Yes like my ipod touch, that for one update i had to PAY to get the upgrade, and now is completely un supported. Yep... apple rules. Oh no, wait.. the suck. And that's why I bough an android phone.
And you don't have to root your phone to get an update, but you CAN.
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I'm not sure where they got those figures, but they were dead wrong. At any given time the past two weeks, there were maybe 300 people on my server. And there were only 2 NA servers. So.. 600 people in the entire country playing.
Also, they had an in game way, to sell in game cash for RTW points which you used to pay for the game. So after buying the game I never put another cent into their pockets as I could sell a nights's worth of cash farming for a month's worth of play time.
I loved the game, and am sad to see it go, but I've been calling that It was going to die for the past month or so.
0*. Buy new graphics card, ram, and cooling fans to be able to run latest game. 0.1* Patch game several times, and download drm crack so that the game runs correctly. 2.1* Game crashes. download latest drivers for video card. 3.1* Game crashes again, new patch is not compatible with old saved games. Start game over.
7* Realize 15 years later that you can't run said game because their drm servers are no longer running and you can't find a copy of the drm crack.
Not really, most pc games take advantage of the extra power by not bothering to optimize their games to the hardware at all, thus you have games on the 6 year old 360, looking nearly as good as on a brand new 1K machine because they've spent the past 6 years wringing every ounce of power out of it, instead of saying, meh.. they can buy a new graphics card ever year.
15 years you say? AMD wasn't even remotely competitive until 99 when the Athlon came out, hell in the early ninties when their "crushing of intel" began... according to you, they weren't even designing their own chips yet, they were just reverse engineering Intel's.
Even since the Athlon came out, there have been may back and forths in price and performance.
And FYI, I happen to buy which ever processor is better at the moment, which Is why I own some from both companies. I just hate fanboys like you.
I keep my 360's isolated on their own table, power brick on the cool tile floor. And yet I'm on my 4th one. First 2 died from RRoD (day of purchace, and then 8 months later), Third one died of a dead DVD drive.
I play a lot of games, and watched a lot of DvD's on the last one. But in any case, a $400 piece of hardware should not fail this often.
OH, and BTW each of my consoles that died were returned to BB for a brand new one, so I'm not talking about refurbished crap, these were all brand new consoles.
So, while you may not have had any problems LOTS of people have, or microsoft would have never caved and extended the warranty, so don't try to downplay it.
Too bad MTV isn't going to develop it anymore (idiots for killing a golden franchise)
MTV CAN'T make any more Guitar Hero games, since Activision bought publisher red octane that owns the rights to the game. While MTV only bought Harmonix, the original developers of GH.
So Guitar Hero 3 is in the works, but a different developer(NeverSoft) will be writing it.
The medium the game comes on will not effect the quality of the game. True, they might have to make the game span more than one disk to fit the same amount of content. But that does not in any way mean the game will be of lower visual quality than the PS3 version.
Multipule disk games happened all the time on the PSOne and other older systems, and since dvds are so cheap to produce it's not going to overly effect the bottom line.
A few weeks, huh? My first one, lasted all of 4 hours, my second one lasted 8 months, I'm now on my 3rd.
Sure I could have skimped and not bought the 2 year service plan that I got, but I much prefer the service I've gotten for the first 2 failures, all it took was 10 minutes and I had a new 360 ready to go, instead of waiting weeks to mail it back and have microsoft fix it.
So, enjoy your roll of the dice... but statistically speaking the odds aren't in your favor..... either that or I just have really, really crappy luck.
For a while I used http://www.streamsicle.com/,it takes a bit to figgure out and get working properly, but after that it works great and sounds like what you need, as all you really seem to want is a way to remotely change songs.
Hey this reminds me of another OS company that makes minor changes every year and then charges for it. Now what was that name again? Some kind of fruit I think... umm... orange... no... bannana.. hmmm not quite, kiwi? Nope. Ohhhh yea, it's Apple.
Has anyone else looked at amazon's sales ranks since this happened? I just looked and of the top 5 selling videogames GTA:SA for different platforms takes 1st, 2nd, and 4th. I'd say they are still doing fine.
That's utter bullshit. I have 4+ cd/dvd burning programs on my computer, daemon tools, and a few other programs that would probably fall into those catagories and BF2 gave me no problems installing what so ever.
Accually Probably not. God of War had a sex mini game included in it, that you didn't have to crack the game to access. And it only has a mature rating.
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Over 700,000 of them sold in one day on black Friday, so yes, I'd say that qualifies as popular.
Sprint's 4G network is uncapped. (it's actually run by clearwire).
Their 3G is capped at 5GB a month though.
Sprints 3G is capped at 5 Gig, their 4G is uncapped.
Yes like my ipod touch, that for one update i had to PAY to get the upgrade, and now is completely un supported. Yep... apple rules. Oh no, wait.. the suck. And that's why I bough an android phone.
And you don't have to root your phone to get an update, but you CAN.
Damn fanboys.
