Analyzing tropes in video games put in there by developers is not insulting a whole gender.
Unless of course you're one of those people who thinks Video Games as a whole are "Boyz Club: no girlz allowed" sort of thing and thusly any criticism of games = criticism of men.
To get one? Probably not, but having one will help make it easier for you to get to places. Admittedly in some big cities you wouldn't need one as much, but locations vary and a vehicle gives you more options.
I'm a small town midwesterner...(and not in the computer industry), and driving is a necessary skill.
I dunno how DLC works on consoles, but in the PC world, DLC is actually installed to your computer and is generally playable whether or not the developers are continuing to run some kind of server for the game.
That's how it works on consoles too. The guy you're replying to is ill-informed.
you might have missed my "Alienware" allusion. Alienware is among PC makers that have begun selling set-top gaming PCs with Windows ahead of Steam Machine's release date. Fetch is happening.
But how many are they actually selling?
So again, you have to choose your platform around the games you desire to play. If they're PC-only or PC-first, you might choose PC. This goes double if you like to play mods, as PC versions of games tend to have more thorough community modding tools than console versions of the same game. Or if you can cover more of the multi-platform games with a PC than with a PS4 alone or an Xbox One alone, you might choose PC.
The only reason you're so gung ho on the PC now is because you can't get a console dev kit, and the bar for entry is lower on the PC. But that doesn't mean that people are going to buy the same-screen after-school multiplayer games you want them to buy...for the PC. Pc gamers don't want them and console gamers are happy with what they have.
All in all, the entertainment industry in the US made $632billion in 2013. So somebody is paying. Piracy my ass.
Yes, somebody is paying....Americans . American's are subsidizing entertainment for the rest of the planet. And I don't think a bunch of eastern european freeloaders and a few American cheapskates on Slashdot should be convincing Americans to stop paying too, because somebody has to pay.
The various industries are profitable and still exist, but I don't think people should use that as a justification to continue piracy. It's still wrong.
I remember when people used DRM as an excuse to pirate music. Some music may be DRM free (I don't count Spotify and Pandora as being DRM-free), but the same people still pirate the music...just with new excuses about how Music companies are evil and artists don't make money.
And you know what would happen if video was DRM free. one Russian would download it and then upload it with a trojan to russianmafiatorrents.ru.
This stuff costs money to make.. If people want our games, music, books, movies, they should pay, and not enable piracy. If people can't afford it, they shouldn't pirate it and do without. Just because I don't have the money to buy every PS4 game doesn't give me the right to break into gamestop and steal copies I didn't pay for.
I imagine that a lot of hardcore gamers chose PS3 over Wii and PS4 over Wii U for just this reason: graphical detail.
More likely it was because there were good games other than Dance game-foo, or party-game foo, or cute mii-sports pack-in-foo. Sure there's Zelda and Mario....but that's not enough.
And until the supposed steam machines reach the shelves, their vaporware. And besides, PS+ has benefits besides online play.
Only you're allowed to say your anecdotes are correct. I'm not.
But you're doing that to everyone else.
That's about the kind of logic I'd expect from a feminist or any social 'justice' warrior, really.
Oh that's right, anyone who disagrees with you is an SJW. Social justice is a good thing buddy, maybe you're one of those "I've got mine who cares about women, minorities, gays, whatever", but that's just being selfish.
a generalization that men are more selfish than women.
They aren't? Who runs the charitable organizations and social service organizations?
You're engaging in the same sort of systemic shaming towards me
How am I shaming you? And if I was, might there be attitudes you should be shamed of?
As far as toxic environments go, school has always been a place where you are told to sit down, shut up and do as you're told
What, so we should expect less from boys? That's part of the problem now...parents now aren't expecting or teaching their boys HOW to sit down and do quiet play or reading but focusing on their athletics.
students are encouraged to express and focus on their feelings and feminine traits (as long as they are 'positive', definition to be set by the faculty) like conformity and group awareness
How are conformity and group awareness feminine traits?
instead of on objective measurements of achievement and competition.
How are those masculine traits? Aren't grades themselves objective? Why does everything have to be a competition...we live in a finite world, shouldn't we be cooperating more?
