From what I heard he makes game ideas up on the spot when interviewed and then acts as if they are already implemented. Usually the interview is the first time his dev team even hears the idea.
I have to say I have yet to see a game where I feel like I effected the story rather than just having fulfilled some trigger condition to see the pre-written next part of it that could be shown even without the trigger if the developer had not locked it away.
* If you want to play with friends, eveyone needs a different activation key, so piracy is somewhat limited.
I always think of that as the dumbest thing to prevent. The best possible introduction for a game is in multiplayer with friends, I've seen it quite often that people play a game together on a LAN and then decide to get their own copy of it. If you add special measures to prevent that they have to either go with something else (that won't net you sales) or get a fully cracked version (which leaves them with little reason to buy it). Ideally you'd WANT them to be able to play the game with friends but not once they go home again so they get a taste and have to pay to get more.
That and even if you do you'll usually end up with a set of possible truths. Eliminating the impossible only throws out some theories but usually not all of them. Hell, if you look at the mess the US educational system is currently demonstrating you've always got "God did it" as one of the improbable solutions and that one's definitely not disprovable (Dawkins argues that God is extremely improbable but Holmes's saying there says "no matter how improbable").
Since the chromosomes in each sperm are picked randomly it's pretty likely that any significant amount of them would contain at least one copy of each chromosome. Then again the way the chromosome sets are generated (splitting one base cell) would probably mean that sperms with exactly opposite chromosome configurations would appear pretty close to each other inside the testicle which would mean the chance of finding a whole chromosome set should be even higher than with a purely random distribution (not that you need a higher chance when you've already got millions of 50% chances and only one of them has to succeed).
I'd say there's a good chance the computers will be obsolete before they fail. 3-4 years is nothing, if your computers fail that fast you should probably look into another vendor.
You think that's bad, try looking at the court record of his disbarment trial. They go into detail how he tried to pressure judges with constant bullying.
I really don't care. All that site ever did was annoy me. I don't think it even works with cookies disabled (it's a fucking file host, what does it need cookies for???). Or maybe it just doesn't work with Opera at ALL. Either of those. Dunno but I can't bring myself to care about the death of a site that made it unnecessarily complicated to get to a download and that companies would use to dump huge and popular files onto (resulting in abysmal download rates and really long queues). I avoided them as much as I could.
The prosecution is charging the guy's father for keeping a gun unsafe when his son was pathologically depressed. Also the father is a gun nut and taught his son how to shoot at a pretty early age.
The problem is that the creationists look at the data, throw it out completely and then make up shit. That's not the scientific method leading to different conclusions, that's a conclusion looking for a way to reach it.
Or zombies are a convenient excuse to provide the player with a target-rich environment and more gore than should realistically fit into the human body.
Depends on how many demo downloads turn into sales and how many of those sales were caused by the demo. I know more demos have pushed me away from a game than pulled towards it and sometimes it's just because I felt insulted by the demo's restrictions (like ending after 20-30 seconds of game time like the arcade remakes on XBLA).
but yeah, online purchases should only be used for extra content that DOESN'T affect gameplay (astmosphere counts) yet it seems like some developers want to screw themselves over.
Dunno, I think selling additional levels (well, and any other main content) for a game does make sense but only if those levels weren't a part of the game originally and just removed so you'd have to pay money for them.
Most companies make more than one game and usually these games are aimed at the same userbase. Of course a shovelware publisher would probably hope you'd just forget his name so the next time you come across one of his games you won't put it back the moment you see the name but most of the big name publishers and developers have reputations that directly affect their sales. Get a reputation for broken and unpatched games and you'll sell less of them (EA had to downsize over massive losses so don't point at them claiming "it works for them"), get a reputation for polished games and good patching and you get more sales (see Blizzard and Valve).
Those things aren't cheaper on flea markets either except flea markets have a terrible selection so you probably won't find what you were looking for anyway.
And because of this, I also believe that, should the market tighten, the real competition would be between the 360 and the PS3
I'm saying that the competition there doesn't really exist. Most of the games are third party and third parties have little reason to make exclusives, especially now that they have trouble making their development investments back. Ports are cheap compared to the gain they bring so they're pretty much mandatory unless you can somehow extort a nice money hat from a console manufacturer by not doing them. Any difference between the platforms is artificial currently. It doesn't matter which one is in the lead, a 60-40 split still means you're ignoring 40% of your potential userbase by going exclusive to the bigger one while accessing that 40% would cost you pocket change.
Well, the guy went for publicity stunts instead of actually trying to fulfill the requirements for a developer. This is the kind of guy you'd never want to issue a license to even if he does manage to have the physical part of the requirements at some point.
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From what I heard he makes game ideas up on the spot when interviewed and then acts as if they are already implemented. Usually the interview is the first time his dev team even hears the idea.
Well, "art" lacking mass-market appeal isn't unique to gaming, you don't see much deep thinking in a hollywood blockbuster either.
