Dragon Age 2

It's really no surprise that *actual* scientists have a more open mind than the self-proclaimed intellectual elite of slashdot.

How fortunate self-sacrifing zealots like you exists to teach the world what's right. Your bandwidth shall surely benefit all of humanity.

And Bethesda lawyers are *actually* killing people in the millions.

Oh wait.

This. Seriously, how the hell can you claim ownership of simplicity? "Our design patent is the complete lack of distinctive features, and we'll disregard any distinctive features added by any competitive implementation when comparing it against our design patent."

A lot of us educated religious nutjobs have long known that science and religion are not polar opposites. There's plenty of us who appreciates the effort of science, whos admiration of God increases as each new scientific discovery adds to the percieved complexity of his work.
Our faith is not shaken by your discoveries. We do not care that you don't share out believe.
Sometimes though, it gets annoying to listen to these ignorant fundamentalistic atheists who honestly believe the abscense of God to be a fact. We're well aware that Gods existance is not a fact. That's why it's called "religious belief".
While fundamentalistic atheists won't shake our faith, they are among the most vocal group of obvious ignorants known to mankind.
Vocal obvious ignorance is annoying.

You do your fellow atheists a great disservice by failing to realize that no evidence is required to *believe*.
There is no evidence against God. Why do you believe in his non-existance?

Contrary to popular believe, there's 0 evidence against it.
There's a reason religion is "believed in" rather than "known to be true".

Uhm... are you saying that Oblivion and Fallout 3 were created by one or two guys? Cause if you are, that's the most ill-informed quote to ever make it to slashdot. Go read the credits section in the manual of either of those games. It's several pages in a very small font.

WELL, very little WoW content absolutely requires a certain healer and a certain tank - IF the players are good. If they're not, however, you'll likely want to avoid certain classes in certain roles that they officially support.
So... even if all content is beatable by any class combination... are there combinations that have an easier time than others?

It's a cost comparison. Noone mentioned actually buying the game again.

GW2 would be the title I actually trust to do away with the trinity. They can easily scale all content to be unsoloable, and still cater to the anti-social MMO-players through hired henchmen, a mechanism that has been in place since launch of GW1. On paper, the idea of having each class feature self-healing abilities with different restricting mechanics sounds like an excellent way to force each character to mind his own survival while rewarding good class diversity.

The might be "programmers", but if slashdot was their pinnacle of achievement, they're not impressively talented on any scale.

I hope not. I mean, sure, for a vast majority of games, it would make perfect sense to have a "disable 3D mode" button, and aim to make that just as functional... but if someone came up with a truly magnificent idea, where depth perception would all of a sudden be an active element in gameplay mechanics, I hope they're gonna go ahead rather than thinking "Oh no, only 80% of the world could possibly enjoy this, let's not risk offending the remaining 20. Scrapped."

All of a sudden, it makes a lot of sense that data isn't sold - it's licensed.

Noone's gonna argue that a person who tailored a t-shirt is entitled to charge for his labor, and he can charge whatever he pleases. Too expensive? Don't buy it. You don't need to worry about piracy, because whoever bought your t-shirt can't magically conjure a copy from thin air to pass to his buddies.
If what you've crafted is a song, a movie or a piece of software, copies CAN be "magically conjured from thin air". Therefore, it's perfectly fair to impose certain restrictions on allowed usage when licensing your product to a paying client. Don't like them? Don't buy it.

Also, I know that at least 80% of you readers are perfectly familiar with "correlation does not imply causation". Remember to apply this, even when you don't like the outcome.
From TFA: "The conclusion of the study is that movie pirates are generally more interested in film and therefore spend more money and invest more time in it. In other words, they make up some of the movie industries best customers."
It's not AT ALL a stretch to assume that these pirates would've been EVEN BETTER customers without piracy.