None. But this is the company that decides that if more than 10 people access a legally paid for broadcast, they're stealing it. And they want to hire people to look for places that are "streaming" the games in bars
Don't go to Buffalo Wild Wings to watch on a Friday night.
Don't go TGIFridays to watch on Saturday of the game.
No, everyone has to watch individually from home and pay $50 for the game.
That's why they were all too happy that Bryan McCarthy was arrested so long ago along with Yonjou Quiroa. It's ridiculous how entitled they are.
I've always said Dana White is a meathead who doesn't understand economics. Consider me unsurprised that he's going to cannibalize his own sales by suing his fans.
I think people are being rather harsh on Enigmatic and I certainly understand his position.
You have two games that are identical save for the fact that one game is made by a large company and one is not. Usually the larger company can reap the rewards. The smaller company doesn't have much they can do except social shaming.
I believe that's the point Enigmatic might be trying to point out here. The fact is smaller companies or modders are at a huge disadvantage.
BUT...
I don't necessarily agree that small developers will be crushed. Remember the beating that Epic got for pissing on the little guy.
Or how people are frustrated at Square for beating up on modders. And lack of innovation... And stale gameplay...
Anyway, the point is that I doubt that all game companies, large or small, will lose everything based on having competition in their field. If you can't find a way to compete, why are you in the field? Smaller developers usually make unique ideas and the larger competitors might be busy with copying an idea or having to find newer innovations. Meanwhile, your idea is first in the market... Run with it! Just because someone copies you doesn't mean you can't compete.
The money will come when you eventually have a fanbase that respects your ability to make games. I doubt that's changed in any market.
Seriously, why didn't anyone call out Nijam's BS? And make no mistake, it's BS that "low quality clones are hurting the industry."
What's worse, a preponderance of low-quality clones is training consumers to expect a lack of originality in the industry, Nijam said, a loss of "gaming literacy" that drags the whole industry down. "Players will get all those bad games and stop recognizing actual good games," he said. "If you only eat bad hamburgers, you're not going to recognize a good hamburger."
What is absolutely stunning about this is how he states this almost matter-of-factly. We have had over 40 years of various games coming out. Some were clones, others went on to make new series in their own right. Still others became bona fide franchises with their own audience. But his argument here does two things:
1) It automatically assumes that every game developer has the same entry point to games.
This dismisses game sites like Kongregate and Newgrounds, where 13 year olds can work on small games, make some money on the side and learn their craft while learning to make games. It's almost insulting to the amateur gamers/developers who come into the market with little or no knowledge and might make a game that is fairly similar to one they've played.
2) Nijam considers lowly of the consumers to not differentiate products. A game is part of a developer's brand. It's a sign that the game is made by a certain developer with their sense of style. Sure, there can be a Team Fortress 2 clone. In fact, it DOES have a clone. Do you think the audience of Valve games doesn't recognize it? Does Valve give two craps? No, they're like a honey badger.
Another example from this site:
Capcom gets caught copying. Do you think copying is so bad when the big boys do it? No, it's not. And it's quite disappointing that Nijam chooses to believe that people can't tell the difference between games instead of letting the market choose which one is superior.
You really expect people to believe a person in his position with a very large incentive to tell a lie will not do so to further his agenda?
Are you telling me that I'm to believe this guy when the facts paint a different story?
Am I to believe the NSA does not lie when they have a cozy relationship with AT&T, Google, and most of law enforcement to spy on individuals with secret rules and interpretations? When the executive branch has outright stated that due process is not the same as judicial process? This statement confirming that Holder's goons in the ICE can seize any domain because 20 people get together and decide to seize it before a trial?
I'm to believe that no one is bribing the FCC to ignore their 2006 decision to disallow AT&T to share landline connections, keeping them as a gatekeeper and making their job much harder by allowing competition?
I'm to believe that AT&T doesn't give in to secret letters without due process of law?
I'm to believe the FBI isn't so corrupt that they can't pass a simple test while making their own bomb threats to punish dissent in the US?
Maybe you're new around here. Maybe you believe there's a preexisting opinion. But quite frankly after seeing so much evidence of government using any lie to paint a funny picture, consider me skeptical of this need for "national security".
I know that the assumption many will make is that he's flat out lying, and that wouldn't surprise me, but I do wonder if he's trying to pick his words carefully to get around lying—or if he knows he's so protected that he can just say whatever he wants without much fear of ever being called on it.
