Noooo...they should embrace the valve model and realize while you will NEVER get rid of piracy you CAN turn a hell of a lot of those pirates into customers by embracing the big three concept, which is make it simple, make it easy, make it cheap.
How about when Sales and Marketing are trying to figure out the best way to raise prices without customers leaving in droves. And then do it again. And again. And again. For the same products within the same year?
I agree. After watching an impressive video of it chatting with the other bot, I decided to check it out. Most of its responses were little better than random phrases someone has once told it.
I still enjoyed the movie after it was spoiled for me, but it definitely ruined the "WTF, MIND = BLOWN" moment that I would have had at the time of the twist.
How is spending substantial sums of money on in-game items of no practical real-world value any different from spending substantial sums of money on real-world items of no practical real-world value?
Some people get as much enjoyment out of EVE as you might out of a month in the Bahamas. What makes them insane and you perfectly normal?
As a gamer with a pretty weak laptop, I am annoyed that so many indie games do not let you specify the full screen resolution, and simply use whatever you set your desktop to. That forces me to reduce the desktop resolution prior to launching the game to ensure a smooth framerate.
Exactly. I couldn't care less about the real money action house because I wasn't planning on playing the multiplayer piece anyway. But I was going to make this my first game in about a decade that I'd spend more than $35 to get, and now that's out the window if I need a constant internet connection to play [b]single player[/b].
Don't have Hammer Fight, but the rest work quite well on my laptop's Intel 4500 mhd. Running Cogs at minimum settings at 640x480 for smoothest experience though.
In order for it to rise above the crap, it will need word of mouth. In order for it to get word of mouth, someone needs to notice it before the rise. See the problem?
I'm going to reserve judgment until I see the review in the print version (yup, I still subscribe.) The online reviews are written by different people.
Meanwhile they talk about "realism" yet I can be standing there with a fucking bazooka and I STILL CAN'T BLOW A FUCKING WOODEN DOOR DOWN! WTF?
Reminds me of my second "Holy Shit" moment in Crysis. On the second level, I took cover inside a wooden hut from a machine gun nest, and watched the place get taken apart around me in a storm of bullets.
For the record, the first moment was seeing the sunrise over the beach in the first level at 2am IRL and it messing with my circadian rhythm.
It's a far cry from Duke Nukem 3D, which gave a third of the game away as its demo. Games such as Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Quake also gave a third away, but of course it's not the mid 90s any more and the old rules no longer seem to apply.
Yeah, the Shareware episode model is dead, long live Demos.
Though to be fair, every single game you mentioned had a direct sequel which had demo levels instead of shareware episode. Doom 2, Spear of Destiny, Quake 2. Also Hexen as a sequel to Heretic.
You want a fun game? TOO BAD, HAVE SOME RESTRICTIVE NOFUN GAMES INSTEAD.
So why does Duke try so hard to be as restrictive as the modern shooters? 2 weapons at a time? Checkpoints where you only have access to your most recent checkpoint save? Not too crazy about health regeneration either.
The only thing that's Duke about DNF is the humour and interactive environments.
Well, actually I meant "aspect correct full screen without black bars (as in 16:9 image on 16:9 TV) is better than aspect correct full screen with black bars (4:3 image on 16:9 TV) and both are far better than stretched full screen (4:3 image stretched to 16:9)." I wasn't even thinking about 4:3 screens displaying 16:9 images, cropped or otherwise, when I wrote that:)
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Noooo...they should embrace the valve model and realize while you will NEVER get rid of piracy you CAN turn a hell of a lot of those pirates into customers by embracing the big three concept, which is make it simple, make it easy, make it cheap.
Yes, I hear it does work quite well.
How about when Sales and Marketing are trying to figure out the best way to raise prices without customers leaving in droves. And then do it again. And again. And again. For the same products within the same year?
I agree. After watching an impressive video of it chatting with the other bot, I decided to check it out. Most of its responses were little better than random phrases someone has once told it.
Of course the difference being that the "learner" in those experiments was an actor who was never in any real danger.
