If you download a game, you have the install media. It's a simple matter of building an app or a device to circumvent the copy protection it has at that point. There are no hardware controls like broken CD specs built into this kind of system, so I can't see it depending on hardware copy protection either.
This is an extremely simplistic view of the process. Of course if you view it like it's just a glorified "click here to download and install" kind of process, you'll assume it's a "simple matter" to hack it. But I don't think that's what it is.
Good for game developers too
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This kind of arrangement is a real win for the smaller game developer. It gives them a chance to distribute their game to a wide audience, with little or no up front publishing costs, beyond the basic PR and marketing.
Think of it as like the web for games. Before the web, the basic modes of mass publishing were huge and daunting. Want to write up a description of how you mod'ed a computer case, and reach a world wide audence in a pre-web world? Forget it. Now days, just get Cowboy Neal to post a link on Slashdot and you've got more attention than you had bargained for:^P
And it scales well too. Try in a conventional game retail world to suddenly increase supply by a few 100k copies overnight. Now try it in an online world - where your only real problems are bandwidth and server load.
You mean like Solitare and Mine Sweeper? More people play those games than about any other game.
Do you want seats (people playing your game), or do you want pretty pictures? Are you trying to make an art film or something that's fairly popular at the theaters? Decide that, THEN decide what game to make.
Hah! Clearly the upcoming "Women of Starbucks" pictoral that Playboy is planning is tied in to the female Starbuck character. I bet you a donut the actress appears in a layout.
I just had a dream the other night about you. Seriously!
I was in Brasil with my wife, and we were for some reason at a school. You showed up to give a speech to the school body - unshaven. You scurried off then and shaved before the presentation. I recal my wife and some other woman were "checking you out".
Questions: Do you often do presentations to schools in Brasil? Do you shave first? And my wife hasn't been emailing you or anything has she?
Maybe the key is to just not be concerned about Large Scale Success. I think many companies would be thriving and viable if they would just choose to not "take it to the next level".
...meaning that game developers are essentially tool developers for game enthusiasts to create mods (also using tools like Alienbrain or Discreet's GMAX)
This is pretty flawed thinking. Because by that same logic, there should be little market for softare because clearly we can all just go get MS Visual Studio, or Perl, or PHP, or any number of other programming languages. Who needs application developers! Just give the masses programming languages.
Just because you give someone a tool doesn't mean they can create greatness. GMAX is definitely a "dumbed down" version of a more sophisticated package, but in no way has it streamlined the users (artists) creativity or imagination, not to mention sense of aesthetics, balance, and proportion.
Instead of AI that plays like you for you, how about if it slowly creates your evil twin? The AI that knows you but has an overriding urge to hunt you down and kill you. That might be kind of interesting. The better you got at the game, the harder the boss would be to beat as it were. And your goal would be to find your evil twin in some huge world.
Haven't travelled around outside the US much, have you?
Believe it, or at least the concept
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Though we have all seen this sort of attack as a possiblity for a long time, I'm having a hard time believing that Al Qaeda is capable of anything along these lines."
You're not the only one.
Yea and if I told you a year ago someone would crash three airliners into major buildings in the US you'd have said the same thing.
I accidentally shot a rubber band out the window once . I now know that it clearly was exhibiting behaviour much more advanced than i had ever imagined! Flight! Free wil! A drive to escape!
Sounds like the OGC guys and wall hack authors are going into higher level research now. I think you'd call this an "aim bot" right?
I can't wait to have some guy yell, "Yuo be0tch your using a wall hack or an aimbot. NOBODY CAN SHUTE THAT GOOD" when I go down to Squirrels (a downtown learning center) to play some pool.
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As tiring as the updates are, it's even more tiring to hear the same old whinging about MS.
Keep looking!
This is an extremely simplistic view of the process. Of course if you view it like it's just a glorified "click here to download and install" kind of process, you'll assume it's a "simple matter" to hack it. But I don't think that's what it is.
This kind of arrangement is a real win for the smaller game developer. It gives them a chance to distribute their game to a wide audience, with little or no up front publishing costs, beyond the basic PR and marketing.
:^P
Think of it as like the web for games. Before the web, the basic modes of mass publishing were huge and daunting. Want to write up a description of how you mod'ed a computer case, and reach a world wide audence in a pre-web world? Forget it. Now days, just get Cowboy Neal to post a link on Slashdot and you've got more attention than you had bargained for
And it scales well too. Try in a conventional game retail world to suddenly increase supply by a few 100k copies overnight. Now try it in an online world - where your only real problems are bandwidth and server load.
You mean like Solitare and Mine Sweeper? More people play those games than about any other game.
Do you want seats (people playing your game), or do you want pretty pictures? Are you trying to make an art film or something that's fairly popular at the theaters? Decide that, THEN decide what game to make.
No more exciting or boring than buying some off the shelf computer and leaving it in 100% factory spec.
Psh! Off Topic? It's a game joke (CS/Half-Life) to imply "THIS MAP SUCKS WHAT MAP IS NEXT?"
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And then there's Valve
Hah! Clearly the upcoming "Women of Starbucks" pictoral that Playboy is planning is tied in to the female Starbuck character. I bet you a donut the actress appears in a layout.
Of course computers haven't been around for a thousands of years so maybe that was part of the problem...
Maybe you should become a manager and show them how it should be done?
I just had a dream the other night about you. Seriously!
I was in Brasil with my wife, and we were for some reason at a school. You showed up to give a speech to the school body - unshaven. You scurried off then and shaved before the presentation. I recal my wife and some other woman were "checking you out".
Questions: Do you often do presentations to schools in Brasil? Do you shave first? And my wife hasn't been emailing you or anything has she?
Maybe the key is to just not be concerned about Large Scale Success. I think many companies would be thriving and viable if they would just choose to not "take it to the next level".
Imposter :^)
So if the mailroom guy fired off an angry email to the CEO then freaked and asked you to delete it, would you?
...meaning that game developers are essentially tool developers for game enthusiasts to create mods (also using tools like Alienbrain or Discreet's GMAX)
This is pretty flawed thinking. Because by that same logic, there should be little market for softare because clearly we can all just go get MS Visual Studio, or Perl, or PHP, or any number of other programming languages. Who needs application developers! Just give the masses programming languages.
Just because you give someone a tool doesn't mean they can create greatness. GMAX is definitely a "dumbed down" version of a more sophisticated package, but in no way has it streamlined the users (artists) creativity or imagination, not to mention sense of aesthetics, balance, and proportion.
heh
Instead of AI that plays like you for you, how about if it slowly creates your evil twin? The AI that knows you but has an overriding urge to hunt you down and kill you. That might be kind of interesting. The better you got at the game, the harder the boss would be to beat as it were. And your goal would be to find your evil twin in some huge world.
Actually, probably the fact that TF2 has not yet been released is the main reason you're not playing it.
You're impressed? I"m one of the Day of Defeat MOD developers and WE are impressed. Never thought it would go as far as it did.
Haven't travelled around outside the US much, have you?
Yea and if I told you a year ago someone would crash three airliners into major buildings in the US you'd have said the same thing.
I accidentally shot a rubber band out the window once . I now know that it clearly was exhibiting behaviour much more advanced than i had ever imagined! Flight! Free wil! A drive to escape!
Clearly, we need more legislation.
Sounds like the OGC guys and wall hack authors are going into higher level research now. I think you'd call this an "aim bot" right?
I can't wait to have some guy yell, "Yuo be0tch your using a wall hack or an aimbot. NOBODY CAN SHUTE THAT GOOD" when I go down to Squirrels (a downtown learning center) to play some pool.