Good points, but I seriously doubt that the primary target for NeroLinux is Linux users or at least not long-time Linux users. Because those of us who have been using it for a while have most likely found some combination of CD/DVD burning software that we like and have forgotten all about the Windows counterparts.
They've definitely got innovative ideas about getting market share and holding on to it. Put out a crappy product and still own the market? Who else can innovate like that?
I don't really see how it matters what hardware you're running Linux on if it gets the job done for you. Aside from the obvious factors of cost and Slackware only being available for x86.
All this talk about cutting out the grinding in relation to WoW is really amusing to me. Because from what I've played of it the grind seems like most of the game. I guess you could read the quest descriptions and all that, but it really seems a lot like a massively multiplayer Diablo, in a huge seamless world, with quick descriptions of what to do that make actually reading the contrived backstory behind it irrelevent. Which leaves grinding from level to level with your friends and ganking Alliance as the whole point of the game, the latter part being harder on PvE servers where they sissies won't toggle.
I know it's not a really in the same class as a WoW, UO, or EQ, but the guys who run Gunbound do this though they limit it to certain items. Some items you can't buy with real money and other ones you have to, with most of them going either way. And as far as I can tell from the times that I have played it it hasn't ruined the balance of the game.
Which obviously doesn't directly correspond to these games which are far less linked to skill and where stats are a lot more crucial to success. But it seems to me that there's a way to do something like this without ruining the game for those who aren't going to pay in.
Maybe someone could even run a MMORPG where the customers who pay to buy items and what not actually fund the accounts of those who don't, making them either a much cheaper monthly subscription or a free one.
They develop an engine that runs at 60fps with amazing graphics, etc.
Should be able to run a lot faster than that. If they've actually got a 350m poly model rendering in realtime I can't really see how they'd need to run any game on it that slowly, especially if they're using a dedicated PPU (which by Unreal 4 or whatever all the major games are likely to be doing) to unload the physics calculations from the CPU. I mean, a 1600x1400 monitor can't even display 2.3m polys at any given time. Even if you assume it's running calculations on a lot of polys that it isn't displaying there's still a lot of headroom left over.
Pretty much the only difference in gameplay between level 35 and level 60 is the models of the monsters you fight.
Not true, at level 60 you can pvp the crap out of people and at level 35 you're (on a pvp server) going to get ganked by the level 60s or (on a non-pvp server) going to get ganked by level 60s if you try to pvp or run into level 20s who won't toggle.
Personally I think a lot of the people commenting on WoW either don't know the game well (or only know it at all from reading the opinions of others) or aren't into what it really is, that being, at it's most basic level, a massively online Diablo-clone in full 3D.
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Change the type face and half your problems are solved. I'll be happy to accept my +informative moderation now.
Saying that "most/. users don't use Linux" and "most/. users don't use Linux anymore" mean two completely different things. As grandparent said it would require that at some point "most"./ users had used Linux.
As for the traffic stats, do they count how the browser reports itself or what browser the user is actually using? Because lots of people, if not "most", who use non-IE webbrowsers have them set to identify as IE. Though I could easily believe that most do use IE as the majority of people in the world are pretty fucking stupid and don't recognise quality software when they see it.
Have you actually played Pokemon? They're actually pretty decent games and a lot better than most of the crap that has gotten past of as a console RPG since the release of Playstation.
Not just capable. The PS2 is graphically pathetic compared to the GC. The only reason there is even any level of competition is because of the half-assed job so many companies do porting their games around from PS2.
Besides, it's too early to replace DVD. It took about 20 years for anything to really take down VHS, and VHS sales were going down the drain anyway.
As far as I'm concerned all this HD TV and DVD stuff is too soon and too under-spec'd. Should have really thought it out better before releasing DVD in the first place, because it's going to be hard to displace now, especially with the increased levels of DRM bullshit.
Oh yes, so "*very* serious" that you couldn't post it without hiding behind the AC?
Now I better get back to playing video games and watching movies so that if I ever kill anyone you'll know to blame those and not my childhood, living conditions, or mental defects.
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What version are you using? I never saw it until I upgrade to 1.0 and after that it happened relatively often.
