I understood it as if you want to play, you have to authenticate every 24hrs, but if you're not turning the system on then it doesn't matter. It'll just authenticate when you turn it on. It seems kinda just common sense to be honest. That's probably why they haven't said anything specifically about this question.
Wow gamers have got to be the biggest group of overreactors I have ever seen. Settle down children. It's not as bad as you're making it out to be. Don't make this about being angry just for the sake of it. This shouldn't even be that controversial
I just bought a Pc 4 months ago that runs everything at the highest settings with smooth frame rates for 1200 dollars... INCLUDING a monitor and SSD. My last PC run me around the same amount of money, and lasted 5 years, and in its 5th year was still running high settings, just no AA and AF. Unless you're buying Alienware, a thousand dollars will get you a future proof gaming machine.
When most people want to tell a developer/laptop maker what they want they tweet them or send them an email. They don't write an article criticizing sales people, and asking for a industry-wide change... Going by your own analogy you might not make your own laptop, but you will also not start up a storm because your favourite specs aren't being made right now. There are much more productive ways of doing this. The most productive being support indie game makers that DO make games that satisfy your niche in the hope that the trend gets noticed.
Also a little unnecessary to attack someone's eloquence. It makes you come off as pretentious and weakens your argument when you have to resort to things like ad hominem, assuming that using that phrase IS even bad eloquence. It may have helped his point across and fit in well with the rest of the post. Stephen Fry would be disappointed in you.
If it's been misrepresented it's been misrepresented by feminists.
I tried to learn. I really did. A quick trip to a couple of their websites and facebook pages opened my eyes to hate towards men, other women, and the most ridiculous things like Obama tweeting that he wants to protect the rights of daughters, wives, and moms. Seriously. Look this stuff up, not isolated incidents.
Sure the definition of feminism is supposed to be equality for women. But they don't seem to be asking for equality. They are (yes I am generalizing in the hopes that a feminist here proves me wrong) nitpicky, unreasonable, and on a whole tend to be melodramatic and unresponsive to criticism (with a usual response accusing the critic of hating women or being a misogynist, and part of the patriarchy- it all screams of teen angst)
I think a more appropriate term that wouldn't have put everyone on the defensive would've been human rights. But no. That wasn't special enough.
It's pretty presumptuous to say the games are "trapped" by limitations or that games are "stuck" with people picking the same stereotyped. It's easy to just say "oh yeah those stereotypes are the devil, screw society". Most likely the makers just want to make games like that, for whatever reason. If you don't like it, you make your own.
If Kojima does decide to cast a leading female (of whatever sexuality), it would be because it fits his vision and I'm sure some publishers would be behind him. To try to kind of force more female leads is a classic case of overcompensation and is also unfair to the artist. It's like certain companies hiring women because they get incentives from the government and not necessarily on their suitability. Is that really the point here? Is Carolyn going to be happy with "pity" games that someone was forced to make so that they hit a diversity quota?
I would argue that if the market was there for games like that they would get made. I am 100% sure companies like EA could not care less about genders or sexuality as long as they know they can make money. And they spend millions of dollars on marketing research so they really know their demographic. If there is an untapped market, indie gamers should go for it. That will be a much more legitimate way to bring attention to said market.
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