You're saying Steam drove you away from PC gaming, yet you've never even used Steam?
The only practical difference between the experience of playing a Steam game and a non-Steam game is that you don't have to install from a disc, and the game can record Steam achievements. That's...really all there is. So it's kind of bewildering what you don't like about it. I love having access to my entire game library on any machine (and one purchase of a game counting for both Windows and Mac!) and never dealing with boxes and discs.
What exactly is your problem with Steam? I've never, ever encountered the copy protection, so I actually forgot there was any. If there's a Steam version of a game, I always buy it instead of the non-Steam version. I like having all my achievements tied to my account, as well as automated updates. Seriously, what don't you like about Steam, and what about it interferes with your gaming?
Just because it's not going to be licensed to third parties doesn't mean it's not a tech demo--what kind of logic is that? Obviously, the engine will be used internally within the company and its subsidiaries.
Not only is Rage whatever id Software decides it to be, but there has been talk of porting further Rage technology to the iPad. Obviously, the AC was just trolling, because Slashdot has become a haven for anti-Apple anonymous cowards who cling to their PCs the way grannies cling to rotary phones. Appliance computing is here, it's the future, and it's taking over. Rage will sell more on consoles than PCs.
With the constant love that Google and its products get on Slashdot and have gotten for over 10 years, you're bothered by some negativity? Is Slashdot supposed to ignore judicial events like this because Google was on the losing side?
Have you not been following Android news in the last few months? Google withholds Android source from non-privileged partners, and they use compatibility clauses to control how vendors use Android. There have even been accusations from vendors that they throw out artificial obstacles for phones that use competing services like Bing. A Google email said they "use compatibility as a club to make [vendors] do what we want."
I thought it was funny that Google and Android are supposed to be so open, yet they were trying to suppress source code they considered "highly proprietary."
Emotional distress? Give me a break. This is just a bunch of ambulance chasers trying to cash in on what has already been dismissed as a non-issue. Yes, the iPhone tracks the locations and strengths of cellular towers.
It's a streaming system that lets artists paint unique textures rather than today's tiled patterns. That's a bad thing how? What exactly is it shifting responsibility for? Engines don't create the texture assets.
The key to good trolling is to sound just rational enough that a large swath of people won't dismiss you outright. Try again, anonymous coward.
Anyone wanting some evidence of Blizzard's atrocious writing should check out the recently added Thrall questline, where you help his girlfriend Aggra free him from the elements. It's embarrassingly bad. At once point, she actually calls him the "orc I fell in love with," and it ends with a wedding. I realize Warcraft's story was never more than a comic book plot line, but I keep waiting for Blizzard to take things just a little more seriously.
- Onyxia wasn't really "content" for the last expansion that was supposed to mean anything. It was literally a bonus raid added in celebration of their 5th anniversary.
Of course it was content. The reason for its existence is irrelevant. Blizzard provided itemized gear for it which means it was intended to be raided by the players.
In TBC and Vanilla you simply did not get new 5 man instances patched into the game.
There were 5-man instances patched into both TBC and vanilla.
The results are favorable to Microsoft, so there will be a ton of skepticism, investigation, and outright dismissal. However, when studies favorable to this particular community's ideologies are announced, none of that occurs, even though the same kinds of skepticism can and should be applied.
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You're saying Steam drove you away from PC gaming, yet you've never even used Steam?
The only practical difference between the experience of playing a Steam game and a non-Steam game is that you don't have to install from a disc, and the game can record Steam achievements. That's...really all there is. So it's kind of bewildering what you don't like about it. I love having access to my entire game library on any machine (and one purchase of a game counting for both Windows and Mac!) and never dealing with boxes and discs.
What exactly is your problem with Steam? I've never, ever encountered the copy protection, so I actually forgot there was any. If there's a Steam version of a game, I always buy it instead of the non-Steam version. I like having all my achievements tied to my account, as well as automated updates. Seriously, what don't you like about Steam, and what about it interferes with your gaming?
id Tech 4 most definitely does not beat Source in the visuals department. Hell, you can see texture seams on the top of every Doom 3 character's head.
Carmack doesn't reply on Slashdot anymore after all the positions this site has taken in favor of Pirate Bay and piracy in general.
Just because it's not going to be licensed to third parties doesn't mean it's not a tech demo--what kind of logic is that? Obviously, the engine will be used internally within the company and its subsidiaries.
Not only is Rage whatever id Software decides it to be, but there has been talk of porting further Rage technology to the iPad. Obviously, the AC was just trolling, because Slashdot has become a haven for anti-Apple anonymous cowards who cling to their PCs the way grannies cling to rotary phones. Appliance computing is here, it's the future, and it's taking over. Rage will sell more on consoles than PCs.
With the constant love that Google and its products get on Slashdot and have gotten for over 10 years, you're bothered by some negativity? Is Slashdot supposed to ignore judicial events like this because Google was on the losing side?
People tend to hate closed-source, proprietary megacorporations that say one thing but do another.
What do you do when Google withholds the source for months like they did with Honeycomb? Add a sleep command in there?
Have you not been following Android news in the last few months? Google withholds Android source from non-privileged partners, and they use compatibility clauses to control how vendors use Android. There have even been accusations from vendors that they throw out artificial obstacles for phones that use competing services like Bing. A Google email said they "use compatibility as a club to make [vendors] do what we want."
I thought it was funny that Google and Android are supposed to be so open, yet they were trying to suppress source code they considered "highly proprietary."
How many anonymous posts are you going to make? It's pretty obvious when they all use the same lowercase "apple".
Emotional distress? Give me a break. This is just a bunch of ambulance chasers trying to cash in on what has already been dismissed as a non-issue. Yes, the iPhone tracks the locations and strengths of cellular towers.
It's a streaming system that lets artists paint unique textures rather than today's tiled patterns. That's a bad thing how? What exactly is it shifting responsibility for? Engines don't create the texture assets.
The key to good trolling is to sound just rational enough that a large swath of people won't dismiss you outright. Try again, anonymous coward.
There's already an iOS version, you creepy troll who will die alone.
A million lost subscriptions is $1.5 million less revenue per month.
Anyone wanting some evidence of Blizzard's atrocious writing should check out the recently added Thrall questline, where you help his girlfriend Aggra free him from the elements. It's embarrassingly bad. At once point, she actually calls him the "orc I fell in love with," and it ends with a wedding. I realize Warcraft's story was never more than a comic book plot line, but I keep waiting for Blizzard to take things just a little more seriously.
Of course it was content. The reason for its existence is irrelevant. Blizzard provided itemized gear for it which means it was intended to be raided by the players.
There were 5-man instances patched into both TBC and vanilla.
The total loss is over the last two quarters (notice the linked article says that subscriptions "continue to drop").
With its low-end hardware, this thing barely qualifies as a smartphone.
Prediction:
The results are favorable to Microsoft, so there will be a ton of skepticism, investigation, and outright dismissal. However, when studies favorable to this particular community's ideologies are announced, none of that occurs, even though the same kinds of skepticism can and should be applied.
You probably posted that comment using software written in C++.
And you probably posted the comment using software written in C.
No, WebKit is written in C++ like the rest of Chrome.
Automatic memory management in some form is an inevitable future for most programming.
No, that was the sound of the reverse psychology ploy. Declarations of doomed karma give karma!
You probably posted that comment using software written in C++.