Your point of view is in the serious minority - the "I don't buy things that do what they are supposed to do, so please meet my unreasonable demands before I consider your product" minority.
Minority, yes. Unreasonable demands, no. The desire to play a game on a computer so that I can better control my gaming enviornment isn't much different than my desire to use Linux to better control my desktop enviornment. Keep in mind that my point of view in regards to gaming platform freedom is just as much in the minority as us Linux users;)
What a stupid demand. Use an emulator? So you'll buy it in 7 years? Or do you mean you won't buy it cause you want to just pirate the ROM?
I'd have bought it already if they released it for the PC. In my case, I played every one of the final fantasies from 1 to 9 on an emulator and rightfully paid for each one. I'm not saying I don't participate in my fair share of piracy too, but if they don't want to sell me a PC version then emulation and/or piracy becomes needed. My post was no troll. I stand by my anti-console beliefs.
Eh? Err... uhh.. what it down? "Write"? Using what? Ink? Isn't that the stuff that squids shoot at you if you piss them off? Why would he want to document his travels using ink? It seems so.. archaic...
I think he should just lay down fiber optics everywhere he goes and bring a laptop. Problem solved. And he'll be doing the locals a great service by bringing them into the 21st century with the rest of us!
I'd transfer there if I was going into music as a profession! But alas, I have no musical skills so I suppose I'm damned to the colleges where P2P is piracy *sniff*:(
"You see companies in the U.S. using a multiplatform strategy, developing games for several consoles at once, with Electronic Arts leading the way. However, Japan concentrates all its development on the top platform alone, so it's easy to run into dead ends."
The US has the right idea (kinda). Give people platform freedom and more people will buy your product. Restrict them to a single platform and they will boycott your product. I won't be buying FFX, for example, until I can rip the DVD and use an emulator and play it on my PC because I prefer to play all games on computer.
I go to a small community college which has funding problems. Internet in the dorms was a new thing in the last three semesters and it's virtually fallen apart. I've been in constant contact with the dean and the president about the lack of a functional internet connection in the dorms, but very little seems to get done. Why? Money. To solve their rampant network problems the college would need to spend a great deal of money not only in buying new hardware but in hiring new sysadmins.
Colleges are very pragmatic. I've found that while open source solutions are great in theory, colleges often can't use them because they'd be more expensive to deploy than just leaving the current setup as it is. My college's network runs on Windows servers which explains why they're falling apart;) Using Linux instead would be the free solution to this problem and better in the long run. But all the network staff would have to be retrained and the network would have to be completely rebuilt from scratch. It's cheaper to leave the current setup as, is even if it barely works, than it is to setup a completely new one.
To summarize, in order to get a college to change something like this, you have to convince them that it's in the best interest of the college, the students, or both, and that the end result will be better than the previous setup.
That was my first thought too. But I thought about it a second and realized that ever since I started using Linux, the number of items of software I've pirated has declined. Granted, I still buy nothing. But I'd rather look for the GNU free and legal solution than the illegal pirated solution.
When I ran Windows predominantly, it was always a pirated copy. If my entire OS is pirated what's a few more small programs?
Unless I'm missing something, I find it ironic that Tux Racer is a nonfree game. Isn't Tux supposed to be something of a mascot for free software? Tux Racer seems just as contradictory as something like "GNU Racer" featuring the GNU mascot. I'm not much of a gamer anymore though. If it does happen to be free and I'm just missing a few marbles, please correct me.
Really?! I wouldn't have guessed seeing as how you post on Slashdot! [/sarcasm]
Seriously though, the difference is that it's a helluva lot cheaper to just have the computer and not buy the console. I understand your argument that some people want the simplicity of it just working, but I'd rather take the cheaper solution that requires less money despite more effort and I suspect many agree with me. We should have both!
Why don't you get rid of any stereo systems, clocks, radios, etc you own then? And your television for that matter. Obviously anything those appliances can do, your computer can do too.
Despite your sarcasm, there is truth to that statement. I don't need a TV when I've got Kazaa (except perhaps to S-video out my computer to the TV;) and I don't need a stereo when I've got 3400 mp3s, and I don't need a radio when I've got mp3s.... list goes on.
Yes - it's much better to spend 5 times as much up front to have a system that will be games-functional for about half the time.
Hah! What a weak argument. The difference between my 5-times-more-expensive computer and your easy to use little console is my 5-times-more-expensive computer can do about 10 times as much stuff. Between emulation, online games, and PC-only games, I've got you beat, sir.
Things do not need to be open to be good. I think closed, fixed consoles make for better games in the long run
How naive! I almost thought you were sarcastic until I realzed you were serious. If closed source and fixed consoles truly are the wonderful solution to all gaming's problems then why do (n64) people make (snes) such widely supported (playstaion1) and successful emulators?
