What? It's not obvious enough that your information is available to someone when you yourself can see what others are doing? This is insane, I don't see anybody complaining that countless forums have this EXACT SAME feature!
But companies knowing what you're doing on their subscription networks will not cost you money on any scale. If hundreds of millions of people got their copies of Windows for free, MS would have a problem.
So 10% of people with Xboxes were willing to pay more just to get their hands on one? Either way, 400,000 (if launch figures given are correct) want and own Xbox 360's, except for people who bought them just to fuck with them. There are still those who would've bought them anyway.
A user-sponsored scheme seems to work fine for Rooster Teeth Productions (Red vs Blue, The Strangerhood, P.A.N.I.C.S.), $10 makes you a sponsor for the season and some nice consideration when the DVD is made available. But with "professional" voice actors and the like, I'm sure their production costs would be a bit more than recording a Halo match.
"but if you just preordered the console and managed to get one - you might not have anything to play on it..."
Well at least there's the Live Arcade. Not much consolation but I've heard that its games are just as addictive as the 360's own games, and just as viable a way to spend your time than any $60 game.
Does it change the fact that every Xbox sold has somebody out there that wants it? I don't see how 400,000 is any different because the first person who bought it didn't actually want it, because the last person who bought it certainly did (at up to $5,000...).
Ok, and who says I can't be happy playing the same games for 5 years? Because I really am, though I see your point, my point is that I could be equally content with old console hardware. And when did anybody ever argue against the fact that PC's are the best platform for learning how to develop games? Where do these arguments come from for you people? No, I don't expect anybody to learn how to make games on a Revolution, that would be silly. Oh no, you got me.
Yea, I don't recall ever claiming any sort of utility posessed by consoles in the PC department. If you want a PC, then great, do the things a PC can do. But it's getting old to hear people boast that PC's are so great for gaming. You don't seem to be making that same comparison but instead jumped in with your own scenario. That's great. Good for you. But the point I was making wasn't to say that consoles are better than PC's, both have their advantages and somebody who wants a PC would be stupid to get a console. But saying that being a console gamer is significantly more expensive than being a PC gamer? That's just retarded.
I was talking about the financial hit that was caused by the bad press towards the name. No, CD sales and PS3 sales don't directly affect each other but they sure as hell indirectly affect each other financially (Which was never my point to begin with, it's just the agenda you wanted to address. Happy?).
What gets me about the Hot Coffee deal is the reasoning behind it, something along the lines of:
"A technically proficient minor could unlock content that's not suitable for those under the age of 18."
Right. Because a kid who can work his way through the Hot Coffee modding process can't find his own (real) porn on the internet. Might as well ban that too (though I bet they could at times).
I know. In fact, I pretty much said that without going into detail. My point is that Sony can't have the brand recognition positively affect unrelated departments and then all of a sudden when one screws up go "They're not related at all!"
Which is why I said that any boycotts people might participate in would include all Sony products, making to company worse off and making the PS3's success more important to the brand. And with such importance and so much riding on the need for the PS3 to be profitable, how competetively can they price the thing (which was my point to begin with)?
Isn't Sony hurting for cash? And possible lost sales because of the rootkit issue just make the PS3 even more important to Sony's future. So how competitively can they price the PS3 when they need it to turn a profit?
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He's stating that the value of a BNL CD is about $15 from Amazon, not that you can buy this $30 USB drive album on Amazon.
So in reality, $15 for the album and $15 for the drive and the price is pretty reasonable. That's the point of his post. Feel free to agree or disagree but flame at your own risk.
The problem is that the days when a single person could make a blockbuster game are long gone, and when they could the market just wasn't there. But by all means man, live the dream. At least somebody will...
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What? It's not obvious enough that your information is available to someone when you yourself can see what others are doing? This is insane, I don't see anybody complaining that countless forums have this EXACT SAME feature!
But companies knowing what you're doing on their subscription networks will not cost you money on any scale. If hundreds of millions of people got their copies of Windows for free, MS would have a problem.
