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What's up with all the modding?
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9. June 2006 @ 20:54 |
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gsuscrazy
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15. June 2006 @ 04:26 |
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argue argue argue...lol...
some people, although not legally, nor wisely, mod systems to "steal" a game.
others, simply use it to run homebrew games, or to copy an owned game, and store the original away for safekeeping.
either reason, it all comes down to this...
if we mod, we have our own reasons. no need to point a finger at someone, cuz ya got 4 pointin right back at you.
I remember when dinosaurs roamed the land
I remember when thinkin the earth is flat was cool...
but most of all...i remember when the Apple ruled the schools...GO NUMBER MUNCHERS!!!
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18. June 2006 @ 17:57 |
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I see there's a lot of argument here, and I've only skimmed over it, because it is a waste.
Modding can be used for good or bad. It can be used to enhance a system's progress(IMO, the PSP is a perfect example, look at all the homebrew, emulators, etc.), or to kill it(Does anybody remember how the Dreamcast sales went from average to DEAD almost overnight when a group learned how to play burned discs without any mod or boot-disc whatsoever?).
I hope that the modding community on this system thrives. But I also hope that it encourages legal activities. I love turning on an XBox, checking the weather, getting trailers, and browsing the web on w/firefox on linux. How cool is that? And all on my HDTV, not a huge one, mind you, but a decent enough size. I look forward to more 360 developments, because I see it's computational potential. I am imagining emulators, full linux or even windows installations, and a bigger hdd capacity. Imagine getting the new WoW expansion, and installing it under your windows partition on your modded 360, to play on full settings, no lag, on your wonderful HDTV. All with a system that fully handles all of it with little or no lag whatsoever, because of a triple core 3.2Ghz processor? I don't care that it has 512mb ram. The chip's onboard cache and triple core are enough to convince me it will run just about anything I want it to, easily.
I hope it thrives, and I hope it does so legally. That's my two cents.
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27. June 2006 @ 13:59 |
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i'm an idiot for posting comments that i shouldn't have as i tried to start a flame war. edited by ddp
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27. June 2006 @ 15:48 |
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XbOxOwNeR, edit your last post before i do & suffer the consequences!!
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27. June 2006 @ 16:09 |
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Really, that's just unwanted spamming, with no reasoning. It's unnapropriate, I'm surprised he wasn't just banned to begin with.
I don't see how someone with that attitude made it past 'newbie' status so quickly without getting banned. ...Strange.
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28. June 2006 @ 01:46 |
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what about people who rent the game....then "back it up" Aren't they contributing a little to the game industry? I would think they were contributing more than just a person that buys the really popular games and rents the rest. The one who keeps them will be more likely to rent another game from that developer, company, ect. Anyway, I also think this forum is mainly for "backing up" so those of you soooo totally against piracy, go picket or something. For real, I'll let you stand outside my house with a sign saying "Stop piracy now" if it will keep you off this forum where Id like to find useful information and not people crying.
Signed,
An ignorant person that saves a lot of money
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cypha79
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28. June 2006 @ 02:07 |
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I get everyone of my systems modded. Originally for import gaming only. I didn't have any backups until recently. I have a 3 year old sun who loves to play with my games. Hoever I don't backup and "cheap games" only my games I just buy and when the price goes down I toss the backup.
I was one of you guys before "backups my ass your a thief" now I realise I need to backup some. If the game is cheap enough to replace I just don't bother with it.
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28. June 2006 @ 07:46 |
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@mfrink
Unfortunately for the industry, no. You aren't helping them one bit. Rental companies do not rent based upon a royalties system. When you rent another copy, you only help the rental store. And after working at a rental store for two years, I learned about how they operate. The store brings in a fair amount of business, particularly on games, pays it's rent, etc, and the rest goes to corporate who sends out paychecks.
Now, the amount sent from each store and the amount received for paychecks is not nearly comparable to what is put into the company by the store.
A lot of people have questioned this for years, and it comes down to the board. They don't need any more money than they have. Now, by no means are they financially stable. But business isn't the problem. The problem is idiots making poor decisions from a buearaucratic standpoint. These companies are not managing their money well. Hollywood was bought out in the last year by the number two chain in the nation, 'Movie Star' and Blockbuster is circling the drain. Their board members all left in january, selling their stock at a fraction of it's estimated worth, then immediately being replaced by the next highest shareholders, who left within two weeks. The company is in some bad territory, and not due to lack of business. Before I quit, they had me working an entire store by myself for literally 6 hours straight without another employee there for relief. This meant that one employee could hold the store and do hundreds, sometimes over $1000 in transactions by themself in the store. I don't know how labor laws are elsewhere, but that's illegal here. I went through the trouble of getting compensation, but most employees won't.
Anyways, my point to this long, drawn out rant, is that these companies are not giving extra payoff of any kind to the game industry, they buy the games, based off of what some idiot in the corporate office thinks will sell well (Explaining why we received 350 copies of catwoman, and twelve copies of pirates of the carribean.) Then they send them to the stores. The corp offices never pay any mind to which games rent better than others, they still figure success in the games industry is merely a fluke. And your rental choice will not even affect the companies future buying decisions.
The big summary is no. Renting a video game does not in any way, shape, or form help the industry.
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28. June 2006 @ 08:28 |
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blah blah blah someone close this thread
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