Ever notice how Apple almost never refers to "content?" To Apple, it's MUSIC. Not content. MUSIC.
Apple gets it. Any blow-dried corporate fuck who uses the words "consumer" or "content," describes customers using a hyphenated phrase like "content-hungry," or continues to think of the internet as just another pipeline down which they can shove products into a "mass market" does NOT GET IT and no matter what they do, or how much money they spend, they will LOSE because they are MORON ASSWIPES.
Just how many viewers can they get from Internet purchases alone?
Enough.
Is it enough to run a series only on the net?
Yep. In fact, business will announce soon that the mass market is obsolete, something which most people who understand the Internet have known for some time. There is no mass market. It no longer exists. The first search engine rendered the mass market irretreivably obsolete, and it's not coming back no matter how much money big business(tm) throws around.
That non-specific vague "skill set" that employers use as an excuse to fire someone and not hire a replacement yet never actually define?
which they're too lazy to update
Are you suggesting people return to school and obtain yet another degree every time some rat fuck lying asscrack motherfucking blow-dried hairpiece phone-flipping toilet-sucking bowl of warm bubbling rhinoceros shit changes their mind?
an employee who will step outside of the box and innovate
Employees are not allowed to innovate. Fastest path to the nearest exit in any job is to think or speak up. Corporations want pliable, relentlessly cheerful slaves who won't complain when they are fired.
Well, there is if you can have free unlimited slave labor, markets with no competition, access to unlimited capital and an industry with guaranteed revenue. That's "capitalism" according to middle management.
so the iBusiness_model will soon also be outdated.
Meanwhile Apple has sold an iBillion songs. 99c a song was genius. iTunes is genius. The iPod is genius. Apple will continue to pwn music for eons. Deal with it.
If a game is not available on the shelf at Walmart and Best Buy, it is very unlikely to be a hit.
Anti-competition.
However, shelf space at Walmart and Best Buy is so limited that game publishers have to rent the shelf space.
Anti-free-market. Barrier to entry.
The publisher pays for shelf inches or an end-cap, and the retailer doesn't care so much if the game sells or not.
Anti-competitive.
Small developers and small distributors do not have the capital to pay Walmart $8M for a national role-out.
Anti-capitalist. Barrier to entry. Anti-competitive. Anti-free-market.
Therefore there is no shelf space for the games. Therefore they don't sell well.
Note the absence of discussion of the quality of the product? Anti-competitive.
They buy them randomly, and having and end-cap and a pretty box will result in more sales than any amount of game play quality.
Yet you have to be the video game equivalent of Speilberg to get a job. When are people going to realize how much BULLSHIT is being shoveled in the modern workplace and marketplace?
and game magazines won't review or publicize unless the publisher advertises.
Anti-competitive. Anti-free-market. Anti-capitalist. Barrier to entry.
the structure of console gaming assumes large publishers
Anti-competitive.
It seems that commercial art is best when
Business doesn't drain all the air out of the room. Remember: they're not happy with just their share. They want your share and the other guy's share too. Otherwise they don't want to participate.
That just doesn't happen in video games. The average PlayStation 2 game costs about $8 million.
That's called a "barrier to entry." It's a feature of the non-free market which is inaccessible to 99% of business in order to limit or abolish competition (see "insufficient huevos") and deny small business access to the capital markets.
Let's recap:
1. There is no free market 2. There is no competition 3. There is no access to capital
Not bad for a capitalistic free market based on competition, don't you think?
Cue Slashdot apologists for the Neo-Darwinian game show status-quo "get more marketable skills" economy.
Fastest way to become unmotivated is to take a job working for some crouton-ordering carpeted-walls chair-molded asscrack. What, you actually think being motivated is an advantage in the modern workplace?? That's the fastest off-ramp from the employment highway next to competence.
YOU are the single greatest reason why your career hasn't worked out very well.
Nothing at all wrong with my career. By the way, thanks for making my point.
Who do you think would hire you?
Someone competent, which disqualifies about 99% of middle management. Oh sure, the average hairpiece wants someone to crawl into an interview and crumple their hat in their hands as they beg for a job finishing every sentence with "sir." They'd love nothing better than for that person to take a salary half what their worth and dig trenches with their bare hands with no benefits all the while thankful they were granted the "opportunity."
