What does the purpose of the internet's creation have anything to do with the day someone asked 'who the hell is going to pay for all this'? On what planet do you live where advertisers have any right whatsoever to put anything on a website without the owner's permission? Even if it was forced permission through a contract that a re-seller uses, no one has a right to advertise anything. The sites you use decide what they put up. Vulgarity, violence and a complete lack of knowledge on how things work. Your post is full of all kinds of fail.
He's actually trying to compare a $3700 apple with a free orange. If we're talking about people who don't like to pirate the software they use there's little reason for anyone who isn't a professional artist using company funds to ever think twice about Maya. Complete and total waste of money for 99% of anyone doing anything with 3d modelling programs.
If the games are digital download only and the console's hardware will not work unless its connected to the internet, (both things I've heard talked about for new consoles), then pirates don't stand much of a chance at having an impact. If both of those things happen there could still be people modding their consoles but the numbers would be significantly lower than being able to rip a disc.Also, to your point about value added, total bullshit. Steam is the most successful distribution platform on PC, they have zero resale ability and still sell games on release for sixty dollars. A few people will complain but when all the big companies do it, gamers will have to make the choice between not gaming and buying into whatever shit system they are selling.
So the white kids who grow up in the same neighborhoods, go to the same schools and have the same family types at home do not go to prison at the same rates why?
German citizens signed a rental agreement with Valve. Claiming after the fact that they thought they were purchasing items with the same rights and abilities as a real good instead of digital makes them liars and/or frauds.
Excerpts from the EULA: Each Subscription allows you to access particular services, Software and/or other content. You may not sell or charge others for the right to use your Account, or otherwise transfer your Account, nor may you sell, charge others for the right to use, or transfer any Subscriptions other than if and as expressly permitted by this Agreement (including any Subscription Terms or Rules of Use). The Software is licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Software.
Are you seriously trying to argue that Germans think rental agreements are unlawful in their country? And yes, I did misread the original article not realizing that the people suing were not a government agency trying to enforce a law but suing them in order to get the judiciary there to legislate from the bench. The law they were talking about did not say anything about people automatically owning something they paid for in a rental agreement and I perhaps wrongly assumed that German courts had the ability to legislate from the bench by adding more rights to the law after the fact like they seem to do regularly in the USA.
Even the woman speaking in the article wrongfully says that customers of Valve partially own the games. They partially own nothing.They agreed to temporary usage of something for a price. I guess not being German, I don't understand how people don't get that you speak with your wallets. You don't like the way someone does business, take your money elsewhere. Crying like a bunch of idiots that they want a company to change its primary way of doing business because it doesn't allow you to do x,y or z is just greedy.
I understand you want your laws to be upheld in your country. While I want this as well, what I also want, is for Valve to tell Germany to go fuck themselves. If they wish to radically change a company's primary model of doing business they need to make sure that company is not in the position to just say screw the German people and turn off all access to to their servers for citizens of that country. I would love to be able to sell my steam games but I have never, not once given a thought of trying to have any lawyer or governmental entity to force them to allow me to do this because A. I freely chose to give them my money knowing that you cannot sell what you buy there B. No one forced me to agree to use their service under their terms C. They have never wronged me as a consumer of their goods D. I'm not a complete piece of shit and realize there a ton of other ways to purchase games
Its called a contract. You agree to be bound to a certain set of rules in order to use a service. No one has ever put a gun to someone's head and made them buy their games from Steam. You agreed to not do certain things and also agreed that if you did, you would suffer certain restrictions. Now that YOU broke your end of the deal you're crying because they did not? I wish there was a system so that if someone hacked or cheated their entire Steam catalog was disabled. And as for Germany, I can only hope that if they pass this law, Steam says fine, then turns their service off for the whole country. Part of the agreement people make with Steam is that they agreed to not have physical or sellable media in return for never having to worry about lost, damaged or stolen discs. IF you are using their protection system its unhackable. The owner of the company even gave his password out at a press conference and said please, try to steal my account. Games are not something you need to live. They're a luxury that whoever sold them decides how you get to use them. It bothers me that some games even make you tie that CD key to not only a Steam account but some other game company account. In the end, though, its not such a big deal that I have stopped using their service. I will continue to support them until they are no longer the best deal in my eyes. The biggest problem with anyone trying to force their ideologies on a company like Valve is that Valve isn't in it for the money. They already have the money. Gabe even has said as much. They are not hurting for cash and haven't been for a long time. That means they can stick to what they believe in and do things the way they believe they should be done.
