"I doubt the BBC would leak it, after all they'd make more money if large numbers of people miss it when they put it on TV and are forced to buy DVD copies in the store to see the episodes they missed:)"
I don't believe you put much thought into this, or you where trying to be funny...hehehe. Sorry if I missed it, but back to my point.
I have heard a similar argument before, but think about it this way. If a large group of people watch the program on TV, they get more paid advertising, which generates more money. If they are getting lots of money, they will continue to make more seasons. With the big interest in TV shows on DVD right now, they would start releasing them on DVD while the show is still in production with new episodes. The DVD box sets will contain some extras and be far better quality than anything recorded off TV during the broadcast. A percentage of the people that enjoy the TV will purchase the DVDs. People that did not see the TV show during the broadcast will get interested with the DVD release and pick it up or rent it. They may start watching the broadcast now as well generating higher ratings which generates more paid advertising. As long as the broadcasts keep getting paid advertising the DVDs will continue to come out and new episodes will continue to be made.
The most profit will be generated by ensuring the longest broadcast run while releasing the season DVDs in a timely manner. With shows of this type that contain an ongoing story, the highest amount of viewer ship can be obtained by grabbing an audience fast and get them watching from the beginning. With a connected story line, most people will not enjoy trying to pick it up in the middle for fear of missing something important or not understanding what is going on.
By allowing people to watch the first couple of episodes (at least) at their convenience, you are supplying yourself with a better opportunity that more people will be will the show from the beginning. Especially with sci-fi, this is the best way to obtain loyal viewers.
If it is a purposeful leak, I think they did the right thing, and hope it goes well for them. Maybe they can start a trend and people will begin to notice that the audience wants more control over how they enjoy their media. You give your customers something they want, they will keep coming back. You try to force something on your customers they do not want, they will look somewhere else.
At least this is the way I see it, but then again, I'm not the one making the big important decisions at any of the networks.
Evil Dead 2 was not a remake of Evil Dead 1. When Raimi started working on Evil Dead 2 he wanted a brief recap of Evil Dead 1 to start out the new movie, but he discovered he did not have access to the video footage from Evil Dead 1. Raimi realized it would be easier to just quickly refilm the footage he needed. After a quick rewrite he now had the opening he wanted. At least this is how I understand the situation after reading and listening to interviews from Raimi and Campbell for years.
I'm making this plea to the porn industry to use their powers for good. Children are observing your product regardless if they should or not. You should include more examples of good and bad, right and wrong into your products. I would like to see a display of morals and use your products to teach our children.
Does this example make it obvious enough how ignorant some of this stuff is getting? Some games are made for adults. Just because some get gets a hold of it, doesn't mean the creators should be "looking out for the children". It's not intended for their hands anyway. Blame the parents for not knowing what their children are doing or blame it on the fact that they are children and will do pretty much anything you tell them not to. It's not the game makers responsibility to censor their own creations because little Timmy might sneak off and play an M rated game.
Yeh, you are right. She isn't attractiove at all. She is nowhere near anorexic enough. She looks more like a normal woman with real body parts that you might see every day. She is...wait a min. You do realize this is a cartoon caracter right?:)
I'm actually interested in Grabbed By The Ghoulies. It reminds me of two of my favorite games from way back in the day. Zombies ate my Neighbors and The Haunting: Staring Polterguy. The new game Ghost Master actually resembles The Haunting quite a bit, but I havn't played it yet.
I think the reason most don't include previous games is because they still believe they can make profit off the old games. They might be able to on gameboy advance or something, but not on the xbox or ps2. I agree with you. Including the originals on the new versions would be great, but unfortunatly, most seem quite against this for some odd reason.
Maybe they should sue the car company. Obviously the car gets to hot when left in the summer heat. They, of course, should be responsible. We live in a free country. We should have the right to leave our small children anywhere we want for long periods of time and do whatever we feel like, and not have them end up dead. What is this country comming to?
"Linux users who are interested in additional information or purchasing an IP License for Linux should contact their local SCO sales representative or call SCO at 1-800-726-8649 or visit our web site at http://www.sco.com/scosource."
