They have to protect their brands. If they dont then a court can some day rule they don’t own the brand. Think Jello.

I really wish I could remember the name of that short story. I thought it was called the Lottery. The principal behind it is that everyone can go to an ATM of sorts and cast a vote AGAINST someone that has wronged them. If someone gets three votes cast against them they are “removed” from the planet (killed.) <spoiler>

Just to clarify some good points you make; piracy isn’t going to affect the dev team. They’ve already been paid their slave wages and are working on something new now. Most “bonuses” are tied to hitting delivery deadlines not sales numbers. The people higher up and Nintendo themselves would “worry” about the piracy.…

Would you say there is a difference between Prestigious and High Quality? University of Central Florida is a Public University which has one of the best Computer Science and Computer Vision courses in the US. I’m wondering what the Private Prestigious version of UCF is?

Which is playing the game of Japanese politics. Everyone could tell he was reading from a teleprompter, right? Nintendo has NEVER been known to be a happy place to work. Making video games at large production, design, creation studios (which Nintendo is all three) is dreadful. At some point the only way to survive is…

Is this real? I was waiting for a really bad joke. Hell, my own wife jokes about me getting a day without a woman as being peace and quiet. Somehow what we all know to be true is non ok to joke about. It’s not derogatory.. it’s a joke for one. And two, any time there is more than yourself it’s bound to not be quiet.…

It’s quite simple. The game doesn’t really begin until you reach max level AND a certain iLvl. Running dungeons is a great way to reach both. If it costs someone $20 to run through dungeons for an hour with these “better” players, it can be well worth it. A lot of players would make more money by paying someone to…

Your post while powerful may be missing important contextual information. It seems some agree and some don’t. Perhaps you could clarify the statements with some context and specify who the pronouns are meant to represent.

So a person saw this photo and thought, wow I’d really like to grow up to not have the courage to stop these people during an attack but be “brave” enough to take their picture so they can be forever remembered? Anyone else see something horribly wrong with this?

This girl had no idea what was going on when she was told she couldn’t play BECAUSE she was a girl. Her dad was sexist right from the start. Treating his daughter like some invilate female that can’t understand its just a game. In his own words if he had a som instead they’d be playing right now.

Ah yes the troppe of women getting kidnapped. If only that troppe would die. We should inform the international sex trade industry to start kidnapping more men. And for the Indian Deviants to abuse the male spouses of the couple’s that go on vacation to India.

They don’t do it for the money. Sure actors get money. Developers on games don’t. I can earn twice as much in Business to Business markets than in video games. Those developers are doing it because they’re passionate about it. They want their name on the game. The turn over is high. Once they wake up and realize it’s…

Unionizing developers is not the answer. Unions today are the same thing. So instead of being treated like crap by the producer now it’s the Union. And on top of that you’ll have Union dues, have politics to deal with and cant “over perform” as it would make everyone else look bad.

How much did you smoke today because I think it’s time to put it down.. publisher’s are being discriminated against? No one has ever attempted to make that argument.. and there’s a very good reason for that.

Wow.. You think developers who “have made it” don’t struggle like ones who haven’t? Have you ever worked in the video game industry? There’s no such thing as a developer who’s made it. They all struggle and all are treated as commodities that can easily be replaced. Wake up and realize it’s the producers. The one’s…

Did you read something besides what he said in this article? Because he said the exact opposite of what you’re insinuating. In my opinion, he said this strike should be about the developers and designers as well, because without them there would be no game.

Did I miss something? The strike is about Video Games not Audio Books. I believe Narrator’s of Audio Books do get the deals they want. They’re not in this equation. I’ve never once purchased a video game because of a known actor voicing a part. However, I will concede that poor voice overs in a game can significantly…

Sure.. those players should have stayed in school and learned statistics and how to create a Standard Deviation. The only way cheats will ever work and not get a player banned is if they’re used by subpar players looking to be ranked in the middle. Anything else and math gives them away.

What? Please rephrase.. an uncomfortable and harassed anonymous person doesn’t report why again? Perhaps it’s because most people realize this isn’t really life and nothing actually happened... and you can block people.. if you’re constantly getting harassed by the same person it’s your fault. One inappropriate…

Seriously? You’d want a FEMALE player banned for having sex with a MALE MMO player? Are you actually on Earth right now?