So Apple has gained another government granted 'right' to something that shouldn't be granted. That's their entire MO. Oh, you use telephones in your business to call suppliers? We have a trademark on that.
That is exactly the point. Nothing like having a finger pointed at a problem only to have someone try to redirect to a different, irrelevant problem altogether. So what if Bush was a piece of shit. How does knowing or recognizing that have any bearing whatsoever on what kind of person Hugo Chavez is? That's a tactic that has exploded since in the USA, (not saying its you or even that you are American), since Obama took office. Someone who dislikes him points out something Obama has done that they feel is wrong. Instead of dealing with this issue, the liberal supporter screams BUSH BAD! Maybe its ADD, maybe its just trying to deflect from the issue at hand. Hugo Chavez is insane. He told his people that Halloween is terrorism. That children who dress up and go to get candy are terrorists in training. When your best friends, politically and ideologically speaking, are Cuba and Iran, you have some serious issues. I work with two ex-Iranians who love their country and most things about it but left because they feel their country was being run by a maniac. That alleged maniac has been named by Hugo Chavez as his best friend and ally.
Third world isn't even the issue its location and opportunities and it happens in the USA every day. I have family in Kentucky and most of their kids work with them. They do construction, auto repair or farm work after school, before school, on weekends and any other time they're out of school, and while a kid can't do as much as man, that kid, who's family lives nowhere near a university and couldn't pay anyways has to make a choice. Do I turn 16 and drop out of school already knowing enough to run heavy equipment and work on engines, all the while helping my family, or do I keep going to school until I graduate with little to no skills gained in employment options available where I live? People who grow up not having to work as a kid because their parents make enough to put food on the table don't worry about these kinds of things. Its too easy for a person to act high and mighty when its not their family who's options to survive are slim to none. And to the guy below me, step out of your suburban home and take a trip outside of town. Those same conditions that you're ranting about that affected the USA in major cities 100 years ago, still remain anywhere outside of money centers.
Its not that they don't think you need taxes for services, they think that Trillions of dollars we don't have to spend in the first place is too much to be spending. When you have half a nation that cried we spent too much money on two wars over eight years, then turn around and spend at double that rate with out full blown wars, it just rings hollow. We wouldn't have anyone crying about needing these taxes to begin with if our fraud of a president didn't ride a wave of 'have the rich pay your way' entitlements to the White House. Wealthy people in CA wouldn't be seeking to move their businesses to AZ, TX or NV if CA wasn't doing the exact same thing. The worst thing our liberal politicians ever did was convince idiots that our federal coffers were an infinitely deep pool of free money. Ask California in a couple years how raising the taxes on their wealthiest people worked out for them. Tax attorneys in those three other states are already reporting a ten fold increase in the number of wealthy people from California that want out.
Too bad everything else that was written by the men who wrote on and voted for the 2nd amendment contradicts you. George Washington said that firearms in the hands of ordinary citizens was second only in importance to the constitution itself. Patrick Henry said these two things "The great object is that every man be armed." and "Everyone who is able may have a gun." That's pretty cut and dry as to whether or not the bill they wrote was intended to mean that any citizen that wanted to be armed, should be able to do so.
What we really need is a list of every single person's name and address who has ever posted anti-gun rhetoric online. That could be fun, right? Knowing which of their neighbors who will absolutely never have protection in their homes might be useful information. Or, the criminals could just get the gun owners list and by process of elimination know which homes are free of guns. You were absolutely right. By gun owner logic or any other logic, that list does make it safer for gun owners. Its their non-gun owning neighbors who need to worry.
