Uhh... I'm paying money for it. They DO owe me a good game. Why would I give them money for a bad game?
Vote with your dollars. If you don't like a game, don't buy it, go buy something else. Whinging about what a bad game or company it is if it doesn't meet your standards is sour grapes.
Some gamers have moved from a perspective of critical approval before purchase, "If it's a good game then I'll get it" to a sense of entitlement, "they owe me a good game".
It would be interesting to see if there is any correlation between this entitlement and when a game is marketed as "teh bestest game ever!!11!!" Once you have promised the customer a good game and you expect them to save their money and time for your game instead of the competitors then you can expect some flak if you don't live up to your promises.
There is still no excuse for death threats but expect people to be angry if you waste their time with hollow expectations.
Advertising a game with a load of pictures and hyperbole is a waste of effort. The word gets around that it's good or bad and it sells or does not sell. All they need to do is email people who are registered for their last game there's a new one out and Word of Mouth will do the rest.
Some gamers have moved from a perspective of critical approval before purchase, "If it's a good game then I'll get it" to a sense of entitlement, "they owe me a good game".
Run that up against the whole process of finding a game idea, fleshing it out, coding it, adding the art & sound, network support, testing, packaging, marketing and if you are in the business you wonder how you succeed at all.
There is not much Microsoft can do but change it's business models to believe in the customer and quit treating them similar to criminals.
They're following the business models of Hollywood and the Music industry - customers are all potential criminals, stupid and must be told what they want and what is good entertainment, would be completely lost without us and must be utterly crushed it we even suspect they are violating anything we view as being with our rights (or just for the heck of it to scare everyone else and keep them in line.)
Even dear old George Lucas took his sweet time releasing Star Wars on DVD until he figured his point, whatever the heck it was, had been made. Then the rotter still made money off them by the deathstarload.
It seems like some of the problem here is that Javascript is the Lingua Franca, and also that it has to use the web pages DOM. If the system were being designed from scratch, it seems unlikely this would be the choice.
Javascript is a very sloppy language for doing anything in. People, like me, continue to write in it because there's little alternative.
The two are not the same. Netflix you are renting X files for the next 30 days. You know this. No expectations that you can stop playing the £Y and movies will still magic onto your tellybox.
"Buy" a game from Steam/Xbox/Origin/what evs and you pay just the once and expect it to continue working.
One you are getting a service, the other you are getting a product.
I'm certain Starbucks follows this same model - you sit around in their extravagant little shoppe, renting coffee (you'll never own it, it'll be turned over to the Department of Public Works in due course) and feel like you are getting something more for your money. In reality shows they make a big show of producing some hot solution from blasting steam through a handful of ground south american beans.
You could just buy your coffee beans at the market and enjoy them at your leisure at home until such time as said beans turn rancid (you can keep them longer in the fridge.
I've yet to get into Netflix, largely because I watch stuff piecemeal on a portable DVD player I bought about 10 years ago (still works and dumb as a rock, so doesn't know the first thing about region coding, w00t!) Having big stack of DVDs around is handy, but I truly despise the advertising crap before movies, sometimes as many as 6 plugs for other movies (which is the strongest motivation I've ever had to rip my DVDs, so I can put the content I want to watch somewhere I can get to it easily, without all the delay and frustration).
"and let's see if we can whip of a decent clone of Space Invaders."
Really, to make Windows more game friendly kick all that cruft out of it which pre-loads into memory just in case I want to fire up Excel, which I don't have installed and foolishness like that. To be game friendly it needs to be lean, not bloated.
It was supposed to have a 3.5 year mission. It appears that it might have come pretty close to that, but it didn't get nearly the data it was supposed to. This is pretty disappointing and they should probably hold a formal design review to determine what went wrong in the design and construction and determine if a replacement should be built to finally accomplish the mission that was planned.
You're talking a lot of sense there. We learn from our mistakes. Here's an opportunity to learn.
I remember a great evening with the family when we were reading reviews for laxatives and other products like it. It's just so funny for people to be open about their, er, regular habits. [...]
I've written quite a lot, including some very silly ones (none of these were mine, thank goodness) but there are some items I've been waiting on and reading early reviews which are more troll or speculative opinion than review. Others were informative. And then there were a lot of Wow, you took this product through the mill, didn't you, are you alright? Hope the injuries heal quick.. sort of thing.
many employment contracts likely require minimum notice of termination as a condition which you must agree to
Meanwhile, there are some employers who have fired employees for giving notice and their act of disloyalty.
Really depends upon the employer, but trying to avoid burning bridges is generally considered good practice and a respectful thing to do.
The company who picked up my former co-workers forbade them to talk to me under threat of immediate termination - I never worked for them, I just decided not to sign on with an outsourcing company and left for greener pastures.
Probably best to keep track of how your employer handles things and what potential non-competitive clauses you may have to step around if you are thinking of leaving at some point.
How much more NIMBY can you get? Just build it already!
