 years I've been allowed, mostly because my political views were heriditary. As I am getting older I'm starting to adopt more and more of my own views - but I've still kept conservative since I'm in Alberta and its usually to my benefit anyways.
But the Pirate Party actually deals with issues I care about. Honestly, the GST change hasn't done much. 5% or 7%, most retailers just alter their price to accomodate their customers. When Gas gets too expensive I take the bus. The reason why voter apathy is so high is that they are like me: we don't feel any compelling reason to vote for Conservatives or Liberals since there is one thing we like for every one thing we dislike about their platform. It's stupid that I have to weigh whats important to me more than other things, rather then just have a party that shares my views.
So when a party comes around that actually holds one of my views, probably the one I feel strongly enough about, leaving itself open to its constituants for the other platforms, I'm going to jump on board. They probably won't get a majority, but if they keep any of the other parties from getting a majority, well lets just say I prefer the minority government. In order to pass a bill, they'll need the support of one of the smaller parties, and that gives the Pirate Party leverage to accomplish their goals.
So long as Liberals, NDP, and Conservatives are the only guys with a voice, no one is going to say a word about Copyright reform, its not mentioned on the television debates, its not listed as their platforms, they don't publicize it as a reason to vote for them.
What motion has there been towards Copyright reform before now? And do you think there will be one if they register and run?
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Did you Demo a console before you purchased it?
In store or at a friends house?
You will always have a way to demo a product before you play it. Either existing fans will draw you in, or you'll try it at your local retailer in the demo kiosk they set up.
Demos may stick around as smaller studios see it as a way to draw in new customers. But for big companies like Crytek and EA, who have already released more than one multi-million dollar game seller, they don't need to draw in new customers, that will happen naturally. They need to retain old ones.
Okay - lets pop another hypothetical.
There are two games. One you know nothing about other then its being developed by the same studio that produced 2 other titles you loved. The other one, you played the demo, and weren't impressed.
Which one are you going to buy?
This is the kind of trend the market is following.
No - there is a difference in it that I think most people would agree on. With a trailer, you are trying to build hype for the movie. Get its name out there and make it desirable to watch.
A demo, on the other hand, tend to works the opposite way for gamers. I grab a demo which means I'm already interested in seeing what the game is like. I use the demo to determine whether or not I want to purchase it.
I can't remember the last time I went out of my way to look up a movie trailer to see if I wanted to see the movie. It HAS happened, but not nearly on the same scale.
Free Demo's will probably be phased out over time. As big studios go on, they'll make the Beta open to select purchasers of other titles of theirs. See example; Halo:Reach Beta open to ODST buyers. Or Blizzard's Beta entries being determined by how much you play their other successful games.
Its reached a point where consumers can help developers out in beta testing - and that studios can selectively choose who to test it so they know their target audience better. A good symbiotic relationship, if you ask me.
That one is definately my favourite.
let users of the company's Chrome OS print documents to any printer from any application.
Lets see here...
www.goatse.cx
File -- Print -- Select Printer: CEOOFFICEPRINTER.Apple.Com
Pages: 200
PRINT
When I was 16 I learned about SQL injection and inserted fake records into the high school database. I'll admit, my vulgarity probably wasn't necessary. I got a very firm slap on the wrist from the principal and my parents, and a very firm handshake by the IT Teacher. The next year I finished all the programming (VB) modules in the Computer Technology class, and did web page design (basic HTML, no scripts or css). In my last year, the IT teacher approached me about helping him rebuild the system I broke into in my first year. I of course felt obligated, knowing the damage I COULD have done.
Man... Good times...
I look back on it now and it seems obvious why I could never keep a girlfriend...
Redhat does pretty good for itself, doesn't it?
Hey!
It's called a LAIR.
But they can't help a student out of a tree for safety concerns!
At what point did our Education Society lose all common sense?
It seems like those who work in education aren't the smartest.
I think its because we've built this conception of "those who can't do, teach". A society where being a teacher isn't glorious, when it should be. Just make it harder to become a teacher and pay them more... Like a doctor or a Lawyer.
When I read the headline I was certain it was referring to the time required to complete a single game of Civilization. I just concluded a single-player civ4 game on standard speed and spent around that amount of play time. It's certainly a change of pace from games like Starcraft where 2 hours is epically long.
Ha - Hahaha!
Man, I know I've spent Well over 48 hours in a single player civ game - and multiplayer has taken over 100 hours of game time to even reach a level nearing climax.
As for Starcraft, 2 hours isn't epic. I'd say 2 hours is breaching what one might call a long-ish game. A quick game is about 20 minutes. A regular game is about an hour. An Epically long game, which is to say, 3 players on an 8 player Map, goes from 9 pm till 6 am, with all players remaining till the last 20 minutes.
Yes its happened, and yes I have the replay.
I still haven't found a life down at Games Workshop.
Zzzzzzzzzzzing!
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I suppose a twitter feed would do it?
You sound like you've taken care of most of what you can... so...