This cultural toxicity to individual expression and achievement (which tend to be masculine traits)
You don't know girls very well to say that individual expression and achievment is a masculine trait. So all those girls who are valedictorians, or who win academic competitions, or get PHD's aren't feminine. Are you living in the 1950's mindset of gender?
Like the boys in class, the men are expected to behave/express themselves like dominant female space expects them to or face career-ending fallacious accusations.
If you're upset that men can't tell sexist jokes or come-ons all the time and get away with it...then get over it. I don't think fallacious accusations are keeping men out of education.
These sound about right to me. I don't know where you're justifying your 'more male teachers today than in the past' prideful patriarchy shit, but it's not in alignment with at least this cursory reality check.
The numbers of male teachers are still higher than they were in the 20's, 30's and 40's. Men seemed to do okay in education then when there were even MORE female teachers so what's the problem.
You know what I think....all this fuss about education being feminized is just whining from guys who are upset they have to compete on a more fair playing field in a changed society. In the old days they could goof off in school and still make good money in a factory job that women weren't allowed to do. Now, they have to compete not just with women but with other groups as well. And they wish things would go back the way it was, when they didn't have to be polite to their "lessers", when they could pinch their secretaries, before feminism and civil rights.
What I want is online storage I can just mount to my filesystem, and move files over without the service wanting to keep the files locally because it want's to sync a local and online directory. Heck, I might even want to un-mount it sometime. Most of the time I don't need syncing or versioning, I don't mind if that exists as long as I can turn it off.
When my friends and I play Starcraft, it's over a LAN with no internet access at all.
What is this, are you 20, living in a dorm/college apartment, and living in 1995? Do you really want to go to the hassle of carting around hardware, setting up networks, coordinating everyone's free time, just for LAN play in this day and age?
Japanese flavor may have mattered to the excessively japanophilic otaku...but they/we aren't as big a market segment anymore. Making PS4 development friendlier to US and indie developers has most certainly helped the PS4.
Shawn Layden is CEO of SCEA (Sony Computer Entertainment America) not SCE(i). SCEI is led by Andrew House. Layden is under him. SCEI's former head, Kaz Hirai, runs Sony as a whole now.
Which is a good thing, it basically means the gaijin are running SCEI now so we get a better designed console without a crazy arcane architecture and less of the "lets treat the bigger American market like crap and restrict SCEA from doing what's best for the American market and fawn over SCEJ" from SCE.
I have no love for SCEI when it was more "Japanese" in flavor. They're the reason the PS2 didn't get a retail release of the PS2 HDD and BBN.
So, it's those people with no money in the Third World that are the threat to Sony. How big do you really believe the threat of Playstation piracy could be?
Serious. Think about all the second/third worlders supporting piracy on Slashdot. The hungarians/romanians/russians saying they pirated everything and then complaining about how no one wants to pay for their own software they make so they're thinking about emigrating...but that everyone should pirate Game of Thrones because media companies who want to make a profit are evil.
Or the swedish game designers who admit to pirating games themselves, and tell everyone else to pirate theirs. Leaving the game development to be paid for by Americans.
Haven't we been over the actual statistics about piracy in the entertainment industry to be able to drop this notion that piracy is some "existential threat" to the industry?
It is a threat, people aren't paying for stuff they obviously want. Software, hardware, physical goods, doesn't matter, it's still taking something without paying. Even the Humble Indie bundles get pirated. People can go on how Sony or Microsoft and other companies are evil and information wants to be free and all that.....but really it's just a bunch of people who don't want to pay. And the more we as gamers tolerate and condone piracy, DDOS attacks against servers, the more things Sony and other companies believe they have to do to protect their stuff.
We might think it's no big deal when some kid pirates a few games....but what happens if that kid grows up and keeps on pirating. We've got adults bragging about it on Slashdot. In the old days it was "Sure kids pirate, but once they get a job they'll pay for games", but it's not the case anymore.
With all the 'men are sexist pedophile rapists' shit thrown around,
What shit? The only shit of that sort I see is thrown around by MRA's claiming that OTHERS are throwing it around. Sure there's always a couple of UK radfems still living in the 70's and spreading their stuff to the US, but they're getting older and won't be around for much longer.
it's gotta be less.
