because they're banking on that same press to advertise their own political 'values'.
If this were a concern by someone without an ulterior motive, they'd just defer to people with a track record of [i]caring[/i] and [i]knowing[/i] about the problems with the ESRB and effecting [i]actual[/i] change -- someone like the Senator from Connecticut.
If we're going to change things, we should just limit the TLDs to country-codes and let each country do whatever the hell it feels like under its own TLD.
Browsers can be set to default a country-code TLD based on the users system preferences without much trouble and the problem goes away.
Probably because webTV in the past has always been done at 400 lines of resolution -- which looks like crap.
at 1080i, or 720p... you're pretty much at the resolutions that most people have their monitors set to anyway.
Throw in a wireless keyboard and you've got 90% of the average home's PC usage on the 360. Slide shows, movies, music, browsing, email, IM (w/voice) & games.
webTV before has been a one-trick pony. Now it'd look just about as good as your desktop, and be a natural extension of a box you'll be using anyway.
not to mention that because it's wholly MS-controlled and DRM'd -- it [i]is[/i] trusted computing. Didn't see it sneak up on us like that, did you?
They'll eat a big loss on the first run to get it out there as fast as possible and their first price cut is on a version without the hard drive. (maybe bundle a pin compatible flash drive or something)
Though I think they'd be remiss if they didn't deliver a neXtBox+PVR in the $500 range.
And if they get Live right, everyone with a wireless keyboard is going to wonder why they spend so much on computers when something like this + HD monitor is good enough for 90% of their computer use. (browsing/mail/chat/games)
Second for D&D:Heroes. The wife and I loved it. Halo's great too if FPSs are fair game. Similarly with Outlaw Golf. Not exactly coop, but close enough where the competition isn't really against each other, but against yer previous bests and the course itself.
SimEarth was a great game for playing while doing laundry. There wasn't much moment-to-moment interaction, so you could drop the controller just about whenever and just ignore it for 10 minutes or so, rather safely.
That it was so slow might have been part of the problem with its general acceptance.
If you can convince people to pay for it - design introduces dramatic profits.
The internal electronics of a mid-range Mac are not worth twice of what's inside an HP/Dell. And the bundled software is not worth twice as much as what's bundled in your average HP/Dell. So what cost did Apple shoulder to justify people paying double?
Vivendi is making the same mistake EA made: too many players per server. They've loosened the server caps and dropped their unpopular queues - and now their most popular servers are buckling.
With the 'shard' design, where users per server is capped and they throw more servers at problems - there's very little justification for such overload.
Too many people are forgetting that Dark Age of Camelot has had very very very very few stability problems. In comparison to the rest of the genre - they're downtime's infinitesimal.
Every time a major publisher completely screws up their launch, or fails to deliver a stable product, I give one more proverbial gold star to Mythic. They've proven that it can be done; that there is no reason that we can not demand that level of service.
I've moved on since DAoC, and WoW is my current poison -- and a tasty one at that -- but this genre needs to demand better.
If you register the copyright, you can then sue for punitive damages. If you do not register the copyright, then while your work still is automatically copywritten, you can only sue for earnings the infinging party earned from your work.
Not that you'd be getting anything out of said script kiddie anyway. And, as you point out, it'd be trivial to rewrite a non-infringing version.
Isn't that what this show is supposed to determine? Taking the top ranking champions from the past tournaments of champions shows and putting them up against Ken? Granted it won't be all-inclusive, but it should answer the question in relative terms whether he really is that much better than everyone else.
Or maybe he's just looking for something without the repetition?
Killing hundreds of blue foozles just to advance to the point where you can kill hundreds of red foozles is not some golden game design. You know what the core difference is between an RPG and a FPS is? Nothing. They're not mutually exclusive.
An RPG is just a game with a strong story context. Look at Thief, System Shock, Deus Ex, or GTA even. They're RPGs. There's just no level treadmill, and the combat resolution in each game is different from the D&D standard. But there's a strong story, character development, and immersion.
There's nothing wrong with the standard game designs per se. They're just wrong for some people. And when those people wish aloud for something different, it isn't any sort of threat to the established standard. No-one has to take your games away to make something new. So why do you care if they want something different; even if, in your opinion, it isn't an RPG or MMORPG that they want?
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You do realize XBOX1 games had to function perfectly when the HD was full, right?
That simply because they knew the HD would always be there, didn't mean they always knew it was [i]available[/i]?
Why do you think so few XBOX1 games used the HD to much affect?
Or you could just rent new games...
I can't believe I used UBB code.
wth is wrong with me?
because they're banking on that same press to advertise their own political 'values'.
If this were a concern by someone without an ulterior motive, they'd just defer to people with a track record of [i]caring[/i] and [i]knowing[/i] about the problems with the ESRB and effecting [i]actual[/i] change -- someone like the Senator from Connecticut.
If we're going to change things, we should just limit the TLDs to country-codes and let each country do whatever the hell it feels like under its own TLD.
Browsers can be set to default a country-code TLD based on the users system preferences without much trouble and the problem goes away.
It's not as if Nintendo's announcement is any more or less certain.
