Posts by -Stratesiz-

  • Plan of Attack

    Well times have changed. Back in the days when the first beta for CS was released, competition was minimal compared to what it is now. People were inexperienced, everything new was cool and innovative. It didn't take much effort to get a custom cs map get played online on a full server. Today, it's next to impossible.

    As people gained experience the overall quality was pushed forward, giving birth to such mods as NS.

    The world today, however, is different. The number of mods being worked on is tenfold. The HL1 engine was taken to the max and since source has pretty much the same tools, the average mod quality standard is by far higher and so it the tolerance level. People are more demanding and critical thanks to increased competition. First impressions play a much higher role now. A first release must offer more for it to succeed.

  • Serious toughts for gamers

    Also referred to as first-mover disadvantages~ The first company spends all its money on creating a market, promoting and establishing a product offering, educating customers, creating technology, etc. These are called pioneering costs. Once the company has done all the hard work, the late entrants crush it. This is actually quite common in all markets.

    Business is fun!~

  • Serious toughts for gamers

    Product/technology standardization is a win-win situation for both companies and customers. There are some key factors, such as backward compatibility, that facilitate standardization.

    The problem is that companies want first-mover advantages by creating their own technology, hoping it would be the next standard. They would then sell licenses of these copyrighted/patented products/processes to competitors. They would also have a cost advantage because of greater experience.

  • Prey Screenshots

    Oh my! Yet another super original scifi horror fps with scary biomechanical monsters in dark, futuristic, shiny, and unique hallways! People are sooo original these days. Why didn't think of replacing those boring limbs with guns?! Why have arms when you can have a grenade launcher instead? Brilliant!

  • The latest High-school massacre

    Quote from RD

    Actually that is the opposite, top5 most highesr rated countries by crime are "USA, Germany, UK, France and South Africa" not what you actually say poor countries. Sure when we go down the list we come across countries that have high poverty count, like Chile, Mexico, India and Thailand.

    If we look at general murder statistics then the chart show something different, but still countries like Russia, USA and South Africa are on top 10. Still we see good rotting on the "rich"countries (is the definition of rich by amount of rich people or general pool of money that the people in the country has in their disposal).

    U know ofcourse that they dont keep charts in poor countries, and when killings, rapes, massacres and kidnappings occur there, theyre not called crimes, but war, a crisis or just ignored because its normal there and there is no justice system. South Africa is a safe place compared to half a dozen countries on the same continent, whatever your charts say

    True as well~