Cool. I think the nintendo wii is an excellent example of how this is true. People didn't want to sell their house to buy a playstation 3 (even though it was the cheapest blue-ray player on the market) when they could spend less than half the price and get a nintendo wii. Naturally, nintendo did not let it slip that the additional controllers would cost a fortune :)
In every ordered system in which it is allowed, some element or another at some point figures out it can cheat. Little kids start blaming things on their siblings, carnivores eat herbivores, and lawyers thieve from businessmen. Well, the same has happened within the software industry. Ok, I'll be the first to grant you that the music industry was never really creative in the first place. But people did want what it had to offer. In fact, they wanted crappy music enough to pay b
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[quote]If that SOMETHING was what I said here in this thread, it makes me think that perhaps he concluded that anyone who would tell a joke in Hebrew probably doesn't read biology books.[/quote] Nothing could be further from the truth. Jews are an elite minority in this country. If it's education, a jew is more likely to know it. Jews are biologically more fit than ordinary white people. I was surprised because you seemed like the religious nut type. I'll even go so far to say
[quote]So don't bet on it saving you money - Theft diminishes supply and demand in a balanced fashion both the supply and the demand are reduced, and the change in price is going to depend on the elasticity of the market[/quote] Did you learn all that from a state school econ class? Software piracy does not reduce supply, just demand. Prices should go down, huh? No. Here's what really happens: Companies stop making the games people love and enjoy. Games cost a lot to make
I have a weevil. He sits on my computer :).
[quote]Slydrivel, There's such a thing as sportsmanship. There's such a thing as not acting like a spoiled three-year-old just because someone handed you your skinny butt on a platter. You wanna talk trash then go back to Jr. High and puff yourself up with the rest of the hormone-brained wannabes. Those CEOs and politicians own you right now whether you've got the brains to believe it or not. And one of the reasons is that they know how to engage their brains before they open t
The Political Machine is a great idea. Nintendo demonstrated with the Wii that sometimes people want affordable fun over pricey but dull graphics.
[quote]silly me.... I am a lawyer!!![/quote] What law has Stardock broken?
[quote]Save your money, save your headaches, and make a statement to companies that use this crap by buying Star Dock products. Show who you support, and make sure it is not the companies that want to limit you, and spy on you. Then post why you did not buy that game on a place like amazon.com, and other places.[/quote] I just like Stardock products because I feel a lot more ingenuity goes into them than goes into EA products. I don't care about DRM. Spore actually looks sorta
[quote]You cannot hold a concert, nor hold a play.[/quote] Yes, but people do not buy the play, they buy admission. [quote]One cannot handle education.[/quote] Ah, but you buy a degree, not the education. Otherwise I would just go out, pirate some text-books (i would be suprised if you could actually do this), and save myself a lot of money.
Ok, so when I first read little-whip's "admission" to breaching the TOS, I thought it was like when pirates reveal that they have stolen software. It turns out that little-whip did not breach the TOS, and I wonder why an admission was necessary in the first place. Because admission was the purpose of a certain comment "she" made, I figured the rest that went with it was justification for the transgression. I was wrong. Weird. Seriously, that almost never happens ;). Since
I also think that EA's new internet verification idea has a lot of merit. If Stardock sold a lifetime subscription to their game instead of a copy of it, then they could much more easily defend it. A lifetime subscription is something that makes a lot more sense to people not to steal than does an idea.
The problem is that a piece of software isn't something you can hold, like a book.
[quote]I would also suggest that you must've done something else to really piss people off if so many people worked so hard to get you banned.[/quote] Nah. Probably not. It sounds like intrigue to me. And people do this kind of thing at the drop of a hat.
[quote]Yes, that's a good one! No more ignorance....we might still bump each other off to out do ourselves though!lol![/quote] We'd have to kill a lot of babies. I, for one, am on board, though. I never liked babies anyway.
Just stop posting so many stupid articles... Even if you only posted one stupid article every couple days, they would not hate you this much. As it is, I lost all my favor with this community because I flipped out when they threatened to sue you, something I wasn't sure if they could do but that I wanted to make sure they couldn't. After all, that's a doubled-edged sword. I wouldn't want to be sued by some blog maniac... By the way, you should hit me up with some more
[quote]I intend to make an pfficial complain for this contempt.[/quote] If you really wanna piss em' off, you can hop on the sinking Skin Factory ship. Then you can join their CEO in bashing "the frog". But you'd be passing up a better program...
[quote]Have you ever had to contact EA tech support before? You may sing a very different tune after that. Or perhaps you're the 1/1,000,000 of the people who don't have a nightmare story about them. I for one would rather buy a new key that waste my time on it again, but then again, I'd rather buy a reliable game from a reliable company too.[/quote] Ah, I see now. My bad for assuming they were reasonable.
I'm not metrosexual. But I do like to look nice, and I know what exfoliation is. Women don't like me much... Damn
Excellent tale! I always love hearing about someone overcoming a member of the Thieves in Blue. A friend of mine told me a story about an officer keeping someone he knew locked up in a jail cell while the person had an asthma attack. After begging, crying, and pleading for awhile, the kid died. I guess that's the karma that balances your story.
[quote]maybe you should just learn to control your mouth (and fingers). it's a skill you'll find helpful later in life.[/quote] Boo! That's for CEOs and politicians. Everything else is for gamers.
oh... make sure you register if possible.
I think the DRM management is fine. If you lose your copy or your key, e-mail EA's tech team. If you paid for the service, you get it. Releasing games before they are well-polished, on the other hand, is not okay.
[quote]Calling a girl fat would have almost definately been overlooked unless you are a stalker. Which makes me wonder how far you took it.[/quote] How did he even know she was fat?
Well, it sounds like you have nothing to worry about. He seems like a sinking ship. How long can vaporware last?