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Ah, how intuitive. Much easier than putting in the driver CD that comes with the hardware. Of course you fail to mention the finding and downloading the exact right kernel source for your drivers.
Well it wont help in places where elderly are expected to take care of themselves - however in the civilized parts of the world where the government takes care of their elderly and disabled this will have huge benefits for all.
What's civilised about taking money off people their entire lives, then giving some of it back later on, if they're considered disabled enough to need it? Imagine if you paid taxes your entire life, then either died before retirement or weren't crippled and couldn't get the robot, you'd have wasted your money.
Yeah, fuck the environment, the design of something that spends nearly its entire life in your pocket is far more important. Even if they did put a battery slot on it, it would be on the back where nobody looks.
What if the same game is released on PC and console, and they coexist on the same servers? I've no idea if this is in the future, but imagine this: What happens if the mods the PC users are using provide obvious benefit (note: they do), and the players are more capable in things like raiding (note: they are)?
If the game is not supposed to have mods, then they wouldn't be on the PC version either. You've just invented a straw man. As said before, a console MMO would only work if it's designed from the ground up to work on consoles, not just a port of a PC game.
MMOG, sure. MMORPG, not really. I mean, sure you can spend a half hour playing an MMORPG. But you aren't going to get to the max level of any current MMORPG in anything less than several weeks at that rate, and you will always be behind the curve from the beginning. If you can still enjoy it, more power to you, but most people who play MMORPGs do not enjoy being way behind everyone else, so if they don't have the time they simply don't play. Why should console MMORPGs be different?
What do current MMOs have to do with anything, when we're talking about a new console MMO? You're looking at everything from the old time-intensive, interface-fiddling PC MMO paradigm.
Easy of you to say, but not true. Even games with a well-designed interface will be more popular if they allow players to modify the interface to their own wild abandon.
Yet hundreds of millions of games have been bought and loved, despite having no interface modifications.
You really think all of that will just be included when a game ships? No game in history has included all of that.
If a game's designed well it won't need any of that. PC games tend to suffer from feature and interface cancer, there's no reason why consoles have to fall down the same hole. I don't have a burning need to see how much DPS I'm doing, or a meter to show who's dangerous. Never in the history of gaming have I ever needed to see a list of what I've killed. This seems to be a PC fetish only.
A console, while presumably powerful in the graphics department, is not as powerful as my PC. Granted, my PC is not typical. I guess this means I can expect a lower level of graphics in a console based MMO than I am used to on my PC.
Fortuanately, a console MMO will be aimed at normal gamers, not comic book guys with £5000 computers who spend more time modifying and talking about a game than actually playing it. No offence.
MMORPGs are a huge time sink.
Those designed for PC fanboys, yes. There's no reason an MMO can't be made shorter and more fun, so they can be played by people who don't shit in socks. Again, no offence.
My main point here, is you're looking at things from a PC perspective, and assuming that a console game would just be a PC game but on a different format. A game designed specifically for console play would not suffer from any of the problems you complain about, as they're PC-specific problems.
They're not smarter, they just lower taxes in a race to the bottom. No different than India or China attracting business with low wages and poor working conditions. If we were more 'competitive' like Ireland, then we'd all have Ireland's crumbling infrastructure and backward religious theocracy.
And is useless to the web surfer for 99.99% of its uses (advertising) and can there are better alternatives fro 99% of the legitimate (to the surfer) uses.
Actually, 99.99% of the time Flash is used for streaming media and games. Sorry for bursting your bubble with facts.
None of those are really hurdles. Mods are not necessary for a game with a well-designed interface; they're a PC fetish, console gamers don't want them. Alt-tabbing to a cheat site is hardly something that's necessary or desireable. And I don't see why a console would suffer FPS-drop more than the typical PC.
I think it is a showstopper. MMO requires keyboard/mouse - period. Or at least, a standard console controller won't cut it.
Why? What is it about online multi-player gaming that requires a keyboard and mouse? Millions of people play sports games and FPSes online with controllers. The only real difference between those and an MMO is the number of players. Talking about WoW or Warhammer is laughable, as they were designed to be played with a keyboard and mouse.
I'd like you to explain why an MMO designed to be played with a controller, would be unplayable with a controller.
MMOs focus a lot on communication between people for grouping/raiding. Unless the console this is being written for supports headsets for a Teamspeak-like interface, communicating on a raid will be very difficult, especially with a game controller.
1. Nearly anyone who's played games such as Call of Duty online have headsets.
2. There's no reason an MMO needs to revolve around communication or raids.
European economies have grown a solid 2% a year post-WWII. The American economy has grown a terriffic 4% a year.
Now take off inflation and capital gains tax, and what are you left with?
Yes, it's the 30-40 year time horizon that matters.
In which case, you're gambling that you're going to live for 30-40 years. Let's say you put money in a 30-year, 6% investment. Let's say that inflation and taxes take away half of that, then you die at 29. Is that a good return on investment?
Digital TV only doesn't work for people who live in the sticks, and I don't see why they should hold the rest of us back. Should we not drive cars because they scare the horses driving the rag-and-bone wagon?
Do the benefit fraud figures count all the people who are fully able to work but can't be bothered? Or the people who have kids despite being unable to afford them and so rely on benefits?
All manned programmes in Europe have received enough backing from France and Germany that they would've succeeded if we had the vision to chip in our share.
