Edge Online (http://www.edge-online.com/blogs/the-gamers-bill-rights) posted the new Gamer's Bill of Rights, as proposed by Gas Powered Games and Stardock.
Let's hope this dream eventually becomes reality.
Looks interesting. Now, if only those were laws...
Doesn't seem to be related to open source games.
All I expect is not to get a virus from this, everything else is a gift :D
Sounds good to me, but of course it would mostly be smaller companies who would follow this, as big companies like EA most likely won't give a damn because they know enough people will buy their games anyways.
Quote from: Lava Croft
Fucking hippies.
#2 Gamers shall have the right to demand that games be released in a finished state.
#3 Gamers shall have the right to expect meaningful updates after a game's release.
define: finished
1. ended or completed.
2. completed or perfected in all details, as a product: to pack and ship finished items.
3. polished to the highest degree of excellence: a dazzling and finished piece of writing.
4. highly skilled or accomplished: a finished violinist.
5. condemned, doomed, or in the process of extinction: The aristocracy was finished after the revolution.
6. (of livestock) fattened and ready for market.
you can not have updates when a game is released in a finished state.
Quote from: ampul on September 04, 2008, 04:51:21 PM
you can not have updates when a game is released in a finished state.
New maps, new gamemodes, to name a few. These can all be supplied via
meaningful updates,
while the released game still remains a finished game.
update , common used is patch, so: not finished. add-on would be a better word to use.
you know my native tongue, lava. i do understand what meaningful updates are about. it just sounded weird and inconsistent to me. thanks to sort this out.
when reading the gamer's bill i remembered a mod my brother made for bf vietnam: http://www.pimp-city.tk/ (http://www.pimp-city.tk/) (site is no more updated, the project is finished = ended)
bf1942 and sequels were games with tons of patch/updates etc.
btw, laminating is a correct verb.