Some companies have made it part of their undisclosed business plan to be bought out by the big boys. This means making products good enough to be noticed and acquired but not necessairly displaying their showcase ideas. For startup capital for "the big one" it's not a bad idea, you'll just not get anyone who admits to doing it.
In some industries I've been heavily involved in if you have a 10% market share you're successful, for example banks and stock brokerages. 20% means you likely have a bigger hold than anyone else.
Think of it this way, if there are 10 major companies in the games industry, then EA counts for two of them. That leaves 8 smaller players on the battle field. Mind you EA is also a publishing house, not just a development house, so they occasionally fund smaller companies who can play by their rules. That gives the smaller companies access to the marketing and distibution arms of EA, which makes partnering with them attractive and buyouts much much easier, making the monster bigger.
I like to think of EA as "The blob" rather than a 900lb monkey anyway.
I so bloody agree with this! As part of the books after the movies there were tonnes of Jedi who were something other than just solely Jedi. Some of them gave up their prior training, but most went back to it sometime during their Jedi training keeping their now trained force powers and went back to doing what they had done but are now better at.
Not only do you have a censored version but you'll have a buggy censored version. Having worked in testing for parts of the games industry even a small change like that is going to start giving bugs.
Knowing how things often get censored though there will be a patch that uncensors it in a few days.
It's not just U.S. society but a good portion of western society in general. We want labels put on games, and nearly everything else, so that people won't be offended. It's like the "Parental Advisory: Explict Lyrics" back in the 90s (Or was that 80s old memory, so fuzzy, too little sleep).
That being said have game makers, especially the small independents, adopt the "Parental Advisory: Anything Goes" style logo.
Where I'm at (Vancouver) there has always been a way around this. In the summer open air night markets are held in various places around the city. You can usually get a spindle of CD-Rs for very cheap with no tax or levy imposed by the vendors. However, because these, often, come from questionable sources it's all buyer beware.
It's the same in Canada. There's a fee for most of the recordable media out there, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs and cassette tapes. Now though they want to add the Internet to all the media. In my opinion they should just put a generic levy on all media and be done with it. Thus everything from hard drives to kids note books would be covered and they wouldn't have to revisit these laws everytime a new media comes out.
I recall using a free trial to play this game. It was good assuming I didn't go into any towns. For some reason I'd suffer amazing lag getting in and out of towns/building/dungeons whatever. There are better games out there on the market for about the same price.
First I'd like to state that I have not played this game. However, in the Star Wars Extended Universe force sensitive people are rare and during the reign of the Empire they were hunted down either to be killed, like most of the Jedi during or after the Clone Wars, or have their loyalty linked to the Emperor, as with Mara Jade and the Emperor's Hands.
The appearance of any force sensitive would probably have the empire hunting for the for one reason or another, espeically if they make a name for themself as a force sensitive, and espeically if they are a non-human.
As for light saber colour, it appears that it is mostly dependent on what crystal is used. So a light force user or a dark force user both can have red sabers, it's just easier to tell if all baddies have red sabers and all good guys any other colour.
You know, if this technology is installed on all motor vehicles there would probably be ways to circumvent it. In a high speed chase it would be more useful to cause a traffic jam ahead to prevent the perp from taking a desired route. How would you like to be used as a tool for the law?
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Some companies have made it part of their undisclosed business plan to be bought out by the big boys. This means making products good enough to be noticed and acquired but not necessairly displaying their showcase ideas. For startup capital for "the big one" it's not a bad idea, you'll just not get anyone who admits to doing it.
In some industries I've been heavily involved in if you have a 10% market share you're successful, for example banks and stock brokerages. 20% means you likely have a bigger hold than anyone else.
Think of it this way, if there are 10 major companies in the games industry, then EA counts for two of them. That leaves 8 smaller players on the battle field. Mind you EA is also a publishing house, not just a development house, so they occasionally fund smaller companies who can play by their rules. That gives the smaller companies access to the marketing and distibution arms of EA, which makes partnering with them attractive and buyouts much much easier, making the monster bigger.
I like to think of EA as "The blob" rather than a 900lb monkey anyway.
I so bloody agree with this! As part of the books after the movies there were tonnes of Jedi who were something other than just solely Jedi. Some of them gave up their prior training, but most went back to it sometime during their Jedi training keeping their now trained force powers and went back to doing what they had done but are now better at.
Can't we just agree (globally) on one set of units. Metric or otherwise, I don't care. I vote metric because it works well on my calculator.
Not only do you have a censored version but you'll have a buggy censored version. Having worked in testing for parts of the games industry even a small change like that is going to start giving bugs.
Knowing how things often get censored though there will be a patch that uncensors it in a few days.
It's not just U.S. society but a good portion of western society in general. We want labels put on games, and nearly everything else, so that people won't be offended. It's like the "Parental Advisory: Explict Lyrics" back in the 90s (Or was that 80s old memory, so fuzzy, too little sleep).
That being said have game makers, especially the small independents, adopt the "Parental Advisory: Anything Goes" style logo.
Where I'm at (Vancouver) there has always been a way around this. In the summer open air night markets are held in various places around the city. You can usually get a spindle of CD-Rs for very cheap with no tax or levy imposed by the vendors. However, because these, often, come from questionable sources it's all buyer beware.
It's the same in Canada. There's a fee for most of the recordable media out there, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs and cassette tapes. Now though they want to add the Internet to all the media. In my opinion they should just put a generic levy on all media and be done with it. Thus everything from hard drives to kids note books would be covered and they wouldn't have to revisit these laws everytime a new media comes out.
I recall using a free trial to play this game. It was good assuming I didn't go into any towns. For some reason I'd suffer amazing lag getting in and out of towns/building/dungeons whatever. There are better games out there on the market for about the same price.
First I'd like to state that I have not played this game. However, in the Star Wars Extended Universe force sensitive people are rare and during the reign of the Empire they were hunted down either to be killed, like most of the Jedi during or after the Clone Wars, or have their loyalty linked to the Emperor, as with Mara Jade and the Emperor's Hands.
The appearance of any force sensitive would probably have the empire hunting for the for one reason or another, espeically if they make a name for themself as a force sensitive, and espeically if they are a non-human.
As for light saber colour, it appears that it is mostly dependent on what crystal is used. So a light force user or a dark force user both can have red sabers, it's just easier to tell if all baddies have red sabers and all good guys any other colour.
Now I think I'll go buy the game
You know, if this technology is installed on all motor vehicles there would probably be ways to circumvent it. In a high speed chase it would be more useful to cause a traffic jam ahead to prevent the perp from taking a desired route. How would you like to be used as a tool for the law?