If you're building your game to leverage server resources, players just connect to a datacenter, and get matchmade with other players there, likely pairing players with similar latency. Even if there are relatively few people playing, you'll probably get a pretty good experience, as at least one end of the connection for all players is pretty solid.
Long long ago, in a galaxy far far away, there was a world where people could run their own game servers and everyone would be happy.
The cloud computing that MS is talking about with the XBox One occurs once you are already in-game and is an offloading of certain resource computations which the local unit *can* do itself.
If local unit *can* do it already, why would I want to offload it to the 'cloud'?
I mean, I understand it from Microsoft's point of view, they only want to fuck over customers, but what benefits would I have, when my local unit *can* do this already?
It'll free some CPU/GPU cycles on my local unit so that I can see more ads or what?
I came across Crunchbang few days ago, when I noticed it on distrowatch front page. I needed something light so I've decided to try it.
It is seriously impressive. Install is very very simple and intuitive (and supports full-disk encryption in installer - fairly important for me), it is logical, desktop looks nice, it's fast.
It was one of those really nice surprises you don't expect:)
The vast majority do have demos, and in this particular case there is a demo as well.
And I am sure people interested in the game would/will download the demo.
So, why did the unknown game studio feel a need to upload completely unknown game to the biggest tracker in the world, and whine when people started downloading it?
They have a demo available, I am sure all interested gamers would have found it. Problem is that noone knows about them or their game, so they went with publicity stunt.
THe real game is $8, and DRM free. Theyre experiencing the same 93.5% piracy rate that the poisoned copy reflects.
Id say its pretty darn realistic, yes.
Do you also get a chance to crack your own game, in this simulator, and upload it to the biggest torrent tracker?
And then play the victim card?
Of course you will have people downloading your game when you upload it to the biggest torrent tracker. You will have hundreds of people (bots, more likely) downloading a picture of a poo, on that tracker.
That tracker is a major source of content for bored people. And there are lots of bored people in this world. And they download absolutely anything.
Again, this game was $8 USD. Additionally, the game is DRM-free, available on all platforms, and is being ported to Steam as well. This is an indy company with very consumer-oriented and forward-thinking ideas who simply conducted a fun little experiment on sales versus pirated copies.
Every single legitimate argument pirates spout cannot be applied to this situation. The game was DRM free, ported to all major OSes, offered a playable demo on their website, and very reasonably priced at $8 USD (cheaper than many mobile games).
... and noone has ever heard of that game.
You are missing the main point. People are downloading the 'pirated' copy because it's there, not because they really wanted to get a pirated copy of Game Dev Tycoon.
Interesting question is - if they haven't released the pirated copy, how many people would have downloaded it (assuming anyone would even bothering cracking it)?
Yes, that sounds like a very well-measured and thought-out response. Well done, sir. Especially since the culprit for the emails is probably a typo when someone else signed up, if you have a simple last-name-only email address
I also know some parents who would not understand such a prank at all. I think most kids would know their parents well enough to decide to whether to go along with this prank or not.
If you think this is a "prank", you really haven't learned anything in life.
No, at best they get you back in a funny way; at worst you freak them out for a bit and after a short laugh you set them straight.
If your parent are nutjobs and take some insane extreme measure in response then you've got serious problems and it's better you know that your parents are morons sooner rather than later.
You are an idiot. Would you happen to use iPhone too?
Most of the web's video is streamed from Netflix. That's mostly streamed through Silverlight or browser specific plugins.
How does letting HTML5 natively stream Netflix encourage proprietary browser plugins!? If just Netflix switched over (and they've said they intend to once DRM is in the spec) then by definition the majority of HTML5 streaming will be using less not more browser plugins.
And DRM will be made as... what exactly? You realize that each 'provider' will have their own DRM "plugin" which will only pollute everything?
No, Netflix will not magically start streaming HTML5 videos without requiring you to install additional things. Even with HTML5 DRM.
It used to be the West that was fucking up the planet and now China has taken over that role. If they want to continue to grow without killing the rest of us then they have a hell of a lot of work to do.
Maybe if the West hasn't outsourced whole fucking production of just about everything, to China, they'd still be fucking up the planet?
Are you seriously accusing China of 'fucking up the planet'?
"As nasty and corrupt as..."... China under Mao? Venezuela under Chavez? Cuba under Castro? The USSR under Lenin and Stalin? Cambodia under Pol Pot? The NPRK under the various Kims? Zimbabwe under Mugabe? Zaire/the Congo under Mobutu?
