Blizzard exec Robert Bridenbecker said he was surprised by the outrage at the online requirement
Then he's lying or he's had his head shoved up his ass for the last 5-10 years. The response to "always on" DRM has been almost universally negative. It indicates just how out of touch these guys are with the market and their potential customers.
"it really is just the nature of how things are going, the nature of the industry. When you look at everything you get by having that persistent connection on the servers, you cannot ignore the power and the draw of that."
Yup. You get a game who's very playability depends on a fragile authentication system that may not always be there. If either side has any connectivity or stability problems *POOF* no game! You have a customer that is completely unable to play the game they paid for. Bravo! Bravo! Monetizing downtime!
Some other developers came out in support of the scheme; id Software's Tim Willits said always-on would be "better for everybody" in the end.
HOW? Because it kills the secondary market? How is being absolutely dependent on an auth server EVEN FOR SINGLE PLAYER MODE good for the consumer? How is being unable to resell old games good for the consumer? What Timmy is saying here is it's "better for everybody who's a game publisher".
This assumes the leading edge of the matter and radiation in the universe have reached the surface of this "bubble" and that the bubble isn't expanding in and of itself ahead of any sort of detectable edge.
Think "bubble inside a bubble".
The inner bubble represents the known universe, background radiation, matter, etc. The outer bubble represents the actual edge of our universe. Now imagine being able to put a needle through the outer bubble and into the inner one, then introduce more air. The inner bubble gets bigger, but so does the outer one.
1: Stop with all the NEW pork projects in the government and military.
2: Finish out any projects already on the books that are within their original budgets.
3: Do not continue to pay for projects that are overdue.
4: If projects are overdue, DEMAND DELIVERY.
5: If the contractor cannot deliver, declare the project failed and in default.
6: Liquidate the company's assets to recoup the cost of the failed project.
7: Stop all the government welfare crap. If there's legitimate medical reason, maybe. I'm a big fan of government-created work programs though. Nothing like a lot of back-breaking labor to motivate someone to get a real job. Tie it into health and housing support with a small budget for food, etc.
8: When an official is elected to office, liquidate all his assets and put them into a fund tied to the well-being of the economy. This way, if the economy does well, he has a lot of money when he leaves office. If the economy tanks, he's handed a set of clothes and turned out on the street when things are over. Tax rates would be fixed during their term and only take effect once their successor took office. This way they can't fix tax rates to generate false profit.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Of course, this would never work. Politicians of all stripes would never actually DO this. The lousy fucking bastards are all more worried about keeping their jobs and lining their pockets than they are about actually doing something to help the country.
Yeah, them there scientist are positively rolling in cash. Impoverished bankers queue up at the lab doors, groveling to have the occasional nickel thrown at them, so they can buy their starving families another credit default swap paper fir the evening soup.
No. This is not the case. Which is why some of these researchers are willing to jack their data around and ignore confidence levels just to get even a tiny research grant.
"Anthropogenic Climate Change" if you please. I hope you include yourself when you say it "means whatever the fuck the person who's talking about it wants it to mean."
The prosecutor in the case has insisted that the defendant would not be forced to disclose her passphrase, but only to enter the passphrase into a computer to decrypt the drive.
That's STILL self-incrimination! Talk about disingenuous!
"Global Warming" or "Global Climate Change", nowadays, means whatever the fuck the person who's talking about it wants it to mean. If they're a researcher in the AGW field, it's whatever will net them the biggest cash influx.
Can we just overthrow our fucking peeping-tom government already and put up something suitably less needy, greedy and pervy in its place? The government needs to go back to the point of being TOO FUCKING AFRAID of pissing off its populace to entertain shit like this.
I figure a little violent revolution with a few thousand politicoes executed publicly and messily ought to give us another 1-200-ish years of peace.
{Son} Dad? What're those bugs singing for? {Dad} They're rap fans. {Son} Huh? {Dad} 2 Live Crew fans actually. {Son} 2 Live WHO? Dad? What're the damn bugs singin' about? {Dad} Their song is the bug version of "We Want Some Pussy" {Son} Oh.
Erm, an editor where you can not "configure" the line ending? Rofl.
Are you talking within the purview of the editor or not? If you're talking the final website, you completely missed the point.
All your other points make no sense either.
No. They make sense. You merely don't understand what I'm talking about.
