Showboating by announcing the release of code for one of their games at their conference about their games? What better place to announce it? This is an announcement for fans as they will be the only ones playing with this code most likely.
Hopefully once its released someone can create an enjoyable version of the game...;)
Considering I only received an e-mail from BioWare last night its not old to me, or probably most other people who received it. I've never played NWN, but I have a forum account to get the ME2 "free DLC". Disconcerting how they are mailing everyone out of "an abundance of caution", seems like they can't be certain how much info the hackers got.
Pitchford bought the giant mess in an attempt a cheap cash in on nostalgic fans. Gearbox deserves no pity in this case, they are the ones trying to sucker people into buying an apparently very poor product.
The Cube controller is ergonomically fantastic. The only thing I don't like about is the weird A/B/X/Y button layout. Well that and the Z buttons tacked on design. The Wavebird is glorious too.
Working in the QA world I've found that IE7 is rather its own "beast". Stuff that works fine in IE8 and FF3.6 doesn't in IE7 and stuff that is broken, albeit in slightly different ways in FF3.6/IE8 works in IE7.
I wonder if they will "pay" them in iTunes credits and free CDs like every other company that settles in class actions and pays with products instead of money. Or being a Canadian settlement perhaps the terms were Tim Horton's gift cards and Canadian Tire money.
You've already spent the money, why rush to sell it? I would wait and play co-op once the PSN is back, then sell it. Demand will probably be higher once the PSN is back online anyway. Also Gabe said it would be the best console experience I believe.
The company was eventually acquired by a bigger competitor and hence their IT guys took over. The IT guy from our company said the their head IT guy "didn't like VLANs" or something to that effect. I'm sure he'll "learn" to like them soon enough...
One place I used to work at had everyone on the same subnet. The QA team started seeing strange things with their QA systems. It turned out the devs were trying something new on the server side of things and were spamming the network with garbage traffic, causing chaos for the QA team. A few weeks later the different depts were all on different subnets.
With the Wii you don't store any of your info online, purchases are tied to your console hardware and not a person. It would be nice to be able to play your purchases on any Wii, but I doubt Nintendo will go down that road, especially given the recent PSN gong show.
Its only a "bag of hurt" to him because Apple doesn't control Blu-Ray licensing. I'm sure when he's wearing his Disney hat and selling tons of Blu-Rays of "Limited Edition" Snow White the "bag of hurt" suddenly turns into a "bag o' money".
Nintendo's first party games don't end up in the bargain bin. I waited for Metroid Prime 2 for the Cube to drop after the Wii came out and it never happened. They just keep them at full price on the shelves until someone eventually buys them.
Probably the main reason they are doing it is because they can now update games at their desired frequency. Currently on consoles game updates have to be tested/vetted by the console companies, which takes a long time and costs developers/publishers money and time. With Steam on PS3 they can quickly and cheaply fix bugs, security issues, etc. The 360 version of L4D2 is always far behind the PC version in updates and by time they actually get released as a bundle of updates on the 360 the PC version has already far ahead again.
Peter Jackson and his battles with New Line for his full share of the profits is one of the few instances that I can recall where someone fought the big studios "accounting" system and won. Although the terms of the settlement weren't disclosed it was nice to see a creator get their fair share of the profits.
While watching Avatar in Imax 3D there were several times, especially during the live action scenes with a lot of camera movement within the scene, where I noticed strobing. I didn't give me a headache but it was definitely noticeable. On the weekend at a friends we were checking out his new big screen TV, which he demoed with Avatar and many of my friends commented how they liked the 2D experience better than 3D in the theater. I think increasing the frame rate has a good chance of improving the 3D experience for many people.
The first ME was more RPG than FPS, while ME2 focused more on "streamlining" out the RPG features and making it more of a FPS than an RPG. I hope they bring back more of the RPG depth of ME1 to ME3 since in their haste to streamline they overdid it, IMO. I also hope they focus the story more on a few central characters, I found ME2's to be too broad and therefore bland. Quality not quantity please BioWare.
Call of Duty games realistic? The first few were pretty good and somewhat realistic, but since CoD 4 its been one big game that traded story and realism for Michael Bay style of storytelling. Its the antithesis of realism, eschewing it for over-the-top explosions and characters doing ridiculous things. I slogged through the "story" mode of MW2 since I bought it to play online with friends and found myself rolling my eyes many times throughout. The CoD games now are just a bunch of big action scenes with little story tying them together.
Microsoft's "strategy", as you put it, cost them billions of dollars in losses. They also lost many sales for a time as people (myself included) stayed away from buying 360's because of their abnormally high failure rate. Imagine what their market share might be now if not for the RRoD gong show. Yes consumers got shafted, especially the launch unit buyers, but to think Microsoft envisioned a failure rate as high as it was would be silly. The costs to their business were far to high.
For those of us who work on browser-based products for large monolithic corporations this is going to be a gong show. Companies are always looking for guarantees of "Official Support" for browser X, version Y and now that you guys are going to be pumping out new major version numbers frequently that means browser QA/verification is going to have to occur far more often now. Not to mention having to test products against a quickly increasing number of versions.
Since you approve of the actions, I wouldn't be surprised. Now if you were to condemn the hackers actions, vigorously defending all that is Sony, they would probably just ad you to the "watch them" list.
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Showboating by announcing the release of code for one of their games at their conference about their games? What better place to announce it? This is an announcement for fans as they will be the only ones playing with this code most likely. Hopefully once its released someone can create an enjoyable version of the game... ;)
Tim Horton's gift cards and/or Canadian Tire money should all work fine for you here.
