That should still be illegal, as long as the product is genuine and legal to import it should not be up to the manufacturer to decide where you can or cannot bring/use it. If Valve wants to sell it for cheap in some markets they still have the option of waiting with the release until the retail price is down to the same level in other regions, that would get rid of any incentive to import. They could also translate the game completely and include no option to get an English language version if you buy from Russia or China, that's perfectly valid. Creating artificial barriers to free trade should be illegal (AFAIK it's only in Australia, EU law only complains if they interfere with intra-EU trade).
Then again, knowing Valve the Orange Box will be taken off the market and replaced with some new 50$ bundle before it sees its first pricedrop.
I agree with that stance. In the absense of an EULA (or in a jurisdiction where an EULA is not binding) all you buy is a physical medium which you can then proceed to use however you wish as long as you don't violate any laws.
I do agree that the enormous majority of games in the last 5 years at least all number among the worst.
We call that "Sturgeon's Law". If you think your chances that any randomly selected game is good are worse now than in the Atari age you're living some serious delusions.
BTW, SupCom sucks, play Spring, the TA-like mods have much better balance along with more unit and strategic variety. Plus it doesn't require a super expensive/powerful machine to remain playable in lategame.
This would be way too abusable for disrupting other businesses. Imagine e.g. Microsoft hijacking all Linux-related domains or Fox News hijacking Slashdot. An individual will have a hard time raising enough money to outbid a huge corporation intent on stealing his domain. Noone would use that DNS because it would be worthless to the user since the domain names are unlikely to be related to the content.
The EU also has data protection laws, I wonder if an EULA is legally allowed to require granting permission to collecting your data. If not they would be in breach of the law as they wouldn't have agreement from you.
The EULA is between you and the publisher, not you and the store. If the store says "we don't take returns" then the EULA can't do jack shit about it. You could try getting the publisher to refund you or you could contest the EULA in court somehow because you weren't presented the contract before purchase and won't get your money back once you read the contract. Not sure that'd work though.
It's just easier to grab an off-the-shelf ruleset that was tested by loads of people and is known to work than to make up your own. It's not like you need some expensive software or anything to design an RPG system yet many people still buy standard rulesets (and sometimes complain that the rules aren't exactly what they want...).
If I wanted only role-playing, my friends and I could write a book together.
Isn't the point of a P&P RPG in the end to simply act as a ruleset everyone agrees upon to make sure everyone's prepared for what can and will happen? So noone goes "neener-neener, I have plate armor!" when it pleases them?
SONY releases sequels to PS2 titles? Last I checked most of those games were made by other companies and it's up to those other companies to make those sequels. From the looks of it many of them are opting for a multiplatform release. If it was up to Sony there would be a next-gen Dragon Quest on the PS3 but Dragon Quest is going to the Nintendo DS. Sony would probably love to keep their PSP system seller Monster Hunter but after being initially announced for the PS3 the third game in the series went to the Wii instead. Sony used to have limited exclusivity on GTA but now Microsoft has made sure that GTA4 will be released on the 360 the same day.
This may actually be a legal attack vector. IIRC an ISP is not responsible for the actions of its users because of the common carrier status, interfering with their carried data would leave them without that CC status and gives them liability whenever someone on their network downloads child porn or anything else that's illegal.
I hope Naruto Rev isn't a step down from GNT4. GNT4 had some really good reviews (I only played GNT3 and GNT4 is supposedly better) but Rev is a modified version of the Shipuuden game and I have no idea if those modifications were just graphically or if they were done with enough care to keep the thing balanced.
Since MMOs involve lots of repetitive actions that can easily be automated it shouldn't be too hard to predict what the player will do. OTOH this is kind of an admission that MMOs are so dumb that players are pretty predictable. I guess that's why I'm not playing an MMO currently...
The controllers do that, 16 buttons make people without experience panic, the Wiimote reduces that a lot while adding the potential for gesture controls that could replace the buttons.
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That should still be illegal, as long as the product is genuine and legal to import it should not be up to the manufacturer to decide where you can or cannot bring/use it. If Valve wants to sell it for cheap in some markets they still have the option of waiting with the release until the retail price is down to the same level in other regions, that would get rid of any incentive to import. They could also translate the game completely and include no option to get an English language version if you buy from Russia or China, that's perfectly valid. Creating artificial barriers to free trade should be illegal (AFAIK it's only in Australia, EU law only complains if they interfere with intra-EU trade).
