by Ice Cream Jonsey » Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:24 pm
I understand now. So apparently, someone took the iso for Star Control II, turned it into a self-extracting .exe file for zero savings, and then rarred it for zero savings and put it on Usenet, where I got it.
I'm not even being sarcastic. This does happen. Dumb fucks. Even when they are unpaid fourteen year olds, the distributors for video games find a way to fuck it up. On the other hand, the guys who threw this version of SC2 out there immediately got offered management positions with 2K Games.
In other console news:
"Mr. Tretton conceded that removing that capability, along with a few other features, isn't dramatically reducing Sony's cost of manufacturing the console but will instead encourage buyers of the entry-level PlayStation 3 to purchase more games designed specifically for the new system."
I don't follow any of this, because I buy a console five years after the fact, if at all. But this is pretty funny. There's already no reason to get a Playstation 3, but now they've made it so that, if you DID have some PS2 games you'll now need to scour the used electronics stores for them...
and, the only compelling thing for the PS3, the back library of PS2 games, is gone.
You wonder how people get into position to make these kinds of decisions, but then you don't, because who gives a shit? There are dumb people everywhere.
I understand now. So apparently, someone took the iso for Star Control II, turned it into a self-extracting .exe file for zero savings, and then rarred it for zero savings and put it on Usenet, where I got it.
I'm not even being sarcastic. This does happen. Dumb fucks. Even when they are unpaid fourteen year olds, the distributors for video games find a way to fuck it up. On the other hand, the guys who threw this version of SC2 out there immediately got offered management positions with 2K Games.
In other console news:
[quote]"Mr. Tretton conceded that removing that capability, along with a few other features, isn't dramatically reducing Sony's cost of manufacturing the console but will instead encourage buyers of the entry-level PlayStation 3 to purchase more games designed specifically for the new system."[/quote]
I don't follow any of this, because I buy a console five years after the fact, if at all. But this is pretty funny. There's already no reason to get a Playstation 3, but now they've made it so that, if you DID have some PS2 games you'll now need to scour the used electronics stores for them... [i]and[/i], the only compelling thing for the PS3, the back library of PS2 games, is gone.
You wonder how people get into position to make these kinds of decisions, but then you don't, because who gives a shit? There are dumb people everywhere.