People who like fantasy, generally like scifi as well. The players are basically one in the same. When you walk into a book store, take a look where your fantasy books are, and where your scifi books are. They're mixed together in the same spot. The audiences are the same people.
Star Wars Galaxies failed because the subscribers were the same people who played Everquest. People will not subscribe to more than one MMO.
Most of the WOW dev team were in the top tier Everquest guilds. They saw what was being done wrong with a fantastic game, decided to take that experience and polish it. They very much aimed to make a game that would replace Everquest, and they did. We got regular updates through Everquest how the then unnamed game was coming along. When some the best players/blizzard devs on the Everquest server stopped showing up because the new game was already better than Everquest, we knew they had something big coming.
However, you are now correct that today, MMOs need to find their niche and not worry about beating WOW to succeed. They need to look at subscription numbers of where Eve Online is, decide that is most likely the best possible outcome, and look at their expenses to run a game with 300,000 subscribers in the very best scenario. Remember, Eve Online is one of the only successful MMOs that has withstood WOW, this is the best case scenario for ANY company planning on an MMO. Realistically, they will maybe have 100k subscribers for their first few years, maybe less.
Well, Apple has actual products. There is no imaginary bubble that is being inflated on what COULD happen. Apple is already making it happen, and those products will expand, we all know this. Even if those products didn't expand, their market for continual updates will keep the company healthy on its own.
People seem to leave this part out. They keep screaming about the 'bailouts' and tax payer money being 'wasted'. That money has been, for the most part, repaid, with interest. The 'taxpayers' have been making out like bandits with these 'bailouts' because they've decided they don't want the regulation that comes along with it. You take taxpayers money, you play by their rules. It's like people can't beyond the fact that these loans had some pretty heavy strings attached to them for the benefit of the taxpayers.
Generally we found that the disk would work once, maybe twice before it was tossed for good. We tried all brands with no luck. This was back on the Amiga 500, and it used a bit of...unique way to read and write to floppies, so maybe it was the drive more than anything else.
We already did. It was our wallets that funded the inception and creation of the Internet.
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It was exactly the reason I didn't care fro Tron 2. The first movie presented you with a world that it gave you a lot of time to take it all in. From the scenes of sitting around drinking the water, to wandering around through the crowds after crashing the Recognizer. The scene where they ride over the grid made it totally obvious, grid bugs etc.. In Tron 2, they jump scene to scene, and I didn't want that. I want to take my time and see everything. I wanted to know more of the world they created. Instead all I can remember is: Flynns Place, Arena, Hole in a mountain, disco tower, lake + pillars, and the beam to leave the world. Compare that to the first movie and it feels like they almost hold your hand through the entire world at times. It was awesome.
"Many TVs have features that allow you to level out the sound from programming"
Have you tried using any of them? I have it on two of my TVs, and I even bought a device specifically for this. It doesn't work! At all! It might make some of the volume a little more quiet, but the overall effect is still Billy Mays screaming at the top of his lungs waking you up.
This will basically make that a thing of the past, thankfully.
Ever since they put it on my iPod touch, the batteries last a good five hours, if that. Apps run in the background improperly when you exit them. You have to manually close them by hand every time, which is a huge pain. Apple says it's up to the programmers to fix their apps to not processes and drain the battery.
Problem is, all the apps do this. All of them. If I could find a way to turn OFF multitasking, I would love to. I can't listen to music much anymore because the battery is almost always dead if I forget to charge it every night. I used to go WEEKS without having to charge it, but if I happen to play a game of solitaire and forget to "close" the app, the player is almost dead a few hours later.
Had the same feeling. How serious are they about Chrome? The cost of this, even for small bugs, is a drop in the bucket. I'm guessing some manager just got sick of doing their job wondering why they have to pay out what should be a bonus for them to lowly internet people for common bugs.
You realize that the health care that was enacted was totally different than what was originally on the tables BECAUSE it was a bipartisan attempt from Obama to reach across the aisle, right? People were 70% for it until it got demolished to basically something entirely different. Then everyone was 70% against it.
I don't particular care for the HD DVRs my cable co offers, since I have Tivo, but I'd like to have one around for the bedroom upstairs but don't want to pay $14/mo for the goofy thing. So now we can call them up and just buy one for a few hundred?
