If previous experience is anything to go by, I can expect to see people trying to host 12 player games of Ghost Recon on Xbox Live on a 64k connection, now...
Please, can we refrain from this whole 'anti Microsoft' rubbish?
Nintendo are still around, because they are probably the best developers in the world, and also have the most recogniseable franchise of characters around. Sony are still around because they have managed to market the PSX and the PS2 so succesfuly. Plus, they have the 'Sony' brand to help them out. MS are a 'smaller player' because they havent been in the business so long. Not to mention the fact that they havent got the 'name tag' appeal that Sony and Nintendo have. Most people see Microsoft as something they use at work, not something that they put under their TV.
And what companies have MS bought, and as a result ruined their games? MS bought Bungie, who then put out Halo, which is a fantastic game. They have also now bought Rare, a company who have yet to release a game since the sale. MS may now buy Capcom, but seeing as how Capcom have posted some big losses, it is a far better proposition than if they went bust.
True, it is only a console, but I would be very pissed off if someone started faffing about with my save games. If someone deleted my Halo save after I had completed it on Legendary, I would be VERY annoyed.
Its like all the little 'hackers' who ruined Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast - they went around killing people, and corrupting their save game files. Their justification was that it is just a game, and that you arent actually losing anything.
Someone corrupted my save on PSO when I was level 63. That was 96 hours of play. Sure, my character was only a bunch of zeros and ones, and isnt anything 'real', but the TIME spent getting that character to level 63 is REAL. If you spent 63 hours building a wall, and someone came along and wrecked it, you would be pissed off.
In the UK, Blue Yonder, are dropping their prices like a virgin on 'prom night'.
My monthly charge has gone down to £30, from £33. The cost of installation has dropped, with 'recommend a friend' incentives for people to, er... recommend their friends. They have also been advertising ALOT recently. Not sure what it is like for NTL customers, though.
This isnt all good news, though. It is more down to the fact that broadband isnt taking off as quickly as it should, and they are desperate for new customers. Both Blue Yonder AND NTL have got massive debts numbering in the billions, and there is much talk of a merger. I have had my cable connection for over 6 months now, with no real complaints. I hope that this doesnt change when/if they DO decide to merge. I just couldnt hack going back to 56K...
Is what you will hear some annoying little 8 year cry when he gets there.
I wonder if the show will allow small kids to view the displays when it comes to older games that have been rated for mature audiences? I seem to remember a 'Viz' game (popular 'adult' comic that is sold here in the UK) was rated '12' when it was released on the Commodore 64, so what happens if a kid younger than 12 is at the show. Or even the Daily Star Strip Poker game? Leisure Suite Larry?
Well, assuming that they show such naughty titles, anyway...
In the UK, the fastest commercialy available broadband is ADSL - 512 down, 256 up.
I have cable, which is 512 down, 128 up. The upload is a bit stingy really, and can cause a bit of lag when playing online sometimes, but often it is ok. I play Halo online on my Xbox, and whilst it is fine with two or three players, anymore than that, and it lags BADLY. Halo wasnt designed for online play, and is a real bandwidth hog. This is the service I pay for, and so that is the service I get - I have no excuse for using any sort of hack to make it faster.
My ISP, Blue Yonder, are currently doing trials for a 1mbit line, but they dont know if the upload is going to be increased yet. This is really annoying, as I only really want a faster upload - 512 down is fine for me.
Surely this hack shows that there is a market for faster broadband in general?
Wow. I pop onyo Slashdot, see this story is top of the page, and it only has one reply. I try to read the article, and...
For 30 seconds Opera says 'Sending Request to www.spamsource.com'. It finally starts loading at a measly 3k/sec on my 512k connection. Obviously, I am part of the 'Slashdot Effect' statistic by trying to read the article, but still...
No wonder all the trolls and 'frist spots' are the first to post, as no one CAN read the article until the poor sod who owns the site rings up their ISP (probably AOL), and cries down the phone at tech support. Meanwhile, AOL cancel this persons account for violating their T&C's, and it all goes pearshaped from the on...
That doesnt make it your business in the slightest. If I sold something to someone, and they asked how much it cost me in the first place, I would probably say 'Non of your business'. I bought it in the first place, and that is for me to know, and not for you to know.
All that matters is how much YOU are paying for it.
It didnt just affect those using PSO cheats - it affected ALL those who it detected to have ANY cheat file on the same VMU as the persons character.