And what would knowing do for you? Your neighbor, instead of hiding the fact that he has weapons like criminals do, follows the law and registers his legally obtained weapons. This information is already available to see. What people are mad about is when some asshat decides to conveniently collect all of this information so that only criminals have a use for it. Oh, criminals and idiots who think law-abiding citizens should be ostracized or treated differently because they are exercising their rights and acting in a responsible manner.
Sounds like they were mixing apples and oranges here. We use about a third of the already grown corn for Ethanol and that represents about 20% of fuel used. Trying to suggest that this should alleviate our use of coal, nuclear, solar, wind and hydro power is silly. Take all the corn produced and it amounts to 60% replacement of our oil usage. Sounds like NPR is purposefully skewing their numbers to get attention onto things like solar or wind. Getting rid of all the corn syrups used in food products would be a good start in making this a doubly useful idea.
You don't even have to imagine as its a fact of life for many of us. I live in a rural area that takes me around an hour to drive to the nearest big city, (1,000,000+), people and ten miles away is the closest town of 5000 people or so. Where I live a lot of people hunt and even more people own firearms for many reasons. In the ten years I've lived here I have never locked my doors and have never seen a neighbor lock their's. When I go to the gas station, with dozens of other patrons around, I don't even bother to turn off my car or lock my doors if the AC or heater is on. Why? My neighbors are armed. There have been two attempted car jackings/robberies in my county and both were at gas stations and both ended with multiple people pulling firearms keeping the criminal on the ground until the county police arrived. Word about things like that spreads pretty fast and I'm sure when those guys hit jail, the other criminals eventually learned that even though those thugs were armed, people that had each other's backs were armed too. The last one was over five years ago. The only crime I ever hear about coming over the scanner in my garage is people fighting, drunk drivers and people getting arrested for weed and shoplifting. And those are few and far between. Its just a completely different environment where every bullet fired in the last thirty years was into an inanimate target or an animal that was going to be eaten. Contrast that with Cincinnati. I grew up there and lived there for five years as an adult. I had my car broken into twice, stolen once and caught some people trying to open the back door to my house on another occasion. Most of my neighbors there didn't talk to each or even know each other's names.
If you could track a person's eyes you could solve many hardware limitations you might have. I read this paper on only making a certain sized circle directly where you're looking in focus and high def, A slightly larger circle around that is less sharp but still decent, then everything outside of that was low rez and blurry. Seemed like a decent idea to make what you're looking at seem much higher def than normal.
Blithering idiot. There's a strong phrase for you. Would indicate I can somehow magically come up ten thousand dollars to replace my lifetime of tools I own in order to please some irrelevant idiot from some other country and simply choose not to. It implies that if tomorrow, metric was mandated, that the millions of mile marker signs on roadways would magically dig themselves up and replant at kilometer intervals with zero cost. Those two things alone are reason enough for me to not care without adding in the millions of other things that need to be replaced with my tax dollars. Please, could you explain to this blithering idiot who agrees with the other, how you achieve zero cost for the replacement of real world things that would need to be changed overnight with absolutely ZERO benefit to the population that must use them?
Considering team counts are limited to a certain number regardless of how many citizens you have, how can any stat relating to that number except raw reporting make sense? Oh, unless you're part of the fourth place team and need to feel good about it...
Never called you a racist. Maybe English is not your go to language. Read it again.
"You need to pay attention, I am sorry that Microsoft is not the dominant Gaming Platform any more" There are around 100 million mobile gamers right now. That's the highest I've seen mentioned in surveys of how many people with phones and tablets also buy games in NA/EU. Showing statistics about total user base as any indication of how many people game on those systems is irrelevant. Also irrelevant is quoting anything Android in a discussion about Linux. Android is not Linux. Its a proprietary system based on Linux that runs java based apps and there is ZERO reason for any non-idiot to think that Android adoption somehow translates into higher usage of Linux as a gaming platform. Android as a gaming platform is far, far behind IOS in both development dollars and usage so I'm not sure where you got your facts about developers using Android as the platform of choice.