What do web standards or using the wrong fonts to do with the tool you use?
Because with IDEs like this (and the PhotoChop method) you're essentially drawing a pretty picture, then hoping to god it renders properly in multiple browsers. Then investing a bunch of time, space and bandwidth on crappy glue code to make sure it more or less works-ish in more than one browser environment.
Do you really belive that the same idiot, who can not use an IDE correctly, learns "design" by using a text input tool (no notepad is not even an editor)???
Again,the point is completely missed here. I'm saying that IDEs are a SHITTY way to build a website and the code generated by them is an ugly, bloated fuster-cluck that still needs massive hand-tweaking to make it work right. And even then, the sites generated by said IDEs are SEVERELY limited.
And what if you don't want to shell out for a programmer?
Learn how to do it yourself? Nobody ever said you had to shell out for a programmer.
Then you wind up paying for it on the back end with increased bandwidth consumption, insecure, buggy code, a site that works right in only one browser at one specific resolution, etc.
Using something like Dreamweaver or Expression Web, a designer can create anything they want on their own.
And if these IDEs don't barf and eat the project file, the project file gets chewed by the next version upgrade. On top of that, the craptastic code spewed by these tools is buggy, insecure, takes longer to load and breaks under multiple platforms, requiring massive amounts of after-the-fact hand-tweaking to fix. If you're going to go to all that trouble, you're better off just doing it from scratch in the first place.
It doesn't matter if the code isn't super optimized to the last byte because nobody will ever see it. It just has to work acceptably.
Sure, nobody will ever see it because these sites take so long to fully load (if they ever fully load due to the buggy code), that the viewer will get disgusted and browse away somewhere else. And what you're missing is, the amount of work needed to make IDE sites "work acceptably" is greater than what is required to simply do the site PROPERLY FROM SCRATCH.
Besides, I'm pretty sure the question being asked had nothing to do with hiring people. You might want to work on those comprehension skills there, buddy.
Seeing as you misread what I said, I'd say that it's your comprehension skills that need the work son.
Before someone comes in putting down all the IDE's and tools for web designing and suggests Notepad, let me just say this - no, notepad is not replacement for a good, solid IDE.
No. Notepad isn't a replacement for an IDE (of whatever caliber). It is CLEARLY superior.
Most IDEs (and all the PhotoChoppers out there) with their top-down development do nothing but produce reams of hackish code bloat that doesn't work well cross-platform or in terms of accessibility. Worse, these sites consume many many times the bandwidth, load dogshit slow, and tend to look like crap on anything other than the dev's machine.
It's a shitty excuse for NOT knowing how to code the site from scratch (or at least a basic template).
It's a shitty excuse for having zero compliance with accessibility guidelines and using eye-blinding color pallettes and microscopic font sizes and typefaces CLEARLY unsuitable for web presentation.
It's a shitty excuse for having a layout take up a narrow sliver of the entire page canvas (or side-scroll "infinitely" as if everyone had a 2048x1535 monitor like the foofy, brain-dead webmaster).
It's a shitty excuse for having 3 megabytes of markup and images to display 10K in text.
Yes, learning how to do it CORRECTLY takes a bit more time UP FRONT. But it saves effort down the road as your code is portable, maintainable, and can be rapidly and cleanly altered and appended without massive surgery and metric ass-tons of further prototyping.
Why should I have to go spend another $10 because some inconsiderate "person" decides to come in and be annoying.
On the flip side, why does spending $10 give the aforementioned inconsiderate "person" the right to come in and disrupt a hundred other people who spend 100x the amount she did for an uninterrupted movie-going experience?
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Blizzard exec Robert Bridenbecker said he was surprised by the outrage at the online requirement
Then he's lying or he's had his head shoved up his ass for the last 5-10 years. The response to "always on" DRM has been almost universally negative. It indicates just how out of touch these guys are with the market and their potential customers.
"it really is just the nature of how things are going, the nature of the industry. When you look at everything you get by having that persistent connection on the servers, you cannot ignore the power and the draw of that."
Yup. You get a game who's very playability depends on a fragile authentication system that may not always be there. If either side has any connectivity or stability problems *POOF* no game! You have a customer that is completely unable to play the game they paid for. Bravo! Bravo! Monetizing downtime!
Some other developers came out in support of the scheme; id Software's Tim Willits said always-on would be "better for everybody" in the end.
