in leaking the movie, did he deprive lucas of any revinue from the movie? didnt the movie make something like 300 MILLION in the box office alone?!?? i mean, this didnt exactly cause the movie to do horribly...so what is the harm? i see none at all. yes, the guy did something he wasnt supposed to, but going to jail?!?! you can get probation for violent crime, but if you leak a movie to the media (a movie that goes on to gross around 15th highest all time) should you really be punished so harshly?
good, my little 6 year old billy is way too young to see such vulgarity! the makers of this game should be thrown in jail for exposing our children to this filth! now, if you'll excuse me. i need to take billy to the movies, he wants to see the transporter.
i know this is a bit of a touchy subject, but Diablo II is NOT a MMORPG. 8 people per game isn't exactly massive. granted, the chatroom system where you get people together to play games has a lot of people in it. but the population of the actual game world with real people is what determines if a game is massively multiplayer or not. otherwise, you could call any yahoo game massively multiplayer. ever heard of massively multiplayer chess? =) but back to your point, yes, hacks, marcros and, in general, kids with too much time are not a good thing for multiplayer games. I have a post below talking about breaking up players by how often they play, which could possibly solve this and keep everyone happy. i think it would be a great idea for games like this as well as MMORPGs.
limiting hours of play in MMORPGs, while it would accomplish what youre talking about, would NEVER be implemented by any subscription games out there. even tho it pains me to say it, there are a lot of people out there who play 20 hours a DAY. and if they can't play like that, then they wont play at all. its just how it is. game services like everquest and asheron's call want as many players paying as possible, so turning a good portion of their player-base away with limiting would be a horrible move. what i would suggest is different servers for different style of players. have all the kids who play every waking moment of their lives on one server, heavy players on another, casual gamers on another...etc. and then ENFORCE it so that hardcore gamers wont go into casual servers and "0wn" everyone. like, if you're caught CONSISTANTLY logging more than x hours a week, you get booted up to a higher server, and if you use less, you have a choice to move down, that way if you take a week or whatever off, you can still run with the hardcore people if you so desire. i dunno. sounds like a good idea to me. anyone else?
ahhh, its so great to read more stuff by those guys. Chet, are you ever going to bring OMM back up? please?
but seriously, he's right. women do not enjoy games like guys do. its just one of those differences between the sexes, like men competing and women socializing, its just how it is. girls just simply dont like to play video games. and yes, i KNOW that there are exceptions, much the same way that there are actually guys out there that dont like video games either.
yeah, summer as in almost a year from now.....2 years after its initial release...so what? by then nobody will really care anyway, its just not going to be the same, especially since its probably going to be just a port, and not the pc game that was originally intended by bungie (massively multiplayer) im still so bitter about that whole thing. i was so psyched about halo since i saw it in pc gamer magazine as one of their "5 games that revolutionize pc games". i kept up on bungie, frequently checking their site until that dreadful day i found out that microsoft had aquired them. damn! it was supposed to be such a cool game!
if youre caught in the dorms with a copy of windows xp, you win a brand new disk format and a fresh install of windows 2000. they say its because xp exploits someting on the network that they dont want to fix....i dunno. just kind of funny
you dont like the naming scheme of the cards because they're pagan? would you have bought a 3dfx catholic 6000? i dont know about you, but the word "voodoo" just sounds cool...
we all know that neither pc or console gaming is the end-all be-all of gaming. each has its own genre that it does really, really well. so how come we have to sit here and argue which one is better? theyre both cheap, so i just get both....duh. i think the real debate here is WHICH console(s) you want to compliment your pc. my current choice is ps2...but if i have kids one day, i might get another nintendo system for them (heh, couldnt resist *ducks*)
There's nothing in Pd that prevents someone else (MPAA, Disney, Microsoft, your boss) from setting up a partition on your computer and putting stuff there that you can't get at
now what the hell is this gonna be for? data on MY hard drive that MY computer cannot access? sounds like storage or something to me (spyware?)... will i see any money for this (i.e. "rent") for the hard drive space that i dont get to use now? i dont care how much or little this will take up, but i am going to want that space
i know that if you cancel an account on anarchy online, your characters are stored on the server for 3 months, just in case you come back. so if you're gonna be gone for awhile, you can just cancel and then come back when you're ready to play again. I am doing this with them right now. It's kind of an untimatum with funcom: they now have 1 month and 6 days left to fix the damn nano-technician class or else im gone for good. but i digress.....
