Those are both products of Sony Online Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Movies, which is an entertainment branch that is almost entirely unrelated to their electronics division.
Just an FYI; Sony's corporate structure is aggressively divided. It makes for no surprise that the different groups often end up at odds with each other.
I'm sure there's a good reason, because StarForce 3 has been around for quite a while and many of the games it "protects" are still not conveniently cracked (Splinter Cell comes to mind).
"Generations of otherwise-bright kids are being doomed to lives of dull monolingualism, with all of its consequences: intolerance, ignorance, and an inability to compete in the global marketplace."
... such as Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, you'd just about shit your pants. They're also cheap to produce. Take one coder, one designer, and one artist, give them two months, and they have another game. Keep that up and license some big names (as my earlier game show examples) and you have one winner after another.
Another thing to keep in mind: this industry's bread & butter is idiots who keep paying for subscribed cell phone games long after their initial purchase. When a $3 charge is added to an already long phone bill, many never notice. Enough of those make a pretty nice revenue stream.
I played the shit out of UO when the game was actually good, pre-T2A patch. Was a PK, loved the pvp. I agree that WoW's pvp is lesser than UO's, but there is far more to a game than the style of the pvp.
UO was my favorite game, but they created a fun environment at the beginning that was ultimately unsustainable.
I've played MMORPGs since MUDs, worked on some of the bigger MMORPGs in the market today, and I think that WoW is far and away the best MMO released yet. It just has a higher level of polish than anything else in terms of stability and gameplay.
If you really think other games are better, which ones are you referring to? I've probably played them and I'm curious what you think is better about them.
Apparently you aren't aware that smallpox-laced blankets were never given to native Americans.
Oh, and by the way, every people on earth has been abused at one point or another. You're a fucking idiot if you insist on concentrating on what has happened to people in the past instead of going through the effort required to ensure you have a good future.
Your post in the EFF thread was naively emotional, arrogant, and makes a host of assumptions about humanity and American society without providing any coherent line of reasoning. You'll always get people who "will stop at nothing to attack their opposition" if you keep making their job so easy.
Strangely, he didn't attribute everything bad that happens to him as "liberal." He didn't even necessarily attribute this particular annoyance of his to "liberalism."
Shut the fuck up, sit the fuck down, stop exposing your partisan affliction.
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The parent poster gives the only voice of reason in this stupid God damned debate.
The plural of Nazi is Nazis, not Nazi's.
You fail at criticizing grammar.
Your posts are the worst incomprehensible bullshit that I have ever seen.
Fucking wow.
Those are both products of Sony Online Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Movies, which is an entertainment branch that is almost entirely unrelated to their electronics division.
Just an FYI; Sony's corporate structure is aggressively divided. It makes for no surprise that the different groups often end up at odds with each other.
Pssst... try "paid."
I'm sure there's a good reason, because StarForce 3 has been around for quite a while and many of the games it "protects" are still not conveniently cracked (Splinter Cell comes to mind).
That's doctah Jones to YOU, lady!
I actually really like that idea. Clever.
Why would they make a statement at all unless the delay was a sure thing?
"Generations of otherwise-bright kids are being doomed to lives of dull monolingualism, with all of its consequences: intolerance, ignorance, and an inability to compete in the global marketplace."
Haha! That's retarded!
Um, so that's great, dude. You have an opinion about what kind of games you like.
So do most of us - congratulations.
Here in America, we're having a religiously-charged debate about gay marriage.
In Islamic states, homosexuality is a crime punished to various degrees.
It is not the same, no matter how much you wish for it to be.
You mean "sloppiness."
Heh. Don't be such a fucking prude about something as non-threatened as language.
That's the most enlightened view I've heard yet, regarding language.
... such as Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, you'd just about shit your pants. They're also cheap to produce. Take one coder, one designer, and one artist, give them two months, and they have another game. Keep that up and license some big names (as my earlier game show examples) and you have one winner after another.
Another thing to keep in mind: this industry's bread & butter is idiots who keep paying for subscribed cell phone games long after their initial purchase. When a $3 charge is added to an already long phone bill, many never notice. Enough of those make a pretty nice revenue stream.
I played the shit out of UO when the game was actually good, pre-T2A patch. Was a PK, loved the pvp. I agree that WoW's pvp is lesser than UO's, but there is far more to a game than the style of the pvp.
UO was my favorite game, but they created a fun environment at the beginning that was ultimately unsustainable.
I've played MMORPGs since MUDs, worked on some of the bigger MMORPGs in the market today, and I think that WoW is far and away the best MMO released yet. It just has a higher level of polish than anything else in terms of stability and gameplay.
If you really think other games are better, which ones are you referring to? I've probably played them and I'm curious what you think is better about them.
Totally.
I don't understand why they do that, either.
When you're talking about "behavior" in an organism so simple as fungus, it's all genetic. It's encoded in the parasite's DNA.
Apparently you aren't aware that smallpox-laced blankets were never given to native Americans.
Oh, and by the way, every people on earth has been abused at one point or another. You're a fucking idiot if you insist on concentrating on what has happened to people in the past instead of going through the effort required to ensure you have a good future.
Your post in the EFF thread was naively emotional, arrogant, and makes a host of assumptions about humanity and American society without providing any coherent line of reasoning. You'll always get people who "will stop at nothing to attack their opposition" if you keep making their job so easy.
"Time and time again security through obscurity has proven to be a fallacy."
Well, it did slow the process down by a pretty long time. For the military, that's often a very important advantage.
Flamebait? It made me laugh.
Looked like a joke to me.
Strangely, he didn't attribute everything bad that happens to him as "liberal." He didn't even necessarily attribute this particular annoyance of his to "liberalism."
Shut the fuck up, sit the fuck down, stop exposing your partisan affliction.