lol, yeah, not too sure about that, I mean, things can get complicated. Like with GTA IV, last time I checked you needed to get on a VPN to play it online on private servers.
One of the questions I asked in the first [...] had to do with how many units of CoD4 were sold before Christmas of 2007. The answer was approximately 7 million total, but only 400,000 on the PC side (source: NPD group, Jan 2008 stats).
And here's why the PC market won't die : because pretending like there's no demand doesn't make the actual demand go away. Therefore even if some decide to cut the PC platform off you'll still have some left to provide PC games and reaping larger fruits. Which means inevitably those who want to cut it off by principle and to make a point (instead of cutting it off for profit-maximisation purposes, when making a PC port costs them less than the money PC sales make them) will come back to it. That's basic free market mechanics for ya.
Well the problem apparently is that they're doing this to curb PC piracy. I wanted to exceptionally buy MW2 (I haven't bought a game in 10 years) because playing only on cracked servers on MW kind of sucked (mostly when the few servers out there have PunkBuster turned off so you know that's where all the aimbot/wallhack noobs go), and to know it'll most likely use Steam (is the Steam app still as annoying and intrusive as a few years ago?) and that there will be no dedicated servers has me reconsidering that, but on the other hand you pretty much have to buy it now to see any action at all...
It appears that there will be no community mods or maps for MW2.
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Mods/custom maps were half the fun of CoD4 on PC. Paintball mod on the Simpsons map (mp_simpsons) was awesome, and most custom maps I've played were pretty awesome, several of them could even have been official maps.
Yeah, that's like doors in elevators. They can cause so many problems I mean imagine that you're stuck in an elevator and there's a fire or the elevator is about to drop. Well if you didn't have any doors you could easily go out!!
Seatbelts may save tens of thousands of persons a year, but if even one person dies because of a seatbelt, is it really worth it?
I agree that using two different codecs is just bad methodology, but can't we agree that AAC at 48 kbps should sound worse/less like the original sound than OGG at 160 kbps and that therefore it means that some people can't hear the artifacts produced by low rate AAC encoding or even enjoy them?
OGG at 160 kbps probably has very few audible artifacts anyway, and I'd wager that MP3, OGG and AAC produce about the same type of artifacts at their lowest bitrates.
lol, France is an Anglo-Saxon country now? Nigga please..
And no one said that social class divides was a French thing, I know all that about Britain, it's irrelevant.
To assume the French (or Normans if thats what you think you are?) have managed to stay genetically/culturally isolated for the last 1000 years - or for that matter that such a broad classification of a 1000 year old tribal grouping would have such an effect on cultures that have changed massively since, is incredibly naive.
That has absolutely nothing to do with anything.
People around here will say just about anything just for the sake of saying something...
No, I think you are transformed by your stereotypes. In the Anglo-Saxon world, but more particularly in the USA, people are often pigeonholed/pigeonhole themselves into categories, and the stereotypes of their group only serves to reinforce their traits. "Jocks" are more "jocky", "nerds" are more "nerdy", "popular girls" try hard to be more like popular girls, and so on. It's not just in high school either, it works for anything else too.
I think there's a culture in Anglo-Saxon countries (but again particularly in the USA) for people to trade some of their individual identity for their group identity, which makes people that are strongly defined by the group they feel they belong to, and who identify strongly with those groups. In other words I think that the Anglo-Saxon civilisation is more naturally geared toward communitarianism and self-segregation.
To contrast with this, in France (where I was born and raised), this phenomenon is practically non-existent, or only extended to social classes (e.g. "les bourges" or "les racailles"). As a result, people (of the same social class) tend to have a feeling of belonging to the same group as anyone else, and personal identity is therefore almost entirely solely reliant on individuality and personal traits, and generally there's a lack of self-awareness as to which pigeonhole one would fit in.
The consequence of that lack of segregation is that people in a profession don't seem necessarily much more different than people in another. That's how you can have more colleagues in IT who look like rugby players or bikers than colleagues who look like stereotypical nerds. A small confirmation of this was the admission from Irish engineering students that all the foreign French students they had seen in Engineering were much more 'normal' than Irish engineering students were.
So my answer to the question is, besides aspies, self-reinforcing nerd stereotypes, and a strong awareness that you're "just a full-blown nerd".
What the fuck does that have to do with Internet connections, and why should any telco company give a crap if people have running water? You're a dumbass, you still don't fucking get it, if you think that for people to go to church every week is more important than the Internet then good for you, but no one else gives a god damn about your stupid fucking priorities that have no fucking thing to do with any mother fucking thing that's being talked about.
Well to be fair your point basically is "I'm all for safer cars but I think that watching old episodes of Top Gear is more important". They're two unrelated and unlinked things!!
