Heh, unless I'm taking the troll bait, GamesIndustry.biz in based in England, and so they actually mean soccer when they say football. Those silly Englishers - doh!
FWIW, I was eating dinner (orange glazed chicken and some egg rolls) during the period of time this 'quick slap' was alleged. But thank you for caring:)
Just so you know you're not some kind of messed-up Ashton Kutcher, this article _was_ accidentally live for about 3 minutes this morning before it got moved, I believe. Good eye, that man!
I know this post is getting modded up, but the gotFrag report says:
"By 8AM PST on Saturday, all of the goals set at 1:30AM late the previous night were accomplished... As the first Counter-Strike teams were called in and began to set-up, things were working smoothly. As more players filtered in, a problem with running Steam became more and more apparent."
So sounds like the biggest Steam problems came after this outage was fixed?
Uhm, Crystal Chronicles came out in August in Japan, so considering how popular Final Fantasy is over there, I think that's definitely a little disappointing, although understandable considering the smaller install-base of the GameCube compared to PS2.
How did you think FF:CC sold 300,000 or more without having come out, anyhow?:)
On the installation of junk, I agree wholeheartedly. I couldn't see it, because I'm running Mozilla, but on loading the site in Internet Explorer, it tried to install a couple of different programs of various kinds. Pretty rude.
Unfortunately, since The Magic Box translates a lot of stuff from Japanese media, it's often the first source for quite a bit of news, but I just mailed the webmaster and asked if he could take off the super-obnoxious Gator-style installation attempts, at least.
I'm a little surprised that GTA isn't in there either - perhaps it sold through just under 230,000, but Take Two has sold 300,000+ copies to retailers, hence their slight inflation in the number mentioned in their financial results?
Well, I still think it's pretty impressive, considering the biggest Western MMORPGs claim to have around 400,000 total subscribers, and this title is claiming up to 650,000 logged on simultaneously (so, what, anything up to 5-10 times as many total users?) Obviously, there's probably a different subscription service (Internet cafes buying bulk memberships?), but nonetheless.. it's a big market to be not covered that often.
Sorry if it wasn't clear in the write-up, but I think the Japanese GBA video player is actually by a different developer - though it does similar things.
It may be that Majesco's system is a lot more standalone - the Japanese system allows you to write to Smart Media cards, but it could be the U.S. video player carts are just standalone, with no possible PC interface. We'll have to see.
I believe that this one-time fee option is viewable on a specific page on the Second Life site, but for whatever reason (probably due to the proximity of the announcement to Christmas?), this page is tricky (impossible?) to find through the main Secondlife.com site.
Anyhow, it's there, just badly linked to, so it works right now - I'm kinda tempted, actually.
FWIW, the ruling was from the Copyright Office, and only deals with circumvention of access protection on games - so copyrights still apply, and only the rights-holder still has the ability to give away obsolete games freely.
Anyone who knows me will realize that I'm far more interested in this game's similarity to Kit Williams' Masquerade puzzle book from the '80s (as I mentioned in the department line on the story) than any political statement.
It's interesting, imho, because I'm not sure how far Datel can go into making actual products with actual features before Sony come after them more determinedly. OK, Action Replay products are one thing - they clearly act on other games. But Junk TV, unless you suggest it 'acts' on Eye Toy, is arguably a standalone product. How do they get away with with it, and will they continue to? Kinda intriguing.
I'd be interested to see if this'll ever be released in the States - it doesn't seem to be available on any US game store websites, and I can't find much info about it at all online, not even on Datel's site.
The 1UP review does seem to have a couple of inaccuracies in it - we added a Game Informer hands-on which seems to have the information a little more together, thanks for feedback.
Looks like the Greatest Hits versions of Final Fantasy Anthology and Final Fantasy Chronicles are widely available (I saw them in my local Best Buy today, for one), but the other two new Greatest Hits much less so.
Someone on a GameFAQs board said he saw Xenogears at his local Target, and VideoGameDepot seem to have it in stock, but I guess it's just in the very early stages of shipping out, and may not make it to some bigger B+M stores because it's PlayStation 1, and relatively obscure to boot - boo.
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I think I'd define it like that as well - article amended. In fact, everyone has an equal opportunity of winning the Beta lottery, in this case :P
Heh, unless I'm taking the troll bait, GamesIndustry.biz in based in England, and so they actually mean soccer when they say football. Those silly Englishers - doh!
Please look closely at the website link on 'not known'. Ithangyou!