I can do the work of any ten middle managers. And that is the "single greatest reason" there are no opportunities in the modern cubicle farm. I shed a single tear every Monday morning. Then I go back to work.
I am reminded of the amusement of a master carpenter when confronted by an apprentice with a shiny new box of tools.
I'm amused that people still remember apprentices, since business has turned its back on the entire concept. There is no such thing as an "apprentice" any more except as a gimmick for a television show that makes sport out of the suffering of others. Businesses have no use for apprentices, because they expect someone else to pay for training their experts.
1. No matter what you know you can't find a job anyway 2. If you can find a job, you can't keep it. 3. If you can keep it, it doesn't pay enough. 4. If it pays enough, it's miserable work and your boss is a rat fuck liar cheat blow-dried phone-flipping asscrack.
Business has turned its back on its neighbors. They are interested in nothing except your money. You could have three PhDs in Computer Science and they'd still find a reason to disqualify you from any job.
They aren't happy with their share. They want your share and the other guy's share too, and they'll fuck over everything and everyone else to get it.
Cue Slashdot apologists for the Neo-Darwinist "screw everyone else" Faux-Capitalist game show economy.
Slashdot Mirror
If Nokia teams up with powerful content providers
They will go out of business. Period.
Ever notice how Apple almost never refers to "content?" To Apple, it's MUSIC. Not content. MUSIC.
Apple gets it. Any blow-dried corporate fuck who uses the words "consumer" or "content," describes customers using a hyphenated phrase like "content-hungry," or continues to think of the internet as just another pipeline down which they can shove products into a "mass market" does NOT GET IT and no matter what they do, or how much money they spend, they will LOSE because they are MORON ASSWIPES.
Thank you.
Just how many viewers can they get from Internet purchases alone?
Enough.
Is it enough to run a series only on the net?
Yep. In fact, business will announce soon that the mass market is obsolete, something which most people who understand the Internet have known for some time. There is no mass market. It no longer exists. The first search engine rendered the mass market irretreivably obsolete, and it's not coming back no matter how much money big business(tm) throws around.
are looking for their specific skill set
That non-specific vague "skill set" that employers use as an excuse to fire someone and not hire a replacement yet never actually define?
which they're too lazy to update
Are you suggesting people return to school and obtain yet another degree every time some rat fuck lying asscrack motherfucking blow-dried hairpiece phone-flipping toilet-sucking bowl of warm bubbling rhinoceros shit changes their mind?
Ah yes. There is Napster! For what reason might we, the enlightened internetweb people, need to pay 99 cents a song?
And then Apple sold umpty trillion $ worth of 99 cent songs.
And now everyone runs to copy them.
Just further proof that:
skeptics.
are.
ALWAYS.
wrong.
an employee who will step outside of the box and innovate
Employees are not allowed to innovate. Fastest path to the nearest exit in any job is to think or speak up. Corporations want pliable, relentlessly cheerful slaves who won't complain when they are fired.
Will people still bitch when others are given free money because there are no paychecks any more?
Or will people just be left to starve?
Renting out retail shelfspace to the hightst bidder is pretty much the definition of capitalism
Renting out shelf space has nothing whatsoever to do with capitalism, competition or a free market.
You're correct that there's a high barrier to competing with the major players in the gaming industry.
Yet we all glory in the "free markets of competitive capitalism."
And the solution you propose is?
For openers we could stop horseshitting ourselves.
without these businesses, the videogames we're discussing don't exist.
But an entirely new universe of games would exist, of a type and quality unimaginable to the current industry.
Like it or not business is the cornerstone of our society.
Fair enough. Cruelty is not the cornerstone of business, however.
Well, there is if you can have free unlimited slave labor, markets with no competition, access to unlimited capital and an industry with guaranteed revenue. That's "capitalism" according to middle management.
if they are only covering distribution and no development cost publishers are reasonably willing to take a risk
Yeah? Twelve publishers turned down Harry Potter.
Try again.
so the iBusiness_model will soon also be outdated.
Meanwhile Apple has sold an iBillion songs. 99c a song was genius. iTunes is genius. The iPod is genius. Apple will continue to pwn music for eons. Deal with it.
So let's get this straight:
1. You can play the music on five computers
2. And an iPod
3. And make an audio CD
What's left? A lounge band with carpet on the piano?
it's largely the result of clever business tactics and the iTunes music store.
