Not true - blocking popups was happening regardless of two tiered systems.
The way most of these games work is that the textures are on your harddrive. So if the adverts were driven by textures, you could edit them to look however you wanted.
If the ads were served like banners in-game, the server could better disguise them as game data. While you might be able to block that out, they may be able to change things up frequently enough packetwise. Also, if you blocked out the banners, you'd see a lot of large blank spots and wouldn't the game look better with the ads than without?
Also, there is the possibility of those banners being hijacked by trojans to serve third party adverts.
Much like/. turns off adverts for subscribers, perhaps these MMORPGs can have two tiers of subscribers. Those who pay a lower/free fee and see some adverts in-game, and those who pay a premium not to see them.
As someone who works in a marketing related field, I can say how excited I am at the possibility to narrowcast to individuals. Perhaps these ingame ads can be player-sensitive? For women players, they see soap advertisements while guys see adverts for pickups.
The ones in the line that TRiump mocked weren't camping for tickets, they were camping for seats. And so far you cannot reserve a SEAT on the internet.
I think they sucked enough money out of me. I did enjoy playing the original Entrepreneur game - that was their one hit.
They made a sequel to this game that got rid of the open ended technology advancement and replaced it with an overly complicated tech tree.
They tried a download style system (Dragoon net or something) and that did not work well at all. THeir Windows Blinds program seemed nifty but slowed your machine down to a crawl.
Still, good luck in getting into the MMORPG realm. My experience is the free ones are teh sux. (There, Second Life, A Tale in the Desert).
To answer your question, the reason that morphine is administered is to kill the patient. The doctors use the 'cover' of it being to ease pain, but the truth it they are giving leathal doses to euthanize the patient. Enough morphine causes many vital organs to shut down.
Also, this period when it was a "hit" was the period they refer to as being when they were just a "small contractor." The period where they refer to themselves as a big-shot publisher/developer was AFTER they took both titles over and the populations had atrophed to an embarassement.
Further, AC2 was very much a "Turbine Deal" - pure MS deal please? The entire development team was lead by the people who made AC. And if it was a "pure MS deal" then why did Turbine buy it back and why does it continue to brag about how 'visually stunning' the game is?
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I wasn't there but you can tell that the poster was a N fanboi and an MS hater. If you read the article, the quote they pull is relatively obscure among all of the other quotes and is maybe the penultimate on on a very long list.
Anyway, good post - if only for reminding us what the purpose of GDC is.
Really makes/. look bad for someone to get modded up for saying "Gee, this really demonstratess the problems with the patent system in the US."
Here are a few Bullet Points:
Immersion doesn't just do vibrating controllers. They also create technologies for industry, medicine, research, the automotive field, and mobile communication.
They've been around since 1993 though the oldest patent was from 1990 for tactile sensory. The Force Feedback patent was from 1993. It's not simply virbration but a calculation using both the action on a device from the human and the intended force of the divice on the human. Read it here:
A man-machine interface is disclosed which provides force and texture information to sensing body parts. The interface is comprised of a force actuating device that produces a force which is transmitted to a force applying device. The force applying device applies the generated force to a pressure sensing body part. A force sensor on the force applying device measures the actual force applied to the pressure sensing body part, while angle sensors measure the angles of relevant joint body parts. A computing device uses the joint body part position information to determine a desired force value to be applied to the pressure sensing body part. The computing device combines the joint body part position information with the force sensor information to calculate the force command which is sent to the force actuating device. In this manner, the computing device may control the actual force applied to a pressure sensing body part to a desired force which depends upon the positions of related joint body parts. In addition, the interface is comprised of a displacement actuating device which produces a displacement which is transmitted to a displacement applying device (e.g., a texture simulator). The displacement applying device applies the generated displacement to a pressure sensing body part. The force applying device and displacement applying device may be combined to simultaneously provide force and displacement information to a pressure sensing body part.
Who has liscenced technologies from Immersion? BMW - for their I-drive. Logitech for all of their FF devices. Nintendo for their Game Cube controller. MS for their controller-S. And Boeing. And Seimens.
MS worked with Immersion to develop FF into the Direct X API in 1997.