I wonder how long it would take to slashdot a phone number:)
But you can't always base a game on what could be, you must base the game on what they actaully offer you. KOTOR does have a far more linear storyline than say Morrowind, but I see it as a linear storyline with a lot of leeway. Personally, I would rather have the freedoms to explore and experiment than be locked into a set path for the entire game like so many eastern rpgs limit you to. Sure, some eastern rpgs offer great stories but they have little to no freedom or differences to experience on repeated playings. Keep in mind, the freedom that is being displayed in current games is a fairly new thing and will only get better. Personally, I can't wait to see what is possible and, same as you, I have high expectations for Fable.
I'm certanly no expert, but I understand it's extreamly more difficult to prove guilt based on DNA evidence. It's more often used to prove innocence or provide that shadow of a doubt. This technology could greatly help in lowering the chance of someone being falsely prosocuted for a crime.
As someone else said, to many rpgs are nothing more than interactive movies to me, and most seem to have very little on the interactive side. I've always been one of those few final fantasy haters and with each release my hate for them just seemed to get worse. 20mins of movie, 5mins of game play. This does not appeal to me at all. To many action games are taking this idea way to far as well (Metal Gear Solid 2), but thats another story.
When I play a game, I want to play a game, not watch a movie. Now don't get me wrong, I have no problem with well placed video sequences to progress the story or even for cool "WOW, LOOK AT THAT" scense, but when the majority of the game revolves around this, I just can't handle it.
I guess the first rpg that really got me interested was Morrowind. The sheer freedom was amazing. Right now I'm addicted to Knights of the Old Republic. Great game, and even though there is quite a bit of video, it's short, revolves directly around the choices you have made and don't seem to try to take over the game.
The final fantasy series and similar games just seem to be pretty video first, every thing else last, at least in for me. Release it as a movie and I'll watch, but surounded in short, random game elements, I'm not interested.
I live in a farily small town. Any area you live in has "one" broadbrand option. There is no (or very little) overlapping. There is no choice here. In town you have a choice of the one cable or one dsl, but this is honestlly a small area. I live outside the city limits so it's either take what they give you or get nothing. I've found it's like this in quite a large section of the US.
It seems that most of the news games are all visuals, no inspiration. There are a few that manage to achive both (GTA3, Halo, Morrowind), but then again, I wouldn't say any of these had "great" graphics, but they were great games. They were fun enough that you wanted to keep playing, they had enough depth that kept bringing you back and simply by playing them you can tell that there was alot of inspiration and love for the game from the makers.
Think back to the days of NES and SNES. There were all kinds of crazy ideas for games. Yeh, I know, a bunch of them sucked. But many of those crazy ideas changed video games forever. Back then you really didn't have to worry about graphics so you had to either make it fun, different, or just so crazy that people couldn't ignore it. Now we just have a bunch of people running around trying to make the prettiest graphics. It got old really quick with me...I'm just wondering how long it will take everyone else to get tired of it as well.
Give me back the days were people make games that are fun, games they would actually want to play, not just games that fit the pattern of money makers.
First heroin addiction (possibly related)
Yeh, it's a bad joke, but in a way, I'm serious. When I first heard about the sims, all kinds of evil thoughts went through my head. Make a serial killer, guy who runs around the town burning down everyones houses, attack people at random, whatever. This game is so limited in my eyes and there are tons of things that would make it better. Possibly a new expansion for the sickos?:)
"All of the sites that attempt to do this now are very limited and usually laid out quite poorly"
Maybe I didn't give quite as good of an explination of what I'm looking for, but these systems you mentioned, although better than most, still lack that feel of having the entire net at your fingertips in an easliy laid out manner. It's better than just guessing at a search enging entry sometimes, but not quite as functionaly as what I would hope for. Maybe I should get to work on laying out just exactlly what I'm wanting, but then again, I spend all day at work on slashdot, so what time do I have?:)
The stand on kiddie porn for example...the kids are not adults therefore, under law, they can not make adult decisions for themselves. Realistically, they are not mature enough to make those kinds of decisions for themselves. I do not consider that a freedom of speech. It is infringing on the rights of children, hurting children, and should be illegal. As far as freedom of speech, I'm all for it and defend it, but that has nothing to do with the spread of free speech, ideas, or thought. It's simply praying on the defenseless.
