This will only change if all you idiots will stop buying buggy unfinished games!
As long as you keep buying beta-quality stuff, and the companies keep making their sales and profit goals, they'll keep doing it.
At what point do we learn that a particular game is buggy and/or unfinished? The day the game is released? Do we wait for the game reviews at IGN / Gamerankings? How on earth do you find out if a game is buggy or unfinished unless someone, somewhere, buys it? If no one buys the game because they don't know if it has any bugs in it or not, then who finds the bugs?
I certainly don't trust the shills at IGN to tell me about any bugs / problems. I do tend to trust the aggregate at Gamerankings, because then I can drill down and see exactly what went wrong, and where.
And what about the bugs that only impact one particular subset of PC? (Ie: No bugs if you use NVIDIA, but lots if you use ATI), how do bugs like that get found out if no one buys it?
After reading over some of the posts here, I had an idea based on some of them. Rather than ban these people, why not keep them flagged for both Alliance and Horde PVP (like in the Arena), and set them up like Trial accounts where they can't send or receive ingame mail, and can't trade. Give them a tag like or or something, and let people police themselves.
That would let the players on the servers vent some and force them to do the work of canceling their own account.
This is a chain quest in WoW in Winterspring. It starts off normal enough, but the second or third part of it has you taking a mechanical yeti and scarying different npcs spread out around the continent. It was quite amusing, and provided quite a fresh look at the NPCs and their reactions. Everyone I've told about that quest has loved it too.
If I understood the article, this means you could patent the following:
I. Method of Selling items: The business shall offer a customer an item/good/idea/etc for an amount of currency (Dollars/Euro/Yen/etc). Upon receipt of currency, or promisory currency note, the aforementioned item/good/idea/etc's ownership will be transferred to the customer.
As for the higher end model, Gikas conceded that it could come in as low as $350, but $399 seems like the most probably price point. He stressed that the model will likely include "all the additional peripherals gamers would want to buy anyway," as well.
The "higher end model" is just one that costs more because it has more peripherals with it, like 2 controllers instead of 1, Wireless ready, etc.
Also, keep in mind that this article about someone guessing about what Microsoft is going to do.
This sounds like a way to make insurance fraud easier. Just take out your RFID chip, put it in someone else's dead body. Why bother even checking dental records? The "Computer" is always right.
If you are not generating this data from hundreds / thousands of different IP addresses, what's to stop them from just chucking all of the data from your IP?
I have mod points, but figured a response would be better. I have to say... those are some ugly bikes! Topping it off is the website is straight from 1994.
Ahh, but I notice you do not say how many FPS you were getting! Such an important detail left out could only mean that you were either too embarrassed to mention it or you are still waiting on your second frame to draw so you can specify that rather than mucking about with the "Frames per second" metric, you decided to jump directly to the "Frames per Day". Here's hoping you reach 3 FPD!
Do not worry my friend. As a fellow Radeon 9600 Pro owner, your shame^H^H^H^Hecret is safe with me.
It is worth noting that the advertisements only appear to the free players of the game, not the players paying the monthly fee. With that in mind, I'm ok with it. Heck, I'm happy about it. Finally, one less thing for people to gripe about; The monthly fee for MMORPGs!
Let us hope that they don't get greedy, and that they have enough sales to atleast break even.
I jumped party line the last European Parliament election to hand pick a MEP that was solidly behind FFII's line.
I can completely understand. It is very important these days for our elected officials to be gamers. That they are also old school RPG gamers, and fans of square, would sure sway my vote.
Now if only we could find a politician who plays GTA...
Perhaps the editors could wait until there is an official piece of information from Intuit before posting editorial comments?
Perhaps you should RTFA.
http://www.intuit.com/support/quicken/sunset/
This is just Quicken / Intuit figuring out how they can alienate even more customers.
I am not of the opinion that a software company should be allowed to do stuff like this. Let them "sunset" it while keeping the feature set.
I'll also make a point that the death penalty is only there to satisfy the sadistic perverted desires of revenge that the victums have. Death is no punishment, and if you belive in reincarnation, it might as well be a free ticket out of jail in the form of a new life.
For a minute there, I thought you were serious. Then I saw your username.
