GameTap removing Fallout from free games list
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http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/19/gametap-removing-97-free-games/
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/24/gametap-creates-european-partnership-with-metaboli/
More links about the 'operational' change: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/06/turner-to-sell-gametap-time-warner-reveals/
Looks like Time Warner is 'contracting' out the day to day controls.
And the real story of the GameTap changes -- out side any slipping in income opportunities by Time Warner -- may be divined from the commentaries to BN's leading "go to".
Go scan the comments @ Joystiq.
The PC market has moved on in hardware/software and the Gametap offers do not seem to be working reliably on 64-bit systems.
The money game rules the rules.
Too hard--too expensive for the sub contractor to retool the scripting --- that's NOT news for the computer entertainment industry.
The 32/64 bit problem could change and a universal construct bridge the 32 to 64 architecture, but not in time for the players 'not served' in the Joystiq commentaries.
Don't stop at the reporting. Read the comments @ Joystiq.
Let's trust that some Junior JV programer can handle the 'math' to code for the latest OS-s and hardware.
Appears the accountants can't justify their 'math' to budget for foreseeable compatibility issues that would have expanded
the user base of the vintage game service.
Too fussy a situation. Consumers voted for XP. Vista stalled -- Win 7 too close, more MS bait and switch to come.
More consumer foot dragging , back lashing?
PC hardware users may not have the big numbers that make the bean counters all wet with anticipation,
but it may still be a market demographic that is READY TO SPEND MORE MONEY on fringe items and ... compatibility services.
GOG got my plastic.
A PC user knows how hard it can be to get the hardware and software all lined in a row, and I would presume that a cost effective service could bring a --> happy <-- user, ready to pump up the click count and use the credit card online.
This GameTap restructuring may be just more scat on the trail to a resurgence of PROPRIETARY hardware systems.
Outside of a healthy used market. Amigas were not cheap. Macs are not cheap. Upgrades and trickle down can be just fine for some price points.
Outside of a healthy component market. Dell's and HP's and especially Compaq's were/are notorious in my experience for too expensive to upgrade.
Throw away PC's. 2 or 3 year turn over cycle, set top box after set top box. Printers still problematic! Why?
Dead end hardware, abandoned platforms, the business model, 'pie in the sky', of any 'once and future' console king.
Oh. This commentary is scratching on a darker door.
Pardon my paranoia, let's fill this glass 'half full',
,and see GameTap's 'math' issues as growing pains to faster and more universally compatible game services.
4too
All Business, All The Time
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/19/gametap-removing-97-free-games/
Alexander S. said:
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/24/gametap-creates-european-partnership-with-metaboli/
Alexander S. again said:
More links about the 'operational' change: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/06/turner-to-sell-gametap-time-warner-reveals/
Looks like Time Warner is 'contracting' out the day to day controls.
And the real story of the GameTap changes -- out side any slipping in income opportunities by Time Warner -- may be divined from the commentaries to BN's leading "go to".
Go scan the comments @ Joystiq.
The PC market has moved on in hardware/software and the Gametap offers do not seem to be working reliably on 64-bit systems.
The money game rules the rules.
Too hard--too expensive for the sub contractor to retool the scripting --- that's NOT news for the computer entertainment industry.
The 32/64 bit problem could change and a universal construct bridge the 32 to 64 architecture, but not in time for the players 'not served' in the Joystiq commentaries.
Don't stop at the reporting. Read the comments @ Joystiq.
Let's trust that some Junior JV programer can handle the 'math' to code for the latest OS-s and hardware.
Appears the accountants can't justify their 'math' to budget for foreseeable compatibility issues that would have expanded
the user base of the vintage game service.
Too fussy a situation. Consumers voted for XP. Vista stalled -- Win 7 too close, more MS bait and switch to come.
More consumer foot dragging , back lashing?
PC hardware users may not have the big numbers that make the bean counters all wet with anticipation,
but it may still be a market demographic that is READY TO SPEND MORE MONEY on fringe items and ... compatibility services.
GOG got my plastic.
A PC user knows how hard it can be to get the hardware and software all lined in a row, and I would presume that a cost effective service could bring a --> happy <-- user, ready to pump up the click count and use the credit card online.
This GameTap restructuring may be just more scat on the trail to a resurgence of PROPRIETARY hardware systems.
Outside of a healthy used market. Amigas were not cheap. Macs are not cheap. Upgrades and trickle down can be just fine for some price points.
Outside of a healthy component market. Dell's and HP's and especially Compaq's were/are notorious in my experience for too expensive to upgrade.
Throw away PC's. 2 or 3 year turn over cycle, set top box after set top box. Printers still problematic! Why?
Dead end hardware, abandoned platforms, the business model, 'pie in the sky', of any 'once and future' console king.
Oh. This commentary is scratching on a darker door.
Pardon my paranoia, let's fill this glass 'half full',
,and see GameTap's 'math' issues as growing pains to faster and more universally compatible game services.4too