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Here’s a funny thing. Some people think capitalism is a four letter word. If one company has a monopoly on too much of the whole economy then it could be, and Adam Smith, the original radical capitalist idealogue, said that government regulation is needed to prevent monopolies, and short of that the only regulations that are needed are those put in by the people’s representatives by their consent, if it can only be accomplished communally not individually. Some monopolies are legal like creative monopolies, you create a character you own the rights to it. You make us something better you, own the rights to it. But those eventually run out.
the main theory of capitalism is that if people help themselves out by helping each other out and using money as a medium for easily transferable worth, money is there so that you don’t have to help the person you need something from. it becomes more dynamic its circular nature. then any transaction between two people willingly will improve both their lives. And as a nation the less the economy is policed with the exception of the Monopoly rule, everyone from the richest of the rich to the poorest of the poor will benefit over time.
Socialism is the opposite and it does what it does well, but it’s goal is counter to capitalism. Socialism prevents one person for being too powerful, and helps the economically powerless get power. It’s a government endorsed insurance that you are mandatorily involved it. You pay a little to the government each month. And if somehow you come out hard times you get either temporary or permanent help depending on the laws of the welfare state.
Capitalism and Socialism is best described in winning the game of MULE. Before they were such things as system achievements you could video tape a game of you playing a one player game versus 3 computer opponents, then you select yourself as the weakest species: the human, you set the game on expert ,(or most complex rules,) and if you can, in the exact same game at the exact same time, be both a cooperative winner and a competitive winner, meaning being the highest of the four players and having a total worth above a very high threshold you become a Mule Skinner and get a certificate from the developers. It’s the perfect capitalist simulation and game forum. You have to be both good for yourself and good for society.
How I applied the philosophy of there could be capitalism without losers and how to economically fight a bully.
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And entrepreneurship class that was a competitive fake business simulation, and I did something just enough to get a good total. The Walmart just opened in in our town near high School and everyone was going for the low prices gimmick. I can fix our team is that while the other four teams fight for who’s the dirt cheapest, we will take a customer who is willing to pay for more get a little more, not make as many of our stuff, thinking five clones would be worse for our total business our our chances of coming ahead. than four clones and a rebel. We decide to follow our own path instead of following the lemmings off the low price cliff. The results were exactly as I predicted,. The Four Price Cutters all had success better than ours, but I was on the only last place team that made significant money. And the funny thing is for the purposes of the computer they were legally considered like stock commodities meaning a pure undifferentiated market. Meaning the first week of our product was exactly the same as the other four teams, we just worked less spent less and found a niche.
No one in previous years of that class before our group was in last place yet made money. I understood capitalism is not primarily about being number one,. It can be a little humble guy and get ahead in capitalism.
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Using that lesson we got little old intellivision Amico, and they’ve done some things that haven’t been done before. they were rallying against the big budget Hollywood like Blockbuster that cost hundreds of millions of dollars and the way they enforce that is having a $10 price limit on purchases with no other paid add-ons allowed. Also they’re about gaming for the sake of the game. so they ban pay to win and make it a game of skill or luck or strategy or reflex depending on the type of game.
Also they don’t want Gory or snuggly games, it’s already made the maximum rating E10.
These are ways to differentiate themselves from Sony and Microsoft particularly and maybe Nintendo to a degree.
Another reason why capitalism is ad much about cooperation as competition.
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if the developers had a gun and we’re legally allowed to use it and morally okay with it, they would just rob you instead of trying to make you willingly pay money for game. Just like if the gamers had a gun you could enslave the game makers to make games for their life. Using these situations the more powerful weapon wins or for about equal a gangster state is made.
Voluntary transactions that both parties seek benefit from is the core behind capitalism. Just as helping yourself is done by helping others, helping others is done by helping yourself as well.
And the thing is if one party is to monopolistic, like for example if the only place you can make a console game as Sony Microsoft and Nintendo, and Sony and Microsoft adjust the Coke and Pepsi brand of Hollywood games, a Nintendo’s just being Nintendo, then appealing people who hate MS and Sony would be a good Sega-like Strategy.
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Intellivision is going after the family and small ball games. Frankly since downloads became big, my download collection is bigger than my physical game collection. 360 was like that.b The Wii had far more physical games, but it’s consumer unfriendly refund policy made me think twice before buying digital games. It was Xbox 360 requiring try-before-you-buy to actually got me into buying some games I would have never even thought of before. Trust me, now that no system requires try-before-you-buy ( but let’s individual developers do it independently) I’ve been more often waiting for sales, and for bigger sales, and try to look up critic reviews from third-party sources.
