You bring up a lot of valid points, I remember trying out WoW private servers a few years back before paying for a subscription for a few months and it basically summed up the problem about the community perfectly. If something is free, then chances are it will end up having a less dedicated community simply because people…
So i continued working on it today and started making the legs also i decided to use it as a boss enemy not a regular one as i first planned because i want to put a little more detail in this one. Right now its made of 20 parts summing up 700k polys. im not sure how many polys i can use for the lowpoly one if the scene is…
Yep, $200 for 'adv diag and repair' as it's called, which means they test the hardware for defects and scan/clean spyware/viruses (95% of which is done automaticaly by the MRI disc). About 2 years ago they decided to cram most of their services into that package to force people to pay huge sums. And that's in store, can't…
It's sooo easy to borrow money when you're in college, and the predatory practices by some of these lenders are really enticing. I always got the minimum amount I needed, which was about 3k a semester. But the government offered me as much as $15k per semester. All I had to do was type in the online form how much I wanted…
He doesn't have enough. If you would have actually tried LOVE then you will know that there is nobody online the majority of the times you login, and because his interfaces aren't autocad it means you can't find your own position in the world, you dont have your own name, you can't find others in the world, there's barely…
Well, usually it's both a period of time for the job to be done and specific cost for a job you have been ordered. A racing track or a game location for example. Sometimes it's R&D projects with no strict deadline or exact number of assets still the contract is usually having the time frame and full sum is gonna be paid…
It is 1.2 million over 3 years. So it is not a one lump sum they can use all at once. So not great, but not bad either. What is the cost of time and money for a studio like Ubisoft to 100% convert over to Blender? Say, for example, Ubisoft took 4 weeks where every studio in their umbrella was 100% idled and only doing…
It looks absolutely amazing, I imagine this being used to create animated tv shows (like the way Source will be for the animated movie 'Deep' http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/06/steams-source-engine-to-power-upcoming-animated-film/), but I can't get excited. Rockpapershotgun's bit today sums up my views pretty well…
But have you ever experienced a Purkinje shift in a game (especially a colorful one like Quake or UT where it would be very obvious)? Unless you have your cones are still working fine and doing their job, and the blue-shift is irrelevant. From the full study you linked: " In sum, these studies generally concur that the…
Yup, but that is also a built in solution in the DRM.... No game will be abandoned without support when the userbase has diminished. :] "understand the need to combat piracy, as their revenues are affected as well." Yes, of course their revenue is affected. More piracy = less PC sales. If gamestop can sell more games, they…