actually, its around 25 bucks for the AO program. The download and first month are free, but if you stay on, then they tack an extra 25 on to your first bill for the program
Movies dont even come to TV until after they've been out on VHS/DVD for quite some time, which (of course) doesnt happen till after it has been in the theater for quite some time. So my question is, after audiences have had a chance to see (and potentially record) the film at the theater, then see (and more-than-potentially copy) from blockbuster video (or any rental place) or even buy the film, what else is there for hollywood to worry about? pay-per-view? honestly, who orders something from pay-per-view and doesnt record it already? is the fact that its not a *digital* copy keeping hollywood in business?
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ya know, if the webmasters were ever inclined to orchestrate a simple DDoS attack, they sure have one hell of a way to do it.... tho it is a bit annoying trying to access a slashdotted site, it is amazing (and a little funny) that us slashdotters are (AFAIK) completely responsible for websites just dissapearing off of the face of the web. probably even more funny if the webmasters of the poor site had no clue why they went from hits per day in the 100's to hundreds of thousands in just a few minutes....heh
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in leaking the movie, did he deprive lucas of any revinue from the movie? didnt the movie make something like 300 MILLION in the box office alone?!?? i mean, this didnt exactly cause the movie to do horribly...so what is the harm? i see none at all. yes, the guy did something he wasnt supposed to, but going to jail?!?! you can get probation for violent crime, but if you leak a movie to the media (a movie that goes on to gross around 15th highest all time) should you really be punished so harshly?
ah! typo! before you mod that down, i meant to say it was sarcastic....im not a troll! really!
good, my little 6 year old billy is way too young to see such vulgarity! the makers of this game should be thrown in jail for exposing our children to this filth!
now, if you'll excuse me. i need to take billy to the movies, he wants to see the transporter.
i know this is a bit of a touchy subject, but Diablo II is NOT a MMORPG. 8 people per game isn't exactly massive. granted, the chatroom system where you get people together to play games has a lot of people in it. but the population of the actual game world with real people is what determines if a game is massively multiplayer or not. otherwise, you could call any yahoo game massively multiplayer. ever heard of massively multiplayer chess? =)
but back to your point, yes, hacks, marcros and, in general, kids with too much time are not a good thing for multiplayer games. I have a post below talking about breaking up players by how often they play, which could possibly solve this and keep everyone happy. i think it would be a great idea for games like this as well as MMORPGs.
limiting hours of play in MMORPGs, while it would accomplish what youre talking about, would NEVER be implemented by any subscription games out there. even tho it pains me to say it, there are a lot of people out there who play 20 hours a DAY. and if they can't play like that, then they wont play at all. its just how it is. game services like everquest and asheron's call want as many players paying as possible, so turning a good portion of their player-base away with limiting would be a horrible move.
what i would suggest is different servers for different style of players. have all the kids who play every waking moment of their lives on one server, heavy players on another, casual gamers on another...etc. and then ENFORCE it so that hardcore gamers wont go into casual servers and "0wn" everyone. like, if you're caught CONSISTANTLY logging more than x hours a week, you get booted up to a higher server, and if you use less, you have a choice to move down, that way if you take a week or whatever off, you can still run with the hardcore people if you so desire.
i dunno. sounds like a good idea to me. anyone else?
ahhh, its so great to read more stuff by those guys. Chet, are you ever going to bring OMM back up? please?
but seriously, he's right. women do not enjoy games like guys do. its just one of those differences between the sexes, like men competing and women socializing, its just how it is. girls just simply dont like to play video games. and yes, i KNOW that there are exceptions, much the same way that there are actually guys out there that dont like video games either.
