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Would you buy a streaming Atari 2800

Hell yes 12 25.53%
 
Fuck no 31 65.96%
 
Only if it have the label... 4 8.51%
 
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Augen said:

V-r0cK said:

Agreed.  It's like saying "Its ok if i f**k up because ill still get millions of dollars regardless".  I feel like it should be the opposite and the CEO will have to pay something if they did such a shitty job.

This is also a shitty CEO thing regards to Target's CEO.  Pretty much him stepping down he recieved around $60M while roughly that same amount will be used towards compensating the 17,000 Target employees that got laid off in Canada.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/01/21/target-ceo-severance-canadian-workers_n_6517272.html


Exactly! The biggest one I saw was Home Depot and Nardelli. He did a terrible job so they asked him to take a massive pay cut (he wa smaking 38 million a year?!) he said he'd only go as low as 3 million a year.  They said get lost...oh and here is a retirement package to just go away of...210 million dollars!

Is it any wonder why employees at so many major companies feel cynical or lack any loyalty when such practices occur?

Holy crap!!! I know the world itself already isn't fair but this beyond that.



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Kane1389 said:
DonFerrari said:
Versus_Evil said:

The second paragraph got a laugh here. One day... One day they'll make a vacuum cleaner that doesn't run on electricity.

My whore does an excellent vacuum cleaning of milk

 

LOL wtf did that come from?

The vision of a woman cleaning me up is too good so it flashes my memory all the time.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Well, for those who don't want to be connected via 4G all the time, they have a product for them; it's called the xbox 360.



DonFerrari said:

 

 

Don Mattrick were asked what was his opinion about Facebook gaming requiring internet connection all the time, mainly talking about Mobile game over 4G. He was very passionate about it.

 

And when questioned about people without reliable internet. His answer? Was pure gold: "For them we have a product called mineswepper". He further added "No one complain that you can't use your cellphone without signal or eletronics without eletricity, why lack of 4G should be a concern?".

 

This started an uproar with fans and advocates of offline gaming, leading to severe loss for Zynga and Mattrick stepping down as CEO.

 

Don is back to Canadá with a dream. Making an always online Atari 2800 without cartridges.

 

Source: http://www.vgchartz.com/article/258646/zynga-ceo-don-mattrick-steps-down/

 

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/26/after-losing-nearly-half-its-users-in-a-year-investors-dock-zyngas-valuation-by-400-million/

http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/12/don-mattrick-xbox-360-offline/

Unless someone is playing Atari 2600 games on a Atari 2600 hooked up to a CRT TV, they aren't going to sound and play correctly. And let's not even get into the asectics of playing games from the 70's on a modern computer. It just wouldn't feel the same. 



Oh my... What did he do to have very important jobs in Microsoft or EA? He's not even handsome! lol



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AlfredoTurkey said:
DonFerrari said:

 

 

Don Mattrick were asked what was his opinion about Facebook gaming requiring internet connection all the time, mainly talking about Mobile game over 4G. He was very passionate about it.

 

And when questioned about people without reliable internet. His answer? Was pure gold: "For them we have a product called mineswepper". He further added "No one complain that you can't use your cellphone without signal or eletronics without eletricity, why lack of 4G should be a concern?".

 

This started an uproar with fans and advocates of offline gaming, leading to severe loss for Zynga and Mattrick stepping down as CEO.

 

Don is back to Canadá with a dream. Making an always online Atari 2800 without cartridges.

 

Source: http://www.vgchartz.com/article/258646/zynga-ceo-don-mattrick-steps-down/

 

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/26/after-losing-nearly-half-its-users-in-a-year-investors-dock-zyngas-valuation-by-400-million/

http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/12/don-mattrick-xbox-360-offline/

Unless someone is playing Atari 2600 games on a Atari 2600 hooked up to a CRT TV, they aren't going to sound and play correctly. And let's not even get into the asectics of playing games from the 70's on a modern computer. It just wouldn't feel the same. 

It's a 2600 hooked on a CRT, it just is without cartridge, you stream the games, but it's the same controler (but wireless) and computing capacities.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Guys, its a joke trhead, maybe this should get locked because people are no aware of it?



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Today most hardware design is left to other companies, but when you make hardware without taking into account the needs of the eventual software developers, you end up with bloated hardware full of pointless excess. From the outset one must consider design from both a hardware and software perspective."

Gunpei Yoko

justiceiro said:
Guys, its a joke trhead, maybe this should get locked because people are no aware of it?


everyone answered knowing that if you look at their "tone".



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

lol