actually notepad is a pretty good example of why this practice sucks, most people put up with that piece of shit because it came free with the operating system rather than finding something that's actually good.

lies, they reduced the illusionary complexity in cata, like everyone else i just chose cookie cutter specs and "did whatever i wanted with the last 3 points". "for number crunchers" - exactly, both of them probably really enjoyed working that out for everyone else to copy. if you're only using 6 buttons you're a terrible player, even on my ret pally i'm messing around with 11 buttons i'll use at least every second fight and another 4 situationally.

you are horribly wrong, runescape peaked at about 1.2 mill

they'll do whatever anyone else with a failing mmo would do, at the moment that would be free to play but in 10 years when it drops below x mill subs who knows what that will be.

i'd actually like to know the average age of wow players, i rarely meet anyone young in there. also you have no fucking clue about trends, facebook games have been dieing off horribly over the last year

maybe you did, i quit at 60 after about 2 weeks, end game was fucking ridiculous. 9 months later i heard about a guy who'd been trying to get his hat for 3 months... and i laughed my ass off. been subbed since BC after that

Sometimes it goes up a couple mill, sometimes it goes down a couple mill... IT"S A FUCKING ROLLERCOASTER WOOOOOOOOOO!

it's not about a superior input mechanism, it's about a more realistic one. playing on one of these things will cripple you compared to a mouse + keyboard or even a controller, but that's not the point. i enjoy a good keyboard/mouse shooter but i'd love to give this + oculus a go at some point, hopefully they put them in some kind of arcade type setting so i don't have to dedicate 2 metres of my game room to expensive future landfill.

with paintball it's the raising of the stakes people enjoy, much like playing poker with (non casino) chips vs real money.

currency
noun, plural currencies.
1. something that is used as a medium of exchange; money.
2. general acceptance; prevalence; vogue.
3. a time or period during which something is widely accepted and circulated.
4. the fact or quality of being widely accepted and circulated from person to person.
5. circulation, as of coin.

maybe you should should do some research before you foist your actual stupidity on others.

if you use it as a currency it's a currency, it's not a hoity toity term to describe government mandated units of exchange.

you can exchange it for other currencies or goods & services, how exactly is it a fake currency?

doubt it, if samsung threatened to drop android they could easily get access to that shit. they have their own appstore already, it just sucks balls.

the thing is they're not THE supplier for mobile computing, i'd be surprised if google's phones are over 2% market share. maybe if microsoft made a worthwhile competitor to google services for android mobile manufacturers might actually put it on their phone.

that would be more a complaint against the nexus phones, not android, as manufacturers can put whatever defaults they want on their phones. Considering that the nexus phones are no-where near a monopoly even that would probably be a stretch.