if it's a group of white kids then it's rap (if no black people are around, remember they want to be black till real black people show up)
for girls it's usually something pop
Punk for the outcasts who think it's cool and they are rebelling against something
then there are the ones who don't care and listen to what they like which are the intellegent ones since they don't stick to only one genre of music that dies and comes back and loses artists left and right.
If my primary source of income had been selling my possessions and a group of people set up across the street giving away exact copies of everything I was selling, then yes, I would care. So would you.
so then why aren't walmart, target, gamestop, ebgames (well not so much now), your local videogame store, blockbuster, hollywood video, family video, the local grocery stores, car dealerships all suing each other every day over someone else selling the samething they are?
That analogy is flawed by what I just said, in a town near me I can go down 2 major streets and encounter, Toys r us, Target, Walmart, Kmart, Best buy & a mall, guess what? each store sell the exact same thing that the other is selling litterally right next to each other or just down the block.
if you look at Best Buy they sell video games, walk into Walmart they are selling the same games, according to your analogy one of these stores has the right to sue the other because they are stealing from them.
ohhh ok, I never knew NEC was the ones that did the Turbografx system, I hear people say it had some pretty good games on it but didn't have a huge ammount of support.
wall street kid, I remember I got this game for like 50 cents, to this day I still have no clue how the hell to play that peice of shit. I got stuck on the first part of the game for like 5 days and it would never let me pass by it, no matter what I selected it would give me a new menu that didn't do a damn thing....god do I hate that game.
they weren't trying to make a quick buck per-sa, they were trying to improve gaming and make it more like arcades, the only problem were there weren't a lot of games (in the US) for the Sega CD or 32x and they didn't improve the vast ammounts sega said it would.
The Saturn was their next gen system (at the time of course) just as the Nintendo 64 was Nintendo's, it's the natural progression, the only problem with it was it was a major pain in the ass to make games for it for the piss poor job of structuring how the hardware worked, it was a rushed system (you could say the samething about the Xbox 360 but Microsoft was smart and made it easy for developers) so naturally it didn't fare to well in the developer world but in the gaming world it has some of the best games (panzer Dragoon comes to mind, on eBay it is currently going for $300).
so the Saturn itself doesn't fall into a quick buck thing and the 32x and CD were segas way of trying to get next gen going without people having to buy a whole new system (which apperantly everyone wanted to do).
Honestly, the parallels to the current situation in gaming are rather frightening. The past few years have seen a ridiculous amount of complete bellyflops by companies. If you want systems that people have heard about, there's the "Phantom" console, and also the "Indrema" console that were planned, but never even made it out of development. Again, you've got people dumping money into essentially poorly planned get-rich-quick schemes, and that's what makes markets crash.
Exactly, the phantom is now what? 3 or 4 years in limbo, it was supposed to be the awnser to want to be PC gamers but didn't have the money for a $500 graphics card ontop of everything else they needed, so far it has gone through 3 different developers, 2 publishers, 3 CEO's and a couple of threatened lawsuits against people finding the truth...yet it is still supposedly coming out.
That Indrema that was coming from Apex wasn't it? similar to the phantom (PC set-top box), whatever happened to that thing? I read 1 article about how they were working on it yet have not heard it mentioned one time since till just now
I remember reading about the Neo-Geo for the very first time, it wasn't the CD based version though but the true to life home arcade version, I thought it was such a badass thing till I saw the system itself was like $500 and the cheapest game was $300 (I didn't realize till years later that the carts you bought were the real arcade games, not simple ports to the system). You are right about the NEC, 3D0 & CD-i, I still don't know what system NEC's is and I didn't realie that 3d0 had made a system (I've only known them for games) and the CD-i I only remember as the system with the worst Legend of Zelda games ever made on it.