In other news, the Earth was discovered to be spherical in shape earlier today, and the sky is a sparkling shade of blue. Here's Bob with the weather.
expensive, aren't they?
Yes! Otherwise, why, there might be competition! Can't have that! It might demonstrate conclusively how fucking stupid some middle manager is!
If a game is not available on the shelf at Walmart and Best Buy, it is very unlikely to be a hit.
Anti-competition.
However, shelf space at Walmart and Best Buy is so limited that game publishers have to rent the shelf space.
Anti-free-market. Barrier to entry.
The publisher pays for shelf inches or an end-cap, and the retailer doesn't care so much if the game sells or not.
Anti-competitive.
Small developers and small distributors do not have the capital to pay Walmart $8M for a national role-out.
Anti-capitalist. Barrier to entry. Anti-competitive. Anti-free-market.
Therefore there is no shelf space for the games. Therefore they don't sell well.
Note the absence of discussion of the quality of the product? Anti-competitive.
They buy them randomly, and having and end-cap and a pretty box will result in more sales than any amount of game play quality.
Yet you have to be the video game equivalent of Speilberg to get a job. When are people going to realize how much BULLSHIT is being shoveled in the modern workplace and marketplace?
and game magazines won't review or publicize unless the publisher advertises.
Anti-competitive. Anti-free-market. Anti-capitalist. Barrier to entry.
the "free market" before the anti-trust laws prevented competition
The "free market" prevented competition? Huh?
whereas movies have become much, much, much less expensive to make
I'm sorry, you must be on some other planet.
How am I supposed to find out which indie games are good?
Well that would normally be a function of the gaming media...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
the structure of console gaming assumes large publishers
Anti-competitive.
It seems that commercial art is best when
Business doesn't drain all the air out of the room. Remember: they're not happy with just their share. They want your share and the other guy's share too. Otherwise they don't want to participate.
That just doesn't happen in video games. The average PlayStation 2 game costs about $8 million.
That's called a "barrier to entry." It's a feature of the non-free market which is inaccessible to 99% of business in order to limit or abolish competition (see "insufficient huevos") and deny small business access to the capital markets.
Let's recap:
1. There is no free market
2. There is no competition
3. There is no access to capital
Not bad for a capitalistic free market based on competition, don't you think?
Cue Slashdot apologists for the Neo-Darwinian game show status-quo "get more marketable skills" economy.
Fastest way to become unmotivated is to take a job working for some crouton-ordering carpeted-walls chair-molded asscrack. What, you actually think being motivated is an advantage in the modern workplace?? That's the fastest off-ramp from the employment highway next to competence.
YOU are the single greatest reason why your career hasn't worked out very well.
Nothing at all wrong with my career. By the way, thanks for making my point.
Who do you think would hire you?
Someone competent, which disqualifies about 99% of middle management. Oh sure, the average hairpiece wants someone to crawl into an interview and crumple their hat in their hands as they beg for a job finishing every sentence with "sir." They'd love nothing better than for that person to take a salary half what their worth and dig trenches with their bare hands with no benefits all the while thankful they were granted the "opportunity."
I can do the work of any ten middle managers. And that is the "single greatest reason" there are no opportunities in the modern cubicle farm. I shed a single tear every Monday morning. Then I go back to work.
I am reminded of the amusement of a master carpenter when confronted by an apprentice with a shiny new box of tools.
I'm amused that people still remember apprentices, since business has turned its back on the entire concept. There is no such thing as an "apprentice" any more except as a gimmick for a television show that makes sport out of the suffering of others. Businesses have no use for apprentices, because they expect someone else to pay for training their experts.
1. No matter what you know you can't find a job anyway
2. If you can find a job, you can't keep it.
3. If you can keep it, it doesn't pay enough.
4. If it pays enough, it's miserable work and your boss is a rat fuck liar cheat blow-dried phone-flipping asscrack.
Business has turned its back on its neighbors. They are interested in nothing except your money. You could have three PhDs in Computer Science and they'd still find a reason to disqualify you from any job.
They aren't happy with their share. They want your share and the other guy's share too, and they'll fuck over everything and everyone else to get it.
Cue Slashdot apologists for the Neo-Darwinist "screw everyone else" Faux-Capitalist game show economy.
reliable, highly-paid assembly line workers.
A very eloquent phrase for slaves.