Care to revise your bullshit story?
For all of America's, the American government's, and its leaders' flaws - and of course they are many (and one wonders how your life would stand up upon the withering criticism and examination that the life of a President, for example, gets) - I believe very few of our leaders have ever had a genuine desire to harm people nor have they harbored a profound megalomania. Ego - of course; megalomania - no. Sure, go ahead and despise a President because of their ideological orientation that you disagree with but the notion of the Chomskyites, this strange Kool-Aid they like to guzzle, being fed doses of pablum about "American Imperialism" and the "Military-Industrial Complex" and railing endlessly about the "Evils of Capitalism" yet enjoying its countless benefits (you know, like jobs, homes, clothes, electronics, computers, global air travel, and this weird little thing called the Internet), never proffering a meaningful let alone viable alternative, I am convinced is one of the luxuries provided by the American model of capitalism and Constitutional governance. Trust me if you were to write what you wrote about Mugabe your flesh-burned and -torn body (they wouldn't spend a bullet on you, lest they lose out on a good opportunity to torture you first) would soon be found on the roadside somewhere.
And, if you despise America, think it hopelessly corrupt and nasty "as the rest" then why not leave it for greener pastures? Maybe some other country has it figured out better than we do? According to Michael Moore, Cuba has the best medical care in the world. Just ask Hugo Chavez.
You are probably under 30, since it would appear you don't understand what USA was 30+ years ago and why people see USA as horribly horribly corrupt country.
But of course, your short life experience and Wikipedia make you competent to bleath about anything you wish.
Smedley Butler was, if not an outright Communist, at least a fellow traveller. His views on American's wars of the era are therefore tainted by the particular ideology that gripped him at that time, and he was not a dispassionate commentator.
Hahaha. Are you actually using this as an argument?
I mean, they've been issuing intermediate CA certs to various 'friendly' governments and agencies, to support MITM (for 'lawful interceptions' only, of course).
Will Mozilla remove them too, since they seem to be breaching that same policy?
Sorry bub, nobody's gonna call. You're not the mass market, you're a niche. Funny how things change over time. Tablets are becoming the mass market Internet device. Professionals will still buy PCs but everyone else, all those people who bought a PC to get 'online' in the 90s and upgraded to play games in 2000, they just don't need a PC anymore (they never did but it was the only good option).
It's just the way it is. The PC industry is going to consolidate soon. Hardware makers will still make servers and workstations and some will make tablets but the general purpose home PC is going away.
And all those applications that you'll be using on your tablet are going to be made by using tablets, I presume?
Know that tiny device in your pocket that responds to touch and lets you browse the entirety of human knowledge, play games or work from a beach in Tahiti while still letting you call Mom once a week to let her know you're alive? Yeah, that's what technology we invented in the last 15 years. If that doesn't impress you, I'm not sure what will.
You don't seem to know much about technology.
None of that has been invented in the last 15 years.
We did that of our own free will, which is perhaps more damning. But no terrorist demanded or coerced us into fortifying our airports with questionably useful security. That's my only point: We never gave in to terrorist demands. We may have responded in a less than thrilling and intelligent manner, but we didn't just cave.
It's about whether you advertise the ability to use a particular service to infringe. Grokster did, and IsoHunt did, according to the article. Does Google?
Hahaha.
So, if I don't advertise that I'm dealing crack near school, I should be safe?
Microsoft is still dealing with the fact that their flagship products throughout the 1990's are almost universally associated with crashes, poor performance, and overhyped marketing. It bit them with the Zune, and now it's biting them with the phones. You know why XBox is so big? It doesn't have the word 'Windows' or 'Microsoft' in its name, and it had (still has?) its own business unit with its own management structure not tied to Windows.
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If you're building your game to leverage server resources, players just connect to a datacenter, and get matchmade with other players there, likely pairing players with similar latency. Even if there are relatively few people playing, you'll probably get a pretty good experience, as at least one end of the connection for all players is pretty solid.
Long long ago, in a galaxy far far away, there was a world where people could run their own game servers and everyone would be happy.
Holy crap, how old are you?
The cloud computing that MS is talking about with the XBox One occurs once you are already in-game and is an offloading of certain resource computations which the local unit *can* do itself.
If local unit *can* do it already, why would I want to offload it to the 'cloud'?
I mean, I understand it from Microsoft's point of view, they only want to fuck over customers, but what benefits would I have, when my local unit *can* do this already?