I knew I forgot something, The Virtual Boy was a great Idea at the time just very poorly executed, staring into a virtual like device sounded really cool (and it was) but staring at red lines on a black screen screwed up your vision for awhile if you played it for to long, that's been nintendo's only flop to date in terms of system sales (but I am sure being nintendo they still turned a marginal profit or broke even with it).
chances are like you said if there is a crash again it will be by people no one has heard of or ones that were trying to get rich quick from a gaming boom but failed misserably at.
it's funny, he says that there was another crash in 94 -94 and then goes on to mention systems that cost upto $800, not exactly the best thing at the time for a video game system seeing as how the other alternatives were under $200.
Now if all the systems mentioned were relativly the same price then I could see there being another shakeout but when the crash actually happened in 84 no one was playing games, arcades were losing money left and right, the systems weren't selling, games on the systems weren't selling, no one was interested in games and it was considered a fad, thus the industry crashed.
in 94-95 this was no such thing, gaming was right where it was since nintendo brought it back from the dead and made gaming fun 10 years prior, I'm not going to argue that the Genesis and SNES had some weird and crappy titles but look at the budget back then, it cost them what? $40,000 for a major title and something like $2,000 for a budget title, 10 years prior samething, $500 for a major title, $50 for a budget title (these are just exahgerations on my part).
No one noticed a crash in 94-95 because no one wanted to spend $800 on a console with 10 games on it, just like today, Have the 360 launch with it's launch games and not have one more game come out for about a year and everyone knew it, would the system still sell like it is for the price of $400? maybe but let's throw in another factor...The 360 launches with the games it has and has a few more coming out in a couple of months, now it's launch price is $800 from the get go without anything extra, just the system controller and cables that's it (aka the Core system), would it sell like it is right now? Remember there are no games coming out for it for a few more months and they aren't the greatest things and then you won't see anymore for a great deal of time.
when you factor in everything for the 94-95 "shakeout/crash" Nintendo and Sega managed it because they were smart, they weren't trying to make a quick buck, they weren't over doing it with technology the world wasn't ready for, now the story might of been different for each company if they had waited a few more years when everything they used was cheaper.
And like clockwork they are collapsing. Tapwave? Gone. N-Gage? Gone. Gizmondo? Close to it. And did you read yesterday's post in which (super duper) Gary Cooper pointed out that even the PSP is going to disappoint?
This I find funny, Tapwave? Where was the advertisments? where were they located in stores? N-Gage? No one liked it from day 1, it sold something like 150,000 units, no one wanted it, Nokia finnaly got around to realizing this. Gizmondo? samething as the tapwave. He would have a more compelling argument if he used handhelds that were advertised and garnered any intrest. Why no mention of Nintendo having Gameboy, gameboy color, Gameboy pocket all at the sametime? just like now, they have the Gameboy Advance, Gamboy Advance SP & now the Micro.
why does he make no mention of how Sega released the SegaCD that didn't sell? or the 32x that didn't sell? Sega and Nintendo were the ones who survived the second "crash/shakeout" because they had good first party games and good third party support, they weren't selling their systems for $800 a pop or their games for $100 a peice, hell in 94 I was enjoying my super nintendo and reading about the new Ultra64 nintendo was working on, in 95 I was eager to get my hands on the Nintendo 64 coming out the fallowing year, I played the Jaguar once in a Media Play (are those even around still?) and was turned off from it do just to the price, it was $799.99 (this was when it first came out) and the games they had were something like $79.99 I held the controller and found it incredably ackward to play the fighting game they had in there, honestly this thing had so many buttons in the middle I had no clue what did what.
In 96 there wasn't a rebirth cause there wasn't a death, gaming didn't die in 94-95 like it did in 82-3, there were
all I had to see is Pricerite
I am willing to bet these are the same people who ran Pricerite games, the place that litteraly screwed hundreds of people out of money and had the BBB on their ass for a few months before finnaly getting shutdown (last I knew anyways)
They did almost the exact samethings that this site is doing (short of the legal threats), people would email them to find out about an order that was charged to them and not get an awnser for upto 3 months. Then item would eventually show up (usually somewheres between 4 and 7 months) usually in piss poor condition (when they say it is in perfect working order).
