Good games are bought by people unlikely to pirate, and pirated by those likely to do that. Bad games are not bought by those who are unlikely to pirate and pirated by those who are likely to do that.
In college I knew people who pirated only to have huge collections of stuff they never used. We called them digital packrats.
No, they prefer to sell things that have add on costs. Like BES support on a commercial cell phone contract always costs extra. Free money is better than even overage charges.
Then for a phone how will you handle the following situation?
You are at 100% CPU and RAM usage. The user tries to do something that needs more CPU. Do you drop the old task, which is no good he needs that done, or the new task which cannot complete in time?
I tried to play it, I stopped when I realized it was the press X now to jump in a preprogramed way and press Y now to execute yet another scripted action game.
I want to be able to try stuff, to explore, to you know play, not watch a movie that sometimes makes me press continue.
I think you might want to try a less crowded field. There are tons of those style of racing games, some that have very good art that no single developer could ever compete with.
I mean that seriously, you are not losing money, it is no different than if someone did not buy the game. I know that sounds harsh, but the reality is every minute you spend worrying about people like that is one less you can spend getting actual customers. To an indie dev, I would suggest making a version to post on such websites. Change some models/sprites/backgrounds to pirates or zombies or something, and leave out the ending. This way it will at least be harder for people to find the pirated full version and you will get free advertising.
Spend more time making it worth me buying and less time worrying about what broke folks do. Some people will never give you their money, don't worry about what you can't change. Worry about getting those of us who might give you money to actually do so.
Please also tell me what game it is so I can go check it out.
I think this would be huge for OnLive, Netflix and a whole host of others that want to provide service to a cheap dumb endpoint.
It would also be big for indie devs and smaller game houses. I bet it could run all the Tell Tale games for instance. Not a huge dev, but their franchises are pretty historic. Sam and Max, Monkey Island, etc.
In short I am old and I think I would like to use this to play old games and new versions of said old games.
Both already exist on android. I bet if that is all you want you could right now get a cheap android tablet, bluetooth keyboard and mouse. hook that up to your TV and away you go.
1). Why would they be taking a loss? Tegra 3 SoCs run I think $15, can be more than $50 worth of parts total. I bet chinese assembly gets it done cheap enough for a small profit on each. There is no need to make the kind of profit the big boys do, most businesses don't have those kinds of margins and still survive. 2). 8GB seems fine, they are not going for blockbuster games. sure an SD card would help
3). I disagree a Tegra 3 today will not get worse with age, it will still be "good enough". It could be better, but so could the current crop of outdated crap consoles.
External keyboard support would be included if you have an android device that takes external keyboard. My understanding is anything past 2.2 should be able to use a bluetooth keyboard.
I was not trying to shutdown the machines, just inventory. We did check the logs, we sent emails to those users. They never replied. The machines were never off, they only had the network cable pulled waiting to go right back in.
We determined that shutting them down and powering them back on would be a far longer outage. It would also risk the loss of user data.
That is not exactly what a Real time OS does. Given not enough CPU to handle all the tasks it abandons any that take too long. Users really don't like those sorts of things. Real Time operating systems are really only good for that environment, where late means worthless.
They already gave up their old OS, which I have real trouble believing was real time. Their new OS is QNX, which is real time, but I still don't see how a real time kernel helps them.
No desktop operating systems I know bother with them.
I am not sure the blind leading the blind is the best method for RIM to survive. If WP7/8 actually sold a large number of devices it might be worth it. Instead they need to support ActiveSync on their own devices and offer their software/services on non-BB devices as well.
I agree for many people it is that way, and mostly it is a good thing. For me less so, but that is because I use SSH on my phone, I use it to write perl and in general spend a fair bit of time at the console. I also run ROMS, build apps etc. The fact that I can do that and my girlfriend does not even have a file browser installed on hers is great.
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Way to miss the point.
Good games are bought by people unlikely to pirate, and pirated by those likely to do that. Bad games are not bought by those who are unlikely to pirate and pirated by those who are likely to do that.
In college I knew people who pirated only to have huge collections of stuff they never used. We called them digital packrats.
No, they prefer to sell things that have add on costs. Like BES support on a commercial cell phone contract always costs extra. Free money is better than even overage charges.
You can selectively restart parts, which does not always work. It can even break the rest of it.
BES 5 did include such a free license, it did not give me a free server to run it on though.
It sounds like you are a RIM employee who will soon be unemployed.
Then for a phone how will you handle the following situation?
You are at 100% CPU and RAM usage. The user tries to do something that needs more CPU. Do you drop the old task, which is no good he needs that done, or the new task which cannot complete in time?
