[QUOTE="thesmiter"][QUOTE="BobHipJames"][QUOTE="Pro_wrestler"]Why can't it be compared? It completely annihilates the claims that they made. Just because your giving all sorts of criteria that a game must meet to be considered "Still playing 10 years later" doesn't change the fact that people are still playing H2 online by the thousands daily.
Like I said earlier, they have zero method of going about proving that people aren't still playing their Genesis, NES, Saturns, PSOnes.. etc... Its a huge assumption based on the fact that any console pre-PS2 had a massive online/offline disconnect.
BobHipJames
Ugh. I wouldn't play Halo 2 for ten minutes. The game sucks. There's nothing to change that, nothing to make it interesting or fresh. It's just Elites all day long. No thank you.
Sure, people are playing it, but they don't know what the hell they're doing.
so you don't like halo 2. so consoles suck. oh wait... lots of people, including myself, loved halo 2, and 3. i think sales prove this.
to say people 'don't know what the hell they're doing' because they play a game that you don't like is foolish. i don't like WoW. therefore, millions of people don't know what the hell they are doing, according to your method and my taste in games. that is just stupid.
No, there are good console games, and then there is Halo 2. Halo 2 sucks.
WoW is a genre you may or not like. I like FPSes. I don't like Halo 2. Why? Because it sucks.
time is indeed money. that could be discussed in an economic forum of some kind, in terms of investment and compound interest.
on the subject of pc, you include far too many 'ifs.' the fact is, consoles thrive and provide a good gaming experience. pc does as well. and the vast majority of pc games are for the MS os. show me otherwise.
and since consoles compete for much of the same market share as consoles, the competition forces devs to up the quality of their games.
the more competition, the better the quality. history proves this.
thesmiter
Investment and compound interest? Presuming no investment, you have no interest. If you have a time-based interest payment then obviously that means that time equals money by that measure. But you could say the same thing about inflation.
Superficial and inconsequential at best. Free time is free time. I cannot spend my time more wisely to get more money out of my invested principle. The rate stays the same.
PC games are majorly on MS. I provided reasons for this and its included in my analysis.
Competition: competitors could be on the same platform and have at least the same impact on development.
History doesn't prove that, by the way. Theory articulates it well, but it's never been proven. Certainly not by history. Quality isn't the only aspect of production.
so competition didn't force coke and pepsi, google and yahoo, microsoft and apple, cable and satellite, to try to improve their product and outdo the competitor?
remember when coke made their product taste like crap? pepsi started to destroy them. so they returned to the better product.
microsoft has a more popular os, because originally, it was more user-friendly, and people liked it.
history proves that competition forces companies to come out with a better product to survive. 'better' can be disputed. maybe more popular, or whatever appeals to more people and suits more people better. you could say that's what quality consists of.
and, in the US at least, i am not aware of a long-term compound interest investment being outdone by inflation. the more time its in, the more it compounds, the more it quashes inflation.
and to say that free time doesn't equal money is your own experience. many small business owners spend their free time working. the harder and more you work, the more likely you are to be successful.
thomas edison : 'everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.'
'i never did a days work in my life. it was all fun.'
'i have not failed, i've just found 10,000 ways it won't work.' (probably required a lot of time)
who said free time couldn't be spent working on something that makes money, and you enjoy? the notion of what free time is and that it cannot yield profit is foolish.
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