• Rental Apps

    From The Millionaire@VERT to All on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 06:25:31
    Has anyone ever came across a rental app before? I think that they are totally ludicrous. :-(

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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to The Millionaire on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 11:35:06
    Has anyone ever came across a rental app before? I think that they are totally ludicrous. :-(

    What do you mean? you rent an app? an apartment ? I don't really get it :-/

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Ennev on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 12:18:25

    What do you mean? you rent an app? an apartment ? I don't really get it :-/

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    An app for an iPad. Some developers make you pay a monthly subscription for the app.

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  • From Ogg@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 19:49:00
    Hello The!

    ** On Wednesday 19.08.20 - 15:18, the.millionaire wrote to Ennev:

    An app for an iPad. Some developers make you pay a monthly
    subscription for the app.

    I've never heard of such a thing before. It must be an amazing can't-live-without-it app. What is the app for, games?

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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to The Millionaire on Thursday, August 20, 2020 09:46:13
    On 2020-08-19 3:18 p.m., The Millionaire wrote:

    An app for an iPad. Some developers make you pay a monthly subscription for the
    app.

    I do :-/ but only for a few. I do for Pocket, i do use the apps a lot.
    I love astronomy so i also do it for SkyGuide it gives access to a lot
    of updated info and stuff.

    paid for one month for GeminiII because I had to dedup 80000 pictures
    and it has a really good algo for that, it's not just based of file size
    and checksum but with pattern recognition, so it help you keep the
    higher quality and trow the bad duplicated. But I did that once and
    don't need to do that repetitively.

    I rather pay for quality stuff that go free and becoming the product.
    When a weather app ask to see my contacts ? nahhh

    Rather give a few buck to a develloper that probably spent a lot of
    spare time doing this. It's not all big corps.

    But I would love better if they had a "UPGRADE" mechanism, which they
    don't really have ( apple store ), so a publisher when they release an
    updated version of a software and want to charge for it, like it's not a
    bug fix but a major update like going from 1.X to 2.X they have to
    publish a new app all together and don't have a mechanism where you
    offer a discount to the owner of a earlier version.

    Dev have 4 options:
    1) free
    2) not free
    3) in apps purchase
    4) monthly/yearly fee

    I guess something in the in-app purchase could do the trick but would
    get hard to manage.

    So some publisher rather have a montly/yearly fee to keep money flowing.

    I admire devs that still update apps afters years and are not getting a
    penny for it. Usually an apps produce revenue at it's beginning then it dwindle down and if it's kind of "niche" you won't probably get new
    customers even if you implement new features since your potential market bought it already.

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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Ogg on Thursday, August 20, 2020 09:51:05
    On 2020-08-19 7:49 p.m., Ogg wrote:

    I've never heard of such a thing before. It must be an amazing can't-live-without-it app. What is the app for, games?

    Don't start me with that :-D I'm so against the "Free-to-play" ( in my
    mind it's more "FREE-TO-PAY" ) model. When you hook a player to you game
    and like drugs you ask for money to give weapons/ammo etc so you can
    actually win in a game. Free to lose, pay to win.

    Rather prefer to do a single purchase and own it. Or montly model like
    Apple Arcade or Xbox All Access where for a montly fee you have access
    to hundreds of game. The problem is that you stop to pay and your game
    go away. No so good but at least you keep more control on how much you
    spend.

    But corps. like the idea of having a steady influx of money.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to The Millionaire on Thursday, August 20, 2020 14:42:12
    Re: Rental Apps
    By: The Millionaire to All on Wed Aug 19 2020 06:25 am

    Has anyone ever came across a rental app before? I think that they are totally ludicrous. :-(

    What is a rental app? An app to help manage renting things?

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to The Millionaire on Thursday, August 20, 2020 14:44:30
    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: The Millionaire to Ennev on Wed Aug 19 2020 12:18 pm

    An app for an iPad. Some developers make you pay a monthly subscription for the app.

    Some software is going toward a subscription model; not just iPad apps.. I don't really like that kind of business model, but I guess that's the way some companies are making their money these days, rather than relying only on new sales. But I don't really like that with some software, you can't just buy once and keep using it (or you stop getting updates when you don't renew your payments).

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Ogg on Thursday, August 20, 2020 14:46:31
    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Ogg to All on Wed Aug 19 2020 07:49 pm

    An app for an iPad. Some developers make you pay a monthly
    subscription for the app.

    I've never heard of such a thing before. It must be an amazing can't-live-without-it app. What is the app for, games?

    Some software is going toward a subscription model. I've heard Adobe is doing that now; Microsoft Office 365 is another example of subscription software.

    Nightfox

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  • From Andeddu@VERT/AMSTRAD to Ennev on Monday, August 24, 2020 15:41:04
    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Ennev to Ogg on Thu Aug 20 2020 09:51 am

    Don't start me with that :-D I'm so against the "Free-to-play" ( in my
    mind it's more "FREE-TO-PAY" ) model. When you hook a player to you game
    and like drugs you ask for money to give weapons/ammo etc so you can actually win in a game. Free to lose, pay to win.

    Rather prefer to do a single purchase and own it. Or montly model like
    Apple Arcade or Xbox All Access where for a montly fee you have access
    to hundreds of game. The problem is that you stop to pay and your game
    go away. No so good but at least you keep more control on how much you spend.

