Oh please, even if Eastern Europe gets economic parity, it'll still be a piracy haven. The people there now expect free media/games, they got into the habit of not paying and they're not going to start.
Do I need to point out all the.po,.hu,.ru,.ro etc hosted piracy websites.
If they can't pay for it, they shouldn't steal it. Just because I don't have big bucks for a Ferrari doesn't give me the right to take it.
And don't give me that "Software is just bits and piracy doesn't deprive the original owner" argument. It's moral thievery. You want a book, pay for it. Want a game, pay for it, same thing.
Oh yes, the piracy in eastern europe - why they even pirate whole *consoles* there! They don't even settle for the games! the humanity! Nothing what so ever to do with steam except that steams zone pricing might actually reduce piracy. Which is a good thing no?
Might... yeah well it's become custom now... they just expect free games and media now. It's why they like the PC so much, easy piracy. Heck that's why eastern european developers are PC centric... most of them are full of pirates who grabbed every Speccy/Amiga/Soviet TRASH-80 clone game they could. Consoles had import duties/restrictions/weren't sold there and piracy wasn't easy.
Now they're getting a taste of their own medicine.
You don't see a problem? Well part of the problem was this:
Dad brings home a gift for each kid, and automatically brings home the following:
Boy gets electronic toy
Girl gets nurse a doll kit
There was no asking about interests, because the societal expectations of the time. So kids with interests that weren't the norm for their gender had such interests discouraged.
Oh, you don't know of the time in the past, like say the 80's when a lot of Slashdotters were growing up...that the commodore 64 that was bought for them... wouldn't have been if they were girls? Or that the computer was basically "their computer" because at that time computers/video games were considered "boy toys"
yes it's better now, but there are still remnants of that thinking left.
I was referring to the following sentence we so very often on Slashdot:
"I only buy games during Steam sales... I paid $5 $X game."
Yes, there are full price games on Steam, just like there are $5 games on PSN....but it seems most steam aficionados on Slashdot are the "wait till it's 5 bucks" consumers....who then wonder why developers treat the PC as an after thought.
And did I hit a little close to home on the Euro-pirate thing?
Let me guess, you're one of those cheap-ass former pirates who only buys games on Steam Sales and then wonders why PC development houses and publishers aren't paying as much attention to the PC.
It's because the console gamers are subsidizing development! They see it this way:
Console gamers: Willing to pay $60 bucks for an immersive game with lots of playtime like Skyrim
PC Gamers: Cheapskates who are only willing to pay $5 for the same game, not even taking into account the Eastern Europeans and BRIC'ers who don't want to pay for anything.
Besides, there's plenty of cheap games on PSN...but you wouldn't know that, would you.
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Sony is not Nintendo. They don't do things the same way. PS1, PS2 and PS3 discs use standard filesystems, don't know about PS4 discs yet.
Sounds like this is a change towards "Action MMO" design, with reduced powers and complexity, oriented for console implementation.
How can you blame this on consoles...when LOTRO or WoW or any of the other games that people say are "less complex than they were at launch" don't have console versions. And there are console MMO's like FFXI that give you multiple ways of handling multiple skills at once. The FFXI hot bar set has 20 skills in it, and you can have more than one hot bar set and flick between them. Even EQOA on the PS2 had 10 skill slots.
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The PS3 had it worse as it lacked a scaler chip, so if a TV couldn't handle the resolution it needed, it got downscaled to 480i. (e.g., if your TV didn't support 1080i/p and the game was 1080i/p, instead of going to 720p, it would go to 480i).
The PS3 does have a scaler, the problem was that it scaled to the lowest by default, rather than using whatever the TV supported....they fixed that in a firmware update.
Even so, Sony licensed PS2 games for a number of years after the release of the PS3
Number of years in this case equals seven. The last PS2 games came out this year...September in the US.
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Stop being so literal. The fellow was just mentioning that some have said Ars are Apple fanboys....that is all, not that Apple is competing in the games market.
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But really - who wants an Xbox to play CDs/DVDs/other media? I use a games console for.... wait for it.... games.
This is where Sony (and Microsoft) can't win.
They have one group saying. "I don't need extra features that adds price...I just want my games console to play games."
And another who says: "Where's my convergence features, being able to rip CD's on my PS3 was nice"
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haven't seen a combo BD/DVD drive that doesn't support CD as well.
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Come now... don't be "that guy". You never used OtherOS just like how the vast majority of those on slashdot who complain about it didn't use it either. Heck...I bet most of you don't even own "fat" PS3's!
The ONLY reason it was dropped was because they feared an exploit via OtherOS would enable piracy. They just didn't want to take the risk.