HOW? Because it kills the secondary market? How is being absolutely dependent on an auth server EVEN FOR SINGLE PLAYER MODE good for the consumer? How is being unable to resell old games good for the consumer? What Timmy is saying here is it's "better for everybody who's a game publisher".
This assumes the leading edge of the matter and radiation in the universe have reached the surface of this "bubble" and that the bubble isn't expanding in and of itself ahead of any sort of detectable edge.
Think "bubble inside a bubble".
The inner bubble represents the known universe, background radiation, matter, etc. The outer bubble represents the actual edge of our universe.
Now imagine being able to put a needle through the outer bubble and into the inner one, then introduce more air. The inner bubble gets bigger, but so does the outer one.
They're paid not to steal (or at least not get caught).
Most of the call for 3D content are from the people PUSHING 3D as the "next big thing".
Actual traction in the customer channels is lukewarm AT BEST.
YeahNO!
FUCK THAT NOISE!
1: Stop with all the NEW pork projects in the government and military.
2: Finish out any projects already on the books that are within their original budgets.
3: Do not continue to pay for projects that are overdue.
4: If projects are overdue, DEMAND DELIVERY.
5: If the contractor cannot deliver, declare the project failed and in default.
6: Liquidate the company's assets to recoup the cost of the failed project.
7: Stop all the government welfare crap. If there's legitimate medical reason, maybe. I'm a big fan of government-created work programs though. Nothing like a lot of back-breaking labor to motivate someone to get a real job. Tie it into health and housing support with a small budget for food, etc.
8: When an official is elected to office, liquidate all his assets and put them into a fund tied to the well-being of the economy. This way, if the economy does well, he has a lot of money when he leaves office. If the economy tanks, he's handed a set of clothes and turned out on the street when things are over. Tax rates would be fixed during their term and only take effect once their successor took office. This way they can't fix tax rates to generate false profit.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Of course, this would never work. Politicians of all stripes would never actually DO this. The lousy fucking bastards are all more worried about keeping their jobs and lining their pockets than they are about actually doing something to help the country.
Maybe they should wor
Leave it to Slashdot to bitch about a $60 operating system.
Considering that some of us have had a free OS for a good chunk of the last 20 years?
YOU DAMN BETCHA!
Nah.
There's still value in solid media.
STREISAND EFFECT!
Sorry, but I always laugh when people describe anything as "foolproof". (In this case the meshing of Time Machine and the Time Capsule.
All it does is show a PROFOUND underestimation of the creativity and destructive potential of fools.
Yeah, them there scientist are positively rolling in cash. Impoverished bankers queue up at the lab doors, groveling to have the occasional nickel thrown at them, so they can buy their starving families another credit default swap paper fir the evening soup.
No. This is not the case. Which is why some of these researchers are willing to jack their data around and ignore confidence levels just to get even a tiny research grant.
"Anthropogenic Climate Change" if you please. I hope you include yourself when you say it "means whatever the fuck the person who's talking about it wants it to mean."
Of course!
Well, since it's not a Madden title, EA is going to fuck PopCap up royally.
They have a long and illustrious history of tanking pretty much every acquisition that's not a sports title.
The prosecutor in the case has insisted that the defendant would not be forced to disclose her passphrase, but only to enter the passphrase into a computer to decrypt the drive.
That's STILL self-incrimination! Talk about disingenuous!
"Global Warming" or "Global Climate Change", nowadays, means whatever the fuck the person who's talking about it wants it to mean. If they're a researcher in the AGW field, it's whatever will net them the biggest cash influx.
This is a democracy, not an anarchy.
And here your argument falls apart.
The US is NOT a democracy. It's a republic.
A democracy is three wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.
A republic is three wolves and a heavily armed sheep.
Can we just overthrow our fucking peeping-tom government already and put up something suitably less needy, greedy and pervy in its place? The government needs to go back to the point of being TOO FUCKING AFRAID of pissing off its populace to entertain shit like this.
I figure a little violent revolution with a few thousand politicoes executed publicly and messily ought to give us another 1-200-ish years of peace.
You're just "not the market they're interested in selling into".
Ain't that fuckin' sweet?
{Son} Dad? What're those bugs singing for?
{Dad} They're rap fans.
{Son} Huh?
{Dad} 2 Live Crew fans actually.