The latest numbers I've seen, (nothing definite since Linux is usually free and untraceable), puts Linux usage at around 65 million worldwide. Add xbox and ps3 together and you have more gamers than Linux has users period. At some point, mobile devices as a primary gaming system may overtake pc's and consoles but that day is a long way off and is irrelevant to the gaming industry as it sits today as most people who consider themselves gamers only use mobile devices as gaming platforms when they are not in front of their primary gaming platforms at home.
This entire debate is exactly the same as PC gamers demanding that Activision support COD on PC the same way they do on consoles. PC gamers were around 5% of all players of COD and still get pissed on. You would still need a seven fold increase in market share on your platform to reach that level and would still be getting handed crap. Cross platform is not a must its a goodwill gesture that may or may not break even for the company. You are so far in the minority of gamers your dollars are practically irrelevant. I feel sorry for any company bothering to try their hand in linux because of the PITA of dealing with whiny customers who expect their crappy port to work better than a crappy port who should just be grateful that it exists at all. Add to that the fact that every other linux guy has a different distro with different needs and there is zero reason to believe any major player in PC gaming will ever go wholly into the Linux market.
"In future steam may only exist OS X and Linux."
Considering the amount of stupid things a person can read here I don't lightly say this, but this is one of the dumbest things I've read in quite a long time. Second only to some asshat spewing racist remarks in a different thread I read a couple days ago.
Not really sure what you're trying to say here. Maybe you were shooting for sarcasm but you should know sarcasm is more funny, less angry. Or do you come from a country where murdering people for money instead of working is what the average person does? Seriously, what are you trying to say?
Wait, so a person that uses a firearm to kill another person during a turf battle over drugs, during a high value theft or the person they love is not suffering from some form of mental illness? Are you suffering from mental illness yourself? Is that why you hide behind the anonymous coward shield? I would speculate that anyone who thinks a normal thinking person would do such a thing is in fact suffering from mental illness themselves or just too ignorant to actually think about what they're saying. What studies show that its normal to murder people? Normal is getting off your ass and going to work, not robbing someone to make money. General public gets over the sense of loss in a relationship and moves on in a healthy, non-murder way.
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What does the purpose of the internet's creation have anything to do with the day someone asked 'who the hell is going to pay for all this'? On what planet do you live where advertisers have any right whatsoever to put anything on a website without the owner's permission? Even if it was forced permission through a contract that a re-seller uses, no one has a right to advertise anything. The sites you use decide what they put up. Vulgarity, violence and a complete lack of knowledge on how things work. Your post is full of all kinds of fail.
He's actually trying to compare a $3700 apple with a free orange. If we're talking about people who don't like to pirate the software they use there's little reason for anyone who isn't a professional artist using company funds to ever think twice about Maya. Complete and total waste of money for 99% of anyone doing anything with 3d modelling programs.
Lol coupon clipping. What are you like an 80 year old woman?
If the games are digital download only and the console's hardware will not work unless its connected to the internet, (both things I've heard talked about for new consoles), then pirates don't stand much of a chance at having an impact. If both of those things happen there could still be people modding their consoles but the numbers would be significantly lower than being able to rip a disc.Also, to your point about value added, total bullshit. Steam is the most successful distribution platform on PC, they have zero resale ability and still sell games on release for sixty dollars. A few people will complain but when all the big companies do it, gamers will have to make the choice between not gaming and buying into whatever shit system they are selling.
So the white kids who grow up in the same neighborhoods, go to the same schools and have the same family types at home do not go to prison at the same rates why?
German citizens signed a rental agreement with Valve. Claiming after the fact that they thought they were purchasing items with the same rights and abilities as a real good instead of digital makes them liars and/or frauds.
Excerpts from the EULA:
Each Subscription allows you to access particular services, Software and/or other content.
You may not sell or charge others for the right to use your Account, or otherwise transfer your Account, nor may you sell, charge others for the right to use, or transfer any Subscriptions other than if and as expressly permitted by this Agreement (including any Subscription Terms or Rules of Use).
The Software is licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Software.
