I love it when a store has their own website, and they have the option "Pick up in store." I can look at the item online, check the specs, look for reviews, compare with other products. And then when I find what I want, I hit Buy, drive over to my local Store X, pick up the item they've reserved for me and come home. No shipping charges, don't have to wait for delivery.
Right, that's why they give you a license to read and then sign before you exchange money at the Gamestop. And the employees there correct you when you say, "I'd like to buy this game." "I'm sorry sir, you can't buy this game, it is only available for license. Please read the terms of the license here.,"
Does it matter? What does his previous job, which had nothing to do with the video game industry, have to do with a discussion of his ideas about used game sales.
The Free tank of gas might be more like those silly pre-order bonuses. Pre-order a game that will never be in short supply and we'll give you an extra skin for your character. These are more significant features they're holding back, with greater relative value (to the product) than a tank of gas is to a car.
But when you resell that game, what are you going to do with the money from the resale? Most likely, you're going to put it toward buying another game. So you may not consciously think about tit when you buy the first game, but when you resell 3 games, rather than having to wait for your next paycheck to buy a game, you probably go right to the shelf and buy something right away.
Next up. Madden 2014 will stop working when Madden 2015 is released. People who keep playing old games are picking the pockets of the developers. They're still playing old games when they could be buying the new versions and playing those.
I don't even think it's immoral. And the comparison image by Nimblebit isn't accusing them of being immoral either, it's accusing the of being unimaginative, which is hard to argue against.
It's hardly newsworthy, though. Zynga has been doing this for a long time.
FarmTown was a more social game. To get people to work on your farm you had to actually go to a communal chat room and ask people for help, not just post "Please send fertilizer" messages on their facebook wall.
Really? I want my service to be there when I need it. If I'm paying a limited plan and run out of data, I want them to warn me, but then I'm fine with them charging me extra for that data. As long as the charges aren't exorbitant. In this case, they're basically charging you at the same rate for that extra data as they charged you for the original plan, so it's reasonable.
And their overage charges are not unreasonable. On a 3GB for $30 plan, an extra 1GB costs $10. So it extends linearly (though I'll admit the chunk is pretty big).
It does seem that getting the 5 GB plan is pointles. You're better off with the 3GB plan. On months you use 5 GB, you pay $50 (same as the 5GB plan), on months you use less you pay $30 or $40.
Umm, the $20 plan is NOT for streaming video nonstop. I have to assume it's intended for mostly just email reading. For people who aren't streaming or otherwise using a lot of data, $20 a month IS a better deal than $30 a month
Their new $30 plan will still get you 20 hours of streaming. Which could very well be enough for many people. (These plans are for phones and tablets, not for watching at home).
It was a unanimous decision that in this case a warrant was necessary. 4 other the justices, though, chose not to join the opinion that said attaching GPS to a private car should always require a warrant. They only specified that in a case like this where the tracking went on for a month, a warrant was necessary.
I don't want apps on my TV. The TV is for non-interactive content. When I play with my interactive content, I prefer to also have the non-interactive content going on on the TV in the background. That was always a disadvantage I saw with my Wii. If I played a game on the PC, I could watch TV at the same time. If I played a game on Wii, no TV.
Of course, they never gave up on the Irish. The Americans they gave up on after only 8 years of fighting. So we were obviously much more trouble than the Irish were.
They would need to set up a way with Facebook for the searcher to indicate what their facebook account is, and have the user authorize google to look at their data. People authorize that access for every Farmville clone that comes around, so this doesn't seem impossible to do.
Google has said that they're open to adding more services to Search Plus the World. If twitter and facebook work with them, they can get their posts prioritized as well.
The EU couldn't demand that Microsoft include options for other browsers if no one else had written browsers that worked on Windows.
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Does that make my WoW account a tax-deductible business expense?
Don't call. Click "Add to cart." then "Store Pickup" then "Buy."
I've done this all the time, they hold the exact item you paid for.
I love it when a store has their own website, and they have the option "Pick up in store." I can look at the item online, check the specs, look for reviews, compare with other products. And then when I find what I want, I hit Buy, drive over to my local Store X, pick up the item they've reserved for me and come home. No shipping charges, don't have to wait for delivery.