The last game I specifically bought for the story was Batman Arkham City. Most of my games were game centered games therefore usually the smaller games.
But if you’re trying to differentiate yourself from the big three console makers then a strict policy against ads it’s not a way to go against the man, it’s a way to conform. ( Unless it’s specifically targeting free flash games as the other extreme of the marketplace.)
I don’t think commercials are the problem,Just the overuse and abuse of them are.
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The difference between a medicine and a poison can be the dose. People will tune out if the show is not worth staying for commercials to not miss. Some try creative things that incentivise watching live:
How can (Fear ) The Walking Dead justify a lot of commercials? By keeping fans hooked long enough and encouraging them to watch live by offering the talk show (Fear) The Talking Dead immediately following. if you time shift, you’re shut out of the social conversation.
WWE had a similar strategy of text-in polls that affected the matchup or stipulation of the match. but one time when they didn’t do what the people asked or they suspected it was a rigged vote, someone complain to the feds and probably forced the WWE to either live up to their promises if they appear to offer to give control of a part of the show to the fan majority or stop doing text poles all together. it’s sort of like the law that all game shows must not have fixed outcomes unless it’s obviously stated that it’s a parody or dramatic device like within a sitcom. Barry and enright got killed by that legislation. Goodson and Toddman knew that natural drama of the game as well as some good natured comedy mixed in is enough to keep a game show a hit.
As long as people are willing watch lots of commercials to avoid missing something and look like a dunce on the talking dead, more people will be more tolerant of more commercials.
But usually there’s a limit. If one channel does it alone they usually slip and ratings dollars game. all TV channels seem to do in collusion. Because they’re only offered exclusively on cable and satellite.
That’s why some content makers of linear media took it upon themselves to put their shows on pay per month services. And with high speed internet they can overstep the cable company. You’re not tied to a Time you’re not forced to watch commercials,. You just pay use repeat.
Sometimes movie Makers and TV show makers split their contract between an HD x.2 broadcaster, basic cable channel, and some internet based source.
the main reason why cable was attractive at first was you got extra stations that was unavailable on rabbit ears, but the more the internet that was fast enough to load TV in real time became available, the less viewers Cable Guy. Therefore the more ads squeezed, and became a downward perpetual cycle.
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Yes I could see an industry that’s airing more and more ads and still charging more and more for the rights to use it, combined, a worse and worse deal.
But I do not see the ad trend in cnonsole. if a game basically is more than just a story game then most likely it’s very re playable. All the cinema games are going to make their money on the main license and have online, just obsolete it within a year. but if you have an ecosystem where people pay you by watching ads instead of opening PayPal,. You make more money as it’s played and you put more money back into its as both free content and money offered as a contest prize, both of which will perpetuate the cycle of more customers joining for free and as long as the game is interesting they’ll keep going in theory forever.
I could see how things become cheaper and cheaper over time. The color TV in 1955 was valued at $1000, or 1333 hours of minimum wage work. In 1968 color TV was $500 or 315 hours of minimum wage work.
I appreciate that I can buy a 3D TV in 2012 at $200 or 25 hours of minimum wage work. The main
The number one reason for not helping the poor was a Protestant worth ethic attitude, which believes that if you’re poor it’s because you sinned, that wealth is sign of salvation. The opposite Catholic work ethic is that wealth is,at least judgemental, independent of salvation and enough cases oppositely signifying damnation, mean the poorer you are, the less likely you will be corrupt and the more empathetic you will feel, because money is a unit of power and power, if unchecked, corrupts.
And notice most of the big capitalist we thought of as pigs in the 1800s, when the coal mine boss would fire a guy for letting a donkey die in a mine but did nothing when the guy died saving the donkey. And the thing about the company store being an anti-capitalistist market to benefit the store owner, meaning the company that hired you. so there were some good regulations of unfettered capitalism.
So capitalism and socialism combined both increase the wealth over time and balance between people. it’s a constant out of balance scale to be adjusted, sometimes a capitalist site is too heavy sometimes the socialist side is too heavy. it doesn’t matter where whether Unicorp owns everything or Unigov owns everything, if someone owns everything you own nothing.
