if he is clever enough to trick the hundreds of respected scientists around the world to stake their considerable reputations alongside the intergovernmental panel on climate change, then he is the cleverest man alive and deserves our money.
BTW, what does he do with the 'hundreds of millions' he makes from us? and how does he make it exactly?
how dare companies try to make money! its not the mortgage sellers that were greedy, nosiree, those bastards who made games are the worst excesses of modern evil surely!!!!111
Pretty much any technique designed to make money, when discussed on slashdot is equated to 'GREED'. This is bullshit. maybe next time you are in a performance review asking for a raise, your boss should say "this is just greed isn't it bob?"
agreed. this even made it into the national papers here in the Uk somehow. As usual, big companies make pacts to keep the indies crushed in the sidelines.
censors? what is being censored? AFAIK, everything on TPB is quite happily available somewhere else. The problem people have with it is they take COMMERCIAL stuff that costs millions to make, and reproduce it freely, without paying the creators a penny, and pocket the ad revenue. Don't try and justify torrents of Spiderman 3 by crying about censorship. If TPB gave a fuck about free speech, it would remove all the Hollywood movies and music and purely host documents from civil rights groups. I don't see many of those in the top 100...
mainly because my knowledge of linux is worse than my knowledge of klingon. Some people tell me they work under wine, some people have had some minor issues...
Interesting... given that the 'needing an account' thing isn't an issue (I don't use that, but just store all the order details, so I can basically look up an order from anything you can remember), what else can I, as an independent seller do to persuade you to trust me?
My site has been on-line since 1997, is this worth really pointing out to surfers? or are you swayed by stuff like the hackerproof logos and other certification? How about customer testimonials, or are they assumed to be false?
basically what can help build trust in a website other than super bowl commercials and similar size budget ad campaigns?
"If you're making over $500 a month off of just game sales though, don't complain too much"
I live in the UK, so apart from the fact that the dollar converts basically into confetti over here, it costs a fortune to live anywhere here. If I was only making $500 / month here I'd have lost my house and be hungry.
Besides, I work really hard full time making games, I don't see why my expectations should be capped at the 'makes enough for 3 meals a day" level. Is that what google should be satisfied with too?
if you buy my games, you get a direct.exe link to an installer. there is no client, no services, no bullshit, no account, no login needed.
Don't tar DEVELOPERS with the same shit publishers try to pull.
When games buyers decide to stick with just one middleman to cut down on the installed bullshit, they just give that publisher huge monopoly power to fuck over the developer. If you buy direct from the developer, 90% of the time they won't install ANYTHING but the game.
You don't need to have an account to re-download my games either, you just need to remember your email address and your name. Easily done surely?
wtf? So you want to abandon this new thing people call the internet and go back to manufacturing steel girders?
Anything that can be encoded digitally can be copied. because of this, strong IP law is needed to encourage people to actually produce this stuff. If you make all digitally encoded goods worthless, then everyone has to roll up their sleeves and go work in a factory, whilst hoping some other schmucks still make digital goods for us to swipe.
I've done a manual job 8 hours a day for shit money in shit conditions. I've also worked in a nice air conditioned office.
Is there a reason why people are so keen to stick a middleman between them as gamers and the game creators?
How much effort is it to just remember who you bought the game from, in case of needing any tech support. For multiplayer I can see how a buddy list might be nice, but for singleplayer, why add a new layer of middlemen, precisely the thing that the web was supposed to free games developers from?
Every service you mention takes a cut off the money and gives a royalty to the actual game developer. Many devs support direct sales, and they ALL want you to buy direct, as they often get 90%+ of the money then, rather than the 40%+ they get from the mentioned services.
Explain to me why you would take a game without paying it from there rather than buy it direct from a developer that uses no DRM?
unless of course you don't give a fuck about anyone except yourself, want to save a few dollars, and wish to encourage even more developers to abandon PC gaming entirely? In which case, good work! things seem to be going according to your plan!
I provide people who buy games with a direct, no queue, no fuss link to an installer exe. They can use a download manager or grab it however they like, they can then install it, or burn it to a disk for backup, they don't need an internet connection on the machine where they install it, and they don't need an account with me, or have anything else installed on their machine or running in the background. There is no DRM or limitations or restrictions.
The download is direct and fast from my website, and in case of tech support, you email me, the games creator directly. I always reply within 24 hours, normally within 8.
There are no middlemen, just a payment provider, so 90% of the money goes direct to the creator.
Explain to me how the pirate system beats mine?...unless perhaps you don't care about anything but getting commercial software for free?
yawn. since when does copyright only defend huge evil global corporations? I'm a one man company and without copyright, I'd be out of a job. Don't spin such bullshit to pretend that all IP is TEH TOOL OF TEH SATAN, in some lame attempt to excuse mass copyright infringement.
If you are Chinese and own factories, it makes sense not to care about IP. If you are educated and in the west, only a suicidal maniac tries to undermine IP, it's what your economies are built on these days.
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if he is clever enough to trick the hundreds of respected scientists around the world to stake their considerable reputations alongside the intergovernmental panel on climate change, then he is the cleverest man alive and deserves our money.
BTW, what does he do with the 'hundreds of millions' he makes from us? and how does he make it exactly?
so financially motivated == greed?
Wow.
So when you go to work each day, you are just being greedy right?
how dare companies try to make money!
its not the mortgage sellers that were greedy, nosiree, those bastards who made games are the worst excesses of modern evil surely!!!!111
Pretty much any technique designed to make money, when discussed on slashdot is equated to 'GREED'.
This is bullshit.
maybe next time you are in a performance review asking for a raise, your boss should say "this is just greed isn't it bob?"
Companies try to make money. news at 11.
what percentage of the music is there with the copyright holders permission?