Nah, it works for movies too. Just look at Star Wars.
Trying to pick up girls with a d20 sounds a lot nerdier to me than a 2-button mouse. And a lot more relevent.
Good points, but I seriously doubt that the primary target for NeroLinux is Linux users or at least not long-time Linux users. Because those of us who have been using it for a while have most likely found some combination of CD/DVD burning software that we like and have forgotten all about the Windows counterparts.
They've definitely got innovative ideas about getting market share and holding on to it. Put out a crappy product and still own the market? Who else can innovate like that?
Should be noted that there is no "legal definition" of a corporation as a "single person". If you can find one I'd love to see it.
I don't really see how it matters what hardware you're running Linux on if it gets the job done for you. Aside from the obvious factors of cost and Slackware only being available for x86.
I thought that was the Phantom console... or was that just who got the Duke Nukem Forever exclusive rights?
Regardless, all of that is beside the point of my post. And a Carebears MMORPG would probably be more fun than both of the EQs combined.
Oh, good point. Forget I said anything.
All this talk about cutting out the grinding in relation to WoW is really amusing to me. Because from what I've played of it the grind seems like most of the game. I guess you could read the quest descriptions and all that, but it really seems a lot like a massively multiplayer Diablo, in a huge seamless world, with quick descriptions of what to do that make actually reading the contrived backstory behind it irrelevent. Which leaves grinding from level to level with your friends and ganking Alliance as the whole point of the game, the latter part being harder on PvE servers where they sissies won't toggle.
Which obviously doesn't directly correspond to these games which are far less linked to skill and where stats are a lot more crucial to success. But it seems to me that there's a way to do something like this without ruining the game for those who aren't going to pay in.
Maybe someone could even run a MMORPG where the customers who pay to buy items and what not actually fund the accounts of those who don't, making them either a much cheaper monthly subscription or a free one.
Hey, what are the aimbots for UT? I haven't seen one before. Not for Quake either, but I don't play that. I have seen tons of them for HL though.
Should be able to run a lot faster than that. If they've actually got a 350m poly model rendering in realtime I can't really see how they'd need to run any game on it that slowly, especially if they're using a dedicated PPU (which by Unreal 4 or whatever all the major games are likely to be doing) to unload the physics calculations from the CPU. I mean, a 1600x1400 monitor can't even display 2.3m polys at any given time. Even if you assume it's running calculations on a lot of polys that it isn't displaying there's still a lot of headroom left over.
Not true, at level 60 you can pvp the crap out of people and at level 35 you're (on a pvp server) going to get ganked by the level 60s or (on a non-pvp server) going to get ganked by level 60s if you try to pvp or run into level 20s who won't toggle.
Personally I think a lot of the people commenting on WoW either don't know the game well (or only know it at all from reading the opinions of others) or aren't into what it really is, that being, at it's most basic level, a massively online Diablo-clone in full 3D.
Change the type face and half your problems are solved. I'll be happy to accept my +informative moderation now.
Might want to look up the meaning of "mirror". Those are just direct links to the panicstruckpro.com files.
As for the traffic stats, do they count how the browser reports itself or what browser the user is actually using? Because lots of people, if not "most", who use non-IE webbrowsers have them set to identify as IE. Though I could easily believe that most do use IE as the majority of people in the world are pretty fucking stupid and don't recognise quality software when they see it.
Actually, it's because of how cool it makes you look.
What you say!!
Have you actually played Pokemon? They're actually pretty decent games and a lot better than most of the crap that has gotten past of as a console RPG since the release of Playstation.
Not just capable. The PS2 is graphically pathetic compared to the GC. The only reason there is even any level of competition is because of the half-assed job so many companies do porting their games around from PS2.
As far as I'm concerned all this HD TV and DVD stuff is too soon and too under-spec'd. Should have really thought it out better before releasing DVD in the first place, because it's going to be hard to displace now, especially with the increased levels of DRM bullshit.
Now I better get back to playing video games and watching movies so that if I ever kill anyone you'll know to blame those and not my childhood, living conditions, or mental defects.
Well if he doesn't like the original movies in their original forms I guess he won't mind if I make some copies for my friends.