Let's look at the past for a review of NSA's future:
So is NSA lying? Considering that they've had few punishments in the past for lying, I'm sure they are. They're just more brazen about it since the government has already passed the point of being a plutocracy.
No one ever passed any law forcing banks to make bad loans. If they did, then why are there so many banks out there (such as the one I bank with) that didn't have any trouble in 2008 because they never made any bad loans?
The Community Reinvestment Act allows the banks to underwrite the loans, then give the loan to the government. Since Freddie and Fannie were Government Sponsored Entities, they were approved by Congress but acted like a private enterprise. In other words, they were the worst of a merge between government and private interests.
The problem comes from a number of laws that have chipped away at regulations that helped the market considerably. Sure, the bad loans was the government. But the problems started with the banks attacking Glass-Steagall and making those regulations weaker in the marketplace for stockholders and investors.
People tote them as if it's a great thing. But the market was artificially factored to what made the music industry (I believe at the time, the Big Five) money, not the consumers.
Personally, I have a HUGE love for video game music as well as niche music like Alestorm. I could NEVER find that at any place that I wanted. There were two key factors here:
1) Pricing on foreign CDs are quite expensive for foreign music. the price could be $30 for 10 songs. That's a ridiculous amount to be paying for songs that aren't available in the US in the first place.
2) As a teenager, my disposable income was quite low. Sure, I had a job and could pay the $30, but my money could stretch a lot further without paying so much for CDs that weren't as expensive outside of the military base I lived on. (Note: I wasn't in the US)
So when people talk about record stores, I have to look at them cross eyed. I never got to see them as a child and it seemed weird to have a CD store, by itself without anything else to attract people into the store. No books, no extra materials to make up for the added value, no bundles of say.. Music and drumsticks at a discounted price. No, people complained talked about the profit margins on a CD, but artists never recouped money spent on advertising CDs anyway (I believe Lessig's books helped me realize this a long time ago but that's another point)
In short, CDs were overpriced for my specific niche. While I could support my foreign love, it was too expensive. Thank goodness for the internet and music from OCRemix and Jamendo, where the music is free and you can support the artist with your money as you see fit.
Otherwise, I would never listen to music that I preferred while the recording industry figured out even more ways to say my market didn't exist.
I would argue that you have to go back as far as the Community Reinvestment Act to understand all of the changes to the law that caused our economic meltdown.
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Also, the Patriot Act was the FBI's wishlist come true. Now they get to "play" with the NSA's new "toys".
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Don't go to Buffalo Wild Wings to watch on a Friday night.
Don't go TGIFridays to watch on Saturday of the game.
No, everyone has to watch individually from home and pay $50 for the game.
That's why they were all too happy that Bryan McCarthy was arrested so long ago along with Yonjou Quiroa. It's ridiculous how entitled they are.
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Time to round up a few ACs!
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You have two games that are identical save for the fact that one game is made by a large company and one is not. Usually the larger company can reap the rewards. The smaller company doesn't have much they can do except social shaming.
I believe that's the point Enigmatic might be trying to point out here. The fact is smaller companies or modders are at a huge disadvantage.
BUT...
I don't necessarily agree that small developers will be crushed. Remember the beating that Epic got for pissing on the little guy.
Or how people are frustrated at Square for beating up on modders. And lack of innovation... And stale gameplay...
Anyway, the point is that I doubt that all game companies, large or small, will lose everything based on having competition in their field. If you can't find a way to compete, why are you in the field? Smaller developers usually make unique ideas and the larger competitors might be busy with copying an idea or having to find newer innovations. Meanwhile, your idea is first in the market... Run with it! Just because someone copies you doesn't mean you can't compete.
The money will come when you eventually have a fanbase that respects your ability to make games. I doubt that's changed in any market.
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Disappointed...
What's worse, a preponderance of low-quality clones is training consumers to expect a lack of originality in the industry, Nijam said, a loss of "gaming literacy" that drags the whole industry down. "Players will get all those bad games and stop recognizing actual good games," he said. "If you only eat bad hamburgers, you're not going to recognize a good hamburger."
What is absolutely stunning about this is how he states this almost matter-of-factly. We have had over 40 years of various games coming out. Some were clones, others went on to make new series in their own right. Still others became bona fide franchises with their own audience. But his argument here does two things:
1) It automatically assumes that every game developer has the same entry point to games.
This dismisses game sites like Kongregate and Newgrounds, where 13 year olds can work on small games, make some money on the side and learn their craft while learning to make games. It's almost insulting to the amateur gamers/developers who come into the market with little or no knowledge and might make a game that is fairly similar to one they've played.
