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yeah - that was good.
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one of the best sessions
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Nice session Alec, thanks for this experience, my first Calliflower one. :)
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Good call today Alec
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If you have the energy, engaging your game's fans is the best route to educate and convert to paying customers.
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Why are Pirates called Pirates?<br/><br/>Because they ARRRRRH!
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what % of these pirates actually end up playing your games or are you just merchandise to move
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what about games that verify themselves on the internet before runing
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or do realize they are not your customers
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asking a pirate for mercy is like asking them to pour gas on you and toss ya a match
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Generally I would steer clear of products with DRM - it introduces a higher level of complexity and stuff to go wrong!
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That link to Slashdot gives me: Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
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ciao!
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Hasta!
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My former boss Bobby Kotick is doing quite well
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I'll try to do so more often Alec
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thank you for coming back Ken!
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I have to drop off. Have a conference call in a few and need to get coffee. Nice to be able to join in here again this morning.
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I think I could live with WoW's diminished revenues
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And the challenge of a locked iPhone - too tempting to resist
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William, brings up a good point, what about going subscription based? while WoW has been exploited in various ways with hacks and virtual servers its pretty isolated
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those a re brutal Jim
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what about going to an online game model where purchase is a subscrition to play
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Branching out on this issue, Dan York reports from SpeechTEK: At #SpeechTEK, Kevin Mitnick is demonstrating the incredibly scary databases out on the Internet for finding personal info like SSN's.
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theres a huge status and ego side of the scene
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thanks Nick!
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Olympic sport - now there is an idea!
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and you get status in uploading
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Many apologies, but I have to leave for a noon appointment. If anyone has any good or bad comments re MyChoiceBot, pls don't hesitate to contact me: nickd@choicebot.com . Cheers.
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which begs the question, what is this pirate scene all about really, defeating games protection schemes, and moving files, moving newness
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there you go James
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absolutely, everything gets cracked
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So - crap games get hacked?
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heh
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(web based iPhone game we did)
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Like "Pigs A Popin"
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there are a lot of titles doing thousands of sales per month
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Of course - HACKING/CRACKING is *BAD*
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our ROI on iPhone games, based on our sales, is a matter of a few months
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never too late to deliver a great experience
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The fact that some individuals WANT to go to all the hassle of hacking a game is a sign of success - if the game was rubbish then no-one would be willing to put in the effort of hacking it
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gold rush is right :)
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and yet it make DOS a household name
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like XBox live arcade
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yep
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Remember how Gates became paranoid about software thief
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not sure either is better as both fail to support your income needs
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