But it's not less, why does it have to be less? Because Mr. epyT-R on Slashdot who seems to have a grudge against feminism/women/diversity in general, says so? It's not what the actual statistics say. Sure there's more of a fuss about the demographics now. The reason for that is because elementary teaching WAS considered purely women's work in the past, and in fact one of the few jobs women were "allowed" to do, now we realize we as a society goofed.
I had plenty of male teachers in elementary school, my father (and mother) had precisely zero. High school was 50/50. Maybe your area was not the norm?
considering that TFS said that TFH (The Fucking Hackers) started out by targeting Blizzard and later switched to PSN. and are now targeting Xbox Live. I think talking about Starcraft but focusing on PSN is wrong.
These jerks are targeting everyone. PC and console, Microsoft and Sony.
So, it sounds like women don't go into computer science because they don't like computers.
My reply is tongue-in-cheek, not serious.
Maybe they just didn't like the IBM PC and DOS? Maybe they preferred Apple or Commodore and the change to the IBM/Intel/MIcrosoft hegemony, drove them off?
Hell maybe it was the money. "Oh this C64 and 1541 isn't that expensive, I can even hook it up to the TV, I can learn about computers and there's even a $50 word processor"
"IBM wants me to pay over $2000 for a machine without a monitor....and it doesn't come with any software and the word processing package costs $249? I've got groceries to pay for."
The fact is, school systems have become quite toxic to men. There used to be a lot more of them, and now they're leaving for a reason.
That's not true, there are actually more male teachers now than there were when my dad (born in 1927) went to school.
There is no "toxic environment". The truth is, most men don't teach because they view it as a low paying low status job dealing with people "kids" they don't want to have to deal with. In other words. Men are more selfish.
There used to be more of male nurses/nurses aides. They were called orderlies. a bunch had been medics in WW2. A bit later times changed...and well... female CNA's were cheaper because men were paid more than women...it was just what was expected.
Should it be considered normal for one person to reply to most of my posts
Touche, good point. But lets just say I'm tired of you simply not "getting it"
bring in past context where none was intended?
Come now, with you there is always past context. EVERYTHING for you leads into and is about your desire to be a console developer and how frustrated you are that Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft, just don't hand over dev kits to anyone who wants them and let them publish whatever game they came up with. Which is probably a clone of someone elses game with altered rules and graphics.
But the problem is...you're too disabled to do so, and deep down you know it. Why else would you make such a fuss about moving. Someone who wasn't disabled...they'd just submit their resume/samples, and if they needed to travel for an interview, they would. If they got hired and needed to move for the job...they would just do it, and not go on about "best practices for this and that" all the time.
Tepples...don't be the next Bob Pelloni. Heck you might not want to be the next Notch either...they guy who gets bored and never finishes his own projects.
You don't need to, I'm well aware of the incidents, and the non-proportional Slashdot bias. I'm also aware that the Sony BMG rootkit was done by an outside contractor, not Sony themselves. And I'm aware that Sony sued the rootkit company.
And I'm also aware that Sony divisions are very independent of each other and don't entirely get along. Sometimes Sony's hardware brances win and get to make decisions, sometimes sony's media branches do.
I am also aware that some think that Sony should split itself up into two separate companies because of that.
If you want to complain that Sony doesn't trust it's customers....that's right, they don't. People, especially in the second and third worlds have given them good reason not to. Why shouldn't they stop cheapskates from being able to install some pirated FFX.iso from "scandinavians-are-third-world-piracy-enablers-because-we-have-been-cheapskate-pirates-ourselves-since-the-amiga-bay-which-is-why-our-own-game-companies-make-more-money-from-americans-than-ourselves.se" or "russian-mafia-game-torrents-with-trojans.ru" on their "flip top PS2" that they supposedly modded just for "imports" but actually did so for piracy reasons.
I was a moderator on the YDL forum remember? And 75 percent of newbies were some second or third worlder wanting to know how they could install emulators on YDL or if YDL would let them play PS2 backups.
I'm not going to start because Sony stupidly made patches mandatory, even if I just want to play a single player game.
Turn off it's internet connection, then it won't even check and you won't have to worry about updates at all.