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check practically every gaming website out there that interviews a sony guy about the feature:
That $699 laptop will be worse at gaming than that Xbox One. So us Console Gamer Original Gamer Race are making somewhat different choices. Instead of buying 1 more expensive machine, you buy a bunch of cheaper ones, which is more versatile....and you still have money left over for actual games. So you don't have to play de_dust over and over and over for 10 years because you spent too much money on hardware and are a cheapskate who doesn't want to pay for games.
Well, considering real gamers buy real computers and they outsell consoles by a vast margin
Console gamers are real gamers. In fact, mass-market console gaming predates mass-market PC gaming. And while computers do outsell consoles, a lot of those sit in offices, and/or are not used for gaming, and/or are simply not as good gaming machines as a PS3 or Xbox 360, let alone the PS4 or Xbox One.
As for consoles, fuck those joystick monkey idiots.
I'm old enough to remember a time when all those frat-boys playing DOOM over IPX at colleges were considered casual gamer idiots by the bearded grognards playing hex map wargames and RPG's
They've made it freemium, trying to get you to pay $30 for an EQ and whatnot,
The Pro upgrade on Android is only $4.99, well worth it IMHO.
but it's still got one of the better UIs if you want to use your phone as an MP3 player.
Yep.
I've switched to RocketPlayer, because I want more format support, like MusePack, AAC, etc., and being able to EDIT those tags you're at the mercy of, in the player is a killer feature, too.
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Oh please, even if Eastern Europe gets economic parity, it'll still be a piracy haven. The people there now expect free media/games, they got into the habit of not paying and they're not going to start.
Do I need to point out all the .po, .hu, .ru, .ro etc hosted piracy websites.
If they can't pay for it, they shouldn't steal it. Just because I don't have big bucks for a Ferrari doesn't give me the right to take it.
And don't give me that "Software is just bits and piracy doesn't deprive the original owner" argument. It's moral thievery. You want a book, pay for it. Want a game, pay for it, same thing.
Oh yes, the piracy in eastern europe - why they even pirate whole *consoles* there! They don't even settle for the games! the humanity! Nothing what so ever to do with steam except that steams zone pricing might actually reduce piracy. Which is a good thing no?
Might... yeah well it's become custom now... they just expect free games and media now. It's why they like the PC so much, easy piracy. Heck that's why eastern european developers are PC centric... most of them are full of pirates who grabbed every Speccy/Amiga/Soviet TRASH-80 clone game they could. Consoles had import duties/restrictions/weren't sold there and piracy wasn't easy.
Now they're getting a taste of their own medicine.
You don't see a problem? Well part of the problem was this:
Dad brings home a gift for each kid, and automatically brings home the following:
Boy gets electronic toy
Girl gets nurse a doll kit
There was no asking about interests, because the societal expectations of the time. So kids with interests that weren't the norm for their gender had such interests discouraged.
I think you're mistaken, last I checked those sorts of programs still existed.
Oh, you don't know of the time in the past, like say the 80's when a lot of Slashdotters were growing up...that the commodore 64 that was bought for them... wouldn't have been if they were girls? Or that the computer was basically "their computer" because at that time computers/video games were considered "boy toys"
yes it's better now, but there are still remnants of that thinking left.
Now you're sounding like one of those near-aspies who "just has to be technically right" all the time and has to have everything be "logical"
Look when you say "the females" it makes you sound like some aspie ferengi who doesn't leave the basement. You might as well say something like:
"I do not under-stand why the hew-mon females don't become programmers"
female isn't a creepy word, but when you use it where normal non-geek non-near-aspie people would use "women", that's when it makes you sound weird.
I was referring to the following sentence we so very often on Slashdot:
"I only buy games during Steam sales... I paid $5 $X game."
Yes, there are full price games on Steam, just like there are $5 games on PSN....but it seems most steam aficionados on Slashdot are the "wait till it's 5 bucks" consumers....who then wonder why developers treat the PC as an after thought.
And did I hit a little close to home on the Euro-pirate thing?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2013/05/15/finally-some-objective-figures-on-games-piracy/
http://chartsbin.com/view/1188
It's been that way for decades.
Perhaps Skyrim is a bad example, but how is it losing when we see the following sentence so often on Slashdot:
"I only buy games during Steam sales... I paid $5 $X game."
For being cheap - check out games like Skyrim, still 40-30â (not cheap dollars lol) and still consistently in the top 10 best selling.
I strike a little too close to the target, Euro-gamer? We all know that Europe, especially Eastern Europe is a pirate haven.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2013/05/15/finally-some-objective-figures-on-games-piracy/
http://chartsbin.com/view/1188
Let me guess, you're one of those cheap-ass former pirates who only buys games on Steam Sales and then wonders why PC development houses and publishers aren't paying as much attention to the PC.