Are you seriously trying to argue that Germans think rental agreements are unlawful in their country? And yes, I did misread the original article not realizing that the people suing were not a government agency trying to enforce a law but suing them in order to get the judiciary there to legislate from the bench. The law they were talking about did not say anything about people automatically owning something they paid for in a rental agreement and I perhaps wrongly assumed that German courts had the ability to legislate from the bench by adding more rights to the law after the fact like they seem to do regularly in the USA.
Even the woman speaking in the article wrongfully says that customers of Valve partially own the games. They partially own nothing.They agreed to temporary usage of something for a price. I guess not being German, I don't understand how people don't get that you speak with your wallets. You don't like the way someone does business, take your money elsewhere. Crying like a bunch of idiots that they want a company to change its primary way of doing business because it doesn't allow you to do x,y or z is just greedy.
I understand you want your laws to be upheld in your country. While I want this as well, what I also want, is for Valve to tell Germany to go fuck themselves. If they wish to radically change a company's primary model of doing business they need to make sure that company is not in the position to just say screw the German people and turn off all access to to their servers for citizens of that country. I would love to be able to sell my steam games but I have never, not once given a thought of trying to have any lawyer or governmental entity to force them to allow me to do this because
A. I freely chose to give them my money knowing that you cannot sell what you buy there
B. No one forced me to agree to use their service under their terms
C. They have never wronged me as a consumer of their goods
D. I'm not a complete piece of shit and realize there a ton of other ways to purchase games
Its called a contract. You agree to be bound to a certain set of rules in order to use a service. No one has ever put a gun to someone's head and made them buy their games from Steam. You agreed to not do certain things and also agreed that if you did, you would suffer certain restrictions. Now that YOU broke your end of the deal you're crying because they did not? I wish there was a system so that if someone hacked or cheated their entire Steam catalog was disabled. And as for Germany, I can only hope that if they pass this law, Steam says fine, then turns their service off for the whole country. Part of the agreement people make with Steam is that they agreed to not have physical or sellable media in return for never having to worry about lost, damaged or stolen discs. IF you are using their protection system its unhackable. The owner of the company even gave his password out at a press conference and said please, try to steal my account. Games are not something you need to live. They're a luxury that whoever sold them decides how you get to use them. It bothers me that some games even make you tie that CD key to not only a Steam account but some other game company account. In the end, though, its not such a big deal that I have stopped using their service. I will continue to support them until they are no longer the best deal in my eyes. The biggest problem with anyone trying to force their ideologies on a company like Valve is that Valve isn't in it for the money. They already have the money. Gabe even has said as much. They are not hurting for cash and haven't been for a long time. That means they can stick to what they believe in and do things the way they believe they should be done.
So Apple has gained another government granted 'right' to something that shouldn't be granted. That's their entire MO. Oh, you use telephones in your business to call suppliers? We have a trademark on that.
That is exactly the point. Nothing like having a finger pointed at a problem only to have someone try to redirect to a different, irrelevant problem altogether. So what if Bush was a piece of shit. How does knowing or recognizing that have any bearing whatsoever on what kind of person Hugo Chavez is? That's a tactic that has exploded since in the USA, (not saying its you or even that you are American), since Obama took office. Someone who dislikes him points out something Obama has done that they feel is wrong. Instead of dealing with this issue, the liberal supporter screams BUSH BAD! Maybe its ADD, maybe its just trying to deflect from the issue at hand. Hugo Chavez is insane. He told his people that Halloween is terrorism. That children who dress up and go to get candy are terrorists in training. When your best friends, politically and ideologically speaking, are Cuba and Iran, you have some serious issues. I work with two ex-Iranians who love their country and most things about it but left because they feel their country was being run by a maniac. That alleged maniac has been named by Hugo Chavez as his best friend and ally.
Third world isn't even the issue its location and opportunities and it happens in the USA every day. I have family in Kentucky and most of their kids work with them. They do construction, auto repair or farm work after school, before school, on weekends and any other time they're out of school, and while a kid can't do as much as man, that kid, who's family lives nowhere near a university and couldn't pay anyways has to make a choice. Do I turn 16 and drop out of school already knowing enough to run heavy equipment and work on engines, all the while helping my family, or do I keep going to school until I graduate with little to no skills gained in employment options available where I live? People who grow up not having to work as a kid because their parents make enough to put food on the table don't worry about these kinds of things. Its too easy for a person to act high and mighty when its not their family who's options to survive are slim to none.