Most certainly the original game was a bit lackluster, but it was still great. The expansion pack really made the game rock though, the only bad thing I can say about it is that it made the new race (the metal/robot guys) too powerful. But taking into consideration that they went on to destroy the other races and then eventually split and become the machines that were in the original TA, I'm willing to let that slide;).
I do wish they had continued the story the same way it was in the original TA though, in TA:K, they had you playing different sides all the time in one storyline, whereas in TA, you could play both sides to victory, each with its own unique storyline.
Its not like the real tragic sequels (AvsP 2, Tribes 2, Total Annihilation Kingdoms...
Sorry to have to disagree here, but I loved the original TA very much, and thought the second was awesome as well, especially with the iron plague expansion pack. What didn't you like about it?
If it wasn't cheating, and they were only looking at shader instructions, then why did the results change when they renamed the file from Quake3.exe to quack3.exe? It is also important to note that the Quake3.exe results were of less quality than the quack3.exe results.
Taking into consideration, it makes the death of all of those people at the end more real.
It is much easier to forget about the deaths of those you have never seen. This helps to lend credence to the fact that the number of dead was quite staggering.
In California, Santa Cruz, Oakland and San Mateo are considering joining San Francisco in banning Segways from sidewalks. There is no similar move in congested Los Angeles, city officials said.
Translation:
In California, officials in Santa Cruz, Oakland and San Mateo are still waiting on additional payoffs, and are wary after the much publicized "payoff check is in the mail" campaign failed in San Francisco.
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Bro, with a user id that low, you gotta be 50 already! Quit trying ;)
How is this different than how it is now?
I certainly don't trust the shills at IGN to tell me about any bugs / problems. I do tend to trust the aggregate at Gamerankings, because then I can drill down and see exactly what went wrong, and where.
And what about the bugs that only impact one particular subset of PC? (Ie: No bugs if you use NVIDIA, but lots if you use ATI), how do bugs like that get found out if no one buys it?
After reading over some of the posts here, I had an idea based on some of them. Rather than ban these people, why not keep them flagged for both Alliance and Horde PVP (like in the Arena), and set them up like Trial accounts where they can't send or receive ingame mail, and can't trade. Give them a tag like or or something, and let people police themselves. That would let the players on the servers vent some and force them to do the work of canceling their own account.
This is a chain quest in WoW in Winterspring. It starts off normal enough, but the second or third part of it has you taking a mechanical yeti and scarying different npcs spread out around the continent. It was quite amusing, and provided quite a fresh look at the NPCs and their reactions. Everyone I've told about that quest has loved it too.
I. Method of Selling items: The business shall offer a customer an item/good/idea/etc for an amount of currency (Dollars/Euro/Yen/etc). Upon receipt of currency, or promisory currency note, the aforementioned item/good/idea/etc's ownership will be transferred to the customer.
It's not like the PTO even looks for prior art.
Also, keep in mind that this article about someone guessing about what Microsoft is going to do.
This sounds like a way to make insurance fraud easier. Just take out your RFID chip, put it in someone else's dead body. Why bother even checking dental records? The "Computer" is always right.
If you are not generating this data from hundreds / thousands of different IP addresses, what's to stop them from just chucking all of the data from your IP?
Great link.
Do not worry my friend. As a fellow Radeon 9600 Pro owner, your shame^H^H^H^Hecret is safe with me.
Isn't it possible that your times improved because you were more experienced at crossword puzzles?
Let us hope that they don't get greedy, and that they have enough sales to atleast break even.
Why wouldn't they just check the IP address the requests came from and chunk your 300 requests in one go?
Now if only we could find a politician who plays GTA...
I do wish they had continued the story the same way it was in the original TA though, in TA:K, they had you playing different sides all the time in one storyline, whereas in TA, you could play both sides to victory, each with its own unique storyline.
I certainly agree. I would like to add (In your format): Dream Theater _Scenes From a Memory_
Sounds like cheating to me.
Taking into consideration, it makes the death of all of those people at the end more real.
It is much easier to forget about the deaths of those you have never seen. This helps to lend credence to the fact that the number of dead was quite staggering.
You forgot SCO
heh
In California, officials in Santa Cruz, Oakland and San Mateo are still waiting on additional payoffs, and are wary after the much publicized "payoff check is in the mail" campaign failed in San Francisco.
One official is quoted as saying, "Bring cash."