which would *seem* like they're encouraging cybersquatting. Personally I don't can't think of what content-based website would get over 750k page visits and need to park their domain...
just like godaddy and tons of other domain registrars, its adverts on unused domains. except it's google, so it's more newsworthy.
The more that are thrown around, the more likely someone is going to click on one.
And just like adverts the only email I read are the ones I'm interested in
It's a shame that it's always the stupid (or easily influenced) people that get victimised and end up shaping things for the rest of us; Adverts, email, governing bodies...
There are too many re-used brands. I don't personally play games, but because they have the same brand as another game or movie, that makes them the same game.
Case in point: potter's quidditch world cup. Has this GAME been done before? surely its a new interactive game. Yes its got the Harry Potter brand. But it's not the film, and it's not the same game as the previous harry potter games, yet it's instantly dismissed.
perhaps as the average age goes up, so does their unwillingness to part with cash. Especially when there is so much choice these days. If more people played more games (which I'm sure they would if they could) we wouldn't have this same topic brought up every month/year/decade/platform announcement.
"Could we have had a few more damn levels please?"
And thus the sequel was born!
case in point, people WANT more of the SAME. and people BUY more of the SAME
I'm sick of articles which tells us the market is saturated (when it's just genres which are saturated) and no doubt the author of the article has (if any games at all) 99% of sequels or movie tie-ins.
It will expose the bugs to the consumer, but these exposed bugs won't get back to the developer.
If it does get back to the developer it will be through bad publicity(forums, direct complaints), by which time (assuming the demo is released before the final game) its too late. Demo's still go through N/MS/Sony's checks if being released before the game, and even then take a while to get into demo booths
Another point is highlighted here is that demo's dont go through proper lot checks if the game has already gone through them, its only tested for demo specific stuff (does it exit from menu's properly, does it fit in a specified size etc)
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You don't think the coders who currently write the GTA games work 80+ hours a week??
Good Idea: whistling while you work
Bad Idea; whistling while you eat
mod parent up some more. the US dollar is very weak compared to sterling at the moment. see graph; http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/cgi/fxplot?b=USD&c=GBP&rd= 31&fd=1&fm=1&fy=2005&ld=31&lm=12&ly=2006&y=daily&q =volume&f=png&a=lin&m=30&x=&cu=on
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come november when the markets sort themselves out, this $800 figure will have changed to like $600
[1] for historic purposes, today's value is 0.53, one month ago it was 0.56, in march it was around 0.6. April was a BIG slide
You've misread/notread the article. Google provides a specialised scheme for parking domains with ads.
http://www.google.com/domainpark/
which would *seem* like they're encouraging cybersquatting. Personally I don't can't think of what content-based website would get over 750k page visits and need to park their domain...
just like godaddy and tons of other domain registrars, its adverts on unused domains. except it's google, so it's more newsworthy.
what is irony?
Can my cat ever be a bicycle?
so YOUR the guy who bought the other one
gee, 30 years old and only in 7th grade?
call me a pessamist, but doesn't sound like it worked
The more that are thrown around, the more likely someone is going to click on one.
And just like adverts the only email I read are the ones I'm interested in
It's a shame that it's always the stupid (or easily influenced) people that get victimised and end up shaping things for the rest of us;
Adverts, email, governing bodies...
Yeah, I prefer "e-company" "i-company" "company-corp" "companysoft" "company dot com"
them crazy asians!
The bush administration will be installing large negative magnets in all homosexuals to keep them at least 5 feet from each other at all times
There are too many re-used brands. I don't personally play games, but because they have the same brand as another game or movie, that makes them the same game.
Case in point: potter's quidditch world cup. Has this GAME been done before? surely its a new interactive game.
Yes its got the Harry Potter brand. But it's not the film, and it's not the same game as the previous harry potter games, yet it's instantly dismissed.
perhaps as the average age goes up, so does their unwillingness to part with cash. Especially when there is so much choice these days. If more people played more games (which I'm sure they would if they could) we wouldn't have this same topic brought up every month/year/decade/platform announcement.
"Could we have had a few more damn levels please?"
And thus the sequel was born!
case in point, people WANT more of the SAME. and people BUY more of the SAME
I'm sick of articles which tells us the market is saturated (when it's just genres which are saturated) and no doubt the author of the article has (if any games at all) 99% of sequels or movie tie-ins.
Yeah, but over 86% of people just make up *that* statistic
Why make two trips? I'm going to take them off the shelves at EB and then sell them back to the store withouth leaving the premises
Actually, parent is redundant, my comment only applies to consoles
It will expose the bugs to the consumer, but these exposed bugs won't get back to the developer.
If it does get back to the developer it will be through bad publicity(forums, direct complaints), by which time (assuming the demo is released before the final game) its too late. Demo's still go through N/MS/Sony's checks if being released before the game, and even then take a while to get into demo booths
Another point is highlighted here is that demo's dont go through proper lot checks if the game has already gone through them, its only tested for demo specific stuff (does it exit from menu's properly, does it fit in a specified size etc)
whoever said there's no such thing as a free meal must be kicking themselves now
or at least, if not a meal, a free beer
Outsource it to India.
(This Is Of Course A Joke(TM))
So, how did he learn to read without education?
Maybe you should have studied closer, if you lower the price, your profit goes down!
Instead, you should go and cry to the authorities so people can't compete with you
IIRC, bugger all went wrong. No nuclear weapons randomly fired off in any direction, no computers melted (well, none of mine)
Subject: Just get the 3 day patch JXWYYZ7HZ ZN
The first time I saw the advert for this, I assumed it was an expansion pack, or integration with the sims.
A lot of EA's [now] in-house titles are starting to look awfully similar