Considering I only received an e-mail from BioWare last night its not old to me, or probably most other people who received it. I've never played NWN, but I have a forum account to get the ME2 "free DLC". Disconcerting how they are mailing everyone out of "an abundance of caution", seems like they can't be certain how much info the hackers got.
They didn't have to put their name on the box, they wanted to, they bought the Duke IP from 3D Realms after all.
http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/press/duke-nukem-franchise-transferred-to-gearbox-software/
Pitchford bought the giant mess in an attempt a cheap cash in on nostalgic fans. Gearbox deserves no pity in this case, they are the ones trying to sucker people into buying an apparently very poor product.
The Cube controller is ergonomically fantastic. The only thing I don't like about is the weird A/B/X/Y button layout. Well that and the Z buttons tacked on design. The Wavebird is glorious too.
Working in the QA world I've found that IE7 is rather its own "beast". Stuff that works fine in IE8 and FF3.6 doesn't in IE7 and stuff that is broken, albeit in slightly different ways in FF3.6/IE8 works in IE7.
I wonder if they will "pay" them in iTunes credits and free CDs like every other company that settles in class actions and pays with products instead of money. Or being a Canadian settlement perhaps the terms were Tim Horton's gift cards and Canadian Tire money.
... but is he checking it twice?
You've already spent the money, why rush to sell it? I would wait and play co-op once the PSN is back, then sell it. Demand will probably be higher once the PSN is back online anyway. Also Gabe said it would be the best console experience I believe.
The company was eventually acquired by a bigger competitor and hence their IT guys took over. The IT guy from our company said the their head IT guy "didn't like VLANs" or something to that effect. I'm sure he'll "learn" to like them soon enough...
The "Preview" button ate it all after you clicked on it. ;)
One place I used to work at had everyone on the same subnet. The QA team started seeing strange things with their QA systems. It turned out the devs were trying something new on the server side of things and were spamming the network with garbage traffic, causing chaos for the QA team. A few weeks later the different depts were all on different subnets.
With the Wii you don't store any of your info online, purchases are tied to your console hardware and not a person. It would be nice to be able to play your purchases on any Wii, but I doubt Nintendo will go down that road, especially given the recent PSN gong show.
Its only a "bag of hurt" to him because Apple doesn't control Blu-Ray licensing. I'm sure when he's wearing his Disney hat and selling tons of Blu-Rays of "Limited Edition" Snow White the "bag of hurt" suddenly turns into a "bag o' money".
Nintendo's first party games don't end up in the bargain bin. I waited for Metroid Prime 2 for the Cube to drop after the Wii came out and it never happened. They just keep them at full price on the shelves until someone eventually buys them.
IWhy should Valve do this?
Probably the main reason they are doing it is because they can now update games at their desired frequency. Currently on consoles game updates have to be tested/vetted by the console companies, which takes a long time and costs developers/publishers money and time. With Steam on PS3 they can quickly and cheaply fix bugs, security issues, etc. The 360 version of L4D2 is always far behind the PC version in updates and by time they actually get released as a bundle of updates on the 360 the PC version has already far ahead again.
Peter Jackson and his battles with New Line for his full share of the profits is one of the few instances that I can recall where someone fought the big studios "accounting" system and won. Although the terms of the settlement weren't disclosed it was nice to see a creator get their fair share of the profits.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Peter_Jackson_banned_from_working_with_New_Line
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1576672/peter-jackson-new-line-reach-hobbit-deal.jhtml
While watching Avatar in Imax 3D there were several times, especially during the live action scenes with a lot of camera movement within the scene, where I noticed strobing. I didn't give me a headache but it was definitely noticeable. On the weekend at a friends we were checking out his new big screen TV, which he demoed with Avatar and many of my friends commented how they liked the 2D experience better than 3D in the theater. I think increasing the frame rate has a good chance of improving the 3D experience for many people.
The first ME was more RPG than FPS, while ME2 focused more on "streamlining" out the RPG features and making it more of a FPS than an RPG. I hope they bring back more of the RPG depth of ME1 to ME3 since in their haste to streamline they overdid it, IMO. I also hope they focus the story more on a few central characters, I found ME2's to be too broad and therefore bland. Quality not quantity please BioWare.
Call of Duty games realistic? The first few were pretty good and somewhat realistic, but since CoD 4 its been one big game that traded story and realism for Michael Bay style of storytelling. Its the antithesis of realism, eschewing it for over-the-top explosions and characters doing ridiculous things. I slogged through the "story" mode of MW2 since I bought it to play online with friends and found myself rolling my eyes many times throughout. The CoD games now are just a bunch of big action scenes with little story tying them together.
Microsoft's "strategy", as you put it, cost them billions of dollars in losses. They also lost many sales for a time as people (myself included) stayed away from buying 360's because of their abnormally high failure rate. Imagine what their market share might be now if not for the RRoD gong show. Yes consumers got shafted, especially the launch unit buyers, but to think Microsoft envisioned a failure rate as high as it was would be silly. The costs to their business were far to high.
Your friend must be new to that computer news site then.
For those of us who work on browser-based products for large monolithic corporations this is going to be a gong show. Companies are always looking for guarantees of "Official Support" for browser X, version Y and now that you guys are going to be pumping out new major version numbers frequently that means browser QA/verification is going to have to occur far more often now. Not to mention having to test products against a quickly increasing number of versions.
Since you approve of the actions, I wouldn't be surprised. Now if you were to condemn the hackers actions, vigorously defending all that is Sony, they would probably just ad you to the "watch them" list.
... will I still feel respected then?