I love the idea of freenet, but after reading how it works, I have to agree with a few complains I've heard. I'm not really happy about the idea of "anything" being able to be shared on my computer. Kiddie Porn comes to mind as one thing I want nothing to do with, and I have no controll over this being shared on my computer or not.
It's modded funny, but there is a good idea deep in there. I've basically been thinking about this idea for years.
Not quite like a card catalog system as he described, but more like an ever changing directory. Of course it would require quite a bit of man hours to oranize/update/arrange, not to mention linking to the many many different categories and sections one page could belong to. Every day I run into something that I need to search for, but don't really know what exactlly to search for or where to go. I get lots of similar links but it usualy takes about an hour to narow them down to something usefull.
I admit, this is part of the greatness of the internet, bucause quite often in this hour search I find valuable information that I need that I wasn't even looking for or stuble upon something that I didn't even know was out there.
All of the sites that attempt to do this now are very limited and usually laid out quite poorly. It would be a massive project, but I think it would be quite usefull.
Lycoris [ www.lycoris.com ] does this. At the top of the menu it has (I think 5) of your most commonly used apps. I would like to see this more often. It especailly helps for those programs your to lazy to make desktop icons for...hehehe.
I was kind of refering to the argument I see forsee alot of people allready thinking up. Your stealing music/stealing money from the artists or record companies...you justify that but you raise hell when someone else does it just a little different. Sorry, I guess I got ahead of myself on the first post.
I've allways been a suporter of p2p clients and everything, but this is kind of pathetic. If you (as they say in the article) helping a charity or something through your purchase, they are literally taking from people who really need this money. It could be life or death to these people. Britany Spears isn't going to die without the money from her cds sales (although I wish she would). This is pathetic.
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Her husband cheating on her with other women = Reality
Her autobiography retelling the events of her husband cheating on her with other woman = Fantasy
I don't believe you put much thought into this, or you where trying to be funny...hehehe. Sorry if I missed it, but back to my point.
I have heard a similar argument before, but think about it this way. If a large group of people watch the program on TV, they get more paid advertising, which generates more money. If they are getting lots of money, they will continue to make more seasons. With the big interest in TV shows on DVD right now, they would start releasing them on DVD while the show is still in production with new episodes. The DVD box sets will contain some extras and be far better quality than anything recorded off TV during the broadcast. A percentage of the people that enjoy the TV will purchase the DVDs. People that did not see the TV show during the broadcast will get interested with the DVD release and pick it up or rent it. They may start watching the broadcast now as well generating higher ratings which generates more paid advertising. As long as the broadcasts keep getting paid advertising the DVDs will continue to come out and new episodes will continue to be made.
The most profit will be generated by ensuring the longest broadcast run while releasing the season DVDs in a timely manner. With shows of this type that contain an ongoing story, the highest amount of viewer ship can be obtained by grabbing an audience fast and get them watching from the beginning. With a connected story line, most people will not enjoy trying to pick it up in the middle for fear of missing something important or not understanding what is going on.
By allowing people to watch the first couple of episodes (at least) at their convenience, you are supplying yourself with a better opportunity that more people will be will the show from the beginning. Especially with sci-fi, this is the best way to obtain loyal viewers.
If it is a purposeful leak, I think they did the right thing, and hope it goes well for them. Maybe they can start a trend and people will begin to notice that the audience wants more control over how they enjoy their media. You give your customers something they want, they will keep coming back. You try to force something on your customers they do not want, they will look somewhere else.At least this is the way I see it, but then again, I'm not the one making the big important decisions at any of the networks.
Evil Dead 2 was not a remake of Evil Dead 1. When Raimi started working on Evil Dead 2 he wanted a brief recap of Evil Dead 1 to start out the new movie, but he discovered he did not have access to the video footage from Evil Dead 1. Raimi realized it would be easier to just quickly refilm the footage he needed. After a quick rewrite he now had the opening he wanted. At least this is how I understand the situation after reading and listening to interviews from Raimi and Campbell for years.
