"They're going to need less twitchy user interfaces - ones compatible with aging reflexes and presbyopic eyes - but better plot, character, and narrative development."
sounds like a movie on a DVD to me.
(And yes, I'm bored of all this talking about plots in games to.)
i do understand the therory behind capitalism quite well i think.
Idly wishing that some of the companies changed their business practices regardless of profit motives is just futile, that's not how capitalism works. maybe then it's not working at all?
capitalism is a kind of economic system and in that dependent on judical laws, not laws of nature. what you mean is a theory: that money itself can optimise economics better than anything else. but this "perfect capitalist market" does exist only in theory, too. and i think you named the downsides of this approach: unethical behavior of companies.
the point in my last post was another one: what a company is, is also defined by judical laws. where i live e.g. you become a company automaticaly if you form a music-band.
i have been working for lots of different companies in my live and by far the most of them had not "maximizing profits" as their first goal - if they had it at all. (of course, some companies did and those were the most crappy companies i worked for and never did stay there very long.)
The purpose of a company is generally to make money, not to crusade for some political stance. The investors want a good return on their investment, not a philosophy. You are living in a dream world if you think the number 1 aim of most companies isn't to maximise their profits. so, where do you live? of course there are companies that dont have "making money" as #1 goal. most of them are rather tiny which is okay, since growth isn't all they care about. when you say "the purpose of a company is generally to make money" you make it sound like it was a law of nature, but it's not. of course the purpose of a company will allways be to achive something, it might be profit, but it might as well be something else.
The rumor is that Microsoft paid Paramount $50M, and Dreamworks $100M, to make this switch (until now they had been neutral). Why would Microsoft do this? if they really spent that money then imho it'll be more likely to fight the ps3 first and bluray second. but of course all of these (xbox-hddvd and ps3-bluray) are tightly conected.
(excuse my english, i'm from germany).
I dont know JadeEmpire, but i think that the gta character set is actually really well done. Of course the characters dont have to do with the gameplay at all (which is the same with 99% computer games), but they really tie together the loosely quests. And the cutscenes are fun to watch.
The plot itself is better than vice city too: - VC has a clear goal (get back the money and the drugs), so the story gets volitional - SA has a vague goal (your brother is in jail), that way every nonsensesical quest fits in nicely
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"They're going to need less twitchy user interfaces - ones compatible with aging reflexes and presbyopic eyes - but better plot, character, and narrative development."
sounds like a movie on a DVD to me. (And yes, I'm bored of all this talking about plots in games to.)
capitalism is a kind of economic system and in that dependent on judical laws, not laws of nature. what you mean is a theory: that money itself can optimise economics better than anything else. but this "perfect capitalist market" does exist only in theory, too. and i think you named the downsides of this approach: unethical behavior of companies.
the point in my last post was another one: what a company is, is also defined by judical laws. where i live e.g. you become a company automaticaly if you form a music-band. i have been working for lots of different companies in my live and by far the most of them had not "maximizing profits" as their first goal - if they had it at all. (of course, some companies did and those were the most crappy companies i worked for and never did stay there very long.)
does it also mean, that if people start to share "ringtones" instead of "music" via p2p that they can't be prosecuted anymore?
that the price for the pdf download of the specs of odf (ISO/IEC 26300:2006) is 342 CHF (14 MB) and for ooxml (ISO/IEC DIS 29500) is 96 CHF (42 MB)?
I dont know JadeEmpire, but i think that the gta character set is actually really well done. Of course the characters dont have to do with the gameplay at all (which is the same with 99% computer games), but they really tie together the loosely quests. And the cutscenes are fun to watch.
The plot itself is better than vice city too:
- VC has a clear goal (get back the money and the drugs), so the story gets volitional
- SA has a vague goal (your brother is in jail), that way every nonsensesical quest fits in nicely