what's the difference between instancing it (and i didn't mean all content, just event style ones) and ignoring everyone else around you while you and friends run around doing lame quests?
this is entertainment, not real life. don't be seem so anal. so for the main storyline arcs you can instance some portions of it so people won't miss out, and then throw in "you either see it or don't" events. good grief you make it sound like a computer program simply HAS to be limited to a specific method of operation.
A "solution"... Instance it. Present a storyline with quests and some such that build the story, then have an instanced "dungeon" that friends can group together and play through the conclusion of.
However, I would also make a cut off point. Give players 30 or 60 days then drop that content and then rearrange the game world to reflect those changes. You could also have a larger open to all event at that point.
Anyway you slice it though, one thing MMO studios need to realize is the "grind, grind, grind" simplicity of EQ and the early games is fading. I think companies were hoping they'd last forever and these games wouldn't *need* dynamic content. Oops.
I just went through a relationship that ended similarly. She couldn't handle me having expectations of her, but if I failed to meet hers... What's worse she wouldn't even TELL me what those expectations were until she was mad that I had fucked it up. I digress.
I lived in the midwest and now the northwest for the last 2 years. It's not just back there. There is definitely an expectation on the behavior of men in society while women almost get a free pass. I hear it from different social groups (least of all the geek ones, but still there to some extent).
I make it a point during these conversations to say something along the lines of "If that's the case, get in the kitchen and make me pie." Then it turns into I'm a sexist bastard and don't deserve a girlfriend and blah blah blah. Yet before I say it, they carry on about "Well *MY* man knows he better be opening doors, buying me flowers, etc etc."
It's a double standard for sure. On the plus side, I really hope Paris serves the entire sentence. The whole pop culture craze and idolizing brain dead skanks doesn't help. If she goes "up state" it could start a new trend
"...so your creative ideas are meaningless to potential employers."
I agree with that but would preface it with "until you get the job." And depending on the position, they may be quite meaningful to potential employers. It's how you go about presenting it that counts. (Speaking as someone who worked in graphic design on and off for a few years)
You have to provide your input at the right time and not expect to start out at the top. It is that way with any job, even more so in games that require creativity in certain positions. In fact that is the main reason I have moved up in my job.
So keep coming up with your ideas and if you really do want to make games, have them tucked away for they will, almost assuredly, end up being useful.
So it's ok for MS to swipe other's ideas but do it to MS and you're a patent infringing criminal. Unless they can specify swiped code line for line, this is all bullshit. Every OS pinched from the other guys.
So if I install an Aqua theme, then there isn't a problem right?
Come fuckin' on. Any patents that fall in that category would cover any modern OS. Drop down menus and "windows" were around before Windows.
They keep saying Linux. Last I checked nearly any window manager, e-mail client and many other applications that run on Linux run on BSD as well. However they repeat "Linux, Linux, Linux...!" to steer people from Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux, Slackware Linux. How much more obvious a FUD campaign can they make this?
Show the world your code MS. There has to be a little bits of GPL crawling around in there somewhere.
Even the blurb states it's only for government agencies. They aren't forcing it on Norwegian businesses. It's no different than some company saying "For internal communication, we only use Word, Outlook, Excel." Except in this case, the people don't need to spend a few hundred bucks to read government files that should be publicly available in the first place.
I would imagine Miyamoto's games do appeal to a more broad audience. I have a hard time imagining my parents playing Halo for any period of time. However, they did sit and take a stab at Mario back when I got my NES (which I still have).
Bungie's response sounds like, "Oh yeah well... You're a poopy head!" Given cultural differences and the possibility of a hokey translation, I wouldn't take this as a slam. Just another persons opinion.
Sounds like Bungie has been an MS company for too long. If it's not the MS way, it's wrong, you suck. Look out, flying chair!
I have been saying this about Wine for a couple years now. That and Cedega. Not to diminish the ability of the people who write this stuff, but it seems like a time sink project to me.
The average person is going to say "Well I need Office on Windows." Some Linux zealot will say "Just install WINE!" The average person will blink twice and go "Or I could save myself some fucking time and use Windows."
Even if they did switch they STILL use MS Office, which some zealots I know (casually thankfully) seem ok with, but yet bash MS.
