Commercial suicide. It alienates all old players and doesn't appeal to new players (because those new ones can just go to another MMO that's a better execution of the concept).
Inventions fall under patent law and patents expire much quicker than copyright and unlike copyright, patent lifetimes become shorter with each law passed on them. Pfizer would have to grab a patent and that patent would expire after 17 years or so (not sure how long patents currently go).
Discontinuation is not a reason, most of those plug-into-your-TV joysticks (at least those sold in stores) are licensed products and the rest is illegal. Besides, even if such a law existed Nintendo wouldn't fall under it, they constantly rerelease their ancient games on various formats and are planning to implement a download service for all of their past games.
Yes but Walmart makes enough profit to stay alive with those margins while smaller shops face bankrupcy if they try to compete. That is the nature of capitalism, the bigger you are, the more likely you are to stay profitable and the easier it is to drive all competition out of business.
It may not be immediately profitable for cinemas to issue refunds if you walk out of the movie but it builds customer relations. Selling people good games and helping them to avoid bad ones will make them more likely to come back to you because they know they get better service.
Perhaps playing a different game would be a better choice then. There are thousands of games that don't require such immense time investments in order to be able to play with your friends.
The idea that it's Chinese doing that work comes from the lower wages in China, even at minimum wages a US farming operation wouldn't be very profitable. China has lots of people and lots of internet access while having low wages.
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On the other hand, that suggests that there are three and three-quarter songs worth downloading on their albums, by iTunes pricing...
In most cases that would be a gross overestimation.
Don't you mean EDGE?
http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/542350.asp
They'Re planning to plug that hole, I hope that stops Uwe Boll.
He called BMX XXX a "true mature game". I didn't know "mature" meant "pubescent".
Commercial suicide. It alienates all old players and doesn't appeal to new players (because those new ones can just go to another MMO that's a better execution of the concept).
Aren't the Quadro/FireGL cards good enough for keeping the viewports at decent speed?
"Wintereenmas shall not be commercialized! Buy our Wintereenmas merchandise!"
When those flowers and mushrooms have eyes I doubt a vegan would still touch them.
You sound like you enjoyed Austin Powers.
In that case he should be happy that all he ended up with was a cornfield sentence, they could easily have sued him for computer trespassing.
Midway gets those dates, Sony isn't the publisher. If any money changed hands it's at best for the promise that UT2007 will get a port to the PS3.
ID, Epic and 3D Realms are all from the days of shareware PC gaming and all three issue "When it's done" release dates. Coincidence?
PSO can be played without going online. Try that with AC2. Or Half-Life 2, for that matter.
Inventions fall under patent law and patents expire much quicker than copyright and unlike copyright, patent lifetimes become shorter with each law passed on them. Pfizer would have to grab a patent and that patent would expire after 17 years or so (not sure how long patents currently go).
Discontinuation is not a reason, most of those plug-into-your-TV joysticks (at least those sold in stores) are licensed products and the rest is illegal. Besides, even if such a law existed Nintendo wouldn't fall under it, they constantly rerelease their ancient games on various formats and are planning to implement a download service for all of their past games.
Did you actually agree to that? Why didn't you tell them "no deal" and walk off? Did you need those three bucks so badly?
Yes but Walmart makes enough profit to stay alive with those margins while smaller shops face bankrupcy if they try to compete. That is the nature of capitalism, the bigger you are, the more likely you are to stay profitable and the easier it is to drive all competition out of business.
It may not be immediately profitable for cinemas to issue refunds if you walk out of the movie but it builds customer relations. Selling people good games and helping them to avoid bad ones will make them more likely to come back to you because they know they get better service.
He said nothing about publishers, he said that most retailers are assholes and being an asshole is profitable in that sector.
Perhaps playing a different game would be a better choice then. There are thousands of games that don't require such immense time investments in order to be able to play with your friends.
The idea that it's Chinese doing that work comes from the lower wages in China, even at minimum wages a US farming operation wouldn't be very profitable. China has lots of people and lots of internet access while having low wages.
Slashdot isn't the only page with double ads.
Perhaps they were rednecks...
Well worth it? Are we talking about the same Grandia 2?
Doesn't it also include tensides to allow fat to solve in the mixture or does that fall under "water softener"?