>> And, when was the last time you bought a game and actually played it for more than (say) 30 hours (1hr/day) before becoming tired with it (with the exception of rare games such as HL/CS)?
I was just going to say CS:D Anyway, there's still Quake or UT, and the pricing based on hours, that I think is the best they could do, and as you say, max. $15 a month.
240.000 persons have buyed the game to this moment, that makes $12 million just to start, and christmas is around the corner. Now let's be pretty bad and say that just 140.000 will buy one month and you got yourself another 2 millions. Now lets say that in xmas plus in the upcoming 3 or 4 months the same number of persons will do just the same and you got yourself a total $29 millions being pretty negative.
My personal calculations is that within the first 4 months they will easily get at least $50 millions, which I'm sure is LOT less that they invested in making the game.
Everyone else is complaining and giving for sure that we all live in US with a monthly income of at least 1500 dollars. Hello guys from the other countries where receiving $1000 a month is a pretty good amount that lets you live like a decent person.
I'll give my example, Colombia, where the minimum salary is around 120. I have a pretty decent life, but guys, come on, here a ticket for a movie on any Cinemark is about 4 dollars, with 20 bucks you could tank almost every normal car and being a good kid you receive $70 a month (having a "capable" family).
Spending $50 on a game to wonder if you'll like it or not is kind of suicide, I bought UT2k4 for $30!!!
I just think they should at least give away the game, or use a Steam-like system to distribute it for $15-$20 and then give a $5 or $6 first month test, then if anyone wants to spend the other $15, well great.
So please, Mr. Blizzard take in consideration other parts of the world as you have done with your other games.
PS: Anyway, I'll just get the freakin' game, pay for 3 months and give a good use to this vacations, it's Warcraft after all...
>> (Note that RMS himself has very little influence outside the OSS world, and I'd argue that his influence *inside* the OSS world isn't all that much either.)
Trying not to be a RMS a fan, I'll remember you that he's been one of the important guys in the decisions made the last months by the Brazilian government to support Free Software and use it actively.
Ideal for developers??? I hope they have improved this version because the gift DVD (I wanted to try the distro) didn't had gcc or emacs, if that's what you call ideal for developers....
On the other side, it couldn't detect my 802.11 so screw it, tried Ubuntu and I'm pretty happy right now.
I by no means want to troll, but I have two questions for you. First, why should we care if you work in a F100 company? I can say that I work in a F10 company and that won't give more stuff to my comment.
The other thing is, how do you install a Pre-release of a product in 20.000 computers? Do you know that if a new bug arises in this version your "F100" company will get your ass burned in one of those chicken machines that turns them all around the whole day?:P
I have my own box, using it to host my own web server, mail server, apps server and various stuff. The only real problem that I've had is the spam-filters, I have used a lot of them but I've never had the chance (time) to totally optimize them so with the best one I've tried (SpamAssasin) I still get around 20 junk mails a day, and believe me, I just got tired of pressing 'D' in Mutt. The alternative? Mozilla Thunderbird, may be a little slower than console based clients but after a few 'j's I barely notice of spam right now.
1. Acknowledgment that Firefox is ONLY a browser, please do not start overloading with a bunch of plugins and stuff that we'll never use. 2. Increase of speed. Maybe a review of code and algorithms could help you to make a lighter browser without losing any of Firefox great capabilities. 3. Better accounts/saved passwords management, without risking too much security. 4. Better integration with other stuff like the JVM and Flash Player (although I don't have any problems with ln -s some people prefer it the easy way). 5. Posibility to expand the Google search, to look out for Images or news.
As some guys noted earlier, a few things like the pop-up management (actually is almost-great, but it still lacks of some stuff to recognize really needed pop-ups) and making default the Open in new tab for links could improve a lot the Browser.
If you want me to increase my geekness level, send one of those invites tofebuiles-nospamplease@inbox.lv:D
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Why the new faces point to Federico Mena? He's been working in GNOME for more time that most of the known developers.
>> And, when was the last time you bought a game and actually played it for more than (say) 30 hours (1hr/day) before becoming tired with it (with the exception of rare games such as HL/CS)?
:D
I was just going to say CS
Anyway, there's still Quake or UT, and the pricing based on hours, that I think is the best they could do, and as you say, max. $15 a month.