What's really fascinating is how much crap has already been detonated in the name of research in the Nevada desert and yet this can't seem to move forward, decade upon decade. Not like the place has more faults than California and yet this happened. But anything with desert all over the top is wasteland and ideal, right? Rather than some immensely stable place like in the Dakotas. Makes for good popcorn-munching drama after all these years.
Yucca Mountain has been the Hot Potato of American politics since it was proposed. If anything was going to be done, it'll be too late.
I didn't even know it was open and processing/storing waste. A friend worked at Hanford and told me how grim things where there and it would need to be relieved of storing any additional waste as it was over capacity and having great difficulty with what it had, something to do with putting leaking vaults into bigger vaults because some old contractor had mixed concrete wrong or the spec was wrong or both (not really too surprising, considering the massive tomes which must be making up 'regulations' these days.)
Effectively this is the SCOTUS telling the NRC to read, rubber-stamp, shuffle, rubber-stamp, collate, file, retrieve, shuffle, rubber-stamp and push pencils much faster. A bureaucrat's nightmare!
"who took my left-handed, Thursday, month-without-an-R-in-it, special issue Red Tape Cutting scissors?!?"
Government plans tend to make me wonder if they ever just step back and listen to what they just said before they go and do it.
It's not the elected leaders who come up with this stuff, it's the promoted leaders in the DoD. Internet was a good thing, but it probably started as some plan to wipe out communism using university research.
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Must be spinning in his grave ... oh wait...
Uhh... I'm paying money for it. They DO owe me a good game. Why would I give them money for a bad game?
Vote with your dollars. If you don't like a game, don't buy it, go buy something else. Whinging about what a bad game or company it is if it doesn't meet your standards is sour grapes.
Some gamers have moved from a perspective of critical approval before purchase, "If it's a good game then I'll get it" to a sense of entitlement, "they owe me a good game".
It would be interesting to see if there is any correlation between this entitlement and when a game is marketed as "teh bestest game ever!!11!!"
Once you have promised the customer a good game and you expect them to save their money and time for your game instead of the competitors then you can expect some flak if you don't live up to your promises.
There is still no excuse for death threats but expect people to be angry if you waste their time with hollow expectations.
Advertising a game with a load of pictures and hyperbole is a waste of effort. The word gets around that it's good or bad and it sells or does not sell. All they need to do is email people who are registered for their last game there's a new one out and Word of Mouth will do the rest.
Just like car owners and sports fans, once you spend a certain amount of money on an industry you start getting rather passionate about the subject.
Hello World XXVII will be Extreme! Would we lie to you?
You can even ask our marketing department after they get back from sacrificing a goat at their alter to Baal.
Some gamers have moved from a perspective of critical approval before purchase, "If it's a good game then I'll get it" to a sense of entitlement, "they owe me a good game".
Run that up against the whole process of finding a game idea, fleshing it out, coding it, adding the art & sound, network support, testing, packaging, marketing and if you are in the business you wonder how you succeed at all.
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There is not much Microsoft can do but change it's business models to believe in the customer and quit treating them similar to criminals.
They're following the business models of Hollywood and the Music industry - customers are all potential criminals, stupid and must be told what they want and what is good entertainment, would be completely lost without us and must be utterly crushed it we even suspect they are violating anything we view as being with our rights (or just for the heck of it to scare everyone else and keep them in line.)
Even dear old George Lucas took his sweet time releasing Star Wars on DVD until he figured his point, whatever the heck it was, had been made. Then the rotter still made money off them by the deathstarload.
It seems like some of the problem here is that Javascript is the Lingua Franca, and also that it has to use the web pages DOM. If the system were being designed from scratch, it seems unlikely this would be the choice.
Javascript is a very sloppy language for doing anything in. People, like me, continue to write in it because there's little alternative.
Writing in javascript drives people insane.
sent from my padded cell
I'm sure they won't do this to the Windows 8 Marketplace.
That's like telling a cat to stay away from the curtains and expecting it to listen.
Typical Microsoft.
Closing something down at little or no notice.
The next incarnation will cost everyone $$$$ just to join.
Thank you sir, may I have another?!?
It's all about the re-org, consolidation, maintaining a revenue stream and keeping shareholders.
When have Microsoft ever told you that you are Number 1 in their book?
1) Remove Windows
2) Install Ubuntu
3) Install Steam
You do know you can use those old Windows install CDs/DVDs to play with like a Frisbee or ring toss and such.
even the old 3.1 discs can be stacked like Jenga!
The two are not the same.
Netflix you are renting X files for the next 30 days. You know this. No expectations that you can stop playing the £Y and movies will still magic onto your tellybox.
"Buy" a game from Steam/Xbox/Origin/what evs and you pay just the once and expect it to continue working.
One you are getting a service, the other you are getting a product.
I'm certain Starbucks follows this same model - you sit around in their extravagant little shoppe, renting coffee (you'll never own it, it'll be turned over to the Department of Public Works in due course) and feel like you are getting something more for your money. In reality shows they make a big show of producing some hot solution from blasting steam through a handful of ground south american beans.
