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| News Comments > Sunday Consolidation |
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Re: Sunday Consolidation |
Jul 3, 2011, 17:19 |
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| I feel bad for the employees at Epic that weren't involved in the leak. I suspect there will be a massive inquisition there now and that management's trust of the staff and morale in general have plummeted. |
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| News Comments > Saturday Metaverse |
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Re: Sunday Metaverse |
Jul 2, 2011, 22:00 |
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wtf_man wrote on Jul 2, 2011, 20:33:
Parallax Abstraction wrote on Jul 2, 2011, 20:21:
Or for that matter, that Go Daddy will begin operating with a shred of business ethics? Yeah, I didn't think so either.
Never used them... what did allegedly they do that was so unethical? They seem like a popular host / registrar.
I have friends who have had GoDaddy outright refuse to transfer their domains out to other registrars or "lose" the record of the transfer multiple times. They also have horrible customer support and often bill people for canceled services. Their biggest offense (beyond what nin linked) is what's called "frontrunning". Essentially, what happens is you search for a domain name that's available. If enough people search for that but don't commit to it, GoDaddy buys the domain themselves because they know there's interest in it, then jack up the price when someone does want to buy. This violates the rules of ICANN (the international body that regulates TLDs) but since ICANN is gutless, GoDaddy has continually gotten away with this.
Bob Parsons has no business ethics and is just a piece of shit human being to boot. It's sad that he's getting rich based on the way he does business. |
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| News Comments > Saturday Metaverse |
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Re: Sunday Metaverse |
Jul 2, 2011, 20:21 |
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Fion wrote on Jul 2, 2011, 16:06:
Does that mean no more of those god aweful 'Go Daddy' commercials? Thank the gods!
Or for that matter, that Go Daddy will begin operating with a shred of business ethics? Yeah, I didn't think so either. |
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| News Comments > GFW and Xbox.com Marketplaces Merging |
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Re: GFW and Xbox.com Marketplaces Merging |
Jul 1, 2011, 14:53 |
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Prez wrote on Jul 1, 2011, 13:59:
Parallax Abstraction wrote on Jul 1, 2011, 13:10:
Prez wrote on Jul 1, 2011, 12:10:
So can I buy Halo 3 for PC now?
Why would you want to though?
Call me crazy ("YOU ARE CRAZY!"), but I actually want to play Halo 3 because I like the series.
Yes, you are indeed totally crazy.  |
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| News Comments > F.E.A.R. 3 Patch |
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Re: F.E.A.R. 3 Patch |
Jul 1, 2011, 11:20 |
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FreonTrip wrote on Jul 1, 2011, 08:38:
StingingVelvet wrote on Jul 1, 2011, 07:32:
It's funny that they fix these issues within a week and all they hear is bitching after the fact. What?
Seriously, what's with the shrill screeching? Is there never a reprieve from it on Blue's News any more?
You make it sound like there was ever reprieve from it.  |
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| News Comments > Call of Duty Convention in September |
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Re: Call of Duty Convention in September |
Jun 30, 2011, 12:29 |
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Creston wrote on Jun 30, 2011, 11:46:
Parallax Abstraction wrote on Jun 30, 2011, 11:26:
Don't bother. This is purely a PR stunt. They may be giving the ticket proceeds to their charity but that's only because the PR value of the event will generate more profit than they're giving away. Kotick doesn't do anything that won't make him more money than he spends.
But the end result is that a charity gets money which it otherwise wouldn't have gotten. And that's good.
Creston
Yeah, I agree with you there. Kotick's motivations for it aside, it's better that a charity benefit than not. |
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| News Comments > Call of Duty Convention in September |
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Re: Call of Duty Convention in September |
Jun 30, 2011, 11:26 |
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Creston wrote on Jun 30, 2011, 11:04:
I was about ready to burst out laughing when I saw the ticket price, but okay, it's for a worthy charity.
