Comment Re:more to the point, is this really necessary? (Score 2, Insightful) 169
Yeah, because knowledge about computing has everything to do with intelligence, eh?
Yeah, because knowledge about computing has everything to do with intelligence, eh?
Well I guess that the 'stated objectives of the game' have changed then.
Reminds me a bit of 'Ultimate Team' in FIFA09 (and soon FIFA10) where you can earn points to pay the wages of a top team, but realistically you'd have to buy the card packs in order to fund having a top team, making a two tier system where you can only compete by spending real money.
It sucks, but it is the way it is.
This 'story' should be held up as an example of all that is wrong with the slashdot story submission process.
Are they meant to be really badly photoshopped? Is that part of the charm?
> It's even less likely to work on the console market, where sales are driven purely by graphics and not gameplay.
[citation needed]
It's quite surprising that such an error can stay on the front page for this long. Don't the editors actually look at the site at all?
You must be unlucky or the cause.
That isn't an example of irony at all, unless you are following the "Alanis Morissette" theory whereby anything can be called ironic without consideration of it's actual relevence to irony.
I'm guessing that they've done a little bit of research before going down this road.
I've never seen one before - no one has - but I'm guessing it's a white hole.
MMORPGs are a different kettle of fish to single player games though. Who really would want to invest time into building a character, when it's gonna be lost when the world ends in a couple of months time? The journey may be fun, but if you know that you'll never be able to finish it then it's not half as interesting.
Could just be me of course
Seems a bit pointless really. As an RPG I assume that it is designed to have a long play-time (what with levels or other character development mechanisms).
Why bother to invest time in such a game that'll be gone in a few months time?
If it is anything like Nintendo's European efforts, good luck with actually getting anything worthwhile.
The best you'll end up with is a crappy wallpaper as they'll only have 5 DS cases available between the hundreds of thousands of users.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!