Well, if I approach an insurance company and they eventually decide to sell me a medical insurance,
it would reassure me I don't really need it and I would not make a contract, right?

So, no selling insurance to healthy candidates, no selling to no so healthy candidates ... how do you sustain such business?

It's not about the money, it's about sending a message: Do not compete with the government. ;)

AppStore millionaires or other kinds of millionaires ... big fat wallet have always been cool.

> You have to keep in mind that Macs used to cost 3x the price of PCs back in the days. It is now a little more expensive, but not by nearly that much.

I regularly check local prices for iMacs compared to a hand-built PC (again from a local supplier) with same or better parts. Last time, a week ago, the iMac (several models) came about 2x the PC price.

(And yes, my hand-built PCs are generally from superior parts from vendor PCs, including box, cooling, PSU ...)

Many would attempt to portrait jailbreakers as independent thinkers and tinkerers, while much more likely the majority are 12 yo kids cheating in online games.

So hard to get told to put your money where your mouth is, isn't it. Companies don't exist because players pay them their monthly fee. They exist and offer a service, which players choose to buy or not. That's different.

While this whole drama will cost them some subs it will also bring them some, as not everyone enjoys the climate caused by goonswarm. EVE lives on drama, but bringing the drama to places like this went too far.

I bid you good luck finding a MMO gaming company, which does not exist because players pay for its services.

Good luck and have fun. Bye.

(And yes, I know about GuildWars :)

I have a full time job (game developer) and I'm part of one of the high end WoW guilds here in the US, http://www.elitistjerks.com/

We raid four or five nights a week. It's scheduled during the evenings and we try to keep our raids to a maximum of four hours. I get home from work, eat dinner, then raid in the evening. I'd rather be doing that then watching mindless television or something. I'd say I play around 12 to 20 hours of WoW a week and quite enjoy it. Sure, that's more than a casual player who plays it a couple hours a week, but I'm not putting 80 to 100 hours a week into the game.

because after 30 you may not have as much drive to push yourself, especially if you've already made it. also, you have teaching duties, a family, etc.

it's easier to work 10 hours a day if you're a graduate student.

and there have been plenty of ground breaking achievements by people over 30, just look at archimedes, gauss and poincare, to name 3.