Are you really so obtuse as to not understand this?
Why would I want to have to haul a huge collection of CDs around with me, spend the time to get them onto my computer, catalog them, and then have to do it all over again every time I get a new computer?
Why would I want to have to spend $15 a month for only one LP a month when I can spend just $5 a month and get EVERYthing that came out that month.
Why would I want to have CDs that can scratch or break or be stolen?
Why would I not want a service that gives me my music EVERYWHERE I have a computer or have an MP3 player - which is Everywhere. I have an FM transmitter on the thing so I can bring playlists into my indoor trainer class or into my car.
Why would I want to have to burn a CD to make a playlist?
Dude. It's $5 a month. Five fricking dollars. You might miss a couple of indy labels, but Yahoo is getting more signed and more old albums added on a regular basis.
The bottom line is I have everything I want everywhere I want it without having to do any work - other than pay the fricking $5 a month.
Taking a game like Oblivion to the next level, with much more advanced AI does require much more technology. And while better graphics require more artist time, more and better story lines and quests require more writer time.
Sansa seems to have come on the scene from out of nowhere. They make some quality products.
I got tired of MP3 players, including an Ipod, being either unreliable or having design issues (Ipod doesn't work when you have gloves on or cold hands, Dell's players STINK, etc.)
So I got a supercheap Sansa player that works with my Yahoo subscription and it just works great. And their other devices are priced well and look good.
Please stow the DRM complaints. Those are the kind of complaints that stupid people make. If DRM is not for you, go buy your CDs from the store. End of story. Consumer choice, remember? And buying music is also a legal choice.
This will draw as much traffic as giving away free AOL disks.
360 users can get new pop-cap, low-end games (and some pretty good ones, too) for free or pay $4 for full versions on Live. These games, however, aren't good enough to give BK three Michellin stars ('worth a special trip') - they should give the games for free on XBL Marketplace to boost brand.
It's like this. 2 million+ songs, new albums added each month. Now pay a 'storage fee' to have them online and available to you everwhere, and to have them indexed and cataloged. You are paying for a service.
And when I stop paying for it, yes, it stops playing. But it's $10 a month you petulant child, stop whining and get a job. You spend at least that much a week on hentai.
You can't sell extra content for a game that stinks. This option incentivizes developers to make stuff WORTH selling. And if the game itself (with or without the add-ons) ain't worth it, then people won't buy it.
Call it episodic content, call it miscrotransactions. It just gives consumer and developers another option to interact and reasons for developers to make a GOOD game and WORTHWHILE add-ons.
The Parent of my original post thought that they are in this for money
No, he didn't say that. He said just in general it was a way for new developers to make money. He didn't comment at all on the INTENT of the dev in the article.
The problem with your argument is that Gonzales can just assent to your request, rendering your argument moot.
The other problem with your argument is you are a retard. This data is JUST LIKE everything else you have in your house, that your bank has, etc. It would just make it available for a warrented search. Right now it just disappears into nowhere. The ISP would simply hold it securely themselves and only release it to the gov'ment when a warrent authorizes it - just like a warrent could authorize the searching of your computer.
Luckily for you, anime pr0n is still legal, so you have nothing to hide, either.
Want to eventually be a super dev but don't have the budget to fund your dream project?
Sell your car and raise some money from friends and make a cell phone game. Or a portal game. Or now an XBL game. Make enough money from that to make another two causal games. Next you can do maybe a budget title with a respectable publisher.
Do a good job, you have self-generated the capital to do the blockbuster.
Yeah yeah, money isn't everything in making a great game, but it sure helps a lot when you have an expansive vision that requires artists, writers, programmers, etc.
No, it doesn't need to make money from the console sale itself. THe reasoning from you and Reggie is specious (like most first posts).
You can STILL sell the console at a loss. Look at it this way.
By lowering the price from 250 to 150, they go from making 50 per console to losing 50 per console. But they sell 2 million rather than 1.5 million consoles. If there is an attachment rate of 3, and a per game profit of $25 (half - since most N games are first party anyway), they make 12,500,000 more.