Also, consider this. You install Linux but intend on using Windows apps. Ideally you have a Linux native app. However you just bought a Windows native one, which tells that company there is no market for Linux native apps. How does it that further "the cause?"
Why not write software that fills the gaps that keep people on Linux. That's what will make MS shit themselves.
So at the end there you're really saying "There's damned little you can do with Hubble that you can't do with a terrestrial telescope so long as you don't mind not working at all if the weather sucks or it's not day time."
Sounds like Hubble is still useful to me. Even if we get a new one up there.
I'm thinkin' the article is referring to games built from the ground up with the tools built right in the game. Yes, Quake 3 has a lot of user made content, but that wasn't the primary design goal of id, and you need to no way more about game making than simply drag and dropping stuff around the level than in games like Little Big Planet or similarly in Spore.
I was just reading about Drawn to Life for the DS at lunch (ok, so lunch had been officially for a little while). The little developer working on it has had this cooking for over a year but no publisher. Kinda curious to see how it comes out.
The attacker has less time to study your nuclear site security offline
So you're saying someone that REALLY wants to try and take out a nuke site is just going to say "Oh crap, no satellite images. I guess we'll just have to drive a truck through the gate!" The only thing the satellite images do is cut time off the initial work (understanding the layout) They will find a way to map the installation without it, then the real planning>>execution can take place.
Obviously you haven't been paying attention. 9/11 wasn't thrown together in 48 hours because they suddenly had an idea and used Google to fill in the blanks. The dingle berries just arrested in Pennsylvania didn't just start throwing out ideas last week. If someone REALLY wants to get this done, they will take their time.
Someone else has already pointed out that other nations will keep distributing these images, guaranteed. The almighty US isn't the only one with spy satellites. And a government with a security policy that primarily focuses on "making information illegal" shouldn't be trusted on principle. At some point (I'm sure they are now) they will use that as cloak and dagger to destroy any information that makes them look bad, "National security! Yeah, you understand. Move along."
If you're referring to the article itself, this lady isn't even employed by a district. This is about her living her life and someone else trying to dictate a level of "professionalism" upon her. This is ridiculous and I hope she wins.
Shady. Lately Verizon has been making me question my decision to use them as a wireless carrier (a decision made primarily on how many ppl I call that have it) and get setup with their FIOS. Not like my old carrier, at one-time employer, Sprint is any better.
My friends that quit working at Sprint and went to Verizon (Wireless) seem to think the company is awesome. By comparison, as far as treating employees, it sounds like. (However these particular few friends would drink the Kool Aid anywhere.)
Just because you can go buy a gun doesn't mean you should use it to shoot up a grocery store. That's a decision the manufacturer, who clearly makes guns for shooting things!, leaves up to you.
However, you're right, push the blame off onto everything else. It's your right to do so. Why not too, huh? Sounds like you're good at pushing off personal responsibility.
Perhaps it should be "PEOPLE who become addicted to gaming should not play those games they become addicted to."
Market forces could if the cost of a "game box" continues to go up two times the previous price each launch cycle. Thinking long term (15+ years) I would hope we get to a point where there is simply one motherbrain in everyone's home that you access through different terminal points setup however you want (desk with a monitor and input devices (keyboard/mouse), a wall that is your monitor with a tv style remote (bonus if we get wifi from the brain working). all your content and games is on there, no need for seperate consoles. of course the way things are going it will be proprietary as all hell and your system wont work with mine. shit i just shattered my dream by reintroducing vendor lockin.
Thinking about it a little more also, this particular article doesn't much real business sense behind Apple acquiring AMD. In many places it sounds like the author thinks Jobs is cool and can do anything and that it would simply piss off Intel. That makes it even more worthless than the type of articles I was talking about in my original post.
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The fanboys who bought Crackdown SOLELY for the Halo 3 beta access. However... that's not a demographic I'd really want to pander to.
Dude, that's the same study. RTFA?
what's the difference between instancing it (and i didn't mean all content, just event style ones) and ignoring everyone else around you while you and friends run around doing lame quests? this is entertainment, not real life. don't be seem so anal. so for the main storyline arcs you can instance some portions of it so people won't miss out, and then throw in "you either see it or don't" events. good grief you make it sound like a computer program simply HAS to be limited to a specific method of operation.
