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"We combat piracy and resales by making crappy games from the start! We invest so little in them that we can't possibly lose!"
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Koei says yes!
12/03/08
We pay a premium on top of the entertainment value because the product is a durable good. It has a store of value, a lasting value beyond the time we spend consuming it. Look at it this way, you wouldn't pay $50 for access to play a game for 200 hours. Why not, you're not likely to play any game for over 200 hours, so the entertainment value per dollar hasn't changed at all. The only thing that has changed is the store of value.
Software publishers seem to be the only industry that shuns this asset of their products. Look at car manufacturers, they advertise the resale value of their products.
They don't realize it, but the fact that these games can be traded in or passed along works in the publisher's favor. We pay more because we can resell, even though most of us don't.
12/03/08
I've been gaming since the days of the Commodore 64.
I never know when I might want to pick a game back up and play it again so I don't get rid of them. Also resale values are so low that it makes my head hurt. I'd rather keep it than sell it for 20% of what I paid for it.
But I'm not normal, I realize that. I can also see the logic in making a game fun so people want to keep it.
Duh?
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Whether I'd want to join the hordes of fanboys and naysayers that's almost guaranteed to pop up on an 'official' board is another story...
12/03/08
I click on next/page number, and URL says it's on page two, but it's still page one. Is it just me?
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11/13/08
Kind of like you have to get around the whole sprite by solving puzzles on each 'pixel' block (which are huge), working you way over the sprite.
Would that get pulled?
11/13/08
What about those amazing music levels where someone has painstaking set it up so that the sounds play songs as you drive past? There was a Zelda one, a Terra one and a Wind man one from Mega Man, where at the end of that level you got a lovingly crafted Wind man statue, which looks amazing, and it wasn't created with any photo stickers. What happens to those?
This doesn't seem like a good thing in the long run.
and hopefully MM will fix the horrible tag system, so you can do your own ones!
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Welcome to HFIL.
Welcome to HADES.
11/13/08
Fair use rules say that you can make one (1) copy of copyrighted material FOR YOUR OWN ARCHIVAL PURPOSES, not post them to a commercially-owned server for everyone in the world to access.
Sony owns the LBP servers. If material appears there whose copyright is owned by other parties, then a legal conflict exists - a conflict that Sony is completely within their rights to attempt to avoid.
For Sony to ban copyrighted content from their servers makes complete sense to this observer, and should to you, too.
11/13/08
Actually, across North America I believe that unless your level could decieve people into thinking it was the thing it was copying, as long as your art assets were DERIVED and not copied straight across, it would qualify as a work of parody.
But my forte is more on the tech side, so any legal experts please chip in!
You are right about Sony needing to be proactive on it just to be safe - and the levels on their servers belong to them so they can technically do whatever they want to them.
11/13/08
I was not enthusiastic about this game at all and I really didn't understand why people were so excited. However, genuinely original content is sounding better and better the more I think about it. I still won't pick it up, though. There's no way I'll invest any amount of time in creating a level (ADD, i suppose) and there are quite a few free games that are platformers that pretty much anyone can create. (Flash games are quite common and some are really good)
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With any luck this will hurry the second stage of sandbox game creation; creative level design. Creation follows imitation, and it is only a matter of time before the old moderated levels are replaced with new, exciting works. Just look at the single player campaign levels in the game. The creativity of setting is already there, more people have to use it. I think we will be left with a community even better than the remake-filled one that we have now. It may be for the better.
11/13/08
It's be nice for the levels to be able to be modded if there were built using the engine.