240.000 persons have buyed the game to this moment, that makes $12 million just to start, and christmas is around the corner.
Now let's be pretty bad and say that just 140.000 will buy one month and you got yourself another 2 millions. Now lets say that in xmas plus in the upcoming 3 or 4 months the same number of persons will do just the same and you got yourself a total $29 millions being pretty negative.
My personal calculations is that within the first 4 months they will easily get at least $50 millions, which I'm sure is LOT less that they invested in making the game.
Everyone else is complaining and giving for sure that we all live in US with a monthly income of at least 1500 dollars.
Hello guys from the other countries where receiving $1000 a month is a pretty good amount that lets you live like a decent person.
I'll give my example, Colombia, where the minimum salary is around 120.
I have a pretty decent life, but guys, come on, here a ticket for a movie on any Cinemark is about 4 dollars, with 20 bucks you could tank almost every normal car and being a good kid you receive $70 a month (having a "capable" family).
Spending $50 on a game to wonder if you'll like it or not is kind of suicide, I bought UT2k4 for $30!!!
I just think they should at least give away the game, or use a Steam-like system to distribute it for $15-$20 and then give a $5 or $6 first month test, then if anyone wants to spend the other $15, well great.
So please, Mr. Blizzard take in consideration other parts of the world as you have done with your other games.
PS: Anyway, I'll just get the freakin' game, pay for 3 months and give a good use to this vacations, it's Warcraft after all...
>> (Note that RMS himself has very little influence outside the OSS world, and I'd argue that his influence *inside* the OSS world isn't all that much either.)
Trying not to be a RMS a fan, I'll remember you that he's been one of the important guys in the decisions made the last months by the Brazilian government to support Free Software and use it actively.
Ideal for developers??? I hope they have improved this version because the gift DVD (I wanted to try the distro) didn't had gcc or emacs, if that's what you call ideal for developers.... On the other side, it couldn't detect my 802.11 so screw it, tried Ubuntu and I'm pretty happy right now.
Man, he's posting and reading ./ and you still ask if his time is worth something? :D
I want to outsource to my government tooo!!!!
I by no means want to troll, but I have two questions for you. First, why should we care if you work in a F100 company? I can say that I work in a F10 company and that won't give more stuff to my comment.
:P
The other thing is, how do you install a Pre-release of a product in 20.000 computers? Do you know that if a new bug arises in this version your "F100" company will get your ass burned in one of those chicken machines that turns them all around the whole day?
Yes, we DONT need a DVD-R/RW, we DONT need breakfast, guys, think about it, we JUST need a toilet!!! (and a blowj*b if you want to)...
I have my own box, using it to host my own web server, mail server, apps server and various stuff.
The only real problem that I've had is the spam-filters, I have used a lot of them but I've never had the chance (time) to totally optimize them so with the best one I've tried (SpamAssasin) I still get around 20 junk mails a day, and believe me, I just got tired of pressing 'D' in Mutt.
The alternative? Mozilla Thunderbird, may be a little slower than console based clients but after a few 'j's I barely notice of spam right now.
1. Acknowledgment that Firefox is ONLY a browser, please do not start overloading with a bunch of plugins and stuff that we'll never use.
:D
2. Increase of speed. Maybe a review of code and algorithms could help you to make a lighter browser without losing any of Firefox great capabilities.
3. Better accounts/saved passwords management, without risking too much security.
4. Better integration with other stuff like the JVM and Flash Player (although I don't have any problems with ln -s some people prefer it the easy way).
5. Posibility to expand the Google search, to look out for Images or news.
As some guys noted earlier, a few things like the pop-up management (actually is almost-great, but it still lacks of some stuff to recognize really needed pop-ups) and making default the Open in new tab for links could improve a lot the Browser.
If you want me to increase my geekness level, send one of those invites tofebuiles-nospamplease@inbox.lv
My only question is, to install Windows without wiping your Linux system what does he use? Windows Installer wont help him...
Exactly! User friendly!
It wouldn't hurt to get one at nospampleasethanks-febuiles@inbox.lv...:D
People who are requesting for e-mails to send invites should follow neverkevin's example and post the links in your journals, better and no spam.
Ehmmm, no, thanks. No. No. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! XAML.....pfff.... No.