yeah, summer as in almost a year from now.....2 years after its initial release...so what? by then nobody will really care anyway, its just not going to be the same, especially since its probably going to be just a port, and not the pc game that was originally intended by bungie (massively multiplayer)
im still so bitter about that whole thing. i was so psyched about halo since i saw it in pc gamer magazine as one of their "5 games that revolutionize pc games". i kept up on bungie, frequently checking their site until that dreadful day i found out that microsoft had aquired them. damn! it was supposed to be such a cool game!
if youre caught in the dorms with a copy of windows xp, you win a brand new disk format and a fresh install of windows 2000. they say its because xp exploits someting on the network that they dont want to fix....i dunno.
just kind of funny
you dont like the naming scheme of the cards because they're pagan?
would you have bought a 3dfx catholic 6000?
i dont know about you, but the word "voodoo" just sounds cool...
we all know that neither pc or console gaming is the end-all be-all of gaming. each has its own genre that it does really, really well.
so how come we have to sit here and argue which one is better? theyre both cheap, so i just get both....duh.
i think the real debate here is WHICH console(s) you want to compliment your pc.
my current choice is ps2...but if i have kids one day, i might get another nintendo system for them (heh, couldnt resist *ducks*)
oh yeah....thats right.
d'oh. sorry about that.
no.
those were memory cards so you could take them to an arcade and play your saved games there.
heh, try making coffee with water joe....its fantastic! make sure you have a day to sleep, tho.
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ok, wheres the crack for this?
=)
There's nothing in Pd that prevents someone else (MPAA, Disney, Microsoft, your boss) from setting up a partition on your computer and putting stuff there that you can't get at
now what the hell is this gonna be for? data on MY hard drive that MY computer cannot access? sounds like storage or something to me (spyware?)...
will i see any money for this (i.e. "rent") for the hard drive space that i dont get to use now?
i dont care how much or little this will take up, but i am going to want that space
i dont know which situation is worse
killing yourself over a video game
OR
killing yourself because someone in a video game told you to
either way, i see it as the guy's problem not everquest's
i know that if you cancel an account on anarchy online, your characters are stored on the server for 3 months, just in case you come back. so if you're gonna be gone for awhile, you can just cancel and then come back when you're ready to play again.
I am doing this with them right now.
It's kind of an untimatum with funcom:
they now have 1 month and 6 days left to fix the damn nano-technician class or else im gone for good. but i digress.....
this is a very good point.
i would mod you up if i had the points.
anyone else care to? he deserves it.
actually, its around 25 bucks for the AO program.
The download and first month are free, but if you stay on, then they tack an extra 25 on to your first bill for the program
Movies dont even come to TV until after they've been out on VHS/DVD for quite some time, which (of course) doesnt happen till after it has been in the theater for quite some time.
So my question is, after audiences have had a chance to see (and potentially record) the film at the theater, then see (and more-than-potentially copy) from blockbuster video (or any rental place) or even buy the film, what else is there for hollywood to worry about? pay-per-view? honestly, who orders something from pay-per-view and doesnt record it already? is the fact that its not a *digital* copy keeping hollywood in business?
"the SUN?!?! But, thats the hottest place on Earth!"
-homer
oooh! maybe we could use nasa's new crew return vehicle
how cool would that be?
i want to hear what alton has to say about this....please mod the parent up
ya know, if the webmasters were ever inclined to orchestrate a simple DDoS attack, they sure have one hell of a way to do it....
tho it is a bit annoying trying to access a slashdotted site, it is amazing (and a little funny) that us slashdotters are (AFAIK) completely responsible for websites just dissapearing off of the face of the web.
probably even more funny if the webmasters of the poor site had no clue why they went from hits per day in the 100's to hundreds of thousands in just a few minutes....heh
he doesnt know how to use the sea shells!!
hahahahahaha!
*ahem*
well thats understandable