I certainly agree with you that development costs of many games these days are truly outrageous, especially games that are published for consoles, since the developers only get one chance to do it right.
My original post was simply a request for clarification; I apologize if it came across as being a bit terse.
Making a game like this for free is just not feasible. Games are often far too complex and involve too much maintenance and work to be free.
It seems to me that, in context, "a game like this" would be referencing the game that is the subject of this thread, Metroid Prime 2. Which is, as you appear to be too dumb to come to grips with, a game that is published in a READ-ONLY medium, and NOT VERSIONED beyond 1.0. By its very definition, maintenance DOES NOT include "testing and improvements that happen before a game goes live". That's called "development".
Wait...wouldn't a meaningful result that consisted of only one term be MORE optimized than a meaningful result that had to be expressed using more than one term?
So, I can see a large hive with a lot of stored food seeing the sun go away and not come back doing some things like killing/not feeding the majority of the hive, the surviviors eating what they can find, and the queen surviving years of hell to create a new colony when the conditions allow for it.
So, they're on a contract for the DoD, they built 2 supercomputers in 2 different locations, and they wrote a game engine, all for $195,000?
I need some of that cost-of-living decrease...
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I certainly agree with you that development costs of many games these days are truly outrageous, especially games that are published for consoles, since the developers only get one chance to do it right.
My original post was simply a request for clarification; I apologize if it came across as being a bit terse.
It seems to me that, in context, "a game like this" would be referencing the game that is the subject of this thread, Metroid Prime 2. Which is, as you appear to be too dumb to come to grips with, a game that is published in a READ-ONLY medium, and NOT VERSIONED beyond 1.0. By its very definition, maintenance DOES NOT include "testing and improvements that happen before a game goes live". That's called "development".
Exactly what maintenance is involved in working on a game that was published on read-only media?
Wait...wouldn't a meaningful result that consisted of only one term be MORE optimized than a meaningful result that had to be expressed using more than one term?
Imagine the savings in vocalization hardware!
So, I can see a large hive with a lot of stored food seeing the sun go away and not come back doing some things like killing/not feeding the majority of the hive, the surviviors eating what they can find, and the queen surviving years of hell to create a new colony when the conditions allow for it.
How long does a honeybee live?
None of these would've survived several years of these conditions
They may have those patented as well, and sue you
So, they're on a contract for the DoD, they built 2 supercomputers in 2 different locations, and they wrote a game engine, all for $195,000? I need some of that cost-of-living decrease...
So does that make the protocol it uses the GIMP?
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It wasn't insanely exciting to look at. It was rather dull in fact. It was smaller and a little thicker than a credit card and semi-transparent. If you held it up to the light you could see a lot of holographically encoded information and images buried pseudo-inches deep beneath its surface .
It was an Ident-i-Eeze, and was a very naughty and silly thing for Harl to have lying around in his wallet, though it was perfectly understandable. There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your iden- tity these days that life could easily become extremely tiresome just from that factor alone, never mind the deeper existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an epistemologically ambiguous physical universe. Just look at cash point machines, for instance. Queues of people standing around waiting to have their fingerprints read, their retinas scanned, bits of skin scraped from the nape of the neck and undergoing instant (or nearly instant - a good six or seven seconds in tedious reality) genetic analysis, then having to answer trick questions about members of their family they didn't even remember they had, and about their recorded preferences for tablecloth colours. And that was just to get a bit of spare cash for the weekend. If you were trying to raise a loan for a jetcar, sign a missile treaty or pay an entire restaurant bill things could get really trying.
Hence the Ident-i-Eeze. This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all- purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology's greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.
Ford pocketed it.
the REAL reason for GBrowser?
Why start now and cut into profits?
it's like the whole internet is /.ed