To put it into perspective: Sony expects to sell 100 million units. Even a billion in costs would only tack on a tenner on each of those and that's only if they intend to make the money back on the console itself instead of the games or accessories.
I'd say that since Sony only requires 7 of the 8 SPEs to be operational they're going to buy up the Cells that have slight errors in them and those might be cheaper than fully operational 8 SPE Cells.
I'd like additional clauses for not taking infringements upon the patent to court (or granting a license) that end the patent immediately if no action is taking at most a year after an infringement has become known, for not using or licensing a patent to someone who uses it for a timespan immediately ending the patent (so you can't use it to block further development, it has to be used in some way or it is ended, maybe even declared useless and as such invalid) and a clause that dishes out heavy fines to anyone who sues over patent infringement and the court finds the patent to be invalid (along with a pay cut for whoever okayed that). Abuse of the patent system should be a crime because it is used frequently to hurt those who can't afford to mount a legal defense.
The "ban" on porn is already on shaky legal ground because they had to find some loopholes to exempt it from the First Amendment. Allowing them to stuff random material into that loophole means allowing them to undermine the First Amendment. There's a reason the First Amendment exists.
I'd agree with that post if it was any other game but what exactly is the difference between a 2d and a 3d Final Fantasy? It's not like the third dimension affects the gameplay in any way.
While you're not as fast you can do much quicker turns in real life than in a game that uses analog stick control because you can turn at speeds that would be disorienting in a game. You know how far you turned in real life because your body can easily detect that but if you were to turn with the same speed with an analog stick you wouldn't know how far you turned. With a mouse you can know how far you turned from the distance you moved the mouse.
Analog sticks are more like controlling a robot or a tank, the mouse is closer to moving a human.
I think what he's saying is that if you can declare a storyline as bad because of a very abstract summary that'd mean we didn't have a good storyline since Aesop. There's more to a story than the basic premise.
I mean, take LotR: Big Evil threatens fantasy world, bunch of heroes go out to defeat it. That's the level of abstraction we're reaching here.
I am starting to think that the Playstation niche of the console market aren't just unlucky for chosing the marketplace loser over and over again. It is becomming clear that you sad fucks are just fucking dumb.
What the fuck are you clowns going to do when Sony pulls the plug on the PS3? Plauge the Net for years like the goddamn Amiga freaks? Mass suicide?
(Sure sign of a troll post: It can be thrown back almost verbatim and makes just as much sense)
All good games that are worthy of competitive gaming have multiple strategies that can work and each has its advantages and faults. Zerg rushes may work most of the time but when your enemy is prepared and destroys your attack you are vulnerable and lack ressources, which is usually fatal. If a game has only one strategy that has a chance at succeeding it's a bad choice for pro gaming.
Ssssshhh! SCEE doesn't like it when people talk about God Of War, that tarnishes their family friendly image carefully established with games for everyone like SOCOM, GTA or Manhunt.
That only works post-Jesus. Kratos is an ancient greek so he'd have to deal with the old testamentarian God that vaporizes entire cities, orders his followers to exterminate tribes and floods the Earth. At least he didn't destroy all the stars and demand that Jesus roll up some crap to make new stars...
I've never relied much on item use so I can't say how much the HP limit prevents foodspamming but considering all the complaints after the introduction of the food timer it seems to have worked. IMHO the biggest problem with FlyFF is that it's just awfully boring and repetitive, the bugs and lag are just the topping.
I've wasted a few hours with another korean MMO called Flyff, they had the same idea with healing items, you could have any number of them and use them as much as you want. As a result, players put almost no stat points into stamina because all they needed to survive was one hit, after that you could spam healing items to survive the next hit. Can you imagine how much crying there was when the developers introduced a two or three second delay between potion uses around Christmas? It was done primarily for PvP so people wanted PvP removed again just so they could keep spamming healing items.
Make the healing shorten downtimes but don't let it become a big factor during combat.
And while we're at it, when potions are dirt cheap and trivial to get, wouldn't it be better to just give players a very high regeneration rate out of combat (like Guildwars does)? If you expect people to maintain huge stockpiles of them anyway and that doesn't cause any real cost, why do you make people run to the store to get new potions? Trivial aspects of a game should be automated or eliminated because anything that can be done without putting effort into it and without challenge is just unnecessary work.
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Except M-L said the CPU and drive make up ~ 600$ of that 900$ estimate.
To put it into perspective: Sony expects to sell 100 million units. Even a billion in costs would only tack on a tenner on each of those and that's only if they intend to make the money back on the console itself instead of the games or accessories.
I'd say that since Sony only requires 7 of the 8 SPEs to be operational they're going to buy up the Cells that have slight errors in them and those might be cheaper than fully operational 8 SPE Cells.
