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Low Score? Low Paycheck.
May 25th 2004, 22:07 CEST by Caryn According to this article, Jason Hall wants to base a publisher's pay on the review scores for a licensed game. Here's a snip: Hall's strategy now is to turn to game review Web sites -- such as GameRankings.com, Metacritic.com, and GameStats.com -- that aggregate scores given to games by critics at game sites and magazines. Games based on Warner Bros. licenses must achieve at least a 70% rating, or incur an increase in royalty rates. "An escalating royalty rate kicks in to help compensate us for the brand damage that's taking place," says Hall. "The further away from 70% it gets, the more expensive the royalty rate becomes. So, frankly, if the publisher delivers on what they promised -- to produce a great game -- it's not even an issue." This is interesting because it's not a model (at least that I'm aware of) that's being used elsewhere at all in the entertainment industry. As the article starts off saying, Hollywood doesn't currently pay its talent according to how many thumbs up the movies get. So will it work? Will Hall's proclamation ensure quality games made with Warner Bros.' licensed properties? Do the developers on the board think this will work, and is it a model that could be extended outside of a licensed brand? |
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Right, so as soon as they re-fit the shuttles to not use boosters and never come back down, they'll be perfectly safe. "All I've ever wanted to be is a monkey of moderate intelligence that wears a suit. That's why I'm transferring to business school!"
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I'm offering a $10 million prize to the first person who provides me with an orbiting laser platform. Fear is the dark room where the devil develops his negatives.
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Once they build it, you'll have to pay a lot more than $10 million. And you won't get the platform. PLUR, motherfucker!
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But! I was never planning on paying them. I was going to turn them into hot smoking dust! Fear is the dark room where the devil develops his negatives.
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I don't think you can separate the Shuttle from the launch system it uses to get into orbit, it's not as if the thing can complete a mission without it's boosters. And while I'd characterize the direct cause of the last loss as a freak accident, there are still design flaws in the overall system that led to the insulation falling off and compromising the wing to begin with. I love the notion of space exploration, and I'm not a huge Shuttle program basher. But this Shuttle certainly does have various known flaws, and it's impossible to characterize many of these systems as "reliable" in the same way one might refer to commercial airline systems. There haven't been enough Shuttle flights to hammer in that kind of reliability. Or to put it another way, one day the Shuttle is going to be as reliable as a commercial jetliner, but additional tragedies will inevitably happen in order to get there. |
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But once they have the platform, whats to stop them from turning you into dust?!? |
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1 caused by a BOOSTER rocket failure, not the shuttle. 1 caused by a collision on take off that caused a fault in the shuttle, the shuttle still got to orbit, completed its missions and was bringing the astronauts home when that undetected damage caused the failure. Those are all failures of the Shuttle Transport System. The system has inherent flaws, and those two failures are the expressions of said inherent flaws. The SRB failure was an expression of poor management structure: The engineer flatly said don't launch, the O-ring will fail, and management overrided him. The tile failure was also a known problem, that was ignored. The tiles don't stay on so good, and neither does the insulation. You don't exasperate the tile problem with the insulation problem. By the way, if signatures weren't for perverts, I'd totally sig this.
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You need to keep in mind too, that despite the 20 years of launching, the shuttle is still considered experimental. It was never really intended, at the design phase, to be anything other than a platform the next shuttle. When LP says he's bringing Armageddon, he brings fucking Armageddon. - Caryn, 6/01/2004
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#1528 Caryn SpaceShipOne's flight has been so exciting to me for a variety of reasons. The general public have been bored with space for so long that it's awesome to see interest in it bubble up again, even if it is only because people want to get a ride into space themselves. Since the flight there have been announcements made by NASA and other entities that they'll be putting up small X-Prize-like prizes for milestones -- things like the first human orbital flight, the first flight to the Moon, the first landing on the Moon, and so on. I'm really hoping that this means we'll see a resurgence in the private sector of going into space again, and we won't have to rely on the government to do all the exploration that I'd love the human race to get back into. I think it's really interesting, too. But I'm skeptical as to how far private entrepreneurs could take space travel. What SS1 has done is nothing compared to what NASA can do with a 500 million dollar budget. I bet NASA can get a person in low orbit for 5 minutes for less than 40 million. I just highly doubt that anyone other than NASA will get a human being through the earth's atmosphere in the next 5 decades. It's just leaps beyond what they've done now. Besides, there's loads and loads of knowledge and practical experience within NASA, that any public enterprise just lacks. NASA has had the benefit of being able to spend billions since JFK, and I'm not completely sure Burt Rutan can make up for that on his own, if you get my meaning. So maybe they can hire a bunch of NASA engineers just as knowledge providers and background technical support. I want a horse that ribbits and a frog that neighs... oink oink oink
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Getting there is pretty easy though. It's coming back that's the real bitch. Well, coming back without being a screaming fireball of death. When LP says he's bringing Armageddon, he brings fucking Armageddon. - Caryn, 6/01/2004
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Too soon. Dood.
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#1560 LPMiller Getting there is pretty easy though. It's coming back that's the real bitch. Well, coming back without being a screaming fireball of death. Enh. One out of two ain't bad for a start. I want a horse that ribbits and a frog that neighs... oink oink oink
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I am all for the oneway. Let's clean house. A one way trip to the moon! Someone get the chlorine, We have food fuckers amongst us! THE POOL WILL BE CLEANED!
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Yeah right. That would work if those reviews weren't actually paid advertisement by the publisher of the game... |
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Good point "mystra007", how much cash was passed around for this review do you think? |
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$7.21 |
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I guess that's what Canadian money gets you. |
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