The comments from Faceless007 are EXACTLY the same thing I have been saying about this fiasco. giving a particular industry special protection and circumventing consumer rights for supposed sustainability is NOT WORTH THE COST to consumer rights.
If this is allowed to stand, I hope that it injures the industry in the short as well as the long run. and I really hope that there are more people that see this the way myself and Faceless007 see this. it is a slippery slope and wil...
holy crap, I never thought I would hear the phrase "Six Sigma" on a gaming site.
You know, there is an article I read about a year ago that the CEO of 3M stated that when 3M implemented the policies of Six Sigma it just about drove them out of business.
I'd just like to put a few quotes here from some historical figures:
”It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.”
-George Washington
”Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.”
-James Madison
I was gonna' post that, I'm glad you went through the trouble of finding a decent copy. :)
Major Nelson looks like the actor Danny Houston (head vampire from 30 days of night,major stryker in Wolverine).
http://www.topnews.in/files...
Jamie Kennedy and Mr. caffeine were the worst thing I have ever seen at an E3, They should be locked in a room together with 100 lbs of rancid shellfish, ten bags of sorbitol based candy and twenty bags of potato chips fried in Olestra.
He is like a Yugo car salesman, always trying to convince you that the junker that he is trying to sell you has the latest advances in engineering and design.
He is a disappointment machine.
When it comes to resources, how many gigs are used for those three operating systems that the XBone has running all the time. was it or four of the eight gigs being used for that?
I think I read that the PS4 will be only using about 1 of the 8gigs for their OS. So, does that mean that the XBone will only have 4 (or possibly 5) gigs available for Developers to use for games? and the PS4 will have as much as seven?
If that is true, that will make a BIG difference betwe...
If this was Texas instead of California The the end game for this guy would have been death, but, California loves their criminals. I wouldn't be surprised if the California court system blames society for him being a criminal and the victim for his own death.
The are caught, the driver that ran him down is in the hospital.
it's called arrogance.
"umm.. look up Web TV and you will see this pre-dates PlayTV."
WebTV was an internet portal that you used on your TV, that is where it began an ended. it had NOTHING to do with television media and you did not use it as a dvr.
so, MS is still not innovative.
to be honest, what will happen is that PC gaming will start to explode again, there are a lot of developers that are making great products for real low prices and DRM free to boot, look at Apogee and interceptor they teamed up to release a rise of the triad remake and are going to sell it for 14.99. I think we will see lots of people from these large developers that are let go start self publishing the games they want to make on the PC. truly creative people that want to make interesting thin...
I'm already looking at a better video card for my box, I have an old 8800gt.
I love console gaming but, I was a PC gamer for many years and going back is just putting on my headphones starting the game.
wait till these companies see that all the "lost" money from used sales was fueling a large portion of new sales. and that when that disappears those preorders that they live and die by will shrink considerably.
If I didn't take a chance on a copy of Uncharted 1 I would have never bought 2 or 3 new. same for bioshock, I would never have grabbed a copy of infinite (probably).
I sure hope this hurts the industry in ways that the greedy publishers and developers never foreseen. I hope preorders drop drastically, games languish on shelves for months until the price drops to half or better. I hope executives from game publishers get their salaries cut and eventually get let go for poo...
that's how it works now, if it was just a drm issue nothing would have changed, but, the publishers want to circumvent the first sale doctrine and double dip their products for higher profits.
seeing that the gaming industry has profits that make the movie, music and book industry look like mom and pop stores, I would say they just want to step on our rights and want special protection for their industry over everybody else.
greed begets greed, man.
"and all it would take is a probe by the justice department for
Collusion, and you bet these companies would not want that.
if they are found to be in Collusion, they will all face very heavy Fines! not to mention a Anti Consumer practice Probe too boot. "
Frankly, I think that is going to happen anyway, This used game scam that game publishers and the consoles are devising and trying their best to implement go's against consumer p...
Cuel: "not the same... movies have box office sales and then the secondary market of DVDs/BR"
MrScroggs: "ugh, what you said"
And I still say IT doesn't matter!! I don't care if it took a game dev 40 years and 2 generations to create a game, every industry is bound by "the first sale doctrine"
and be glad that there is that clause in copyright law or everything that you purchase wouldn't be yours to do what you ...
these apologists for game publishers don't seem to understand that it doesn't matter that games cost more or take longer to create. THE LAW IS THE LAW, and if your industry cannot abide by the legal rights of the consumer then there is a flaw in their industry NOT in the law!!! EVERY INDUSTRY DESERVES A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD!
and no industry should be above the law!!!
I hope this is a great generation with a lot of backpedalling concerning used game policies. A win for everyone.
and one more thing, I am not a fan of EA, but I would either love an old style Burnout (not open world, the return of crash junctions) or at least a burnout collection. and of course, plenty of new and interesting games. (I hate saying IP's, it's so anal retentive corporate speak.)