The obvious benefits to the store for doing this are 1)it prevents the customer for shopping around. Not so much that prices are different, but many game stores have required bundles on release and it is the bundle where they really make their overhead. 2)Customers are more likely to pre-order in the future if they think the video game manufacturors don't really supply the full demand at launch.
how is telling people "We don't have it" going to stop them from going somewheres else?
I remember when the SNES came out, no problems getting it, N64, no problems getting it (just had to wait like 2 weeks if that), Playstation and Saturn, Toys R us had plenty, PS2, had to wait 6 weeks before I got it. If a place said we don't have it I went and tried another place, hiding them in the back just means people are less likely to shop at that store on release day.
and if the rumors of people with preorders are true it might even make people stop preordering, cause when they tell you and the slip says You WILL get the item on release day and you don't get it on release day people tend to get the feeling of being ripped off.
All we need left in this crazy digital world is for the law & order to find out about it...
Law & oder: Special Internet Victems Unit.
they could have Metallica on there crying about how people are stealing their music, the head of the MPAA on saying they are theives and they are doing their damndest to make ANYTHING video related be only approved by the MPAA (how much do you want to bet if that passes the RIAA will do the samething for anything that plays music?).
they could get different music and movie starts to appere on the show each week.
wait scratch that, since they would want about 10 mill to even show up on the show (and 3mill to be mentioned) they would have to cancel it after one episode, How do the actors and musicians manage to live on only 30 mill a year? it must be hell.
Of course there's no guarantee that paying for something will gain you any better service, but at least THAT'S THEIR JOB. That's what they're SUPPOSED to be doing.
To bad they do everything BUT their job.
Why spend time fixing a problem the moment it is found when you can save it for a "Monthly" update?
Why spend time creating a monthly update when you can do bi-monthly?
Why do bi-monthly when you can do twice a year?
Why bother supporting it when you can suck another $200 out of people?
and to the first poster, when you lease a car it is YOUR responsability to make sure that car is in perfect working condition when you give it back. If something goes wrong with it you have to fork over the cash to get it fixed, Apply that mentality to computer. Windows suddenly has a new massive flaw, Microsoft doesn't have to do shit, it's not their problem it's your's. You are the one who bought the program (car), so repair, maintenance and upkeep fall in your lap.
Seeing as how Microsoft doesn't release the source code no one can make patches properly to fix their fuck ups. So how exactly can one legally fix this? basically you can't, so you get the joy of living with an OS that you can't fix and Microsoft doesn't have to fix (cause you are the temp owner, you have to take care of it). Also in the end if someone breaks it...does that mean Microsoft can sue every single person with a copy? after all we are returning damaged goods back to the owner of the product once out time is up.
The guy is basically whining because he isn't with a big enough press outfit to get VIP attention at the show.
There is no such thing at E3 anymore.
when someone who is working for a magazine that has been around since gaming was started can't get to a demo of a game because some snot nosed little shit who has a 2 day old website/blog is hogging the whole thing and the company is VERY eager to suck his dick and give him everything he want's because he has a website or blog!
yet so does the publication that's been around for the past 20 years...only difference is the publication will be seen by about 10 million people, where as the website will be seen by 50-100 people.
so the VIP thing is gone, some booths won't even talk to you if you work for a publication anymore, but they are quick to allow that blogger into their booth to try out their game.
everytime I read something about E3 anymore it's not about how good the games are, it's always about how loud it was and how hardly anyone who is actually in the biz and isn't a blogger can't get in to anything to report on anything and they all end the exact same way,
One day should be dedicated just to REAL PRESS.
Bloggers, no matter what anyone says are NOT real press, they are wannabe press, untill their blog spawns an entire publication and is regonized as a major news outlet they are NOT real press.
