Maybe since the kids are growing up with instant messaging they will come up with better ways of using it for business. I'm sure a lot of the negative things people say about IM'ing (unprofessional) were said about email at one time too.
The problem with MMORPGs is a lack of a storyline like traditional RPGs. In a traditional RPG you have a desire to go further in the story as well as gather new and better items. In most MMORPGs today they give you a setting and quests, but the majority of quests have little to no effect on anything in the world, other than you gaining experience. If you want to grab the casual gamers' attention they are going to need to have a storyline that progresses at a pace the user sets, to keep them involved. Now it always just turns into one big item race, and the casual gamer is always going to be behind, and with no storyline there is really no reason to play.
I would rather have my verizon phone get a strong signal at my friends house, then have it turn into a mini computer. Ringtones, and vCards, and blue tooth are all nice, but its completely pointless when I can't get a call.
Verizon should spend more money on coverage and making sure that their system works than implementing options, that way maybe I won't randomly get voicemail messages that were sent two days before.
What about Dungeon Keeper?, I didn't play any of the Populus games, but Dungeon Keeper sucked away atleast 6 months of my and my friends lives.
Hopefully this game will get released for the PC eventually, we need something new that isn't a sequel. And even though most Molyneux games are very similar in gameplay (your god), they always have something new and original that makes it worth playing
I'm in college and its not hard to get a copy of winxp from a friend. Its a lot easier to get the corporate version of winxp than it is to deal with the the GUI and programs on linux. Which still have a long ways to go. Most just feel like a broken version of a Windows or windows software. Not to mention the lack of games.
A lot of techies I know might experiment with linux and maybe use it as a server, but rarely as their primary desktop OS.
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Maybe since the kids are growing up with instant messaging they will come up with better ways of using it for business. I'm sure a lot of the negative things people say about IM'ing (unprofessional) were said about email at one time too.
The problem with MMORPGs is a lack of a storyline like traditional RPGs. In a traditional RPG you have a desire to go further in the story as well as gather new and better items. In most MMORPGs today they give you a setting and quests, but the majority of quests have little to no effect on anything in the world, other than you gaining experience. If you want to grab the casual gamers' attention they are going to need to have a storyline that progresses at a pace the user sets, to keep them involved. Now it always just turns into one big item race, and the casual gamer is always going to be behind, and with no storyline there is really no reason to play.
http://viewaskew.com/tv/leno/flyingcar.html
I would rather have my verizon phone get a strong signal at my friends house, then have it turn into a mini computer. Ringtones, and vCards, and blue tooth are all nice, but its completely pointless when I can't get a call. Verizon should spend more money on coverage and making sure that their system works than implementing options, that way maybe I won't randomly get voicemail messages that were sent two days before.
What about Dungeon Keeper?, I didn't play any of the Populus games, but Dungeon Keeper sucked away atleast 6 months of my and my friends lives. Hopefully this game will get released for the PC eventually, we need something new that isn't a sequel. And even though most Molyneux games are very similar in gameplay (your god), they always have something new and original that makes it worth playing
Anyone that has seen the Flying Car short on Jay Leno by Kevin Smith, featuring Dante and Randall, knows that the new Clerks Movie will work.
I'm in college and its not hard to get a copy of winxp from a friend. Its a lot easier to get the corporate version of winxp than it is to deal with the the GUI and programs on linux. Which still have a long ways to go. Most just feel like a broken version of a Windows or windows software. Not to mention the lack of games. A lot of techies I know might experiment with linux and maybe use it as a server, but rarely as their primary desktop OS.