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<Bishop> I don't dislike Ezzerland
<Bishop> We are just incompatible
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<~Palem> I read that as "snuffleupegas gropes Palem" twice lol
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Diablo II is a game that has maintained its playability for well over a decade - it's EARNED that $50 price tag!
On the other hand, you've got software like WinBlows. Coming out with a 'new version' of the same program about every other year now, and they're charging almost as much for an OS as the computer it runs on!! Between the copies I've bought outright (from Win95 thru WinXP) and the ones that came with various computers I've bought (including 2 lappies and a notebook, most recently), I've accumulated more than FIFTY licenses - all legitimate! I feel I've more than sufficiently paid to have the latest version on my main desktop computer.
Though, to be honest, I primarily run Ubuntu (Win7 is installed as a boot option AND a VM under Linux) - and the guys at Ubuntu have put a hell of a lot more effort into their OS than MicroSpooge does.
So where's the point in spending $150/year or more to keep current on an OS when there are far superior ones available completely free?
The only people who never make mistakes are those who never try to accomplish anything.
Netflix is a good example of reasonable pricing leading to success.
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Last edited by hllwrld; 04-01-2014 at 22:28.
No one has the RIGHT to make money.
Everybody has the FREEDOM to share.
Yet, everybody also has the FREEDOM to try and make money.
Imagine if there'd been some kind of pretend copyright/IP laws back in the ancient days, so only one guy could make urns, or you'd not have been allowed to share Mozart's music outside the places he actually played at.
Catwalk's crusade for legalized cheating was a stunning success, with ghettos and low-tiered teams everywhere losing their wells of knowledge to better kingdoms in the process.
Step one: replace everything that works.
Step two: blame the predictable epic fail on outside forces.
Step three: keep the community informed that no progress has been made since the last update.
Step four: thank you for your patience.
Is it too late for me to file a patent on the wheel? :p
The only people who never make mistakes are those who never try to accomplish anything.
It's a freedom to pretend you own ideas and concepts, and can somehow prevent others from mimicking, improving, and copying them, but no one's ever gonna take you seriously.
So when the church said 'you can't copy these books. You can't read these books. You can't share or even look at them outside these sanctioned buildings,' no one cared, and once technology had advanced a bit, everybody dropped the illusion.
I will never pay for music, games, books, or movies. I will never for culture, period. I'll grant THE PEOPLE I SUPPORT A TOKEN FEE IN GOOD FAITH WHEN REASONABLE, but I won't pay for the culture itself.
Catwalk's crusade for legalized cheating was a stunning success, with ghettos and low-tiered teams everywhere losing their wells of knowledge to better kingdoms in the process.
Step one: replace everything that works.
Step two: blame the predictable epic fail on outside forces.
Step three: keep the community informed that no progress has been made since the last update.
Step four: thank you for your patience.
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Last edited by hllwrld; 04-01-2014 at 22:28.
Only apple force you to pay for upgrades, the windows updates are always free - unless you change the OS itself. XP came out in 01, vista came out in 07 and win7 came out in 2009 - 8 is only just at a beta release. Ubuntu is on a 6 month schedule i believe.
Windows ****s all over linux when it comes to compatibility though. Just bought a new gfx card? Don't expect to be able to handle it for 6 months. Want to game? Be prepared to run it under an emulator or wait 4 years for a port :(
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But, but, like, windows totally crashes, and you need these drivers, and like, man - memoryleaks!
I can't even list five games that run on linux without 200% computer mastery.
Catwalk's crusade for legalized cheating was a stunning success, with ghettos and low-tiered teams everywhere losing their wells of knowledge to better kingdoms in the process.
Step one: replace everything that works.
Step two: blame the predictable epic fail on outside forces.
Step three: keep the community informed that no progress has been made since the last update.
Step four: thank you for your patience.
I can sum it up as follows.
SOPA/PIPA and the European equivalent ACTA should never be made law! It will indeed seriously harm the economy. Furthermore the U.S. senators and congressmen and european commissioners, judges and parliamentarians and European ministers who vote and decide in favor of said proposals should be subject to a criminal investigation for taxfraud, misrepresentation, moneylaundering, and bribery. That includes such individuals as republican senator John McCain (former U.S. presidential candidate), democratic senator Joe Lieberman, European commissioner De Gucht, and European judge Van De Woude. Oh and of course we shouldn't forget such organisations as RIAA and BREIN.
Enough said!
Last edited by freemehul; 05-03-2012 at 19:56.
Corruption is a serious impediment to civil liberties.
Thanks.
Actually, I got Diablo 2 + the expan + the strategy guide for like 20$ several years back. I guess it depends where you live.
A better example would be the original Kotor which stayed at 30$ for like forever while Kotor 2 dropped well below that price point.
And sure enough, I own Kotor 2, but I never got the original Kotor. I would strongly have considered getting it at 15$, but they never lowered it to that price point while I was interested in the game (which was like 4-5 years past the original release of the game) so that's 15$ they never made. It's gone.
Again, it depends who you ask.
For a Diablo fan with a lot of disposable income, maybe.
For someone who finds that Diablo is so so (that includes me, I much preferred Sacred), 50$ is way overpriced.
And for someone making minimum wage who has to support 2 kids, 50$ for a game is out of the question no matter how good the game is.
However, they could still make SOME money out of those people if they phased out the price of Diablo 2.
Last edited by Magn; 05-03-2012 at 20:02.
i picked up d2 for a fiver
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