GameSpy has a whimsical, multi- (really multi-) panel cartoon depicting the great circle of life as it pertains to games.
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GP: Thanks to sharp-eyed GamePolitics correspondent Andrew Eisen for the tip...
NyuRena: You nailed it James! Yikes..06/18/2013 - 1:56pm
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james_fudge: With MS willing to share with the government, an always listening device should give everyone pause.06/18/2013 - 1:37pm
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james_fudge: you can't turn off the Microphone on the Kinect and it has to be plugged in. It's not rocket science.06/18/2013 - 1:35pm
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E. Zachary Knight: The Humble Bundle Guys just don't like me having money in my pocket do they? https://www.humblebundle.com/06/18/2013 - 1:12pm
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E. Zachary Knight: CMiner, I know that my Android camera is off unless I am using an application that turns it on. Same with the microphone.06/18/2013 - 12:38pm
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CMiner: Can you turn off the camera on an iPhone? Like, -really- turn it off, not just change a setting that -tells- you the camera is off?06/18/2013 - 12:13pm
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james_fudge: when they make it a requirement, yes they are06/18/2013 - 12:10pm
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CMiner: I just don't think Microsoft bears any more (or less) responsibility for privacy with its Kinect camera than do the makers of laptops or smartphones with integrated cameras.06/18/2013 - 12:00pm
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Imautobot: The ability to operate the console without the camera is key. It's a peripheral, not directly integrated into the console, and yet it behaves as if it is. Thankfully I don't have kids, and won't have an Xbone either.06/18/2013 - 11:49am
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CMiner: Oh, I agree that the decision to make the kinect mandatory/always listening is terrible.06/18/2013 - 11:48am
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E. Zachary Knight: CMiner, and the easier the provider makes to do such things, the better. The fact that the XBone will not even funtion without it plugged in and turned on in some fashion makes a world of difference from a PC Webcam.06/18/2013 - 11:38am
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CMiner: It takes steps on the user's part to ensure 100% privacy (unplugging, uninstalling, putting tape over it, not putting it in the kid's rooms, etc)06/18/2013 - 11:29am
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CMiner: My point is that no webcam producing company can guarantee that no one will ever ever ever be able to access video from that webcam without your knowledge and permission06/18/2013 - 11:28am
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E. Zachary Knight: Of course at that point, you are still opening up yourself to Windows zero day vulnerabilities and back doors that they are happy to share with the government before Windows users.06/18/2013 - 11:26am
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E. Zachary Knight: Cminer, I don't because I wipe the OS and reinstall something more secure, Linux. Even still, just wiping the OS and reinstalling Windows fresh removes all the bloatware PC companies install.06/18/2013 - 11:26am
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E. Zachary Knight: I agree that the Kinect requirement of the XBone has my civil liberty senses tingling. Just another nail in the coffin for me.06/18/2013 - 11:25am
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E. Zachary Knight: Honestly, I wouldn't put anything with an integrated camera in my kids' rooms. You are just asking for trouble. Of course, I am not a fan of having tvs/videogames/computers in kids rooms in general.06/18/2013 - 11:24am
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CMiner: In the case of integrated webcams on laptops, do you have the same concern that people at Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc might be spying on you?06/18/2013 - 11:24am
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E. Zachary Knight: I love awesome indie devs. Incredipede is free if you run linux! http://www.incredipede.com/linux.html Thanks @ColinNorthway You're the best.06/18/2013 - 11:23am
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Imautobot: More creepy is that the Xbox Camera can see in the dark. Now we're in Buffalo Bill territory.06/18/2013 - 11:21am
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Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
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Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
The only bit I have a problem with is the idea that a child "illegally" buys it from a store. It is not 'illegal' to sell any ESRB-rated game to a child.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Wishful thinking on the part of the artist, perhaps?
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
That comic winz
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
I'm a bit weirded out by the panel stating that a child "illegally" buys the game. Since when is it illegal to sell ANY game to a person of ANY age? (disregarding something that is pornographic or obscene, or whatever requirement is needed for it to be restricted)
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Keep in mind all of the politicians that want to make it illegal for that.
