Not likely. It blows the Dreamcast away in specs, and after the hype surrounding PS2 dies down (and people slowly realize that no one is gonna buy a modem and hard drive for it) the X-box will probably take over as the number one console.
Seriously, the Dreamcast is just a novelty compared to Xbox and PS2 from a technical standpoint(though a novelty with some VERY good titles thus far) the Nintendo Gamecube has vaporware written all over it (though if Nintendo actually is making the thing it has potential) and Playstation 2 needs good titles to maintain the hype. In Japan many angry customers are ranting about how incomplete the PS2 is, and unless there is a dramatic turnaround in software quality the same will happen in the US.
Besides, has Microsoft ever had a commercially unsuccessful PC game?
Doesn't Microsoft have a very solid INTERNAL q/a department already for playtesting and stuff? It's not like Big M to bring in outside people, if you know the history. This is almost definately a public relations thing designed to create a buzz about the (till now very quiet) X-Box rather than a real playtesting thing.
I was just kinda hoping it would be something other than a corporation that did this. You know like an artist or something? Someone who won't reap financial rewards.
Jeez, that's pretty anti-climatic, to have this mysterious monolith appear and have it all be a promotion for some dumb cafe. I guess it just shows what a mindless society we've become when ever something like this is an advertisement.
We should be glad this is such a low key meteor shower. Remember a couple years ago, when the press said that a meteor shower would knock out all our communications satelites?
*Has a hearty laugh*
Yah, those were the days. Seriously, who was dumb enough to believe that 600 satelites across an area larger than the Earth's surface could be knocked out by a couple thousand rocks?
Serves him right for trying such a crackpot sceme I think. Living using only the internet isn't difficult at all, if given unlimited funds, he was just the first moron with the idea to make a contest out of it, and change his name to something stupid.
It also serves the dried up dotcoms right for collapsing after making such horrible investments as DCG.
Yeah, but people assume Valve will release a killer product like Half-Life after the wait, and it looks like they will. If you delay 3 years like Blizzard did, the end product had better be pretty damn good, and (in the opinion of most) Diablo 2 was not.
I think their reputation went when they released Diablo 2 as a bug ridden clickfest who's online capabilities didn't work well (and a year late too!). Only a few companies (Valve and Firaxis for example) still can keep reputations up like Blizzard used to. Most casual gamers (to whom Blizzard sells most of their games) would never have even heard about something like this, since they don't closely follow the industry. I'd bet only 5% of Diablo2's playerbase would have even HEARD about this.
Even with the freedom of information act, who can prove that the CIA and other organizations are laying down all their cards? I mean, if they have stuff on aliens, and no one outside the agency knows about it, why should they release it? Just a thought...
In a way isn't this sort of better for the poor nerds who had previously spent thousands of hours away from society building up their characters? I mean, some fresh air and real social interaction could do them good.
No seriously, they should, but I am skeptical of them having actually had the time to implement a backup system, since they spent so much time getting battle.net up AT ALL (am I the only one who remembers the five weeks shortly after release when it was nearly impossible to log onto battle.net?)
Unfortunately, Blizzard has little incentive to remedy the situation. Unlike a game like Everquest, where fraud is usually detected early and punished (emphasis on usually) Blizzard does not charge a monthly fee, so they have little to gain from their most loyal players leaving.
Sure, they lose $30 for each of these attacks they do nothing about, since its one less expansion pack they sell, but unless the attack is of massive proportions (and it causes players to leave as well) Blizzard doesn't really care.
I understand it's important for the "sake of science", but there are much more pressing concerns right now. From what I understand Cassini isnt studing life on Europa or possible life in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter or Saturn, it's just sort of a big gloryified camera with some instruments attached.
Even if we discovered life on Europa it most likely wouldn't be sentient, much less intelligent. It's all very interesting but as long as there are better uses for the money, (feeding the poor or lowering taxes not just moon bases) we shouldn't be throwing it away.
3dfx we hardly knew ye. *sniff* Now we have to spend the next millenium without the great card maker (and me without the $150 of stock I had in the doomed company.)
Did you know that one computer company out in like Indiana had all of its systems crash because of Y2k? Seriously. I forget what it was called, but I know this happened.