I have to say I have yet to see a game where I feel like I effected the story rather than just having fulfilled some trigger condition to see the pre-written next part of it that could be shown even without the trigger if the developer had not locked it away.
Well, there is a reason The Art Of War is still a popular book.
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Gecko OS also breaks the region lock which is pretty damn useful.
* If you want to play with friends, eveyone needs a different activation key, so piracy is somewhat limited.
I always think of that as the dumbest thing to prevent. The best possible introduction for a game is in multiplayer with friends, I've seen it quite often that people play a game together on a LAN and then decide to get their own copy of it. If you add special measures to prevent that they have to either go with something else (that won't net you sales) or get a fully cracked version (which leaves them with little reason to buy it). Ideally you'd WANT them to be able to play the game with friends but not once they go home again so they get a taste and have to pay to get more.
DNA is called DNS in German and probably some other languages, I'd attribute that to a translation mistake.
I doubt there were only 20 crimes examined with swabs from that factory so the probability of a swab being contaminated is probably fairly low.
That and even if you do you'll usually end up with a set of possible truths. Eliminating the impossible only throws out some theories but usually not all of them. Hell, if you look at the mess the US educational system is currently demonstrating you've always got "God did it" as one of the improbable solutions and that one's definitely not disprovable (Dawkins argues that God is extremely improbable but Holmes's saying there says "no matter how improbable").
Since the chromosomes in each sperm are picked randomly it's pretty likely that any significant amount of them would contain at least one copy of each chromosome. Then again the way the chromosome sets are generated (splitting one base cell) would probably mean that sperms with exactly opposite chromosome configurations would appear pretty close to each other inside the testicle which would mean the chance of finding a whole chromosome set should be even higher than with a purely random distribution (not that you need a higher chance when you've already got millions of 50% chances and only one of them has to succeed).
I'd say there's a good chance the computers will be obsolete before they fail. 3-4 years is nothing, if your computers fail that fast you should probably look into another vendor.
At least it explains why the StarOffice EULA specifically disallowed using SO to maintain or operate a nuclear reactor...
You think that's bad, try looking at the court record of his disbarment trial. They go into detail how he tried to pressure judges with constant bullying.
I really don't care. All that site ever did was annoy me. I don't think it even works with cookies disabled (it's a fucking file host, what does it need cookies for???). Or maybe it just doesn't work with Opera at ALL. Either of those. Dunno but I can't bring myself to care about the death of a site that made it unnecessarily complicated to get to a download and that companies would use to dump huge and popular files onto (resulting in abysmal download rates and really long queues). I avoided them as much as I could.
Many people are on "unlimited" plans that really just mean the cap is hidden and if you go above it you get terminated instead of throttled.
The prosecution is charging the guy's father for keeping a gun unsafe when his son was pathologically depressed. Also the father is a gun nut and taught his son how to shoot at a pretty early age.
The problem is that the creationists look at the data, throw it out completely and then make up shit. That's not the scientific method leading to different conclusions, that's a conclusion looking for a way to reach it.
Or zombies are a convenient excuse to provide the player with a target-rich environment and more gore than should realistically fit into the human body.
Depends on how many demo downloads turn into sales and how many of those sales were caused by the demo. I know more demos have pushed me away from a game than pulled towards it and sometimes it's just because I felt insulted by the demo's restrictions (like ending after 20-30 seconds of game time like the arcade remakes on XBLA).
but yeah, online purchases should only be used for extra content that DOESN'T affect gameplay (astmosphere counts) yet it seems like some developers want to screw themselves over.
Dunno, I think selling additional levels (well, and any other main content) for a game does make sense but only if those levels weren't a part of the game originally and just removed so you'd have to pay money for them.
Most companies make more than one game and usually these games are aimed at the same userbase. Of course a shovelware publisher would probably hope you'd just forget his name so the next time you come across one of his games you won't put it back the moment you see the name but most of the big name publishers and developers have reputations that directly affect their sales. Get a reputation for broken and unpatched games and you'll sell less of them (EA had to downsize over massive losses so don't point at them claiming "it works for them"), get a reputation for polished games and good patching and you get more sales (see Blizzard and Valve).
yay for wii and ridiculously overpriced snes roms
Those things aren't cheaper on flea markets either except flea markets have a terrible selection so you probably won't find what you were looking for anyway.
And because of this, I also believe that, should the market tighten, the real competition would be between the 360 and the PS3
I'm saying that the competition there doesn't really exist. Most of the games are third party and third parties have little reason to make exclusives, especially now that they have trouble making their development investments back. Ports are cheap compared to the gain they bring so they're pretty much mandatory unless you can somehow extort a nice money hat from a console manufacturer by not doing them. Any difference between the platforms is artificial currently. It doesn't matter which one is in the lead, a 60-40 split still means you're ignoring 40% of your potential userbase by going exclusive to the bigger one while accessing that 40% would cost you pocket change.
Well, the guy went for publicity stunts instead of actually trying to fulfill the requirements for a developer. This is the kind of guy you'd never want to issue a license to even if he does manage to have the physical part of the requirements at some point.