Would you be quick to snap up someone whose only professional credit was "Worked on a game for 12 years that never came out"?
After seeing some of the last videos of the gameplay before DNF got axed, my answer to that would be: yes, fuck yes.
Leadership is often like dancing tango: the trick is knowing when to do nothing.
What the hell makes you think that slashdotters know anything about tango? Please stick to car analogies.
Didn't MW2 break sales records at that price point? Also, this price point isn't any more expensive than price points of the past after inflation is factored in.
The article discussed how the consoles are losing profits, not the game developers themselves. I think adjusting the price of all games is a very simplistic answer to a very complicated problem. As an indie game developer, I have had seen peers actually sell less units by reducing their price. Sometimes reducing the price also reduces the perceived value, and that is definitely not going to help game companies mitigate losses.
I bet the same people who want to get all the content for free, are the same people who whine about prescription drug prices. "Why charge me $20 for a pill that costs $0.0002 to make?". They don't care how much money and effort went into making the product, or about all the people who have mortgages to pay and children to feed who worked on it... they just want everything to be delivered to them for FREE, because they're the only people in the world who matter.
People aren't whining about prescription drug prices because of the difference between the price and the cost to make. They are whining because drug companies are making exorbitant amount of money, most of which is ending up in the pocket's of CEO's. Unless the CEO has like 2 billion mouths to feed and has a mortgage on an entire Caribbean island, I'm pretty sure these whiny people are justified.
RTFA.
The competition is being held by Expressive Intelligence Studio at an AI conference. Blizzard has nothing to do with this, AFAIK.
So will Sony's new control system that competes with Natal will be called Project Bortion?
The more people try to milk a game beyond it's cost the longer before they actually develop something new and interesting.
It's a shame that game companies actually have to, you know...make money...if they want to survive in the industry.
Look at any multi-player game that runs on the Source engine. The source code isn't released and there are cheaters everywhere.
Quake is a poor example because it was one of the first FPS multiplayer games that became popular. If the amount of cheaters start at 0 or a very small number, increasing the amount by tenfold isn't really hard to do.
Long term, muscle mass needs feeding. That's why your body gets rid of it if you don't use it - it's a waste of energy. You put muscle mass on, you burn calories whether you use it or not. Granted, it takes a lot. The best to focus on (so I'm told) is leg muscle, as they're already big and building them up is relatively easy (running/cycling/walking all do it).
I can attest to this. Being a soccer player my whole life has given me some pretty muscular legs. Mind you, they aren't body-builder-muscular, but they are pretty strong. At age 27, I am completely incapable of gaining weight. I play two soccer games a week, and it seems to be enough to where I can eat whatever I want, and my weight stays around 160 at 5'11. I've tried gaining upper body mass and it's quite difficult. I honestly feel that I have to quit playing soccer (won't happen) if I really wanted to gain some weight.
Any popular multiplayer game is going to get hacked (especially PC FPS's). There really is no way around it. Whether your source is out there or not, people will reverse engineer the code and find a way. As an indie developer, I can only hope that my game becomes popular enough that people would create cheats for it. Regardless, security through obscurity is not something that a developer should rely on, and rarely does these days. Most companies take a proactive stance against cheating, which is really the best way to combat it.
icanhazcheezeburger.com will change to MayIPleaseHaveAGardenBurger.com?
To read Slashdot, you'd think Nintendo is experiencing exponential profits growth, and the Xbox 360 outsells the PS3 10-to-1.
I thinking you must read a different slashdot than I do. There is a rather substantial anti-MS crowd here that talk down the 360 every chance they get. It's more like this:
Wii: The Jesus of consoles.
360: A machine that does nothing except RROD.
PS3: Sony installs rootkits on your computer!!!
If you cannot maintain your speed at the posted limit, and have no respect for when a U-Turn is allowed or appropriate, than you are not maintaining "superior control" of your vehicle. You're just trying to justify your asshattery. (Yes, we all got that you're talking about youself.)
Keeping your car at the posted speed limit has nothing to do with control or being an asshat. Don't tell me you never driven on a section of road where the speed limit is complete bullshit, and no other drivers pay attention to it. I remember a section a road where the posted limited was 40, but the traffic rarely went under 55. Driving the posted speed limit would have just created a dangerous situation for both me and the other drivers. Speed isn't necessarily the determining factor of how dangerous you're driving. It's your RELATIVE speed to the objects around you.
However, in some situations people making illegal turns piss me off to no end. If their illegal turn is causing people to wait unnecessarily, they totally deserve the "asshat" label.
Just here to offer the wood for you to touch.
And now you've reduced the number of female slashdot readers back to zero.
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