Your revenue stream is NOT the hard core players, it is the casual gamers who will play for years on end.
You were doing well up to there, but how did you finish that sentence without your brain imploding?
WOW makes its money from the hopelessly addicted and the gold farmers who supply them. Given the mind boggling investment just in developing SWTOR it'll take years of locked in players to break even. Do you know many casual players who'll keep dropping $15 month after month to watch the same cutscenes over and over?
The formula for commercial success isn't providing great content once, it's locking your customers into a Skinner box and conditioning them to make the same sequence of taps and clicks for years on end. SWTOR may actually be too good to survive.
Uh, Bush was re-elected? We'll never know, since his daddy's friends in the Supreme Court handed him Florida because, you know, strength through unity.
As one of the guys responsible for delivering on salesweasels' promises, I fully support customers being given a realistic appraisal of the time, effort and cost required to get them up and running.
A little consistency, please. Making a copy doesn't deprive anyone of anything, right? It's all just math anyway, 1s and 0s. Corporations bad, tree pretty.
otherwise a racist or homophobic or nationalist or otherwise reprehensible judge would be completely able to get away with imposing their emotion as law
Well said. Judges need to keep a lid on that stuff until they reach the Supreme Court.
They think that women are for making babies and the poor and minorities are for sweeping up in kitchens. Maybe they know something that we don't? Perhaps they know to fund mathematicians to do maths, not sociology. Oh, the humanities.
Many short men with a deeply ingrained inferiority complex will take great offence at a lot of things, but the way to deal with that is to pat them on the head and say "Calm down, little fellow, it's a perfectly fetching skirt and very flattering with your figure" not to take their angry rantings seriously. It just encourages them.
We're trying to tell the teeming masses in India and China that they can't aspire to have luxuries like refrigerators, washing machines and cars. Quite rightly, they don't give a damn about our rank hypocrisy.
Even if every decadent Western nation beggars itself (and we won't) then India and China will pick up the emissions slack within a decade or so (and they will anyway).
Emissions restrictions are dead in the water on the global scale. Instead, how about we start from the premise that people are going to strive to live rich, comfortable, high energy lives, and that they're going to keep having lots of kids who will expect to have more than their parents had.
There are essentially two solutions: cull about 4 billion people, or throw resources at clean power until it sticks, and I mean trillion dollar tranches of funding at fusion.
tl;dr version - emissions will go down when it's cheaper to produce green energy than to burn coal, and not one moment before.
I mean, now that they've given up trying to influence the people actually involved in war, and are going after nerds instead, who'll be next? Tabletop gamers? Magic the Gathering conventions?
OMG, I've just realised than in Civilisation, units get totally obliterated. Maybe they could press for the next version to feature mass graves, investigative journalists and an international virtual court?
The Fermi paradox isn't just a cute bit of philosophy. Our galaxy should be teeming with life. We live on prime real estate, the Thrints should have colonised it back in the Cambrian.
So either we're unique (inconceivable), ~8.8 billion years isn't long enough for any other species anywhere in the Milky Way to have kicked off colonisation (improbable), or something is silencing them (merely unlikely and scary).
Maybe we should take a look at that third possibility, and take a good hard look around rather than shouting "Here we are! Hey, over here, life!" into the void. Paranoid? Yes, but we're gambling the species on it, and the costs are essentially pocket lint.
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Nope, it's not on the first page, so they're just wasting their time and money.
No, I'm still pretty sure it's all down to morons.
Now watch this drive.
You were doing well up to there, but how did you finish that sentence without your brain imploding?
WOW makes its money from the hopelessly addicted and the gold farmers who supply them. Given the mind boggling investment just in developing SWTOR it'll take years of locked in players to break even. Do you know many casual players who'll keep dropping $15 month after month to watch the same cutscenes over and over?
The formula for commercial success isn't providing great content once, it's locking your customers into a Skinner box and conditioning them to make the same sequence of taps and clicks for years on end. SWTOR may actually be too good to survive.
