But you are supporting consoles, you bought the unit didn't you? That is all that MS needs to know that they sold X units, which gives them bragging rights, plus it gives them sway with games developers as to what platform games should be ported to first. Remember the good old days when GTA was on the PC only? when Halo was originally developed for the PC?
You are playing the games, albeit they are pirated (so you say). However have you played these games in absolute silence? or did you tell friends about how cool game X is?
I agree completely, never trust surveys and the like, as they are 99% (ha ha) of the time geared towards the intrests of the company. Wait for an independant study, but even these are only a "best guess" of the population, depending on where/when/how the study was done.
Obviously Macrovision does not have any foot hold in the console industry and they are using the good old FUD approach to do so, to increase their profit. Sure there are alot of pirate out there, but not enough to warrent a massive copy protection frenzy for the consoles. Macrovision, go home and sit with your Fox "news" and leave us alone.
The illegal downloading of motion pictures robs thousands of honest, hard-working people of their livelihood, and stifles creativity.
Christ! "stifles creativity"? I didn't realize people have been downloading movies since the 50's. I mean how many rehashes of the same plot lines are there? not to mention remakes.
The AC is right, as much as I hate to admit it (I love PC games and hate the console). If a console game has bugs in it, the game likly won't sell, thus ends the life of that product/company/developer. They must have to be very rigid on quality. **However** that being said, the cheap way out of this is to limit your players abilities (FF7 comes to mind) You couldn't go anywhere you wanted you were limited to certain "hot spots" that you could enter/open/activate. There was a PC port of this game as well. Then take a game like GTA (from the top of my head) it is more open, however you can't interact with as much in the game as per se Ultima 7, where you could practicly do anything you wanted (U7 only had one patch).
I think alot of people seem to be ignoring the general issue, that developers have two ways out making a good quality game:
- limit the user - rely on patches
However even that is a loaded statement as games are more and more complicated now and release dates are set years in advance (due to development time), plus a limited game doesn't mean that it isn't fun or of good quality either. Testing these complicated games is getting quite rough I would imagine. A interesting trend is to look back at some of the older games and see how many patches were released for them, vs today. Complexity and number of patches almost seem to be on a parallel incline.
No we are quite alright, its being led by Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini. So if they find something and return, cool! if they find something and get eaten, cool! Its win win.
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One day I hope to take her out on a date.
'her'? I think you are making a big assumption, as that description fits the guy in the cube next to me perfectly.
I think your in trouble.
Dude....thats just not funny.
But you are supporting consoles, you bought the unit didn't you? That is all that MS needs to know that they sold X units, which gives them bragging rights, plus it gives them sway with games developers as to what platform games should be ported to first. Remember the good old days when GTA was on the PC only? when Halo was originally developed for the PC?
You are playing the games, albeit they are pirated (so you say). However have you played these games in absolute silence? or did you tell friends about how cool game X is?
So unfortunatly your still supporting them...
I agree completely, never trust surveys and the like, as they are 99% (ha ha) of the time geared towards the intrests of the company. Wait for an independant study, but even these are only a "best guess" of the population, depending on where/when/how the study was done.
Obviously Macrovision does not have any foot hold in the console industry and they are using the good old FUD approach to do so, to increase their profit. Sure there are alot of pirate out there, but not enough to warrent a massive copy protection frenzy for the consoles. Macrovision, go home and sit with your Fox "news" and leave us alone.
You moderators are morons, did you not see that I had my e-mail address in the stupid signature... ITS A JOKE... so eager to mod people down.
Pehshaw! Shows what the hell you know, we are after the root of all evil, and everyone *knows* that SPECTOR is behind all.
Yeah I think I remember that, "do your worst" IIRC...anyway it was an attempt at a poor joke (note my signature).
Don't publish your e-mail address in a public forum, only idots do crap like that and they get what they deserve.
Just move onto the next excuse, that spyware installed/downloaded it all without your knowledge.
Is the EA course Going to try and take over the Ubisoft course?
No, but EA's course will have a class on buying stocks in rivals companys and how to slowly crush everyone to death.
The illegal downloading of motion pictures robs thousands of honest, hard-working people of their livelihood, and stifles creativity.
Christ! "stifles creativity"? I didn't realize people have been downloading movies since the 50's. I mean how many rehashes of the same plot lines are there? not to mention remakes.
Winnipeg had a hockey team?
Here is PA's take on the new bot.
You ask your questions, just let me ask mine.
1. Richard, can I please please please work for you?
The AC is right, as much as I hate to admit it (I love PC games and hate the console). If a console game has bugs in it, the game likly won't sell, thus ends the life of that product/company/developer. They must have to be very rigid on quality. **However** that being said, the cheap way out of this is to limit your players abilities (FF7 comes to mind) You couldn't go anywhere you wanted you were limited to certain "hot spots" that you could enter/open/activate. There was a PC port of this game as well. Then take a game like GTA (from the top of my head) it is more open, however you can't interact with as much in the game as per se Ultima 7, where you could practicly do anything you wanted (U7 only had one patch).
I think alot of people seem to be ignoring the general issue, that developers have two ways out making a good quality game:
- limit the user
- rely on patches
However even that is a loaded statement as games are more and more complicated now and release dates are set years in advance (due to development time), plus a limited game doesn't mean that it isn't fun or of good quality either. Testing these complicated games is getting quite rough I would imagine. A interesting trend is to look back at some of the older games and see how many patches were released for them, vs today. Complexity and number of patches almost seem to be on a parallel incline.
.. oh... joy.
Our goal is to make the Linux desktop a first class citizen and we think today's releases are a good first step in that direction.
I can attest to this, as they royaly fucked my Windows system the last time I installed Real player on it.
Thank God they when they way they did, I'd hate to see them go commando.
I've seen a lot of green stuff in that river, but I didn't think it was energy.
Thats because you came during the day, stop by at night, the green stuff will be glowing then.
Are you sure? the article is from CNN, and you can't get worse journalism/misrepresentation than that. On CNN everything is *high alert*.
"overcome bug infestations, unpredictable weather and disgruntled employees"
They forgot, 'and incredibly boring gameplay'
No we are quite alright, its being led by Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini. So if they find something and return, cool! if they find something and get eaten, cool! Its win win.
Quote from Quake 2 - "You crazy rocket jumpers"
Like a 486 on its last legs, fans barely moving, and the smell of cooking dust.... ahhhh.
Yet Another Degrading DVD
Has episode three already been released?