And PS+ costs money that I should not have to waste to have something as rudimentary as auto-patching.
Yes, they shouldn't have kept that PS+ only for so long. You get some automatic updates if you're not PS+....now. But you have have it turned on, and many people...especially if they don't keep up with PS3 news, don't know it's available.
You must be an American, or the the kind of globalization sympatizer that leaves their lights and TV on all day in an empty room.
Yes, I am an American, and I live in a state with 11 nuclear reactors (IIRC) and a ton of wind-farms, but I don't leave lights and TV on.
Everyone else agrees that power is expensive, bandwidth overages and caps are a thing, and wear and tear can kill your electronics.
what, over 6 - 8 years? Having the PS3 turn on at 5 to check for updates and then shut itself off is nothing. I've still got a fully functional CECHE model PS3, with it must be said, an upgraded hard drive.
The situation is better with the PS4, it can do that in standby without turning on fully.
I have a few game DVDs I bought for the PS2 starting just 7 years ago. Scratches or some laser problem I can't pinpoint started to become a problem. Load times for random battles or even unplayability of some parts of the game are sure a thing showing the console's age.
DRE's. Not likely scratches, PS2 DVD's are resistant to scratches,PS3 Blu-ray discs even more so. Google "PS2 disc read error", it can and probably will get worse. Some PS2 models are more resistant, SCPH-50001's in particular. You can send it to Sony to get it fixed, it used to be a free repair, but isn't anymore.
Gamers aren't stupid, Tepples. People know about Big Picture mode.....it's just that most don't really care. Your average PC gamer doesn't care because he's a PC gamer and believes that a desk is better for his keyboard and mouse.
Console gamers aren't going to switch to Steam, because they have had "Big Picture mode" for decades and already can play the games they want to play that way.
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Analyzing tropes in video games put in there by developers is not insulting a whole gender.
Unless of course you're one of those people who thinks Video Games as a whole are "Boyz Club: no girlz allowed" sort of thing and thusly any criticism of games = criticism of men.
Will I need to buy a car to get a job?
To get one? Probably not, but having one will help make it easier for you to get to places. Admittedly in some big cities you wouldn't need one as much, but locations vary and a vehicle gives you more options.
I'm a small town midwesterner...(and not in the computer industry), and driving is a necessary skill.
I'm relatively new to linux...only 12 years. It was a Red Hat 6 variant.
I dunno how DLC works on consoles, but in the PC world, DLC is actually installed to your computer and is generally playable whether or not the developers are continuing to run some kind of server for the game.
That's how it works on consoles too. The guy you're replying to is ill-informed.
you might have missed my "Alienware" allusion. Alienware is among PC makers that have begun selling set-top gaming PCs with Windows ahead of Steam Machine's release date. Fetch is happening.
But how many are they actually selling?
So again, you have to choose your platform around the games you desire to play. If they're PC-only or PC-first, you might choose PC. This goes double if you like to play mods, as PC versions of games tend to have more thorough community modding tools than console versions of the same game. Or if you can cover more of the multi-platform games with a PC than with a PS4 alone or an Xbox One alone, you might choose PC.
The only reason you're so gung ho on the PC now is because you can't get a console dev kit, and the bar for entry is lower on the PC. But that doesn't mean that people are going to buy the same-screen after-school multiplayer games you want them to buy...for the PC. Pc gamers don't want them and console gamers are happy with what they have.
All in all, the entertainment industry in the US made $632billion in 2013. So somebody is paying. Piracy my ass.
Yes, somebody is paying....Americans . American's are subsidizing entertainment for the rest of the planet. And I don't think a bunch of eastern european freeloaders and a few American cheapskates on Slashdot should be convincing Americans to stop paying too, because somebody has to pay.
The various industries are profitable and still exist, but I don't think people should use that as a justification to continue piracy. It's still wrong.
I remember when people used DRM as an excuse to pirate music. Some music may be DRM free (I don't count Spotify and Pandora as being DRM-free), but the same people still pirate the music...just with new excuses about how Music companies are evil and artists don't make money.
And you know what would happen if video was DRM free. one Russian would download it and then upload it with a trojan to russianmafiatorrents.ru.