I'd like additional clauses for not taking infringements upon the patent to court (or granting a license) that end the patent immediately if no action is taking at most a year after an infringement has become known, for not using or licensing a patent to someone who uses it for a timespan immediately ending the patent (so you can't use it to block further development, it has to be used in some way or it is ended, maybe even declared useless and as such invalid) and a clause that dishes out heavy fines to anyone who sues over patent infringement and the court finds the patent to be invalid (along with a pay cut for whoever okayed that). Abuse of the patent system should be a crime because it is used frequently to hurt those who can't afford to mount a legal defense.
Yeah, dirty, dirty bill!
The "ban" on porn is already on shaky legal ground because they had to find some loopholes to exempt it from the First Amendment. Allowing them to stuff random material into that loophole means allowing them to undermine the First Amendment. There's a reason the First Amendment exists.
Sssssshhhh! Don't tell him that, he got that badge from Taiwan!
I'd agree with that post if it was any other game but what exactly is the difference between a 2d and a 3d Final Fantasy? It's not like the third dimension affects the gameplay in any way.
FPSes are repetitive but at least they have the common decency not to repeat rooms or entire levels.
FPSes don't represent the real world. At least I have nerver heard of US soldiers rocket-jumping to reach higher places.
Serious Sam?
And wasn't Halo 1 LAN-only, at least on the console?
While you're not as fast you can do much quicker turns in real life than in a game that uses analog stick control because you can turn at speeds that would be disorienting in a game. You know how far you turned in real life because your body can easily detect that but if you were to turn with the same speed with an analog stick you wouldn't know how far you turned. With a mouse you can know how far you turned from the distance you moved the mouse.
Analog sticks are more like controlling a robot or a tank, the mouse is closer to moving a human.
I think what he's saying is that if you can declare a storyline as bad because of a very abstract summary that'd mean we didn't have a good storyline since Aesop. There's more to a story than the basic premise.
I mean, take LotR: Big Evil threatens fantasy world, bunch of heroes go out to defeat it. That's the level of abstraction we're reaching here.
That's why it's listed in TFA.
I am starting to think that the Playstation niche of the console market aren't just unlucky for chosing the marketplace loser over and over again. It is becomming clear that you sad fucks are just fucking dumb.
What the fuck are you clowns going to do when Sony pulls the plug on the PS3? Plauge the Net for years like the goddamn Amiga freaks? Mass suicide?
(Sure sign of a troll post: It can be thrown back almost verbatim and makes just as much sense)
All good games that are worthy of competitive gaming have multiple strategies that can work and each has its advantages and faults. Zerg rushes may work most of the time but when your enemy is prepared and destroys your attack you are vulnerable and lack ressources, which is usually fatal. If a game has only one strategy that has a chance at succeeding it's a bad choice for pro gaming.
In which case I'd suggest he shouldn't play MMORPGs.
I keep telling those people to use Underrated instead.
Sequels. That worries me far more.
Ssssshhh! SCEE doesn't like it when people talk about God Of War, that tarnishes their family friendly image carefully established with games for everyone like SOCOM, GTA or Manhunt.
That only works post-Jesus. Kratos is an ancient greek so he'd have to deal with the old testamentarian God that vaporizes entire cities, orders his followers to exterminate tribes and floods the Earth. At least he didn't destroy all the stars and demand that Jesus roll up some crap to make new stars...
CC is patch version 3.0, 3.1c is the last patch version. Have you installed that patch?
I've never relied much on item use so I can't say how much the HP limit prevents foodspamming but considering all the complaints after the introduction of the food timer it seems to have worked. IMHO the biggest problem with FlyFF is that it's just awfully boring and repetitive, the bugs and lag are just the topping.
Better rename it because the company with the rights to the Scrabble name (dunno who that was) really hates it when people make free Scrabble clones.
I've wasted a few hours with another korean MMO called Flyff, they had the same idea with healing items, you could have any number of them and use them as much as you want. As a result, players put almost no stat points into stamina because all they needed to survive was one hit, after that you could spam healing items to survive the next hit. Can you imagine how much crying there was when the developers introduced a two or three second delay between potion uses around Christmas? It was done primarily for PvP so people wanted PvP removed again just so they could keep spamming healing items.
Make the healing shorten downtimes but don't let it become a big factor during combat.
And while we're at it, when potions are dirt cheap and trivial to get, wouldn't it be better to just give players a very high regeneration rate out of combat (like Guildwars does)? If you expect people to maintain huge stockpiles of them anyway and that doesn't cause any real cost, why do you make people run to the store to get new potions? Trivial aspects of a game should be automated or eliminated because anything that can be done without putting effort into it and without challenge is just unnecessary work.