"Music thieves" are admitting the work is not theirs. They are giving away a product that is not theirs to give away. And, in the processes, depriving the copyright holders of income.
so wait a minute...
If I pay $15 for a CD...I don't legaly own it? the songs on said CD don't become mine even though I paid for them? what exactly do I get when I spend the $15 for the CD?
he want's to be a rockstar but doesn't want to learn any insturmants (or just can't get anyone to join him). so he went with games, becoming one of the biggest assholes in the industry along the way, when that didn't pan out he wanted to get started in the porn industry, naturally he was turned down because of his looks so he did the next best thing, started up his own company, created a fighting game and put in a bunch of girls who's breasts would bounce around.
whenever they come out with something he act's like it's never been done before, their starting a new trend with games, their creating a new genre of gaming, everyone will fallow in their footsteps. Yet they use sound effects from other games (Ninja gaidens Orb gather sound was the exact same one used in DMC), they use stuff that has been done in other games and claim it has never been done before.
as far as I am conserned the guy doesn't belong in gaming, he has no respect for other developers, no respect for gamers and no respect for the industry.
there's only been one game that I know of to have an unrated version and that was Leisure suit larry Magna Cum Laude, even though Action Replay (the same ones to get the code for the Sex scene in GTA: San andreas) also released a code for the game to remove the censor bar from the characters (except for Larry), no one seemed to throw a shit fit then. The code is gone now though (probably took it off when they took down all the codes for san andreas).
It may not be 15 years yet but Starcraft (1998) and Brood Wars (1998) are both to this day one of the top played games online and off, and it's 7 years old.
They will continue to be amung the best untill the day blizzard get's off it's ass and releases Starcraft 2.
but what if someone was to make a game where you play a character who can be good or evil.
His back story is that he has blackouts when he goes insane, when he comes back people say they saw him rip apart people with his bare hands, yet to him he sees a big monster beast in his clothing.
he goes insane by killing a bunch of creatures who look like they are from a psycho trip or insane trip, then the "sanity" he has can be triggered by the user for him to "Blackout" and see said monster with the screen changing to a focused looking screen.
oh wait...this game already exsists, it's called The Suffering and does basically the same stuff Nintendo just patented, wonder how long before they sue Midway over it.
I'll get the one for cyborg looking humans in video games and then we can start our own company and just make money by sitting on our asses doing nothing since even Movie based games would have to go through us to get Humans or human looking characters into their video games.
Head out of the ass please.
Call for help became the sole property of G4 when they bought (well invaded and conquered) TechTV, They are the gods of the show.
In Canada it has been airing regularly (as has other TechTV shows before the G4 takeover), he didn't "sell his show back to G4" it was always G4's show.
yeah, everyone was more then happy to cause they figured he was genuine about it.
They weren't really fighting to keep piracy alive just to keep the torrents going cause they were a genuine form of distorbution (and they wanted the RIAA and MPAA to lay off everyone and just embrace torrents and offer their own versions).
after he took the money and ran everyone wanted his head.
I remember that, the Donation page also changed every now and then (and I don't mean it increased)
one day I checked it about about 10 am, it was at just over $4,000, then I checked it later in the day it was at $3,500. Right there is when I knew something wasn't right.
Everyone thought he was really going to help fight the P2P thing but a lot of people got sceptical about it when he started selling his website and then said he was doing it "To see how much it was really worth" that threw up a lot of bullshit flags from a lot of people.
The punishment for Copyright infringment is worse then if you were to kill someone.
People have gotten 25 years in prison for copyright infringment as the minimum.
Murder will net you 20 years in prison as the minimum.
The Upside to all this is that no matter what
Downloading a file will give you a prison sentance longer then if you just went out and ended someones life.
so we all have a decision to make
Download the latest movie?
or
Go out and kill someone
you serve less time for killing someone then if you download/share copyrighted material and as we all know, That is the TRUE american way.
