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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22606 |  LazyGarfield (256) Mar 09, 2010 - 09:31 am
| they will just continue to do it if customers are still paying for theyr games. If customers are avoiding such games Ubi will stop doing it that way or just blame piracy again.
In case they continue I´ll have no scruple to use hacks to work around this. I´m not buying a game who´s restricted in such way without a hack being around to fix it. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22485 | LazyGarfield (256) Mar 04, 2010 - 10:49 am » Edited on Mar 04, 2010 - 10:50 am
| | We wont be seeing USB3.0 who is 10 times faster than usb2.0 before the end of the year because the controllers necessary to reach this speed are no to be found in the actual usb3.0 devices sold. The controllers capable of these speeds are extremely expensive atm. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22416 | LazyGarfield (256) Dec 23, 2009 - 12:27 pm
| How should NV be able to show off a low priced CPU/GPU combo when they can´t even do so with only the GPU? :P
PhysX will (as 3D before) taken up by DirectX so that it will not matter much. For PC´s anyways, but then again, I hate consoles anyways so they don´t matter to me, since I prefer a mouse/keyboard combo over any damn gamepad. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22416 | LazyGarfield (256) Dec 23, 2009 - 12:20 pm
| I agree, that it is not bad, that NV has no DX11-GPU out there by now.... They´r real problem although is, that this comes along with a significant performance hit compared to AMD´s Radeon 5k Series.
And THAT is what will really hurt NV because why would someone buy some overpriced NV-GPU with lower speeds when you can go for a medium priced faster ATI card.
The pressure is laying on NV because they will have not only to close up with DX11 but close the performance gap as well.
I doubt that Cuda will be saving theyr asses there since DirectX will take over anyways so that software developers don´t have to program for several "standards". Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21782 | LazyGarfield (256) Jun 23, 2009 - 06:33 am
| In the past you ordered a P3-2400 and knew exactly what you received.
Nowaday´s you would need to read through the whole discription of the damn thing to actually know what it is capable of.
That all is intended because the average customer shall not know that he´s buying the cheapest crap he could get for his money. And he doesnt because he just sees a lame number who doesnt tell nothing. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21759 | LazyGarfield (256) Jun 23, 2009 - 06:06 am » Edited on Jun 23, 2009 - 06:15 am
| sorry lobo, cant answer directly.
It seems like a no brainer to be having 500k players or 9,5 million satisfied but we´re talking casuals here... those 9,5 million might play for a few weeks or months, then they are making a brake, might start over later etc...
The 500k though are remaining there paying all the time continually. Those 500k are the motor who keeps the machine working. Withouth them, considering too many casuals are taking theyr timeout at the same time, the system would crash.
Thats what imho everyone fails to see...
It might seem to be the smaller loss to sacrifice the "few" HC gamers in favour for 10 times more casuals, but at the end that theory is wrong because the casuals are coming and going thus the turnover can not be predicted anymore.
And be honest... where would successful games be without the core gamers, who are playing no matter what other ppl are thinking or saying. Without them successful games would not be successful at all.
Many who I know just started to play games because I did play them for a longer period. So every games needs it´s "geeks" for propaganda/promotion.
It is ofc different with single player games. I´d just prefer to be able to change the difficulty of a game for a short time to pass a certain annoying spot rather than the game playing over by itself. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21765 | LazyGarfield (256) Jun 18, 2009 - 12:21 am » Edited on Jun 18, 2009 - 12:22 am
| Costs are raising since capitalism was invented... nothing new about it.
Everyone can see where it leads to... economy crysis.
It´s easy maths, everyone is raising prices on everything but the volks don´t get that much more money to afford it which is why price increases result in lower sales who will result in the same or even lower margin.
This way neither companies nor customers can win ;) Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21766 | LazyGarfield (256) Jun 18, 2009 - 12:11 am
| I doubt that they are talking about 3D-goggles compatibility... but rather about 3D-TV without the need of any additional hardware.
Just this technology isnt even in sight for the mass marked so we would be talking 5 to 10 years, if 3D-TV will ever prevail. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21759 | LazyGarfield (256) Jun 17, 2009 - 11:58 pm
| Actually those casual gamers already are affecting games because developers are casualizing them to reach more customers.
The result is that they are turning challenging games into jokes.
And it does not only affect single player games. E.g. Wotlk was so piss easy that everyone was bored. Raid content could be pugged. Challenges where removed. Heroic instances became AOE runs which every group containing of good players could finish with green gear. (Ofc. casuals are still whining that it is too hard /rolleyes)
Naxx was cleared with lvl 70 epic gear within a few days after Wotlk has gone gold and even casuals cleared it within 1 - 2 months after it arrived.
Ergo... ppl. saw it all way too fast and became bored months before Ulduar arrived.
So much for "does not affect multiplayer or other genres but jump and run". Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21752 | LazyGarfield (256) Jun 17, 2009 - 01:26 am
| After partly playing the first Halo on a console I was never interested to get it for my PC...
As to the reviews I read it was never worth it´s money anyways, so imho they can even ask 100 bucks... I dont mind :p
Kinda reminds me of smoking... raise cigarette prices to 100 per pack... no 1000 lol who cares! Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21759 | LazyGarfield (256) Jun 17, 2009 - 01:20 am
| This is like letting someone else raise your WoW toon to 80 or buying game gold for real money or buying full geared MMORPG toons....
People who are doing that cant be having fun gaming. Yea a game should be fun rather than frustrating but is it fun to let someone else (or the game itself) make it for you?
It´s hard to belive that it is....
Another feature for the niche of players who cant face challenges. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21750 | LazyGarfield (256) Jun 17, 2009 - 01:12 am
| At the end just the IE.exe will be left out... This is old, that´s how I did it on my XP for years already (because some internet apps ignore the primary browser and still want to start the IE).
Since you cant make a Windows Update without IE the lack of it will cause many probs with average users.
They all could blame the EU goverment then, but they wont even know they caused it so they will blame MS.
Experienced users just get update packs and never would need the IE anyways. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21760 | LazyGarfield (256) Jun 17, 2009 - 01:00 am » Edited on Jun 17, 2009 - 01:01 am
| I dont buy games anymore without having read a review and on the game forum... This is exactly the reason why.
No multiplayer = no buy
A bugged installer is just lame for a release. How hard can it be to check the game installer if it works on different drives...? /rolleyes Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21750 | LazyGarfield (256) Jun 16, 2009 - 12:05 am
| Can just agree... Everytime when I told someone of those "average Joe´s" to open the browser she/he looked at me as if I was an alien talking in a weird language :p
I bet 99,9 % of the politicians are average Joe´s as well ;-)
That´s actually why I´m hoping that MS continues without browser lol. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21750 | LazyGarfield (256) Jun 15, 2009 - 01:15 am » Edited on Jun 15, 2009 - 01:16 am
| Just what I dont understand... how can the monopoly law be misused for free software?
Generally it would say that if Linux ever would become the most used OS that they would want to restrict it as well.
This is just plain stupid! As stupid as warranty for freeware.
Free software should not be restrictable by any law!-
LOL at the EU goverment who provoked MS´ to do that. I´d have done the same... "Here is you OS without browser... go and try to download another browser without access to the www... lol!"
You wanted it you got it ;-) Stupid ppl just are learning it the hard way, if they even are capable of learning.
Some would think that the goverments would have more important things to take care about than such... Flag this | Edit this post |
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