Unfortuanately, game companies don't want theoretical people. They want people who can actually do the work. Anyone can come up with ideas for games, it's the actual implementation that's the hard bit.
Good point. Anyone who's played a computer game always thinks they have great ideas for new games. Notice how every thread on MMORPGs has hundreds of comments from self-appointed experts telling the designers what they should do with the game.
Unfortuanately, the industry doesn't need 10,000,000 people with 'really cool' ideas who want to sit there drawing pictures of robots and alien castles all day masturbating about how great the game will be, what it needs is coders and artists who can actually code and design the robots and castles.
You don't get to walk into a game company and tell them what sort of game they should make and how they should make it. That goes to people who make their own companies or who already have established positions within the companies.
Because the FPS is the most overrated genre of computer games in history. They sell based on graphics alone, the gameplay is one-dimensional and based on who's got the longest, fastest most flexible fingers to press dozens of keys all over the keyboard in quick succession.
Isn't that just tough? If you don't like it, don't buy it. It's so popular it's selling out everywhere, if they can make more money with bundling then fair play to them.
It's one of the uglier and more convoluted flags. When you see it from a distance it looks pink. There are just too many stars and stripes, it's like a barber's pole.
There are only a few flags with a similar design, one of them being Liberia's which looks just as bad.
Building skills by using them makes it too easy. Gaining xp by killing things is a lot harder and more dangerous than riding a horse up and down a road all day.
Last I looked, Microsoft didn't stop other media players from running on Windows.
And your analogy fails AGAIN when you realise that Microsoft don't provide all operating systems, but there are competitors, one of them with a FREE product.
A better analogy would be, Coke making most of the fridges, so they should be banned from providing free cans of coke when you buy one. Or they have to allow Rola Cola to advertise inside them.
Unbundling media player helps no-one. It just hurts the user as they have to go out and download a media player rather than having it built in.
If you don't like media player there's nothing stopping you from installing something else so what's the problem?
Great. And if someone hasn't pissed me off all through December and I'll still got my brick, then on Christmas Eve when it's -5C I'll just randomly throw a brick through some old woman's window for a laugh.
So instead of just getting a $10 radio and picking up live coverage of news, sports, talk etc., you can spend hundreds on an ipod, hundreds more on broadband, then you have to download EVERYTHING you're going to listen to and transfer it over hours in advance. Oh and you have to pay for the music. Forget to download something you want to listen to? Tough, you can't just tune into it with a normal radio, you have to go without. A live sporting event on? Tough. Don't want to pay for everything you listen to? Tough. Phone-ins? Nope.
That doesn't sound easier to me, it sounds like it costs a lot more money, more hassle, and means having to plan and prepare everything you're going to listen to in advance. I'd rather just turn on the radio when I want to use it, no preparation, no huge expenses. You don't get adverts on the BBC anyway, so that's another supposed 'advantage' of podcasting down the tubes...
You're saying that today no-one cares about thought, logic or mental prowess for its own sake? What's Mensa about then? Why do people do number puzzles or crosswords?
Or are you saying that ancient Greek tradesmen didn't care about the bottom line, but ignored their market stalls to think about letter puzzles?
If you have information like that then wikipedia isn't the place for it. Wikipedia should be for general knowledge, not whistle-blowing and news reporting. Even then, if you get to do it anonymously, 99% of the supposed whistle-blowing will be made-up in order to fuck someone over.
Damn right. I'm sick of all these happy, flowerly, fun-land MMORPGS where everyone wins and everyone gets to live. I'd rather play MUDs where NO-ONE GETS TO LIVE!
Here's are a few MMORPG facts:
1. Unrestricting PKing is the only way. Sink or swim, survival of bad-assest. If some group of high levels come and kill your level 1 craftsman: TOUGH. You weren't bad enough to survive. And who the hell plays a craftsman anyway? The only available classes are: warrior, assassin, mage and bad-ass.
2. There's no such thing as 'griefing', only competition. If someone camps on a mob you want, what the hell were you doing there in the first place? Go and find some players to kill like a real man.
3. When you die, you lose all your equipment. There is no other way. Quit bitching and get about reequipping.
4. Mobs are not there to be killed, they're there to kill YOU. In fact, every spawn point should have a high-level aggressive mob there, just to weed out the girls who can't cope with endless death.
5. There's nothing exciting about killing mobs. The only excitement in a game comes from the unpredictability of fighting other players. If you don't like that, stick to World of Wimpcraft or Everqueer.
6. Consensual PK is for girls. If you have to agree to fight, there's no danger, and therefore no excitement. Instead of playing computer games, you might want to stick to flower arranging.
7. It should be a feature of every game that every 10 minutes players are randomly killed, just to keep you on your toes.
I can't think of any legitimate reasons for anonymously-written content on a factual site. The only reasons people will want to be anonymous is when they're doing something illegal.
No, because the game doesn't stop for several minutes to show the adverts on the shirts. Nor does the screen split in half to show adverts on one side and the game on the other*.