And to the guy below me, step out of your suburban home and take a trip outside of town. Those same conditions that you're ranting about that affected the USA in major cities 100 years ago, still remain anywhere outside of money centers.
Time Cop! Your argument is invalid.
Its not that they don't think you need taxes for services, they think that Trillions of dollars we don't have to spend in the first place is too much to be spending. When you have half a nation that cried we spent too much money on two wars over eight years, then turn around and spend at double that rate with out full blown wars, it just rings hollow. We wouldn't have anyone crying about needing these taxes to begin with if our fraud of a president didn't ride a wave of 'have the rich pay your way' entitlements to the White House. Wealthy people in CA wouldn't be seeking to move their businesses to AZ, TX or NV if CA wasn't doing the exact same thing. The worst thing our liberal politicians ever did was convince idiots that our federal coffers were an infinitely deep pool of free money. Ask California in a couple years how raising the taxes on their wealthiest people worked out for them. Tax attorneys in those three other states are already reporting a ten fold increase in the number of wealthy people from California that want out.
Too bad everything else that was written by the men who wrote on and voted for the 2nd amendment contradicts you. George Washington said that firearms in the hands of ordinary citizens was second only in importance to the constitution itself. Patrick Henry said these two things "The great object is that every man be armed." and "Everyone who is able may have a gun." That's pretty cut and dry as to whether or not the bill they wrote was intended to mean that any citizen that wanted to be armed, should be able to do so.
What we really need is a list of every single person's name and address who has ever posted anti-gun rhetoric online. That could be fun, right? Knowing which of their neighbors who will absolutely never have protection in their homes might be useful information. Or, the criminals could just get the gun owners list and by process of elimination know which homes are free of guns. You were absolutely right. By gun owner logic or any other logic, that list does make it safer for gun owners. Its their non-gun owning neighbors who need to worry.
And what would knowing do for you? Your neighbor, instead of hiding the fact that he has weapons like criminals do, follows the law and registers his legally obtained weapons. This information is already available to see. What people are mad about is when some asshat decides to conveniently collect all of this information so that only criminals have a use for it. Oh, criminals and idiots who think law-abiding citizens should be ostracized or treated differently because they are exercising their rights and acting in a responsible manner.
Sounds like they were mixing apples and oranges here. We use about a third of the already grown corn for Ethanol and that represents about 20% of fuel used. Trying to suggest that this should alleviate our use of coal, nuclear, solar, wind and hydro power is silly. Take all the corn produced and it amounts to 60% replacement of our oil usage. Sounds like NPR is purposefully skewing their numbers to get attention onto things like solar or wind. Getting rid of all the corn syrups used in food products would be a good start in making this a doubly useful idea.
You don't even have to imagine as its a fact of life for many of us. I live in a rural area that takes me around an hour to drive to the nearest big city, (1,000,000+), people and ten miles away is the closest town of 5000 people or so. Where I live a lot of people hunt and even more people own firearms for many reasons. In the ten years I've lived here I have never locked my doors and have never seen a neighbor lock their's. When I go to the gas station, with dozens of other patrons around, I don't even bother to turn off my car or lock my doors if the AC or heater is on. Why? My neighbors are armed. There have been two attempted car jackings/robberies in my county and both were at gas stations and both ended with multiple people pulling firearms keeping the criminal on the ground until the county police arrived. Word about things like that spreads pretty fast and I'm sure when those guys hit jail, the other criminals eventually learned that even though those thugs were armed, people that had each other's backs were armed too. The last one was over five years ago. The only crime I ever hear about coming over the scanner in my garage is people fighting, drunk drivers and people getting arrested for weed and shoplifting. And those are few and far between. Its just a completely different environment where every bullet fired in the last thirty years was into an inanimate target or an animal that was going to be eaten. Contrast that with Cincinnati. I grew up there and lived there for five years as an adult. I had my car broken into twice, stolen once and caught some people trying to open the back door to my house on another occasion. Most of my neighbors there didn't talk to each or even know each other's names.
