mbkish

I like it, but it is riddled with Sorkinisms. Some people eat that stuff up (like my parents), but I heard enough of them in the West Wing that it is starting to feel like deja vu.

Thanks Alex. I look forward to more of these weekly articles.

Anyone know if the additional subscriber stream(s) will be archived as well?

@MordeaniisChaos: I know you didn't mention majority, but I did. Do you really think that patch certification would be more than 50% of the cost of this patching process? Unless they pay the cert people hundreds of dollars an hour I can't see this passing the hosting costs. Also, look at other digital distribution services with patching systems, like Steam. Their patch hosting is part of the total cost of hosting the game on their service; a percentage from each sale of the product, as it were. So in other words there are no additional costs besides what they were already taking from each copy sold. Regardless of whether Fish is exaggerating or fudging the numbers, it is a bit ridiculous that patching your game costs any significant amount of money.

@MordeaniisChaos: Let's take the idea of bandwidth and server storage space into consideration for the majority of the cost. The game is only 69MB total, so even if you had to completely re-download the game, your bandwidth costs are still incredibly reasonable. I host a webpage with unlimited bandwidth and storage for ~$100 a year. I push over 20GB of data through that site each month and have no problem with it. How does this even cost them close to $1000 for a patch? What services are they providing that a version-checked file and a direct link to a hosted file couldn't achieve?

@Alex: Makes sense and a fairly easy mistake to make. Thanks for the heads up.

Doesn't seem like they refute it because they still have to pay for it. Microsoft is basically saying "It's not our fault they can't pay for it! We said we would work with them about the price." Microsoft probably said they would cut the cost in half, which is still thousands of dollars for a damn patch.

Thank you very much for figuring this out. I knew as soon as I saw this topic in the list that the image problem was https everywhere. Thanks again.

I own it from being part of the kickstarter but I won't be able to watch it for a few days.

@Zomgfruitbunnies said:

@mbkish said:

@Zomgfruitbunnies said:

I am disgusted by the amount of victim blaming in here. If duder gets stabbed in the street by random guy, it's his fault for not taking precautions to not getting randomly stabbed, right?

Fuck off.

This is very different than a stabbing specifically because you CAN take precautions. Even without an authenticator, if you have a password containing a-zA-Z0-9 + symbols it will take 91800 years to crack it by brute force. To stay clear of keyloggers; avoid unprotected browsing, unknown sites, and don't run anything you aren't sure is safe.

You have missed my point completely. Just because shit happens doesn't mean it's up to the everyone to take all of the precautions in the world to prevent said shit from happening to them. Shit happens because there are assholes out there being assholes. People can take all of the precautions they want, but assholes will continue to be assholes because taking precautions does not make the assholes not be assholes.

Blame the assholes, not the people that got shit on by the assholes.

In addition, wearing a stab-vest prevent one from being stabbed in the torso by random guy, but that doesn't mean it's up to people to wear stab-vests so they don't get randomly stabbed.

Shut up, Asshole!