anybody have RCTC3 or SimCity4?
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tjamz wrote:
Actually, I hope Microsoft does great, I have them in my stock portfolio.http://quotes.nasdaq.com/quote.dll?page=charting&mode=basics&selected=MSFT&symbol=MSFT%60
u sure thats a smart idea? Thing's are still going down and now that John Wall has already filed claim and it appears Microsoft may actually rename there savior OS (They need to make it big this time, MBS products havent yieled a profit since they've been great plains) even if they keep the name, it will detract investors.
Man look at there 52 week portfolio and look at Sun's....almost the exact same......rofl I know where my money is NOT going.
Totally off topic, but to be back on topic RTCW3 is a kickass game, COD:UO kicks even more ass though
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spoolude wrote:
You wonder why they charge $55 now? Next gen console games will START at a price of $70 guarenteed. More costs of development, making games is not cheap, paying the people to do it, is not cheap. Trust me - all software WOULD BE CHEAPER if piracy was 1/3 of what it is today. Yes music sales skyrocketed, but I am talking about software piracy, it's bad, stop doing it and go buy the damn software like you should.As for SimCity 4 not working for Daemon Tools - first off Daemon Tools is not the end all be all of piracy cracking - CD emulation programs are very very easy to over run - its just the newb way of pirating, newb, but very effective (I still use it) - if you want it cracked there is a couple ways of doing it, you just have to write a cfg/bat file into the directory of the program to manually search for 3 files that you will extract from the CD manually.
and you dont think game sales will go down when they start at 70 bucks? console makers dont have to worry about piracy quite so much. its pc game makers that are having the most problem. i guarantee piracy would be less if games would cost 1/3 as much. lowering game prices lowers profit per unit, but it increases unit sales. i highly doubt that the perfect medium between profit per unit and optimum units sold will be at 70 dollars/unit. thats just greed.
and yeah. i know dtools is the easiest/most 'newb' way of playing games. but if i could run doom3 using dtools with no problem, i figure a game that came out in august of '03 would be no problem.
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Main problem is, back in the day it took 2 guys to make a game look at the original mortal kombat for example, Ed Boon and John Tobias took care of it no problem, now with current generation of AI scripting, graphics design, background detail, physics, etc, etc - it takes well over a staff of 50, not to mention publishing costs.
Next Gen consoles are going to require an even larger staff - higher costs yield higher prices - fact of business. Just because gas prices are rising, I don't see you stealing gas at the pump.
As for D tools - well Maxis are smart guys, understand that some of the developers that work for Maxis came from the government. I could show you how to do it, but that would be unethical
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