The thing is, it's no longer what it was. It's now invitation-only, and much smaller. So any clue who was invited and declined to attend? I had no idea it changed to invitation only. Still sad to see e3 change. Much time has been spent by this fan boy waiting for the next e3. Now I don't really care because I don't expect the grand announcements of the past.
Interesting thoughts. Yet even with the buyouts happening it seems game developing rock stars don't usually stay forever. I think indie development houses will be around for a long time and proven game developers will continue to demand top dollar and make money on their own. EA can't just swoop in a buy a development house that is privately held. Now lets be honest though if you own the place and EA offers to pay your retirement if you sell to them are you really going to say no?
It gets easier when you just accept that no one is innocent. My favorite line from troops: "All suspects are guilty period. Otherwise they wouldn't be suspects would they?"
Wow never knew a bad typo could make a post so popular. Someone could get addicted to this. Please mod my post down. The comments are becoming un-bare-able.
Your are so right. I wish the students and teachers had been packing. The shooter might not have gotten so many. It is time to remove gun restrictions and gain back our constitutional rights. Funny that free speech is given more weight than the right to bare arms despite being equal rights.
If the market has stagnated, it is because developers have been targeting one demographic to the exclusion of all others. With that market nearly saturated, we're seeing some very interesting games again. While I agree with you I do think that placing the blame on marketers is fair. Instead game players and game purchasers deserve the blame. If interesting games sold well more of the time we would have more of them. As it is interesting games don't usually sell well.
Just keep in mind why he didn't respond to Bin Laden's threat. It was that Congressional opposition you're so fond of. I don't think that is true. Can you show me where congress prevented Clinton from troop deployment? Bosnia and random tomahawk missiles are about all I remember him doing in a military sense. I don't remember congress dragging his decisions through the mud on those points. The president is elected as a commander a chief after all. I feel Clinton was in his right to go into Bosnia or deploy the troops as he sees fit.
Whatever happened to "fiscally responsible" Republicans? Did they ever really exist? Yeah they did exist for a time when Clinton was in office. So what can you do?
"I'm not a fiscal conservative but I play one on election day."
I agree with your posting and logic. I however don't agree that we as a country made a mistake going after Saddam. I think we gave credibility to the UN security council and it's resolutions and gave a country of 19 million a chance to reform their government. I don't think we have failed in that en devour yet. I support military action today as I did when we first took it. Yes Saddam didn't stock pile as much as was expected but he also frustrated weapons inspectors as they tried to do their job. The world felt it needed to support the UN resolution even though the kick backs from the oil for food program kept many of them from following through with it. I'm glad we did support the resolutions. I'm sorry for those men who give their lives for the cause but they have all volunteered to do so. I'd hate to see their sacrifice be in vain by us leaving too early.
In fact, the vast majority of people who complain about Clinton are opposed to him not because of his activities, but because they think he's a bad person. Interesting and here I thought I was opposed to president Clinton because he lied under oath, failed to respond to threats as a commander and chief, and tried to get congress to create a national health care system ( not that we don't already have a couple of them titled Medicare and Medicaid). But thanks for setting me straight. The thing I liked most about Clinton was that congress opposed him. When less gets done I'm a little more comfortable. Bring on the fighting between the branches.
But then again, she is not the one who is running massive deficits, Just give her time... And on that note you do realize the president doesn't set the budget. Congress does. Including Ms Pelosi.
I found one for myself and one for my friend. I got my by being the last in line at Target in December. I found my friends when I stopped at a different target on my way home from work. They quit doing the lines and just put them out. Happy wii hunting. I also managed to snag 3 extra wii motes and nun-chucks. I do feel fortunate. At least the games are easy to find.
Yes the story is a very important one. Think of all the Thai slashdotters that no longer have access to youtube. I'm guessing this thread will get slashdot banned next so future stores won't impact any of the Thai slashdoters. It might get pretty boring around here if that becomes the trend in other countries.
My comments weren't directed at the technical merits of more storage. Obviously there are places where more data is important. I'm just commenting on the console market. I guess it doesn't make sense to me to develop an MMO like you describe for a console market. Sure there will always be a place for more room. And multiple disk games will happen. But having a handful of games that require the extra space may not make the best business case for a significant increase in the cost of the console. Also we have yet to see if the 60-100 dollar game will actually sell well enough to merit that kind of investment in development into the future. Content costs money to produce. I know tools are continuing to be written and used that make it easier. I was just wondering out loud how many developers are going to produce those kinds of games for the console market to require 20+ gig of storage on a disk.