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The main reason why I want to make a card game is because I made one that’s fun when people got deep enough into it. My game is not sexy enough they’ll encourage people plug full price let alone sale.
the reason arcadium like my game was because they have a good business model. but their game people were way conservative and public domain inspired. Or the opposite, put a uniquely arkadium face on a game that’s been copied endlessly and is an Aldi ripoff, good, mainly because the template was good and ripped off.
Kenny Rosenblatt, the owner of arkadium, liked the fact that my game is familiar enough to those who know the public domain games but new enough that if it took off the exclusive place to be arcadium and would be a hit.
Due to the lack of money on my end, which resulted in lackluster graphics, plus the fact that anything that isn’t versus the system tends not to do well in these type of sites
I asked if I made a game on a different platform and that platform allows ads would you be willing to be my third party ad broker for percentage of the ad revenue and he said depending on the size and popularity, if it’s worth our labor to get money for ads, then yes.
So I tried all three big platforms. All of them have very little guy unfriendly rules. Even in the Xbox 360 indie games commercials where illegal. You either did it literally for the Love of the game or the experience, or the few people did a stepping stone to somewhat more mainstream games.
Some games are obvious cash cows and I knew they weren’t going to succeed. I tried a few because the trials were literally free. And I bought the ones I liked. And erase the ones I didn’t.
I think the ad system will make classic games more viable, keep classic systems around longer, and actually be a positive bunny game for companies to hold onto systems. I suggested something that’s possible due to Sprint strict connect network, describe the my own website netrogames.com. the next three paragraphs we’ll talk about another similarly devoted retro gamer looking for opponents:
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Did you know the Sega Dreamcast still is the only dial-up game community for consoles,. And has been read recently resurrected to work with broadband connections but still be dial up compatible.
I asked the new Dreamcast server guys, it’s weird that you asked for volunteers to send money and it’s totally voluntary and you have no benefits for yourself. I suggested a way they could increase the revenue by doing a little quid pro quo. Quid pro quo in and of itself is not illegal it’s the basis of capitalism literally in Latin “this for that”, the core tenets of capitalsm.
and the funny thing it probably takes only 2 minutes of work per month to change the ad code to reflect the new sponsors. Just copy and paste ads. Dreamcast still lives
You have a raffle system with as many ads is it can hold. $1 an Ad raffle ticket. so if there are 10 $1 sponsors your are we shown in 1 out of 10 games started when the server boots shop. What would be better a few $1 volunteer sponsors, or many more $10 a month sponsors getting the possibility of there ad exposed on the DC network.
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I suggested that even though I’ll freely pay a dollar a month just to support you guys once I get it working I might support you more if I’m able to advertise a couple things, maybe some indie Dreamcast game makers could advertise their games on the new DC Network.
My invention ( not necessarily UNIQUELY MINE ) that would be stopped if possible by the industry for making older games stay popular, that would help the retro DC server crowd.
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By the way I noticed a big hole in gaming. The top 10% of the games get 80% of the net traffic, the next 10% get the next 10%, and the last 80% share the last 10%. at first I asked why is the Xbox network so unfriendly why do I have to sit and wait for minutes sometimes hours sitting there waiting for ping doing nothing just a fighting opponent for game I want.
Now I realize that if everyone had a game pager for their favorite console or you could summon an answer the calls opponents based on common games, then you be spending less money chasing every new game just to be in a popular online community, and stick in the ones you like more and do better in, and make more friends and save some money not chasing the popular group.
Such a service would run contrary to the push out the new games trend. Too many times I waited for an opponent.
I was thinking of a game pager system, thanks to Twitter we could program a Twitter bot to manage game pages.
if you have a hundred different games you like to play that you haven’t played ever online,. Currently you have to stand in the waiting room and hope someone joined you,. I’d be totally oblivious to the other 99 rooms where there was someone but you literally couldn’t meet because you didn’t know about each other.
I understand Nintendo is the stranger danger Network, but Xbox restraining game pages? Isn’t that the reason why we bought an online system?To play online games?
It also works the other way you can play the game you normally want to play when you’re single but be on call whenever an opponent shows up to any of the games you are interested in playing.
it sucks when my friends who told me to get an Xbox one because we’re all going on Xbox One and the only way I could play games with them as if I join Xbox One, and then as soon as I join Xbox One there online but they don’t answer their pages. Only one person was honest enough to say, hey I was watching foreign movies on Xbox One and the Xbox pager interferes with the foreign subtitles, which on balance is usually more emotionally accurate than foreign-to-them dubbers.