How are we supposed to afford it? We have benefits to pay to layabouts, public-sector pen-pushers' unfunded pensions to pay, not to mention all those PFI contracts for shit we don't need. And the Olympics...
Conversely, fighting games don't necessarily need to be complex. To bring new blood into the genre, fighting game designers should aspire to develop a game that enforces a chess-like mentality while keeping memorization to a minimum.
With chess you have several minutes to decide your move. In a fighting game, you have half a second or less to mash the right button. The two are incompatible.
So you're saying that technology should be held back by a few people who want to watch snow? May as well ban the car in case people still want to ride around on horses.
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Ah, how intuitive. Much easier than putting in the driver CD that comes with the hardware. Of course you fail to mention the finding and downloading the exact right kernel source for your drivers.
What's civilised about taking money off people their entire lives, then giving some of it back later on, if they're considered disabled enough to need it? Imagine if you paid taxes your entire life, then either died before retirement or weren't crippled and couldn't get the robot, you'd have wasted your money.
Yeah, fuck the environment, the design of something that spends nearly its entire life in your pocket is far more important. Even if they did put a battery slot on it, it would be on the back where nobody looks.
And of course by intelligent vote, you mean a vote for your preferred candidate?
If the game is not supposed to have mods, then they wouldn't be on the PC version either. You've just invented a straw man. As said before, a console MMO would only work if it's designed from the ground up to work on consoles, not just a port of a PC game.
What do current MMOs have to do with anything, when we're talking about a new console MMO? You're looking at everything from the old time-intensive, interface-fiddling PC MMO paradigm.
You could say the same about WoW, taking yet another fantasy property that's already been done to death, and throwing it into an MMO.
Yet hundreds of millions of games have been bought and loved, despite having no interface modifications.
If a game's designed well it won't need any of that. PC games tend to suffer from feature and interface cancer, there's no reason why consoles have to fall down the same hole. I don't have a burning need to see how much DPS I'm doing, or a meter to show who's dangerous. Never in the history of gaming have I ever needed to see a list of what I've killed. This seems to be a PC fetish only.
Fortuanately, a console MMO will be aimed at normal gamers, not comic book guys with £5000 computers who spend more time modifying and talking about a game than actually playing it. No offence.
Those designed for PC fanboys, yes. There's no reason an MMO can't be made shorter and more fun, so they can be played by people who don't shit in socks. Again, no offence.
My main point here, is you're looking at things from a PC perspective, and assuming that a console game would just be a PC game but on a different format. A game designed specifically for console play would not suffer from any of the problems you complain about, as they're PC-specific problems.
You do realise that all US exports would then be tariffed in retaliation? Say goodbye to your entire IT and entertainment industries.
I don't think you understand how important wooden arrows are to the US economy.
They're not smarter, they just lower taxes in a race to the bottom. No different than India or China attracting business with low wages and poor working conditions. If we were more 'competitive' like Ireland, then we'd all have Ireland's crumbling infrastructure and backward religious theocracy.
Actually, 99.99% of the time Flash is used for streaming media and games. Sorry for bursting your bubble with facts.
Yeah, and why can't I get to websites without one of those 'computer' things? There's no reason it all can't be on teletext or telegrams.
None of those are really hurdles. Mods are not necessary for a game with a well-designed interface; they're a PC fetish, console gamers don't want them. Alt-tabbing to a cheat site is hardly something that's necessary or desireable. And I don't see why a console would suffer FPS-drop more than the typical PC.
Why? What is it about online multi-player gaming that requires a keyboard and mouse? Millions of people play sports games and FPSes online with controllers. The only real difference between those and an MMO is the number of players. Talking about WoW or Warhammer is laughable, as they were designed to be played with a keyboard and mouse.
I'd like you to explain why an MMO designed to be played with a controller, would be unplayable with a controller.
1. Nearly anyone who's played games such as Call of Duty online have headsets.
2. There's no reason an MMO needs to revolve around communication or raids.
The problem with the Onion is that the headline is the punchline, so there's no point actually reading the article.
The problem with Slashdot is that it's slowly turning into digg.
Now take off inflation and capital gains tax, and what are you left with?
In which case, you're gambling that you're going to live for 30-40 years. Let's say you put money in a 30-year, 6% investment. Let's say that inflation and taxes take away half of that, then you die at 29. Is that a good return on investment?
Digital TV only doesn't work for people who live in the sticks, and I don't see why they should hold the rest of us back. Should we not drive cars because they scare the horses driving the rag-and-bone wagon?
Do the benefit fraud figures count all the people who are fully able to work but can't be bothered? Or the people who have kids despite being unable to afford them and so rely on benefits?
How are we supposed to afford it? We have benefits to pay to layabouts, public-sector pen-pushers' unfunded pensions to pay, not to mention all those PFI contracts for shit we don't need. And the Olympics...
Then it would be more weight added to the station, and more fuel needed to correct its orbit.
Well done, explain the joke. It makes it so much funnier that way.
With chess you have several minutes to decide your move. In a fighting game, you have half a second or less to mash the right button. The two are incompatible.
What system couldn't ever possibly be decided by so few votes? You could specify a minimum winning margin, what would you do if no-one achieves it?
So you're saying that technology should be held back by a few people who want to watch snow? May as well ban the car in case people still want to ride around on horses.