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Seriously, the Dreamcast is just a novelty compared to Xbox and PS2 from a technical standpoint(though a novelty with some VERY good titles thus far) the Nintendo Gamecube has vaporware written all over it (though if Nintendo actually is making the thing it has potential) and Playstation 2 needs good titles to maintain the hype. In Japan many angry customers are ranting about how incomplete the PS2 is, and unless there is a dramatic turnaround in software quality the same will happen in the US.
Besides, has Microsoft ever had a commercially unsuccessful PC game?
Doesn't Microsoft have a very solid INTERNAL q/a department already for playtesting and stuff? It's not like Big M to bring in outside people, if you know the history. This is almost definately a public relations thing designed to create a buzz about the (till now very quiet) X-Box rather than a real playtesting thing.
Can't argue with free stuff. Especially high quality evil empire stuff.
Seriously this would be very cool though, especially with the Playstation 2 being such a disapointment.
Not that I could make it as a playtester, I didn't even get into the Tribes 2 beta (what were there? 1,000,000 slots?)
The X-box is really gonna kick ass. I'm thinking of commuting to Seattle just to playtest the thing (3000 miles.)
Right...
So it was Monolith software. I thought so.
No, but it should be artists, and not a bunch of scheming marketeers.
At least whoever put it up got the dimensions right, I'd be sorta disappointed if they didn't.
Hmmmm, maybe it's a promotion for Monolith Software's Lithtech engine, since the only thing it can render without crashing is a big untextured block.
Lol yah, that was great. But this is barely better.
I was just kinda hoping it would be something other than a corporation that did this. You know like an artist or something? Someone who won't reap financial rewards.
I'm an idiot. A promotion for an ISP. Whatever. It's not really the point.
Jeez, that's pretty anti-climatic, to have this mysterious monolith appear and have it all be a promotion for some dumb cafe. I guess it just shows what a mindless society we've become when ever something like this is an advertisement.
Still, six foot tall is pretty hefty for anal removal I would think.
Actually nevermind, I wouldn't. I'm sure you can do it though.
*Has a hearty laugh*
Yah, those were the days. Seriously, who was dumb enough to believe that 600 satelites across an area larger than the Earth's surface could be knocked out by a couple thousand rocks?
Serves him right for trying such a crackpot sceme I think. Living using only the internet isn't difficult at all, if given unlimited funds, he was just the first moron with the idea to make a contest out of it, and change his name to something stupid.
It also serves the dried up dotcoms right for collapsing after making such horrible investments as DCG.
Yeah, but people assume Valve will release a killer product like Half-Life after the wait, and it looks like they will. If you delay 3 years like Blizzard did, the end product had better be pretty damn good, and (in the opinion of most) Diablo 2 was not.
I think their reputation went when they released Diablo 2 as a bug ridden clickfest who's online capabilities didn't work well (and a year late too!). Only a few companies (Valve and Firaxis for example) still can keep reputations up like Blizzard used to. Most casual gamers (to whom Blizzard sells most of their games) would never have even heard about something like this, since they don't closely follow the industry. I'd bet only 5% of Diablo2's playerbase would have even HEARD about this.
Even with the freedom of information act, who can prove that the CIA and other organizations are laying down all their cards? I mean, if they have stuff on aliens, and no one outside the agency knows about it, why should they release it? Just a thought...
In a way isn't this sort of better for the poor nerds who had previously spent thousands of hours away from society building up their characters? I mean, some fresh air and real social interaction could do them good.
No seriously, they should, but I am skeptical of them having actually had the time to implement a backup system, since they spent so much time getting battle.net up AT ALL (am I the only one who remembers the five weeks shortly after release when it was nearly impossible to log onto battle.net?)
Unfortunately, Blizzard has little incentive to remedy the situation. Unlike a game like Everquest, where fraud is usually detected early and punished (emphasis on usually) Blizzard does not charge a monthly fee, so they have little to gain from their most loyal players leaving.
Sure, they lose $30 for each of these attacks they do nothing about, since its one less expansion pack they sell, but unless the attack is of massive proportions (and it causes players to leave as well) Blizzard doesn't really care.
Even if we discovered life on Europa it most likely wouldn't be sentient, much less intelligent. It's all very interesting but as long as there are better uses for the money, (feeding the poor or lowering taxes not just moon bases) we shouldn't be throwing it away.
3dfx we hardly knew ye. *sniff* Now we have to spend the next millenium without the great card maker (and me without the $150 of stock I had in the doomed company.)
Did you know that one computer company out in like Indiana had all of its systems crash because of Y2k? Seriously. I forget what it was called, but I know this happened.