Both are just marketing announcements of 'plans'.
Nice, vague, noncommital.
No-one goes exclusive to one console without a bucketfull of cash.
Nothing said by someone on the receiving end of a bucketfull of cash should be taken at face value.
It's not just exaggeration for dramatic effect at that point - it's toeing the company line.
stupid UBB code... get out of my brain!
Probably because webTV in the past has always been done at 400 lines of resolution -- which looks like crap.
... you're pretty much at the resolutions that most people have their monitors set to anyway.
at 1080i, or 720p
Throw in a wireless keyboard and you've got 90% of the average home's PC usage on the 360. Slide shows, movies, music, browsing, email, IM (w/voice) & games.
webTV before has been a one-trick pony. Now it'd look just about as good as your desktop, and be a natural extension of a box you'll be using anyway.
not to mention that because it's wholly MS-controlled and DRM'd -- it [i]is[/i] trusted computing. Didn't see it sneak up on us like that, did you?
I'm sure it won't be more than $350.
They'll eat a big loss on the first run to get it out there as fast as possible and their first price cut is on a version without the hard drive. (maybe bundle a pin compatible flash drive or something)
Though I think they'd be remiss if they didn't deliver a neXtBox+PVR in the $500 range.
And if they get Live right, everyone with a wireless keyboard is going to wonder why they spend so much on computers when something like this + HD monitor is good enough for 90% of their computer use. (browsing/mail/chat/games)
Which is why he wraps up his rant by saying he'd rather play spider solitaire?
Yeah, I can see how the discerning consumer demands 'new' games and won't accept tweaks and extensions to well established forms...
Second for D&D:Heroes. The wife and I loved it.
Halo's great too if FPSs are fair game. Similarly with Outlaw Golf. Not exactly coop, but close enough where the competition isn't really against each other, but against yer previous bests and the course itself.
More games need coop.
Because you were spawned by the game, and never assigned parents?
'levels' and 'gear' as it were are bigger legirons on the genre than the 'death penalty'.
SimEarth was a great game for playing while doing laundry.
There wasn't much moment-to-moment interaction, so you could drop the controller just about whenever and just ignore it for 10 minutes or so, rather safely.
That it was so slow might have been part of the problem with its general acceptance.
I guess I'm the only one who was more interested in the possibility that Philip Price and Gary Gilbertson might be making another game?
I'd be optimistic too if I had Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty (Xmen 2) hired on to write it.
(circa february 2004)
This change to Benioff and Weiss... not so much.
What's google need a browser for?
They're already all pointed to their servers anyway. Why bother getting involved in platform wars when you've already won?
'Everyone already knew' that Saddam had WMDs too.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm not too eager to put put too much stock into what 'everyone' in the world community 'knows'.
If you can convince people to pay for it - design introduces dramatic profits.
The internal electronics of a mid-range Mac are not worth twice of what's inside an HP/Dell. And the bundled software is not worth twice as much as what's bundled in your average HP/Dell. So what cost did Apple shoulder to justify people paying double?
Design. (and marketing)
Vivendi is making the same mistake EA made: too many players per server. They've loosened the server caps and dropped their unpopular queues - and now their most popular servers are buckling.
With the 'shard' design, where users per server is capped and they throw more servers at problems - there's very little justification for such overload.
Too many people are forgetting that Dark Age of Camelot has had very very very very few stability problems. In comparison to the rest of the genre - they're downtime's infinitesimal.
Every time a major publisher completely screws up their launch, or fails to deliver a stable product, I give one more proverbial gold star to Mythic. They've proven that it can be done; that there is no reason that we can not demand that level of service.
I've moved on since DAoC, and WoW is my current poison -- and a tasty one at that -- but this genre needs to demand better.
If you register the copyright, you can then sue for punitive damages. If you do not register the copyright, then while your work still is automatically copywritten, you can only sue for earnings the infinging party earned from your work.
Not that you'd be getting anything out of said script kiddie anyway. And, as you point out, it'd be trivial to rewrite a non-infringing version.
Isn't that what this show is supposed to determine? Taking the top ranking champions from the past tournaments of champions shows and putting them up against Ken?
Granted it won't be all-inclusive, but it should answer the question in relative terms whether he really is that much better than everyone else.
Or maybe he's just looking for something without the repetition?
Killing hundreds of blue foozles just to advance to the point where you can kill hundreds of red foozles is not some golden game design. You know what the core difference is between an RPG and a FPS is? Nothing. They're not mutually exclusive.
An RPG is just a game with a strong story context. Look at Thief, System Shock, Deus Ex, or GTA even. They're RPGs. There's just no level treadmill, and the combat resolution in each game is different from the D&D standard. But there's a strong story, character development, and immersion.
There's nothing wrong with the standard game designs per se. They're just wrong for some people. And when those people wish aloud for something different, it isn't any sort of threat to the established standard. No-one has to take your games away to make something new. So why do you care if they want something different; even if, in your opinion, it isn't an RPG or MMORPG that they want?
Actually, WoW took ~5 years.
Assuming they were about a year along when they announced the title at ECTS 2001.
It certainly does 'pwnz' though, as a feller says.