So, if I had a cheat file for Crazy Taxi on my VMU, it would affect me.
To be honest, I dont blame Sega from banning all those that cheated - I was PK'ed dozens of times, and was also NOL'ed. Sadly, I didnt know about NOL'ing until it happened to me, so I did a Save/Quit and lost a level 63 character. That was 96 hours of play down the drain.
Yeah, tell me about it.
You get the same problems in Unreal Tournament on the PC.
Another side effect for those playing PSO V2 - if it detects a cheat 'save' on your VMU, it can stop you from healing or raising other players.
I seriously hope that whatever decides to use this technology doesnt have the same problems that have plagued Phantasy Star Online.
The PSO world is almost a barren waste land now, thanks to all the hackers, cheaters and Player Killers. When PSO first came out, it was an amazing experience. You could logon, and be playing a game in seconds. All games were 'open', as there wasnt much need to play in passworded games. This soon changed. Once the hackers got going, it totally ruined it. Virtually ALL games are password locked now, and so any newcomers are pretty much doomed. The only reason I get to play good games, is because I have joined a PSO Yahoo Group - and its great fun. But I shouldnt have to join such a group, just so I can play the game properly. Trouble is, we have recently had some problems with someone getting into our games, and PK'ing us all, and saving over our characters. So thanks, whoever you are - just pray you dont meet me in real life.
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Because it's a government ran internet service provider would the government be held accountable for file sharing crap going on?
I suppose it depends on the copyright laws in India, really.
If previous experience is anything to go by, I can expect to see people trying to host 12 player games of Ghost Recon on Xbox Live on a 64k connection, now...
It didnt make much sense to me at first either!
He is basically talking about disposable cell phones made out of paper.
Please, can we refrain from this whole 'anti Microsoft' rubbish?
Nintendo are still around, because they are probably the best developers in the world, and also have the most recogniseable franchise of characters around.
Sony are still around because they have managed to market the PSX and the PS2 so succesfuly. Plus, they have the 'Sony' brand to help them out.
MS are a 'smaller player' because they havent been in the business so long. Not to mention the fact that they havent got the 'name tag' appeal that Sony and Nintendo have. Most people see Microsoft as something they use at work, not something that they put under their TV.
And what companies have MS bought, and as a result ruined their games? MS bought Bungie, who then put out Halo, which is a fantastic game. They have also now bought Rare, a company who have yet to release a game since the sale. MS may now buy Capcom, but seeing as how Capcom have posted some big losses, it is a far better proposition than if they went bust.
And yet my UserID clearly shows that I was here before you.
Dont Cry, AOL man.
Omar! Wow, you really are one sad twat.
Not only do you troll the newsgroups, you troll HERE as well! Your mother must be SO proud!
Has your kid died yet?
Am I the only one who saw this...?
'It's called a TRacking Optical Laser.'
The initials spell TROL. As in TROLL.
Sorry to be a sad case, but wasnt it 'Burst Processing'?
Toilet humour alert;
Using 'forced functions' and 'toilet' in the same paragraph is a bit 'I need to go RIGHT NOW' prompting I feel.
an 'Ask Slashdot';
'What films, apart from pr0n, do you want to see on IMAX?'
The question 'what films...' is an obvious one on a site dominated by male techs...
Does it play Quake?
True, it is only a console, but I would be very pissed off if someone started faffing about with my save games. If someone deleted my Halo save after I had completed it on Legendary, I would be VERY annoyed.
Its like all the little 'hackers' who ruined Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast - they went around killing people, and corrupting their save game files. Their justification was that it is just a game, and that you arent actually losing anything.
Someone corrupted my save on PSO when I was level 63. That was 96 hours of play. Sure, my character was only a bunch of zeros and ones, and isnt anything 'real', but the TIME spent getting that character to level 63 is REAL.
If you spent 63 hours building a wall, and someone came along and wrecked it, you would be pissed off.
In the UK, Blue Yonder, are dropping their prices like a virgin on 'prom night'.
My monthly charge has gone down to £30, from £33.
The cost of installation has dropped, with 'recommend a friend' incentives for people to, er... recommend their friends.
They have also been advertising ALOT recently.
Not sure what it is like for NTL customers, though.
This isnt all good news, though. It is more down to the fact that broadband isnt taking off as quickly as it should, and they are desperate for new customers. Both Blue Yonder AND NTL have got massive debts numbering in the billions, and there is much talk of a merger.
