In my opinion, I think the point at which Rockstar lost was the instant they decided to issue a statement apologizing to the Haitian community, they basically said "we are wrong, everyone feel free to sue us now, because we admit defeat".
Rockstar should have done the right thing for all games everywhere and fought this out in court as a free speech issue, which it clearly is.
Wont be long till we see other developers and publishers get sued, or worst of all banned or censored industry wide. If you though games were getting too many sequels and relying too much on franchise IP because publishers were not will to take risks, I can only imagine how much harder it will be to make original games with realistic content.
I have a lazy eye, and only fully focus out of one eye at any time thus I dont have depth-perception the same way most people do.
As a kid I allways felt left out when ever I saw those red/blue "3d" movies, cuz I never saw anything but red or blue depending which eye I was looking out of.
The only real plus is that I can scare the hell out of anyone riding in my car while I'm driving when I tell them about my less then steller depth perception.
Painter is hands down the best natural media out there for any platform. personally if I want to actually create something from raw pixels I will use painter, photoshop just cant even hold a candle to its brushes and papaer sets, photoshops for manipulation, not painting.
My Wife creates over 80% of her work in it, which is some pretty amazing stuff, the most often asked question is "is that digital, no really you did that on a computer?"
I for one would not be able to to such nice weathered textures in such a short time without Painter, long live the king!
Discreet, makers of 3dsmax, was also affected in a major way by this hot"fix" more info can be found here Discreet Info
Its really a bummer for all those people who stay up to date to find that the.max files they have been making, crash older un-patched windows, I myself spent a day figuring this one out, and getting everyone in my company up to speed.
Most games that are released as shovelware, were produced at a much lower cost,less than 500k, whereas a full price game will have cost millions to have made...I would say this is also why the big budget title get more advertizing, the publisher is trying to make some of the dev costs back, and the budget games will do ok with little to no advertizing...
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In my opinion, I think the point at which Rockstar lost was the instant they decided to issue a statement apologizing to the Haitian community, they basically said "we are wrong, everyone feel free to sue us now, because we admit defeat".
Rockstar should have done the right thing for all games everywhere and fought this out in court as a free speech issue, which it clearly is.
Wont be long till we see other developers and publishers get sued, or worst of all banned or censored industry wide. If you though games were getting too many sequels and relying too much on franchise IP because publishers were not will to take risks, I can only imagine how much harder it will be to make original games with realistic content.
I have a lazy eye, and only fully focus out of one eye at any time thus I dont have depth-perception the same way most people do. As a kid I allways felt left out when ever I saw those red/blue "3d" movies, cuz I never saw anything but red or blue depending which eye I was looking out of. The only real plus is that I can scare the hell out of anyone riding in my car while I'm driving when I tell them about my less then steller depth perception.
Painter is hands down the best natural media out there for any platform. personally if I want to actually create something from raw pixels I will use painter, photoshop just cant even hold a candle to its brushes and papaer sets, photoshops for manipulation, not painting.
My Wife creates over 80% of her work in it, which is some pretty amazing stuff, the most often asked question is "is that digital, no really you did that on a computer?"
I for one would not be able to to such nice weathered textures in such a short time without Painter, long live the king!
Discreet, makers of 3dsmax, was also affected in a major way by this hot"fix" more info can be found here .max files they have been making, crash older un-patched windows, I myself spent a day figuring this one out, and getting everyone in my company up to speed.
Discreet Info
Its really a bummer for all those people who stay up to date to find that the
Most games that are released as shovelware, were produced at a much lower cost,less than 500k, whereas a full price game will have cost millions to have made...I would say this is also why the big budget title get more advertizing, the publisher is trying to make some of the dev costs back, and the budget games will do ok with little to no advertizing...
Yeah, Winrar is the way to go for windows users, does all the formats I need, and has a decent slim interface.