Because most people who buy gold aren't sitting in their parents basement. I haven't lived at home since I was 18 years old (I'm closing on 30 now)... I buy gold occasionally. I would play even if the cost of the games tripled... it's how I relax (and I spend time with my s.o. and our children there... beats watching tv in the winter.) Because it's worth more for me to enjoy my free time than to pick up a second job in a virtual world. Realistically poor people can't afford to buy gold... although I'm sure some do (just like some buy alcohol, drugs, cigs, when they're barely able to pay their bills.)
Money has no intrinsic value in and of itself, it's only worth something because of what it lets you do. I have money in the stock market, retirement, and bank. If buying some money in a virtual world lets me enjoy my time there more, I'm all about that... Just like buying my own scuba gear helps me enjoy that hobby. Could that money be better used invested in stocks or even put in a low yield savings? Sure... but if you don't enjoy your life what good does having more money do you? None.
my god man, i dont know what your skill levels are like in infrastructure and networking and such... but even 2 million of their 6 million subscribers would level most of the worlds largest supercomputers combined. I cant even begin to imagine the logistics and interconnections and such that would be required to facilitate a potential of 6m people trying to be online at once in that kind of persistant data intensive enviroment. EVE is *tiny*. Ive never seen more than 10-20% of their accounts on at once since I started. 20% of 6 million is 1.2 million people, in a world that feels crowded by a few thousand.
I would like to see this someday, don't get me wrong, but we're not there yet technologically speaking.
That's not exactly true. They release *killer* games. They wait till everyone is seriously addicted... then they beat the games to death the first time the subscriber numbers don't meet their expections. At which point the numbers continue to get worse and worse and they keep beating and beating. They need to take the view of "Numbers decline overtime is natural and not a sign of dissatisfaction with the game." rather than "Numbers decline overtime must be stopped and we'll keep changing things until it does."
Actually, I live in ohio also... and this year it was cheaper to use spaceheaters and my computers for heat than it was to use the gas heat. Our bill hit near 700$ Gas with an electric bill of 120$... next month which was colder (and my mother down the road, bill went up again) I had spaceheaters and the computers on 24x7. I had a 340$ Gas and electric bill of 260$. Im seriously considering seeing if I can change over to electric heat after this years price jump... in the past there would have been no question that gas was better... after this year, I need to get some estimates.
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Sony doesn't listen to its customers. Look at the combat revamp in swg, rather than being more careful after they alienate 1/2 of the player base they make even more vast changes alienating another 1/2. Eq2 did the same thing with the combat revamp. I'm about done with sony products.
... a violent, realistic game when combined with a full immersion enviroment could be used to de-sensitise someone to the violence it depicts.
Of course that requires a full immersion enviroment... which is completely unlike a keyboard and mouse setup which 99.999999% of people play with at home.
... number of submissions. Shrug, if someone is sending 20 a day they need shot. Limit people to 1 submission a day so they're forced to submit only their best rather than taking the shotgun approach.
... for single labels is-- Dymo. We used them at the post office, we use them where I work now, they work well and consistantly. I've had ~3000 in the field at a time and seen only one or so a month. Good stuff.
Funny thing is, i actually have a webhost there, they sell dedicated servers. I personally have reported 2-3 spammers to them and the spammers go away instantly almost... 4-5h at most. They're very responsive to getting rid of spammers but because they sub out alot of the ip range to various other companies they tend to pick up alot of spammers.
50? God if only. I current admin 11 domains (mine and some friends). Across the entire group I'm seeing about 22-25k a day. The spam filters, bayes filters, and uribl nail about 99.5% of it. So 125 come through per day on average that I see personally and individual spamassassin filters tend to nix that down to ~5-6 a day. Still flusterating, alot of wasted bandwidth.
... the tomshardware forums are great for specing a system togeather with feedback about the components.
I'd highly suggest an AMD 3500+ on an ASUS A8N-SLI 32X Deluxe Motherboard.
This gives you pretty good options for the future-- processor upgrades from single core to duel core, single video card to duel video card, plenty of pci slots, sata, usb, firewire, etc.
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Actually they are, I helped migrate the largest novell installation in the world to ads and microsoft.
The US Postal Service for reference.
We call that "leveraging financial resources for optimal results". I've been bought in a risk game actually, course we play for real money anyways ;)
Exactly. However, a lot of people have trouble with that concept.
Because most people who buy gold aren't sitting in their parents basement. I haven't lived at home since I was 18 years old (I'm closing on 30 now)... I buy gold occasionally. I would play even if the cost of the games tripled... it's how I relax (and I spend time with my s.o. and our children there... beats watching tv in the winter.) Because it's worth more for me to enjoy my free time than to pick up a second job in a virtual world. Realistically poor people can't afford to buy gold... although I'm sure some do (just like some buy alcohol, drugs, cigs, when they're barely able to pay their bills.)