A "solution"... Instance it. Present a storyline with quests and some such that build the story, then have an instanced "dungeon" that friends can group together and play through the conclusion of.
However, I would also make a cut off point. Give players 30 or 60 days then drop that content and then rearrange the game world to reflect those changes. You could also have a larger open to all event at that point.
Anyway you slice it though, one thing MMO studios need to realize is the "grind, grind, grind" simplicity of EQ and the early games is fading. I think companies were hoping they'd last forever and these games wouldn't *need* dynamic content. Oops.
I just went through a relationship that ended similarly. She couldn't handle me having expectations of her, but if I failed to meet hers... What's worse she wouldn't even TELL me what those expectations were until she was mad that I had fucked it up. I digress.
I lived in the midwest and now the northwest for the last 2 years. It's not just back there. There is definitely an expectation on the behavior of men in society while women almost get a free pass. I hear it from different social groups (least of all the geek ones, but still there to some extent).
I make it a point during these conversations to say something along the lines of "If that's the case, get in the kitchen and make me pie." Then it turns into I'm a sexist bastard and don't deserve a girlfriend and blah blah blah. Yet before I say it, they carry on about "Well *MY* man knows he better be opening doors, buying me flowers, etc etc."
It's a double standard for sure. On the plus side, I really hope Paris serves the entire sentence. The whole pop culture craze and idolizing brain dead skanks doesn't help. If she goes "up state" it could start a new trend
"...so your creative ideas are meaningless to potential employers."
I agree with that but would preface it with "until you get the job." And depending on the position, they may be quite meaningful to potential employers. It's how you go about presenting it that counts. (Speaking as someone who worked in graphic design on and off for a few years)
You have to provide your input at the right time and not expect to start out at the top. It is that way with any job, even more so in games that require creativity in certain positions. In fact that is the main reason I have moved up in my job.
So keep coming up with your ideas and if you really do want to make games, have them tucked away for they will, almost assuredly, end up being useful.
2yr old eWeek interview
So it's ok for MS to swipe other's ideas but do it to MS and you're a patent infringing criminal. Unless they can specify swiped code line for line, this is all bullshit. Every OS pinched from the other guys.
Quick someone patent method for throwing chairs.
So if I install an Aqua theme, then there isn't a problem right?
Come fuckin' on. Any patents that fall in that category would cover any modern OS. Drop down menus and "windows" were around before Windows.
They keep saying Linux. Last I checked nearly any window manager, e-mail client and many other applications that run on Linux run on BSD as well. However they repeat "Linux, Linux, Linux...!" to steer people from Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux, Slackware Linux. How much more obvious a FUD campaign can they make this?
Show the world your code MS. There has to be a little bits of GPL crawling around in there somewhere.
Look and feel. Give me a break.
Even the blurb states it's only for government agencies. They aren't forcing it on Norwegian businesses. It's no different than some company saying "For internal communication, we only use Word, Outlook, Excel." Except in this case, the people don't need to spend a few hundred bucks to read government files that should be publicly available in the first place.
I would imagine Miyamoto's games do appeal to a more broad audience. I have a hard time imagining my parents playing Halo for any period of time. However, they did sit and take a stab at Mario back when I got my NES (which I still have).
Bungie's response sounds like, "Oh yeah well... You're a poopy head!" Given cultural differences and the possibility of a hokey translation, I wouldn't take this as a slam. Just another persons opinion.
Sounds like Bungie has been an MS company for too long. If it's not the MS way, it's wrong, you suck. Look out, flying chair!
Oh great, here comes the "The next fucker who interrupts my evening out by yammering on their cellphone..." flame war.
I have been saying this about Wine for a couple years now. That and Cedega. Not to diminish the ability of the people who write this stuff, but it seems like a time sink project to me.
The average person is going to say "Well I need Office on Windows." Some Linux zealot will say "Just install WINE!" The average person will blink twice and go "Or I could save myself some fucking time and use Windows."
Even if they did switch they STILL use MS Office, which some zealots I know (casually thankfully) seem ok with, but yet bash MS.
