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Comment In: Interplay acquired THQ's FreeSpace IP for just $7,500 [News - 06/07/2013 - 04:12]

7500.00 is not even close ...

7500.00 is not even close to fair market value. they could have sold it on ebay for 10x that in the worst case scenario. r n r nyou could join Star Citizen and Elite 4 on kickstarter with the Freespace name. Maybe you dont raise 2million but you could give ...

Comment In: Video Games Under Fire [Feature - 06/07/2013 - 01:00]

Very well said. r n ...

Very well said. r n r nAt one point Pitchford and Sheffield agreed that the games industry regulates itself very well. r n r nAnd of course it does not. Because if it did, it would actually be having the types of conversations you describe and would always be mindful ...

Comment In: Microsoft's official stance on used games for Xbox One [News - 06/06/2013 - 06:28]

Everyone remembers the Windows 95 ...

Everyone remembers the Windows 95 campaign and launch and everyone was full of hope. America was great. The stock market was on the rise. r n r nNow... it 's a lot harder to get excited about electronic devices and software. I hope Microsoft starts thinking more about getting people ...

Comment In: A 15-year-old critique of the game industry that's still relevant today [News - 06/05/2013 - 05:11]

art does blend with mass ...

art does blend with mass market, but people have to step up to art and be expected to do so because everyone is capable. r n r nMass entertainment products on the other hand meet people where they are and then keep them there. In fact they suppress desires to ...

Comment In: Examining the Pipeline: Demographics of Undergraduate Students Studying Games [Blog - 06/04/2013 - 12:43]

We often hear the argument: ...

We often hear the argument: r n r n The primary audience for our games is heterosexual, white, and male so of course we want to target that audience r n r nwhich almost sounds like bigotry makes good business sense but really just reveals a lack of imagination. Thinking ...

Comment In: BazaarBot: An Open-Source Economics Engine [Blog - 06/03/2013 - 09:15]

I think i mean economic ...

I think i mean economic systems as being constructed on top of behavioral systems where psychological behavior influences and limits the types of social systems that can be created.

Comment In: Zynga laying off 520 staff, shuttering multiple offices [News - 06/03/2013 - 02:54]

Interesting backlash I think to ...

Interesting backlash I think to comments which to me are very logically consistent. r n r nIf a person believes that Company A is making exploitative products, then how do you stand against the company and not against the employees who enable the company to do it 's work r ...

Comment In: An Overview of Gamification [Blog - 05/29/2013 - 12:05]

Gamification is not concerned with ...

Gamification is not concerned with teaching people anything useful. r n r nThe examples we hear of teachers using games to make learning fun is not gamification. Gamification proponents just like to latch onto those examples to gain credibility by association. Real gamification is always about . r n r ...

Comment In: Today's game industry through the lens of human history [News - 05/31/2013 - 05:11]

almost forgot, in a similar ...

almost forgot, in a similar vein of tyranny causing a nation 's growth to be stunted, Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson often relays his theory about fundamental Islam tyranny taking hold 1000 years ago in the middle east and stifling their progress. r n r nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch v 8vfOpZD4Sm8 t 2911s r ...

Comment In: The Curiosity experiment, and the church of Peter Molyneux [News - 05/30/2013 - 04:00]

optimism, pessimism, cynicism contrary to ...

optimism, pessimism, cynicism contrary to popular belief are not general states of mind. Someone can be pessimistic about some future events or outcomes and optimistic about others. They can be cynical about system X but hopeful about system Y. r n r nReferring to people as pessimists or cynics is ...

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