And BPI is saying that ISPs should disconnect users, which hurts their revenue directly. So, co-operate with BPI: lose money and customers. Fight BPI: keep customers, and free publicity and good will.
Wow, can nobody here answer the man's question with anything except sarcasm?
Yes, it will run on 64 bit editions of XP, it says so in the article. The summary just assumes that 64bit means "vista". Great slashdot editors as always./sarcasm
A lot of people play it because its the only truely "massive" online game. WoW only has 1,000 people per server, most other games have less than 3,000 online at a time, EVE has gotten 50,000 or more people online on the same game simultaniously (with 20-30k being regular)
Oddly enough, thats really just a cop-out used by console-makers. If a game runs on windows with the same minimum system specs, it will run on basically any windows machine with the same specs regardless.
The only problem comes with video cards, and even then you really only have to develop for nvidia and ATI, and even if you don't develop for those specifically the game will run fine, just a bit slower.
You know, this makes a lot of sense, and seems pretty plausable. But, I was really hopeing they'd do something new and different. Sadly, looks like thats not the case since blizzard went corporate.
Knock the price down? thats 400$ for 4000 liters of water. or 10 cents per liter. Thats extremely cheap for how much water you get, and they would make an excellent thing to airlift in. Even at 1$ per liter of water, they can be small and easy to transport, and light enough to be airlifted easily.
Even at the current price, I'd say these things are a steal.
episode 2 is nowhere near a "new game". teamfortress was origonally a free mod, which became pay-to-play. and portal is just a new set of skins on halflife with a bit of storyline. And if I want to pay 50$ for a game with one new gun, I'll buy the newest tom-clancy game.
I would like to note, in IGN's top 100 games, all of them are old. Infact, the only game in their top 20 that was made after the year 2000 is Rome: Total War, which is an M rated game.
In the 20-30 range, all of the ones made in 2000 or later are M rated games, except burnout 3.
KOTOR 2 wasn't a mistake. They just never finished it. The game itself wasn't actually bad.
Besides, its not like they actually finished halo 2 or Overlord either, if a game is popular enough, it can get away with being unfinished crap at the end.
So, its a software violation on windows, but really its just one program thats not terribly popular that happens to have broken the GPL. I really don't think this is a "windows specific" issue at all. They can, and likely do, violate the GPL on linux or mac all the time. Infact, said company sells software for the iPod.
Yes, MP3 is a lossy format, but so long as you don't open it up and edit it all the time, it will keep 99.99% of the sound quality it had when it was recorded.
I have the newest version of firefox (vanilla, no extensions, only a few custom settings to increase speed) and his demo completely didn't work on my computer...
Please stop and read your own posts before you write them. You're saying that american consumers "do not want more do-dads"? Are you certifiably insane? We'd attach a spork to a blender if we thought it would be beneficial.
So you want a game with the depth of a puddle that provides rewards but no risks. Because, you know, all games are based on the concept that dying doesnt actually affect you at all, and that you can only ever get better.
Some of those DX10 only games are actually compatable with DX9, if you patch them with some "independant" patches... I currently have shadowrun running on my 64bit XP computer.
This evidence proves conclusively without a doubt that there is a 100% chance that humans either evolved from pirates, were created by His Noodly Appendage, or both. Case closed!
Back in the day of halflife one, I had a video card that wasn't terribly good. You see, it had a bit of a problem. At long distances, it would render players "over" all other objects. So I effectively had long-distance-only wallhack. It wasn't anything I even did, it was, in fact, just a bug in the hardware rendering. Granted, its unlikely you'd see a bug this blatant nowadays, but it can still happen, and its still a cheat.
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Oh it gets better. The Sci-fi channel owns the site. Its not even news, its a Sci-fi article.
A "gate" is roughly the equivalent of a transistor. Kind of. Think of it like a lot of transistors all put together.
And BPI is saying that ISPs should disconnect users, which hurts their revenue directly. So, co-operate with BPI: lose money and customers. Fight BPI: keep customers, and free publicity and good will.