Apple similarly worked with Immersion to develop a FF API for OS X.
I recall being a kid back in 1993 and going to a shopping mall and visiting EB games. They had this demonstration joystick that you could set to have different sensations and they were very real. Everything from flying to firing a machine gun. That was the technology that they made possible. Sony will have to learn to play ball if they use patented techology. It may be in a US court, but Immersion also has a patent for the same technology in Japan and IIRC, the US has harmonized it's patent system internationally.
the once small contractor that transformed itself into the largest privately-held online game studio in North America
Let me get this straight - you have two games each with a tiny player base - almost no one is on AC2 and the AC playerbase is dwindling by the day - you maybe rank 12 among MMORPGs on the big chart when you combine your numbers?
Launch the AC/AC2 expansions well, and luanch the D&D and LotR games well, and then maybe you can make a claim like this.
Yeah, I know - my post was half-finished. I own a series 60 phone (3650) myself. It' ag reat platform although it does have it's quirks. And guess what - it's an Ngage too!
I really admire Nokia for it's persistence. Even MS would have given up at this point with the N-Gage's track record.
But for the life of me I cannot understand why the company, wanting to enter the portable gaming device market, would have ever made this piece of trash? If you've ever held one of these things in your hands, the small screen, the bulky size, the awkward buttons, the lousy game selection...
You should read more carefully. Read the following three paragraphs:
Europe's single-standard GSM, which stands for 'global system of mobile communications' reaches a broader audience than America's multiple-standard system.
"You can't use every phone everywhere in the United States, so that puts a limitation on the end user," Munoz observed of the three incompatible American systems.
U.S. cell phones sputter and fail in an apartment near the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, a U.S. agency created to set consistent standards, and in ranch houses in the Los Angeles suburbs. A land line is a necessity.
They are saying that you can either have GSM *or* use a multiple standard system, as though that has anything to do with whether you get signal or not. The truth is your NETWORK is the determinant. You can be an entire coutry of GSM, but if you are on a lousy network with few towers, you may as well be back on analog.
Something you have: This factor includes keys, cards, tokens and so on. These things can also be stolen or lost. Something you have can also be known as "something you are," and includes physical or physiological characteristics such as a fingerprint or vocal patterns.
Something you know: Passwords and PINs are examples of this factor. It is important to note that this knowledge can be lost, shared or guessed by others.
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Where's the con? I give them $10 and they pay nothing, I get the referral. I already got the free ipod.
The way most of these games work is that the textures are on your harddrive. So if the adverts were driven by textures, you could edit them to look however you wanted.
If the ads were served like banners in-game, the server could better disguise them as game data. While you might be able to block that out, they may be able to change things up frequently enough packetwise. Also, if you blocked out the banners, you'd see a lot of large blank spots and wouldn't the game look better with the ads than without?
Also, there is the possibility of those banners being hijacked by trojans to serve third party adverts.
Lotta potentialities out there, no?
As someone who works in a marketing related field, I can say how excited I am at the possibility to narrowcast to individuals. Perhaps these ingame ads can be player-sensitive? For women players, they see soap advertisements while guys see adverts for pickups.
The ones in the line that TRiump mocked weren't camping for tickets, they were camping for seats. And so far you cannot reserve a SEAT on the internet.
Possibly because it's being done by the same people?
All true. And there is only one server that everyone is on - typically over 10k people at prime time and maybe 15k on weekends.
His website is quiet nice. Shut up.
It was very unfortunate that the sequel was not as good. I was really looking forward to it.
The game really seems to stink though, so I did get it half right.
I'm paying 15 a month for Eve. It suits me quiet well but I will keep the Anarchy Online thing in mind. Thanks.
They made a sequel to this game that got rid of the open ended technology advancement and replaced it with an overly complicated tech tree.
They tried a download style system (Dragoon net or something) and that did not work well at all. THeir Windows Blinds program seemed nifty but slowed your machine down to a crawl.
Still, good luck in getting into the MMORPG realm. My experience is the free ones are teh sux. (There, Second Life, A Tale in the Desert).
I agree that it may not apply to this case, but mostly when the patient is put on a regular drip, the true motivation is "hurry up and die."