I'm downgrading Bobby Cocktick from Greedy Fucking Asshat to Total Fucking Asshat.
Just for today.
Creston
Don't bother. This is purely a PR stunt. They may be giving the ticket proceeds to their charity but that's only because the PR value of the event will generate more profit than they're giving away. Kotick doesn't do anything that won't make him more money than he spends. |
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| News Comments > Evening Safety Dance |
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Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 |
Jun 23, 2011, 10:19 |
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Blue wrote on Jun 23, 2011, 09:13:
eRe4s3r wrote on Jun 23, 2011, 02:55:
But that said, FF5 is just FF 4.02 really why they felt the need to bump a whole 99 revisions up is a mystery, and fairly dumb.. but not really relevant. Its a security update for FF 4.01 and thus "not installing it" is not an option.
I'm guessing that browser revision numbers have recently become a "whose is bigger" contest, and they are playing catch up. Chrome is up to version 13.0.782.32 beta-m, and this is just to fight the perception for casual users that Firefox is falling behind.
That's the biggest problem. Chrome has started a new version number arms race because Google thinks that a minor update is worthy of an entire version number increase. Unfortunately, your average Joe clueless-about-technology sees bigger numbers in Chrome and thinks it must be evolving much more quickly than Firefox, even though it isn't. Google's the only one playing this game, Mozilla should just stay out of it. |
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| News Comments > Eurogamer Blacklisted By 2K? |
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Re: Eurogamer Blacklisted By 2K? |
Jun 16, 2011, 11:25 |
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| I think it's more that the guy was just doing what 2K Games does anyway. They fired him making it sound like it was his decision to blacklist people where in reality, he was just doing what he was told, he was just dumb enough to be public about it. That's definitely stupid on his part but 2K's making it sound like it was this guy alone who decided to blacklist sites where really, that's what they were doing anyway. |
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| News Comments > 2K on DNF PR |
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Re: 2K on DNF PR |
Jun 15, 2011, 15:48 |
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Dev wrote on Jun 15, 2011, 15:28:
His only mistake was saying it in a publicly accessible format.
How dare anyone pull that curtain up to reveal whats behind it.
Exactly. From what I've read on some other forums, this attitude towards the press is pretty common for Take-Two. The only reason they fired the agency this time is because he revealed that publicly. |
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| News Comments > id Happy to be Done with Engine Licensing |
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Re: Evening Consolidation |
Jun 8, 2011, 22:19 |
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Overon wrote on Jun 8, 2011, 21:46:
Oh please. Sounds a tad disingenuous considering that the last time someone used their engine was early 2000's?
Every single Call of Duty game (and I guarantee you including Modern Warfare 3) runs on the Quake 3 engine. Massively modified without a doubt but the credits of that game still say Portions of this Software (c) id Software, Inc. which means they are still making residuals off that license. As others have said, Brink and eventually Prey 2 also use it. They certainly didn't have the success in the licensing field that say Epic did with Unreal but id did very well in that space. |
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| News Comments > DICE on (Free) Battlefield 3 Battleog |
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Re: DICE on (Free) Battlefield 3 Battleog |
Jun 4, 2011, 10:36 |
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| In addition to wanting to show up Activision (it definitely generates great PR for BF3 to come out and say you've offering social features for free that they will charge for), I think them doing this is in response to both of the free-to-play Battlefield games not doing well. I remember EA saying that Battlefield Heroes fell well below expectations (as did Quake Wars before it which wasn't even their thing) and other than an ad during the ATI driver installer, I've heard absolutely nothing about Battlefield Play4Free since it launched. I think if those had succeeded, EA would be trying to charge for this but I think they learned before Activision that by and large, people in the US don't care about this stuff enough to shell out money for me. CoD does have a large dudebro fanbase who may not know any better but I'd wager that CoD Elite will also not meet their expectations and it will either get cheaper or go free eventually as well. |
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