But, see, K++ isn't an official Kazaa client from what I can recall. Why the hell would they release a spyware-free version and push the spyware-full version more heavily?
Aside: my boss made his teen kids throw out their copies of GTA because "you can kill hookers."
Yet another victim of "word-of-mouth" ratings. The ESRB has had less and less sway, as the internet allows people to tell others what a game is like and SEE what's in the game. You can hear from a friend who heard from a friend who heard from a friend that you "kill hookers", when the only place that that is EVER mentioned or done in GTA is on the MadTV sketch parodying the game.
While it's definitely a good idea, I don't really see it happening in America any time soon.
For one thing, a sizable chunk of gamers (despite what people like to think) are still under 16, and have their parents buy their games for them. It's hard enough to tell your parent to "Go buy Deus Ex" and have them get something else, but handing them a blank cartridge and expecting them to know how to work the machine to download the games into... that's asking for a miracle.
That was my worry. Now that they aren't updating it, all they really have to do is change one minute little thing and everything goes to shit, just like what Yahoo! did with Trillian earlier.
Slashdot Mirror
But, see, K++ isn't an official Kazaa client from what I can recall. Why the hell would they release a spyware-free version and push the spyware-full version more heavily?
It's like Spike TV's Video Game Awards...
Wait... no it isn't... Spike TV's Video Game Awards have no meaning to ANYONE who plays video games.
ANY poll done on a website is biased. It's affected by the fact that the only people who respond are
1) People with internet access
2) People who know of the site
3) People who care about the poll
Which severely limits the sample space, and can severely skew the results.
Aside: my boss made his teen kids throw out their copies of GTA because "you can kill hookers." Yet another victim of "word-of-mouth" ratings. The ESRB has had less and less sway, as the internet allows people to tell others what a game is like and SEE what's in the game. You can hear from a friend who heard from a friend who heard from a friend that you "kill hookers", when the only place that that is EVER mentioned or done in GTA is on the MadTV sketch parodying the game.
While it's definitely a good idea, I don't really see it happening in America any time soon. For one thing, a sizable chunk of gamers (despite what people like to think) are still under 16, and have their parents buy their games for them. It's hard enough to tell your parent to "Go buy Deus Ex" and have them get something else, but handing them a blank cartridge and expecting them to know how to work the machine to download the games into... that's asking for a miracle.
Well, anything's better than bunch of bananas that they tried to pass off as the controller for the N64.
That was my worry. Now that they aren't updating it, all they really have to do is change one minute little thing and everything goes to shit, just like what Yahoo! did with Trillian earlier.