1%?
less?
Get real.
agreed. this even made it into the national papers here in the Uk somehow.
As usual, big companies make pacts to keep the indies crushed in the sidelines.
censors?
what is being censored? AFAIK, everything on TPB is quite happily available somewhere else. The problem people have with it is they take COMMERCIAL stuff that costs millions to make, and reproduce it freely, without paying the creators a penny, and pocket the ad revenue.
Don't try and justify torrents of Spiderman 3 by crying about censorship.
If TPB gave a fuck about free speech, it would remove all the Hollywood movies and music and purely host documents from civil rights groups.
I don't see many of those in the top 100...
mainly because my knowledge of linux is worse than my knowledge of klingon. Some people tell me they work under wine, some people have had some minor issues...
Interesting...
given that the 'needing an account' thing isn't an issue (I don't use that, but just store all the order details, so I can basically look up an order from anything you can remember), what else can I, as an independent seller do to persuade you to trust me?
My site has been on-line since 1997, is this worth really pointing out to surfers? or are you swayed by stuff like the hackerproof logos and other certification? How about customer testimonials, or are they assumed to be false?
basically what can help build trust in a website other than super bowl commercials and similar size budget ad campaigns?
If it's such a profitable model, what is stopping you?
"If you're making over $500 a month off of just game sales though, don't complain too much"
I live in the UK, so apart from the fact that the dollar converts basically into confetti over here, it costs a fortune to live anywhere here. If I was only making $500 / month here I'd have lost my house and be hungry.
Besides, I work really hard full time making games, I don't see why my expectations should be capped at the 'makes enough for 3 meals a day" level. Is that what google should be satisfied with too?
*sigh*
if you buy my games, you get a direct .exe link to an installer. there is no client, no services, no bullshit, no account, no login needed.
Don't tar DEVELOPERS with the same shit publishers try to pull.
When games buyers decide to stick with just one middleman to cut down on the installed bullshit, they just give that publisher huge monopoly power to fuck over the developer. If you buy direct from the developer, 90% of the time they won't install ANYTHING but the game.
You don't need to have an account to re-download my games either, you just need to remember your email address and your name. Easily done surely?
That is exactly what you want right?
wtf?
So you want to abandon this new thing people call the internet and go back to manufacturing steel girders?
Anything that can be encoded digitally can be copied. because of this, strong IP law is needed to encourage people to actually produce this stuff. If you make all digitally encoded goods worthless, then everyone has to roll up their sleeves and go work in a factory, whilst hoping some other schmucks still make digital goods for us to swipe.
I've done a manual job 8 hours a day for shit money in shit conditions. I've also worked in a nice air conditioned office.
The office is better.
Is there a reason why people are so keen to stick a middleman between them as gamers and the game creators?
How much effort is it to just remember who you bought the game from, in case of needing any tech support. For multiplayer I can see how a buddy list might be nice, but for singleplayer, why add a new layer of middlemen, precisely the thing that the web was supposed to free games developers from?
Every service you mention takes a cut off the money and gives a royalty to the actual game developer. Many devs support direct sales, and they ALL want you to buy direct, as they often get 90%+ of the money then, rather than the 40%+ they get from the mentioned services.
Explain to me why you would take a game without paying it from there rather than buy it direct from a developer that uses no DRM?
unless of course you don't give a fuck about anyone except yourself, want to save a few dollars, and wish to encourage even more developers to abandon PC gaming entirely?
In which case, good work! things seem to be going according to your plan!
I provide people who buy games with a direct, no queue, no fuss link to an installer exe. They can use a download manager or grab it however they like, they can then install it, or burn it to a disk for backup, they don't need an internet connection on the machine where they install it, and they don't need an account with me, or have anything else installed on their machine or running in the background. There is no DRM or limitations or restrictions.
The download is direct and fast from my website, and in case of tech support, you email me, the games creator directly. I always reply within 24 hours, normally within 8.
There are no middlemen, just a payment provider, so 90% of the money goes direct to the creator.
Explain to me how the pirate system beats mine? ...unless perhaps you don't care about anything but getting commercial software for free?
no thanks, google dominate too much of the interweb as it is. I see no benefit in them expanding further, unless you are a google shareholder.
lol.
you moan about and "us vs them" attitude, then lump all 'business types' together and pour scorn on them.
pot.... meet kettle...
so I'm still three times safer in Chile right?
in which case guns are no use at all. seems like investing in tougher windows and door locks would make more sense than everyone getting a shotgun?
No, the real problem is kids who sit 24/7 downloading hollywood movies from torrent sites and you know it.
Linux distros my ass. How many people reinstall their O/S five times a day 365 times a year?
I agree. nobody is ever influenced by anything they watch in a video clip.
This is why advertisements never work.
err.......
burglaries per capita:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_bur_percap-crime-burglaries-per-capita
The US has a higher rate than France, Ireland and Greence. Why don't all those handguns prevent people stealing from houses?
so tell me, how is easy access to handguns going in the US?
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_gun_vio_hom_ove_hom_rat_per_100_pop-rate-per-100-000-pop
gun homicides per 100,000 pop
#1 South Africa: 125.965
#9 Zimbabwe: 11.9841
#14 United States: 9.1
#28 Chile: 1.7237
#29 Germany: 1.635
the UK doesn't even make the list.
yawn.
since when does copyright only defend huge evil global corporations? I'm a one man company and without copyright, I'd be out of a job. Don't spin such bullshit to pretend that all IP is TEH TOOL OF TEH SATAN, in some lame attempt to excuse mass copyright infringement.
If you are Chinese and own factories, it makes sense not to care about IP. If you are educated and in the west, only a suicidal maniac tries to undermine IP, it's what your economies are built on these days.