Also, consider this. You install Linux but intend on using Windows apps. Ideally you have a Linux native app. However you just bought a Windows native one, which tells that company there is no market for Linux native apps. How does it that further "the cause?"
Why not write software that fills the gaps that keep people on Linux. That's what will make MS shit themselves.
Dude I clicked because it was a Live Journal, but how about an NSFW or something. You're killing me here.
So at the end there you're really saying "There's damned little you can do with Hubble that you can't do with a terrestrial telescope so long as you don't mind not working at all if the weather sucks or it's not day time."
Sounds like Hubble is still useful to me. Even if we get a new one up there.
I'm thinkin' the article is referring to games built from the ground up with the tools built right in the game. Yes, Quake 3 has a lot of user made content, but that wasn't the primary design goal of id, and you need to no way more about game making than simply drag and dropping stuff around the level than in games like Little Big Planet or similarly in Spore.
I was just reading about Drawn to Life for the DS at lunch (ok, so lunch had been officially for a little while). The little developer working on it has had this cooking for over a year but no publisher. Kinda curious to see how it comes out.
"...urine ... does contain fluids..."
I should hope so. I rue the day my urine (possibility of a kidney stone not withstanding) comes out "solid." Ooof
The attacker has less time to study your nuclear site security offline
So you're saying someone that REALLY wants to try and take out a nuke site is just going to say "Oh crap, no satellite images. I guess we'll just have to drive a truck through the gate!" The only thing the satellite images do is cut time off the initial work (understanding the layout) They will find a way to map the installation without it, then the real planning>>execution can take place.
Obviously you haven't been paying attention. 9/11 wasn't thrown together in 48 hours because they suddenly had an idea and used Google to fill in the blanks. The dingle berries just arrested in Pennsylvania didn't just start throwing out ideas last week. If someone REALLY wants to get this done, they will take their time.
Someone else has already pointed out that other nations will keep distributing these images, guaranteed. The almighty US isn't the only one with spy satellites. And a government with a security policy that primarily focuses on "making information illegal" shouldn't be trusted on principle. At some point (I'm sure they are now) they will use that as cloak and dagger to destroy any information that makes them look bad, "National security! Yeah, you understand. Move along."
If you're referring to the article itself, this lady isn't even employed by a district. This is about her living her life and someone else trying to dictate a level of "professionalism" upon her. This is ridiculous and I hope she wins.
Shady. Lately Verizon has been making me question my decision to use them as a wireless carrier (a decision made primarily on how many ppl I call that have it) and get setup with their FIOS. Not like my old carrier, at one-time employer, Sprint is any better.
My friends that quit working at Sprint and went to Verizon (Wireless) seem to think the company is awesome. By comparison, as far as treating employees, it sounds like. (However these particular few friends would drink the Kool Aid anywhere.)
Just because you can go buy a gun doesn't mean you should use it to shoot up a grocery store. That's a decision the manufacturer, who clearly makes guns for shooting things!, leaves up to you.
However, you're right, push the blame off onto everything else. It's your right to do so. Why not too, huh? Sounds like you're good at pushing off personal responsibility.
Perhaps it should be "PEOPLE who become addicted to gaming should not play those games they become addicted to."
Asshat.
Fuck... I wish I was smarter so I could get this joke
No need to pay for Windows licensing
And we wonder why media companies continually rehash and re-release the same ol' shit. Uber fans suck
Market forces could if the cost of a "game box" continues to go up two times the previous price each launch cycle. Thinking long term (15+ years) I would hope we get to a point where there is simply one motherbrain in everyone's home that you access through different terminal points setup however you want (desk with a monitor and input devices (keyboard/mouse), a wall that is your monitor with a tv style remote (bonus if we get wifi from the brain working). all your content and games is on there, no need for seperate consoles. of course the way things are going it will be proprietary as all hell and your system wont work with mine. shit i just shattered my dream by reintroducing vendor lockin.
Thinking about it a little more also, this particular article doesn't much real business sense behind Apple acquiring AMD. In many places it sounds like the author thinks Jobs is cool and can do anything and that it would simply piss off Intel. That makes it even more worthless than the type of articles I was talking about in my original post.