...this game will fade into obscurity. There's no way to manage real-time PVP in a 24-hour real world where there are players connecting from all over the planet.
My uberguild captures your capital at 6pm GMT. Your uberguild retakes it and captures our capital at 6:00am GMT. Wash, rinse, repeat.
I could. I certainly could. I still can't look at icons and have software open, or think "Word" and have Word open. I'm still limited to typing only as quickly as my fingers, hardware, and software will allow, yet can think much, much faster. Other parts of me are entirely underutilized while I'm working - toes, feet, eyes, nose, mouth.
If anything I'd say we're nowhere near our peak productivity, unless we're only measuring in terms of current interface methods.
I know I'm just echoing other comments here but let's face it: All this is is more whining. If you honestly think that WoW "destroys lives" then you need a reality check: people destroy their own lives due to a lack of self-control. This holds true with drugs, booze, sex, video games, you name it. Even the "rush" one gets from those things can be conquered through willpower.
Perhaps this is just man's way of defining his own natural selection: those without willpower will wither up and die in front of their computers, or on the rock, or on the bottle, and remove themselves from the gene pool. I'm not saying that this is either good or bad, but it seems to be the case here, no?
"In fact, anyone with ANY interest in games has a compulsion to play games. "
Have you got any proof of -that-?
You can't just laud it as fact without evidence to back it up.
Perhaps innovation would do better than imitation.
Microsoft has long made a living, a very good living, off of either buying up the competition or of providing a similar product or service. Inevitably such a business model must fail, as laws of capitalism state that competitors will inevitably create better products at lesser costs both to themselves and consumers. All it takes is for one of those competitors to refuse to sell-out to Microsoft and they have beaten the beast.
Guess which competitor isn't selling out any time soon? Google.
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My computer boots to Windows XP's CTRL-ALT-DEL screen, from a powered-down state, in 8 seconds.
;)
Maybe upgrading from a PII is the answer to your problems?
...this game will fade into obscurity. There's no way to manage real-time PVP in a 24-hour real world where there are players connecting from all over the planet. My uberguild captures your capital at 6pm GMT. Your uberguild retakes it and captures our capital at 6:00am GMT. Wash, rinse, repeat.
I could. I certainly could. I still can't look at icons and have software open, or think "Word" and have Word open. I'm still limited to typing only as quickly as my fingers, hardware, and software will allow, yet can think much, much faster. Other parts of me are entirely underutilized while I'm working - toes, feet, eyes, nose, mouth. If anything I'd say we're nowhere near our peak productivity, unless we're only measuring in terms of current interface methods.
I know I'm just echoing other comments here but let's face it: All this is is more whining. If you honestly think that WoW "destroys lives" then you need a reality check: people destroy their own lives due to a lack of self-control. This holds true with drugs, booze, sex, video games, you name it. Even the "rush" one gets from those things can be conquered through willpower. Perhaps this is just man's way of defining his own natural selection: those without willpower will wither up and die in front of their computers, or on the rock, or on the bottle, and remove themselves from the gene pool. I'm not saying that this is either good or bad, but it seems to be the case here, no?
Apparently, Pepsi, Bandaids, and MySpace all still exist in 2142. Who would've known that EA's latest Battlefield game could predict the future?
"In fact, anyone with ANY interest in games has a compulsion to play games. " Have you got any proof of -that-? You can't just laud it as fact without evidence to back it up.
...a 4th grade book report.
...but with Slashdot's colors. For shame.
Perhaps innovation would do better than imitation. Microsoft has long made a living, a very good living, off of either buying up the competition or of providing a similar product or service. Inevitably such a business model must fail, as laws of capitalism state that competitors will inevitably create better products at lesser costs both to themselves and consumers. All it takes is for one of those competitors to refuse to sell-out to Microsoft and they have beaten the beast. Guess which competitor isn't selling out any time soon? Google.
Isn't this common sense? Whoops... sorry, forgot that doesn't exist in government.