It's not easily crafted, you need hats to make one of the new hat that is needed for a set bonus, getting a hat can take 200 hours of gameplay. That does not fit my definition of easy.
Also are not the duel thing only paid for aswell?
When songs have been pulled from spotify in the past they have been left in my playlist but unplayable.
This sucks for spotify tough, I'm currently paying for it so I can use it on my phone but if warner music gets pulled (no idea what artists they have) the value gets diminished and I bet the price will stay the same.
you arm the watch with the pin, it stays armed even if gun goes out of range (gun stops working) and if the gun comes in range again the gun gets rearmed no pin needed. Still it would have to be a pretty damn perfect system for me to trust it to work when i pull the trigger.
My phone is rooted and I buy apps from googles market. Also root is needed for us in sweden to buy apps. We need root to get around the region restrictions that for some reason stops us swedes from buying paid apps.
Yeah that's with WoW. I have never heard of a rts where you pay a subscription fee, I think it will be hard for blizzard to convince people to suddenly start paying to keep playing a game they played online 10 years for free. I also doubt the maybe $30 i payed for starcraft 8 years ago has covered the cost of the service I've used(well actually I have no idea).
Yeah the more I think about this the worse I think it is. If some company gets payed by some other company to show their ad to players in the game they are probably paying more the more the players see it. The players are going to see a lot of it and they will go out of their way to place the ads.
I still think ads got a place in game. Racing games using cars from real life I think are okay. Also I don't mind a banner in some loading screen (like valve) or in the multiplayer lobby (like blizzard) just don't overdo it and let it take over the game!
One area I think ad's can do something good for players is keeping multiplayer servers online. I doubt many companies makes a great deal of money from keeping servers online for multiplayer in old games. If EA had placed ads in the lobbies of some of their old games that would probably cover the cost of running the servers instead of shutting them down.
The thing for me is I agree that they shouldn't waste ones time, actually I never let ads waste my time as I can take care of that perfectly well myself. BUT other than that I don't give a shit I probably get get affected by them subconsciously but so be it. Ads does not have to waste ones time. The ads themselves does not waste my time if they are integrated in a smooth way.
I mean does anyone get mad over seeing a billboard or some ads on a bus? If not why should one get mad over an ad on a billboard or a bus in a game?
What if they lowered price on an ad-supported version of a game.
Say a new fps game set in a city. There is billboards and stores and stuff you can see, if you pay full price for the game this is all for made up stuff. But if you pay maybe half the price for the ad supported version, everything is the same except there is billboards with ads for coca-cola?
I don't really care at all what they do, I play a game if i enjoy it, if they can add ads into that without annoying me (forced ads to watch every time the game launch or stuff that kills immersion like an ad for coca cola in a fantasy game) go ahead.
Polisen genomförde idag en rad husrannsakningar mot lokaler där The Pirate Bay bedriver sin verksamhet. Klockan 12 30 stängdes sidan thepiratebay.org ned.
The Pirate Bay var fram tills igår knutpunkten för en stor del av världens illegala fildelning. Enligt egna uppgifter fanns det en dryg miljon användare som kunde laddade upp och ned främst filmer, spel och musik. Genom sin storlek och uttalade målsättning att hänga ut och håna berörda upphovsmän gjorde man The Pirate Bay känd över hela världen. Sverige blev internationellt känt som en fristad för dem som begick upphovsrättsbrott på Internet. Detta utnyttjades ekonomiskt för en omfattande försäljning av annonser, porreklam och insamling av donationer.
Det är bra att den svenska polisen nu prioriterar denna typ av brottslighet. Det är upphovsrätten som finansierar nyskapandet inom film, datorspel, musik och övrig kultur. Den som bryter mot upphovsrättslagen stjäl från framtidens kreatörer och biopublik. Därför är stängningen av The Pirate Bay bra för alla oss som uppskattar ny film och underhållning säger Henrik Pontén, jurist på Antipiratbyrån.