To answer your question, the reason that morphine is administered is to kill the patient. The doctors use the 'cover' of it being to ease pain, but the truth it they are giving leathal doses to euthanize the patient. Enough morphine causes many vital organs to shut down.
AC1 was a hit? A hit would be defined by numbers.
Also, this period when it was a "hit" was the period they refer to as being when they were just a "small contractor." The period where they refer to themselves as a big-shot publisher/developer was AFTER they took both titles over and the populations had atrophed to an embarassement.
Further, AC2 was very much a "Turbine Deal" - pure MS deal please? The entire development team was lead by the people who made AC. And if it was a "pure MS deal" then why did Turbine buy it back and why does it continue to brag about how 'visually stunning' the game is?
Anyway, good post - if only for reminding us what the purpose of GDC is.
Here are a few Bullet Points:
A man-machine interface is disclosed which provides force and texture information to sensing body parts. The interface is comprised of a force actuating device that produces a force which is transmitted to a force applying device. The force applying device applies the generated force to a pressure sensing body part. A force sensor on the force applying device measures the actual force applied to the pressure sensing body part, while angle sensors measure the angles of relevant joint body parts. A computing device uses the joint body part position information to determine a desired force value to be applied to the pressure sensing body part. The computing device combines the joint body part position information with the force sensor information to calculate the force command which is sent to the force actuating device. In this manner, the computing device may control the actual force applied to a pressure sensing body part to a desired force which depends upon the positions of related joint body parts. In addition, the interface is comprised of a displacement actuating device which produces a displacement which is transmitted to a displacement applying device (e.g., a texture simulator). The displacement applying device applies the generated displacement to a pressure sensing body part. The force applying device and displacement applying device may be combined to simultaneously provide force and displacement information to a pressure sensing body part.
I recall being a kid back in 1993 and going to a shopping mall and visiting EB games. They had this demonstration joystick that you could set to have different sensations and they were very real. Everything from flying to firing a machine gun. That was the technology that they made possible. Sony will have to learn to play ball if they use patented techology. It may be in a US court, but Immersion also has a patent for the same technology in Japan and IIRC, the US has harmonized it's patent system internationally.
Let me get this straight - you have two games each with a tiny player base - almost no one is on AC2 and the AC playerbase is dwindling by the day - you maybe rank 12 among MMORPGs on the big chart when you combine your numbers?
Launch the AC/AC2 expansions well, and luanch the D&D and LotR games well, and then maybe you can make a claim like this.
Yeah, I know - my post was half-finished. I own a series 60 phone (3650) myself. It' ag reat platform although it does have it's quirks. And guess what - it's an Ngage too!
But for the life of me I cannot understand why the company, wanting to enter the portable gaming device market, would have ever made this piece of trash? If you've ever held one of these things in your hands, the small screen, the bulky size, the awkward buttons, the lousy game selection...
Genetic combinations, yes, mutations, no - a fraud.
Maybe Tecmo can make a mod of Madden 05 with Bo Jackson outrunning the defensive line-up.
Actually, no, it's how natural selection made you.
It occured to me - however, like the term "Sea-Kwil", I believe it is incorrect and wanted to layout the correct ("Ehs-Kyu-Ehl") definition.
Europe's single-standard GSM, which stands for 'global system of mobile communications' reaches a broader audience than America's multiple-standard system.
"You can't use every phone everywhere in the United States, so that puts a limitation on the end user," Munoz observed of the three incompatible American systems.
U.S. cell phones sputter and fail in an apartment near the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, a U.S. agency created to set consistent standards, and in ranch houses in the Los Angeles suburbs. A land line is a necessity.
They are saying that you can either have GSM *or* use a multiple standard system, as though that has anything to do with whether you get signal or not. The truth is your NETWORK is the determinant. You can be an entire coutry of GSM, but if you are on a lousy network with few towers, you may as well be back on analog.
Something you have: This factor includes keys, cards, tokens and so on. These things can also be stolen or lost. Something you have can also be known as "something you are," and includes physical or physiological characteristics such as a fingerprint or vocal patterns.
Something you know: Passwords and PINs are examples of this factor. It is important to note that this knowledge can be lost, shared or guessed by others.
Source.