The problem is people keep buying the sequels. I think I'm the only person who doesn't really get into buying sequels at all. I want a new experience every time. There has been a lot of original games lately, but you are right about the sequels. Bioshock, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Dead Space, Mirrors Edge, Gears of War, etc. I played them and found them really great games. I haven't and don't plan on, buying any follow ups, prequels, or whatever else they come out with. I usually only break that rule if its a new generation of console and it's the first game for that system like Halo 3. I know I'm missing out on good games, but I much prefer NEW directions over more of the same, even if that same is really really good.
Cable was invented to be commercial free. That was why people originally paid the premium for all those commercial free channels.
Then came the premium cable channels like HBO, Showtime, etc. For the most part those are commercial free, but if you watch Showtimes "Big Brother" they have commercials through-out that. I can only imagine this will get worse and worse and eventually these premium commercial free channels are littered with them. It's bad enough we get to watch a bunch of movie stars in Entourage drink a brand of beer no one in their right mind would ever think about drinking unless they're 50 and sitting in their underwear watching infomercials all night long.
At all. It sometimes makes the tv content quieter, so I have to turn it up because the guy on History channel that is explaining black holes can't be heard, then a commercial comes on and I'm deaf.
Thanks for this. I have been wondering how this compared to Civ 2. Civ 4 was a huge borefest and very disappointing, and was wondering where 5 would stand. I can go back to Civ 2 and play for days and days, but put me in front of 4 and it's just.. horrible. I don't know what else to say about it. It just was not fun at all. I guess I'll be skipping this version as well.
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People who like fantasy, generally like scifi as well. The players are basically one in the same. When you walk into a book store, take a look where your fantasy books are, and where your scifi books are. They're mixed together in the same spot. The audiences are the same people.
Star Wars Galaxies failed because the subscribers were the same people who played Everquest. People will not subscribe to more than one MMO.
Most of the WOW dev team were in the top tier Everquest guilds. They saw what was being done wrong with a fantastic game, decided to take that experience and polish it. They very much aimed to make a game that would replace Everquest, and they did. We got regular updates through Everquest how the then unnamed game was coming along. When some the best players/blizzard devs on the Everquest server stopped showing up because the new game was already better than Everquest, we knew they had something big coming.
However, you are now correct that today, MMOs need to find their niche and not worry about beating WOW to succeed. They need to look at subscription numbers of where Eve Online is, decide that is most likely the best possible outcome, and look at their expenses to run a game with 300,000 subscribers in the very best scenario. Remember, Eve Online is one of the only successful MMOs that has withstood WOW, this is the best case scenario for ANY company planning on an MMO. Realistically, they will maybe have 100k subscribers for their first few years, maybe less.
Well, Apple has actual products. There is no imaginary bubble that is being inflated on what COULD happen. Apple is already making it happen, and those products will expand, we all know this. Even if those products didn't expand, their market for continual updates will keep the company healthy on its own.
People seem to leave this part out. They keep screaming about the 'bailouts' and tax payer money being 'wasted'. That money has been, for the most part, repaid, with interest. The 'taxpayers' have been making out like bandits with these 'bailouts' because they've decided they don't want the regulation that comes along with it. You take taxpayers money, you play by their rules. It's like people can't beyond the fact that these loans had some pretty heavy strings attached to them for the benefit of the taxpayers.
It's a good thing tax payers have made all that money back with interest then, isn't it?
I think you forgot to mention that part.
Generally we found that the disk would work once, maybe twice before it was tossed for good. We tried all brands with no luck. This was back on the Amiga 500, and it used a bit of...unique way to read and write to floppies, so maybe it was the drive more than anything else.
We already did. It was our wallets that funded the inception and creation of the Internet.
It was exactly the reason I didn't care fro Tron 2. The first movie presented you with a world that it gave you a lot of time to take it all in. From the scenes of sitting around drinking the water, to wandering around through the crowds after crashing the Recognizer. The scene where they ride over the grid made it totally obvious, grid bugs etc.. In Tron 2, they jump scene to scene, and I didn't want that. I want to take my time and see everything. I wanted to know more of the world they created. Instead all I can remember is: Flynns Place, Arena, Hole in a mountain, disco tower, lake + pillars, and the beam to leave the world. Compare that to the first movie and it feels like they almost hold your hand through the entire world at times. It was awesome.