Svenska produktioner drabbas i hög grad av den illegala nedladdningen, säger Per-Erik Wallin, Föreningen Sveriges Filmproducenter. Om svenska filmer finns tillgängliga på nätet före premiären innebär det minskade chanser att filmerna ska spela hem produktionskostnaden och mindre medel för att göra nästa film. Det drabbar både manusförfattare, regissörer, skådespelare och filmarbetare."
Roughly translated
"The pirate bay closed
Today the police raided multiple places were The Pirate Bay conducts its operations. At 12.30 the site thepiratebay.org was closed.
The pirate Bay was until yesterday the center for a large part of the worlds illegal filesharing. According to piratebay itself there was over a million users who could upload or download foremost movies, games and music.
By its size and outspoken goal of ridiculing authors The pirate Bay got known all over the world.
Sweden got known internationally as an asylum for those who commited copyright crimes on the internet. This was use economicaly for a large scale sale of adds, pornadds and donations.
It is good that the swedish police now priority this kind of crime. It is the copyright that finances creation in movies, computergames, music and other culture. Whoever breaks the copyright steals from future auothors and cinema audience. Therefore the closing of The Pirate Bay is good for all of us that apreciate new Movies and entertainment says Henrik Pontén, legal advisor at Antipiratbyrån.
Swedish productions are very much affected by illegal downloading, say Per-Erik Wallin, Föreningen Sveriges Filmproducenter. If swedish movies are availible on the net before the premiere chances are smaller that the movies will get the production cost back and less means to make the next movie. It affects both scriptwriters, directors, actors and filmcrews."
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And the rest of the cops, the "good cops" are the ones who cover for them.
I get email receipts when I buy apps on my iphone, pretty sure I didn't have to change any setting for it to work that way.
It's not easily crafted, you need hats to make one of the new hat that is needed for a set bonus, getting a hat can take 200 hours of gameplay. That does not fit my definition of easy. Also are not the duel thing only paid for aswell?
When songs have been pulled from spotify in the past they have been left in my playlist but unplayable. This sucks for spotify tough, I'm currently paying for it so I can use it on my phone but if warner music gets pulled (no idea what artists they have) the value gets diminished and I bet the price will stay the same.
you arm the watch with the pin, it stays armed even if gun goes out of range (gun stops working) and if the gun comes in range again the gun gets rearmed no pin needed. Still it would have to be a pretty damn perfect system for me to trust it to work when i pull the trigger.
since it was perfect
The annoying part can be how those arcade games you bought seem to revert to being demos when the xbox knows it's been banned.
My phone is rooted and I buy apps from googles market. Also root is needed for us in sweden to buy apps. We need root to get around the region restrictions that for some reason stops us swedes from buying paid apps.
Also there are no ads in WoW.
Yeah the more I think about this the worse I think it is. If some company gets payed by some other company to show their ad to players in the game they are probably paying more the more the players see it. The players are going to see a lot of it and they will go out of their way to place the ads. I still think ads got a place in game. Racing games using cars from real life I think are okay. Also I don't mind a banner in some loading screen (like valve) or in the multiplayer lobby (like blizzard) just don't overdo it and let it take over the game!
One area I think ad's can do something good for players is keeping multiplayer servers online. I doubt many companies makes a great deal of money from keeping servers online for multiplayer in old games. If EA had placed ads in the lobbies of some of their old games that would probably cover the cost of running the servers instead of shutting them down.
The thing for me is I agree that they shouldn't waste ones time, actually I never let ads waste my time as I can take care of that perfectly well myself. BUT other than that I don't give a shit I probably get get affected by them subconsciously but so be it. Ads does not have to waste ones time. The ads themselves does not waste my time if they are integrated in a smooth way. I mean does anyone get mad over seeing a billboard or some ads on a bus? If not why should one get mad over an ad on a billboard or a bus in a game?
What if they lowered price on an ad-supported version of a game. Say a new fps game set in a city. There is billboards and stores and stuff you can see, if you pay full price for the game this is all for made up stuff. But if you pay maybe half the price for the ad supported version, everything is the same except there is billboards with ads for coca-cola? I don't really care at all what they do, I play a game if i enjoy it, if they can add ads into that without annoying me (forced ads to watch every time the game launch or stuff that kills immersion like an ad for coca cola in a fantasy game) go ahead.
it's just a preemptive strike so it can be duped on april the first..