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By the way I got a couple companies who like the idea but they questioned whether it is legal to make an independent pager system for games using the names of the games to match up. Like for example most bookie and bootleg sports business uses generic names for the team,vl because it’s easy for sports, just the city, because the teams names are copyrighted. The question is how can you refer to game titles without referring to the names of the game titles which are copyrighted?
is referring to titles in a video game opponent matchmaking system considered fair use of the title without violating copyright and trademark?
When you run a video store, you have to buy the original tape and show the cover to show that you did what was legal to acquire the tape. If someone saw a plain white box with a sharpie marked simple text name of the movie, you would suspect is a bootleg.
Does a company that makes a game have a right to your revenue if you match people up and head?
In an advergame model that would be encouraged, because people make perpetual money without making any new content. I don’t know how many of 2020 top games will be remembered in 2120. But in 2080, we will more likely celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Pac-Man for sure, than the hundredth anniversary of a random disposable yearly update game years later.
If you truly believe your game will last throughout the centuries then the ad based model makes you continuous money without being forced to make a sequel or follow up, which if uninspired would be a failure and unsuccessful.
If they adopted the ad policy, we would not be paying $120 a year for video game versions of American football,soccer football, basketball and pro wrestling.
I know pro wrestling would be the only one worth a fixex permanent license just because there’s competition, and tradition in contracts between players, before it was TNA, now it’s AEW, and if you want to keep the star before they get transferred out you have to own the license.
Everything else is pretty much Monopoly sports. And unless you go rogue and endorse your own personal video game, you’re only revenue from games would come from you being a character in the game.
The original AFL and NFL merged, the usfl was murdered,. No one tried until the XFL, and everyone else just became willing to be training minor leagues on by different corporate heads than the NFL.
FIFA is like cartel on soccer.
Someone add a spoiler tag on the Android app. Otherwise I have to manually block off content like this:
Here’s my experience to ( a competitor to?) Pro soccer
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I actually like some of the competitors like the mis-sell and the npsl, which brought more championships for Cleveland that anyone else since 1960, assuming you don’t count an extremely distant county seat that’s within television range of Cleveland TV stations (Cleveland Crunch and Canton Invaders). I would have loved to played as the Crunch on the Saturn PlayStation or N64.(94, 96,99 champs) you got to love Hector Maranao a college goalie who learn offense gradually and has a unique talent that is most beneficial in indoor soccer,. And that’s very accurate shots they get behind the goalie from beyond the three-point Arc. He can shoot from pretty far away. and even though he didn’t have many chances to play this role because the crunch were usually head early, he was probably the best sixth attacker because he was both naturally a college goalie and a great long distance attacker/slash assist man.
now I know soccer is that big enough when you talk to the guys about how much they make their answer is “enough to make it worth training and practicing for games but not enough to make that an only job”. The only known salary is Hector marinaro’s because the owner wanted to show that he was willing to cut his salary from the highest at 250k a year to 100k a year, just purely so the team can afford better teammates to put around him. Then he got screwed with the expansion Chicago team by not being protected, so it was forcibly drafted by Chicago then the Cleveland paid Chicago cash to get him back, 10 Marinaro became jaded and quit 5 minutes after he was bought back. No farewell tours, at that season Cleveland folded as a team,. And the next year the league folded all together.
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If a television is trying to make games that people play people play a lot, are meant to be played with people both locally and online, and I assume games are way more valuable than any TV show or movie is rewatchable. by definition as soon as someone makes a different decision than any previous time you have a different game. The same general format could create many instances of that game. Since replay is a heavy factor, advertising with benefits heavily replayed games.
Now if you’re making the Hollywood movie game part 9, you have to charge $60, and if you’re being attraction is a story,. You’re predicting very low replays,. So that kind of game would hate an ad requirement.
I don’t have a vendetta against these games if I did the ad requirement would sink them and lift up more game Oriented games. Automatically forbidding the ads kills the small game. If you are for the small guy that it’s a lot less risky to be ad model only versus pay license model only. All the pay license bottle does is help the big guy. If a television try to be the little game in little guy system,. Forbidding ads just sealed their fate.
