You're absolutely right. Perfect example: when you were a kid, how many phone numbers could you remember? You could probably dial up any of your friends and family on a good-ol' rotary phone at the drop of a hat. Now, since you've had a cellphone, how many numbers can you really recall?
Why develop something which can only compete with their biggest source of revenue? If they came out with it, it would mostly just draw people away from WoW. I think they'd be much better off expanding on the Starcraft RTS and making it even more unique and interesting. Then again I could be totally wrong and we will all eventually bow down to our Blizzard overlords.
Here's what the RIAA doesn't seem to understand: DRM is, and always will be, merely an annoyance. As long as you can *play* music, there will be a way to rip it. Even if the RIAA gets its grubby hands down to the hardware and OS level, you could still plug one end of a cable into your sound card, the other end into another PC and record it to an unprotected mp3. As of now, there's software like tunebite (tunebite.com) that will do this automatically when you play DRM'd songs from WMP, and it's legal (for now).
This is how I get all my music now: 1. purchase song for $.99 at MSN Music; 2. Play in WMP; 3. Tunebite pops up and records it to MP3 while I listen to it for the first time; 4. Move DRM'd file to safe location, remove it from my library and enjoy all the unprotected musical goodness.
I'm not a pirate or a filesharer, I just want to be able to enjoy what I've purchased by using it to its full potential.
I've never played TA, how would it (and hypothetically, Supreme Commander) compare to others like Age of Empires/Mythology and War/Starcraft? I've been looking to get back into RTS, and this looks like a good candidate.
Take something like World of Warcraft, and let players combat, level, and learn new abilities not only in normal mode, but when they're ghosts too. You could learn different kinds of abilities (like "Possess" or "Telekinesis" and have different sets of classes (like banshee, poltergeist etc) for the otherworldly side of your character at the same time you're building your normal abilities. So when you die, you go from Warrior to Poltergeist, and back to Warrior when you resurrect. It would be very interesting to see what people would do with it - some people might end up staying a ghost.
MPAA and the like can't be hurting THAT much from P2P networks and other kinds of file sharing if they have enough money to throw around and influence university administrators.
As I read in some article a few weeks ago (not sure if it was/. or not), if companies made their authentication processes more stringent, data like SSN's and names and addresses wouldn't be so valuable any more. The problem is that you can get access to so many things with just basic contact info and a SSN.
I realized the line between the World of Warcraft and the real world was blurring when I caught myself searching the side of the road for herbs while driving to work.
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You're absolutely right. Perfect example: when you were a kid, how many phone numbers could you remember? You could probably dial up any of your friends and family on a good-ol' rotary phone at the drop of a hat. Now, since you've had a cellphone, how many numbers can you really recall?
Why develop something which can only compete with their biggest source of revenue? If they came out with it, it would mostly just draw people away from WoW. I think they'd be much better off expanding on the Starcraft RTS and making it even more unique and interesting. Then again I could be totally wrong and we will all eventually bow down to our Blizzard overlords.
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This is how I get all my music now: 1. purchase song for $.99 at MSN Music; 2. Play in WMP; 3. Tunebite pops up and records it to MP3 while I listen to it for the first time; 4. Move DRM'd file to safe location, remove it from my library and enjoy all the unprotected musical goodness.
I'm not a pirate or a filesharer, I just want to be able to enjoy what I've purchased by using it to its full potential.
Let Congress feel the /. effect - email your senator or congressman/woman, especially if they're on the Senate Commerce Committee or the Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee.
Aw, who am I kidding...
I've never played TA, how would it (and hypothetically, Supreme Commander) compare to others like Age of Empires/Mythology and War/Starcraft? I've been looking to get back into RTS, and this looks like a good candidate.
Take something like World of Warcraft, and let players combat, level, and learn new abilities not only in normal mode, but when they're ghosts too. You could learn different kinds of abilities (like "Possess" or "Telekinesis" and have different sets of classes (like banshee, poltergeist etc) for the otherworldly side of your character at the same time you're building your normal abilities. So when you die, you go from Warrior to Poltergeist, and back to Warrior when you resurrect. It would be very interesting to see what people would do with it - some people might end up staying a ghost.
MPAA and the like can't be hurting THAT much from P2P networks and other kinds of file sharing if they have enough money to throw around and influence university administrators.
As I read in some article a few weeks ago (not sure if it was /. or not), if companies made their authentication processes more stringent, data like SSN's and names and addresses wouldn't be so valuable any more. The problem is that you can get access to so many things with just basic contact info and a SSN.
I realized the line between the World of Warcraft and the real world was blurring when I caught myself searching the side of the road for herbs while driving to work.