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Sharp practices maybe, but product recalls are almost always a grave embarrassment for any company. Watching your stocks take a sharp fall and your reputation dented is far too steep a price to pay for squeezing some extra cash out of a few thousand customers, there's machiavelian and then there's stupid.
The GNAA has been taking liberties with wikipedia for some time my good friend, involving both minor edits and complete defacements to a large number of entries (KKK, Linux, Slashdot, any definition linked to on the main page etc..) Of course turnabout is fair play, with the Gay Nigger Association of America entry itself being defaced and blanked to hell and back over the months. They've gone for freedom and content size over accuracy and restriction, you have to laud them for it, even if it becomes a trolling honeypot.
The MMORPG market reached saturation point a long LONG time ago, yet the market is still being flooded by those companies who haven't heard the penny drop. Hopefully a few more drownings such as this will teach them the error of their ways.
I've found that partycat the online indie music store provides a cheap and reliable service when it comes to purchasing indie music. I've already been introduced to dozens of new bands thanks to this service, and would recommend it to any slashdotter eager to help the fight against the RIAA without also violating the law.
Microsoft are just embracing their legal right to appeal, something that they are perfectly entitled to do. The EU are the ones to blame for the suspension of sanctions, not microsoft, even if the majority of slashdotters do place them on a par with the GNAA and people who boil puppies alive in vegetable oil.
The entire point of these sanctions was to punish Microsoft for NOT letting the market decide. Anti-competative practices and monopolising in any situation is bad for a free market, even if the product meets the peoples needs.
HD-DVD format uses a 405nm-wavelength blue-violet laser technology, in contrast to the 650nm-wavelength red laser technology used in traditional DVD formats. The rewritable Blu-ray disc, with a data transfer rate of 36Mbps, can hold up to 27GB of data on a single-sided single layer disc (compared to the traditional DVD's 4.7GB capacity), which amounts to about 12 hours of standard video or more than 2 hours of high-definition video. AOD is pretty much the same, except it has a storage capacity of 20GB on a single-layer disc
And the iTunes service will only be available to the UK, France, and Germany. Obviously Apple's and OD2's definition of "Europe" is very lax. But in the end, they have to go where the money and population is, and build it up from there. Remember, some members of the EU are more equal than others.
People can add all the bells and whistles they want. If I run down a list of the games I've personally enjoyed the most recently it'll include games such as Wario Ware and Puyo Puyo Fever, a notoriously simple concept brilliantly executed. The most successful Puzzle games have always stuck to this concept, from Tetris to Puyo Puyo, the limited options and emphasis on pattern and formation with multiple routes to the desired goal can flesh out something that doesn't require the player to remember complex keyboard layouts or button combos. Instead the only limits in place are the logic functions of the Human mind.
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As far as the general public is concerned, the vast majority of bloggers don't matter. After all, who is Joe Public going to trust the most, a fully professional New York Times employed scribe, or "Zergrush_7" ranting on his Livejournal.
I wouldn't consider it a "less is more" approach, more another example of nintendo putting concept first, and then building the graphics engine around the atmosphere/gameplay style. With four swords they needed a game that would: a) allow four people to fit on a small screen easily b) allow the action to be continued on a gameboy screen.
Obviously the Link To The Past approach suited it well, but to Nintendos credit they also threw in some of the more impressive moments of Wind Waker and Links Awakening onto this 2D canvas. Throw in another case of Nintendos increasingly humorous nods to their own past (see: Wario Ware, Superstar Saga, Mario vs Donkey Kong) and you have a true game of the year contender. It's just a pity that your friends opinion is so widespread these days.
The heavily armoured divisions of the US and British armies had little to fear of the iraqi armed forces RPGs, the most "devastating" weapon in their limited arsenal. However once the initial resistance was swiftly dealt with, the all new threat came from roadside bombs, suicide bombers, and mines. This will make some difference, but most terrorists will strike at the troops outside of their vehicles anyway.
The UK government, especially under Blair, has long used the motorist as a large source of tax revenue. Whether it be through high Fuel costs, a large number of hidden speed cameras (most of which do little in the way of preventing accidents), toll roads, and various other initiatives under the banner of "increasing the use of public transport". The government would only invest in this with one motive and one motive alone, squeezing more money out of the motorist through draconian fines.