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I'm not sure where they got those figures, but they were dead wrong. At any given time the past two weeks, there were maybe 300 people on my server. And there were only 2 NA servers. So.. 600 people in the entire country playing.
Also, they had an in game way, to sell in game cash for RTW points which you used to pay for the game. So after buying the game I never put another cent into their pockets as I could sell a nights's worth of cash farming for a month's worth of play time.
I loved the game, and am sad to see it go, but I've been calling that It was going to die for the past month or so.
There is already one that I know of. http://www.actiondistrict.com/
0*. Buy new graphics card, ram, and cooling fans to be able to run latest game.
0.1* Patch game several times, and download drm crack so that the game runs correctly.
2.1* Game crashes. download latest drivers for video card.
3.1* Game crashes again, new patch is not compatible with old saved games. Start game over.
7* Realize 15 years later that you can't run said game because their drm servers are no longer running and you can't find a copy of the drm crack.
I could keep going.
Not really, most pc games take advantage of the extra power by not bothering to optimize their games to the hardware at all, thus you have games on the 6 year old 360, looking nearly as good as on a brand new 1K machine because they've spent the past 6 years wringing every ounce of power out of it, instead of saying, meh.. they can buy a new graphics card ever year.
15 years you say? AMD wasn't even remotely competitive until 99 when the Athlon came out, hell in the early ninties when their "crushing of intel" began... according to you, they weren't even designing their own chips yet, they were just reverse engineering Intel's.
Even since the Athlon came out, there have been may back and forths in price and performance.
And FYI, I happen to buy which ever processor is better at the moment, which Is why I own some from both companies. I just hate fanboys like you.
Well, I must just have really crappy luck then.
I keep my 360's isolated on their own table, power brick on the cool tile floor. And yet I'm on my 4th one. First 2 died from RRoD (day of purchace, and then 8 months later), Third one died of a dead DVD drive.
I play a lot of games, and watched a lot of DvD's on the last one. But in any case, a $400 piece of hardware should not fail this often.
OH, and BTW each of my consoles that died were returned to BB for a brand new one, so I'm not talking about refurbished crap, these were all brand new consoles.
So, while you may not have had any problems LOTS of people have, or microsoft would have never caved and extended the warranty, so don't try to downplay it.
PS... wtf do you own 3 of them?
First one died within 8 hours of purchase, RRoD. 2nd one died 8 months later RRoD, 3rd one died 6 months after that, cd drive crapped out.
Best Buy covered all 3 death's but the third one required me to blow 60 bucks on a new "Protection Racket".
So I'm covered for any more RRod's for 2 more years.. and my "Protection Racket" will cover me for at least one more dvd drive failure.
I refuse to spend any more on this system, so my only question left is how many more I'll have die on me before I'm out of freebies.
So Guitar Hero 3 is in the works, but a different developer(NeverSoft) will be writing it.
The medium the game comes on will not effect the quality of the game. True, they might have to make the game span more than one disk to fit the same amount of content. But that does not in any way mean the game will be of lower visual quality than the PS3 version.
Multipule disk games happened all the time on the PSOne and other older systems, and since dvds are so cheap to produce it's not going to overly effect the bottom line.
A few weeks, huh?
.... either that or I just have really, really crappy luck.
My first one, lasted all of 4 hours, my second one lasted 8 months, I'm now on my 3rd.
Sure I could have skimped and not bought the 2 year service plan that I got, but I much prefer the service I've gotten for the first 2 failures, all it took was 10 minutes and I had a new 360 ready to go, instead of waiting weeks to mail it back and have microsoft fix it.
So, enjoy your roll of the dice... but statistically speaking the odds aren't in your favor.
Oooo, somebody works for the RIAA...
Correction:
You can't do that with OUR music either. Sincerely, --RIAA
Hey there,
,it takes a bit to figgure out and get working properly, but after that it works great and sounds like what you need, as all you really seem to want is a way to remotely change songs.
For a while I used http://www.streamsicle.com/
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You mean turning off the monitor doesnt do that?!?!?
I say that to my girlfriend all the time.
I've had a Intel Inside Pentium 4 "sticker" on my Ipod Mini since I got it back when they came out.
I've been using Seti through Boinc for almost a year now, all this happens to be is them offically forcing everyone to move over.
Hey this reminds me of another OS company that makes minor changes every year and then charges for it. Now what was that name again? Some kind of fruit I think... umm... orange... no... bannana.. hmmm not quite, kiwi? Nope. Ohhhh yea, it's Apple.
Has anyone else looked at amazon's sales ranks since this happened? I just looked and of the top 5 selling videogames GTA:SA for different platforms takes 1st, 2nd, and 4th. I'd say they are still doing fine.
That's utter bullshit. I have 4+ cd/dvd burning programs on my computer, daemon tools, and a few other programs that would probably fall into those catagories and BF2 gave me no problems installing what so ever.
Accually Probably not. God of War had a sex mini game included in it, that you didn't have to crack the game to access. And it only has a mature rating.