I remember back when I refused to go away from my PKPAK/PKUNPAK ARC compression to this new fangled ZIP format...For some reason I was an ARC loyalist...Heh.
I wizened up, obviously.
When I make ZIP files, I STILL go to the command line and use PKZIP...And if there are no long filenames, I still use PKUNZIP today to unzip things. Yeah, it doesn't save the case, but who cares.:>
The companies wouldn't have it. This would basically kill the effectiveness of such places like Hotmail. They get their money from the ads, but now people are sending less emails because of the tax, and most people that use those accounts don't put their real information in there anyway, so the ads will be seen less often, causing less money for the company.
It's only a suggestion. And it shall stay there for eternity. (If it does go into effect, you better believe I'll help find a way to mask how many emails I send out!)
There's also the fact that some software companies from Japan are very stereotypical of the American Gamer. The majority of American Gamers like Quake and Mortal Kombat, so they don't bring RPG's over to the States. AND, if they DO bring those games to the states, they dummy them down.
For example, I'll take Squaresoft. They released Final Fantasy IV in Japan for the Super Famicom, and then released it the States as Final Fantasy II, but it was dummied down. They THEN released it again in Japan as "Final Fantasy IV - Easy Version", and they all laughed at the stupid Americans. There was also the game "Final Fantasy Mystic Quest" that was released in Japan as "Final Fantasy USA" and received even more laughs.
Squaresoft also initially did not plan on releasing the Final Fantasy Anthology, but finally buckled in to American demand. Unfortunately, they promised Japanese gamers that the Americans would not get this collection, so in order to keep their word they took away the aforementioned Final Fantasy IV out of the American pack, and left in Final Fantasy V (never released in the US) and Final Fantasy VI (released as Final Fantasy III).
So, basically, what's ruining American gamers is that studies show that people like Quake more than thinking RPG's, and I have seen it as well. People wonder why I like games like the FF series, because there's not enough "blowing crap up". They always tell me "if you want a story, read a book or watch a movie!"
This is why RPG's were not really introduced until the major FF7 boom of several years ago - nobody expected American gamers to like the story based games. And this FEED article talks about the games that are just running around and beating the crap out of things, so I think that this hits the nail right on the head.
If more companies took chances (yeah, fat chance) then they'd probably be pleasantly surprised.
I remember back when I was really young using a mouse on my IBM. My parents kept trying to stop me from looking directly into that red laser cuz I thought it looked pretty neat.
I'd like to say that I had it back in the mid-80's...Might have been closer to the late 80's. But it worked with good ol' MS-DOS and stuff.
We actually still have several optical mice in the sunsparc lab here at school, but what impresses me with the Microsoft one is the need to not need that pad...I have no room on my desk here for a mouse pad, so I just use the desk itself. It'll be nice when, in several years when they drop in price to like $10, I get one and know I'm not destroying it by using it on the desk.
What I'll miss the most are all the pranks I played in high school where I'd steal all of the balls out of the mice. They're just ruining all of our fun!
I have had a friend who decided that plugging in her new power supply would be much easier than waiting for the resident geek to do it for her later that evening. She told me that it was difficult to plug it into the motherboard, but she finally got them in, but sparks flew when she plugged in her computer to the wall. I looked and the reds were inward.
This wound up not only destroying the motherboard and power supply, but also destroying all of the devices she had in there (HD controller, video card, sound card, etc - it was an old 486).
Then, of course, she yelled at me for breaking her computer. Denial is always the first step...
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I remember back when I refused to go away from my PKPAK/PKUNPAK ARC compression to this new fangled ZIP format...For some reason I was an ARC loyalist...Heh.
:>
I wizened up, obviously.
When I make ZIP files, I STILL go to the command line and use PKZIP...And if there are no long filenames, I still use PKUNZIP today to unzip things. Yeah, it doesn't save the case, but who cares.
Rest in peace, PK.
"I beta tested every operating system
Gave props to some, and others? I dissed 'em"
Sounds like Linux people dissing Windows to me.
The companies wouldn't have it. This would basically kill the effectiveness of such places like Hotmail. They get their money from the ads, but now people are sending less emails because of the tax, and most people that use those accounts don't put their real information in there anyway, so the ads will be seen less often, causing less money for the company.
It's only a suggestion. And it shall stay there for eternity. (If it does go into effect, you better believe I'll help find a way to mask how many emails I send out!)
Last I checked, Postal wasn't fun...
There's also the fact that some software companies from Japan are very stereotypical of the American Gamer. The majority of American Gamers like Quake and Mortal Kombat, so they don't bring RPG's over to the States. AND, if they DO bring those games to the states, they dummy them down.
For example, I'll take Squaresoft. They released Final Fantasy IV in Japan for the Super Famicom, and then released it the States as Final Fantasy II, but it was dummied down. They THEN released it again in Japan as "Final Fantasy IV - Easy Version", and they all laughed at the stupid Americans. There was also the game "Final Fantasy Mystic Quest" that was released in Japan as "Final Fantasy USA" and received even more laughs.
Squaresoft also initially did not plan on releasing the Final Fantasy Anthology, but finally buckled in to American demand. Unfortunately, they promised Japanese gamers that the Americans would not get this collection, so in order to keep their word they took away the aforementioned Final Fantasy IV out of the American pack, and left in Final Fantasy V (never released in the US) and Final Fantasy VI (released as Final Fantasy III).
So, basically, what's ruining American gamers is that studies show that people like Quake more than thinking RPG's, and I have seen it as well. People wonder why I like games like the FF series, because there's not enough "blowing crap up". They always tell me "if you want a story, read a book or watch a movie!"
This is why RPG's were not really introduced until the major FF7 boom of several years ago - nobody expected American gamers to like the story based games. And this FEED article talks about the games that are just running around and beating the crap out of things, so I think that this hits the nail right on the head.
If more companies took chances (yeah, fat chance) then they'd probably be pleasantly surprised.
I remember back when I was really young using a mouse on my IBM. My parents kept trying to stop me from looking directly into that red laser cuz I thought it looked pretty neat.
I'd like to say that I had it back in the mid-80's...Might have been closer to the late 80's. But it worked with good ol' MS-DOS and stuff.
We actually still have several optical mice in the sunsparc lab here at school, but what impresses me with the Microsoft one is the need to not need that pad...I have no room on my desk here for a mouse pad, so I just use the desk itself. It'll be nice when, in several years when they drop in price to like $10, I get one and know I'm not destroying it by using it on the desk.
What I'll miss the most are all the pranks I played in high school where I'd steal all of the balls out of the mice. They're just ruining all of our fun!
I have had a friend who decided that plugging in her new power supply would be much easier than waiting for the resident geek to do it for her later that evening. She told me that it was difficult to plug it into the motherboard, but she finally got them in, but sparks flew when she plugged in her computer to the wall. I looked and the reds were inward.
This wound up not only destroying the motherboard and power supply, but also destroying all of the devices she had in there (HD controller, video card, sound card, etc - it was an old 486).
Then, of course, she yelled at me for breaking her computer. Denial is always the first step...