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To unlock drink verification can (2013)

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Re: To unlock drink verification can (2013)

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Post by neilv »

dorkwood wrote: post #53
asah wrote: post #41

Can I ask something as an Old Guy(tm)? I thought games were supposed to be fun and entertaining. If the developer makes it un-fun, then why keep playing? why not finding something else fun to do? e.g. play another game? learn a new skill? do something IRL? etc. Serious q, please don't bash.

You have to first define what makes a game “fun”. The theory outlined in Glued to Games (Ryan & Rigby, 2011) suggests that games we perceive as “fun” are actually satisfying our basic needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness. If you satisfy your need for competency by playing video games and don’t get that need met anywhere else, then you’ll keep coming back, despite the developers trying to squeeze money out…

> If you satisfy your need for competency by playing video games and don’t get that need met anywhere else, then you’ll keep coming back,

A different way to look at it is that my selfless dedication to video game KDR is helping to save other players from addiction, by eliminating their feelings of competency.

Re: To unlock drink verification can (2013)

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Post by pdntspa »

petesergeant wrote: post #38
walrus01 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I literally just saw a BMW advertisement yesterday that says it comes with 8 years of adaptive cruise control/driver assist, which then disables itself after the timer runs out (presumably unless you pay to license it again).

I think I am in a minority group of 1 for thinking that features that are payable extras are a good thing, actually. I guess people who don't like it see it as losing features, and talk about _owning_ their vehicle, where I see it as the ability to fine-tune the cost of a vehicle depending on what features you do or do not want to license. With any luck, competition should end up giving a market price to each of thes…

Ha ha ha, "market price". As if market forces don't simultaneously collude on prices while blowing smoke up the ass of its customers. Everyone knows that inflated "market price" is the result of a lifetime of commercial brainwashing done on buyers. There will never be a fair "market price" as long as everyone keeps raising their prices because reasons.

Re: To unlock drink verification can (2013)

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Post by ronsor »

cactusfrog wrote: post #36
walrus01 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I literally just saw a BMW advertisement yesterday that says it comes with 8 years of adaptive cruise control/driver assist, which then disables itself after the timer runs out (presumably unless you pay to license it again).

The good news is that no BMW is going to run for 8 years

Even if it does, whoever buys a BMW probably won't keep it for 8 years anyway.

Re: To unlock drink verification can (2013)

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Post by peddling-brink »

petesergeant wrote: post #38
walrus01 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I literally just saw a BMW advertisement yesterday that says it comes with 8 years of adaptive cruise control/driver assist, which then disables itself after the timer runs out (presumably unless you pay to license it again).

I think I am in a minority group of 1 for thinking that features that are payable extras are a good thing, actually. I guess people who don't like it see it as losing features, and talk about _owning_ their vehicle, where I see it as the ability to fine-tune the cost of a vehicle depending on what features you do or do not want to license. With any luck, competition should end up giving a market price to each of thes…

I disagree. This is only about value extraction.

Let's walk down this slippery slope for a bit.

It's 8am, your alarm clock doesn't wake you up. You've run out of alarm credits again. They're cheap, but you have to refill them every month because the refill site wants to show you ads first.

You wake up late at 9:15, you're glad for the extra rest, but you won't make as much money today because you will get in late. On the other hand, you avoided the worst of the surge pricing for your shower.

You're finally ready to leave. You order your autonomous taxi and are given a choice of which navigation engine to use. You don't pay for UberPremium, so it's an extra $5 to unlock the Waze Ultra traffic avoidance system for the ride. Yesterday you chanced it with the free nav, and got stuck in traffic for an extra hour.

On the ride you pull out your laptop and connect to the in-car wifi. Within a couple minutes your free DNS requests are used up. You can either watch an ad to continue, or buy more dnscredits. It's only $5 for a thousand more credits, that should last you through Thursday.

Re: To unlock drink verification can (2013)

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Post by [deleted] »

bobthepanda wrote: post #49
doctorpangloss wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In the past ten years we have seen local multiplayer evaporate. Split screen multiplayer evaporated for many reasons. Besides business it's also technology. I'm not sure you'll find a single indie split screen multiplayer game that uses a modern, queued graphics pipeline (Unity HDRP or Unreal 4+). Even among big commercial games, Fortnite notably supports 2 player split screen, but Rocket League, Borderlands and Ge…

It takes two was GOTY. I think it’s more that split screen is almost exclusively the domain of ‘party’ games these days.

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Re: To unlock drink verification can (2013)

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Post by vel0city »

walrus01 wrote: post #22
userbinator wrote: post #21

I suppose the significance is that this is the 10-year anniversary (to the month) of this dystopian meme. While we fortunately haven't gotten to that point of corporate enslavement, it does feel like society has shifted increasingly in that direction since 2013.

I literally just saw a BMW advertisement yesterday that says it comes with 8 years of adaptive cruise control/driver assist, which then disables itself after the timer runs out (presumably unless you pay to license it again).

If it's relying on something like detailed maps or something that need to be updated I could understand that; it costs money to rescan and keep that data up to date. If it's just the basic vision/radar adaptive cruise that's terrible like their heated seats.

I bet it's the worse of those two things, knowing BMW.

Re: To unlock drink verification can (2013)

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Post by EdwardDiego »

doctorpangloss wrote: post #35
mehlmao wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "User attempting to steal online gameplay" bit came from Cliff Blezinski et al saying that splitscreen multiplayer and co-op was a mistake, because half the people who played didn't pay for the game. In the past ten years we have seen local multiplayer evaporate. EDIT: The Kinnect had a microphone in it too

> In the past ten years we have seen local multiplayer evaporate. Split screen multiplayer evaporated for many reasons. Besides business it's also technology. I'm not sure you'll find a single indie split screen multiplayer game that uses a modern, queued graphics pipeline (Unity HDRP or Unreal 4+). Even among big commercial games, Fortnite notably supports 2 player split screen, but Rocket League, Borderlands and Ge…

Me and my son love couch co-op games, but yeah, doing split-screen can be hard to get right, especially around text and UI elements.

Re: To unlock drink verification can (2013)

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Post by vel0city »

walrus01 wrote: post #58
usednet wrote: post #47

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Can you give some examples of computer hardware that are paywall locked?

It's heavily implemented in Cisco and juniper routers for serious ISP applications. In addition to yearly paid support contracts for operating system updates.

TBF though it seems like large companies love paying through the nose for support contracts so managers can point fingers when things go wrong.
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