I love how ACs are almost always abrasive assholes who can't form a coherent argument. It's like, classic reverse trolling. So antiquated that it has looped around into some weird sincerity.
Anyways, this is good on MS which is particularly a desktop software company, whereas web-oriented companies like Google should be expected to have acted on this sooner since this affects their entire market.
25% now? That would explain why the costs are so high despite the quality of the accessories not being anything to write home about. At least, compared to the 90% cheaper Chinese knockoffs that manage to hold up just as well.
Bezos and his leadership seems to come across as an arrogant prick, but maybe that's just me.
Because the costs are far beyond prohibitive - ONLY a multimillion or multibillion dollar organization with deep political ties could create and lay their own entire network from scratch.
No, not really. This has been happening for a few years now, it's only coming to a head now. Google's defense of SOPA only made Google an even more perfect target for the hearings they held a while back.
GW2 will have microtransactions but the plan seems to be to have them be as unnecessary as possible. It's "F2P" after the initial purchase, but we'll have to wait and see if they make it Pay2Win or not. I don't have enough experience with GW1 to know how they managed it in the past but I'd imagine that it wasn't to the extent of most other F2P MMOs.
One way or another, their laws will eventually be your laws. You can whine about it all you want, but the American corporations run the whole world, not just one continent.
Said provision is not exactly reasonable, and requires the end user to make many more additional affordances than Sony themselves have to make. This clause should be opt-in rather than opt-out.
4 months away from home and I've just been reading the entire Discworld series of novels. I've never been a fantasy reader but these are really, really good books.
They are just doing everything they can to beat up Google. To tie it and restrict it and (if all else fails) destroy it. Facts be damned.
Congress' brief relationship with silicon valley has long since ended, and they're doing everything their rusty old selves can manage in order to placate and "secure" America's "#1 Industry".
Harper automatically assumes any US position is the correct one. This includes that of their military, politicians and representatives. This is his confirmed platform position and policy, so whenever you assume that the Americans are trying to sell us something, you can be sure that Harper had been asking for it before the salesmen even got out of bed.
I do wonder how people reconcile the fact that it's an MMO with no monthly fee with their belief that such fees are required. "It won't have any players" will probably be the party line.
Because the statement is based off of the assumption that it will lose 99% of its playerbase after the first few months and content injections, particularly because it seems to be nothing more than KOTOR shoehorned into a WoW clone. the star wars license can only carry something oh so far.
1) DCUO is a Sony exclusive. 2) FFXI on the 360 didn't even do as well as the PS2 version. 3) A $60 game is already a hard sell. Requiring Xbox Live for a game to be played at all is a very hard sell. Requiring Xbox Live AND a second subscription fee?
Well, particularly on the Xbox, that would be TWO subscription fees being paid, which automatically divorces so many people from the idea. FFXI really didn't work out too well on the 360 either.
It just isn't a generally good idea, especially for a company that is only just now starting to get some experience with MMOs on any platform.
Many artists, particularly those that aren't yet multimillionares, view the fight against piracy and the fight for multimedia conglomerates to gain more shares of the profits and less to the artists as generally bad. Of course, some don't, but I think the former is a more rational position.
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The price differential is usually less than a dollar though, so you're paying $3.50 for a 3-6 foot instead of $2.50 which really is not a concern.
I love how ACs are almost always abrasive assholes who can't form a coherent argument.
It's like, classic reverse trolling. So antiquated that it has looped around into some weird sincerity.
Anyways, this is good on MS which is particularly a desktop software company, whereas web-oriented companies like Google should be expected to have acted on this sooner since this affects their entire market.
Indeed.
It's all an islamofascist corporate socialiconspiracy.
Get out of here, Dilbert.
25% now? That would explain why the costs are so high despite the quality of the accessories not being anything to write home about.
At least, compared to the 90% cheaper Chinese knockoffs that manage to hold up just as well.
Bezos and his leadership seems to come across as an arrogant prick, but maybe that's just me.
Then they could stop overselling. If you can only support X or 0.x mbps sustained for all of your customers, then make sure that fact is big and bold.
Because the costs are far beyond prohibitive - ONLY a multimillion or multibillion dollar organization with deep political ties could create and lay their own entire network from scratch.
Except that Bell does not throttle TekSavvy, and whenever they try they get smacked down hard and fast.
Then don't sell services that you cannot fulfill 24/7 for all potential customers (barring catastrophes, unexpected outages and so on)
No, not really. This has been happening for a few years now, it's only coming to a head now.
Google's defense of SOPA only made Google an even more perfect target for the hearings they held a while back.
GW2 will have microtransactions but the plan seems to be to have them be as unnecessary as possible. It's "F2P" after the initial purchase, but we'll have to wait and see if they make it Pay2Win or not. I don't have enough experience with GW1 to know how they managed it in the past but I'd imagine that it wasn't to the extent of most other F2P MMOs.
One way or another, their laws will eventually be your laws. You can whine about it all you want, but the American corporations run the whole world, not just one continent.
Said provision is not exactly reasonable, and requires the end user to make many more additional affordances than Sony themselves have to make.
This clause should be opt-in rather than opt-out.
4 months away from home and I've just been reading the entire Discworld series of novels.
I've never been a fantasy reader but these are really, really good books.
They are just doing everything they can to beat up Google. To tie it and restrict it and (if all else fails) destroy it. Facts be damned.
Congress' brief relationship with silicon valley has long since ended, and they're doing everything their rusty old selves can manage in order to placate and "secure" America's "#1 Industry".
Now try getting him to talk about the submarine deal(s) and see how much confusion THAT brings to the table.
Sadly, it has been severely undermined by the prevalence of cheap, ineffective dollar-store duct tape.
Dear Citizen,
Harper automatically assumes any US position is the correct one. This includes that of their military, politicians and representatives. This is his confirmed platform position and policy, so whenever you assume that the Americans are trying to sell us something, you can be sure that Harper had been asking for it before the salesmen even got out of bed.
Better than the swill called "American microbrews".
Of course, that's not saying much.
I do wonder how people reconcile the fact that it's an MMO with no monthly fee with their belief that such fees are required.
"It won't have any players" will probably be the party line.
Because the statement is based off of the assumption that it will lose 99% of its playerbase after the first few months and content injections, particularly because it seems to be nothing more than KOTOR shoehorned into a WoW clone. the star wars license can only carry something oh so far.
1) DCUO is a Sony exclusive.
2) FFXI on the 360 didn't even do as well as the PS2 version.
3) A $60 game is already a hard sell. Requiring Xbox Live for a game to be played at all is a very hard sell. Requiring Xbox Live AND a second subscription fee?
Well, particularly on the Xbox, that would be TWO subscription fees being paid, which automatically divorces so many people from the idea.
FFXI really didn't work out too well on the 360 either.
It just isn't a generally good idea, especially for a company that is only just now starting to get some experience with MMOs on any platform.
Many artists, particularly those that aren't yet multimillionares, view the fight against piracy and the fight for multimedia conglomerates to gain more shares of the profits and less to the artists as generally bad.
Of course, some don't, but I think the former is a more rational position.
Which is why Guild Wars will never have a sequel.
Oh, wait...