You could use the hard drive to cache the content better. Or reduce the game content to less than 9G. Are there actually any multi dvd console games at this point? I understand higher res textures for PS3 / Xbox 360 will impact the size needed but has it even happened where more than one dvd was needed?
I find it very interesting that in this generation people are concerned about needing more than a dual layer dvd to store game content. I don't work in the industry but I have to think that filling 9Gigs of data is a pretty impressive and expensive feet. I imagine development costs will be much higher for a game that requires that amount of space. Packaging it on one really expensive new Blu Ray disk or multiple easy to press DVD's is probably the least of the worries.
Carter's administration did the vast majority of screwing-the-pooch (legislatively speaking) when it comes to nuclear power. A presidential administration can't do any legislating. Blame the congress in place at the time. Blame the president for asking for it or not vetoing the legislation. Just be clear who passed the law.
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Interesting thoughts. Yet even with the buyouts happening it seems game developing rock stars don't usually stay forever. I think indie development houses will be around for a long time and proven game developers will continue to demand top dollar and make money on their own. EA can't just swoop in a buy a development house that is privately held. Now lets be honest though if you own the place and EA offers to pay your retirement if you sell to them are you really going to say no?
Don't mess with my SSX Blur. Yeah I don't buy any other EA games but I do love Blur and hope for a sequel.
It gets easier when you just accept that no one is innocent. My favorite line from troops: "All suspects are guilty period. Otherwise they wouldn't be suspects would they?"
Wow never knew a bad typo could make a post so popular. Someone could get addicted to this. Please mod my post down. The comments are becoming un-bare-able.
I'd suggest firing a gun as part of the looking at both sides. Might as well know what your against.
I will. Thank you for the support.
I've played Quake 2 & 3 and I must say the rocket launcher was very effective for defending myself.
Your are so right. I wish the students and teachers had been packing. The shooter might not have gotten so many. It is time to remove gun restrictions and gain back our constitutional rights. Funny that free speech is given more weight than the right to bare arms despite being equal rights.
I agree with your posting and logic. I however don't agree that we as a country made a mistake going after Saddam. I think we gave credibility to the UN security council and it's resolutions and gave a country of 19 million a chance to reform their government. I don't think we have failed in that en devour yet. I support military action today as I did when we first took it. Yes Saddam didn't stock pile as much as was expected but he also frustrated weapons inspectors as they tried to do their job. The world felt it needed to support the UN resolution even though the kick backs from the oil for food program kept many of them from following through with it. I'm glad we did support the resolutions. I'm sorry for those men who give their lives for the cause but they have all volunteered to do so. I'd hate to see their sacrifice be in vain by us leaving too early.
Yeah. Too bad no one reads it anymore.
I found one for myself and one for my friend. I got my by being the last in line at Target in December. I found my friends when I stopped at a different target on my way home from work. They quit doing the lines and just put them out. Happy wii hunting. I also managed to snag 3 extra wii motes and nun-chucks. I do feel fortunate. At least the games are easy to find.
Yes the story is a very important one. Think of all the Thai slashdotters that no longer have access to youtube. I'm guessing this thread will get slashdot banned next so future stores won't impact any of the Thai slashdoters. It might get pretty boring around here if that becomes the trend in other countries.
I think you missed his sarcasm.
Your pretty good at pretending. I was just thinking, oh great anther kid without a clue commenting about nothing.
My comments weren't directed at the technical merits of more storage. Obviously there are places where more data is important. I'm just commenting on the console market. I guess it doesn't make sense to me to develop an MMO like you describe for a console market. Sure there will always be a place for more room. And multiple disk games will happen. But having a handful of games that require the extra space may not make the best business case for a significant increase in the cost of the console. Also we have yet to see if the 60-100 dollar game will actually sell well enough to merit that kind of investment in development into the future. Content costs money to produce. I know tools are continuing to be written and used that make it easier. I was just wondering out loud how many developers are going to produce those kinds of games for the console market to require 20+ gig of storage on a disk.
You could use the hard drive to cache the content better. Or reduce the game content to less than 9G. Are there actually any multi dvd console games at this point? I understand higher res textures for PS3 / Xbox 360 will impact the size needed but has it even happened where more than one dvd was needed?
I find it very interesting that in this generation people are concerned about needing more than a dual layer dvd to store game content. I don't work in the industry but I have to think that filling 9Gigs of data is a pretty impressive and expensive feet. I imagine development costs will be much higher for a game that requires that amount of space. Packaging it on one really expensive new Blu Ray disk or multiple easy to press DVD's is probably the least of the worries.
I've been Wii hunting since it's launch and yesterday was able to find a 20G PS3. No Wii. I didn't buy it cause I have no interest in the PS3.