They are popular with users, but very unpopular with studios. Simply for the same reason: Lack of control over what the user can actually do. It's kinda hard to sell addons when users can simply create them themselves. How do you sell DLC when users simply go "fffft, gimme an hour to code it an keep your overpriced shit!"

Well, after all is said and done, what remains is how you'll be remembered. Provided you give a shit about whether you will be missed at your funeral or whether people come only to see with their own eyes whether the asshole really finally bit it.

Pretty much this. There is very little in the IP itself, especially since everyone and their dog either already did a Minecraft clone or is currently developing one. The moment MS taints the IP by turning it into something its users do not like, it's gone from the front page and replaced by one of its copycats.

For reference, see Napster.

That's because nobody has his name riding on Pluto being a planet. You think this would've gone down so smoothly if the year was 1935?

That doesn't make any sense. How does it reduce competition if I bring in more people competing?

Not only that, but actually you're one of the worst. You're even doing it FOR PROFIT!

Lucky you. We get the show half a season to a season later, butchered by atrocious dubbing.

Believe me, if I only COULD simply watch the original show half a year later, I'd already consider it a big step ahead... I'd even gladly pay for that.

We're bummed that our territory protection doesn't work anymore. Global trade be damned!

That's what my math prof at the university said after he asked people who thought this or that answer was right (and the majority was wrong): Science is not a democratic process.

Sadly, it has turned into one.

Peer review sadly doesn't mean what it used to mean: That a lot of others who are experts in your field took a look and nodded their heads. What it means to day: A lot of other people in your field of study think likewise.

Scientists are humans, as much as they try to sit on high horses and claim they ain't. They don't like being wrong. They don't like to give someone else the satisfaction of coming up with some paradigm shifting discovery. And most of all they certainly do not want to admit that they wasted their life hunting the rabbit down the wrong hole.

Imagine we'd only discover today that the sun, not earth, is the center of our solar system. You think any of the scientists who invested their whole life perfecting deferent and epicycle calculation would budge to the overwhelming proof that they're wrong?

They have over 38000 entries there? That makes it the biggest satirical Wikipedia clone I know.

I would love to! Hell, 20% more if need be! But please tell me, which airline is it that offers me said service?

I want my legroom, I want my complimentary soda, I want my headphones, I want enough room to put my notebook down sensibly. Tell me the airline that offers it and whatever price they ask is probably acceptable. The problem is that it ain't offered (or at least, it ain't advertised).

I can't believe I'd be the only person willing to pay up for being treated like a human being rather than cattle, but it seems the airlines don't agree with me in that point.

You may rest assured, the only reason people don't die regularly during flights is that they're not the airline's property and someone would sue. Else, nobody would arrive alive since you can't sell these people.

I'd on the other hand gladly pay not 100 but 200 bucks extra to be able to stand up on my own legs after 12 hours of flight time.

Vote how? Do you really think if I didn't HAVE TO fly because it is an unfortunate necessity for my job I would even go NEAR an airport? Do you think I consider it a great pastime to be the star in my personal pervert peep show for some TNA mouthbreather? Or that the butt-groping of that greasy single-digit IQ expert turns me on? Getting your kneecaps shoved into your thighs is just the icing on the turd cake.

Yes, that would be a knee-jerk reaction... if there was enough room for a knee to jerk, dammit!

They'll just come up with some idiotic pseudo-unit (SBW seems to be quite fitting), and every airline will define it differently just to ensure you can't compare them at all.