They can bite me. 60 bucks for a game is already a chunk o' change. Plus, I'm 1) terrible at console FPS and therefore prefer the single-player campaign when using Xbox (PC is better for me); 2) I'm close to 40 - the younger folks tend to get pissed pretty quickly when I'm too slow by their metrics, again making me prefer the scripted profanity of the single-player campaign to the dynamically-generated profane content of multi-player. I don't need to subscribe to a service to get cussed out.:)
MP is tons of fun, certainly, but (for me) only with people I know, and I'm not going to pay 8 bucks a month for the "privilege" of socializing with my friends.
I live in the southeastern US - we very rarely see any amount of freezing precipitation, so in spectacularly hilarious fashion we shut down everything when there is anything more than minor sleet here. No slick-road driving skills (myself included), lack of road-clearing equipment, and general lack of sufficiently warm clothing to keep us toasty for extended periods of exposure all combine to make us fearful of -.5C/31F degree weather. Our northern countrymen enjoy making sport of us for this.
You just have to give value for money. Music industry: it's pretty obvious why people either only buy singles or pirate whole albums.
Netflix lets me watch something once that I don't want to pay to own permanently, and I can watch up to 720 hours of movies/TV (i.e. leave it on constantly) a month for 10 bucks. Beats the hell out of pay-per-view as well, of course.
Are you comfortable with one day perhaps only being able to get apps electronically? That's not meant to be a trollish or insinuating comment, it's an honest question. I do understand that these days most publishers provide for electronic purchases and acquisition of software, but I still don't want to be without the option / capability of physical media. I suppose external drives would still be an option, so maybe my question is irrelevant.
Very funny post - but in seriousness, not likely because (eventual) utter lack of optical drives will herd all the Apple drones into purchasing all of their apps via the App Store.
Not that it hasn't been said before, but that 1984 commercial is certainly ironic in light of the current state of Apple.
What I don't understand about this is, you need a service provider any way. I understand the desire to not be locked in so that if you decide you don't care for your current company you can easily switch. But you're still going to be paying _someone_ a monthly fee. Will their plans be cheaper for you, the individual, if you buy an unlocked phone at full price? I don't see evidence of that anywhere. No flame, just honest inquiry.
I do agree with you - I usually wait until a title's "cache" has dimmed a bit. My only fear (as predominantly a PC gamer) is that I'm truly contributing to a gradual decline in interest in the platform. I would say piracy was the #1 factor, but all platforms suffer from that.
There are enough titles out there, and I have little enough time, that I don't have to get the new games when they're new. I just hope that doesn't mean that one day all of the games will be old games.
Ah, Mr. Lucas could have learned something valuable from you. What you've mentioned are some of the contributing factors that made his prequel films so horrid.
Yep, I'm gonna "me too" your other repliers - I'm an American, and I know that I don't state that up front, ever (except, ironically, in this post). I think we'll live if other nations' citizens make a "my country-centric" statement from time to time too.
Heck, there are three major browsers, two mid-majors, and numerous niche browsers (my grouping, yours may vary, that's not the point). If Opera still has users and is still putting out updates, I don't think the others are going to go away. IE would not in all likelihood be anywhere even *close* to standards-compliant if they didn't face the competition of FF/Chrome/et. al. They certainly have taken notes from the competition on what a modern browser should be like.
I have five browsers installed, and I would believe many of you have more than two yourselves. Each has something to offer that the others don't, or at least delivers something in a way that I prefer. Just MHO, but I think there are enough enthusiasts/hobbyists in the world to keep the pre-installed browsers from displacing the others. I know I'll continue to use them all, to encourage each company to strive for innovations and improvements.
I don't think this makes you an idiot. To be sure you don't have issues in the future though, maybe download cracked versions and store them some place safe - you have paid for these applications, so I don't see where owning a copy that will allow you to use them without regards to the continued existence of their distributor is a bad or immoral thing.
I got the same mileage from your.02 as you did - I have done this on quite a few occasions, most recently with... Dragon Age: Origins! I had technical issues (game froze at a certain point in the story, no matter who I played as). When they (whoever EA contracts with for "support") found out I was running Win7 64 they told me tough luck, too bad. I grabbed a usenet copy, and bam, everything happy. I can't say why of course, but this wasn't the first time a problem was resolved with a "stripped" copy.
I'm a professional developer and user; I've found the ribbon interface to be a good thing. We often hear a lot of complaining when the old way of doing things changes, even if those changes prove in the long run to have been an improvement, from those who cut their teeth on the old. For those who start their Office experience with 2007/2010, they will probably look at the previous generation and wonder, "how the hell did you put up with that?"
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hehehe...
...somebody said something might possibly do something.
Way to come out with a definitive conclusion there, WHO.