When games finally cross the final borders into photorealism, it will become interesting to gauge the publics reaction to games that become truly realistic in their depiction of violence and death. Americas Army will get away with this under the banner of the "fight for americas omnipotent and brave armed forces and kill a few towelheads" banner. But when the next generation Grand Theft Autos and Manhunts allow the gamer a criminal/malevolent experience that is hard to differentiate from reality, will it merely be an act of harmless escapism, or something entirely more desensitising? It would only take one high-profile school shooting or kidnap/murder/suicide to get the tabloid media attacking the games industry with a ferocity unseen since the days of the staggeringly shit Mortal Kombat.
Why even bother Microsoft? The original was nothing more than a miserable failiure in terms of quality and sales, and in a Platform market containing the Jak and Daxter series and Super Mario Sunshine a poor mans Crash Bandicoot is not going to serve you well. Especially on a console whos main userbase comprises of fans of Driving Games, First Person Shooters, and half decent PC ports.
The market east of the English Channel is/has been long lost, give up, and pray that Halo 2 is good enough to cancel out the Killzone/Snake Eater and Realistic Zelda hype. Gamestats shows them neck and neck, and when all that exists of Zelda is a near month old 1 minute trailer, that's bad news for Microsoft.
And the patient will just wait for the high quality DVD rips to be released, especially popular over here in the UK thanks to the excessive amount of time a large proportion of titles take to cross the atlantic. This is a nice publicity stunt that might (in the unlikely event of it being well implimented) possibly add a day or two to the length of time it takes a poor quality camrip to appear on suprnova, but nothing more
If they sold the games for two-thirds of their original price, the price of second hand software would simply fall to even lower levels, and the cycle would repeat.
True, more games will be bought brand new, but these will be purchases from the usual suspects, the ones with either the loyalty, lack of patience, or high amounts of cash to be able to go out and purchase software at release. The large numbers of those who hawk second hand software will simply shrug their shoulders and wait for the even cheaper castoffs to arrive. I severely doubt we shall see a sharp enough spike to cover the massive developmental costs of games these days.
There is little the developers can do to stop this in this valued free market, except go for the big launch, as it is the sleeper hits that tend to be screwed over the most.
That you don't live in Japan, where the software developers have been known to not only take a dim view to retailers stocking second hand software, but also actively clamp down on it.
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LOSTCLUSTER you MASSIVE FAGGOT I'm going to rape your entire family with an Ice Pick, then I'm coming for you motherfucker! Tell Leon Trotsky I said hi.
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Sharp practices maybe, but product recalls are almost always a grave embarrassment for any company.
Watching your stocks take a sharp fall and your reputation dented is far too steep a price to pay for squeezing some extra cash out of a few thousand customers, there's machiavelian and then there's stupid.
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The GNAA has been taking liberties with wikipedia for some time my good friend, involving both minor edits and complete defacements to a large number of entries (KKK, Linux, Slashdot, any definition linked to on the main page etc..)
Of course turnabout is fair play, with the Gay Nigger Association of America entry itself being defaced and blanked to hell and back over the months.
They've gone for freedom and content size over accuracy and restriction, you have to laud them for it, even if it becomes a trolling honeypot.
Which is much rarer than you may think. It's not just Microsoft and Sony who follow the 'everything including the kitchen sink' policy you know
The MMORPG market reached saturation point a long LONG time ago, yet the market is still being flooded by those companies who haven't heard the penny drop.
Hopefully a few more drownings such as this will teach them the error of their ways.
I've found that partycat the online indie music store provides a cheap and reliable service when it comes to purchasing indie music.
I've already been introduced to dozens of new bands thanks to this service, and would recommend it to any slashdotter eager to help the fight against the RIAA without also violating the law.
Microsoft are just embracing their legal right to appeal, something that they are perfectly entitled to do. The EU are the ones to blame for the suspension of sanctions, not microsoft, even if the majority of slashdotters do place them on a par with the GNAA and people who boil puppies alive in vegetable oil.
The law is too slow - let the market decide.
The entire point of these sanctions was to punish Microsoft for NOT letting the market decide. Anti-competative practices and monopolising in any situation is bad for a free market, even if the product meets the peoples needs.
so it's only a matter of time before the inevitable slashdotting, here's a mirror
Because embarrassments like this only give ammunition to the trolls.
HD-DVD format uses a 405nm-wavelength blue-violet laser technology, in contrast to the 650nm-wavelength red laser technology used in traditional DVD formats. The rewritable Blu-ray disc, with a data transfer rate of 36Mbps, can hold up to 27GB of data on a single-sided single layer disc (compared to the traditional DVD's 4.7GB capacity), which amounts to about 12 hours of standard video or more than 2 hours of high-definition video.
AOD is pretty much the same, except it has a storage capacity of 20GB on a single-layer disc
And the iTunes service will only be available to the UK, France, and Germany. Obviously Apple's and OD2's definition of "Europe" is very lax.