I would give anything for them to go back to the format of showing the same five MST3K episodes over and over all weekend long. Seriously.
Who would have thought that Dr. Who would be the only scifi show on the air at one point?
Where did the market go for shows like Star Trek and ST:TNG?
What is going on?
I was expecting Yahoo to basically be a small team of server nerds and not much else. How is 800 people 4% of the company?
What does a search engine do with close to 20,000 people?
The software notices skips in the video, not from the audio level.
"Many TVs have features that allow you to level out the sound from programming"
Have you tried using any of them? I have it on two of my TVs, and I even bought a device specifically for this. It doesn't work! At all! It might make some of the volume a little more quiet, but the overall effect is still Billy Mays screaming at the top of his lungs waking you up.
This will basically make that a thing of the past, thankfully.
Ever since they put it on my iPod touch, the batteries last a good five hours, if that. Apps run in the background improperly when you exit them. You have to manually close them by hand every time, which is a huge pain. Apple says it's up to the programmers to fix their apps to not processes and drain the battery.
Problem is, all the apps do this. All of them. If I could find a way to turn OFF multitasking, I would love to. I can't listen to music much anymore because the battery is almost always dead if I forget to charge it every night. I used to go WEEKS without having to charge it, but if I happen to play a game of solitaire and forget to "close" the app, the player is almost dead a few hours later.
It REALLY stinks.
Had the same feeling. How serious are they about Chrome? The cost of this, even for small bugs, is a drop in the bucket. I'm guessing some manager just got sick of doing their job wondering why they have to pay out what should be a bonus for them to lowly internet people for common bugs.
If this passes, you can expect movies, books, music, and artwork to be next on the list of laws being created on a state by state basis.
It will be a not so slippery slope if it goes through because the flood gates of "morality" will be opened on every piece of media.
You realize that the health care that was enacted was totally different than what was originally on the tables BECAUSE it was a bipartisan attempt from Obama to reach across the aisle, right? People were 70% for it until it got demolished to basically something entirely different. Then everyone was 70% against it.
I don't particular care for the HD DVRs my cable co offers, since I have Tivo, but I'd like to have one around for the bedroom upstairs but don't want to pay $14/mo for the goofy thing. So now we can call them up and just buy one for a few hundred?
Everyone was wondering why everyone but the consumers were jumping on ship. This is why.
The problem is people keep buying the sequels. I think I'm the only person who doesn't really get into buying sequels at all. I want a new experience every time. There has been a lot of original games lately, but you are right about the sequels. Bioshock, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Dead Space, Mirrors Edge, Gears of War, etc. I played them and found them really great games. I haven't and don't plan on, buying any follow ups, prequels, or whatever else they come out with. I usually only break that rule if its a new generation of console and it's the first game for that system like Halo 3. I know I'm missing out on good games, but I much prefer NEW directions over more of the same, even if that same is really really good.
Cable was invented to be commercial free. That was why people originally paid the premium for all those commercial free channels.
Then came the premium cable channels like HBO, Showtime, etc. For the most part those are commercial free, but if you watch Showtimes "Big Brother" they have commercials through-out that. I can only imagine this will get worse and worse and eventually these premium commercial free channels are littered with them. It's bad enough we get to watch a bunch of movie stars in Entourage drink a brand of beer no one in their right mind would ever think about drinking unless they're 50 and sitting in their underwear watching infomercials all night long.
That about sums it up. Who have they been hiring lately?
I can only hope they're trying to patent this so no one else can do it, then they just sit on it never using it.
Yeah, it's almost like they don't go through dozens and dozens of bills every day or anything.
I'm surprised people are still this ignorant how stuff actually works.
At all. It sometimes makes the tv content quieter, so I have to turn it up because the guy on History channel that is explaining black holes can't be heard, then a commercial comes on and I'm deaf.
Thanks for this. I have been wondering how this compared to Civ 2. Civ 4 was a huge borefest and very disappointing, and was wondering where 5 would stand. I can go back to Civ 2 and play for days and days, but put me in front of 4 and it's just.. horrible. I don't know what else to say about it. It just was not fun at all. I guess I'll be skipping this version as well.