This stuff costs money to make.. If people want our games, music, books, movies, they should pay, and not enable piracy. If people can't afford it, they shouldn't pirate it and do without. Just because I don't have the money to buy every PS4 game doesn't give me the right to break into gamestop and steal copies I didn't pay for.
I imagine that a lot of hardcore gamers chose PS3 over Wii and PS4 over Wii U for just this reason: graphical detail.
More likely it was because there were good games other than Dance game-foo, or party-game foo, or cute mii-sports pack-in-foo. Sure there's Zelda and Mario....but that's not enough.
And until the supposed steam machines reach the shelves, their vaporware. And besides, PS+ has benefits besides online play.
Only you're allowed to say your anecdotes are correct. I'm not.
But you're doing that to everyone else.
That's about the kind of logic I'd expect from a feminist or any social 'justice' warrior, really.
Oh that's right, anyone who disagrees with you is an SJW. Social justice is a good thing buddy, maybe you're one of those "I've got mine who cares about women, minorities, gays, whatever", but that's just being selfish.
a generalization that men are more selfish than women.
They aren't? Who runs the charitable organizations and social service organizations?
You're engaging in the same sort of systemic shaming towards me
How am I shaming you? And if I was, might there be attitudes you should be shamed of?
As far as toxic environments go, school has always been a place where you are told to sit down, shut up and do as you're told
What, so we should expect less from boys? That's part of the problem now...parents now aren't expecting or teaching their boys HOW to sit down and do quiet play or reading but focusing on their athletics.
students are encouraged to express and focus on their feelings and feminine traits (as long as they are 'positive', definition to be set by the faculty) like conformity and group awareness
How are conformity and group awareness feminine traits?
instead of on objective measurements of achievement and competition.
How are those masculine traits? Aren't grades themselves objective? Why does everything have to be a competition...we live in a finite world, shouldn't we be cooperating more?
This cultural toxicity to individual expression and achievement (which tend to be masculine traits)
You don't know girls very well to say that individual expression and achievment is a masculine trait. So all those girls who are valedictorians, or who win academic competitions, or get PHD's aren't feminine. Are you living in the 1950's mindset of gender?
Like the boys in class, the men are expected to behave/express themselves like dominant female space expects them to or face career-ending fallacious accusations.
If you're upset that men can't tell sexist jokes or come-ons all the time and get away with it...then get over it. I don't think fallacious accusations are keeping men out of education.
These sound about right to me. I don't know where you're justifying your 'more male teachers today than in the past' prideful patriarchy shit, but it's not in alignment with at least this cursory reality check.
The numbers of male teachers are still higher than they were in the 20's, 30's and 40's. Men seemed to do okay in education then when there were even MORE female teachers so what's the problem.
You know what I think....all this fuss about education being feminized is just whining from guys who are upset they have to compete on a more fair playing field in a changed society. In the old days they could goof off in school and still make good money in a factory job that women weren't allowed to do. Now, they have to compete not just with women but with other groups as well. And they wish things would go back the way it was, when they didn't have to be polite to their "lessers", when they could pinch their secretaries, before feminism and civil rights.
Not going to happen.
What I want is online storage I can just mount to my filesystem, and move files over without the service wanting to keep the files locally because it want's to sync a local and online directory. Heck, I might even want to un-mount it sometime. Most of the time I don't need syncing or versioning, I don't mind if that exists as long as I can turn it off.
When my friends and I play Starcraft, it's over a LAN with no internet access at all.
What is this, are you 20, living in a dorm/college apartment, and living in 1995? Do you really want to go to the hassle of carting around hardware, setting up networks, coordinating everyone's free time, just for LAN play in this day and age?
Japanese flavor may have mattered to the excessively japanophilic otaku...but they/we aren't as big a market segment anymore. Making PS4 development friendlier to US and indie developers has most certainly helped the PS4.
Shawn Layden is CEO of SCEA (Sony Computer Entertainment America) not SCE(i). SCEI is led by Andrew House. Layden is under him. SCEI's former head, Kaz Hirai, runs Sony as a whole now.
Which is a good thing, it basically means the gaijin are running SCEI now so we get a better designed console without a crazy arcane architecture and less of the "lets treat the bigger American market like crap and restrict SCEA from doing what's best for the American market and fawn over SCEJ" from SCE.