Easy business decision if you ask me.
Wow, can nobody here answer the man's question with anything except sarcasm?
Yes, it will run on 64 bit editions of XP, it says so in the article. The summary just assumes that 64bit means "vista". Great slashdot editors as always./sarcasm
A lot of people play it because its the only truely "massive" online game. WoW only has 1,000 people per server, most other games have less than 3,000 online at a time, EVE has gotten 50,000 or more people online on the same game simultaniously (with 20-30k being regular)
Oddly enough, thats really just a cop-out used by console-makers. If a game runs on windows with the same minimum system specs, it will run on basically any windows machine with the same specs regardless.
The only problem comes with video cards, and even then you really only have to develop for nvidia and ATI, and even if you don't develop for those specifically the game will run fine, just a bit slower.
You know, this makes a lot of sense, and seems pretty plausable. But, I was really hopeing they'd do something new and different. Sadly, looks like thats not the case since blizzard went corporate.
Knock the price down? thats 400$ for 4000 liters of water. or 10 cents per liter. Thats extremely cheap for how much water you get, and they would make an excellent thing to airlift in. Even at 1$ per liter of water, they can be small and easy to transport, and light enough to be airlifted easily.
Even at the current price, I'd say these things are a steal.
episode 2 is nowhere near a "new game". teamfortress was origonally a free mod, which became pay-to-play. and portal is just a new set of skins on halflife with a bit of storyline. And if I want to pay 50$ for a game with one new gun, I'll buy the newest tom-clancy game.
Then why did they make it?
http://www.amazon.com/Mumbo-Jumbo-The-Office/dp/B000P0DOE4/ref=sr_1_9/103-5655588-2508603?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1189528491&sr=1-9
I would like to note, in IGN's top 100 games, all of them are old. Infact, the only game in their top 20 that was made after the year 2000 is Rome: Total War, which is an M rated game.
In the 20-30 range, all of the ones made in 2000 or later are M rated games, except burnout 3.
KOTOR 2 wasn't a mistake. They just never finished it. The game itself wasn't actually bad. Besides, its not like they actually finished halo 2 or Overlord either, if a game is popular enough, it can get away with being unfinished crap at the end.
So, its a software violation on windows, but really its just one program thats not terribly popular that happens to have broken the GPL. I really don't think this is a "windows specific" issue at all. They can, and likely do, violate the GPL on linux or mac all the time. Infact, said company sells software for the iPod.
Wow, a 9 minute late first post... New levels of incompetent trolls here on /.
Yes, MP3 is a lossy format, but so long as you don't open it up and edit it all the time, it will keep 99.99% of the sound quality it had when it was recorded.
I have the newest version of firefox (vanilla, no extensions, only a few custom settings to increase speed) and his demo completely didn't work on my computer...
Agreed, chummer.
You know, I'd be impressed by a game with a 1D engine. One dimension is very hard to work with.
Please stop and read your own posts before you write them. You're saying that american consumers "do not want more do-dads"? Are you certifiably insane? We'd attach a spork to a blender if we thought it would be beneficial.
So you want a game with the depth of a puddle that provides rewards but no risks. Because, you know, all games are based on the concept that dying doesnt actually affect you at all, and that you can only ever get better.
Some of those DX10 only games are actually compatable with DX9, if you patch them with some "independant" patches... I currently have shadowrun running on my 64bit XP computer.
So, both of you are just latching on to the troll's post so your comments appear at the top? Yeah, you're really better than them alright...
Because thats what people will pay. Simple fact, these are companies, they live to make money, the more money, the better.
Back in the day of halflife one, I had a video card that wasn't terribly good. You see, it had a bit of a problem. At long distances, it would render players "over" all other objects. So I effectively had long-distance-only wallhack. It wasn't anything I even did, it was, in fact, just a bug in the hardware rendering. Granted, its unlikely you'd see a bug this blatant nowadays, but it can still happen, and its still a cheat.