I don't think that's true. I think your level of expectation of profit is skewed. Now a game like HL2 and Halo sells millions and millions of units brining in Millions and millions of $$$. Commander Keen and Wolfenstein did not do that.
I think that indie game devels have a chance to make money just fine. I don't mind dropping $20-30 on an Uplink or something similar. And those houses are still around. You just don't hear their tales as often. Yes lots of them fail, but lots of businesses fail too. Just because you love making games doesn't mean you will succeed. For every Commander Keen there were probably dozens of fine shareware games that never got broad notice. I'd say with the internet there's a better chance small games will make a decent profit by word of mouth.
Excellent, very cool stuff indeed considering I'm going to be rewritting our app in the coming months from a mess of my PHP4 and legacy PHP code I inherited.
After spending a good while relearning my OO Heuristics for using with PHP5, it might make more sense to try Ruby since we're not on a shared host.
I can't seem to find much info on the speed of this framework. I'll probably end up writing up a similar benchmark like I use with PHP DB abstractions. Just curious if anyone has looked into it.
Hate to say it but I have to agree. Anyone who has dealt with trying to manage a large site should never poo-poo the efforts of someone else. It's childish, and unprofessional. But hey it's slashdot, not an upscale establishment.
The only hope is if he has some sort of vendetta against someone at the company, like they screwed his sister or something.
To all admins every where I wish you the best of luck in keeping your networks up and running (except you spammers you go rot in hell)
I got an N-Gage QD when I needed a new phone because after rebates it was $0 with a bluetooth headset. I love it.
I have a great NES Emulator it, great gameboy, AgileChat for IM, PuTTY that actually is workable enough to connect and run some specially made bash scripts, Opera, and some really fun games. I'm addicted to Tony Hawk it's so much like the original on PS1. The only thing that doesn't exist in the QD is Stereo sound:( but I have an iPod.
All in all I think had they not released the original Ngage they would have done much better. That's what you get when you rush product without QA and test groups.
I don't think you realize that this "crap" is a hobby for a lot of people. They really enjoy playing with the most updated roster.
Fantasy Sports are a major growing market and Madden is letting you be more and more in control of your team in a General Manager type way. This appeals to an awful lot of football fans who will pay $50 a year to play.
Some people pay $10/month to play their MMORPG's I don't see what's so bad about a one-time $50 fee to play with the latest players and their stats. People pay that much to play in fantasy leagues. Granted they have access to updated stats, but I wouldn't be surprised to see within the next 5 years Madden updating itself weekly.
Don't be so mean to one thing just because you don't enjoy it. You could have made your point by saying You do realise you don't HAVE to buy it right?
It's a shame the Ngage will fail. I hope it holds on to a niche market. As an "adult" I find having a phone & game (ngage QD) in one is great. Tony Hawk is just as much fun as my good old Dreamcast version. And my NES emu rocks my socks with old school goodness. And it has bluetooth! Which I thought was a gimmick but now I can't go without. And after rebate I paid nothing for the thing with a new one year contract. Sidetalkin was funny but truth be told the QD is a hell of a gadget!
"Yes honey I'm listening, damn metroids, no that was just the TV, I'm really listening"
Those $500 cards are the Ultra Super Duper Can't Be Beat with A Stick cards. These types of cards are in rare supply and don't have many equivilants in past generations. It started to ramp up at the last generation (9800 XT's & 5900 Ultras) but those came out well after the initial 9800 Pros.
On this product launch there was the 6800 Ultra & the X800 XT and X800 XT PE.
They're not mass market, just like the Intel EE and the AMD FX CPU's aren't mass market. Really fast & really expensive.
I just want to note that this game has a great team behind it to be so quick with a fix. I mean nothing coming out the door is perfect. Unless you've ever developed anything more complicated than "Hello World" you know this. Doom 3 I think was extremely polished, but HL2 is an example of a developer wanting to make sure everyone gets a great playing experience.
Oh right. You have to already be registered. I thought what you meant was that you were registered and couldn't get it to work after disabling internet.
OK, if you don't want to have your internet connection on, or lose it you can still play. If you start Steam without an internet connection it will ask you to start in Offline mode. And you're good to go. No need to be connected. I don't know why they didn't make this more clear.
An internet connection is not required as you play. Once you signup and register you can have steam start in offline mode, unplug yourself from the wall and you're done.
Just an FYI in case you're without internet some day.
The problem is that it can take as much as 4 hours after work to calm down enough to sleep
That's why I spend half the day on/. once I'm free I'm already calmed down.:)
I've done the 100+ hours a week a couple of times, but it was usually one week where I'd catch 30min naps in the office. The final product was satisfying but I can't see doing this for more than one week at a time 60-80 hours is already too much.
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Woooo QT does not like it when you have dual monitors set up. Crashes very ungracefully and takes explorer.exe with it.
Agreed, his book is so straight forward i almost makes too much sense. It's quite easy and quick to read. I suggest everyone grab a copy.
I don't think that's true. I think your level of expectation of profit is skewed. Now a game like HL2 and Halo sells millions and millions of units brining in Millions and millions of $$$. Commander Keen and Wolfenstein did not do that.
I think that indie game devels have a chance to make money just fine. I don't mind dropping $20-30 on an Uplink or something similar. And those houses are still around. You just don't hear their tales as often. Yes lots of them fail, but lots of businesses fail too. Just because you love making games doesn't mean you will succeed. For every Commander Keen there were probably dozens of fine shareware games that never got broad notice. I'd say with the internet there's a better chance small games will make a decent profit by word of mouth.
