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FROM SHONNER'S STUDIOBASICALLY JUST SOME RANTS AS THEY OCCUR.
May 15 First Car WashToday I washed my car for the first time since I've had it. It's been almost a year. So it's not like I'm a total slacker or anything. But since I have SHONNER as my license plate, I should at least make the vehicle it's attached to look somewhat presentable. If someone asks, "Did you get a new car, or something?" I'll know the muscle pain was worth it. I Really Should Cut Down On My Impulse ShoppingNot even a month ago I was at Wal-Mart with a sudden urge to buy a webcam. Microsoft's LifeCam VX-3000 looked like the ticket. I figured if it worked, I'd get my money's worth.
So I used it once or twice that day. It did the job. Last night I needed to use it again. No doing. Lots of static in the image. 16 colors seemed to be the most I could get out of the thing. Long story short, it's in the dumpster and the LifeCam software is un-installed. May 08 Making Supreme Commander Play More RealisticallyI thought I'd start playing Supreme Commander again after over a year of ignoring it. And I slowed its game speed down to -7 just to see if the units moved more realistically instead of using the normal speed that allowed units to race across maps everywhere in seconds. May 07 Infogrames Finally Finished Its SupperATARI just had the rest of its company swallowed whole by Infogrames. I don't think ATARI knew what it had been doing for the last ten years. I'm guessing the company didn't even need to be numbed first. THQ Is Caught Acting StupidTHQ reported losing over 35 million dollars so far this year. It's not rocket science to figure out that if you have a lousy web site which you use to provide horrible software support, that skilled Interweb users will go elsewhere for their online playing and game buying. Company of Heroes is a great game. But a controlling software company has to allow other titles it owns to succeed just as much, rather than hoping to live off the income forever from its first hit.
Supreme Commander and its Forged Alliance so-called "expansion" game are both heading to the bargain bin already because both games were designed for PC's that no gamer owned yet in order to play them. Word-of-mouth was, these games won't run on your brand new computer you just bought because it's not fast enough.
Advertising Forged Alliance as being a stand-alone game was another fatal software blunder. In reality, the $39 Supreme Commander was still required to get the $39 worth of playing time out of Forged Alliance for $78 total. A rather high price for a computer game that couldn't be played on one's own computer anyway.
Why a software company invents speedbumps and other obstacles to prevent their customers, who have been waiting for years to play their new game, from buying their products is beyond me.
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