Ah, I see your mistake here. I bet you've been buying the latest, younger cards instead of the older, more mature ones. My GTX 650 has always been quiet, on time and never gave me any trouble.
Broderbund, Sierra and others used the HELL out of different game engines to produce multiple games. So in fact they DID charge you over and over, where you were basically paying for the same game engine use with new content.
I don't know about you, but when I play a game it's for the content, not for the game engine.
That's like saying someone is stupid because he keeps buying DVDs. Since he already has one disc encoded in MPEG-2, why would he want more?
To be fair, that era wasn't as bug-free as we'd like to remember. For example, the release of Sierra On-Line's Leisure Suit Larry 4 was riddled with problems at launch, such as the Vohaul virus that got on the production floppy disks and was then used as the master for the commercial release, etc.
As a developer, I can't see why I should keep charging for the same shit. Sure, new features/functionality are a reason since they take time , but it'll soon get to a point where I'd be adding 'features' just for the sake of it, ending up with a pile of bloatware and pissed off customers.
You just described the problem of all the big players out there: Microsoft, Apple, Google, Adobe, Autodesk, etc.
There's a reason a lot of us are still using older computers, older operating systems and older programs. Apart from security patches, we don't want anything except to keep using our systems as they are today.
All updates do is break stuff we do use, add shit we'll never use, mess around with configurations and workflows and just add bloat to things that used to work fine but now need a computer that's twice as powerful to do the things we used to do - because of bloat we'll never use. Fuck that.
With the way some "updates" fuck up my workflow, slow down my system with unwanted useless features and new bugs introduced because of these useless features, sometimes I would rather pay to continue using the same old version.
Slashdot Mirror
English?
Care to name which one, you bunch of morons?
Or is it a joke about how Dogecoin kept its 1:1 trading ratio of One-Dogecoin-for-One-Dogecoin?
Similar thing here, damnit. I just bought the Bates 4000!
Ah, I see your mistake here. I bet you've been buying the latest, younger cards instead of the older, more mature ones. My GTX 650 has always been quiet, on time and never gave me any trouble.
And here I am, out of mod points.
Virtual +1 Funny to you, sir.
According to the parent AC above, I haven't posted enough comments in this thread.
Look at my user name and do that.
Still using CS2 here. Since I don't need more, why would I pay?
- reach $10K, get feature X
- reach $20K, get features X and Y
In-between $10K and $20K, get feature X and thank you for all the fish.
Somewhere out there, there's an anal-probe-of-the-month company that's going to use that as its slogan.
One upgrade everyone here could use: a Slashdot update to finally support unicode. Did they get the memo yet that we're in 2018?
I don't know about you, but when I play a game it's for the content, not for the game engine.
That's like saying someone is stupid because he keeps buying DVDs. Since he already has one disc encoded in MPEG-2, why would he want more?
To be fair, that era wasn't as bug-free as we'd like to remember. For example, the release of Sierra On-Line's Leisure Suit Larry 4 was riddled with problems at launch, such as the Vohaul virus that got on the production floppy disks and was then used as the master for the commercial release, etc.
You just described the problem of all the big players out there: Microsoft, Apple, Google, Adobe, Autodesk, etc.
There's a reason a lot of us are still using older computers, older operating systems and older programs. Apart from security patches, we don't want anything except to keep using our systems as they are today.
All updates do is break stuff we do use, add shit we'll never use, mess around with configurations and workflows and just add bloat to things that used to work fine but now need a computer that's twice as powerful to do the things we used to do - because of bloat we'll never use. Fuck that.
A new version of my app is available. Please pay 99 cents to upgrade to version 1.0.1.
Hot news: next week, keep an eye out for the required 1.0.2 upgrade of my app!
With the way some "updates" fuck up my workflow, slow down my system with unwanted useless features and new bugs introduced because of these useless features, sometimes I would rather pay to continue using the same old version.
One one hand you don't mind paying for a major version upgrade but on the other hand you don't want to pay for a minor version update.
The problem is, the author decides what a major version upgrade is vs a minor version update - not you.
So if all users were like you, I would follow Chrome's upgrade path where almost all updates are major versions. Would you be happy to pay every time?
Still less annoying than all the pro-Trump and anti-Trump idiots who post comments not only in completely unrelated threads, but in all the threads.
You don't need to remind me. Everything sold by U.S.A. companies keeps increasing in price.
+1 informative
But probably still more expensive than Canada-made boxes.
Did I miss something, or are we back to the BBS era?
Why do you say that? Is it me you're looking for?
What about one soyburger vs the salad made with soya oil?
Not so simple anymore, is it?
EMP bombs all over the planet, no computers and no internet for decades. Physical currencies wins.
But in the meantime, I'm hoarding all the Dogecoins I can!
You could drop more than 50% of Bitcoin's current value and it would still be up nearly 100% from a year ago.
This is only a popped bubble, just like a few years ago when it went above USD$1000. Back then, people kept saying Bitcoin was dead, too.