You could just buy your coffee beans at the market and enjoy them at your leisure at home until such time as said beans turn rancid (you can keep them longer in the fridge.
I've yet to get into Netflix, largely because I watch stuff piecemeal on a portable DVD player I bought about 10 years ago (still works and dumb as a rock, so doesn't know the first thing about region coding, w00t!) Having big stack of DVDs around is handy, but I truly despise the advertising crap before movies, sometimes as many as 6 plugs for other movies (which is the strongest motivation I've ever had to rip my DVDs, so I can put the content I want to watch somewhere I can get to it easily, without all the delay and frustration).
"and let's see if we can whip of a decent clone of Space Invaders."
Really, to make Windows more game friendly kick all that cruft out of it which pre-loads into memory just in case I want to fire up Excel, which I don't have installed and foolishness like that. To be game friendly it needs to be lean, not bloated.
Art Bell is an alien himself.
You heard it here first.
So is Rush Limbaugh, that's not lard, it is actually him hiding his tentacles in his costume.
Kang or Kodos - You decide.
It was supposed to have a 3.5 year mission. It appears that it might have come pretty close to that, but it didn't get nearly the data it was supposed to. This is pretty disappointing and they should probably hold a formal design review to determine what went wrong in the design and construction and determine if a replacement should be built to finally accomplish the mission that was planned.
You're talking a lot of sense there. We learn from our mistakes. Here's an opportunity to learn.
Let's not forget that they crashed one in Russia.
It was shot down, and the Russian's had proof .. they paraded the pilot out after all the denials and he said "In Soviet Russia denials shout U2!"
I remember a great evening with the family when we were reading reviews for laxatives and other products like it. It's just so funny for people to be open about their, er, regular habits. [...]
I've written quite a lot, including some very silly ones (none of these were mine, thank goodness) but there are some items I've been waiting on and reading early reviews which are more troll or speculative opinion than review. Others were informative. And then there were a lot of Wow, you took this product through the mill, didn't you, are you alright? Hope the injuries heal quick .. sort of thing.
I'm reading this while wearing my three wolf moon shirt. It's the best shirt in the world, if only it glowed in the dark.
Console your self with the banana slicer, but not while you are wearing the horse mask.
It wasn't me, it was the other guy.
many employment contracts likely require minimum notice of termination as a condition which you must agree to
Meanwhile, there are some employers who have fired employees for giving notice and their act of disloyalty.
Really depends upon the employer, but trying to avoid burning bridges is generally considered good practice and a respectful thing to do.
The company who picked up my former co-workers forbade them to talk to me under threat of immediate termination - I never worked for them, I just decided not to sign on with an outsourcing company and left for greener pastures.
Probably best to keep track of how your employer handles things and what potential non-competitive clauses you may have to step around if you are thinking of leaving at some point.
Stockholders win the lawsuit and each get 10 bucks. Microsoft stock takes a huge hit. Stockholders lose a lot more than 10 bucks.
Nevermind, I forgot about the lawyers. The lawyers always win.
Yeah, Microsoft can't even lose money properly. Uh.. Does this mean someone can sue me if I take a lower paying job?!? Lawyers are the new worms.
How much more NIMBY can you get? Just build it already!
What's really fascinating is how much crap has already been detonated in the name of research in the Nevada desert and yet this can't seem to move forward, decade upon decade. Not like the place has more faults than California and yet this happened. But anything with desert all over the top is wasteland and ideal, right? Rather than some immensely stable place like in the Dakotas. Makes for good popcorn-munching drama after all these years.
Yucca Mountain has been the Hot Potato of American politics since it was proposed. If anything was going to be done, it'll be too late.
I didn't even know it was open and processing/storing waste. A friend worked at Hanford and told me how grim things where there and it would need to be relieved of storing any additional waste as it was over capacity and having great difficulty with what it had, something to do with putting leaking vaults into bigger vaults because some old contractor had mixed concrete wrong or the spec was wrong or both (not really too surprising, considering the massive tomes which must be making up 'regulations' these days.)
Effectively this is the SCOTUS telling the NRC to read, rubber-stamp, shuffle, rubber-stamp, collate, file, retrieve, shuffle, rubber-stamp and push pencils much faster. A bureaucrat's nightmare!
"who took my left-handed, Thursday, month-without-an-R-in-it, special issue Red Tape Cutting scissors?!?"
A portable, one man blimp with pedal power.
just try to keep me out of your cactus farm now!
Government plans tend to make me wonder if they ever just step back and listen to what they just said before they go and do it.
It's not the elected leaders who come up with this stuff, it's the promoted leaders in the DoD. Internet was a good thing, but it probably started as some plan to wipe out communism using university research.
Oh those Russians! However, I don't think Russia is the evil side anymore. We should find a way to block the US spying on the entire world.
Not even the US has as pervasive in spying on its own people as the UK (and many UK citizens are all for it, amazing enough.)
Which is the most free country left in the world?