Money has no intrinsic value in and of itself, it's only worth something because of what it lets you do. I have money in the stock market, retirement, and bank. If buying some money in a virtual world lets me enjoy my time there more, I'm all about that... Just like buying my own scuba gear helps me enjoy that hobby. Could that money be better used invested in stocks or even put in a low yield savings? Sure... but if you don't enjoy your life what good does having more money do you? None.
my god man, i dont know what your skill levels are like in infrastructure and networking and such... but even 2 million of their 6 million subscribers would level most of the worlds largest supercomputers combined. I cant even begin to imagine the logistics and interconnections and such that would be required to facilitate a potential of 6m people trying to be online at once in that kind of persistant data intensive enviroment. EVE is *tiny*. Ive never seen more than 10-20% of their accounts on at once since I started. 20% of 6 million is 1.2 million people, in a world that feels crowded by a few thousand.
I would like to see this someday, don't get me wrong, but we're not there yet technologically speaking.
That's not exactly true. They release *killer* games. They wait till everyone is seriously addicted... then they beat the games to death the first time the subscriber numbers don't meet their expections. At which point the numbers continue to get worse and worse and they keep beating and beating. They need to take the view of "Numbers decline overtime is natural and not a sign of dissatisfaction with the game." rather than "Numbers decline overtime must be stopped and we'll keep changing things until it does."
Nod, you're correct. It was owned by Verant... which was purchased by Sony. All the same people different umbrella.
... it's not "incomplete" it's "barely started".
Stick a fork in it already sony, it's done.
Actually, I live in ohio also... and this year it was cheaper to use spaceheaters and my computers for heat than it was to use the gas heat. Our bill hit near 700$ Gas with an electric bill of 120$... next month which was colder (and my mother down the road, bill went up again) I had spaceheaters and the computers on 24x7. I had a 340$ Gas and electric bill of 260$. Im seriously considering seeing if I can change over to electric heat after this years price jump... in the past there would have been no question that gas was better... after this year, I need to get some estimates.
... Corporate Greed.
Sony doesn't listen to its customers. Look at the combat revamp in swg, rather than being more careful after they alienate 1/2 of the player base they make even more vast changes alienating another 1/2. Eq2 did the same thing with the combat revamp. I'm about done with sony products.
Fsck me like their bitch they do.
There's a reason large cities in texas have such low violent crime rates compared to other parts of the country.
A larger %age of the citizens have guns. on them.
By gun regulationists reasoning texas should have a HIGHER rate of violent crime.
... a violent, realistic game when combined with a full immersion enviroment could be used to de-sensitise someone to the violence it depicts.
Of course that requires a full immersion enviroment... which is completely unlike a keyboard and mouse setup which 99.999999% of people play with at home.
... number of submissions. Shrug, if someone is sending 20 a day they need shot. Limit people to 1 submission a day so they're forced to submit only their best rather than taking the shotgun approach.
... for single labels is-- Dymo. We used them at the post office, we use them where I work now, they work well and consistantly. I've had ~3000 in the field at a time and seen only one or so a month. Good stuff.
Funny thing is, i actually have a webhost there, they sell dedicated servers. I personally have reported 2-3 spammers to them and the spammers go away instantly almost... 4-5h at most. They're very responsive to getting rid of spammers but because they sub out alot of the ip range to various other companies they tend to pick up alot of spammers.
50? God if only. I current admin 11 domains (mine and some friends). Across the entire group I'm seeing about 22-25k a day. The spam filters, bayes filters, and uribl nail about 99.5% of it. So 125 come through per day on average that I see personally and individual spamassassin filters tend to nix that down to ~5-6 a day. Still flusterating, alot of wasted bandwidth.
> The only MMORPG that I know of that might challenge the dominance of WoW is the new D&D game coming out.
I'm in the beta, it has no hope. Not even an inkling.
... the customers don't feel the way the devs do.
No shock there though, that's been the story with eq1, eq2, swg, planetside...
Behind a firewall: Until you do something stupid.
On the net raw running windows: 30m.
On the net raw running linux: depends on the daemons.
> Isn't 99 cents too much to pay for music that appeals to just a few people?
.99 is to much... so would 15c or 1c. If you don't like it.. it's not a deal at any price.
Not to those "few people".
Yes, to the "mainstream" who it doesn't appeal to...
... the tomshardware forums are great for specing a system togeather with feedback about the components.
I'd highly suggest an
AMD 3500+ on an ASUS A8N-SLI 32X Deluxe Motherboard.
This gives you pretty good options for the future-- processor upgrades from single core to duel core, single video card to duel video card, plenty of pci slots, sata, usb, firewire, etc.
I've been extremely happy with my older a8n-sli.
...Cisco PIX501 :)
Switch to firefox/thunderbird. Put ms anti-spyware beta on desktop and norton or some other av program, spybot and turn on teatimer.
Should make her relatively safe.
... I go back to snail mailing money to the artists and downloading the mp3. Shrug.
...Well it's to know that the US doesn't have a monopoly on stupid politicians.