It's because the console gamers are subsidizing development! They see it this way:
Console gamers: Willing to pay $60 bucks for an immersive game with lots of playtime like Skyrim
PC Gamers: Cheapskates who are only willing to pay $5 for the same game, not even taking into account the Eastern Europeans and BRIC'ers who don't want to pay for anything.
Besides, there's plenty of cheap games on PSN...but you wouldn't know that, would you.
Sony is not Nintendo. They don't do things the same way. PS1, PS2 and PS3 discs use standard filesystems, don't know about PS4 discs yet.
Sounds like this is a change towards "Action MMO" design, with reduced powers and complexity, oriented for console implementation.
How can you blame this on consoles...when LOTRO or WoW or any of the other games that people say are "less complex than they were at launch" don't have console versions. And there are console MMO's like FFXI that give you multiple ways of handling multiple skills at once. The FFXI hot bar set has 20 skills in it, and you can have more than one hot bar set and flick between them. Even EQOA on the PS2 had 10 skill slots.
The PS3 had it worse as it lacked a scaler chip, so if a TV couldn't handle the resolution it needed, it got downscaled to 480i. (e.g., if your TV didn't support 1080i/p and the game was 1080i/p, instead of going to 720p, it would go to 480i).
The PS3 does have a scaler, the problem was that it scaled to the lowest by default, rather than using whatever the TV supported....they fixed that in a firmware update.
Even so, Sony licensed PS2 games for a number of years after the release of the PS3
Number of years in this case equals seven. The last PS2 games came out this year...September in the US.
Stop being so literal. The fellow was just mentioning that some have said Ars are Apple fanboys....that is all, not that Apple is competing in the games market.
But really - who wants an Xbox to play CDs/DVDs/other media? I use a games console for.... wait for it.... games.
This is where Sony (and Microsoft) can't win.
They have one group saying. "I don't need extra features that adds price...I just want my games console to play games."
And another who says: "Where's my convergence features, being able to rip CD's on my PS3 was nice"
haven't seen a combo BD/DVD drive that doesn't support CD as well.
Come now... don't be "that guy". You never used OtherOS just like how the vast majority of those on slashdot who complain about it didn't use it either. Heck...I bet most of you don't even own "fat" PS3's!
The ONLY reason it was dropped was because they feared an exploit via OtherOS would enable piracy. They just didn't want to take the risk.
check practically every gaming website out there that interviews a sony guy about the feature:
http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/a-chat-with-shuhei-yoshida/1600-670/
http://kotaku.com/the-ps4-might-be-a-decent-media-server-after-all-1463440125
That $699 laptop will be worse at gaming than that Xbox One. So us Console Gamer Original Gamer Race are making somewhat different choices. Instead of buying 1 more expensive machine, you buy a bunch of cheaper ones, which is more versatile....and you still have money left over for actual games. So you don't have to play de_dust over and over and over for 10 years because you spent too much money on hardware and are a cheapskate who doesn't want to pay for games.
Well, considering real gamers buy real computers and they outsell consoles by a vast margin
Console gamers are real gamers. In fact, mass-market console gaming predates mass-market PC gaming. And while computers do outsell consoles, a lot of those sit in offices, and/or are not used for gaming, and/or are simply not as good gaming machines as a PS3 or Xbox 360, let alone the PS4 or Xbox One.
As for consoles, fuck those joystick monkey idiots.
I'm old enough to remember a time when all those frat-boys playing DOOM over IPX at colleges were considered casual gamer idiots by the bearded grognards playing hex map wargames and RPG's
Quadra Magic doesn't work with KotR, it does work with the Bahamut's though.
I messed up the quote tag.
They've made it freemium, trying to get you to pay $30 for an EQ and whatnot,
The Pro upgrade on Android is only $4.99, well worth it IMHO.
but it's still got one of the better UIs if you want to use your phone as an MP3 player.
Yep.
I've switched to RocketPlayer, because I want more format support, like MusePack, AAC, etc., and being able to EDIT those tags you're at the mercy of, in the player is a killer feature, too.
Edit them? Nice.
I got winamp working on the phone a few months ago for listening to web streams and live music events on Second Life.
For listening to streams, TuneIn has a slightly nicer UI, though it IS nice that Winamp can do it if you only have room for one application.
They've made it freemium, trying to get you to pay $30 for an EQ and whatnot
but it's still got one of the better UIs if you want to use your phone as an MP3 player.
Yep.
My EYES, the goggles, they do nothing. Had to tell it to use the default xmms skin. Yeah, I'm weird that way.