I'm making this plea to the porn industry to use their powers for good. Children are observing your product regardless if they should or not. You should include more examples of good and bad, right and wrong into your products. I would like to see a display of morals and use your products to teach our children. Does this example make it obvious enough how ignorant some of this stuff is getting? Some games are made for adults. Just because some get gets a hold of it, doesn't mean the creators should be "looking out for the children". It's not intended for their hands anyway. Blame the parents for not knowing what their children are doing or blame it on the fact that they are children and will do pretty much anything you tell them not to. It's not the game makers responsibility to censor their own creations because little Timmy might sneak off and play an M rated game.
They finally have some basis for what they have been saying this entire time. Someone is really stealing music now.
Yeh, you are right. She isn't attractiove at all. She is nowhere near anorexic enough. She looks more like a normal woman with real body parts that you might see every day. She is...wait a min. You do realize this is a cartoon caracter right? :)
I'm actually interested in Grabbed By The Ghoulies. It reminds me of two of my favorite games from way back in the day. Zombies ate my Neighbors and The Haunting: Staring Polterguy. The new game Ghost Master actually resembles The Haunting quite a bit, but I havn't played it yet.
You read slashdot and you are talking smack about entertainment. Now that is hypocritical.
I think the reason most don't include previous games is because they still believe they can make profit off the old games. They might be able to on gameboy advance or something, but not on the xbox or ps2. I agree with you. Including the originals on the new versions would be great, but unfortunatly, most seem quite against this for some odd reason.
Maybe they should sue the car company. Obviously the car gets to hot when left in the summer heat. They, of course, should be responsible. We live in a free country. We should have the right to leave our small children anywhere we want for long periods of time and do whatever we feel like, and not have them end up dead. What is this country comming to?
"Linux users who are interested in additional information or purchasing an IP License for Linux should contact their local SCO sales representative or call SCO at 1-800-726-8649 or visit our web site at http://www.sco.com/scosource ."
:)
I wonder how long it would take to slashdot a phone number
But you can't always base a game on what could be, you must base the game on what they actaully offer you. KOTOR does have a far more linear storyline than say Morrowind, but I see it as a linear storyline with a lot of leeway. Personally, I would rather have the freedoms to explore and experiment than be locked into a set path for the entire game like so many eastern rpgs limit you to. Sure, some eastern rpgs offer great stories but they have little to no freedom or differences to experience on repeated playings. Keep in mind, the freedom that is being displayed in current games is a fairly new thing and will only get better. Personally, I can't wait to see what is possible and, same as you, I have high expectations for Fable.
I'm certanly no expert, but I understand it's extreamly more difficult to prove guilt based on DNA evidence. It's more often used to prove innocence or provide that shadow of a doubt. This technology could greatly help in lowering the chance of someone being falsely prosocuted for a crime.
As someone else said, to many rpgs are nothing more than interactive movies to me, and most seem to have very little on the interactive side. I've always been one of those few final fantasy haters and with each release my hate for them just seemed to get worse. 20mins of movie, 5mins of game play. This does not appeal to me at all. To many action games are taking this idea way to far as well (Metal Gear Solid 2), but thats another story. When I play a game, I want to play a game, not watch a movie. Now don't get me wrong, I have no problem with well placed video sequences to progress the story or even for cool "WOW, LOOK AT THAT" scense, but when the majority of the game revolves around this, I just can't handle it. I guess the first rpg that really got me interested was Morrowind. The sheer freedom was amazing. Right now I'm addicted to Knights of the Old Republic. Great game, and even though there is quite a bit of video, it's short, revolves directly around the choices you have made and don't seem to try to take over the game. The final fantasy series and similar games just seem to be pretty video first, every thing else last, at least in for me. Release it as a movie and I'll watch, but surounded in short, random game elements, I'm not interested.
I live in a farily small town. Any area you live in has "one" broadbrand option. There is no (or very little) overlapping. There is no choice here. In town you have a choice of the one cable or one dsl, but this is honestlly a small area. I live outside the city limits so it's either take what they give you or get nothing. I've found it's like this in quite a large section of the US.
