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Comment Re:They're insane. (Score 5, Insightful) 446

by startled (#25716755) Attached to: Vital Parts of Games As DLC?

When you decide to start punishing non-customers rather than finding ways to entice them into being customers, that's a really bad sign.

Then it's a good sign that they're enticing non-customers into being customers, right?

Gears of War 2 has special downloadable maps for people who buy the game new. People who buy it used still get the full single-player game, plus full multiplayer functionality-- they just don't get the bonus maps.

They've identified a problem with their business model, and instead of legislating to protect their business model (like the recording industry), they've found a solution. What's the problem?
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Submission + - New Theory Explains Periodic Mass Extinctions

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i_like_spam writes: The theory that the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid impact, the K-T extinction, is well known and supported by fossil and geological evidence. Asteroid impact theory does not apply to the other fluctuations in biodiversity, however, which follow an approximate 62 million-year cycle. As reported in Science news, a new theory seems to explain periodic mass extinctions. The new theory found that oscillations in the Sun relative to the plane of the Milky Way correlate with changes in biodiversity on Earth. The researchers suggest that an increase in the exposure of Earth to extragalatic cosmic rays causes mass extinctions. Here is the original paper describing the finding.

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