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    DJ SymBiotiX & DJ MesoPhunk - The Royal Sampler Vol. 2: This Time It's Personal

    in Post Your Original Music!

    Posted

    Well, I'd like to happily announce me and DJ MesoPhunk's 2nd album.

    Featuring UK Hardcore/J-Core/Funkot/Makina/Trance/Psy-Orch/Trancecore

    Featuring some great Remixers and 12 whole unreleased tracks, this album is sure to out do the last one in many ways.

    Title: The Royal Sampler Vol. 2: This Time It's Personal

    Catalogue No.: MDSBCD-002

    Format: CD-R

    Pre-Release Date: April 27th at Anime Central, being sold at the MyDJSoBad Booth.

    Release Date: May 2nd is when anybody can order a copy from myself.

    Track Previews: (no soundcloud embedding :()

    http://soundcloud.com/djsymbiotix/the-royal-sampler-vol-2-this

    How to Purchase: http://www.djsbx.com/?page_id=309

    front-preview.pngback-preview.pngdisc-preview.png

    Surviving as a musician

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Well, my first passion was Compsci. While in highschool I started doing the music thing, and got *really* into it during university. I'm graduated now, and work as a.. sort of everything kind of guy (as far as comp sci goes).

    So now I do music during most of my spare time, and I have a career that funds it. 2 Years ago, I bought some DJ gear, and I spin at clubs/Anime Cons/etc here and there whenever I get a gig.

    I'd love to make music/DJ as a living. But until I got really well known it definitely wouldn't pay as well as my current job, and that kinda sucks, but that's the industry, and there isn't too much you can do about it.

    On-Disc DLC

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    it's funny to me because a company could technically complete a shit ton of DLC before a game goes gold, but hides it and releases it a while after the game comes out and all of you would be completely happy with it. The only difference here is that you know about it.

    Also, this chart is somewhat relevant, while not 100% relevant to the on disc dlc thing. http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17eig06xukt8apng/original.png

    (I hope you guys enjoy people losing jobs just so you can get content after the game comes out :))

    As a customer I want all companies to give everything they make for free. I don't care what goes on in the background. I don't care if/how they make money. I want it all for free. Those are my expectations, and it's their responsibility to meet those expectations, end of story.

    On-Disc DLC

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    define *fine*

    Also, I'm allowed to argue Micro-Biology even though I know nothing about it? Awesome!

    My main point I guess, is it's fine to talk about how this affects you, and how you feel about it, but when people start saying things like "who cares if they originally decided it was DLC, if it was done before hand they should just give it to people for free", then I'm going to introduce the fact that they don't know what it's like to plan, schedule, budget, etc, etc, etc a game like that.

    When you budget for certain things it's not easy to just go "oh well, we should just give it to them for free", just because it was finished a little early. The budget was already spent on creating this extra content, and so because they were efficient and finished it early, they should be penalized for it? (using the "something was completed ahead of schedule" example).

    People like to pretend that every company is out to get them. While I agree that some companies pull some bullshit, people like to lump EVERYBODY in to that category, without trying to put their feet in the companies shoes, or without thinking of possible situations that these companies go through.

    On-Disc DLC

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I like the part where everybody in this thread owns a video game company that puts million and millions of dollars in to their games and knows about all the monetary implications of the industry.

    On-Disc DLC

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I guess of all the friends and acquaintances I've had in the field, none pursued the science of computing as their career path. They're all either programmers or software designers, or web designers or sysadmins now.

    *shrugs* I just use the broad term since I learned a broad range of things in the field.

    Wouldn't really make sense to say "I'm an X(specific term), and as such I should know about datamining", when datamining probably doesn't quite fall in to the X category. While using the broad term makes more sense to me.

    p.s. aaaaaand.. lets stop discussing this in this thread :P

    On-Disc DLC

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    You are the only compsci major/graduate I've ever witnessed dubbing themselves a computer scientist.

    Is that not the proper term? Compsci = Computer Scientist

    what do all these other people you know say?

    On-Disc DLC

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    We're not talking about that, though. Everyone here by now has already reconciled the fact that there's a time frame where devs could pump out more content then offer it online.

    Somebody mentioned Day-1 dlc, so I was just offering my counter argument to that point.

    And perhaps here is another explanation as to why SFxT has on disc DLC. Expanding on Malaki's post a bit. Lets say the studio says "Ok we're going to have X and Y in the game, and Z will be DLC". Maybe the people who were working on Z got it done quicker than usual, or X and Y took longer than anticipated. It was *already* planned that Z was going to be DLC, and they aren't just going to include it for free if it was already planned to be paid content. The revenue was already planned for, and if they just included it, then that is lost revenue. So maybe they said, "well lets just put it on the disc so we dont have to waste bandwidth, and so users dont have to waste so much time downloading it"

    Of course, this is all speculation. I'm just trying to point out that there may be other reasons then "lolololololololololololol money!"

    p.s. DLC is what the industry is heading to. Get over it, and quit bitching.

    p.p.s. I will also agree with people who are mad about having to buy *critical* parts of a game.

    p.p.p.s. money is the new cheat codes

    On-Disc DLC

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I used the term way too liberally and very wrong apparently but I do like to dig around in games and find what's under the surface, particular the things I don't necessarily have to pay for. :]

    Yeah, I have some friends that use the term like you did, and couldn't help from giving a correction. Seems to be one of those somewhat widely spread terms that isn't used correctly :P

    Edit: and so I can actually add to the conversation.

    Day 1 DLC (the kind that's online) doesn't necessarily mean the content was done before/as the game went gold. There is a period of time between gold and release where companies could make some dlc.

    Edit 2: in response to XZero about how we used to have to accomplish certain tasks to unlock characters. Think about it this way. What if somebody really really likes a character and wants to use them, but unlocking that character is too big a feat for them. Now they can just pay to unlock that character instead of wasting countless hours trying to do an 'old skool' unlock. As lazy as that sounds, I'm sure there are people out there.

    Like the re-release of street fighter 3: third strike for instance. You could either beat the game with *every* character to unlock Gil, or you can buy him, if you don't feel like doing all that.

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