Also, what more do you need as "basic services" besides electricity and POTS land lines for telecom companies to get infrastructuring there??
I don't feel concerned, I still run Windows XP and if you care so much about gaming and "OS update breakage" maybe you should do.
Almost 10% of new computers buyers have macs actually.
What's your fucking point? A Mac is still a PC, it's just a PC with 'not Windows' as an OS. You don't need Windows for a machine to be a PC.
Of the ones that have PC's, large numbers of them today just have laptops. Just how are they going to put in that new video card? What about netbook buyers? Are they going to have a fantastic gaming experience too even though they technically have a "PC".
Now you're just being a nitpicking asshole. No one in their right mind is going to compare a fully portable machine with a machine that isn't portable, must be plugged to the wall and requires a TV set.
If the consoles were "basically PC's" the PS3 would not be harder to code for.
Yep, and funnily enough that's one major reason why the PS3 isn't successful. Even then the PS3 and its exotic internals could still be a PC, just a weird ass PC that no one would want. Well, no one wants it as a console anyway.. The rest of your point is more nitpicking.
Your tired old canards about PC gaming belong to somewhere around five years ago, consoles are quite obviously the present and future of gaming.
lol, you're just blind to the status quo, the PC gaming vs console gaming hasn't changed much anytime lately.
I am so glad I got off the gaming PC upgrade train a few years ago...
Yeah, now you're on the console upgrade train. Have a nice ride, dumbass.
Nope, it's just a phone with a multitouchscreen, no buttons and a special OS. Think about it, what's special about the iPhone, technically? Nothing, it IS just a phone.
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You're an idiot and a pedantic cretin for even bringing this up.
A new meme, in my Slashdot?
It's more likely than you think.
lol, yeah, not too sure about that, I mean, things can get complicated. Like with GTA IV, last time I checked you needed to get on a VPN to play it online on private servers.
That's closer to 6%.
One of the questions I asked in the first [...] had to do with how many units of CoD4 were sold before Christmas of 2007. The answer was approximately 7 million total, but only 400,000 on the PC side (source: NPD group, Jan 2008 stats).
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Well, not really, I pretty much have to buy it now.
It will be superior to the rental version in every way.
FTFY
Fuck The Fuck Yeah?
And here's why the PC market won't die : because pretending like there's no demand doesn't make the actual demand go away. Therefore even if some decide to cut the PC platform off you'll still have some left to provide PC games and reaping larger fruits. Which means inevitably those who want to cut it off by principle and to make a point (instead of cutting it off for profit-maximisation purposes, when making a PC port costs them less than the money PC sales make them) will come back to it. That's basic free market mechanics for ya.
It's over eighty-nine thousand!!!
Well the problem apparently is that they're doing this to curb PC piracy. I wanted to exceptionally buy MW2 (I haven't bought a game in 10 years) because playing only on cracked servers on MW kind of sucked (mostly when the few servers out there have PunkBuster turned off so you know that's where all the aimbot/wallhack noobs go), and to know it'll most likely use Steam (is the Steam app still as annoying and intrusive as a few years ago?) and that there will be no dedicated servers has me reconsidering that, but on the other hand you pretty much have to buy it now to see any action at all...
It appears that there will be no community mods or maps for MW2.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
Mods/custom maps were half the fun of CoD4 on PC. Paintball mod on the Simpsons map (mp_simpsons) was awesome, and most custom maps I've played were pretty awesome, several of them could even have been official maps.
There you go
? Call me old fashioned (and it won't be the first time) but I'll .
Yeah, that's like doors in elevators. They can cause so many problems I mean imagine that you're stuck in an elevator and there's a fire or the elevator is about to drop. Well if you didn't have any doors you could easily go out!!
Seatbelts may save tens of thousands of persons a year, but if even one person dies because of a seatbelt, is it really worth it?
I agree that using two different codecs is just bad methodology, but can't we agree that AAC at 48 kbps should sound worse/less like the original sound than OGG at 160 kbps and that therefore it means that some people can't hear the artifacts produced by low rate AAC encoding or even enjoy them?
OGG at 160 kbps probably has very few audible artifacts anyway, and I'd wager that MP3, OGG and AAC produce about the same type of artifacts at their lowest bitrates.
lol, France is an Anglo-Saxon country now? Nigga please..
And no one said that social class divides was a French thing, I know all that about Britain, it's irrelevant.
To assume the French (or Normans if thats what you think you are?) have managed to stay genetically/culturally isolated for the last 1000 years - or for that matter that such a broad classification of a 1000 year old tribal grouping would have such an effect on cultures that have changed massively since, is incredibly naive.
That has absolutely nothing to do with anything.