But in the end, they have to go where the money and population is, and build it up from there. Remember, some members of the EU are more equal than others.
People can add all the bells and whistles they want. If I run down a list of the games I've personally enjoyed the most recently it'll include games such as Wario Ware and Puyo Puyo Fever, a notoriously simple concept brilliantly executed.
The most successful Puzzle games have always stuck to this concept, from Tetris to Puyo Puyo, the limited options and emphasis on pattern and formation with multiple routes to the desired goal can flesh out something that doesn't require the player to remember complex keyboard layouts or button combos. Instead the only limits in place are the logic functions of the Human mind.
As far as the general public is concerned, the vast majority of bloggers don't matter.
After all, who is Joe Public going to trust the most, a fully professional New York Times employed scribe, or "Zergrush_7" ranting on his Livejournal.
I wouldn't consider it a "less is more" approach, more another example of nintendo putting concept first, and then building the graphics engine around the atmosphere/gameplay style.
With four swords they needed a game that would:
a) allow four people to fit on a small screen easily
b) allow the action to be continued on a gameboy screen.
Obviously the Link To The Past approach suited it well, but to Nintendos credit they also threw in some of the more impressive moments of Wind Waker and Links Awakening onto this 2D canvas.
Throw in another case of Nintendos increasingly humorous nods to their own past (see: Wario Ware, Superstar Saga, Mario vs Donkey Kong) and you have a true game of the year contender. It's just a pity that your friends opinion is so widespread these days.
The heavily armoured divisions of the US and British armies had little to fear of the iraqi armed forces RPGs, the most "devastating" weapon in their limited arsenal.
However once the initial resistance was swiftly dealt with, the all new threat came from roadside bombs, suicide bombers, and mines. This will make some difference, but most terrorists will strike at the troops outside of their vehicles anyway.
The UK government, especially under Blair, has long used the motorist as a large source of tax revenue. Whether it be through high Fuel costs, a large number of hidden speed cameras (most of which do little in the way of preventing accidents), toll roads, and various other initiatives under the banner of "increasing the use of public transport".
The government would only invest in this with one motive and one motive alone, squeezing more money out of the motorist through draconian fines.
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When games finally cross the final borders into photorealism, it will become interesting to gauge the publics reaction to games that become truly realistic in their depiction of violence and death.
Americas Army will get away with this under the banner of the "fight for americas omnipotent and brave armed forces and kill a few towelheads" banner. But when the next generation Grand Theft Autos and Manhunts allow the gamer a criminal/malevolent experience that is hard to differentiate from reality, will it merely be an act of harmless escapism, or something entirely more desensitising?
It would only take one high-profile school shooting or kidnap/murder/suicide to get the tabloid media attacking the games industry with a ferocity unseen since the days of the staggeringly shit Mortal Kombat.
Why even bother Microsoft? The original was nothing more than a miserable failiure in terms of quality and sales, and in a Platform market containing the Jak and Daxter series and Super Mario Sunshine a poor mans Crash Bandicoot is not going to serve you well. Especially on a console whos main userbase comprises of fans of Driving Games, First Person Shooters, and half decent PC ports.
The market east of the English Channel is/has been long lost, give up, and pray that Halo 2 is good enough to cancel out the Killzone/Snake Eater and Realistic Zelda hype. Gamestats shows them neck and neck, and when all that exists of Zelda is a near month old 1 minute trailer, that's bad news for Microsoft.
And the patient will just wait for the high quality DVD rips to be released, especially popular over here in the UK thanks to the excessive amount of time a large proportion of titles take to cross the atlantic.
This is a nice publicity stunt that might (in the unlikely event of it being well implimented) possibly add a day or two to the length of time it takes a poor quality camrip to appear on suprnova, but nothing more
If they sold the games for two-thirds of their original price, the price of second hand software would simply fall to even lower levels, and the cycle would repeat.
True, more games will be bought brand new, but these will be purchases from the usual suspects, the ones with either the loyalty, lack of patience, or high amounts of cash to be able to go out and purchase software at release. The large numbers of those who hawk second hand software will simply shrug their shoulders and wait for the even cheaper castoffs to arrive. I severely doubt we shall see a sharp enough spike to cover the massive developmental costs of games these days.
There is little the developers can do to stop this in this valued free market, except go for the big launch, as it is the sleeper hits that tend to be screwed over the most.
That you don't live in Japan, where the software developers have been known to not only take a dim view to retailers stocking second hand software, but also actively clamp down on it.