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well it depends
if it's a group of white kids then it's rap (if no black people are around, remember they want to be black till real black people show up)
for girls it's usually something pop
Punk for the outcasts who think it's cool and they are rebelling against something
then there are the ones who don't care and listen to what they like which are the intellegent ones since they don't stick to only one genre of music that dies and comes back and loses artists left and right.
If my primary source of income had been selling my possessions and a group of people set up across the street giving away exact copies of everything I was selling, then yes, I would care. So would you.
so then why aren't walmart, target, gamestop, ebgames (well not so much now), your local videogame store, blockbuster, hollywood video, family video, the local grocery stores, car dealerships all suing each other every day over someone else selling the samething they are?
That analogy is flawed by what I just said, in a town near me I can go down 2 major streets and encounter, Toys r us, Target, Walmart, Kmart, Best buy & a mall, guess what? each store sell the exact same thing that the other is selling litterally right next to each other or just down the block.
if you look at Best Buy they sell video games, walk into Walmart they are selling the same games, according to your analogy one of these stores has the right to sue the other because they are stealing from them.
ohhh ok, I never knew NEC was the ones that did the Turbografx system, I hear people say it had some pretty good games on it but didn't have a huge ammount of support.
wall street kid, I remember I got this game for like 50 cents, to this day I still have no clue how the hell to play that peice of shit. I got stuck on the first part of the game for like 5 days and it would never let me pass by it, no matter what I selected it would give me a new menu that didn't do a damn thing....god do I hate that game.
they weren't trying to make a quick buck per-sa, they were trying to improve gaming and make it more like arcades, the only problem were there weren't a lot of games (in the US) for the Sega CD or 32x and they didn't improve the vast ammounts sega said it would.
The Saturn was their next gen system (at the time of course) just as the Nintendo 64 was Nintendo's, it's the natural progression, the only problem with it was it was a major pain in the ass to make games for it for the piss poor job of structuring how the hardware worked, it was a rushed system (you could say the samething about the Xbox 360 but Microsoft was smart and made it easy for developers) so naturally it didn't fare to well in the developer world but in the gaming world it has some of the best games (panzer Dragoon comes to mind, on eBay it is currently going for $300).
so the Saturn itself doesn't fall into a quick buck thing and the 32x and CD were segas way of trying to get next gen going without people having to buy a whole new system (which apperantly everyone wanted to do).
Honestly, the parallels to the current situation in gaming are rather frightening. The past few years have seen a ridiculous amount of complete bellyflops by companies. If you want systems that people have heard about, there's the "Phantom" console, and also the "Indrema" console that were planned, but never even made it out of development. Again, you've got people dumping money into essentially poorly planned get-rich-quick schemes, and that's what makes markets crash.
Exactly, the phantom is now what? 3 or 4 years in limbo, it was supposed to be the awnser to want to be PC gamers but didn't have the money for a $500 graphics card ontop of everything else they needed, so far it has gone through 3 different developers, 2 publishers, 3 CEO's and a couple of threatened lawsuits against people finding the truth...yet it is still supposedly coming out.
That Indrema that was coming from Apex wasn't it? similar to the phantom (PC set-top box), whatever happened to that thing? I read 1 article about how they were working on it yet have not heard it mentioned one time since till just now
I remember reading about the Neo-Geo for the very first time, it wasn't the CD based version though but the true to life home arcade version, I thought it was such a badass thing till I saw the system itself was like $500 and the cheapest game was $300 (I didn't realize till years later that the carts you bought were the real arcade games, not simple ports to the system). You are right about the NEC, 3D0 & CD-i, I still don't know what system NEC's is and I didn't realie that 3d0 had made a system (I've only known them for games) and the CD-i I only remember as the system with the worst Legend of Zelda games ever made on it.