Then again, knowing Valve the Orange Box will be taken off the market and replaced with some new 50$ bundle before it sees its first pricedrop.
So yes, legislation is the way to go. Thanks for pointing that out.
I thought that was
Cats: How are you gentlemen!! All your base are belong to us!!
Traffic costs the ISP money. They have interest in shutting a misbehaving client down. If not there's still the option of legislation.
Not just "off-site" either mind you, but off-city backups?!
ThePirateBay is an off-country backup! What other backup works even when you never had the original in first place?
Yeah but when he breaks a window the same thing applies.
Well, there were some import-only chips and tools so there was apparently demand. I would like to have one of those for the Wii.
1. Buy game
2. Insert game into console
3. Make backup
4. Sell game
5. Keep playing backup
6. ???
7. PROFIT!
I agree with that stance. In the absense of an EULA (or in a jurisdiction where an EULA is not binding) all you buy is a physical medium which you can then proceed to use however you wish as long as you don't violate any laws.
I do agree that the enormous majority of games in the last 5 years at least all number among the worst.
We call that "Sturgeon's Law". If you think your chances that any randomly selected game is good are worse now than in the Atari age you're living some serious delusions.
BTW, SupCom sucks, play Spring, the TA-like mods have much better balance along with more unit and strategic variety. Plus it doesn't require a super expensive/powerful machine to remain playable in lategame.
Depends on whether the stock covers only the US branch or everything that's part of MS.
This would be way too abusable for disrupting other businesses. Imagine e.g. Microsoft hijacking all Linux-related domains or Fox News hijacking Slashdot. An individual will have a hard time raising enough money to outbid a huge corporation intent on stealing his domain. Noone would use that DNS because it would be worthless to the user since the domain names are unlikely to be related to the content.
The EU also has data protection laws, I wonder if an EULA is legally allowed to require granting permission to collecting your data. If not they would be in breach of the law as they wouldn't have agreement from you.
The EULA is between you and the publisher, not you and the store. If the store says "we don't take returns" then the EULA can't do jack shit about it. You could try getting the publisher to refund you or you could contest the EULA in court somehow because you weren't presented the contract before purchase and won't get your money back once you read the contract. Not sure that'd work though.
It's just easier to grab an off-the-shelf ruleset that was tested by loads of people and is known to work than to make up your own. It's not like you need some expensive software or anything to design an RPG system yet many people still buy standard rulesets (and sometimes complain that the rules aren't exactly what they want...).
If I wanted only role-playing, my friends and I could write a book together.
Isn't the point of a P&P RPG in the end to simply act as a ruleset everyone agrees upon to make sure everyone's prepared for what can and will happen? So noone goes "neener-neener, I have plate armor!" when it pleases them?
SONY releases sequels to PS2 titles? Last I checked most of those games were made by other companies and it's up to those other companies to make those sequels. From the looks of it many of them are opting for a multiplatform release. If it was up to Sony there would be a next-gen Dragon Quest on the PS3 but Dragon Quest is going to the Nintendo DS. Sony would probably love to keep their PSP system seller Monster Hunter but after being initially announced for the PS3 the third game in the series went to the Wii instead. Sony used to have limited exclusivity on GTA but now Microsoft has made sure that GTA4 will be released on the 360 the same day.
That happens when you eat a book.
I waited a bit and got a copy from a store that had so much surplus they marked it down a bit...
This may actually be a legal attack vector. IIRC an ISP is not responsible for the actions of its users because of the common carrier status, interfering with their carried data would leave them without that CC status and gives them liability whenever someone on their network downloads child porn or anything else that's illegal.
I hope Naruto Rev isn't a step down from GNT4. GNT4 had some really good reviews (I only played GNT3 and GNT4 is supposedly better) but Rev is a modified version of the Shipuuden game and I have no idea if those modifications were just graphically or if they were done with enough care to keep the thing balanced.
Since MMOs involve lots of repetitive actions that can easily be automated it shouldn't be too hard to predict what the player will do. OTOH this is kind of an admission that MMOs are so dumb that players are pretty predictable. I guess that's why I'm not playing an MMO currently...
(cue the Eve spam)
The controllers do that, 16 buttons make people without experience panic, the Wiimote reduces that a lot while adding the potential for gesture controls that could replace the buttons.
Lucas Arts could add SCUMMVM to the Virtual Console. That might work better than a compilation disc.
Well, Bioware hasn't made any new games since the buyout so it's a bit early to tell if they can maintain their level of quality under EA leadership.