Let's say that they're bothering to do this as a test of the GPL. Perhaps they think they can defeat it in court.
Perhaps they are doing it simply for the publicity?
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Thank you for the reply, this is very interesting, the Ruby syntax is a bit strange to me at the moment but is certainly a lot of fun to look at.
Excellent, very cool stuff indeed considering I'm going to be rewritting our app in the coming months from a mess of my PHP4 and legacy PHP code I inherited.
After spending a good while relearning my OO Heuristics for using with PHP5, it might make more sense to try Ruby since we're not on a shared host.
Thanks for the reply AC.
I can't seem to find much info on the speed of this framework. I'll probably end up writing up a similar benchmark like I use with PHP DB abstractions. Just curious if anyone has looked into it.
Oh and is there a Ruby Gem like PEAR:Cache?
Sorry I'm a lil lazy today.
Hate to say it but I have to agree. Anyone who has dealt with trying to manage a large site should never poo-poo the efforts of someone else. It's childish, and unprofessional. But hey it's slashdot, not an upscale establishment.
The only hope is if he has some sort of vendetta against someone at the company, like they screwed his sister or something.
To all admins every where I wish you the best of luck in keeping your networks up and running (except you spammers you go rot in hell)
I got an N-Gage QD when I needed a new phone because after rebates it was $0 with a bluetooth headset. I love it.
:( but I have an iPod.
I have a great NES Emulator it, great gameboy, AgileChat for IM, PuTTY that actually is workable enough to connect and run some specially made bash scripts, Opera, and some really fun games. I'm addicted to Tony Hawk it's so much like the original on PS1. The only thing that doesn't exist in the QD is Stereo sound
All in all I think had they not released the original Ngage they would have done much better. That's what you get when you rush product without QA and test groups.
Why not?
The inmates are already running the prison. It's like having the Joker in charge of Arkham.
Here ya go
I don't think you realize that this "crap" is a hobby for a lot of people. They really enjoy playing with the most updated roster.
Fantasy Sports are a major growing market and Madden is letting you be more and more in control of your team in a General Manager type way. This appeals to an awful lot of football fans who will pay $50 a year to play.
Some people pay $10/month to play their MMORPG's I don't see what's so bad about a one-time $50 fee to play with the latest players and their stats. People pay that much to play in fantasy leagues. Granted they have access to updated stats, but I wouldn't be surprised to see within the next 5 years Madden updating itself weekly.
Don't be so mean to one thing just because you don't enjoy it. You could have made your point by saying
You do realise you don't HAVE to buy it right?
You should try playing without sound. I don't know how long my SP has lasted but I seriously go so long between charges I forget.
It's a shame the Ngage will fail. I hope it holds on to a niche market. As an "adult" I find having a phone & game (ngage QD) in one is great. Tony Hawk is just as much fun as my good old Dreamcast version. And my NES emu rocks my socks with old school goodness. And it has bluetooth! Which I thought was a gimmick but now I can't go without. And after rebate I paid nothing for the thing with a new one year contract. Sidetalkin was funny but truth be told the QD is a hell of a gadget!
"Yes honey I'm listening, damn metroids, no that was just the TV, I'm really listening"
You'll laugh, but try an Ngage QD. Not many games right now but judging by the ones out there this system could really do well.
Plus get a good old NES Emu and you'll have more than enough gaming fun.
Those $500 cards are the Ultra Super Duper Can't Be Beat with A Stick cards. These types of cards are in rare supply and don't have many equivilants in past generations. It started to ramp up at the last generation (9800 XT's & 5900 Ultras) but those came out well after the initial 9800 Pros.
On this product launch there was the 6800 Ultra & the X800 XT and X800 XT PE.
They're not mass market, just like the Intel EE and the AMD FX CPU's aren't mass market. Really fast & really expensive.
I just want to note that this game has a great team behind it to be so quick with a fix. I mean nothing coming out the door is perfect. Unless you've ever developed anything more complicated than "Hello World" you know this. Doom 3 I think was extremely polished, but HL2 is an example of a developer wanting to make sure everyone gets a great playing experience.
The SP is able to play GB Advance games, so it's not totally backwards compatiable, but it's still really good.
Right, that's what I meant once you register. I guess the correct term is Once you register and unlock the game
Sorry for the confusion
Oh right. You have to already be registered. I thought what you meant was that you were registered and couldn't get it to work after disabling internet.
OK, if you don't want to have your internet connection on, or lose it you can still play. If you start Steam without an internet connection it will ask you to start in Offline mode. And you're good to go. No need to be connected. I don't know why they didn't make this more clear.
An internet connection is not required as you play. Once you signup and register you can have steam start in offline mode, unplug yourself from the wall and you're done.
Just an FYI in case you're without internet some day.
The problem is that it can take as much as 4 hours after work to calm down enough to sleep
/. once I'm free I'm already calmed down. :)
That's why I spend half the day on
I've done the 100+ hours a week a couple of times, but it was usually one week where I'd catch 30min naps in the office. The final product was satisfying but I can't see doing this for more than one week at a time 60-80 hours is already too much.
Do the copies sold over Steam become playable at 12 midnight? And in what timezone?