It seems that most of the news games are all visuals, no inspiration. There are a few that manage to achive both (GTA3, Halo, Morrowind), but then again, I wouldn't say any of these had "great" graphics, but they were great games. They were fun enough that you wanted to keep playing, they had enough depth that kept bringing you back and simply by playing them you can tell that there was alot of inspiration and love for the game from the makers.
Think back to the days of NES and SNES. There were all kinds of crazy ideas for games. Yeh, I know, a bunch of them sucked. But many of those crazy ideas changed video games forever. Back then you really didn't have to worry about graphics so you had to either make it fun, different, or just so crazy that people couldn't ignore it. Now we just have a bunch of people running around trying to make the prettiest graphics. It got old really quick with me...I'm just wondering how long it will take everyone else to get tired of it as well.
Give me back the days were people make games that are fun, games they would actually want to play, not just games that fit the pattern of money makers.
First heroin addiction (possibly related) Yeh, it's a bad joke, but in a way, I'm serious. When I first heard about the sims, all kinds of evil thoughts went through my head. Make a serial killer, guy who runs around the town burning down everyones houses, attack people at random, whatever. This game is so limited in my eyes and there are tons of things that would make it better. Possibly a new expansion for the sickos? :)
"All of the sites that attempt to do this now are very limited and usually laid out quite poorly"
:)
Maybe I didn't give quite as good of an explination of what I'm looking for, but these systems you mentioned, although better than most, still lack that feel of having the entire net at your fingertips in an easliy laid out manner. It's better than just guessing at a search enging entry sometimes, but not quite as functionaly as what I would hope for. Maybe I should get to work on laying out just exactlly what I'm wanting, but then again, I spend all day at work on slashdot, so what time do I have?
The stand on kiddie porn for example...the kids are not adults therefore, under law, they can not make adult decisions for themselves. Realistically, they are not mature enough to make those kinds of decisions for themselves. I do not consider that a freedom of speech. It is infringing on the rights of children, hurting children, and should be illegal. As far as freedom of speech, I'm all for it and defend it, but that has nothing to do with the spread of free speech, ideas, or thought. It's simply praying on the defenseless.
I love the idea of freenet, but after reading how it works, I have to agree with a few complains I've heard. I'm not really happy about the idea of "anything" being able to be shared on my computer. Kiddie Porn comes to mind as one thing I want nothing to do with, and I have no controll over this being shared on my computer or not.
It's modded funny, but there is a good idea deep in there. I've basically been thinking about this idea for years. Not quite like a card catalog system as he described, but more like an ever changing directory. Of course it would require quite a bit of man hours to oranize/update/arrange, not to mention linking to the many many different categories and sections one page could belong to. Every day I run into something that I need to search for, but don't really know what exactlly to search for or where to go. I get lots of similar links but it usualy takes about an hour to narow them down to something usefull. I admit, this is part of the greatness of the internet, bucause quite often in this hour search I find valuable information that I need that I wasn't even looking for or stuble upon something that I didn't even know was out there. All of the sites that attempt to do this now are very limited and usually laid out quite poorly. It would be a massive project, but I think it would be quite usefull.
Popups? Thank god for mozilla, and on a work computer...I wonder if they know I put it on here yet. :)
Lycoris [ www.lycoris.com ] does this. At the top of the menu it has (I think 5) of your most commonly used apps. I would like to see this more often. It especailly helps for those programs your to lazy to make desktop icons for...hehehe.
I was kind of refering to the argument I see forsee alot of people allready thinking up. Your stealing music/stealing money from the artists or record companies...you justify that but you raise hell when someone else does it just a little different. Sorry, I guess I got ahead of myself on the first post.
I've allways been a suporter of p2p clients and everything, but this is kind of pathetic. If you (as they say in the article) helping a charity or something through your purchase, they are literally taking from people who really need this money. It could be life or death to these people. Britany Spears isn't going to die without the money from her cds sales (although I wish she would). This is pathetic.