I tried to play it, I stopped when I realized it was the press X now to jump in a preprogramed way and press Y now to execute yet another scripted action game.
I want to be able to try stuff, to explore, to you know play, not watch a movie that sometimes makes me press continue.
To me they all suck.
I like playing a game, not doing what the box says to do.
I run the telltale games on wine and don't have those issues. At least not so far, what platform are you using?
Those are living room games, the PC is probably a bad place to put them.
For the best of both worlds an emulator is so far the only way to go. This device might change that.
I think you might want to try a less crowded field. There are tons of those style of racing games, some that have very good art that no single developer could ever compete with.
As an example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.polarbit.RecklessRacing
Your game may be 100 times better, but these guys have the shiny. In a crowded market the shiny counts for a lot.
I just saw that. Not my style but looks pretty nice. I like the lack of crazy permissions.
So they beat you until you stopped being able to work?
Or was your game not good enough to get actual sales. Remember than the cost of entry to pirate is infinitely lower than to buy.
So what?
I mean that seriously, you are not losing money, it is no different than if someone did not buy the game. I know that sounds harsh, but the reality is every minute you spend worrying about people like that is one less you can spend getting actual customers. To an indie dev, I would suggest making a version to post on such websites. Change some models/sprites/backgrounds to pirates or zombies or something, and leave out the ending. This way it will at least be harder for people to find the pirated full version and you will get free advertising.
Spend more time making it worth me buying and less time worrying about what broke folks do. Some people will never give you their money, don't worry about what you can't change. Worry about getting those of us who might give you money to actually do so.
Please also tell me what game it is so I can go check it out.
If you are going to dream, dream a little bigger. CableCard needs to die.
I think this would be huge for OnLive, Netflix and a whole host of others that want to provide service to a cheap dumb endpoint.
It would also be big for indie devs and smaller game houses. I bet it could run all the Tell Tale games for instance. Not a huge dev, but their franchises are pretty historic. Sam and Max, Monkey Island, etc.
In short I am old and I think I would like to use this to play old games and new versions of said old games.
Both already exist on android.
I bet if that is all you want you could right now get a cheap android tablet, bluetooth keyboard and mouse. hook that up to your TV and away you go.
With OnLive I bet you could play uncharted.
Why you would want to play a press button X now to make the movie continue game I am not sure.
1). Why would they be taking a loss? Tegra 3 SoCs run I think $15, can be more than $50 worth of parts total. I bet chinese assembly gets it done cheap enough for a small profit on each. There is no need to make the kind of profit the big boys do, most businesses don't have those kinds of margins and still survive.
2). 8GB seems fine, they are not going for blockbuster games. sure an SD card would help
3). I disagree a Tegra 3 today will not get worse with age, it will still be "good enough". It could be better, but so could the current crop of outdated crap consoles.
4). This will probably kill them.
KBOX terminal.
http://kevinboone.net/kbox.html
External keyboard support would be included if you have an android device that takes external keyboard. My understanding is anything past 2.2 should be able to use a bluetooth keyboard.
Are you trolling or stupid?
All my android devices are rooted, I have pirated exactly 0 applications or videos or movies.
Why would anyone need an excuse to own their own devices?
I was not trying to shutdown the machines, just inventory. We did check the logs, we sent emails to those users. They never replied. The machines were never off, they only had the network cable pulled waiting to go right back in.
We determined that shutting them down and powering them back on would be a far longer outage. It would also risk the loss of user data.
That is not exactly what a Real time OS does. Given not enough CPU to handle all the tasks it abandons any that take too long. Users really don't like those sorts of things. Real Time operating systems are really only good for that environment, where late means worthless.
If it is in a VM it cannot be protected from the host. It is that simple.
BB is not currently stable, you make can email stop arriving on their devices by squinting at them. How is this new idea going to fix that problem.
They already gave up their old OS, which I have real trouble believing was real time.
Their new OS is QNX, which is real time, but I still don't see how a real time kernel helps them.
No desktop operating systems I know bother with them.
I am not sure the blind leading the blind is the best method for RIM to survive. If WP7/8 actually sold a large number of devices it might be worth it. Instead they need to support ActiveSync on their own devices and offer their software/services on non-BB devices as well.
I agree for many people it is that way, and mostly it is a good thing. For me less so, but that is because I use SSH on my phone, I use it to write perl and in general spend a fair bit of time at the console. I also run ROMS, build apps etc. The fact that I can do that and my girlfriend does not even have a file browser installed on hers is great.