...why they had to do this, as a business trying to stay alive in the "new economy".
I don't read GameSpot often, but I've enjoyed many of the reviews and walkthroughs that they've offered in the past.
The subscription costs ($4.95 a month) aren't unreasonable. I pay that without blinking various computing and gaming magazines whenever I'm in the newsagency browsing for some literature on the train.
I hope that they can offer enough subscription only services to make it worthwhile for subscribers, or they surely fade away.
How many different extensions are we going to have? How many people are going to actually use them?
I think that the 'dot com' culture is too firmly entrenched. Businesses are always going to want to try and get a.com name. Forget about.biz, or.info, or.museum, or.rabid_attack_wombles.
After the below average Ultima 8 and the visually spectacular-but-totally-incompatible-with-my-compu ter Ultima 9, it'd be nice to have a proper RPG that would bring back all of those memories of IBM games with low-resolution CGA/EGA computer graphics with absolutely awful PC speaker sound tracks.
Then of course, there's playing the same game on your Amiga.;)
I've been hearing quite a lot about this in Australia too. (Remember that place of beautiful beaches, Internet censorship and technophobe politicians?;).
With the largest of the two main cable companies recently introducing a 3GB cap on data transfer as well as being plagued with downtime and network problems, customers have realised that they can download more on their old dialup accounts and have been ditching cable at a phenomenal rate.
I guess once again it relates to the fact that businesses just want to use the Internet to make money, whereas the people actually using Internet want to use it for porn. I mean 'infotainment'.
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...why they had to do this, as a business trying to stay alive in the "new economy".
I don't read GameSpot often, but I've enjoyed many of the reviews and walkthroughs that they've offered in the past.
The subscription costs ($4.95 a month) aren't unreasonable. I pay that without blinking various computing and gaming magazines whenever I'm in the newsagency browsing for some literature on the train.
I hope that they can offer enough subscription only services to make it worthwhile for subscribers, or they surely fade away.
Taffyd.
How many different extensions are we going to have? How many people are going to actually use them?
.com name. Forget about .biz, or .info, or .museum, or .rabid_attack_wombles.
I think that the 'dot com' culture is too firmly entrenched. Businesses are always going to want to try and get a
Taffyd.
...my boss would consider packets all of the packets routed to slashdot by me when I was meant to be working as "strange, unwanted and malformed". ;)
Taffyd.
Unfortunately I believe this isn't the case, and Josh Kirby passed away in his sleep on 23/10/2001.
You might like to check out announcement on lspace and an obituary in a paper
Taffyd.
... that it's what everyone hopes it will be.
u ter Ultima 9, it'd be nice to have a proper RPG that would bring back all of those memories of IBM games with low-resolution CGA/EGA computer graphics with absolutely awful PC speaker sound tracks.
;)
After the below average Ultima 8 and the visually spectacular-but-totally-incompatible-with-my-comp
Then of course, there's playing the same game on your Amiga.
Taffyd.
I've been hearing quite a lot about this in Australia too. (Remember that place of beautiful beaches, Internet censorship and technophobe politicians? ;).
With the largest of the two main cable companies recently introducing a 3GB cap on data transfer as well as being plagued with downtime and network problems, customers have realised that they can download more on their old dialup accounts and have been ditching cable at a phenomenal rate.
I guess once again it relates to the fact that businesses just want to use the Internet to make money, whereas the people actually using Internet want to use it for porn. I mean 'infotainment'.
Taffyd.