100% of my Grooveshark usage has been to find songs I already know about to let my friends listen to. Clearly, Grooveshark is committing a great crime by allowing me to make others aware of music I like.
So your argument here is that if an artist wants to enjoy their own work, they need to keep it to themselves and never publish it? Wow, that sounds like a fantastic society.
Also, I wasn't aware that when you built a house you were able to duplicate that house an infinite amount of times for free. Analogy fail.
Well, you proved the point that it isn't economically feasible for Amazon to provide the ability for her to stream her content overseas. However, the point that you thought you were making... still waiting on it.
"First off, if you are a writer on a show, you can almost always get a copy"
Almost always does not mean always. You already defeated yourself.
Let this become a trend and I will have a flash card or whatever needed to circumvent the 3DS protection. If they feel the need to limit functionality because of "pirates", then I will pirate to get that functionality back.
This is exactly the point; well said. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that no, most games are not even close to $60 worth of value. But, there is no real way you could put in a fair pricing system, or at least not the way the industry currently works.
Instead, the magic of competitive enterprise is taking shape. Rather than make some manual change, we as consumers are causing the change we want through the way we consume.
Aww, you're cute. Since you refer to developers in the third person, I am concluding that you aren't one.
I'll share a secret with you....comon, closer. Closer. Ok. Take a trip down memory lane when prices hiked to 60 dollars for development costs because next-gen graphics are "so expensive". About a year after, Crysis is released, at the price point of 50 dollars. It made money. What is happening here is merely an industry evolution as people move away from high price point games and a new mainstream market is emerging.
Also, if you're going to whine about piracy, how about you post to an article that at least talks about it troll.
Nothing new here. Just another CEO scared by the change on the horizon. Will dollar games kill the traditional game business? No. Will it inevitably force it into a defensive position? Of course.
What I would honestly like to see out of all this is for "dollar games" to cause a price war between traditional and mobile games. Consumers obviously win when this happens, and if new Xbox 360 games were starting to appear at the 20 - 40 dollar price point, you would see an increase in sales. I know that I for one would be a lot more inclined to purchase a game without the $60 price tag staring me in the face. New releases have to be something I am massively interested in, otherwise I just won't bother, because I know there are other games I can get that are just as fun and way easier on the wallet.
Don't buy the "high development costs". Are games expensive to make? Sure. But at best there are only a handful of games that can really honestly claim a $60 dollar pricetag.
I had an answer as soon as I read the article subject. This issue with carriers charging over tethering makes me overall sad. This is like purchasing gas from a gas station, and then the attendant calling you up and going "By the way, you are not allowed to leave the state, or drive with a passenger in your car. If you would like to do those things, we will need more money." Notice how the attendant isn't offering you anything more, just requesting more money.
I could see a dimmer individual countering that argument with "yeah, you bought unleaded and really needed super", but once again, that makes no sense because when you pay for tethering you are not getting faster service, or more data limits. Just simply the ability to utilize code already in the phone.
I was confused when you guys did a follow up on the story to begin with... It just wreaked of third-party word of mouth nonsense. Seems a pretty damn easy thing to confirm or deny, and since no one could confirm it... Not blaming you either though; one would hope they could remotely trust an article from NYT. But we all know the name of the game these days, it's not about who has the most thorough story, just who announced it first.
This is a very true trend. I was talking to my girlfriend about this very thing, and I just find phone calls to be obtrusive and annoying. If you think about it, a phone call (in theory) requires me to be actively listening, thinking about responses, in most cases holding the device, which restricts what I am currently doing, etc. I rarely answer my phone, and I even more rarely make phone calls.
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Also, I wasn't aware that when you built a house you were able to duplicate that house an infinite amount of times for free. Analogy fail.
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"First off, if you are a writer on a show, you can almost always get a copy"
Almost always does not mean always. You already defeated yourself.
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Incorrect.
Finally: ISP's jack up rates to cover the costs.
More likely.
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Oh well
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Instead, the magic of competitive enterprise is taking shape. Rather than make some manual change, we as consumers are causing the change we want through the way we consume.
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I'll share a secret with you....comon, closer. Closer. Ok. Take a trip down memory lane when prices hiked to 60 dollars for development costs because next-gen graphics are "so expensive". About a year after, Crysis is released, at the price point of 50 dollars. It made money. What is happening here is merely an industry evolution as people move away from high price point games and a new mainstream market is emerging.
Also, if you're going to whine about piracy, how about you post to an article that at least talks about it troll.
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Yawn
What I would honestly like to see out of all this is for "dollar games" to cause a price war between traditional and mobile games. Consumers obviously win when this happens, and if new Xbox 360 games were starting to appear at the 20 - 40 dollar price point, you would see an increase in sales. I know that I for one would be a lot more inclined to purchase a game without the $60 price tag staring me in the face. New releases have to be something I am massively interested in, otherwise I just won't bother, because I know there are other games I can get that are just as fun and way easier on the wallet.
Don't buy the "high development costs". Are games expensive to make? Sure. But at best there are only a handful of games that can really honestly claim a $60 dollar pricetag.
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Re: How about the Cheapskate or freeloader party?
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So Silly
I could see a dimmer individual countering that argument with "yeah, you bought unleaded and really needed super", but once again, that makes no sense because when you pay for tethering you are not getting faster service, or more data limits. Just simply the ability to utilize code already in the phone.
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Not surprised
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