So the 'must profit on the console' is a bad move if it's true and probably a relick of poor, overly conservative Japanese business practices. By making a 'profitable', underpowered, overpriced console they are going to loose a lot of cross platform publishers.
I was speaking from a moral basis. The morality of it is that property rights are causal. The property exists because of the rights the creator has to it.
Your use of profanity demonstrates how banal you are. And your signature lets me and everyone else know that you are a worthless moron who produces nothing. DRM is of no interest to you because you could never create anything worth protecting or that would be profitable.
Isn't it time for you to start your shift at Radio Shack?
Apple created Itunes and Ipod to work with each other, and people KNOWING THIS agreed to buy them. Property rights are causal. The reason corporations/peopel create things is because they can control them/profit from them. If they could not control/profit from them, the creation would have been nonexistent or greatly diminished.
Don't be so obtuse. These kinds of anti-intellectual property rights arguments so often come from those who create nothing.
Let me throw it back in your face - since when is it your right to use someone else's creation in violation of the terms to which they agreed to sell it to you?
It's because they are more likely to vote than you. We know their age, and we target on that basis. We also know you don't vote habitually or you have a hard-to-get phone number or you live in a neighborhood that doesn't go our way, so we don't call for any one of those reasons.
Gamers are not a constituency and never will be as it is principally a recreational activity.
Whenever you have either a constituency who is too small to make an impact or who has a coherency that is too low to break the threshold of relevancy over more significant issues in a campaign (e.g. - A standard Republican whom the slashherd hates can't do enough to support video games/related issues to get a slashherd to vote for him because many more issues over-ride that so easily. Iraq, abortion, whatever.) Knowing this, the politicos will not pay issue any attention any more than a little lip service.
A smarter route would be to create a 527 or a PAC that raises money from people who work in the industry or those gamer types who care enough to donate. Then use that money to affect public perception on candidates and then you will have an impact.
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But if you can't take down a peasant easily later in the game, it is a little surprising and you may have botched your character design.
Why would I want to have to haul a huge collection of CDs around with me, spend the time to get them onto my computer, catalog them, and then have to do it all over again every time I get a new computer?
Why would I want to have to spend $15 a month for only one LP a month when I can spend just $5 a month and get EVERYthing that came out that month.
Why would I want to have CDs that can scratch or break or be stolen?
Why would I not want a service that gives me my music EVERYWHERE I have a computer or have an MP3 player - which is Everywhere. I have an FM transmitter on the thing so I can bring playlists into my indoor trainer class or into my car.
Why would I want to have to burn a CD to make a playlist?
Dude. It's $5 a month. Five fricking dollars. You might miss a couple of indy labels, but Yahoo is getting more signed and more old albums added on a regular basis.
The bottom line is I have everything I want everywhere I want it without having to do any work - other than pay the fricking $5 a month.
Taking a game like Oblivion to the next level, with much more advanced AI does require much more technology. And while better graphics require more artist time, more and better story lines and quests require more writer time.
I got tired of MP3 players, including an Ipod, being either unreliable or having design issues (Ipod doesn't work when you have gloves on or cold hands, Dell's players STINK, etc.)
So I got a supercheap Sansa player that works with my Yahoo subscription and it just works great. And their other devices are priced well and look good.
Please stow the DRM complaints. Those are the kind of complaints that stupid people make. If DRM is not for you, go buy your CDs from the store. End of story. Consumer choice, remember? And buying music is also a legal choice.
It's too bad the 360 didn't have a liquid system. I love the thing but I swear it's like hearing a jet take off in my bedroom.
I'm not saying these are going to be awful games, just that they won't rate a kid going to visit BK when they have XBL.
360 users can get new pop-cap, low-end games (and some pretty good ones, too) for free or pay $4 for full versions on Live. These games, however, aren't good enough to give BK three Michellin stars ('worth a special trip') - they should give the games for free on XBL Marketplace to boost brand.