I have no love for SCEI when it was more "Japanese" in flavor. They're the reason the PS2 didn't get a retail release of the PS2 HDD and BBN.
Five, at very least.
Sounds about right.
So, it's those people with no money in the Third World that are the threat to Sony. How big do you really believe the threat of Playstation piracy could be?
Serious. Think about all the second/third worlders supporting piracy on Slashdot. The hungarians/romanians/russians saying they pirated everything and then complaining about how no one wants to pay for their own software they make so they're thinking about emigrating...but that everyone should pirate Game of Thrones because media companies who want to make a profit are evil.
Or the swedish game designers who admit to pirating games themselves, and tell everyone else to pirate theirs. Leaving the game development to be paid for by Americans.
Haven't we been over the actual statistics about piracy in the entertainment industry to be able to drop this notion that piracy is some "existential threat" to the industry?
It is a threat, people aren't paying for stuff they obviously want. Software, hardware, physical goods, doesn't matter, it's still taking something without paying. Even the Humble Indie bundles get pirated. People can go on how Sony or Microsoft and other companies are evil and information wants to be free and all that.....but really it's just a bunch of people who don't want to pay. And the more we as gamers tolerate and condone piracy, DDOS attacks against servers, the more things Sony and other companies believe they have to do to protect their stuff.
We might think it's no big deal when some kid pirates a few games....but what happens if that kid grows up and keeps on pirating. We've got adults bragging about it on Slashdot. In the old days it was "Sure kids pirate, but once they get a job they'll pay for games", but it's not the case anymore.
Until they learn they can actually get 1080p on the Steam version of a game when they can't on the version of the same game for a major console.
yeah right? has that actually happened? Do you really think that's going to happen? I don't think so.
Didn't someone sue Sony about a game not actually being in 1080p?
And the consensus was that guy was a frivolous overly entitled jerk.
With all the 'men are sexist pedophile rapists' shit thrown around,
What shit? The only shit of that sort I see is thrown around by MRA's claiming that OTHERS are throwing it around. Sure there's always a couple of UK radfems still living in the 70's and spreading their stuff to the US, but they're getting older and won't be around for much longer.
it's gotta be less.
But it's not less, why does it have to be less? Because Mr. epyT-R on Slashdot who seems to have a grudge against feminism/women/diversity in general, says so? It's not what the actual statistics say. Sure there's more of a fuss about the demographics now. The reason for that is because elementary teaching WAS considered purely women's work in the past, and in fact one of the few jobs women were "allowed" to do, now we realize we as a society goofed.
I had plenty of male teachers in elementary school, my father (and mother) had precisely zero. High school was 50/50. Maybe your area was not the norm?
considering that TFS said that TFH (The Fucking Hackers) started out by targeting Blizzard and later switched to PSN. and are now targeting Xbox Live. I think talking about Starcraft but focusing on PSN is wrong.
These jerks are targeting everyone. PC and console, Microsoft and Sony.
So, it sounds like women don't go into computer science because they don't like computers.
My reply is tongue-in-cheek, not serious.
Maybe they just didn't like the IBM PC and DOS? Maybe they preferred Apple or Commodore and the change to the IBM/Intel/MIcrosoft hegemony, drove them off?
Hell maybe it was the money. "Oh this C64 and 1541 isn't that expensive, I can even hook it up to the TV, I can learn about computers and there's even a $50 word processor"
"IBM wants me to pay over $2000 for a machine without a monitor....and it doesn't come with any software and the word processing package costs $249? I've got groceries to pay for."
The fact is, school systems have become quite toxic to men. There used to be a lot more of them, and now they're leaving for a reason.
That's not true, there are actually more male teachers now than there were when my dad (born in 1927) went to school.
There is no "toxic environment". The truth is, most men don't teach because they view it as a low paying low status job dealing with people "kids" they don't want to have to deal with. In other words. Men are more selfish.
There used to be more of male nurses/nurses aides. They were called orderlies. a bunch had been medics in WW2. A bit later times changed...and well... female CNA's were cheaper because men were paid more than women...it was just what was expected.
