Recent content by grammarye

What's a new CEO to do to make it clear they're going to make EA profitable? Well, cuts of course! I feel for those who are losing their jobs, I'm not sure the actual move strikes me as the right one (but what do I know..), but it's very common practice for a new CEO to try to 'make their...

Feynman: "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." Well, I don't see the reality of crappy Internet, server failures, online being to the company's advantage not the user's, or any of the other pretty well-reasoned points...

Ah yes, another attempt at 'I need to appear in the media; let's make a controversial statement'. This explains why town planners are spending all their time in SimCity. Would someone please sit this person down in front of a shooter, and then ask them to fire a real gun based on their...

I'll do you a deal, Mr Johannessen. You make a game with zero bugs and zero latency, and I'll play games with no saves. I'll also resist pointing out that we have this already - it's called 'life'. The problem with even the Ironman style gaming is that it only takes one screwup by the...

Your logic is entirely backwards, and demonstrates that you haven't worked on actual software development, or alternatively you're grossly misinterpreting Roberts' statement about hardware as to be about graphics specifically and only. Development resources required are reduced when you have...

My god. I would honestly expect a game developer, with people who actually do develop 3D graphics, cameras, and so on, to know why 30 FPS isn't actually that good. I'm not that surprised that we're having a lovely rehash of the same tired arguments of such rubbish as 'it must be fine, movies are...

Yes and no. IANAL obligatory hand-waving. As a rule you're not far off. Certainly UK consumers are better protected than most. UK case law is sketchy on the subject specifically of shrink-wrapped or equivalent EULAs. However, the general perception is that the following is legally enshrined...

Edit: Holy crap this is an old article. How did I get here :) If I want to gain an opinion of a game, I read multiple reviews & opinions of a game, and then account for the potential bias of what I've read (for example I know from past experience that particular reviewers like the same sort...

The review is perhaps a little overly positive without focusing on any of the negatives that do put some off, but I really think the MMO genre is suffering from a very hostile market currently. Reading these posts I think 'Have you ever actually enjoyed an MMO, or do you complain this...

What disappoints me in reading the responses here is how few people know what innovation is, and decide instead to latch onto the nearest thing that they were already wanting to talk about and criticise that. TOR is innovative. Innovation is rarely based around subjective opinion, nor even...

Oh well, there goes my preorder. Sick & tired of EA pulling this kind of stuff; Bioware used to be a great developer. When are they going to figure out that I don't want their buggy beta Origin service with their apparent ability to ban accounts for no obvious reason? For a game I don't intend...

I'm surprised this is considered unusual, given all the preceding games that came before. As I play through Skyrim, I mostly find myself wondering whether Bethesda were literally just doing more of the same for fans who will throw money at anything with Elder Scrolls on the side of the box...

Has nobody noticed that the software industry at large has managed this one already? The recent Autodesk case was won where they essentially argued that the license agreement for their software stated no resale allowed. Thus, no used sales of Autodesk software. Sure, we're talking products that...

The strange thing about this prevailing 'go F2P' attitude from consumers is that companies aren't creating 'free-to-play' models to save money or give the consumer a better deal. They're doing it because it makes them more money... because so many people can't add up those little transactions...

Sorry, but I couldn't disagree more (and you're making a heck of a lot of personal assumptions there about someone you've never met or know the skin colour of, my fellow poster). I don't walk down a British street and look for stereotypes of Indians just because my ancestors emigrated to the UK...