It's like this. 2 million+ songs, new albums added each month. Now pay a 'storage fee' to have them online and available to you everwhere, and to have them indexed and cataloged. You are paying for a service.
And when I stop paying for it, yes, it stops playing. But it's $10 a month you petulant child, stop whining and get a job. You spend at least that much a week on hentai.
This is worse because if I actually wanted to BUY a song (own forever, burn to CD, etc.) then it only costs $0.79.
Call it episodic content, call it miscrotransactions. It just gives consumer and developers another option to interact and reasons for developers to make a GOOD game and WORTHWHILE add-ons.
And no, I didn't buy the horse armor.
Since when does 'inside' an electronic device mean discussing peripherals and the on-screen menu?
Why shouldn't the RIAA be able to make a subpoena? Yeah, you don't LIKE the laws but that doesn't mean you can ignore them.
No, he didn't say that. He said just in general it was a way for new developers to make money. He didn't comment at all on the INTENT of the dev in the article.
Verbal SAT sub-400?
The other problem with your argument is you are a retard. This data is JUST LIKE everything else you have in your house, that your bank has, etc. It would just make it available for a warrented search. Right now it just disappears into nowhere. The ISP would simply hold it securely themselves and only release it to the gov'ment when a warrent authorizes it - just like a warrent could authorize the searching of your computer.
Luckily for you, anime pr0n is still legal, so you have nothing to hide, either.
What's your point?
Sell your car and raise some money from friends and make a cell phone game. Or a portal game. Or now an XBL game. Make enough money from that to make another two causal games. Next you can do maybe a budget title with a respectable publisher.
Do a good job, you have self-generated the capital to do the blockbuster.
Yeah yeah, money isn't everything in making a great game, but it sure helps a lot when you have an expansive vision that requires artists, writers, programmers, etc.
Demonstrably false - why did Nintendo drop the price of every console it has ever made?
You can STILL sell the console at a loss. Look at it this way.
By lowering the price from 250 to 150, they go from making 50 per console to losing 50 per console. But they sell 2 million rather than 1.5 million consoles. If there is an attachment rate of 3, and a per game profit of $25 (half - since most N games are first party anyway), they make 12,500,000 more.
So the 'must profit on the console' is a bad move if it's true and probably a relick of poor, overly conservative Japanese business practices. By making a 'profitable', underpowered, overpriced console they are going to loose a lot of cross platform publishers.
Your use of profanity demonstrates how banal you are. And your signature lets me and everyone else know that you are a worthless moron who produces nothing. DRM is of no interest to you because you could never create anything worth protecting or that would be profitable.
Isn't it time for you to start your shift at Radio Shack?
Thanks for pickig up the guantlet on defending my post from the /herd. Well done, well done.
Apple created Itunes and Ipod to work with each other, and people KNOWING THIS agreed to buy them. Property rights are causal. The reason corporations/peopel create things is because they can control them/profit from them. If they could not control/profit from them, the creation would have been nonexistent or greatly diminished.
Don't be so obtuse. These kinds of anti-intellectual property rights arguments so often come from those who create nothing.
Let me throw it back in your face - since when is it your right to use someone else's creation in violation of the terms to which they agreed to sell it to you?
It's because they are more likely to vote than you. We know their age, and we target on that basis. We also know you don't vote habitually or you have a hard-to-get phone number or you live in a neighborhood that doesn't go our way, so we don't call for any one of those reasons.
Whenever you have either a constituency who is too small to make an impact or who has a coherency that is too low to break the threshold of relevancy over more significant issues in a campaign (e.g. - A standard Republican whom the slashherd hates can't do enough to support video games/related issues to get a slashherd to vote for him because many more issues over-ride that so easily. Iraq, abortion, whatever.) Knowing this, the politicos will not pay issue any attention any more than a little lip service.
A smarter route would be to create a 527 or a PAC that raises money from people who work in the industry or those gamer types who care enough to donate. Then use that money to affect public perception on candidates and then you will have an impact.
Further, they don't cost $29.99. They are under $3.00, I think. The most expensive is 250 points and the cheapest is 150 points.