So if flaunting trademark rights is now "freedom of speech" then I guess Remington can make Medal of Honor & Battlefield 4 edition rifles without EA's sayso? I mean, it's only fair, right?
Valve's solution to a broken, clogged up rating process is to add "micro-transactions"?
That term doesn't accurately describe anything in this context. It's a one time fee for each individual developer. Even with this, the bar-to-entry to get on Steam remains drastically lower than with every other notable digital distribution platform this side of Desura and the Ubuntu Software Center.
It was a joke. I thought asking what hat they got with their payment would have been too much.
Defending the barrier to entry as low misses the point. Only the most no-effort submissions would be affected and the current rating system still sees completed & popular games buried and struggling with less than 10% of the needed "Likes" to pass the popularity contest. If the $100 fee at least bought the eyes of an intern long enough to sort submissions between finished titles and barely alpha concepts it might be a different story.
Gaming is over. Generations of continuity from the Amiga gone in an instant.
I know it ceased being Psygnosis long ago and the original members are long departed, but damn.
I guess the saddest part is how I'm not even sure there's anything left TO reassemble under the Psygnosis name (whoever owns it now) and revive whatever old IP isn't owned by Sony.
Latency being such a significant and fundamental problem with services like Gaikai and OnLive, hopefully Sony sticks with it as solely a means for instant access demos. (which in of themselves would hugely improve the current digital distribution experience)
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