I haven't played any game since that felt as free and fun to play as WC and Descent. There was some close-to-fun stuff in one of the Startrek space combat games, but trying to use capships as space fighters isn't as fun (it's more strategy "target weapons, engines, etc.") Though I believe it could be done much better, the "StarTrek" name is detrimental since startrek doesn't use fighter craft in combat. (Star Wars on the other hand does, but Star Wars games are so pigeonholed to the "StarWars" universe that you don't get any 6DOF here either.)
Might I recommend Freespace and/or Freespace 2? Sounds like they might be exactly what you're looking for, and with the Freespace 2 Source Code Project the graphics have gotten a very nice upgrade (though both those games still looked good years after their initial release).
It comes down to this: new game came out, you can either buy $200 portable system and pay $40 for the game or buy a $200 iOS device that will get a newer revision three times before the next portable gaming system comes out and download it to your iOS device for $10. Guess what most people will do?
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The scenario you describe is a little off since it isn't a PSA addressing something illegal like the NBC one was. [...] Overall I think the real issue (as others have stated) is that homeland security is involved in this at all.
My point was more about bias than legality, just because something is illegal doesn't mean we should trust any old person or company to talk about it, especially through our government and without disclosure that there is a conflict of interest. This one may have been fine, but I dislike the fact that it sets a precedent. I find it pretty easy to imagine future ones branding people who are for IP reform, or even removing IP laws altogether, but who respect the law as is, being defamed due to biased PSAs. If the government finds it ok to place seeds of distrust in the general populace toward groups of political activists who happen to want something big media (or big oil or big or small anything for that matter) doesn't...well, we're already too close to that for my comfort. I really don't want to see what things will look like if we go all the way.
But I do agree with your final point. That's a "WTF" that I think everyone can get behind.
Oh if I only had mod points to give you
I don't understand why this is such a big deal? A company that is hurt by stealing offers to make a PSA to help promote not stealing, seems like a pretty reasonable thing to happen. I especially love this quote from techdirt
Could you imagine how the press would react if, say, the FDA ran PSAs that were created and owned by McDonald's
Yeah, that would only apply if the PSA was about not stealing hamburgers, in which case I can't see how anyone could complain about that.
What if the PSA stated, or even implied, that "fast food" *flashes McD's sign* isn't that bad for you *flashes images of skinny people at line at McD's* and you should eat it more often *flashes image of McD's drive through*, would you have an issue? Note, I have not seen the PSA, but if it included the ludicrously inflated "financial damage due to piracy" statistics the media companies like to drop, could you see why some people would think that this is an issue?
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