I've read a few of Connie Willis' short stories, and thought they were pretty good. Never heard of any of the other winners though.
I still enjoyed the movie after it was spoiled for me, but it definitely ruined the "WTF, MIND = BLOWN" moment that I would have had at the time of the twist.
How is spending substantial sums of money on in-game items of no practical real-world value any different from spending substantial sums of money on real-world items of no practical real-world value?
Some people get as much enjoyment out of EVE as you might out of a month in the Bahamas. What makes them insane and you perfectly normal?
As a gamer with a pretty weak laptop, I am annoyed that so many indie games do not let you specify the full screen resolution, and simply use whatever you set your desktop to. That forces me to reduce the desktop resolution prior to launching the game to ensure a smooth framerate.
Exactly. I couldn't care less about the real money action house because I wasn't planning on playing the multiplayer piece anyway. But I was going to make this my first game in about a decade that I'd spend more than $35 to get, and now that's out the window if I need a constant internet connection to play [b]single player[/b].
Don't have Hammer Fight, but the rest work quite well on my laptop's Intel 4500 mhd. Running Cogs at minimum settings at 640x480 for smoothest experience though.
Doesn't really matter. You paid for the subscription, you should own the content.
Huh? Do you own World of Warcraft just because you pay for the subscription?
Shhh, don't spoil the perceived irony!
Are these guys geeks?
So instead of a $10 barrier to entry, you would prefer a $100,000 minimum marketing campaign?
In order for it to rise above the crap, it will need word of mouth. In order for it to get word of mouth, someone needs to notice it before the rise. See the problem?
Life will find a way.
I'm familiar with a similar story, though it's about Nasreddin Hodja.
Wonder which came first.
I'm going to reserve judgment until I see the review in the print version (yup, I still subscribe.) The online reviews are written by different people.
Meanwhile they talk about "realism" yet I can be standing there with a fucking bazooka and I STILL CAN'T BLOW A FUCKING WOODEN DOOR DOWN! WTF?
Reminds me of my second "Holy Shit" moment in Crysis. On the second level, I took cover inside a wooden hut from a machine gun nest, and watched the place get taken apart around me in a storm of bullets.
For the record, the first moment was seeing the sunrise over the beach in the first level at 2am IRL and it messing with my circadian rhythm.
It's a far cry from Duke Nukem 3D, which gave a third of the game away as its demo. Games such as Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Quake also gave a third away, but of course it's not the mid 90s any more and the old rules no longer seem to apply.
Yeah, the Shareware episode model is dead, long live Demos.
Though to be fair, every single game you mentioned had a direct sequel which had demo levels instead of shareware episode. Doom 2, Spear of Destiny, Quake 2. Also Hexen as a sequel to Heretic.
You want a fun game? TOO BAD, HAVE SOME RESTRICTIVE NOFUN GAMES INSTEAD.
So why does Duke try so hard to be as restrictive as the modern shooters? 2 weapons at a time? Checkpoints where you only have access to your most recent checkpoint save? Not too crazy about health regeneration either.
The only thing that's Duke about DNF is the humour and interactive environments.
Alt=fire? You must have some strange, deformed hands. Clearly Ctrl should be fire.
I'm guessing he meant L-Alt and L-Shift, so the right hand would be delegated to just the arrow keys. Firing with the pinky just seems wrong.
No one has an excuse for not knowing the local laws.
What's your excuse for not reading the summary? You know, the one that states that he wrote the blog post when he was in the United States.
This is like getting your hand cut off in Saudi Arabia because you shoplifted in New York.
Well, actually I meant "aspect correct full screen without black bars (as in 16:9 image on 16:9 TV) is better than aspect correct full screen with black bars (4:3 image on 16:9 TV) and both are far better than stretched full screen (4:3 image stretched to 16:9)." I wasn't even thinking about 4:3 screens displaying 16:9 images, cropped or otherwise, when I wrote that :)
I leave the correction of typos as an exercise for the reader.