Defining boundaries for different game genres (not just videogames) is always tricky, and the more I study about games design the more difficult is for me to categorically state what is and what...
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Defining boundaries for different game genres (not just videogames) is always tricky, and the more I study about games design the more difficult is for me to categorically state what is and what...
Don't worry at all, mate.:up:
The thing is: who's the one who make that appretiation?
It isn't the consumer right to decide how much to pay for a work. It's the one who's selling the...
First, don't you think that if I thought that what I'm saying is not true, I wouldn't be doing such an effort to state the opposite, when I am in fact a big detractor of PhysX myself? ;) I have my...
Yes, it is. But one thing doesn't make the other any better...
Sorry if I misunderstood, but you have to notice that saying things like "I understand downloading stuff when you can't buy it in...
Why? Because it matters. Because representation is an important part of the game. Because gameplay (I prefer to call it "the game" by itself, or the mechanic part of the game, or the ruleset) is...
I understand why a rapist commits his acts, that doesn't mean I think it's alright.
You always can choose not to buy them. If you can't afford them, you don't want to pay the price because you...
Nope. As I said, in a videogame (as a product) you can differentiate 2 main parts: the game itself, given by a collection of rules (often named "game mechanics") which provides a goal, some...
What I meant is that you shouldn't view the pirated copies as lost sales by themselves, be it at 100% or at 20%. They are not directly proportional. For example, you could have two games (fictitious)...
It is, or at least it can be.
I don't like that PhysX, or better said, CUDA or any other API which is not supported by general hw and only by a given brand of it, is used on videogames or...
I wouldn't make such an interpretation of it, because it is flawed in its very same concept, IMO.
You can't calculate the potential income from the piracy rates, because it would asume that an...
Yep, but if you are really interested in reading the article, you always can use the cached version of the page by Google ;)
The BSN article in the Google cache
Yeah, I am with randomizer. Prices, quality or convenience are NOT a factor on piracy. Why piracy happens? Because the possibility of getting a product for free instead of paying for it is very...
I don't think that only authentication is a bad DRM system at all. Indeed, I find it the best option amongst all DRM systems tested until now by a long shot.
It's the only DRM system that is close...
Well, of course we should expect a drop in HD5800 prices by now. Those prices are higher than at launch, and it's 6 months later than that now (half its life cycle in average for a videocard)......
Wait, it's late here so I can be a little slept, but... am I understanding that graphic correctly?: a C2Q 9400 is actually faster than a GTX275 processing that PhysX fluids simulation demo when...
So comparing it with current HD5000 prices (in the same shop), we have:
HD5850 => 253€
GTX470 => 330€
HD5870 => 355€
GTX480 => 440€
HD5970 => 560€
So we have the GTX470 priced a little...
Actually he is right, and you are not. Some people have troubles to differentiate between those two concepts, but that doesn't mean they are the same thing.
Theft involves substracting a property...
What are you trying to show me with that?
How a list of the best selling games in the story, or a wikipedia analysis about the history of videogames, even your afirmation of "videogames that sell...
Maybe he has a very, very early prototype of a 8800GT... :p:
(For the curious, 8800GT was released on October 29, 2007, so if he actually was lucky enough to pick one the first day -remember how...
The problem is that if the game doesn't contain anything to stop being pirated, there's not going to be that game. We all have to make some kind of concessions. Like: Game with some kind of DRM =...
I don't know if those prices are correct or not, but I find them very believable IF the performances are more or less like rumoured (similar to last gen differences).
What that text doesn't...
PhysX (and Havok) don't need nothing to run. PhysX on CPU in i7 HT is barely playable? I bet not. I'm sure that such hw is perfectly capable to throw playable framerates with for example a single...
That seems to be an update to introduce in OpenGL the new functionalities of DX11 so yes, I think we will see every DX11 capable hw supporting OpenGL 4.0 by a driver update. Great. :up:
That's only if the game requires you to be online to play, which is more of a question of controling that the use of the product is legitimate (when is not required for the game itself, I mean, for...
So, a voxels rendering engine with a (supposedly) clever storage/search system that allows for a computing complexity of the renderization process depending only on the rendering resolution but not...
