It could be damage control - some of the characters did have potential, and Square has shown that sequel gameplay can be VASTLY different from the original game. See X-2.
(Note: X-2 was a massive step down from X, but XIII-2 could be a major step up - it would be hard to go down.)
Plus it wouldn't work. Soon it'd be full of encrypted RARs of filenames like aiegflaeaergfaer.rar, or possibly sales_reports.rar... no way anyone could tell what they are unless they are a member of the private forum where the link and decryption password are posted.
One proposed method of colonizing Mercury is to build a city on rails that circles the slowly-spinning planet, always staying in the shady site where temperatures are cool enough for human habitats.
With this story, such an idea doesn't seem nearly so far-fetched.
Until the train breaks down and the whole colony gets cooked.
We travel to see stuff. Modern media has made much of that superfluous.
We travel to get stuff. Having stuff show up is less time wasted. Instead of going to buy tools, for example, I shop online and they show up. I can mix Ebay, Craigslist, and new vendors while I fap to pr0n and surf Slashdot.
We travel to see people. It's now more convenient to chat with a world of friends without bothering to meet in person very often.
We travel to learn stuff. Now information is at our fingertips.
Travel was a hassle before the TSA fondle-fest. Fuck travel.
You definitely need to get out of the house more often.
When he says 'let's nuke Israel and kill another six million Jews', I don't see how you can compare that to even the worst thing a Western politician has EVER said.
And if that's truly what his constituents want to hear, then they too deserve everything they get.
Sierra's The Realm had an alpha that was free, then sold the beta client and charged monthly. When it was ready, they released the full version, and the beta testers didn't have to buy another copy, since they had already paid for one.
I'd prefer Blizzard's approach: Do a closed "Friends and Family" alpha, a free public beta, and when it's ready, release the game. I'd say WoW counts as "commercial success" even without trying to charge customers for beeing guinea pigs.
WoW had all kinds of problems for the first two years.
Under capitalism, the providers get to provide whatever traffic shaping they want. If you don't like it, get a another provider. If you only have one choice, well, that's part of the system, too. The people have spoken: Capitalism rules, this touchy-feely stuff like "net neutrality" is out the window.
State sanctioned monopolies are not part of laze fare capitalism. If real competition were allowed I would agree with you.
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You're not seriously using the Google Fight argument are you?
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=the+sky+is+red
There you go, the sky is red, 216 MILLION Google results confirm it.
It is red sometimes.
Yeah, I'm thinking non-technical users should never be told about sudo. :-p
They just end up using su root.
Not trolling, but I may have been trolled: I've never actually played it past the opening.
You dodged a bullet there.
Wouldn't be the first time: they've already released FFX 2.
Apparently it was better than FFX
Please tell me your trolling...
It could be damage control - some of the characters did have potential, and Square has shown that sequel gameplay can be VASTLY different from the original game. See X-2.
(Note: X-2 was a massive step down from X, but XIII-2 could be a major step up - it would be hard to go down.)
...and yet X-2 was still better than XIII.
Precisely.
Prehistoric moon whales.....that is all.
Um. Have you not noticed that we humans are the characters in a game and the score is money? Guess who the players are as well.
Capitalism Ho!
Yup, just like the one publisher that I saw that published loads of Commodore 64 games in the early 80s failed.
What was its name again?
Oh yeah, Electronic Arts.
EA has failed, in oh so many ways.
Search engines do have a way to evaluate good. Based on user reviews, recommendations, etc etc, even page hits can be considered some value.
Granted, these aren't perfect, but they are better than nothing.
I thought the google engine looked at popularity in deciding which pages to give you.
Plus it wouldn't work. Soon it'd be full of encrypted RARs of filenames like aiegflaeaergfaer.rar, or possibly sales_reports.rar... no way anyone could tell what they are unless they are a member of the private forum where the link and decryption password are posted.
*cough*....yes soon......not doing that already.
He only got as far as CHA
...and then the C got erased.
One proposed method of colonizing Mercury is to build a city on rails that circles the slowly-spinning planet, always staying in the shady site where temperatures are cool enough for human habitats.
With this story, such an idea doesn't seem nearly so far-fetched.
Until the train breaks down and the whole colony gets cooked.
Right, use a proxy so the proxy admin has all your history.
That's why you have to use seven proxies.
It's a sad day when my hypocritical trolling gets moded insightful.
We travel to see stuff. Modern media has made much of that superfluous.
We travel to get stuff. Having stuff show up is less time wasted. Instead of going to buy tools, for example, I shop online and they show up. I can mix Ebay, Craigslist, and new vendors while I fap to pr0n and surf Slashdot.
We travel to see people. It's now more convenient to chat with a world of friends without bothering to meet in person very often.
We travel to learn stuff. Now information is at our fingertips.
Travel was a hassle before the TSA fondle-fest. Fuck travel.
You definitely need to get out of the house more often.
Actually, "Terra" would be the name of this planet, "Tera" would be 10e12....
No Tera was that girl I used to go out with.....I mean we weren't really a couple but she let me smell her hair once...........that was nice.
I'd rather believe in String Theory than God.
If your wondering why science and religion will never coexist...this it it right here......summed up in one sentence.
Michael Moore finds way to stay relevant
Michael Moore was never relevant.
American polls are always wrong, .
4/5 Americans agree in a recent poll.
When he says 'let's nuke Israel and kill another six million Jews', I don't see how you can compare that to even the worst thing a Western politician has EVER said.
And if that's truly what his constituents want to hear, then they too deserve everything they get.
.....but Dan Quayle misspelled potato once.
Wait... Pacman has a storyline outside of "nom nom nom aarrgh ghost nom nom nom"!?
yes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3n22GQMgcU&playnext=1&list=PLAD314629A9CB1ED9&index=10
They left it in their cammo suit, then lost that.
They also had a mind erasing kit that they forgot about.
Sierra's The Realm had an alpha that was free, then sold the beta client and charged monthly. When it was ready, they released the full version, and the beta testers didn't have to buy another copy, since they had already paid for one.
I'd prefer Blizzard's approach: Do a closed "Friends and Family" alpha, a free public beta, and when it's ready, release the game. I'd say WoW counts as "commercial success" even without trying to charge customers for beeing guinea pigs.
WoW had all kinds of problems for the first two years.
And with that competition i would have 10 different trenches in my yard with 7 different "standards" none of which work together.
Funny how cities that have more than one cable and dsl company tend to make it work.
Under capitalism, the providers get to provide whatever traffic shaping they want. If you don't like it, get a another provider. If you only have one choice, well, that's part of the system, too. The people have spoken: Capitalism rules, this touchy-feely stuff like "net neutrality" is out the window.
State sanctioned monopolies are not part of laze fare capitalism. If real competition were allowed I would agree with you.