It'll free some CPU/GPU cycles on my local unit so that I can see more ads or what?
Dear Microsoft,
Thank you very much.
Yours truly,
Sony
And be done with it.
Sad.
I came across Crunchbang few days ago, when I noticed it on distrowatch front page. I needed something light so I've decided to try it.
It is seriously impressive. Install is very very simple and intuitive (and supports full-disk encryption in installer - fairly important for me), it is logical, desktop looks nice, it's fast.
It was one of those really nice surprises you don't expect :)
The vast majority do have demos, and in this particular case there is a demo as well.
And I am sure people interested in the game would/will download the demo.
So, why did the unknown game studio feel a need to upload completely unknown game to the biggest tracker in the world, and whine when people started downloading it?
They have a demo available, I am sure all interested gamers would have found it. Problem is that noone knows about them or their game, so they went with publicity stunt.
It's a good one, too, I have to admit :)
THe real game is $8, and DRM free. Theyre experiencing the same 93.5% piracy rate that the poisoned copy reflects.
Id say its pretty darn realistic, yes.
Do you also get a chance to crack your own game, in this simulator, and upload it to the biggest torrent tracker?
And then play the victim card?
Of course you will have people downloading your game when you upload it to the biggest torrent tracker. You will have hundreds of people (bots, more likely) downloading a picture of a poo, on that tracker.
That tracker is a major source of content for bored people. And there are lots of bored people in this world. And they download absolutely anything.
Again, this game was $8 USD. Additionally, the game is DRM-free, available on all platforms, and is being ported to Steam as well. This is an indy company with very consumer-oriented and forward-thinking ideas who simply conducted a fun little experiment on sales versus pirated copies.
Every single legitimate argument pirates spout cannot be applied to this situation. The game was DRM free, ported to all major OSes, offered a playable demo on their website, and very reasonably priced at $8 USD (cheaper than many mobile games).
... and noone has ever heard of that game.
You are missing the main point. People are downloading the 'pirated' copy because it's there, not because they really wanted to get a pirated copy of Game Dev Tycoon.
Interesting question is - if they haven't released the pirated copy, how many people would have downloaded it (assuming anyone would even bothering cracking it)?
Yes, that sounds like a very well-measured and thought-out response. Well done, sir. Especially since the culprit for the emails is probably a typo when someone else signed up, if you have a simple last-name-only email address
It is really hard sending a confirmation email.
I mean - really really hard.
Especially in year 2013.
I also know some parents who would not understand such a prank at all. I think most kids would know their parents well enough to decide to whether to go along with this prank or not.
If you think this is a "prank", you really haven't learned anything in life.
No, at best they get you back in a funny way; at worst you freak them out for a bit and after a short laugh you set them straight.
If your parent are nutjobs and take some insane extreme measure in response then you've got serious problems and it's better you know that your parents are morons sooner rather than later.
You are an idiot. Would you happen to use iPhone too?
Why are all the screenshots from iPhones?
Android phones account for 51.2% of smartphone sales, with iPhones trailing at 43.5% [1].
So how likely is it that out of a sample of 10 screenshots, all 10 of them would be from iPhones? Seems suspicious.
[1] http://www.kantarworldpanel.com/global/News/Android-Sprint-and-Samsung-Increased-Share-In-Early-2013
Because you need to be an idiot to send such SMS to your parents.
Turns out idiots mostly use iPhone. Go figure.
Most of the web's video is streamed from Netflix. That's mostly streamed through Silverlight or browser specific plugins.
How does letting HTML5 natively stream Netflix encourage proprietary browser plugins!? If just Netflix switched over (and they've said they intend to once DRM is in the spec) then by definition the majority of HTML5 streaming will be using less not more browser plugins.
And DRM will be made as... what exactly? You realize that each 'provider' will have their own DRM "plugin" which will only pollute everything?
No, Netflix will not magically start streaming HTML5 videos without requiring you to install additional things. Even with HTML5 DRM.
It used to be the West that was fucking up the planet and now China has taken over that role. If they want to continue to grow without killing the rest of us then they have a hell of a lot of work to do.
Maybe if the West hasn't outsourced whole fucking production of just about everything, to China, they'd still be fucking up the planet?
Are you seriously accusing China of 'fucking up the planet'?