No sir, you're missing the point. I don't give a rat's ass about your ease of use. I want a choice, not a unilateral easy-to-use gaming machine that costs way too much money. You see, if they support the open source emu developers, I can have the best of both worlds for less cost even if it is more of a hassle to setup. Take your ease of use and get out of here. I don't want it.
Uh, did I say change the system for everybody? No. When are you going to stop being illiterate? Give us choice. Leave simplicity to the simpletons and give those of us who care a choice.
Do I have to spell it out for you? (under the proposed system) It IS free. Free to the consumer yet still profitable, yet not as much, for the artist/distributor.
Were the great classical composers driven by their own greed? No! We need to drop the notion that music is a business. It's not a business, it's an art form. Music can be profitable through advertising during its distribution, but only if it becomes popular. Are you an artist? Do you not like this idea? Too damn bad. More and more people agree with me every day. People think music should be legally free and it shall be one day.
I agree, your post was a nice troll. Itunes' 15 million songs is dwarfed by Kazaa. Free > notfree. Period.
Yes, music will still be profitable. Yes, it will be higher quality and lower cost (free!). But there eventually won't be an RIAA and music will cease to be a monopoly at that point. Not as much money will be made by music, but artists will see a lot friggin' more of it.
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Eh? Err... uhh.. what it down? "Write"? Using what? Ink? Isn't that the stuff that squids shoot at you if you piss them off? Why would he want to document his travels using ink? It seems so.. archaic...
... with ink... !?
I think he should just lay down fiber optics everywhere he goes and bring a laptop. Problem solved. And he'll be doing the locals a great service by bringing them into the 21st century with the rest of us!
... writing?
I'd transfer there if I was going into music as a profession! But alas, I have no musical skills so I suppose I'm damned to the colleges where P2P is piracy *sniff* :(
I go to a small community college which has funding problems. Internet in the dorms was a new thing in the last three semesters and it's virtually fallen apart. I've been in constant contact with the dean and the president about the lack of a functional internet connection in the dorms, but very little seems to get done. Why? Money. To solve their rampant network problems the college would need to spend a great deal of money not only in buying new hardware but in hiring new sysadmins.
;) Using Linux instead would be the free solution to this problem and better in the long run. But all the network staff would have to be retrained and the network would have to be completely rebuilt from scratch. It's cheaper to leave the current setup as, is even if it barely works, than it is to setup a completely new one.
Colleges are very pragmatic. I've found that while open source solutions are great in theory, colleges often can't use them because they'd be more expensive to deploy than just leaving the current setup as it is. My college's network runs on Windows servers which explains why they're falling apart
To summarize, in order to get a college to change something like this, you have to convince them that it's in the best interest of the college, the students, or both, and that the end result will be better than the previous setup.
That was my first thought too. But I thought about it a second and realized that ever since I started using Linux, the number of items of software I've pirated has declined. Granted, I still buy nothing. But I'd rather look for the GNU free and legal solution than the illegal pirated solution.
When I ran Windows predominantly, it was always a pirated copy. If my entire OS is pirated what's a few more small programs?
Of course! How else is one supposed to pass the long and boring hours at work?
Funny how I get modded as offtopic for starting this thread but you get modded almost as high as it goes for replying to it :)
When you see leetspeak in the summary, you know to keep your distance from the actual article.
Unless I'm missing something, I find it ironic that Tux Racer is a nonfree game. Isn't Tux supposed to be something of a mascot for free software? Tux Racer seems just as contradictory as something like "GNU Racer" featuring the GNU mascot. I'm not much of a gamer anymore though. If it does happen to be free and I'm just missing a few marbles, please correct me.
Try it out and tell us!
Seriously though, the difference is that it's a helluva lot cheaper to just have the computer and not buy the console. I understand your argument that some people want the simplicity of it just working, but I'd rather take the cheaper solution that requires less money despite more effort and I suspect many agree with me. We should have both!
No sir, you're missing the point. I don't give a rat's ass about your ease of use. I want a choice, not a unilateral easy-to-use gaming machine that costs way too much money. You see, if they support the open source emu developers, I can have the best of both worlds for less cost even if it is more of a hassle to setup. Take your ease of use and get out of here. I don't want it.
Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said.
In other words, try reading this and then this.
Uh, did I say change the system for everybody? No. When are you going to stop being illiterate? Give us choice. Leave simplicity to the simpletons and give those of us who care a choice.
A major network/cable TV station is no different than a major P2P distributor.
I agree, your post was a nice troll. Itunes' 15 million songs is dwarfed by Kazaa. Free > notfree. Period.
Yes, music will still be profitable. Yes, it will be higher quality and lower cost (free!). But there eventually won't be an RIAA and music will cease to be a monopoly at that point. Not as much money will be made by music, but artists will see a lot friggin' more of it.