Comment Re:People are claiming a victory where there is no (Score 1) 176
What exactly is the solution to that mindset?
That's a dumb argument. I asked you why you would spend $50 for shit like Angry Birds, as the context of the initial comment was:
Put more than 2 hours of content in your game. Your game sucks. Sell your game for $2 and lobby Skype to not refund games costing less than $2 or something.
I suggested a low price for low-content games, and you come back talking about
So, because you prefer an epic gaming experience, all other gaming forms should be ignored?
Would you pay $50 for shit like Angry Birds?
Angry Birds *is* 1/10 the price of what I said. Would you pay $50 for it?
No?
Then maybe these fly-by-night, valueless, contentless game providers should sell their games for $5 and not $50, instead of expecting us to pay $50 for shit like Angry Birds.
Your entire line of argument has been stupidity, up to and including ignoring a propositional question ("Would you pay $50 for shit like Angry Birds?") and instead treating it as a declaration ("Angry Birds is like $50, why would you pay that much for something with so little content?").
I never said any of those things, aside from the last one, you're thinking of Immerman.
Immerman never mentioned "$50" nor "Angry Birds" so I'm not sure where you go them from anyway.
It could be games that are less than $50 and larger than Angry Birds (but not the large epics you originally cite) would be affected by this.
Just because something isn't $2 doesn't automaticaly make it $50, nor does something not being one of the games you cite make it Angry Birds.
What's in it for Microsoft, when the upgrades are free?
As AmiMoJo says above. The Windows Store. The more people running Windows 10, the more people using the Windows Store, the more people using the Windows Store, the more money for Microsoft there.
Similar to how the console manufacturers (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft and when they were making hardware, Sega) sell their console at a LOSS because they may up for it in selling games.
Phones with a better ability to leverage integrated storage
What does that even mean?
Using an SD card for GBs of 10-bit anime and sideloaded APKs all gotten totally legitimately
I don't think they understand that they are free to publish whatever they want... but we are also free to ignore/cut up/block the stuff we don't want. I call that a win. If it means a bunch of publishers go out of business and the internet gets less commercial, I'm fine with that too.
And the ones that don't go out of business are behind a paywall.
I welcome that endgame because then self-entitled millennials can no longer hide behind the veil of "ads are bad for privacy/performance" as an excuse to get content for free.
The point is that a copyright holder doesn't deserve the life+70 or whatever the ever expanding length of copyright is for a work.
How long should it be?
I think it is hilarious that they are so naive that they think rates dropped. They fuck the industry up, people find a way around it, they fuck it up more, people route around that. They will NEVER win.
True, it is impossible to win against a group of self-entitled individuals who feel they deserve everything for free.
Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers. -- Leonard Brandwein
