Not if someone was just ignorant and thought "Oh that looks pretty, maybe it will work well".
However, advertising that a product does X Y and Z, when it only does X is a form of what we call "Fraud" specifically "False Advertising" that *is* a crime most places.
I do however agree that companies get blamed more than they should because more often than not problems people have with products are from assumptions they've made about the product without investigating to see if their assumptions prove true.
You might also worry about completely losing the respect of the gamer market by pushing something out too early.
I for one don't like to buy a game on release day and then have to wait for days until they've patched it up to stable and playable.
After I paid $50 for the bug filled, completely unfinished, over-marketed piece of crap game that was 'Enter the Matrix', I'll be very leary of ever purchasing something from Shiny again.
Due to their deadline, they are now in the unfortunate position of having to re-earn my respect. Aka, no impulse or first day release buys of Shiny software. I'm sure the shareholders are happy about that.
I think alot more people get interested when they start reporting about a 12 yr old in public housing being sued.
I was standing outside my local Wal-Mart talking with some friends about this whole ordeal and a crowd of strangers started joining in talking about their fears and how they were offended by being threatened with these lawsuits because of how much music they purchased legally.
As for your knock on democracy, actually 51% of the country could vote for a candidate and still lose. My god man, where were you last election? That's the whole point of the electoral college, to allow more people to matter. That and to keep California from electing the President.
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well I guess better said that the mod community are thousands of people making fun games that don't 'spend' a dime.
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Game industry, movie industry, both just part of the "Entertainment Industry", and if there's one thing we've learned from the entertainment industry it's bigger budgets don't always equal better entertainment. Speed 2, high budget film, crap for entertainment. Enter the Matrix, high budget game, also crap for entertainment. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, low budget, high entertainment. If you want low budget games, just look at the mod community, thousands of people making fun games that don't make a dime.
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Not if someone was just ignorant and thought "Oh that looks pretty, maybe it will work well".
However, advertising that a product does X Y and Z, when it only does X is a form of what we call "Fraud" specifically "False Advertising" that *is* a crime most places.
I do however agree that companies get blamed more than they should because more often than not problems people have with products are from assumptions they've made about the product without investigating to see if their assumptions prove true.
You might also worry about completely losing the respect of the gamer market by pushing something out too early.
I for one don't like to buy a game on release day and then have to wait for days until they've patched it up to stable and playable.
After I paid $50 for the bug filled, completely unfinished, over-marketed piece of crap game that was 'Enter the Matrix', I'll be very leary of ever purchasing something from Shiny again.
Due to their deadline, they are now in the unfortunate position of having to re-earn my respect. Aka, no impulse or first day release buys of Shiny software. I'm sure the shareholders are happy about that.
Is that even illegal?
I had to work on one computer where the complaint was, "The CD drive isn't working."
Once I finally got the cd drive open I discovered they were using a disk with what looked like guaze dipped in glue for a label.
You get the point. I'm considering printing this guide out and handing it to clients.
Our Wal-Mart had the mag strips long before it had the security system, so they never deactivated them when you went out the door.
Peebles, clothing store, had the security system.
They used to have people with the metal wands standing at the door to deactivate the people who shopped at Wal-Mart as they came in.
I think alot more people get interested when they start reporting about a 12 yr old in public housing being sued.
I was standing outside my local Wal-Mart talking with some friends about this whole ordeal and a crowd of strangers started joining in talking about their fears and how they were offended by being threatened with these lawsuits because of how much music they purchased legally.
As for your knock on democracy, actually 51% of the country could vote for a candidate and still lose. My god man, where were you last election? That's the whole point of the electoral college, to allow more people to matter. That and to keep California from electing the President.
well I guess better said that the mod community are thousands of people making fun games that don't 'spend' a dime.
Game industry, movie industry, both just part of the "Entertainment Industry", and if there's one thing we've learned from the entertainment industry it's bigger budgets don't always equal better entertainment. Speed 2, high budget film, crap for entertainment. Enter the Matrix, high budget game, also crap for entertainment. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, low budget, high entertainment. If you want low budget games, just look at the mod community, thousands of people making fun games that don't make a dime.