Everyone knows it's similar but if you write a game for the PC it won't directly work for Xbox. You have to port it. It's still two different platforms regardless of how similar they are.
competition is what drives innovation
Unless you have the monopoly then you suppress innovation because change can't be predicted well enough for stock holders. So you just buy out or crush the competition and never have innovation....*cough*microsoft*cough*
I used to work in tech support and my boss required me to get name address and telephone number everytime someone called for a few different reasons.
1. To log the phone call in a database so that we know of past experiences. It makes it a lot easier when someone calls up with a problem and we can see what other techs have done to try and fix it and to see if it was in for repair recently or not.
2. To verify that information. No one would ever call up to let us know that they moved but if we try to call them back or ship their computer back, it's either the wrong number or address. That usually pisses people off more to have to wait longer to get their computer back than it does to give that info.
3. Sure we could go with the serial number or something but that annoys people. They don't have their SN memorized like they do their address. They have to go looking for it and what not.
In the different tech support places I've worked the idea has always been to maximize helping the customer. 90% of the people that call are already pissed and on the verge of cussing me out. It doesn't do me any good to piss them off more. To my knowledge the companies I've worked at has never given out that info and I've never had to give a survey over the one. So when you mention surveys and marketing crap you must be thinking of tele-marketers or something similar.
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Wasn't Halo a launch title?
So we can think it and say it, but we can't blog it?
They are just posting this now? The article was on Gamastura on 06/02.
In Soviet Russia the asteroids land on you! I'm sorry I had to.
Basically.
Everyone knows it's similar but if you write a game for the PC it won't directly work for Xbox. You have to port it. It's still two different platforms regardless of how similar they are.
Crossplatform as in Xbox and Windows. Not Windows and Linux.
competition is what drives innovation Unless you have the monopoly then you suppress innovation because change can't be predicted well enough for stock holders. So you just buy out or crush the competition and never have innovation....*cough*microsoft*cough*
Wow and I thought I was the only person in the world who remembered scrumtrelescence.
I used to work in tech support and my boss required me to get name address and telephone number everytime someone called for a few different reasons.
1. To log the phone call in a database so that we know of past experiences. It makes it a lot easier when someone calls up with a problem and we can see what other techs have done to try and fix it and to see if it was in for repair recently or not.
2. To verify that information. No one would ever call up to let us know that they moved but if we try to call them back or ship their computer back, it's either the wrong number or address. That usually pisses people off more to have to wait longer to get their computer back than it does to give that info.
3. Sure we could go with the serial number or something but that annoys people. They don't have their SN memorized like they do their address. They have to go looking for it and what not.
In the different tech support places I've worked the idea has always been to maximize helping the customer. 90% of the people that call are already pissed and on the verge of cussing me out. It doesn't do me any good to piss them off more. To my knowledge the companies I've worked at has never given out that info and I've never had to give a survey over the one. So when you mention surveys and marketing crap you must be thinking of tele-marketers or something similar.