Get a bunch of hackers together and tell them to do their best to DDOS your old site!
Likewise I suppose, while the 500m sprint is usually a game of skill, theres nothing stopping a meteorite from pummeling you into the clay dirt and losing the race.
It's all a matter of chance really. Albeit, the odds of being dealt a crap hand are pretty high, and being hit by space rock are...
wait for it....
astronomical!
Want to come over to my house and play with the deck I made stacked in my favour?
I think the App store IS a satire, actually.
Future generations will look back and conclude that some people REALLY did have to TOO much time and trivial stuff to share.
Which is why its important that we store this information. We know what the history books are going to say. We know that the War on Terror will come out to either be a horrible attrocity that human kind should never try to re-attempt, or it will be declared a huge success that ushered in a new era of peace and stability. People will ask "I wonder what was going through peoples heads?"
And this is the PERFECT example. It will show that a lot of people didn't do anything, and they'll probably infer it to be Apathy.
but most people tweet about mundane crap, not what happened on Capitol Hill. i.e., signal to noise will be horrible for trying to decipher What the Hell Happened...
Not really. I enter "White house" on Twitter's own search features and there is only about 30% noise, 70% stuff relevant to my topic.
So, in the year 31000 when they discover this data cache from the year 2010, they'll have search algorithms better than we could possibly concieve.
You are not a google customer just because you use their search or gmail. The advertisers are their customers. YOU are their product. They don't sell search, they sell eyeballs.
The same dynamics apply. If Google pisses off its "Product" base, and everyone goes over to Bing, Google will make less money because advertisers won't pay them as much.
I'm curious what makes this company different or the protest different from other instances of the same wholesale of userbase information to any bidder
In this case, DDO would lose its customer base. Facebook and Google don't have many alternatives with an equal product where selling the information isn't still occuring.
However, theres still a handful of MMO's out there not doing this, which one could easily jump ship for.
See, its a book for Flash Programmers.
Slashdot is full of programmers.
Slashdot hates Flash.
So while I'm sure this book might apply to a few people here on this site, I'm sure most of us will just come around shouting the same old anti-adobe stuff until we get the next "Here's a vulnerability!" adobe-news posting.
What "actions" have these posters done? Expressed an opinion? Given the racial nature of the story, I imagine those comments were quite disgusting and racist. I do not support them. But similarly, the notion that every instance of anonymous speech must be ferreted out, and the 'perpetrators' held to 'account' is just wrong.
I think the rest of your comment makes you sound like a bit of a nut, but within that frenzied rant you hit a moment of actual coherant fluid thought. Not that I don't agree with the whole statement you are making, just drifting off from the issue at hand really.
That issue is anonymity on the internet. My gripe basically boils down to this;
If you are going to disallow someones anonymity on the internet because of any punishable law, you should then have to go back and punish everyone who has ever broken any punishable law under the guise of anonymity on the internet. This is of course impracticle, so throw that idea out of the window.
IF this is against your idea of how things should be run, propose a bill that suggests you CAN aquire information from anonymous sources in the FUTURE. You can't just choose to change the laws for one scenario, especially when its the one being dealt with. This would be like an Umpire changing the amount of Bases in Baseball to 3 instead of 4, mid-game, with all bases loaded. It'd be an outrage.
So please, if you are going to attack the freedom that is anonymity - do so in the proper manner. I have no problems with Lawyers and Judges trying to reform things so long as they abide by the same rules that I do when I want things done differently. A powdered wig should not be able to make demands like that.
Ash is a God Damn Robot!
I don't know if I'd say its necessarily siphoning off just the left leaning though. I've voted Conservative for the 3 years I've been allowed, mostly because my political views were heriditary. As I am getting older I'm starting to adopt more and more of my own views - but I've still kept conservative since I'm in Alberta and its usually to my benefit anyways.
But the Pirate Party actually deals with issues I care about. Honestly, the GST change hasn't done much. 5% or 7%, most retailers just alter their price to accomodate their customers. When Gas gets too expensive I take the bus. The reason why voter apathy is so high is that they are like me: we don't feel any compelling reason to vote for Conservatives or Liberals since there is one thing we like for every one thing we dislike about their platform. It's stupid that I have to weigh whats important to me more than other things, rather then just have a party that shares my views.
So when a party comes around that actually holds one of my views, probably the one I feel strongly enough about, leaving itself open to its constituants for the other platforms, I'm going to jump on board. They probably won't get a majority, but if they keep any of the other parties from getting a majority, well lets just say I prefer the minority government. In order to pass a bill, they'll need the support of one of the smaller parties, and that gives the Pirate Party leverage to accomplish their goals.
So long as Liberals, NDP, and Conservatives are the only guys with a voice, no one is going to say a word about Copyright reform, its not mentioned on the television debates, its not listed as their platforms, they don't publicize it as a reason to vote for them.
What motion has there been towards Copyright reform before now? And do you think there will be one if they register and run?