It's no wonder Americans have such short attention spans: they're not used to seeing anything last longer than 12 seconds before an ad break.
* THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENS IN AMERICA!!!
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Another great example is the article a while back by Richard Bartle, expounding the idea that permanent player death is important for masively multiplayer games. He was largely dismissed around here as someone who just doesn't know what multiplayer games are about, and a bit of a fool to boot. In fact he wrote one of the first multiplayer games, called MUD
So in other words, he's some bitter has-been who can't get round the fact that his baby is obsolete, and that no-one cares about his 'outrageous' ideas?
I used to play MUDs, even then they didn't have realdeath. I can't imagine anyone wanting to play a game where you spend hundreds of hours building up a character just for it to disappear forever at the slip of a finger.
People like Ernest Adams and Richard Bartle are professionals who know what they're talking about and say things for a reason.
They don't know what they're talking about, and the reason they say things is: attention. Just because someone's old doesn't mean they're wise, a lot of the time they're just stuck in their ways.
If you lived in the area and had to put up with abusive youths outside shops, you'd have a different opinion. He is saying, effectively, that "I don't want louts hanging around outside my shop, I want my customers to be able to come here without the fear of intimidation and violence."
But I'm sure he cares more about the opinion of some self-righteous, sanctimonious, middle-class, liberal do-gooder who lives a thousand miles away.
Old people, the blind and Mexicans don't hang about outside shops every evening intimidating people.
Here's a fact: these scumbags who hang around outside shops DESERVE contempt towards them.
I'd rather not associate with a shopkeeper or his store if they so obviously divide people only into those that give them money and those that do not.
On the other hand, the people who actually spend money there would appreciate it. A 90-year old granny with a walking stick would love to be able to go to the shops without being spat at and sworn at.
Installing something like this will only see business increase. These criminal youths don't spend any money there anyway, they just ask everyone going in to buy drinks and fags for them, then swear at them when they refuse.
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Unfortuanately, game companies don't want theoretical people. They want people who can actually do the work. Anyone can come up with ideas for games, it's the actual implementation that's the hard bit.
Good point. Anyone who's played a computer game always thinks they have great ideas for new games. Notice how every thread on MMORPGs has hundreds of comments from self-appointed experts telling the designers what they should do with the game.
Unfortuanately, the industry doesn't need 10,000,000 people with 'really cool' ideas who want to sit there drawing pictures of robots and alien castles all day masturbating about how great the game will be, what it needs is coders and artists who can actually code and design the robots and castles.
You don't get to walk into a game company and tell them what sort of game they should make and how they should make it. That goes to people who make their own companies or who already have established positions within the companies.
Because the FPS is the most overrated genre of computer games in history. They sell based on graphics alone, the gameplay is one-dimensional and based on who's got the longest, fastest most flexible fingers to press dozens of keys all over the keyboard in quick succession.
Isn't that just tough? If you don't like it, don't buy it. It's so popular it's selling out everywhere, if they can make more money with bundling then fair play to them.
The problem is, out of the 20 stories posted in this section by Zonk every day, 19 of them are about the xbox.
Last I looked, Microsoft didn't have a monopoly over the console market.
This isn't bundling anyway, accessories are part of the console package. If you sell a car and it comes with a radio is that bundling?
Considering the Xboxes sold out, it seems Best Buy were just giving people what they wanted. What's wrong with that?
It's one of the uglier and more convoluted flags. When you see it from a distance it looks pink. There are just too many stars and stripes, it's like a barber's pole.
There are only a few flags with a similar design, one of them being Liberia's which looks just as bad.
Building skills by using them makes it too easy. Gaining xp by killing things is a lot harder and more dangerous than riding a horse up and down a road all day.
Nonsense. Unbundling media player helps the market as it allows all the media players to compete on an even basis.
How does it help the consumer? Did anyone ask them whether they wanted the media player removing? Of course not.
The consumers get screwed so scumbags like Real get to make more money with their worthless products. Disgusting.
Last I looked, Microsoft didn't stop other media players from running on Windows.
And your analogy fails AGAIN when you realise that Microsoft don't provide all operating systems, but there are competitors, one of them with a FREE product.
A better analogy would be, Coke making most of the fridges, so they should be banned from providing free cans of coke when you buy one. Or they have to allow Rola Cola to advertise inside them.
Unbundling media player helps no-one. It just hurts the user as they have to go out and download a media player rather than having it built in.
If you don't like media player there's nothing stopping you from installing something else so what's the problem?
Great. And if someone hasn't pissed me off all through December and I'll still got my brick, then on Christmas Eve when it's -5C I'll just randomly throw a brick through some old woman's window for a laugh.
Of course, what could be better than up to the minute, latest news than a podcast downloaded three days ago?