They can bite me. 60 bucks for a game is already a chunk o' change. Plus, I'm 1) terrible at console FPS and therefore prefer the single-player campaign when using Xbox (PC is better for me); 2) I'm close to 40 - the younger folks tend to get pissed pretty quickly when I'm too slow by their metrics, again making me prefer the scripted profanity of the single-player campaign to the dynamically-generated profane content of multi-player. I don't need to subscribe to a service to get cussed out. :)
MP is tons of fun, certainly, but (for me) only with people I know, and I'm not going to pay 8 bucks a month for the "privilege" of socializing with my friends.
I live in the southeastern US - we very rarely see any amount of freezing precipitation, so in spectacularly hilarious fashion we shut down everything when there is anything more than minor sleet here. No slick-road driving skills (myself included), lack of road-clearing equipment, and general lack of sufficiently warm clothing to keep us toasty for extended periods of exposure all combine to make us fearful of -.5C/31F degree weather. Our northern countrymen enjoy making sport of us for this.
You just have to give value for money. Music industry: it's pretty obvious why people either only buy singles or pirate whole albums.
Netflix lets me watch something once that I don't want to pay to own permanently, and I can watch up to 720 hours of movies/TV (i.e. leave it on constantly) a month for 10 bucks. Beats the hell out of pay-per-view as well, of course.
paying out the nose, but that wouldn't be a terrible thing if it helped their products.
I haven't taken a bath since I was 5..... I would also suggest that no one shake hands with this man.
Self-referential comment? :)
Fair point.
Are you comfortable with one day perhaps only being able to get apps electronically? That's not meant to be a trollish or insinuating comment, it's an honest question. I do understand that these days most publishers provide for electronic purchases and acquisition of software, but I still don't want to be without the option / capability of physical media. I suppose external drives would still be an option, so maybe my question is irrelevant.
Very funny post - but in seriousness, not likely because (eventual) utter lack of optical drives will herd all the Apple drones into purchasing all of their apps via the App Store.
Not that it hasn't been said before, but that 1984 commercial is certainly ironic in light of the current state of Apple.
Think T.C. was performing roadkill cleanup between novels, leading to his unfortunate circumstance?
at least now I know why I feel so numb after working all day on my armadillo farm.
is never provide open Wifi.
+1 Exactly What I Was Thinking
What I don't understand about this is, you need a service provider any way. I understand the desire to not be locked in so that if you decide you don't care for your current company you can easily switch. But you're still going to be paying _someone_ a monthly fee. Will their plans be cheaper for you, the individual, if you buy an unlocked phone at full price? I don't see evidence of that anywhere. No flame, just honest inquiry.
I do agree with you - I usually wait until a title's "cache" has dimmed a bit. My only fear (as predominantly a PC gamer) is that I'm truly contributing to a gradual decline in interest in the platform. I would say piracy was the #1 factor, but all platforms suffer from that.
There are enough titles out there, and I have little enough time, that I don't have to get the new games when they're new. I just hope that doesn't mean that one day all of the games will be old games.
Ah, Mr. Lucas could have learned something valuable from you. What you've mentioned are some of the contributing factors that made his prequel films so horrid.
What was that? I stopped reading when I hit the fourth word. :)
Yep, I'm gonna "me too" your other repliers - I'm an American, and I know that I don't state that up front, ever (except, ironically, in this post). I think we'll live if other nations' citizens make a "my country-centric" statement from time to time too.
At least now I know where my stolen laptop ended up!
Heck, there are three major browsers, two mid-majors, and numerous niche browsers (my grouping, yours may vary, that's not the point). If Opera still has users and is still putting out updates, I don't think the others are going to go away. IE would not in all likelihood be anywhere even *close* to standards-compliant if they didn't face the competition of FF/Chrome/et. al. They certainly have taken notes from the competition on what a modern browser should be like.
I have five browsers installed, and I would believe many of you have more than two yourselves. Each has something to offer that the others don't, or at least delivers something in a way that I prefer. Just MHO, but I think there are enough enthusiasts/hobbyists in the world to keep the pre-installed browsers from displacing the others. I know I'll continue to use them all, to encourage each company to strive for innovations and improvements.
I don't think this makes you an idiot. To be sure you don't have issues in the future though, maybe download cracked versions and store them some place safe - you have paid for these applications, so I don't see where owning a copy that will allow you to use them without regards to the continued existence of their distributor is a bad or immoral thing.
I got the same mileage from your .02 as you did - I have done this on quite a few occasions, most recently with... Dragon Age: Origins! I had technical issues (game froze at a certain point in the story, no matter who I played as). When they (whoever EA contracts with for "support") found out I was running Win7 64 they told me tough luck, too bad. I grabbed a usenet copy, and bam, everything happy. I can't say why of course, but this wasn't the first time a problem was resolved with a "stripped" copy.
I'm a professional developer and user; I've found the ribbon interface to be a good thing. We often hear a lot of complaining when the old way of doing things changes, even if those changes prove in the long run to have been an improvement, from those who cut their teeth on the old. For those who start their Office experience with 2007/2010, they will probably look at the previous generation and wonder, "how the hell did you put up with that?"
"The Fantasy Channel" You know, I think you just *might* be on to something there!
Think different. Until we have you locked in, at which time we will encourage you to not think at all.