Freedom of speech means the freedom to say ANYTHING, so long as it is the truth. This does not exclude anything that might hurt someone's feelings.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Outside of the US of A there are countries that do restrict the sale of things, movies as well as games, based on age ratings.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
The cartoon's game is rated by the ESRB - that means it's going to be sold in the USA.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
But perhaps there was something else illegal about the child's purchase. Using counterfeit money, perhaps?
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
What greatness lies in half truths and smug reailties....I love it!
I am a criminal because I purchase media,I am a criminal because I use media, I am a criminal because I chose to own media..We shall remain criminals until Corporate stay's outside our bedrooms..
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Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Let's renegotiate them.
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Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
There needs to be an extra panel, squeezed in after the second: boobs are added to it.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
That would counter the "it doesn't sell" step later on. Missing the boobs is really the reason for the rest of Game's life.
The ultimate game would be a freeform world you could explore at leisure, backed up by a sweeping graphics engine and comprehensive physics simulator, armed with a gun with two settings: One which adds boobs to things, and one which sets things on fire. With Novint Falcon support.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
"The ultimate game would be a freeform world you could explore at leisure, backed up by a sweeping graphics engine and comprehensive physics simulator, armed with a gun with two settings: One which adds boobs to things, and one which sets things on fire. With Novint Falcon support."
That's a good start, your forgetting to mention one important feature though.
Do you play as a grizzled space marine?
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
>One which adds boobs to things
Boob! Headshot!
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Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Oh great, spoiler warning next time maybe. You do play as a grizzled space marine (who has lost his romantic interest) but you aren't supposed to know that until the end because you have amnesia.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Amnesia with boobs?
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Pariah?
I am a criminal because I purchase media,I am a criminal because I use media, I am a criminal because I chose to own media..We shall remain criminals until Corporate stay's outside our bedrooms..
http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Let's renegotiate them.
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http://zippydsm.deviantart.com/
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Really, the two panels you have here are the only two panels worth reading.
E. Zachary Knight
Oklahoma City Chapter of the ECA
http://www.theeca.com/chapters_oklahoma
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
OK Game Devs
Random Tower
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
I concur.
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Papa Midnight
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Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Interestingly, this is like Insomniac's take on the Spyro franchise.
"Insomniac Games President Ted Price stated in an interview about Resistance: Fall of Man that they stopped creating Spyro games because the player character, Spyro, was too limited for them to add new features and actions (Ted states, as an example, that "he didn't even have hands, he couldn't even hold a gun."
GameSnooper
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
What a sad lack of imagination this shows...
I mean, of course Spyro could hold guns! He could have them mounted to his wings or tail or something! Come on, Price, use your thinking cap! You can get guns in there somewhere! :D
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Of Course Row 4 Panel 2 answers one of the lingering questions I had from working at EB Games.
What happens to all the boxes and manuals for these games people trade in? I cannot tell you the number of games that were traded in on my shift that had no boxes and manuals. It is as if these people throw them away and keep all their games in a cd wallet.
E. Zachary Knight
Oklahoma City Chapter of the ECA
http://www.theeca.com/chapters_oklahoma
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
OK Game Devs
Random Tower
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Yeah that always confused me too; I can understand maybe a PC game but Console games where are you storing the thing?
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Judging by the condition of most disks that were brought in, they were storing them on their gravel driveway.
E. Zachary Knight
Oklahoma City Chapter of the ECA
http://www.theeca.com/chapters_oklahoma
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
OK Game Devs
Random Tower
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Agreed. Everything after that seemed excessively cynical.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Thirded.
I know the strip was grossly exaggerating everything anyway, but since when did testers 'approve' games? I can't recall any capacity for that when I was in QA anyway.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
"Testers" do not approve the code, but the QA department does approve (or deny approval it as the case may be) the code for submission to first party. They can always be overruled however....
Also, testers wouldn't be narcoleptic if they weren't forced to work 70-80 hour work weeks....just saying...
"You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it."
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
I dunno. The notion of Jack-O vowing to sue a fire brought a smile to my face.