I have had my cable connection for over 6 months now, with no real complaints. I hope that this doesnt change when/if they DO decide to merge. I just couldnt hack going back to 56K...
Is what you will hear some annoying little 8 year cry when he gets there.
I wonder if the show will allow small kids to view the displays when it comes to older games that have been rated for mature audiences?
I seem to remember a 'Viz' game (popular 'adult' comic that is sold here in the UK) was rated '12' when it was released on the Commodore 64, so what happens if a kid younger than 12 is at the show.
Or even the Daily Star Strip Poker game? Leisure Suite Larry?
Well, assuming that they show such naughty titles, anyway...
In the UK, the fastest commercialy available broadband is ADSL - 512 down, 256 up.
I have cable, which is 512 down, 128 up. The upload is a bit stingy really, and can cause a bit of lag when playing online sometimes, but often it is ok. I play Halo online on my Xbox, and whilst it is fine with two or three players, anymore than that, and it lags BADLY. Halo wasnt designed for online play, and is a real bandwidth hog.
This is the service I pay for, and so that is the service I get - I have no excuse for using any sort of hack to make it faster.
My ISP, Blue Yonder, are currently doing trials for a 1mbit line, but they dont know if the upload is going to be increased yet. This is really annoying, as I only really want a faster upload - 512 down is fine for me.
Surely this hack shows that there is a market for faster broadband in general?
Wow. I pop onyo Slashdot, see this story is top of the page, and it only has one reply.
I try to read the article, and...
For 30 seconds Opera says 'Sending Request to www.spamsource.com'. It finally starts loading at a measly 3k/sec on my 512k connection. Obviously, I am part of the 'Slashdot Effect' statistic by trying to read the article, but still...
No wonder all the trolls and 'frist spots' are the first to post, as no one CAN read the article until the poor sod who owns the site rings up their ISP (probably AOL), and cries down the phone at tech support.
Meanwhile, AOL cancel this persons account for violating their T&C's, and it all goes pearshaped from the on...
>I'm the customer. That makes it my business
That doesnt make it your business in the slightest.
If I sold something to someone, and they asked how much it cost me in the first place, I would probably say 'Non of your business'.
I bought it in the first place, and that is for me to know, and not for you to know.
All that matters is how much YOU are paying for it.
Why the hell would ANY business tell you how much they actually pay for it? They arent stupid.
If I went into a shop, and asked how much it costs THEM to buy of their suppliers, they would (rightly) tell me to get lost.
What business is it of yours how much it costs them?
It didnt just affect those using PSO cheats - it affected ALL those who it detected to have ANY cheat file on the same VMU as the persons character.
So, if I had a cheat file for Crazy Taxi on my VMU, it would affect me.
To be honest, I dont blame Sega from banning all those that cheated - I was PK'ed dozens of times, and was also NOL'ed.
Sadly, I didnt know about NOL'ing until it happened to me, so I did a Save/Quit and lost a level 63 character. That was 96 hours of play down the drain.
Ho hum.
Yeah, tell me about it. You get the same problems in Unreal Tournament on the PC. Another side effect for those playing PSO V2 - if it detects a cheat 'save' on your VMU, it can stop you from healing or raising other players.
I seriously hope that whatever decides to use this technology doesnt have the same problems that have plagued Phantasy Star Online.
The PSO world is almost a barren waste land now, thanks to all the hackers, cheaters and Player Killers. When PSO first came out, it was an amazing experience. You could logon, and be playing a game in seconds. All games were 'open', as there wasnt much need to play in passworded games.
This soon changed. Once the hackers got going, it totally ruined it. Virtually ALL games are password locked now, and so any newcomers are pretty much doomed. The only reason I get to play good games, is because I have joined a PSO Yahoo Group - and its great fun.
But I shouldnt have to join such a group, just so I can play the game properly. Trouble is, we have recently had some problems with someone getting into our games, and PK'ing us all, and saving over our characters.
So thanks, whoever you are - just pray you dont meet me in real life.
To paraphrase Kryten from Red Dwarf
'Does my head look like a novelty icecube?'.
So, I hope robots dont change us THAT much...
Are you a gaylord? I MUST KNOW! YOU WILL WRITE ME A LETTER, containing the color of your poo poo. FP?!?!
Bastard! You must have beaten me by about 10 seconds! Look at the timestamp!
Anyway, shall we share some grits? I have some fresh from Natty Portmans fanny flaps.
Oh yes, it is. Groovy woovy noovy. What - you dont agree? WHY NOT?!?