The game industry is now over a $50 billion dollar business. In the case of nationwide companies, producing games that have bugs in them -- games that the customers will return, means losing millions of dollars, and likely jobs. If you buy a new MMORPG that crashes every time your character jumps while running, chances are you will not like the game and tell all of your friends not to buy it
Last posted 7/7, 2008 Most recent updates to the FAQs (since the 7/7/2008 posting): 1. FAQ 27 - Crosslinked to FAQs 54, 46, and 6, and my IGDA column. 2. FAQ 1 - Deleted the old newsgroup links and replaced them with current good forum links. 3. Links Page - Added link to David Sirlin's page about playing to win, thanks to Oskar. Added http://forums.indiegamer.com/ thanks to Dan Marchant
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:21:18 -0400, tar~bal wrote: (somewhat clipped for readability) Early in the discussion I clearly stated: Look, I'm not for new laws by any means. In fact, I couldn't care less if it is enforced or not. I think that the ratings are good guides for parents to evaluate what games their kids get. If my son comes home with a game
On Fri, 30 May 2008 08:13:37 -0400, tar~bal wrote: "KK" <_KK_@furburger.net> wrote in message news:pan.2008.05.29.20.25.47.984241@furburger.net... On Thu, 29 May 2008 15:23:26 -0400, tar~bal wrote: "KK" <_KK_@furburger.net> wrote in message news:pan.2008.05.29.18.54.32.574227@furburger.net... On Thu, 29 May 2008 14:44:13 -0400, tar~bal wrote: Ya
"KK" <_KK_@furburger.net> wrote in message news:pan.2008.05.29.20.25.47.984241@furburger.net... On Thu, 29 May 2008 15:23:26 -0400, tar~bal wrote: "KK" <_KK_@furburger.net> wrote in message news:pan.2008.05.29.18.54.32.574227@furburger.net... On Thu, 29 May 2008 14:44:13 -0400, tar~bal wrote: Ya know, for all your effort, you have yet to produce a reason why