If you could track a person's eyes you could solve many hardware limitations you might have. I read this paper on only making a certain sized circle directly where you're looking in focus and high def, A slightly larger circle around that is less sharp but still decent, then everything outside of that was low rez and blurry. Seemed like a decent idea to make what you're looking at seem much higher def than normal.
Blithering idiot. There's a strong phrase for you. Would indicate I can somehow magically come up ten thousand dollars to replace my lifetime of tools I own in order to please some irrelevant idiot from some other country and simply choose not to. It implies that if tomorrow, metric was mandated, that the millions of mile marker signs on roadways would magically dig themselves up and replant at kilometer intervals with zero cost. Those two things alone are reason enough for me to not care without adding in the millions of other things that need to be replaced with my tax dollars. Please, could you explain to this blithering idiot who agrees with the other, how you achieve zero cost for the replacement of real world things that would need to be changed overnight with absolutely ZERO benefit to the population that must use them?
Considering team counts are limited to a certain number regardless of how many citizens you have, how can any stat relating to that number except raw reporting make sense? Oh, unless you're part of the fourth place team and need to feel good about it...
Never called you a racist. Maybe English is not your go to language. Read it again.
"You need to pay attention, I am sorry that Microsoft is not the dominant Gaming Platform any more"
There are around 100 million mobile gamers right now. That's the highest I've seen mentioned in surveys of how many people with phones and tablets also buy games in NA/EU. Showing statistics about total user base as any indication of how many people game on those systems is irrelevant. Also irrelevant is quoting anything Android in a discussion about Linux. Android is not Linux. Its a proprietary system based on Linux that runs java based apps and there is ZERO reason for any non-idiot to think that Android adoption somehow translates into higher usage of Linux as a gaming platform. Android as a gaming platform is far, far behind IOS in both development dollars and usage so I'm not sure where you got your facts about developers using Android as the platform of choice.
The latest numbers I've seen, (nothing definite since Linux is usually free and untraceable), puts Linux usage at around 65 million worldwide. Add xbox and ps3 together and you have more gamers than Linux has users period. At some point, mobile devices as a primary gaming system may overtake pc's and consoles but that day is a long way off and is irrelevant to the gaming industry as it sits today as most people who consider themselves gamers only use mobile devices as gaming platforms when they are not in front of their primary gaming platforms at home.
This entire debate is exactly the same as PC gamers demanding that Activision support COD on PC the same way they do on consoles. PC gamers were around 5% of all players of COD and still get pissed on. You would still need a seven fold increase in market share on your platform to reach that level and would still be getting handed crap. Cross platform is not a must its a goodwill gesture that may or may not break even for the company. You are so far in the minority of gamers your dollars are practically irrelevant. I feel sorry for any company bothering to try their hand in linux because of the PITA of dealing with whiny customers who expect their crappy port to work better than a crappy port who should just be grateful that it exists at all. Add to that the fact that every other linux guy has a different distro with different needs and there is zero reason to believe any major player in PC gaming will ever go wholly into the Linux market. "In future steam may only exist OS X and Linux." Considering the amount of stupid things a person can read here I don't lightly say this, but this is one of the dumbest things I've read in quite a long time. Second only to some asshat spewing racist remarks in a different thread I read a couple days ago.
Not really sure what you're trying to say here. Maybe you were shooting for sarcasm but you should know sarcasm is more funny, less angry. Or do you come from a country where murdering people for money instead of working is what the average person does? Seriously, what are you trying to say?
Wait, so a person that uses a firearm to kill another person during a turf battle over drugs, during a high value theft or the person they love is not suffering from some form of mental illness? Are you suffering from mental illness yourself? Is that why you hide behind the anonymous coward shield? I would speculate that anyone who thinks a normal thinking person would do such a thing is in fact suffering from mental illness themselves or just too ignorant to actually think about what they're saying. What studies show that its normal to murder people? Normal is getting off your ass and going to work, not robbing someone to make money. General public gets over the sense of loss in a relationship and moves on in a healthy, non-murder way.