Embarrassing question

[Calax]

I just wanted to mention that currently people seem to be developing games with the steam architecture in mind. EG, you HAVE to have steam to run these games (Anything from Valve, FEAR2, DOW2 are the major ones I can think of off the top of my head) and thus I believe that they won't shut down Steam for a long while because they don't want to anger the customers and loose a significant portion of their market.

[Hurlshort]

I just wanted to mention that currently people seem to be developing games with the steam architecture in mind. EG, you HAVE to have steam to run these games (Anything from Valve, FEAR2, DOW2 are the major ones I can think of off the top of my head) and thus I believe that they won't shut down Steam for a long while because they don't want to anger the customers and loose a significant portion of their market.

 

When have they ever just shut down a server for a major company like that? People worry too much.

[Mamoulian War]

I just wanted to mention that currently people seem to be developing games with the steam architecture in mind. EG, you HAVE to have steam to run these games (Anything from Valve, FEAR2, DOW2 are the major ones I can think of off the top of my head) and thus I believe that they won't shut down Steam for a long while because they don't want to anger the customers and loose a significant portion of their market.

 

When have they ever just shut down a server for a major company like that? People worry too much.

 

I posted two links few posts ago about MS and Sony shutting down their DRM servers, it would be not 1st time when obsolete bussiness was shot down when new one emerged to save money.

Edited February 12, 2009 by Mamoulian War

[Calax]

I just wanted to mention that currently people seem to be developing games with the steam architecture in mind. EG, you HAVE to have steam to run these games (Anything from Valve, FEAR2, DOW2 are the major ones I can think of off the top of my head) and thus I believe that they won't shut down Steam for a long while because they don't want to anger the customers and loose a significant portion of their market.

 

When have they ever just shut down a server for a major company like that? People worry too much.

 

I posted two links few posts ago about MS and Sony shutting down their DRM servers, it would be not 1st time when obsolete business was shot down when new one emerged to save money.

Except that those appeared to be in the Music sector rather than the games side of things. You present those and I reverse with Itunes (which is still going strong). The biggest thing about Music micro transactions is that people are putting them on their Ipods mainly, or their computer. The former can only get songs from Itunes (as far as I know, I wouldn't understand why it would take a competitors music) and the latter probably would just pirate the music anyway.

 

Games are different in that there isn't ONE set unit that is used primarily as your player. Instead all computers can use steam and thus have an ultimately larger market share than either of the servers you posted could probably hope to reach.

[Hurlshort]

I remember Wall-mart shutting down part of its music servers, but that was because they were changing format and they gave plenty of advance notice so users could adapt to the new model. Didn't Sony and MSN run subscription services, where you access the whole music library for a flat monthly fee? It's not surprising that eventually that type of service would end and you would no longer have access to the songs. I'd be pretty sore if I bought individual songs.

 

But Steam is an entirely different business model, as Calax explained well.

[taks]

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agreed, but you'll never get MC to sign on for this.

 

taks

[Humodour]

Well, perhaps not.

 

I've never bought a whole big ol' game online before, and am considering doing it. I'm not as IT literate as you lot, so how does it work? Can I burn a copy so I actually have something tangible? What if the download is interrupted? Etc.

 

I've got a pretty vanilla wireless broadband internet connection - any issues there?

 

Please don't move this to the tech forum. It's scary, and full of people who talk in 1's and 0's.

 

Cheers

MC

 

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011011110010000001101101011000010110101101100101011100110010000001101101011001010

010000001110111011001010111010000101110001000000100100100100000011101110110111101

101110011001000110010101110010001000000110100101100110001000000110100001100101001

001110110110001101100001000000110100001100001011101100110010100100000011011010111

10010010000001100010011000010110001001101001011001010111001100101110

[Maria Caliban]

<snip>

 

*spews tea at the monitor*

Edited February 15, 2009 by Maria Caliban

[Monte Carlo]

<snip>

 

*spews tea at the monitor*

 

I suppose you all think mocking the illiterate person is funny?

[Musopticon?]

01001011011100100110010101111010011000010110001101101011001000000110100101110011

00100000011000010110110001110011011011110010000001101111011011100110010100100000

011010000110111101110100001000000111001101110100011101010110010000101110

Edited February 16, 2009 by Musopticon?

[Pidesco]

I thought you loved me.

[Gfted1]

Huh, I just decoded that. Imagine my surprise that binary somehow converts to text! Cool.

[mkreku]

Huh, I just decoded that. Imagine my surprise that binary somehow converts to text! Cool.

What, you need a translator to read binary? Weak.

[Gorgon]

I thought it was morse code or something

[Purkake]

I thought it was morse code or something

 

Are you people new to the internet or something?

 

When did binary stop being cool and geeky?

[Gorgon]

Huh, I just decoded that. Imagine my surprise that binary somehow converts to text! Cool.

What, you need a translator to read binary? Weak.

And you of course have all the ASCII codes memorised.

 

How does binary translate to numeral.

[Deadly_Nightshade]

I thought it was morse code or something

 

...---... is not 01110011 01101111 01110011.

 

[Gorgon]

Morse code is binary. Long and short is all there is.

[Calax]

I thought it was morse code or something

 

...---... is not 01110011 01101111 01110011.

 

I'd guess that ...---... is 000111000 or it's inverse but that's just me.

[Gfted1]

Huh, I just decoded that. Imagine my surprise that binary somehow converts to text! Cool.

What, you need a translator to read binary? Weak.

 

I wear ribbons of shame.

 

I thought it was morse code or something

 

...---...

 

 

 

Ha, I actually know that one, SOS (Save Our Ship).

[Mamoulian War]

Actualy save our souls

[Gfted1]

Were both right.

[Gorgon]

My brother used to go around talking to himself in morse code while preparing for some kind of seaman qualification, back in the days morse code was still required. 'Di daa di daa daa daa di'. Drove the rest of us crazy.

[alanschu]

My brother was a ham radio operator and god was it annoying when he would start talking via morse code around the world at 7 AM!!!

[mkreku]

I was a long wave radio operator in the army, we had to learn Morse. 80 signs per minute or something like that.. And since some signs can be up to five beeps long, that's an awful lot of beeps in one minute.