Should it be considered normal for one person to reply to most of my posts
Touche, good point. But lets just say I'm tired of you simply not "getting it"
bring in past context where none was intended?
Come now, with you there is always past context. EVERYTHING for you leads into and is about your desire to be a console developer and how frustrated you are that Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft, just don't hand over dev kits to anyone who wants them and let them publish whatever game they came up with. Which is probably a clone of someone elses game with altered rules and graphics.
But the problem is...you're too disabled to do so, and deep down you know it. Why else would you make such a fuss about moving. Someone who wasn't disabled...they'd just submit their resume/samples, and if they needed to travel for an interview, they would. If they got hired and needed to move for the job...they would just do it, and not go on about "best practices for this and that" all the time.
Tepples...don't be the next Bob Pelloni. Heck you might not want to be the next Notch either...they guy who gets bored and never finishes his own projects.
You don't need to, I'm well aware of the incidents, and the non-proportional Slashdot bias. I'm also aware that the Sony BMG rootkit was done by an outside contractor, not Sony themselves. And I'm aware that Sony sued the rootkit company.
And I'm also aware that Sony divisions are very independent of each other and don't entirely get along. Sometimes Sony's hardware brances win and get to make decisions, sometimes sony's media branches do.
I am also aware that some think that Sony should split itself up into two separate companies because of that.
If you want to complain that Sony doesn't trust it's customers....that's right, they don't. People, especially in the second and third worlds have given them good reason not to. Why shouldn't they stop cheapskates from being able to install some pirated FFX.iso from "scandinavians-are-third-world-piracy-enablers-because-we-have-been-cheapskate-pirates-ourselves-since-the-amiga-bay-which-is-why-our-own-game-companies-make-more-money-from-americans-than-ourselves.se" or "russian-mafia-game-torrents-with-trojans.ru" on their "flip top PS2" that they supposedly modded just for "imports" but actually did so for piracy reasons.
I was a moderator on the YDL forum remember? And 75 percent of newbies were some second or third worlder wanting to know how they could install emulators on YDL or if YDL would let them play PS2 backups.
I'm not going to start because Sony stupidly made patches mandatory, even if I just want to play a single player game.
Turn off it's internet connection, then it won't even check and you won't have to worry about updates at all.
And PS+ costs money that I should not have to waste to have something as rudimentary as auto-patching.
Yes, they shouldn't have kept that PS+ only for so long. You get some automatic updates if you're not PS+....now. But you have have it turned on, and many people...especially if they don't keep up with PS3 news, don't know it's available.
http://manuals.playstation.net...
http://www.polygon.com/2013/10...
If you have PS+ it keeps track of your disc based gameplay and automatically gets the updates for those most recently played games for those too.
You must be an American, or the the kind of globalization sympatizer that leaves their lights and TV on all day in an empty room.
Yes, I am an American, and I live in a state with 11 nuclear reactors (IIRC) and a ton of wind-farms, but I don't leave lights and TV on.
Everyone else agrees that power is expensive, bandwidth overages and caps are a thing, and wear and tear can kill your electronics.
what, over 6 - 8 years? Having the PS3 turn on at 5 to check for updates and then shut itself off is nothing. I've still got a fully functional CECHE model PS3, with it must be said, an upgraded hard drive.
The situation is better with the PS4, it can do that in standby without turning on fully.
I have a few game DVDs I bought for the PS2 starting just 7 years ago. Scratches or some laser problem I can't pinpoint started to become a problem. Load times for random battles or even unplayability of some parts of the game are sure a thing showing the console's age.
DRE's. Not likely scratches, PS2 DVD's are resistant to scratches,PS3 Blu-ray discs even more so. Google "PS2 disc read error", it can and probably will get worse. Some PS2 models are more resistant, SCPH-50001's in particular. You can send it to Sony to get it fixed, it used to be a free repair, but isn't anymore.
Gamers aren't stupid, Tepples. People know about Big Picture mode.....it's just that most don't really care. Your average PC gamer doesn't care because he's a PC gamer and believes that a desk is better for his keyboard and mouse.
Console gamers aren't going to switch to Steam, because they have had "Big Picture mode" for decades and already can play the games they want to play that way.
You didn't need to do that, Charliemopps isn't stupid.