@fbueckert They'll have sunk a shit-tonne of money into market research. Whether or not it plays out is to be seen, but they'll have evaluated the risks
@fredley That's the point I'm making; if Microsoft expects people to buy this console to replace their existing hardware because it's "newer, better!", they have to continue to release new hardware, or those same people will just replace it the year after with something else.
«These aren't crazy ideas. You can't sell your games on Steam, nor can you buy “used” Steam games. The same with iTunes. And e-books, with some exceptions.» That doesn't mean it's good.
@BenBrocka The idea where eliminating the second market magically makes all games cheaper sounds... appealing, but it's totally not going to happen.
If anything I imagine the first wave of new releases at an even higher price point across the board
@OrigamiRobot Yknow, you can't just give the finger to brick and mortar stores. In many cases driving to a store, picking a CD and driving back home is faster than downloading a blu ray's worth of content.
@fbueckert I thought the stores that do buy back games to sell used price them just low enough below the full price to be attractive, and make a very large profit on that. I doubt that can be an effective control on prices
@fredley If I am in the crafting bay and start a game, it still shows the crafting bay with the game under it. Then when the game is over, It bring up the arcade as well. I end up with both on screen.
When there's not enough room in a zoned area to put up a building, it gets filled with a random piece of "junk" instead. This is most obvious in industrial zones because they tend to have larger space requirements, but it happens in residential areas too.
Sometimes I see junk appear in areas tha...
I've got an iMac, and am going to get a PC for purely gaming. I'm going to use a KVM to share an external DVI monitor, USB keyboard, and USB mouse between the iMac and the PC.
What kind of lag or other drawbacks should I expect when gaming with this setup? Is there usually a noticeable video del...
> Twitter's login verification sends a code via SMS to be entered to confirm login. But unlike Google's system, the code will be sent every time users sign in to Twitter through its website. [...] There's no way to use standard, generic authentication apps to generate time-based, one-time passwords. So if you can't get the SMS, you're out of luck. And unlike those systems, there's no facility to create persistent application-specific passwords.
blech
I can see why the two-factor auth stuff wouldn't have released yet
I bought one brand new, hinge blew out within a month, EB was nice enough to replace it with another brand new one, that hinge also blew out, they told me to get bent.
I just got a refurbished one after that, never mind that it was a manufacturer problem.
@AshleyNunn Eh? Ad misspellings? Or product defect misspellings?
@AshleyNunn Heh. I may want you to find cheap stuff for me every now and then, I suspect. :P
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@fbueckert When you search, try alternate spellings - people often misspell item names and the like and those get less attention than the spelled properly ones, for obvious reasons, so you can often find stuff cheaper