I knew I forgot something, The Virtual Boy was a great Idea at the time just very poorly executed, staring into a virtual like device sounded really cool (and it was) but staring at red lines on a black screen screwed up your vision for awhile if you played it for to long, that's been nintendo's only flop to date in terms of system sales (but I am sure being nintendo they still turned a marginal profit or broke even with it).
chances are like you said if there is a crash again it will be by people no one has heard of or ones that were trying to get rich quick from a gaming boom but failed misserably at.
it's funny, he says that there was another crash in 94 -94 and then goes on to mention systems that cost upto $800, not exactly the best thing at the time for a video game system seeing as how the other alternatives were under $200.
Now if all the systems mentioned were relativly the same price then I could see there being another shakeout but when the crash actually happened in 84 no one was playing games, arcades were losing money left and right, the systems weren't selling, games on the systems weren't selling, no one was interested in games and it was considered a fad, thus the industry crashed.
in 94-95 this was no such thing, gaming was right where it was since nintendo brought it back from the dead and made gaming fun 10 years prior, I'm not going to argue that the Genesis and SNES had some weird and crappy titles but look at the budget back then, it cost them what? $40,000 for a major title and something like $2,000 for a budget title, 10 years prior samething, $500 for a major title, $50 for a budget title (these are just exahgerations on my part).
No one noticed a crash in 94-95 because no one wanted to spend $800 on a console with 10 games on it, just like today, Have the 360 launch with it's launch games and not have one more game come out for about a year and everyone knew it, would the system still sell like it is for the price of $400? maybe but let's throw in another factor...The 360 launches with the games it has and has a few more coming out in a couple of months, now it's launch price is $800 from the get go without anything extra, just the system controller and cables that's it (aka the Core system), would it sell like it is right now? Remember there are no games coming out for it for a few more months and they aren't the greatest things and then you won't see anymore for a great deal of time.
when you factor in everything for the 94-95 "shakeout/crash" Nintendo and Sega managed it because they were smart, they weren't trying to make a quick buck, they weren't over doing it with technology the world wasn't ready for, now the story might of been different for each company if they had waited a few more years when everything they used was cheaper.
And like clockwork they are collapsing. Tapwave? Gone. N-Gage? Gone. Gizmondo? Close to it. And did you read yesterday's post in which (super duper) Gary Cooper pointed out that even the PSP is going to disappoint?
This I find funny, Tapwave? Where was the advertisments? where were they located in stores? N-Gage? No one liked it from day 1, it sold something like 150,000 units, no one wanted it, Nokia finnaly got around to realizing this. Gizmondo? samething as the tapwave. He would have a more compelling argument if he used handhelds that were advertised and garnered any intrest. Why no mention of Nintendo having Gameboy, gameboy color, Gameboy pocket all at the sametime? just like now, they have the Gameboy Advance, Gamboy Advance SP & now the Micro.
why does he make no mention of how Sega released the SegaCD that didn't sell? or the 32x that didn't sell? Sega and Nintendo were the ones who survived the second "crash/shakeout" because they had good first party games and good third party support, they weren't selling their systems for $800 a pop or their games for $100 a peice, hell in 94 I was enjoying my super nintendo and reading about the new Ultra64 nintendo was working on, in 95 I was eager to get my hands on the Nintendo 64 coming out the fallowing year, I played the Jaguar once in a Media Play (are those even around still?) and was turned off from it do just to the price, it was $799.99 (this was when it first came out) and the games they had were something like $79.99 I held the controller and found it incredably ackward to play the fighting game they had in there, honestly this thing had so many buttons in the middle I had no clue what did what.
In 96 there wasn't a rebirth cause there wasn't a death, gaming didn't die in 94-95 like it did in 82-3, there were
all I had to see is Pricerite
I am willing to bet these are the same people who ran Pricerite games, the place that litteraly screwed hundreds of people out of money and had the BBB on their ass for a few months before finnaly getting shutdown (last I knew anyways)
They did almost the exact samethings that this site is doing (short of the legal threats), people would email them to find out about an order that was charged to them and not get an awnser for upto 3 months. Then item would eventually show up (usually somewheres between 4 and 7 months) usually in piss poor condition (when they say it is in perfect working order).
