Tell your ass that next time it wants to talk, it should check simple spelling and grammar. I know talking out of your ass is hard work, but it's really only a couple extra minutes of work.
Live won't be REQUIRED to game on newer Games for Windows, it just gives you the same advantages (Friends list, Gamertag, Live Arcade, Achievements, in-game notices, etc.) that you get with the Live service. Not to mention that the subscription counts for both PC and Xbox. You get a year of an excellent service for less than the price of one game. My experience with Live has always been great, and it's optional in new games to boot, so we don't have to pay for it if we don't want to. No reason to get alarmed, folks.
If Microsoft got all the PC hardware manufacturers to agree to charge people to boot into anything besides Windows unless you upgraded to Vista, I guess that would be fine too?
Which is my exact point. It's completely absurd that a company charges you to boot into somehting *other* than their own OS. Charging for a bootloader is pretty low, but because it's Apple, people have no issue at all with it for some reason. That is what blows my mind.
Why is it that the Mac cultists always support ANYTHING Jobs and Co. do, but down on MS. I mean, if MS were to do this, people would be up in arms! "Charging for something we have free already? Come on! This should be FREE to all users! They just want more money!" Apple's basically pulling an MS and Mac people are going "Sure, it costs a little more, but what doesn't?:)"
Just pointing out the massive hypocrisy here, and I'll probably get modded down for it by rabid fanboys, but I can't ignore the massive hypocrisy here.
So wait, this means even if I work hard and finally get my Cryptstalker Set and my Rhok'Dolar stuff, I'll have to pay the government a tax for it? How would this ever get through the proper channels to become reality? "We want to charge taxes on things people don't own that are actually illegal to convert into real world assets." I can see this flying for SecondLife, since most of Linden Labs' income comes from selling their own currency, but what about companies like NCSoft, Blizzard, or SquareSoft, who have to battle people selling the currency for real world assets? Since the items legally have no real world value, does that mean I can't be charged a tax on them?
Congress needs to find out how these things work before taxing them. TFA asked why shouldn't we tax online games. The answer is simple: because it's not real. Where does this end? Will I have to pay taxes for my expansive Gran Turismo garage too? Perhaps Property Tax for my land holdings in Oblivion and Grand Theft Auto?
I guess that works for people satisfied with having old tech at a cheaper price, but I guess it's just the gamer mentality keeping me from seeing the point. You save a buck maybe, but it's just not worth the wait for me.
I went years being a retarded wannabe-troll, until I started studying Dvorak. He taught me how to truly be the greatest troll I can be, and I am eternally grateful.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have trolls to do, such as calling YouTube personalities on Skype and getting them to make videos about how much they hate me and are calling the police on me. I'm doing it for you, Johnny D!
I'd cry if I was a kid and had to wait six (!) years to get a PS2 while every single one of my friends had one, and would always talk about how much fun they had playing it. Perhaps this tactic would work for someone who's a casual gamer who enjoys the occasional game of Yahoo! Euchre or something, but for the average person, being a cheap bastard and waiting for a generation to die just so you can save a few dollars is not close to being an appealing option.
I'll put it this way: You say a PS2 can't possibly less fun? Try playing Metal Gear Solid 2 or 3 and knowing what's going to happen at the end. It ruins the experience, because many games in that generation are about a combined effort of gameplay and dramatic experience. Final Fantasy games don't sell like crack because they have good gameplay, you know.
The reason I play WoW is the massive community, the insane amount of content to cover, and most of all, the PVP. When I played CoH, there was no PVP, so I wanted nothing to do with it. City of Villains added it, but I can't be arsed trying it out. NCSoft has a far superior game in Lineage II, which is the best PVP game I've ever played. Guild Wars has decent PVP as well. WoW's PVP is fun, but it's nothing compared to L2. PVP is the main reason I keep a sub for L2 AND WoW.
I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but I don't care.
