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So the USA is one of the most productive countries because it is not allowed to play games during launch time? What "crap" do you get done during launch breaks?
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Eating lunch is to give you energy to get your work done, it has nothing to do with playing video games on a computer at work that could be played during hours while you are NOT ON LUNCH.
Here is a clue, read this article. Although its not talking directly about video games it is talking about net access, however the same principle applies here...
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1) Compare the growth of video game markets in the 1990s with the growth now.
2) I remember playing Doom 1 on a relatively out-dated AMD processor and it ran well.
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Try running Doom on a 386 with 2 megs of ram, oh wait you can see frames flipping. Here is the deal, it took a high end 486 at the time to run Doom, sure you can run it with a outdated AMD processor now, but back then it was luxury to have a 486 run the game.
Also sure the growth in video games is bigger today, no doubt about that. I am not debating that though. You can still have a break through title that sells through to the hardcore players. Look at Counter Strike, that wouldn't be that hard to create in Dark Basic Pro at the moment and you would have a crowd of hard core Counter Strike folks follow your game if you pulled it off correctly.
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He's 40 although I'm not sure what age has got do with it. And as I said: "he hardly plays games at all". No Playstation, XBox, Dreamcast or any other console.
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Well thats one person, show me more than just someone you know. I personally don't know anyone and I have just only now heard of one person. wow, you have expanded your userbase by one person, oh wait, does he actually play or care about YOUR games. Other than a testing buddy just to test your games? Does he know how to download games off the Internet and install them?
Let me give you a hint, most people like him, will basically only play with windows's built in games and not download or install games at all and they usually get their kids the gaming consoles.
Its usually not older folks that play games, its possible and its becoming even more likely, but its also more likely that those people like me who played Asteroids and such are getting older and buying a nice system just to play Doom 3.
It is highly unlikely that a person with a really old computer or a office machine with no sound card, etc.. is really that into games to make a difference, as I pointed out with my dad, he doesn't care about gaming and has more important things to do and considers gaming a waste of time.
Now there are hardcore users and casual users and users who don't care about games at all and office environments which are not set up for gaming because there is no point in it.
Its okay to target the hardcore and the casual users, but beyond that is a waste of time, no matter how big the market that YOU THINK it is. The key is "YOU THINK". Just because your game will run on any machine doesn't mean it will and most cases it won't.
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Great, big deal.
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Well, in this thread you're the only one who makes silly statements. Or insult people most of the time. You don't have a lot of friends, have you? I mean real friends.
Whatever, live your little life in your own little world. I can't be bothered to post here anymore.
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Yes, I have friends in real life and we have grown up through high school and college. The thing that they arn't clueless either.
I mean anyone who says something like what Heartbone said, sounds like a two year old having a fit because Microsoft is doing well and he can't stand it, so he has to make up stuff.
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oh, wait, right after I saved this message, I got the BSOD. Micro$oft sucks!! Linux forever!!!!
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Some people are so biased to the point of being idiotic, well I rest my case.
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