People around here will say just about anything just for the sake of saying something...
I'm not weird.
I thought most of the sea level rise came from the change of temperature that made the water swell (i.e. occupy slightly more volume).
No, I think you are transformed by your stereotypes. In the Anglo-Saxon world, but more particularly in the USA, people are often pigeonholed/pigeonhole themselves into categories, and the stereotypes of their group only serves to reinforce their traits. "Jocks" are more "jocky", "nerds" are more "nerdy", "popular girls" try hard to be more like popular girls, and so on. It's not just in high school either, it works for anything else too.
I think there's a culture in Anglo-Saxon countries (but again particularly in the USA) for people to trade some of their individual identity for their group identity, which makes people that are strongly defined by the group they feel they belong to, and who identify strongly with those groups. In other words I think that the Anglo-Saxon civilisation is more naturally geared toward communitarianism and self-segregation.
To contrast with this, in France (where I was born and raised), this phenomenon is practically non-existent, or only extended to social classes (e.g. "les bourges" or "les racailles"). As a result, people (of the same social class) tend to have a feeling of belonging to the same group as anyone else, and personal identity is therefore almost entirely solely reliant on individuality and personal traits, and generally there's a lack of self-awareness as to which pigeonhole one would fit in.
The consequence of that lack of segregation is that people in a profession don't seem necessarily much more different than people in another. That's how you can have more colleagues in IT who look like rugby players or bikers than colleagues who look like stereotypical nerds. A small confirmation of this was the admission from Irish engineering students that all the foreign French students they had seen in Engineering were much more 'normal' than Irish engineering students were.
So my answer to the question is, besides aspies, self-reinforcing nerd stereotypes, and a strong awareness that you're "just a full-blown nerd".
I'd say most people are in my boat
Yeah, sounds like a case of believing most people are like you. I'm so sure that most people have iMacs and too old PCs laying about.
What the fuck does that have to do with Internet connections, and why should any telco company give a crap if people have running water? You're a dumbass, you still don't fucking get it, if you think that for people to go to church every week is more important than the Internet then good for you, but no one else gives a god damn about your stupid fucking priorities that have no fucking thing to do with any mother fucking thing that's being talked about.
Even once the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement takes effect in all G-20 countries?
The what now? Is it something I give a crap about? Hmm, didn't think so.
But not everybody's PC comes bundled with a copy of Windows, and for the price of a copy of Windows to install on my Mac, I could buy an Xbox 360.
Muahahaha, buy, Windows, hahaha. Even if you insisted on buying (lol) you could get a copy of XP on eBay for cheap as hell.
you typically need more desktop PCs and monitors for a multiplayer PC game
Who cares? Not me, cause I don't have anyone to play with at my place.
What kind of PC drive to you need to read Wii discs, which have a slightly scrambled sector layout relative to standard DVD-ROM?
The BitTorrent kind.
That's a good point. I never thought of it because I don't have any friends :D.
Well to be fair your point basically is "I'm all for safer cars but I think that watching old episodes of Top Gear is more important". They're two unrelated and unlinked things!!
Also, what more do you need as "basic services" besides electricity and POTS land lines for telecom companies to get infrastructuring there??
You ignored the whole breakage due to OS updates.
I don't feel concerned, I still run Windows XP and if you care so much about gaming and "OS update breakage" maybe you should do.
Almost 10% of new computers buyers have macs actually.
What's your fucking point? A Mac is still a PC, it's just a PC with 'not Windows' as an OS. You don't need Windows for a machine to be a PC.
Of the ones that have PC's, large numbers of them today just have laptops. Just how are they going to put in that new video card? What about netbook buyers? Are they going to have a fantastic gaming experience too even though they technically have a "PC".
Now you're just being a nitpicking asshole. No one in their right mind is going to compare a fully portable machine with a machine that isn't portable, must be plugged to the wall and requires a TV set.
If the consoles were "basically PC's" the PS3 would not be harder to code for.
Yep, and funnily enough that's one major reason why the PS3 isn't successful. Even then the PS3 and its exotic internals could still be a PC, just a weird ass PC that no one would want. Well, no one wants it as a console anyway.. The rest of your point is more nitpicking.
Your tired old canards about PC gaming belong to somewhere around five years ago, consoles are quite obviously the present and future of gaming.
lol, you're just blind to the status quo, the PC gaming vs console gaming hasn't changed much anytime lately.
I am so glad I got off the gaming PC upgrade train a few years ago...
Yeah, now you're on the console upgrade train. Have a nice ride, dumbass.
Nope, it's just a phone with a multitouchscreen, no buttons and a special OS. Think about it, what's special about the iPhone, technically? Nothing, it IS just a phone.