"As nasty and corrupt as..." ... China under Mao? Venezuela under Chavez? Cuba under Castro? The USSR under Lenin and Stalin? Cambodia under Pol Pot? The NPRK under the various Kims? Zimbabwe under Mugabe? Zaire/the Congo under Mobutu?
Care to revise your bullshit story?
For all of America's, the American government's, and its leaders' flaws - and of course they are many (and one wonders how your life would stand up upon the withering criticism and examination that the life of a President, for example, gets) - I believe very few of our leaders have ever had a genuine desire to harm people nor have they harbored a profound megalomania. Ego - of course; megalomania - no. Sure, go ahead and despise a President because of their ideological orientation that you disagree with but the notion of the Chomskyites, this strange Kool-Aid they like to guzzle, being fed doses of pablum about "American Imperialism" and the "Military-Industrial Complex" and railing endlessly about the "Evils of Capitalism" yet enjoying its countless benefits (you know, like jobs, homes, clothes, electronics, computers, global air travel, and this weird little thing called the Internet), never proffering a meaningful let alone viable alternative, I am convinced is one of the luxuries provided by the American model of capitalism and Constitutional governance. Trust me if you were to write what you wrote about Mugabe your flesh-burned and -torn body (they wouldn't spend a bullet on you, lest they lose out on a good opportunity to torture you first) would soon be found on the roadside somewhere.
And, if you despise America, think it hopelessly corrupt and nasty "as the rest" then why not leave it for greener pastures? Maybe some other country has it figured out better than we do? According to Michael Moore, Cuba has the best medical care in the world. Just ask Hugo Chavez.
You are probably under 30, since it would appear you don't understand what USA was 30+ years ago and why people see USA as horribly horribly corrupt country.
But of course, your short life experience and Wikipedia make you competent to bleath about anything you wish.
Smedley Butler was, if not an outright Communist, at least a fellow traveller. His views on American's wars of the era are therefore tainted by the particular ideology that gripped him at that time, and he was not a dispassionate commentator.
Hahaha. Are you actually using this as an argument?
Wow.
I mean, they've been issuing intermediate CA certs to various 'friendly' governments and agencies, to support MITM (for 'lawful interceptions' only, of course).
Will Mozilla remove them too, since they seem to be breaching that same policy?
Sorry bub, nobody's gonna call. You're not the mass market, you're a niche. Funny how things change over time. Tablets are becoming the mass market Internet device. Professionals will still buy PCs but everyone else, all those people who bought a PC to get 'online' in the 90s and upgraded to play games in 2000, they just don't need a PC anymore (they never did but it was the only good option).
It's just the way it is. The PC industry is going to consolidate soon. Hardware makers will still make servers and workstations and some will make tablets but the general purpose home PC is going away.
And all those applications that you'll be using on your tablet are going to be made by using tablets, I presume?
So it is legal for me to set up a website with links to child porn and how to make bombs?
Child porn is obviously a no-no, but why exactly would be illegal to explain how to make bombs?
The most important thing I've noticed, in this whole charade, is this:
"loyal consumers"
You are not citizens anymore. Or customers.
You are consumers, please get used to it.
Know that tiny device in your pocket that responds to touch and lets you browse the entirety of human knowledge, play games or work from a beach in Tahiti while still letting you call Mom once a week to let her know you're alive? Yeah, that's what technology we invented in the last 15 years. If that doesn't impress you, I'm not sure what will.
You don't seem to know much about technology.
None of that has been invented in the last 15 years.
We did that of our own free will, which is perhaps more damning. But no terrorist demanded or coerced us into fortifying our airports with questionably useful security. That's my only point: We never gave in to terrorist demands. We may have responded in a less than thrilling and intelligent manner, but we didn't just cave.
Holy Mother of God.
Do you even understand what you are saying?
It's about whether you advertise the ability to use a particular service to infringe. Grokster did, and IsoHunt did, according to the article. Does Google?
Hahaha.
So, if I don't advertise that I'm dealing crack near school, I should be safe?
Got it.
Microsoft is still dealing with the fact that their flagship products throughout the 1990's are almost universally associated with crashes, poor performance, and overhyped marketing. It bit them with the Zune, and now it's biting them with the phones. You know why XBox is so big? It doesn't have the word 'Windows' or 'Microsoft' in its name, and it had (still has?) its own business unit with its own management structure not tied to Windows.
...and never made any money.
...warn Beijing that it must restrain its ally or face an expanding American military focus on Asia.
I wonder if they'll be borrowing money from China in order to support that expansion :)