So essentially you're saying that once you've run through the story content, you've got no reason to keep subscribing?
I guess I'll wait a couple of weeks until it goes F2P then.
Is how I'd name them, except it wouldn't really be fair to honest parasites and vermin.
Uh, Bush was re-elected? We'll never know, since his daddy's friends in the Supreme Court handed him Florida because, you know, strength through unity.
Oh, purlease, Korean is just a debased dialect of Japanese. Korea is de facto Japan's 48th prefecture.
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Then I guess she believes that karmic payback ain't what it used to be.
Just another cultist who makes a living by telling others how to live their life, but can't take her own medicine. Gasps of surprise. Stalk on, bro.
Fail. "Computer scientists" don't write code, they write books explaining why all existing implementations are wrong.
As one of the guys responsible for delivering on salesweasels' promises, I fully support customers being given a realistic appraisal of the time, effort and cost required to get them up and running.
Indeed, how could we miss the opportunity to summarise it as "sucks harder than yo momma when the fleet's in town"?
A little consistency, please. Making a copy doesn't deprive anyone of anything, right? It's all just math anyway, 1s and 0s. Corporations bad, tree pretty.
Worst. Platform. Ever.
If I type a load of well researched, well cited information, and some plank can just blow it away with one click, whose view is going to prevail?
Wikipedia is premised on most editors being honest. If that's the case, it doesn't matter if it takes more than 10 seconds to remove vandalism, right?
We should reward mediocrity and just hope that it gets better because...?
In which part of the public school system do you work?
Well said. Judges need to keep a lid on that stuff until they reach the Supreme Court.
They think that women are for making babies and the poor and minorities are for sweeping up in kitchens. Maybe they know something that we don't? Perhaps they know to fund mathematicians to do maths, not sociology. Oh, the humanities.
Hello.
Many short men with a deeply ingrained inferiority complex will take great offence at a lot of things, but the way to deal with that is to pat them on the head and say "Calm down, little fellow, it's a perfectly fetching skirt and very flattering with your figure" not to take their angry rantings seriously. It just encourages them.
We're trying to tell the teeming masses in India and China that they can't aspire to have luxuries like refrigerators, washing machines and cars. Quite rightly, they don't give a damn about our rank hypocrisy.
Even if every decadent Western nation beggars itself (and we won't) then India and China will pick up the emissions slack within a decade or so (and they will anyway).
Emissions restrictions are dead in the water on the global scale. Instead, how about we start from the premise that people are going to strive to live rich, comfortable, high energy lives, and that they're going to keep having lots of kids who will expect to have more than their parents had.
There are essentially two solutions: cull about 4 billion people, or throw resources at clean power until it sticks, and I mean trillion dollar tranches of funding at fusion.
tl;dr version - emissions will go down when it's cheaper to produce green energy than to burn coal, and not one moment before.
Look, Sheila, that's one of those Samsung doodads that's so good that Apple tried to have it banned.
You can't buy that kind of publicity.
It's easy, just ask Them who we've always been at war with.
I mean, now that they've given up trying to influence the people actually involved in war, and are going after nerds instead, who'll be next? Tabletop gamers? Magic the Gathering conventions?
OMG, I've just realised than in Civilisation, units get totally obliterated. Maybe they could press for the next version to feature mass graves, investigative journalists and an international virtual court?
Yes, war is much more palatable when it's "fair."
The Fermi paradox isn't just a cute bit of philosophy. Our galaxy should be teeming with life. We live on prime real estate, the Thrints should have colonised it back in the Cambrian.
So either we're unique (inconceivable), ~8.8 billion years isn't long enough for any other species anywhere in the Milky Way to have kicked off colonisation (improbable), or something is silencing them (merely unlikely and scary).
Maybe we should take a look at that third possibility, and take a good hard look around rather than shouting "Here we are! Hey, over here, life!" into the void. Paranoid? Yes, but we're gambling the species on it, and the costs are essentially pocket lint.