Why do people (in particular, *nix/Mac enthusiasts) love to simply rag on Microsoft SO much? There's a huge, huge, huge percentage of the computing world who's happy with Microsoft and would never DREAM of trying something else. I mean, I've run a myriad of OSes, like any good enthusiast, but aside from keeping BSD on my home server, I've always gone back to Windows. Why? They make the most intuitive products in the world. The Windows 95 GUI was amazing, which is why every major *nix distro worth its own weight uses a knockoff. In fact, the biggest thing I ever hear Mac/*nix guys say about the actual Windows GUI is that you have to press the "Start" button to shut down, which is the biggest nitpick I've ever seen.
Microsoft does a lot, for a lot of consumers. Linux is clunky and extremely less intuitive than Windows, which is why I doubt this magical "Linux vs. Windows Desktop War" I always see being predicted here on/. will ever happen, let alone be won by Linux. Macs are very user friendly, I'll hand them that, and it now has the edge of running any software a PC can, but it still requires Windows (Another sale by MS) to do it, so it's a moot point. I think MS's target demo is Gamers and Newbies now, and they're doing a pretty good job pleasing the hell out of them.
If you think this is objective...
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...then you're not a smart guy. Zonk always just shits on any platform not made by Nintendo, and it's sad to see him posting his biased, month-old reviews to try and sway people. Gears of War is the best game of the year, simply because it IS a masterpiece, and anyone else that has played it agrees.
Zonk is always finding ways to top himself on how low he can go.
Lineage 2 has a very advanced system of taking castles and whatnot, complete with a system for players to "farm" and pay tithes to the castle owners via a manor system. It really is a great system.
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In the Metro Detroit area, and Comcast offers 8mbps service out here for $60 a month. There's a single competing CableCo, but I live in a small city with a Comcast contract. I refuse to buy anything from Comcast, because they charge far too much for their service. My DirecTV is far better than Comcast's cable service, so the only thing I'm missing out on is the fastest internet service in the area.
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There's no reason a friend in Sweden gets 200 times faster internet than me for less than I pay. AT&T charges $12.95 a month for 1.5mbps internet, while the rest of the industrialized world sits pretty with their insane 20+ megabit connections for the same price. Fastest internet I can get in my area is 8mbps for $60 a month? Screw that.
There could be an article about there being a downloadable update for the Xbox 360 that will cure your cancer, and 90% of Slashdot would be flaming Microsoft for not coming out to your house to install it themselves.
"YOU MEAN I HAVE TO USE THE INTERNET TO DO IT? I KNOW MANY PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE THE INTERNET WHO WANT THEIR CANCER CURED, REDMOND IS FULL OF BULLSHIT."
I personally think that this isn't such a bad idea. Personally, I won't even lie and say I don't pirate music, as I do. TFA also states that artists would get half of what the label gets, which is awesome. The players are already cheaper than iPods, so it's not like we're paying a premium for this, it's Microsoft sharing something totally on their end. They're giving $1 for every player sold to Universal folks, they're not charging you $50 extra for some "evil corporation" tax. Artists are getting part of this money too, which is something I'm not at all complaining about.
On the contrary, there are games that take new technology like this and do things that simply were never possible before with old games. You make a blanket statement that new games are all gloss and no substance, which is simply not true. Splinter Cell is one of the most amazing games I have ever played, gameplay wise, and if it weren't for the tech in the generation it came out in, it wouldn't have been possible. Gears of War is another game I'm looking forward to, as it will probably be another one of those "Wow, the $400 I spent on this 360 are worth it, right now" games like Splinter Cell was when I bought it on my Xbox, and like Soul Calibur was when I bought my Dreamcast, and like Mario 64 was on the N64, and so on. Sure there's a lot of games that are all gloss and no substance, but every generation has that "Wow" game that makes you amazed at how far gaming has come, in terms of both gameplay and glitz.
I quit L2 a couple weeks ago. 6x TH, quit because I cannot compete with people who spend thousands on high level toons and billions of adena to buy overenchanted S Grade Bows and boss jewels. L2 has the worst economy in any MMO, ever. It has killed the game for me.
At least until the next expansion.
So, you piss off your customers in almost every way possible, then blame the industry as a whole as the reason you're losing extreme amounts of money, where Nintendo is making extreme amounts, and MS isn't doing bad either? Yeah, that's totally the industry's fault.