2) Nijam considers lowly of the consumers to not differentiate products. A game is part of a developer's brand. It's a sign that the game is made by a certain developer with their sense of style. Sure, there can be a Team Fortress 2 clone. In fact, it DOES have a clone. Do you think the audience of Valve games doesn't recognize it? Does Valve give two craps? No, they're like a honey badger.
Another example from this site:
Capcom gets caught copying. Do you think copying is so bad when the big boys do it? No, it's not. And it's quite disappointing that Nijam chooses to believe that people can't tell the difference between games instead of letting the market choose which one is superior.
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You really expect people to believe a person in his position with a very large incentive to tell a lie will not do so to further his agenda?
Are you telling me that I'm to believe this guy when the facts paint a different story?
Am I to believe the NSA does not lie when they have a cozy relationship with AT&T, Google, and most of law enforcement to spy on individuals with secret rules and interpretations? When the executive branch has outright stated that due process is not the same as judicial process? This statement confirming that Holder's goons in the ICE can seize any domain because 20 people get together and decide to seize it before a trial?
I'm to believe that no one is bribing the FCC to ignore their 2006 decision to disallow AT&T to share landline connections, keeping them as a gatekeeper and making their job much harder by allowing competition?
I'm to believe that AT&T doesn't give in to secret letters without due process of law?
I'm to believe the FBI isn't so corrupt that they can't pass a simple test while making their own bomb threats to punish dissent in the US?
I'm to believe the NSA when all parts of law enforcement have lied repeatedly about the need for the Patriot Act?
Maybe you're new around here. Maybe you believe there's a preexisting opinion. But quite frankly after seeing so much evidence of government using any lie to paint a funny picture, consider me skeptical of this need for "national security".
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Time of day
I believe the hotel was close to closing time, everyone wanted to go home, and they just decided to say, "Screw it, tax the hotel"
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First hunch
Let's look at the past for a review of NSA's future:
2006 - NSA lies
2007 - AT&T whistleblower blows the whistle. Again, lies are emitted
2008 - No GAO oversight of NSA
2010 - NSA and Google connections
2011 - Thomas Drake case folds but it's more about harassment and character damage than anything else.
2012 - NSA and Google connections are not up for public discussion
So is NSA lying? Considering that they've had few punishments in the past for lying, I'm sure they are. They're just more brazen about it since the government has already passed the point of being a plutocracy.
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It repeats itself way too much.
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The Community Reinvestment Act allows the banks to underwrite the loans, then give the loan to the government. Since Freddie and Fannie were Government Sponsored Entities, they were approved by Congress but acted like a private enterprise. In other words, they were the worst of a merge between government and private interests.
The problem comes from a number of laws that have chipped away at regulations that helped the market considerably. Sure, the bad loans was the government. But the problems started with the banks attacking Glass-Steagall and making those regulations weaker in the marketplace for stockholders and investors.
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People tote them as if it's a great thing. But the market was artificially factored to what made the music industry (I believe at the time, the Big Five) money, not the consumers.
Personally, I have a HUGE love for video game music as well as niche music like Alestorm. I could NEVER find that at any place that I wanted. There were two key factors here:
1) Pricing on foreign CDs are quite expensive for foreign music. the price could be $30 for 10 songs. That's a ridiculous amount to be paying for songs that aren't available in the US in the first place.
2) As a teenager, my disposable income was quite low. Sure, I had a job and could pay the $30, but my money could stretch a lot further without paying so much for CDs that weren't as expensive outside of the military base I lived on. (Note: I wasn't in the US)
So when people talk about record stores, I have to look at them cross eyed. I never got to see them as a child and it seemed weird to have a CD store, by itself without anything else to attract people into the store. No books, no extra materials to make up for the added value, no bundles of say.. Music and drumsticks at a discounted price. No, people complained talked about the profit margins on a CD, but artists never recouped money spent on advertising CDs anyway (I believe Lessig's books helped me realize this a long time ago but that's another point)
In short, CDs were overpriced for my specific niche. While I could support my foreign love, it was too expensive. Thank goodness for the internet and music from OCRemix and Jamendo, where the music is free and you can support the artist with your money as you see fit.
Otherwise, I would never listen to music that I preferred while the recording industry figured out even more ways to say my market didn't exist.
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Ya know... That'd make a good post.
"The ad hom attacks of the troll community of entertainment and how to respond to these attacks"
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