The obvious benefits to the store for doing this are 1)it prevents the customer for shopping around. Not so much that prices are different, but many game stores have required bundles on release and it is the bundle where they really make their overhead. 2)Customers are more likely to pre-order in the future if they think the video game manufacturors don't really supply the full demand at launch.
how is telling people "We don't have it" going to stop them from going somewheres else?
I remember when the SNES came out, no problems getting it, N64, no problems getting it (just had to wait like 2 weeks if that), Playstation and Saturn, Toys R us had plenty, PS2, had to wait 6 weeks before I got it. If a place said we don't have it I went and tried another place, hiding them in the back just means people are less likely to shop at that store on release day.
and if the rumors of people with preorders are true it might even make people stop preordering, cause when they tell you and the slip says You WILL get the item on release day and you don't get it on release day people tend to get the feeling of being ripped off.
All we need left in this crazy digital world is for the law & order to find out about it... Law & oder: Special Internet Victems Unit. they could have Metallica on there crying about how people are stealing their music, the head of the MPAA on saying they are theives and they are doing their damndest to make ANYTHING video related be only approved by the MPAA (how much do you want to bet if that passes the RIAA will do the samething for anything that plays music?). they could get different music and movie starts to appere on the show each week. wait scratch that, since they would want about 10 mill to even show up on the show (and 3mill to be mentioned) they would have to cancel it after one episode, How do the actors and musicians manage to live on only 30 mill a year? it must be hell.
Of course there's no guarantee that paying for something will gain you any better service, but at least THAT'S THEIR JOB. That's what they're SUPPOSED to be doing.
To bad they do everything BUT their job.
Why spend time fixing a problem the moment it is found when you can save it for a "Monthly" update?
Why spend time creating a monthly update when you can do bi-monthly?
Why do bi-monthly when you can do twice a year?
Why bother supporting it when you can suck another $200 out of people?
and to the first poster, when you lease a car it is YOUR responsability to make sure that car is in perfect working condition when you give it back. If something goes wrong with it you have to fork over the cash to get it fixed, Apply that mentality to computer. Windows suddenly has a new massive flaw, Microsoft doesn't have to do shit, it's not their problem it's your's. You are the one who bought the program (car), so repair, maintenance and upkeep fall in your lap.
Seeing as how Microsoft doesn't release the source code no one can make patches properly to fix their fuck ups. So how exactly can one legally fix this? basically you can't, so you get the joy of living with an OS that you can't fix and Microsoft doesn't have to fix (cause you are the temp owner, you have to take care of it). Also in the end if someone breaks it...does that mean Microsoft can sue every single person with a copy? after all we are returning damaged goods back to the owner of the product once out time is up.
The guy is basically whining because he isn't with a big enough press outfit to get VIP attention at the show.
There is no such thing at E3 anymore.
when someone who is working for a magazine that has been around since gaming was started can't get to a demo of a game because some snot nosed little shit who has a 2 day old website/blog is hogging the whole thing and the company is VERY eager to suck his dick and give him everything he want's because he has a website or blog!
yet so does the publication that's been around for the past 20 years...only difference is the publication will be seen by about 10 million people, where as the website will be seen by 50-100 people.
so the VIP thing is gone, some booths won't even talk to you if you work for a publication anymore, but they are quick to allow that blogger into their booth to try out their game.
everytime I read something about E3 anymore it's not about how good the games are, it's always about how loud it was and how hardly anyone who is actually in the biz and isn't a blogger can't get in to anything to report on anything and they all end the exact same way,
One day should be dedicated just to REAL PRESS.
Bloggers, no matter what anyone says are NOT real press, they are wannabe press, untill their blog spawns an entire publication and is regonized as a major news outlet they are NOT real press.