Sony Execs: If it weren't for competition, we'd be making money because we're the only game in town! Damn you, Nintendo and Microsoft! And your fat plumbers and Master Chiefs too!
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Tell your ass that next time it wants to talk, it should check simple spelling and grammar. I know talking out of your ass is hard work, but it's really only a couple extra minutes of work.
Live won't be REQUIRED to game on newer Games for Windows, it just gives you the same advantages (Friends list, Gamertag, Live Arcade, Achievements, in-game notices, etc.) that you get with the Live service. Not to mention that the subscription counts for both PC and Xbox. You get a year of an excellent service for less than the price of one game. My experience with Live has always been great, and it's optional in new games to boot, so we don't have to pay for it if we don't want to. No reason to get alarmed, folks.
If Microsoft got all the PC hardware manufacturers to agree to charge people to boot into anything besides Windows unless you upgraded to Vista, I guess that would be fine too?
Which is my exact point. It's completely absurd that a company charges you to boot into somehting *other* than their own OS. Charging for a bootloader is pretty low, but because it's Apple, people have no issue at all with it for some reason. That is what blows my mind.
Why is it that the Mac cultists always support ANYTHING Jobs and Co. do, but down on MS. I mean, if MS were to do this, people would be up in arms! "Charging for something we have free already? Come on! This should be FREE to all users! They just want more money!" Apple's basically pulling an MS and Mac people are going "Sure, it costs a little more, but what doesn't? :)"
Just pointing out the massive hypocrisy here, and I'll probably get modded down for it by rabid fanboys, but I can't ignore the massive hypocrisy here.
Congress needs to find out how these things work before taxing them. TFA asked why shouldn't we tax online games. The answer is simple: because it's not real. Where does this end? Will I have to pay taxes for my expansive Gran Turismo garage too? Perhaps Property Tax for my land holdings in Oblivion and Grand Theft Auto?
I guess that works for people satisfied with having old tech at a cheaper price, but I guess it's just the gamer mentality keeping me from seeing the point. You save a buck maybe, but it's just not worth the wait for me.
Friends, television, internet, etc.
I went years being a retarded wannabe-troll, until I started studying Dvorak. He taught me how to truly be the greatest troll I can be, and I am eternally grateful. Now if you'll excuse me, I have trolls to do, such as calling YouTube personalities on Skype and getting them to make videos about how much they hate me and are calling the police on me. I'm doing it for you, Johnny D!
I'd cry if I was a kid and had to wait six (!) years to get a PS2 while every single one of my friends had one, and would always talk about how much fun they had playing it. Perhaps this tactic would work for someone who's a casual gamer who enjoys the occasional game of Yahoo! Euchre or something, but for the average person, being a cheap bastard and waiting for a generation to die just so you can save a few dollars is not close to being an appealing option.
I'll put it this way: You say a PS2 can't possibly less fun? Try playing Metal Gear Solid 2 or 3 and knowing what's going to happen at the end. It ruins the experience, because many games in that generation are about a combined effort of gameplay and dramatic experience. Final Fantasy games don't sell like crack because they have good gameplay, you know.
I've heard a lot of good things about Eve. Wow's PVP gets boring after a while, I'm hoping Burning Crusade makes it a little more balanced and fun.
The reason I play WoW is the massive community, the insane amount of content to cover, and most of all, the PVP. When I played CoH, there was no PVP, so I wanted nothing to do with it. City of Villains added it, but I can't be arsed trying it out. NCSoft has a far superior game in Lineage II, which is the best PVP game I've ever played. Guild Wars has decent PVP as well. WoW's PVP is fun, but it's nothing compared to L2. PVP is the main reason I keep a sub for L2 AND WoW.
I'm used to forums with WYSIWYG posting, and Slashdot defaults to HTML.
