Software is expensive to develop. And games are getting more and more content added which has got to be paid for somehow.
Provided they don't take this advertising thing too far (e.g. they invade your privacy or start interfering with the gameplay) I much prefer it to the other methods of revenue generation such as micro content or episodic content, or outright increasing the price!
My overall experience has been that people can have different personas online vs offline. So while someone may be quite social in the game I haven't really seen that translate to outside of the game, barring perhaps meeting other people from the game and discussing it.
And the flipside of the coin is that these games (thinking WoW since that is the one I have had experience with) demand a lot of time from the player which could be otherwise used for socialising with people in the real world, some people can balance this but I would imagine those people were already social before actually playing the game.
I wont stand for a product which is made inferior on purpose, even if that purpose is supposedly to stop piracy.
If I spend my good money on a product I expect the best that product will give me... Well I guess it will be another example of me voting with my feet.... NO SALE!
This ipod feature isn't too compelling since I don't own an ipod (shocking). But what is keeping me from going Linux is the software, my computer is for playing games. At the moment windows is still king for that.
But give Vista time to push me off the Win platform, I'm not in love of the idea that this OS is going to steal most of my system resources for OS features I am unlikely to care about or use.
I agree with you
I find it weak when someone says that pirating a song only hurts the evil corporation, even if the artist is only getting a cent per cd sold, that is still a source of income for them.
My personal opinion is that the music industry, is none the less making the huge mistake of treating their paying customers (and in fact anyone these days it seems) with great hostility.
While they need to provide a deterient, they are going to far and actually just polarising popular opinion against them. Which is why so many people are seeing piracy as sticking it to them rather than sticking it to the artist.
The good and wrong of it isn't so important to either side... money is!
I have no evidence one way or the other that what the RIAA does is costing them sales... but personally I only buy a handful of cds, and beyond that I listen to the radio or free (truly free) music.
But it isn't about making the game more casual friendly, fundamentally speaking I don't think they can make WoW both what a casual gamer wants and what a hardcore gamer wants (beyond what they already have). But reducing the size of the instances will help relieve gamers headaches a bit, they are still going to have to make something with ridiculous requirements and the best rewards to sate the hardcore gamer, and that is going to leave the casuals in the cold or (the blues rather than the purples).
Personally I always had the most fun in the 5 man instances vs the 40s (they were ok for a while).
I would like to see them introduce some epic natured 5 or 10 man dungeons... Although since I retired from the game I don't think it would sway me anyway, I have a backlog of games to play as it is.
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Software is expensive to develop.
And games are getting more and more content added which has got to be paid for somehow.
Provided they don't take this advertising thing too far (e.g. they invade your privacy or start interfering with the gameplay) I much prefer it to the other methods of revenue generation such as micro content or episodic content, or outright increasing the price!
My overall experience has been that people can have different personas online vs offline. So while someone may be quite social in the game I haven't really seen that translate to outside of the game, barring perhaps meeting other people from the game and discussing it. And the flipside of the coin is that these games (thinking WoW since that is the one I have had experience with) demand a lot of time from the player which could be otherwise used for socialising with people in the real world, some people can balance this but I would imagine those people were already social before actually playing the game.
But if we had faster more responsive software where would we get our micro-pauses to prevent oos??
I wont stand for a product which is made inferior on purpose, even if that purpose is supposedly to stop piracy.
If I spend my good money on a product I expect the best that product will give me... Well I guess it will be another example of me voting with my feet.... NO SALE!
This ipod feature isn't too compelling since I don't own an ipod (shocking). But what is keeping me from going Linux is the software, my computer is for playing games. At the moment windows is still king for that. But give Vista time to push me off the Win platform, I'm not in love of the idea that this OS is going to steal most of my system resources for OS features I am unlikely to care about or use.
I agree with you
I find it weak when someone says that pirating a song only hurts the evil corporation, even if the artist is only getting a cent per cd sold, that is still a source of income for them.
My personal opinion is that the music industry, is none the less making the huge mistake of treating their paying customers (and in fact anyone these days it seems) with great hostility.
While they need to provide a deterient, they are going to far and actually just polarising popular opinion against them. Which is why so many people are seeing piracy as sticking it to them rather than sticking it to the artist.
The good and wrong of it isn't so important to either side... money is! I have no evidence one way or the other that what the RIAA does is costing them sales... but personally I only buy a handful of cds, and beyond that I listen to the radio or free (truly free) music.
But it isn't about making the game more casual friendly, fundamentally speaking I don't think they can make WoW both what a casual gamer wants and what a hardcore gamer wants (beyond what they already have). But reducing the size of the instances will help relieve gamers headaches a bit, they are still going to have to make something with ridiculous requirements and the best rewards to sate the hardcore gamer, and that is going to leave the casuals in the cold or (the blues rather than the purples). Personally I always had the most fun in the 5 man instances vs the 40s (they were ok for a while). I would like to see them introduce some epic natured 5 or 10 man dungeons... Although since I retired from the game I don't think it would sway me anyway, I have a backlog of games to play as it is.