Maybe instead of trying to correlate m&m eating to violent behavior from playing video games, they should look at the violent children and take a survey of the parenting techniques and moral disengagement of the parents of these children... Children tend to learn a lot from their parents...
Agreed! As a homebrewer myself, beer is always in my heart. The court should have awarded Clown Shoes the patent to Vampire Pale Ale out of sheer stupidity in arguing that a Pale Ale is anywhere near a Stout of any make...
I sincerely hope the brewmaster had no hand in making this argument...
Next thing you know, ABinBev will be suing Goose Island for patent infringement....
So I should pay for the DVD, pay for my cable/on demand/HBO to show it hopefully, or pay for Netflix to hopefully have the right to show it 3 months after its out on dvd... Those are the "content management" solutions? BAHAHAHAHAHA!! I'll just keep ripping my DVD's, buying them off iTunes, and buying the digital copies. I get my movies legally, but if ripping a DVD I bought 3 years ago is going to be illegal and called pirating, I have one thing to say... ARRRGGGHHH!!!!
i'm more of a campaign player myself. I do enjoy playing live, but only after a few drinks and with a group of friends. I play it for fun and don't care about my kill death ratio and all that so I never get mad. I think more developers are gearing more towards the live players over the campaign players with the DLC coming out. If you buy a game for only its online content and get mad when its not up to snuff after you spent $60... that's on you. $60 is fine with me given the technology used to develop new engines(frost) and pay the voice actors(some of which are big name actors)to make the story great. I applaud them and reward them with my money and loyalty.
I'd have to say that I think the price vs. content is usually on the money for the developers who are large enough to spend VAST amounts of money on a franchise or game. Be it Call of Duty, Halo, GTA, Forza, or any of the franchise games. Consumers tend to just get sticker shock from seeing a $60 tag for a new 360 game. Fact is, most of the games worth paying $60 for have so much content its worth it. I've purchased an elite edition of a game and was promptly saddened by the quality of the item(s) bundled, and now I won't do that again; However, between the DLC, online play, and USUALLY good campaign story/play there is sufficient reason for the price. I don't like having to pay for new DLC, but since it is an option and had a lot of work go into it I can't really complain. This was a great experiemnt and i'd like to see more of this. I'd really like to see this model applied to DLC and other digital content on the xbox. They could even take the concept of the android market and apply it here. You have a given alottment of time to return the product without being charged (say 3hrs for example) and then you have to pay up or its deleted/rendered unusable.
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Maybe instead of trying to correlate m&m eating to violent behavior from playing video games, they should look at the violent children and take a survey of the parenting techniques and moral disengagement of the parents of these children... Children tend to learn a lot from their parents...
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Agreed! As a homebrewer myself, beer is always in my heart. The court should have awarded Clown Shoes the patent to Vampire Pale Ale out of sheer stupidity in arguing that a Pale Ale is anywhere near a Stout of any make...
I sincerely hope the brewmaster had no hand in making this argument...
Next thing you know, ABinBev will be suing Goose Island for patent infringement....
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So I should pay for the DVD, pay for my cable/on demand/HBO to show it hopefully, or pay for Netflix to hopefully have the right to show it 3 months after its out on dvd... Those are the "content management" solutions? BAHAHAHAHAHA!! I'll just keep ripping my DVD's, buying them off iTunes, and buying the digital copies. I get my movies legally, but if ripping a DVD I bought 3 years ago is going to be illegal and called pirating, I have one thing to say... ARRRGGGHHH!!!!
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i'm more of a campaign player myself. I do enjoy playing live, but only after a few drinks and with a group of friends. I play it for fun and don't care about my kill death ratio and all that so I never get mad. I think more developers are gearing more towards the live players over the campaign players with the DLC coming out. If you buy a game for only its online content and get mad when its not up to snuff after you spent $60... that's on you. $60 is fine with me given the technology used to develop new engines(frost) and pay the voice actors(some of which are big name actors)to make the story great. I applaud them and reward them with my money and loyalty.
I'd have to say that I think the price vs. content is usually on the money for the developers who are large enough to spend VAST amounts of money on a franchise or game. Be it Call of Duty, Halo, GTA, Forza, or any of the franchise games. Consumers tend to just get sticker shock from seeing a $60 tag for a new 360 game. Fact is, most of the games worth paying $60 for have so much content its worth it. I've purchased an elite edition of a game and was promptly saddened by the quality of the item(s) bundled, and now I won't do that again; However, between the DLC, online play, and USUALLY good campaign story/play there is sufficient reason for the price. I don't like having to pay for new DLC, but since it is an option and had a lot of work go into it I can't really complain. This was a great experiemnt and i'd like to see more of this. I'd really like to see this model applied to DLC and other digital content on the xbox. They could even take the concept of the android market and apply it here. You have a given alottment of time to return the product without being charged (say 3hrs for example) and then you have to pay up or its deleted/rendered unusable.