They have the best IM client on the market (well, the newest versions suck for their UI, but the older ones are great), and they go and kill them off in favour of a software that serves a completely different purpose. I could understand ceasing development and reducing support, but surely it's making them more money through ads than it costs to run the network?
Their official name isn't Good Old Games anymore, it's just GOG.com. They made the change when they started adding brand new DRM-free games like Legend of Grimrock to their catalog.
VLC, quite probably the most useful media player available right now
The only reasons to use VLC are playing back partial files, and playing media on a PC where you don't have the rights to install anything using codecs. For anything else, MPC-HC does the job much better.
only 10% of their potential customers are pirates, which means they are losing at most 10% of their sales
Even though I don't believe piracy to be a large problem, that sentence is completely illogical. A single customer is not limited to buying a single game.
Which is why I use Firefox. Not too many features included by default, but by far the most addons, plugins and scripts to give it all the functionality I want.
What? Last Remnant PC version is superior to the 360 version in every way. They added turbo mode and extra content, have a wide range of graphic customization options, load times are wayyy shorter and it runs well on mid-range hardware. Sure the controls are a bit clunky if you don't have a 360 pad, but if you do, it's way above the 360 version.
He hasn't been involved with CoH on personal level for quite a while, having left the position of lead designer and moved to general supervision of all Cryptic titles.
I'd assume he's more interested about MUO, or some unnannouced title nowdays.
Especially at low levels, it's often efficient to die, using the hospital teleport as a shortcut if it's at the direction where you were headed anyways. So certainly no need to return where you died always.
Chalk this up to stupidity but I always assumed it was NCSoft for both because of adverts from NCSoft portraying the two together.
City of Heroes and Villains were both developed by cryptic and published by NCSoft. NCSoft now bought all the right to both games, and will continue to develop them.
That is a real PITA, especially since it also applies to MP3 files. Luckily, the list of filetypes it blocks can be altered through registry, although I'll be damned if I can remember which key it was.
Yes we had video games, and electronics, but it did not match up the excitement of windsurfing, fishing, ice skating, swimming, water skiing, etc. Yet how many kids do that these days? In Canada recently they discovered that young kids do move around quite a bit. It is once they reach the teens that they stop doing anything. *snip* And what it implies is that teens don't use their brains anymore.
No, it means they don't use their feet anymore. Being outdoors is not a requirment for using your brain.
Sure the largest market will understand it, but it sure will date itself quick when the phones they advertise is gone.
But in the end, that doesn't really matter. Most of the playtime for the game will be in the first month or few after the release. As long as the ads are relevant during that time, they work well enough.
Slashdot Mirror
They have the best IM client on the market (well, the newest versions suck for their UI, but the older ones are great), and they go and kill them off in favour of a software that serves a completely different purpose. I could understand ceasing development and reducing support, but surely it's making them more money through ads than it costs to run the network?
Their official name isn't Good Old Games anymore, it's just GOG.com. They made the change when they started adding brand new DRM-free games like Legend of Grimrock to their catalog.
The only reasons to use VLC are playing back partial files, and playing media on a PC where you don't have the rights to install anything using codecs. For anything else, MPC-HC does the job much better.
taking (non-pornographic) unique indie titles from Japan and getting them into a state where the rest of the world can enjoy them.
They're adding in pornography?
Even though I don't believe piracy to be a large problem, that sentence is completely illogical. A single customer is not limited to buying a single game.
Considering Google is now offering automatic transcription of all YouTube videos, I'd say they certainly haven't given up on speech recognition yet.
Where' I'm from, we call it Judaism
http://www.pirate-party.us/
The same way they do right now? The situation you describe is already reality.
Which is why I use Firefox. Not too many features included by default, but by far the most addons, plugins and scripts to give it all the functionality I want.
What? Last Remnant PC version is superior to the 360 version in every way. They added turbo mode and extra content, have a wide range of graphic customization options, load times are wayyy shorter and it runs well on mid-range hardware. Sure the controls are a bit clunky if you don't have a 360 pad, but if you do, it's way above the 360 version.
You could just get a version that doesn't require activation. Sure it might not be legal, but if you've already paid for the product once...
He hasn't been involved with CoH on personal level for quite a while, having left the position of lead designer and moved to general supervision of all Cryptic titles.
I'd assume he's more interested about MUO, or some unnannouced title nowdays.
Especially at low levels, it's often efficient to die, using the hospital teleport as a shortcut if it's at the direction where you were headed anyways. So certainly no need to return where you died always.
To be exact, all but one member of the dev team are moving to NCSoft
In Soviet Russia, the government controls you.
No, wait...
"Very little indication" would mean that there is some. "Little indication" can mean that there's none.
The English language can be weird at times.
That is a real PITA, especially since it also applies to MP3 files. Luckily, the list of filetypes it blocks can be altered through registry, although I'll be damned if I can remember which key it was.
If nobody is willing to hire you unless you look like Paris Hilton, yes.
No, it means they don't use their feet anymore. Being outdoors is not a requirment for using your brain.
...I had one in the first place. But what do I need one for, when I have my PC to use for communication? :p
A 500x500 pixel .gif animation lasting a few minutes should fill that quite nicely.