I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but I don't care. Why do people (in particular, *nix/Mac enthusiasts) love to simply rag on Microsoft SO much? There's a huge, huge, huge percentage of the computing world who's happy with Microsoft and would never DREAM of trying something else. I mean, I've run a myriad of OSes, like any good enthusiast, but aside from keeping BSD on my home server, I've always gone back to Windows. Why? They make the most intuitive products in the world. The Windows 95 GUI was amazing, which is why every major *nix distro worth its own weight uses a knockoff. In fact, the biggest thing I ever hear Mac/*nix guys say about the actual Windows GUI is that you have to press the "Start" button to shut down, which is the biggest nitpick I've ever seen. Microsoft does a lot, for a lot of consumers. Linux is clunky and extremely less intuitive than Windows, which is why I doubt this magical "Linux vs. Windows Desktop War" I always see being predicted here on /. will ever happen, let alone be won by Linux. Macs are very user friendly, I'll hand them that, and it now has the edge of running any software a PC can, but it still requires Windows (Another sale by MS) to do it, so it's a moot point. I think MS's target demo is Gamers and Newbies now, and they're doing a pretty good job pleasing the hell out of them.
...then you're not a smart guy. Zonk always just shits on any platform not made by Nintendo, and it's sad to see him posting his biased, month-old reviews to try and sway people. Gears of War is the best game of the year, simply because it IS a masterpiece, and anyone else that has played it agrees. Zonk is always finding ways to top himself on how low he can go.
You say this as if there's something wrong with it.
Lineage 2 has a very advanced system of taking castles and whatnot, complete with a system for players to "farm" and pay tithes to the castle owners via a manor system. It really is a great system.
In the Metro Detroit area, and Comcast offers 8mbps service out here for $60 a month. There's a single competing CableCo, but I live in a small city with a Comcast contract. I refuse to buy anything from Comcast, because they charge far too much for their service. My DirecTV is far better than Comcast's cable service, so the only thing I'm missing out on is the fastest internet service in the area.
There's no reason a friend in Sweden gets 200 times faster internet than me for less than I pay. AT&T charges $12.95 a month for 1.5mbps internet, while the rest of the industrialized world sits pretty with their insane 20+ megabit connections for the same price. Fastest internet I can get in my area is 8mbps for $60 a month? Screw that.
There could be an article about there being a downloadable update for the Xbox 360 that will cure your cancer, and 90% of Slashdot would be flaming Microsoft for not coming out to your house to install it themselves.
"YOU MEAN I HAVE TO USE THE INTERNET TO DO IT? I KNOW MANY PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE THE INTERNET WHO WANT THEIR CANCER CURED, REDMOND IS FULL OF BULLSHIT."
I personally think that this isn't such a bad idea. Personally, I won't even lie and say I don't pirate music, as I do. TFA also states that artists would get half of what the label gets, which is awesome. The players are already cheaper than iPods, so it's not like we're paying a premium for this, it's Microsoft sharing something totally on their end. They're giving $1 for every player sold to Universal folks, they're not charging you $50 extra for some "evil corporation" tax. Artists are getting part of this money too, which is something I'm not at all complaining about.
1. You shouldn't.
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On the contrary, there are games that take new technology like this and do things that simply were never possible before with old games. You make a blanket statement that new games are all gloss and no substance, which is simply not true. Splinter Cell is one of the most amazing games I have ever played, gameplay wise, and if it weren't for the tech in the generation it came out in, it wouldn't have been possible. Gears of War is another game I'm looking forward to, as it will probably be another one of those "Wow, the $400 I spent on this 360 are worth it, right now" games like Splinter Cell was when I bought it on my Xbox, and like Soul Calibur was when I bought my Dreamcast, and like Mario 64 was on the N64, and so on. Sure there's a lot of games that are all gloss and no substance, but every generation has that "Wow" game that makes you amazed at how far gaming has come, in terms of both gameplay and glitz.
I quit L2 a couple weeks ago. 6x TH, quit because I cannot compete with people who spend thousands on high level toons and billions of adena to buy overenchanted S Grade Bows and boss jewels. L2 has the worst economy in any MMO, ever. It has killed the game for me. At least until the next expansion.
All I have to say, really. lol, Zonk.
So, you piss off your customers in almost every way possible, then blame the industry as a whole as the reason you're losing extreme amounts of money, where Nintendo is making extreme amounts, and MS isn't doing bad either? Yeah, that's totally the industry's fault. Sony Execs: If it weren't for competition, we'd be making money because we're the only game in town! Damn you, Nintendo and Microsoft! And your fat plumbers and Master Chiefs too!