FFP pursuing digital version of LNOE

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(02-09-2011 06:01 PM)Russ Wrote:  OK, I didn't really know that. I guess I'm just a little bit behind the times. Kind of creepy when you catch yourself talking about how things were "in your day." Such a strange world we live in now, where game systems are more expensive than decent computers. You can seriously get a computer for gaming for less than $350? *Sigh* I guess I'm becoming a bit of a dinosaur.

Ok for one, don't talk dinosaurs yet... I'm only 38... LOL
But yeah, Decent PCs are getting really cheap these days... Not great PCs but decent. I have a 10" notebook here that will play a decent selection of pretty high end games (Albeit with minimal setting is some cases) and it cost me $200 brand new. It's small, and I can't ramp up the graphics settings, but it works and plays the games I want to play on the go. I BUILT my desktop from scratch, it is a top of the line high end beast of a machine... Buy something like it from Dell or Alienware and you are talking $5-8K... I built it for $1500 ($2k if you count the video cards I cannibalized from my old PC). Less than a 3rd of the cost of a company built system. So yeah, anyone who wants a PC can have one when you put that together with the other various ways I mentioned that you can get one.

(02-09-2011 06:01 PM)Russ Wrote:  Fair enough. Still, you can't expect games to always be available on the most popular formats. There's gotta be some incentive for people to spend money on those other devices, so they try to provide things that you can't get elsewhere. If every bit of software for the XBox, PS3, or ipad was also available on PC, it might be pretty hard to market them. I guess this is why some people predict the death of game consoles in the near future? Heck, they're already starting to basically be little computers, complete with hard drives and internet capabilities.

I understand that, I do. But it is still nothing more than corporate greed. People are still going to buy the new consoles and gadgets and phones regardless of what is exclusive or not. Most PS players are always going to buy the newest PS, but many won't get the new XBox of Nintendo... Same goes for the Nintendo and XBox users. Only a small handful of people worldwide (comparably) will buy 2 or all 3... And they are the serious gamers who occasionally pay bills late cause of the new system.

Exclusivity is the corporate way to make more money so their billion dollar company becomes a trillion dollar company. And they are already amongst the richest people in the world... do they really need that much more? Most of them already own a house that you could fit all of ours in combined, a boat bigger than my house, 18 cars and they are one person maybe with a wife and a few kids...

This is a world of excess. Where people think the more money you have the more important you are. It's sad really. I have little money, and I am treated by many as more important to them than much anything else. I hear daily of how so-and-so doesn't know what they'd do if I wasn't around to help them or talk to them. Personally, I don't think I am all that important. But I am not the one who makes that determination, they are, so I accept that to them I am important. And I have nothing to offer others save for my friendship, some friendly words of advice, and a little counseling when they don't understand or are hurting. I can't pay their bills or buy them things... I have no money... But in many ways I am richer than any CEO of a company.