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=187072&cid=154 39867
http://www.antipiratbyran.se/
Short summary of what it say:
The newspaper article is about someone getting caught with drugs and got a 12000SEK fine
(that equals rougly about $1600)
Driving a car while under the influence of drugs = 12000SEK(about $1600)
Sharing the movie Hipp Hipp Hora (The Ketchup Effect) = 16000SEK(about $2100)
WHYYYYYYYYY!?!?
Thats about it.
Also at the top it says "Välkommen till Internet, det är vi som har kontrollen här."
"Welcome to the internet, it is us that got the control here."
"Genom sin storlek och uttalade målsättning att hänga ut och håna berörda upphovsmän gjorde man The Pirate Bay känd över hela världen."
Through it's size and expressed goal of hanging out and ridiculing famous authors The Pirate Bay was made famous all over the world.
Maybe thats a better translation. Ofcourse the text is mostly BS probably comparable to something the **AA could have written.
It should have read (What the Swedish antipiracy firm (APB) has to say)
I dont remember how much publicity it got the last time but this time it's all over the Swedish news.
"The Pirate Bay nedstängd
Polisen genomförde idag en rad husrannsakningar mot lokaler där The Pirate Bay bedriver sin verksamhet. Klockan 12 30 stängdes sidan thepiratebay.org ned.
The Pirate Bay var fram tills igår knutpunkten för en stor del av världens illegala fildelning. Enligt egna uppgifter fanns det en dryg miljon användare som kunde laddade upp och ned främst filmer, spel och musik. Genom sin storlek och uttalade målsättning att hänga ut och håna berörda upphovsmän gjorde man The Pirate Bay känd över hela världen. Sverige blev internationellt känt som en fristad för dem som begick upphovsrättsbrott på Internet. Detta utnyttjades ekonomiskt för en omfattande försäljning av annonser, porreklam och insamling av donationer.
Det är bra att den svenska polisen nu prioriterar denna typ av brottslighet. Det är upphovsrätten som finansierar nyskapandet inom film, datorspel, musik och övrig kultur. Den som bryter mot upphovsrättslagen stjäl från framtidens kreatörer och biopublik. Därför är stängningen av The Pirate Bay bra för alla oss som uppskattar ny film och underhållning säger Henrik Pontén, jurist på Antipiratbyrån.
Svenska produktioner drabbas i hög grad av den illegala nedladdningen, säger Per-Erik Wallin, Föreningen Sveriges Filmproducenter. Om svenska filmer finns tillgängliga på nätet före premiären innebär det minskade chanser att filmerna ska spela hem produktionskostnaden och mindre medel för att göra nästa film. Det drabbar både manusförfattare, regissörer, skådespelare och filmarbetare."
Roughly translated
"The pirate bay closed
Today the police raided multiple places were The Pirate Bay conducts its operations. At 12.30 the site thepiratebay.org was closed.
The pirate Bay was until yesterday the center for a large part of the worlds illegal filesharing. According to piratebay itself there was over a million users who could upload or download foremost movies, games and music.
By its size and outspoken goal of ridiculing authors The pirate Bay got known all over the world.
Sweden got known internationally as an asylum for those who commited copyright crimes on the internet. This was use economicaly for a large scale sale of adds, pornadds and donations.
It is good that the swedish police now priority this kind of crime. It is the copyright that finances creation in movies, computergames, music and other culture. Whoever breaks the copyright steals from future auothors and cinema audience. Therefore the closing of The Pirate Bay is good for all of us that apreciate new Movies and entertainment says Henrik Pontén, legal advisor at Antipiratbyrån.
Swedish productions are very much affected by illegal downloading, say Per-Erik Wallin, Föreningen Sveriges Filmproducenter. If swedish movies are availible on the net before the premiere chances are smaller that the movies will get the production cost back and less means to make the next movie. It affects both scriptwriters, directors, actors and filmcrews."
Note that this truly is a crappy translation.