{Son} 2 Live WHO? Dad? What're the damn bugs singin' about?
{Dad} Their song is the bug version of "We Want Some Pussy"
{Son} Oh.
Are you talking within the purview of the editor or not? If you're talking the final website, you completely missed the point.
All your other points make no sense either.
No. They make sense. You merely don't understand what I'm talking about.
What do web standards or using the wrong fonts to do with the tool you use?
Because with IDEs like this (and the PhotoChop method) you're essentially drawing a pretty picture, then hoping to god it renders properly in multiple browsers. Then investing a bunch of time, space and bandwidth on crappy glue code to make sure it more or less works-ish in more than one browser environment.
Do you really belive that the same idiot, who can not use an IDE correctly, learns "design" by using a text input tool (no notepad is not even an editor)???
Again,the point is completely missed here. I'm saying that IDEs are a SHITTY way to build a website and the code generated by them is an ugly, bloated fuster-cluck that still needs massive hand-tweaking to make it work right. And even then, the sites generated by said IDEs are SEVERELY limited.
That's just it. There's no "quick fix" single book for this. It's an ongoing process with lots of continuing education.
And what if you don't want to shell out for a programmer?
Learn how to do it yourself? Nobody ever said you had to shell out for a programmer.
Then you wind up paying for it on the back end with increased bandwidth consumption, insecure, buggy code, a site that works right in only one browser at one specific resolution, etc.
Using something like Dreamweaver or Expression Web, a designer can create anything they want on their own.
And if these IDEs don't barf and eat the project file, the project file gets chewed by the next version upgrade.
On top of that, the craptastic code spewed by these tools is buggy, insecure, takes longer to load and breaks under multiple platforms, requiring massive amounts of after-the-fact hand-tweaking to fix. If you're going to go to all that trouble, you're better off just doing it from scratch in the first place.
It doesn't matter if the code isn't super optimized to the last byte because nobody will ever see it. It just has to work acceptably.
Sure, nobody will ever see it because these sites take so long to fully load (if they ever fully load due to the buggy code), that the viewer will get disgusted and browse away somewhere else. And what you're missing is, the amount of work needed to make IDE sites "work acceptably" is greater than what is required to simply do the site PROPERLY FROM SCRATCH.
Besides, I'm pretty sure the question being asked had nothing to do with hiring people. You might want to work on those comprehension skills there, buddy.
Seeing as you misread what I said, I'd say that it's your comprehension skills that need the work son.
So? You give the coder the basic "back of the napkin" drawing for the layout. He codes it and supplies basic artwork as filler.
You then hand off the basic layout artwork and coordination to someone better at working the images.
Clean code + pretty graphics = WIN. And then you don't have to dick with all the hackery that goes into various IDEs and PhotoChop sites.
Basic design --> Code --> Finished artwork.
Before someone comes in putting down all the IDE's and tools for web designing and suggests Notepad, let me just say this - no, notepad is not replacement for a good, solid IDE.
No. Notepad isn't a replacement for an IDE (of whatever caliber). It is CLEARLY superior.
Most IDEs (and all the PhotoChoppers out there) with their top-down development do nothing but produce reams of hackish code bloat that doesn't work well cross-platform or in terms of accessibility. Worse, these sites consume many many times the bandwidth, load dogshit slow, and tend to look like crap on anything other than the dev's machine.
It's a shitty excuse for NOT knowing how to code the site from scratch (or at least a basic template).
It's a shitty excuse for having zero compliance with accessibility guidelines and using eye-blinding color pallettes and microscopic font sizes and typefaces CLEARLY unsuitable for web presentation.
It's a shitty excuse for having a layout take up a narrow sliver of the entire page canvas (or side-scroll "infinitely" as if everyone had a 2048x1535 monitor like the foofy, brain-dead webmaster).
It's a shitty excuse for having 3 megabytes of markup and images to display 10K in text.
Yes, learning how to do it CORRECTLY takes a bit more time UP FRONT. But it saves effort down the road as your code is portable, maintainable, and can be rapidly and cleanly altered and appended without massive surgery and metric ass-tons of further prototyping.
Why should I have to go spend another $10 because some inconsiderate "person" decides to come in and be annoying.
On the flip side, why does spending $10 give the aforementioned inconsiderate "person" the right to come in and disrupt a hundred other people who spend 100x the amount she did for an uninterrupted movie-going experience?