Posts by sabroni 4140 publicly visible posts • joined 11 May 2007
Not among the devs I work with you're not. All the cool kids seem to think command lines are ace and user interfacers are loser interfaces.
I've been doing this long enough to remember when the command line was the only option so I'm much happier with a UI.
Jimbot bud, no-one wants to read a balanced and fair description of why this might actually be a good idea.
Read the room.
This is an outrageously stupid decision that is purely marketing led and designed to make normal users suffer.
See? Easy when you know absolutely fuck all about the subject!
How do these motherfuckers keep a straight face when coming out with this bollocks?
We're going to make better games by getting rid of people. That only makes sense if you've been hiring people to fuck stuff up.
You're streamlining your company operations because it's the only way you fucktards know to make the share price go up.
Making better games so the price goes up is much trickier, the public might not like what you make even after you've spent millions on it.
But the market ALWAYS loves it when the plebs take a kicking.
And yet the management don't seem to be able to make a profit without firing loads of people.
Almost like they are incompetent brunchlords who've failed upwards and are now fucking up the whole company.
Wouldn't expect El Reg to spot something like that, too busy licking the hand the feeds IT....
Security is hard because it's the one bit where you're making your system NOT work. All the other code is trying to make things happen and your security code tries to stop stuff happening but only for some users. Of course it's easier to fuck that up, we spend nearly all our time trying to make systems work, breaking them is special cases while still working perfectly for most is a much trickier ask.
You must be a youngster, you still have faith in human nature and you think because the deal is bad people will reject it.
The vast majority of people will either i) just put with the ads or ii) pay the 2.99 to go back to where they were.
Enough will pay the 2.99 that this is seen as a success and they'll try it again in a few months.
I would really love to be wrong on this but look at recent history. Netflix made a much bigger deal about password sharing than Amazon did about being Ad free, it was part of their original marketting that sharing passwords was good. And yet very few people cancelled their netflix subs when they started cracking down. I don't see why this would work out any differently.
And if you have the original DVD then you're not dissapointed like when you go to stream something you love (eg. the scene in Men Behaving Badly where Tony comes back from the pub and is shouting "Debra, I fucking love you!" in the garden) only to find some killjoy has beeped the swearing and ruined the joke.
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