... for making fairly accurate maps of NYC, Paris, Hong Kong etc...
The twin towers in NYC were taken out of the game with the reasoning that they were destroyed by terrorists (game was out way before 9/11). What's next, bombing of the Statue of Liberty?
Life imitating art? OMG we're all in trouble!
Now we just have to wait for someone to be arrested for doing maps of the Pentagon, White House etc.
I'd really love to see another Full Throttle. If they can do a "redo" of Doom to Doom 3, I'd buy Deus Ex again - as long as they keep the gameplay as is, we can all forget Deus Ex 2.
Since Lucasarts ditched Sam and Max, are you guys still happy with the "mini" games released?
I'd ask for a sequel to System Shock 2 but I still never finished the game yet. Too darn spooky
It's also a pity X-Wing vs Tie Fighter (and Alliance) were pretty much overlooked during their time. Now with voice chat and 64+ player capabilities, wouldn't it be awesome for them to revamp their engines and just rerelease those?
Some background info first - I currently work in one of the biggest BPO companies in the world, based in the Philippines. I didn't grow up here, as most of my education was done in the West and I've only been back to the 3rd world for a few years. Landing a job in an outsourcing company is the surest way to get a (relatively) high paying job - especially without a college degree.
To put things into perspective, the average starting salary for a non-BPO job here is roughly US $160 a month. Starting salary for a BPO is slightly under $300. That extra $100 counts for a ton here, taking you from 'just-surviving-middle-class' to upper middle class. Heck, I earned a lot more working part-time back in the States than I do full-time plus overtime here and I'm already paid more than twice than my co-workers.
To put things into perspective, the catchline for one of the training centers here goes: "You don't have to be a doctor to get a high paying job..." What are they training people for? Medical transcription. Yep, even doctors and registered nurses are *training* to go into medical transcription - well the ones not going abroad. Even doctors here are taking up nursing by the thousands so they can practise overseas.
Anyway, from what I've noticed, most of the outsourced jobs are ones that people in the developed world would *NOT* want.
Unless you want to slave 8+ hours a day doing (mindless) pure coding, data abstraction, transcription, data entry or answering the phones/email/chat for more than minimum wage. These kind of work make up a bulk of outsourced jobs. Tasks that are repetitive, easy to relay, mostly monotonous, and oftentimes high-pressure. These usually have a high-attrition rate in the first world because of the low pay. You have to realize that for most people working here, they work best doing what they are told - no more, no less.
As a few other people have mentioned before, the dynamic jobs that deal with analysis, design and those that need a little more thought than basic monkey coding will and *should* stay and not get off-shored. Some companies try to outsource these and end up failing more often than not.
It's probably slightly different with India as they're more tech-savvy. Thing is tho, the jobs outsourced are most likely the ones you wouldn't want to do for more than a year or two anyway.
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... for making fairly accurate maps of NYC, Paris, Hong Kong etc...
The twin towers in NYC were taken out of the game with the reasoning that they were destroyed by terrorists (game was out way before 9/11). What's next, bombing of the Statue of Liberty?
Life imitating art? OMG we're all in trouble!
Now we just have to wait for someone to be arrested for doing maps of the Pentagon, White House etc.
yeesh
Darn, I miss that game.
I'd really love to see another Full Throttle. If they can do a "redo" of Doom to Doom 3, I'd buy Deus Ex again - as long as they keep the gameplay as is, we can all forget Deus Ex 2.
Since Lucasarts ditched Sam and Max, are you guys still happy with the "mini" games released?
I'd ask for a sequel to System Shock 2 but I still never finished the game yet. Too darn spooky
It's also a pity X-Wing vs Tie Fighter (and Alliance) were pretty much overlooked during their time. Now with voice chat and 64+ player capabilities, wouldn't it be awesome for them to revamp their engines and just rerelease those?
Some background info first - I currently work in one of the biggest BPO companies in the world, based in the Philippines. I didn't grow up here, as most of my education was done in the West and I've only been back to the 3rd world for a few years. Landing a job in an outsourcing company is the surest way to get a (relatively) high paying job - especially without a college degree.
To put things into perspective, the average starting salary for a non-BPO job here is roughly US $160 a month. Starting salary for a BPO is slightly under $300. That extra $100 counts for a ton here, taking you from 'just-surviving-middle-class' to upper middle class. Heck, I earned a lot more working part-time back in the States than I do full-time plus overtime here and I'm already paid more than twice than my co-workers.
To put things into perspective, the catchline for one of the training centers here goes:
"You don't have to be a doctor to get a high paying job..."
What are they training people for? Medical transcription. Yep, even doctors and registered nurses are *training* to go into medical transcription - well the ones not going abroad. Even doctors here are taking up nursing by the thousands so they can practise overseas.
Anyway, from what I've noticed, most of the outsourced jobs are ones that people in the developed world would *NOT* want.
Unless you want to slave 8+ hours a day doing (mindless) pure coding, data abstraction, transcription, data entry or answering the phones/email/chat for more than minimum wage.
These kind of work make up a bulk of outsourced jobs. Tasks that are repetitive, easy to relay, mostly monotonous, and oftentimes high-pressure. These usually have a high-attrition rate in the first world because of the low pay.
You have to realize that for most people working here, they work best doing what they are told - no more, no less.
As a few other people have mentioned before, the dynamic jobs that deal with analysis, design and those that need a little more thought than basic monkey coding will and *should* stay and not get off-shored. Some companies try to outsource these and end up failing more often than not.
It's probably slightly different with India as they're more tech-savvy. Thing is tho, the jobs outsourced are most likely the ones you wouldn't want to do for more than a year or two anyway.