"Music thieves" are admitting the work is not theirs. They are giving away a product that is not theirs to give away. And, in the processes, depriving the copyright holders of income.
so wait a minute...
If I pay $15 for a CD...I don't legaly own it? the songs on said CD don't become mine even though I paid for them? what exactly do I get when I spend the $15 for the CD?
he want's to be a rockstar but doesn't want to learn any insturmants (or just can't get anyone to join him). so he went with games, becoming one of the biggest assholes in the industry along the way, when that didn't pan out he wanted to get started in the porn industry, naturally he was turned down because of his looks so he did the next best thing, started up his own company, created a fighting game and put in a bunch of girls who's breasts would bounce around.
whenever they come out with something he act's like it's never been done before, their starting a new trend with games, their creating a new genre of gaming, everyone will fallow in their footsteps. Yet they use sound effects from other games (Ninja gaidens Orb gather sound was the exact same one used in DMC), they use stuff that has been done in other games and claim it has never been done before.
as far as I am conserned the guy doesn't belong in gaming, he has no respect for other developers, no respect for gamers and no respect for the industry.
with Halo being considered the innovative FPS, when is Halo 2 coming out on PC?
there's only been one game that I know of to have an unrated version and that was Leisure suit larry Magna Cum Laude, even though Action Replay (the same ones to get the code for the Sex scene in GTA: San andreas) also released a code for the game to remove the censor bar from the characters (except for Larry), no one seemed to throw a shit fit then. The code is gone now though (probably took it off when they took down all the codes for san andreas).
It may not be 15 years yet but Starcraft (1998) and Brood Wars (1998) are both to this day one of the top played games online and off, and it's 7 years old.
They will continue to be amung the best untill the day blizzard get's off it's ass and releases Starcraft 2.
but what if someone was to make a game where you play a character who can be good or evil. His back story is that he has blackouts when he goes insane, when he comes back people say they saw him rip apart people with his bare hands, yet to him he sees a big monster beast in his clothing. he goes insane by killing a bunch of creatures who look like they are from a psycho trip or insane trip, then the "sanity" he has can be triggered by the user for him to "Blackout" and see said monster with the screen changing to a focused looking screen. oh wait...this game already exsists, it's called The Suffering and does basically the same stuff Nintendo just patented, wonder how long before they sue Midway over it.
I'll get the one for cyborg looking humans in video games and then we can start our own company and just make money by sitting on our asses doing nothing since even Movie based games would have to go through us to get Humans or human looking characters into their video games.
means he is running to the heater since he can't understand what ownership means.
Head out of the ass please. Call for help became the sole property of G4 when they bought (well invaded and conquered) TechTV, They are the gods of the show. In Canada it has been airing regularly (as has other TechTV shows before the G4 takeover), he didn't "sell his show back to G4" it was always G4's show.
yeah, everyone was more then happy to cause they figured he was genuine about it. They weren't really fighting to keep piracy alive just to keep the torrents going cause they were a genuine form of distorbution (and they wanted the RIAA and MPAA to lay off everyone and just embrace torrents and offer their own versions). after he took the money and ran everyone wanted his head.
I remember that, the Donation page also changed every now and then (and I don't mean it increased) one day I checked it about about 10 am, it was at just over $4,000, then I checked it later in the day it was at $3,500. Right there is when I knew something wasn't right. Everyone thought he was really going to help fight the P2P thing but a lot of people got sceptical about it when he started selling his website and then said he was doing it "To see how much it was really worth" that threw up a lot of bullshit flags from a lot of people.
The punishment for Copyright infringment is worse then if you were to kill someone. People have gotten 25 years in prison for copyright infringment as the minimum. Murder will net you 20 years in prison as the minimum.
The Upside to all this is that no matter what Downloading a file will give you a prison sentance longer then if you just went out and ended someones life. so we all have a decision to make Download the latest movie? or Go out and kill someone you serve less time for killing someone then if you download/share copyrighted material and as we all know, That is the TRUE american way.