So instead of just getting a $10 radio and picking up live coverage of news, sports, talk etc., you can spend hundreds on an ipod, hundreds more on broadband, then you have to download EVERYTHING you're going to listen to and transfer it over hours in advance. Oh and you have to pay for the music. Forget to download something you want to listen to? Tough, you can't just tune into it with a normal radio, you have to go without. A live sporting event on? Tough. Don't want to pay for everything you listen to? Tough. Phone-ins? Nope.
That doesn't sound easier to me, it sounds like it costs a lot more money, more hassle, and means having to plan and prepare everything you're going to listen to in advance. I'd rather just turn on the radio when I want to use it, no preparation, no huge expenses. You don't get adverts on the BBC anyway, so that's another supposed 'advantage' of podcasting down the tubes...
Because it's simple. A lot of the time it's better to have something unrealistic but straightforward than something more realistic but convoluted.
You're saying that today no-one cares about thought, logic or mental prowess for its own sake? What's Mensa about then? Why do people do number puzzles or crosswords?
Or are you saying that ancient Greek tradesmen didn't care about the bottom line, but ignored their market stalls to think about letter puzzles?
Yeah, and then you end up paying hundreds of pounds more than you had to. Well done Einstein!
If you have information like that then wikipedia isn't the place for it. Wikipedia should be for general knowledge, not whistle-blowing and news reporting. Even then, if you get to do it anonymously, 99% of the supposed whistle-blowing will be made-up in order to fuck someone over.
Damn right. I'm sick of all these happy, flowerly, fun-land MMORPGS where everyone wins and everyone gets to live. I'd rather play MUDs where NO-ONE GETS TO LIVE!
Here's are a few MMORPG facts:
1. Unrestricting PKing is the only way. Sink or swim, survival of bad-assest. If some group of high levels come and kill your level 1 craftsman: TOUGH. You weren't bad enough to survive. And who the hell plays a craftsman anyway? The only available classes are: warrior, assassin, mage and bad-ass.
2. There's no such thing as 'griefing', only competition. If someone camps on a mob you want, what the hell were you doing there in the first place? Go and find some players to kill like a real man.
3. When you die, you lose all your equipment. There is no other way. Quit bitching and get about reequipping.
4. Mobs are not there to be killed, they're there to kill YOU. In fact, every spawn point should have a high-level aggressive mob there, just to weed out the girls who can't cope with endless death.
5. There's nothing exciting about killing mobs. The only excitement in a game comes from the unpredictability of fighting other players. If you don't like that, stick to World of Wimpcraft or Everqueer.
6. Consensual PK is for girls. If you have to agree to fight, there's no danger, and therefore no excitement. Instead of playing computer games, you might want to stick to flower arranging.
7. It should be a feature of every game that every 10 minutes players are randomly killed, just to keep you on your toes.
Then Europe gets cold for a while, things even out, and everyone is happy.
Except Europeans, obviously.
Oh no, they're doomed! I bet those mafia types are shitting their pants in case some geek whines about them in his blog!
I can't think of any legitimate reasons for anonymously-written content on a factual site. The only reasons people will want to be anonymous is when they're doing something illegal.
No, because the game doesn't stop for several minutes to show the adverts on the shirts. Nor does the screen split in half to show adverts on one side and the game on the other*.
It's no wonder Americans have such short attention spans: they're not used to seeing anything last longer than 12 seconds before an ad break.
* THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENS IN AMERICA!!!
Another great example is the article a while back by Richard Bartle, expounding the idea that permanent player death is important for masively multiplayer games. He was largely dismissed around here as someone who just doesn't know what multiplayer games are about, and a bit of a fool to boot. In fact he wrote one of the first multiplayer games, called MUD
So in other words, he's some bitter has-been who can't get round the fact that his baby is obsolete, and that no-one cares about his 'outrageous' ideas?
I used to play MUDs, even then they didn't have realdeath. I can't imagine anyone wanting to play a game where you spend hundreds of hours building up a character just for it to disappear forever at the slip of a finger.
People like Ernest Adams and Richard Bartle are professionals who know what they're talking about and say things for a reason.
They don't know what they're talking about, and the reason they say things is: attention. Just because someone's old doesn't mean they're wise, a lot of the time they're just stuck in their ways.
If you lived in the area and had to put up with abusive youths outside shops, you'd have a different opinion. He is saying, effectively, that "I don't want louts hanging around outside my shop, I want my customers to be able to come here without the fear of intimidation and violence."
But I'm sure he cares more about the opinion of some self-righteous, sanctimonious, middle-class, liberal do-gooder who lives a thousand miles away.
Old people, the blind and Mexicans don't hang about outside shops every evening intimidating people.
Here's a fact: these scumbags who hang around outside shops DESERVE contempt towards them.
I'd rather not associate with a shopkeeper or his store if they so obviously divide people only into those that give them money and those that do not.
On the other hand, the people who actually spend money there would appreciate it. A 90-year old granny with a walking stick would love to be able to go to the shops without being spat at and sworn at.
Installing something like this will only see business increase. These criminal youths don't spend any money there anyway, they just ask everyone going in to buy drinks and fags for them, then swear at them when they refuse.