The people over at ars technica wrote an article on how EA will revamp Battlefield with a free, ad-supported version. Keywords here: revamp and ad-supported. How can you take a game such as Battlefield 1942 (for example) and ad-support it? well, here it goes:
Just imagine walking around and finding an apple sticker on a Humvee window =)
Recently I’ve been reading around on how some game developers are no longer supporting the PC platform, and PC game sales are going lower by the day. I just have to jump onboard the wagon on this one. So here it is: the main reason I stopped gaming on my PC is hardware cost.
Every time a new game came out, not only did I have to pay for the game itself but also run to a PC part store and upgrade the video card, more ram, etc. Well I maybe exaggerating but at least two or three times a year you had to fork out a bunch of greens. Sum it up and your rig was costing you way more than you originally planned to. It was nice when you were younger and every single dime that fell in your hands was immediately used or saved for the sole purpose of upgrading your PC, but well, for me and many of you out there things change and suddenly it doesn’t make any sense anymore to spend all that money on upgrading frequently.
Then there is the configuration. Not only did you have to spend your money but also time, face it, I did it, and you still do it, we spend over an hour tweaking the game in order to get it to run smoothly with our setup.
I had never been a console guy, the last console I owned (and still do) was the original NES, nevertheless I got myself a Wii this year, It is great fun and I know every game I get will run on it as it was intended to. You can actually buy a game to do what it was exactly meant to do: have fun. I may even be getting an xbox360 later on.
Ok wtf… I was browsing some website which I won’t reveal its name, and suddenly I get bombarded with six of these:
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Between all the flashy goodness of the ad(s) I thought to myself: does anyone still click on these types of ads? or whatever you want to call them ’cause I certainly will not call them ads. Oh and by the way website people, am I the 999,999th visitor to the site or the 10,000th ? I started smelling something fishy right there and that’s where you lost my click =)
Get over the brown. Seriously guys… it just looks plain outdated. I keep seeing all these mockups for the new release all over the net which to me not only look exactly the same but are plain fugly. Ubuntu is a great OS, I love it, I have it in every computer I own, but first thing I do when I install it is change de default appearance, the brown/orangey theme just sucks. Let’s try and make a whitish, grayish, bluish theme, those are more desktop colors, nicer on the eyes and go with any wallpaper you throw at your screen. (Via Digg)
Don't mess with me, or I keel youuu =)
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