FWIW, I was eating dinner (orange glazed chicken and some egg rolls) during the period of time this 'quick slap' was alleged. But thank you for caring :)
The article now raises the question, not begs it. Thank you to grammar scholars everywhere :)
Just so you know you're not some kind of messed-up Ashton Kutcher, this article _was_ accidentally live for about 3 minutes this morning before it got moved, I believe. Good eye, that man!
Another recent title which comes to mind is Max Payne 2 - that was definitely designed with Xbox/PC in mind, and the PS2 version is not so hot.
I also think Sony are saying that even made-for-PS2-first games could look a lot better, too.
I know this post is getting modded up, but the gotFrag report says:
"By 8AM PST on Saturday, all of the goals set at 1:30AM late the previous night were accomplished... As the first Counter-Strike teams were called in and began to set-up, things were working smoothly. As more players filtered in, a problem with running Steam became more and more apparent."
So sounds like the biggest Steam problems came after this outage was fixed?
True - just trying to make the point that you shouldn't necessarily think the PSP is going to cost 560 bucks in the U.S. :)
No dupe, I'm afraid, but it's the second part of a similar article. Rewording is taking place to make this clear!
I also checked the front page and saw it listed in the 'Recent Highlights'. Oh well :/
Good point, article title now changed.
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Uhm, Crystal Chronicles came out in August in Japan, so considering how popular Final Fantasy is over there, I think that's definitely a little disappointing, although understandable considering the smaller install-base of the GameCube compared to PS2.
:)
How did you think FF:CC sold 300,000 or more without having come out, anyhow?
On the installation of junk, I agree wholeheartedly. I couldn't see it, because I'm running Mozilla, but on loading the site in Internet Explorer, it tried to install a couple of different programs of various kinds. Pretty rude.
Unfortunately, since The Magic Box translates a lot of stuff from Japanese media, it's often the first source for quite a bit of news, but I just mailed the webmaster and asked if he could take off the super-obnoxious Gator-style installation attempts, at least.
I'm a little surprised that GTA isn't in there either - perhaps it sold through just under 230,000, but Take Two has sold 300,000+ copies to retailers, hence their slight inflation in the number mentioned in their financial results?
Well, I still think it's pretty impressive, considering the biggest Western MMORPGs claim to have around 400,000 total subscribers, and this title is claiming up to 650,000 logged on simultaneously (so, what, anything up to 5-10 times as many total users?) Obviously, there's probably a different subscription service (Internet cafes buying bulk memberships?), but nonetheless.. it's a big market to be not covered that often.
Sorry if it wasn't clear in the write-up, but I think the Japanese GBA video player is actually by a different developer - though it does similar things.
It may be that Majesco's system is a lot more standalone - the Japanese system allows you to write to Smart Media cards, but it could be the U.S. video player carts are just standalone, with no possible PC interface. We'll have to see.
I believe that this one-time fee option is viewable on a specific page on the Second Life site, but for whatever reason (probably due to the proximity of the announcement to Christmas?), this page is tricky (impossible?) to find through the main Secondlife.com site.
Anyhow, it's there, just badly linked to, so it works right now - I'm kinda tempted, actually.
What does it do (you're referring to The Magic Box, right)? I'm running Mozilla, and so I don't see adware/pop-ups and other badness sometimes.
FWIW, the ruling was from the Copyright Office, and only deals with circumvention of access protection on games - so copyrights still apply, and only the rights-holder still has the ability to give away obsolete games freely.
Anyone who knows me will realize that I'm far more interested in this game's similarity to Kit Williams' Masquerade puzzle book from the '80s (as I mentioned in the department line on the story) than any political statement.
It's interesting, imho, because I'm not sure how far Datel can go into making actual products with actual features before Sony come after them more determinedly. OK, Action Replay products are one thing - they clearly act on other games. But Junk TV, unless you suggest it 'acts' on Eye Toy, is arguably a standalone product. How do they get away with with it, and will they continue to? Kinda intriguing.
I'd be interested to see if this'll ever be released in the States - it doesn't seem to be available on any US game store websites, and I can't find much info about it at all online, not even on Datel's site.
The 1UP review does seem to have a couple of inaccuracies in it - we added a Game Informer hands-on which seems to have the information a little more together, thanks for feedback.
Looks like the Greatest Hits versions of Final Fantasy Anthology and Final Fantasy Chronicles are widely available (I saw them in my local Best Buy today, for one), but the other two new Greatest Hits much less so.
Someone on a GameFAQs board said he saw Xenogears at his local Target, and VideoGameDepot seem to have it in stock, but I guess it's just in the very early stages of shipping out, and may not make it to some bigger B+M stores because it's PlayStation 1, and relatively obscure to boot - boo.