What do you mean what happened to that kind of pre-order disk? Surely you don;t expect to get something like that with every big name game. The Wind Waker preorder was the exception, not the rule.
I spent two years making an almost silent pc. I picked out low speed fans, the best heatsink, giant passive video card coolers, Lian-Li aluminum case, a baybus to toggle extra fans on and off for hot summer days and gaming, rounded cables, etc.. I had it perfect.
And then my silent power supply up and died. Needing a new one, I went to a local cmoputer shop and bought an Antec Truepower, which was advertised as silent. Man was I wrong. It regulates its temperature, so the hotter it is inside the case the faster the fan spins, and it always seems to want to spin at top speed, despite the fact that my cpu isn't going to die a fiery death at 45c anytime soon. The incessant grinding drives me insane.
If it didn't take 4 hours to take the psu out of my setup and then another 4 to put in a costly new one, I'd be happy.
It's possible that by lowering the blocking that Trustic's service would block less spam than other services. Couple this with another possibility, them being unable to justify the resources to fix/improve the service to the level of quality they want, and their best bet is to make available their work to others and axe it.
I'd think that stores like Best Buy had a much bigger contribution in shutting down places like the Music Warehouse. Hmmm, should I buy a cd for $12 at Best Buy or $20 at Sam Goody? The only reason that anyone I know goes to Sam Goody is when they can't find a cd they want at Best Buy (which isn't often), and when they do they whine about having to pay so much more. Piracy probably had some effect on those stores, but I have a feeling they closed because Best Buy is better at selling cds.
Do you know how business works? They charge the maximum amount for every product until consumers will pay no more. EVERY business does this. Yes there are sales and monopoly pricing blah bah blah but in the end its all to rake in more profit, not to make the people who buy your stuff feel happy on the inside.
But then maybe you just think that all business are scum.
The fact of the matter is that developers know they can get away with releasing buggy crap products. Sequels that have built a huge name-recognition factor will sell miullions to people who get their gaming news only from PS2 commercials. They run out and buy Enter the Matrix, Tomb Raider 12, Army Men 14, etc. The devs know that cutting the debugging and QA budget will save them more money than the remaining bugs will cost them in lower sales.
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There hasn't been a spaceworld for like three years.
What do you mean what happened to that kind of pre-order disk? Surely you don;t expect to get something like that with every big name game. The Wind Waker preorder was the exception, not the rule.
Let's hope it still is in four years!
*back to writing personal statements and filling out law school apps*
I spent two years making an almost silent pc. I picked out low speed fans, the best heatsink, giant passive video card coolers, Lian-Li aluminum case, a baybus to toggle extra fans on and off for hot summer days and gaming, rounded cables, etc.. I had it perfect.
And then my silent power supply up and died. Needing a new one, I went to a local cmoputer shop and bought an Antec Truepower, which was advertised as silent. Man was I wrong. It regulates its temperature, so the hotter it is inside the case the faster the fan spins, and it always seems to want to spin at top speed, despite the fact that my cpu isn't going to die a fiery death at 45c anytime soon. The incessant grinding drives me insane.
If it didn't take 4 hours to take the psu out of my setup and then another 4 to put in a costly new one, I'd be happy.
It's possible that by lowering the blocking that Trustic's service would block less spam than other services. Couple this with another possibility, them being unable to justify the resources to fix/improve the service to the level of quality they want, and their best bet is to make available their work to others and axe it.
Seems less like trolling and more like random filler material to me.
I'd think that stores like Best Buy had a much bigger contribution in shutting down places like the Music Warehouse. Hmmm, should I buy a cd for $12 at Best Buy or $20 at Sam Goody? The only reason that anyone I know goes to Sam Goody is when they can't find a cd they want at Best Buy (which isn't often), and when they do they whine about having to pay so much more. Piracy probably had some effect on those stores, but I have a feeling they closed because Best Buy is better at selling cds.
p.s. are funny mods bad for karma?
You gotta love how companies like Shuttle, MSI, and Nintendo are slowly changing the definition of the word cube into "randomly sized box."
Then again, the movie changed it to "crap", so maybe this is a good thing.
I hated Raiden.
No, slashdot discriminates against people with down's syndrome. Kind of like the whole microsoft thing.
Do you know how business works? They charge the maximum amount for every product until consumers will pay no more. EVERY business does this. Yes there are sales and monopoly pricing blah bah blah but in the end its all to rake in more profit, not to make the people who buy your stuff feel happy on the inside.
But then maybe you just think that all business are scum.
The fact of the matter is that developers know they can get away with releasing buggy crap products. Sequels that have built a huge name-recognition factor will sell miullions to people who get their gaming news only from PS2 commercials. They run out and buy Enter the Matrix, Tomb Raider 12, Army Men 14, etc. The devs know that cutting the debugging and QA budget will save them more money than the remaining bugs will cost them in lower sales.
sounds more like you're depressed, so your navigational skills suffer which makes you suck. which makes you more depressed...