So 10% of people with Xboxes were willing to pay more just to get their hands on one? Either way, 400,000 (if launch figures given are correct) want and own Xbox 360's, except for people who bought them just to fuck with them. There are still those who would've bought them anyway.
Oh yea, where did your point go?
Or, you know... they could just replace all the power cables with fans on the PSU's instead.
"RoadDoggFL is playing online in Halo 2" is NOT personal information. TFA is a huge overreaction.
Hold on, so because it's difficult to know exactly what you're agreeing to, they shouldn't know what you're doing on Xbox Live?
Well who's to say your ISP doesn't collect data on you? You're on their network, why shouldn't they know what you're doing?
Didn't RTFA yet, but Xbox Live lets you appear offline, so what's the problem here?
A user-sponsored scheme seems to work fine for Rooster Teeth Productions (Red vs Blue, The Strangerhood, P.A.N.I.C.S.), $10 makes you a sponsor for the season and some nice consideration when the DVD is made available. But with "professional" voice actors and the like, I'm sure their production costs would be a bit more than recording a Halo match.
Does it change the fact that every Xbox sold has somebody out there that wants it? I don't see how 400,000 is any different because the first person who bought it didn't actually want it, because the last person who bought it certainly did (at up to $5,000...).
Ok, and who says I can't be happy playing the same games for 5 years? Because I really am, though I see your point, my point is that I could be equally content with old console hardware. And when did anybody ever argue against the fact that PC's are the best platform for learning how to develop games? Where do these arguments come from for you people? No, I don't expect anybody to learn how to make games on a Revolution, that would be silly. Oh no, you got me.
Yea, I don't recall ever claiming any sort of utility posessed by consoles in the PC department. If you want a PC, then great, do the things a PC can do. But it's getting old to hear people boast that PC's are so great for gaming. You don't seem to be making that same comparison but instead jumped in with your own scenario. That's great. Good for you. But the point I was making wasn't to say that consoles are better than PC's, both have their advantages and somebody who wants a PC would be stupid to get a console. But saying that being a console gamer is significantly more expensive than being a PC gamer? That's just retarded.
As opposed to the prices of keeping your computer up to date?
It's not being released, that's just the date of its unveiling. Though for all we know they could announce the release date to be two weeks from then.
I was talking about the financial hit that was caused by the bad press towards the name. No, CD sales and PS3 sales don't directly affect each other but they sure as hell indirectly affect each other financially (Which was never my point to begin with, it's just the agenda you wanted to address. Happy?).
What gets me about the Hot Coffee deal is the reasoning behind it, something along the lines of:
"A technically proficient minor could unlock content that's not suitable for those under the age of 18."
Right. Because a kid who can work his way through the Hot Coffee modding process can't find his own (real) porn on the internet. Might as well ban that too (though I bet they could at times).
I know. In fact, I pretty much said that without going into detail. My point is that Sony can't have the brand recognition positively affect unrelated departments and then all of a sudden when one screws up go "They're not related at all!"
Which is why I said that any boycotts people might participate in would include all Sony products, making to company worse off and making the PS3's success more important to the brand. And with such importance and so much riding on the need for the PS3 to be profitable, how competetively can they price the thing (which was my point to begin with)?
Hey, thanks for making the assumption that everybody who was bothered by the rootkit is only going to boycott Sony publishing!
Sony uses the Sony brand everywhere because of the brand recognition it provides, so when one part of Sony fucks up, all of Sony fucks up.
Isn't Sony hurting for cash? And possible lost sales because of the rootkit issue just make the PS3 even more important to Sony's future. So how competitively can they price the PS3 when they need it to turn a profit?
He's stating that the value of a BNL CD is about $15 from Amazon, not that you can buy this $30 USB drive album on Amazon.
So in reality, $15 for the album and $15 for the drive and the price is pretty reasonable. That's the point of his post. Feel free to agree or disagree but flame at your own risk.
The problem is that the days when a single person could make a blockbuster game are long gone, and when they could the market just wasn't there. But by all means man, live the dream. At least somebody will...
Heh, it's not like you can't change it...
Yes. Yes to all of that.
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