Right, that's why they give you a license to read and then sign before you exchange money at the Gamestop. And the employees there correct you when you say, "I'd like to buy this game." "I'm sorry sir, you can't buy this game, it is only available for license. Please read the terms of the license here.,"
Does it matter? What does his previous job, which had nothing to do with the video game industry, have to do with a discussion of his ideas about used game sales.
The Free tank of gas might be more like those silly pre-order bonuses. Pre-order a game that will never be in short supply and we'll give you an extra skin for your character. These are more significant features they're holding back, with greater relative value (to the product) than a tank of gas is to a car.
But when you resell that game, what are you going to do with the money from the resale? Most likely, you're going to put it toward buying another game. So you may not consciously think about tit when you buy the first game, but when you resell 3 games, rather than having to wait for your next paycheck to buy a game, you probably go right to the shelf and buy something right away.
Next up. Madden 2014 will stop working when Madden 2015 is released. People who keep playing old games are picking the pockets of the developers. They're still playing old games when they could be buying the new versions and playing those.
This isn't twitter. you can use full URLs. Skip the url-shortening services when they're not needed.
I don't even think it's immoral. And the comparison image by Nimblebit isn't accusing them of being immoral either, it's accusing the of being unimaginative, which is hard to argue against.
It's hardly newsworthy, though. Zynga has been doing this for a long time.
FarmTown was a more social game. To get people to work on your farm you had to actually go to a communal chat room and ask people for help, not just post "Please send fertilizer" messages on their facebook wall.
Yeah, those damn laws that won't let me dig up the street to put my own cable in whenever I feel like it.
Sorry, neither party knows how to negotiate any more.
I was using Remote Viewing, and I saw that they found my wallet up there too. I'd like it returned. With the $5000 in cash I had in it.
Do you really stream Netflix 24 hours a day, from your phone? Or from your tablet over 3g/4g?
Really? I want my service to be there when I need it. If I'm paying a limited plan and run out of data, I want them to warn me, but then I'm fine with them charging me extra for that data. As long as the charges aren't exorbitant. In this case, they're basically charging you at the same rate for that extra data as they charged you for the original plan, so it's reasonable.
And their overage charges are not unreasonable. On a 3GB for $30 plan, an extra 1GB costs $10. So it extends linearly (though I'll admit the chunk is pretty big). It does seem that getting the 5 GB plan is pointles. You're better off with the 3GB plan. On months you use 5 GB, you pay $50 (same as the 5GB plan), on months you use less you pay $30 or $40.
Umm, the $20 plan is NOT for streaming video nonstop. I have to assume it's intended for mostly just email reading. For people who aren't streaming or otherwise using a lot of data, $20 a month IS a better deal than $30 a month
Their new $30 plan will still get you 20 hours of streaming. Which could very well be enough for many people. (These plans are for phones and tablets, not for watching at home).
It was a unanimous decision that in this case a warrant was necessary. 4 other the justices, though, chose not to join the opinion that said attaching GPS to a private car should always require a warrant. They only specified that in a case like this where the tracking went on for a month, a warrant was necessary.
And just TRY to take the train to/from Hawaii.
So it would stop me from posting Bill Belichick's playbook?
I don't want apps on my TV. The TV is for non-interactive content. When I play with my interactive content, I prefer to also have the non-interactive content going on on the TV in the background. That was always a disadvantage I saw with my Wii. If I played a game on the PC, I could watch TV at the same time. If I played a game on Wii, no TV.
Of course, they never gave up on the Irish. The Americans they gave up on after only 8 years of fighting. So we were obviously much more trouble than the Irish were.
They would need to set up a way with Facebook for the searcher to indicate what their facebook account is, and have the user authorize google to look at their data. People authorize that access for every Farmville clone that comes around, so this doesn't seem impossible to do.
Google has said that they're open to adding more services to Search Plus the World. If twitter and facebook work with them, they can get their posts prioritized as well.
The EU couldn't demand that Microsoft include options for other browsers if no one else had written browsers that worked on Windows.