After a little running around the internet I found an interesting article that shows a good example of how pirating can affect a game directly and shutdown a project.
iOS Game, Battle Dungeon, Forced To Shut Down Due To Piracy
In this article, Hunted Cow, the developers behind the iOS game Batt...
This can be explained with the Pythagorean Theorem, which is the following formula:
a² + b² = c²
In your case, when moving right, you're using (x:1, y:0) which gives us
c² = 1 + 0 = 1
c = sqrt(1) = 1.00
When moving up and right, you're using (x:1, y:1) which gives us
c² = 1 + 1 = 2
c = sqr...
Super simple stuff. :P
Which, without @eBusiness, would've been a wrong answer. :P
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@Almo It's JavaScript, and it is supposed to move from the first 2 parameters towards the last 2 parameters.
Ill wrap it in a fiddle to show that it dont work
http://jsfiddle.net/7VCC7/ So the Error seems to happen when one of (x,y) is the same as (targetx,targety) It then no longer returns a new Array cordinate
After a little running around the internet I found an interesting article that shows a good example of how pirating can affect a game directly and shutdown a project.
iOS Game, Battle Dungeon, Forced To Shut Down Due To Piracy
In this article, Hunted Cow, the developers behind the iOS game Batt...
@Blue if all those pirates would buy the game, it still doesnt mean that the game wouldnt be shut down since it wasnt able to handle such amount of players
It's not about whether the sales ruptured the game, that example shows how the easy accessibility of it being pirated and published on pirate websites caused a huge increase in the load on the servers, too quick for them to simply meet normal business demands to expand their hard ware. Which, if pirates had not provided the game for free, would not have happened as they would see the demand on their servers increase gradually and so take action to prevent overloads (ie - upgrade their hardware)
Yes - if they were all bought instead of pirated the servers would still have crashed.
However they would have had the money to solve it instead of take it down in that situation which is why the pirates shut down the game in doing so.
However this did happen, the lack of resources is what made them take down the servers, they didn't have the money to upgrade them at that point in time. This is all on their website and forums and in various posts they made on their blogs.
I love how kikaimaru simply likes to contradict things, even when I was taking the time helping him with his Diablo 3 clone he would contradict my advice and yet would go on to then use the advice I gave. He didn't actually give any reason there which hasn't already been answered in that thread as invalid, yet gets up on his high horse saying that my answer (and several others in doing so ) were wrong. I'm amazing at his ignorance and inability to listen.
And now I've ignored him. Happy days. I <3 functionality.
@ToddersLegrande I never did get used to _ in names.
Always got confused as to the context they were used and made me confused when _variableName and variableName were used in the same context.
but its foolish to say that the moment they had pirates post their game online that it over doubled their server load in a few days and then say it had nothing to do with piracy - conveniently leaving out the part where they have a business to run and costs to measure,
"Oh hey Bob, our servers at 40k users at our highest peak yet! Shall we expand our server nodes to cope with 150k and spend over 140% of our profits on it?"
"What the hell, James, you CRAAAAAZAAY? Just wait til we hit 45k so we know its a worth investment."
=== Tomorrow Morning ===
"JAMES - UPGRADE THE SERVERS! PIRATES BE A BOARDIN'!"
"WE CAN'T BOB! NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE BOUGHT OUR GAME, WE CAN'T AFFORD TO UPGRADE ENOUGH TO SUPPORT THE NEW SERVER LOADS!"
I remember that Minecraft encouraged pirates on certain occasions, Notch tweeted to a user that couldn't afford the game "Just pirate it until you can afford your own copy, we don't mind as long as you enjoy it and pay it forward!"
it's an interesting part where he says that making his books publicly available didn't damage his sales whatsoever, and interested people would still buy them
The idea that as a digital distributed game you have infinite copies of your stock
therefore infinity - 1 pirated copy is still infinity and likewise infinity - 1 trillion copies is still infinity, so your direct loss is still nothing.
@Blue - I don't think this contradicts your point at all :)
Your point is that they had financial problems due to server load/costs caused by quantifiable pirated users using the system. Not that they lost sales
I know but when someone can show me that piracy has been done before and shown no direct loss and are able to back it up with factual claim then I respect them far more than opinionated blabbers
This can be explained with the Pythagorean Theorem, which is the following formula:
a² + b² = c²
In your case, when moving right, you're using (x:1, y:0) which gives us
c² = 1 + 0 = 1
c = sqrt(1) = 1.00
When moving up and right, you're using (x:1, y:1) which gives us
c² = 1 + 1 = 2
c = sqr...