    Me too. There are a few genuine F2P model games out there though... Star Wars the Old Republic is quite decent, you can easily level up to 50 without ever paying any cash for additional quality of life upgrades. Most battle ground genre games are fair also and are true F2P titles... I don't advocate playing it, but Fortnite is a good example along with Apex Legends. World of Tanks back in the day was a solid F2P game which didn't give an advantage to fee paying customers. I agree with paid customisation, not paid in-game advantages.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Andeddu on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 10:59:00
    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Andeddu to Ennev on Mon Aug 24 2020 03:41 pm

    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Ennev to Ogg on Thu Aug 20 2020 09:51 am

    Don't start me with that :-D I'm so against the "Free-to-play" ( in my mind it's more "FREE-TO-PAY" ) model. When you hook a player to you game and like drugs you ask for money to give weapons/ammo etc so you can actually win in a game. Free to lose, pay to win.

    Rather prefer to do a single purchase and own it. Or montly model like Apple Arcade or Xbox All Access where for a montly fee you have access
    to hundreds of game. The problem is that you stop to pay and your game
    go away. No so good but at least you keep more control on how much you spend.

    Me too. There are a few genuine F2P model games out there though... Star War the Old Republic is quite decent, you can easily level up to 50 without ever paying any cash for additional quality of life upgrades. Most battle ground genre games are fair also and are true F2P titles... I don't advocate playin it, but Fortnite is a good example along with Apex Legends. World of Tanks b in the day was a solid F2P game which didn't give an advantage to fee paying customers. I agree with paid customisation, not paid in-game advantages.

    While i think it's cool to give free players a chance to play fair, games like these require some source of income to continue to keep others interested and generate more content. If I were to create an MMO, I might create free zones where players are limited to free enhancements. If you want to go big and
    bad and kit up with purchased items, that will require connecting to a subscrition server. On special occasions special weapons and armor or other items may be unlocked on the free servers to function as a carrot to draw
    them on to the pay servers.

    Years ago when I first heard about people buying in game items on ebay for World of Warcraft, I realized gaming leaped further into the trap most
    hobbies and competitions create. How far you want to go is relative to how much you want to spend. First it was tier one cpu's and gpu's, then it moved into the games.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Moondog on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 18:52:36
    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Moondog to Andeddu on Tue Aug 25 2020 10:59 am

    Years ago when I first heard about people buying in game items on ebay for World of Warcraft, I realized gaming leaped further into the trap most hobbies and competitions create. How far you want to go is relative to how much you want to spend. First it was tier one cpu's and gpu's, then it moved into the games.


    usually those are vanity items.
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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Moondog on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 02:38:04
    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Moondog to Andeddu on Tue Aug 25 2020 10:59 am

    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Andeddu to Ennev on Mon Aug 24 2020 03:41 pm

    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Ennev to Ogg on Thu Aug 20 2020 09:51 am

    Don't start me with that :-D I'm so against the "Free-to-play" ( in my mind it's more "FREE-TO-PAY" ) model. When you hook a player to you game and like drugs y
    ask for money to give weapons/ammo etc so you can actually win in a game. Free to lose, pay to win.

    Rather prefer to do a single purchase and own it. Or montly model like Apple Arcade or Xbox All Access where for a montly fee you have access
    to hundreds of game. The problem is that you stop to pay and your game go away. No so good but at least you keep more control on how much you spend.

    Me too. There are a few genuine F2P model games out there though... Star War the Old Republic is quite decent, you can easily level up to 50 without ever paying an
    cash for additional quality of life upgrades. Most battle ground genre games are fair also and are true F2P titles... I don't advocate playin it, but Fortnite is a
    good example along with Apex Legends. World of Tanks b in the day was a solid F2P game which didn't give an advantage to fee paying customers. I agree with paid
    customisation, not paid in-game advantages.

    While i think it's cool to give free players a chance to play fair, games like these require some source of income to continue to keep others interested and generate
    more content. If I were to create an MMO, I might create free zones where players are limited to free enhancements. If you want to go big and
    bad and kit up with purchased items, that will require connecting to a subscrition server. On special occasions special weapons and armor or other items may be unloc
    on the free servers to function as a carrot to draw
    them on to the pay servers.

    Years ago when I first heard about people buying in game items on ebay for World of Warcraft, I realized gaming leaped further into the trap most
    hobbies and competitions create. How far you want to go is relative to how much you want to spend. First it was tier one cpu's and gpu's, then it moved into the gam


    Yeah, games need a source of income, but some of those get crazy expensive.

    Take Howrse as an example. It is free to play. However, the game is engineered in such a way that you have to log and play often (in order to keep the player involved
    with the game) and in-game purchases are jus evil. What I mean is that a lot of the purchase system involves "luck items", which are vaults that contain a variable
    amount of tresure and objects... for beating some events, you often need objects that are only found in luck items... so in the end you either start buying luck items
    with real money hoping you wil find the objects needed to beat the event, or you basically skip the event.

    Which would not be very bad if the estimated cost of beating the event with luck items weren't 200 USD.

    For a browser game about ponies.

    Played by 8 yo girls and  relors.

    Sickening.

    I think games like Equine Passion get it right. The game is free but there are some characteristics that require an AFFORDABLE premium membership. If you like the game
    you sepnd a couple of bucks a month and become a member so you have some interface tweaks and some more game featuresthat make your life easier but are not critical to
    the game.


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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to MRO on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 01:35:00
    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: MRO to Moondog on Tue Aug 25 2020 06:52 pm

    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Moondog to Andeddu on Tue Aug 25 2020 10:59 am

    Years ago when I first heard about people buying in game items on ebay World of Warcraft, I realized gaming leaped further into the trap most hobbies and competitions create. How far you want to go is relative to much you want to spend. First it was tier one cpu's and gpu's, then it moved into the games.


    usually those are vanity items.

    They were also buying "levelled up" accounts so they wouldn't have to spend large amounts of time doing piddly tasks before being able to hold their own
    in a battle.

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  • From Andeddu@VERT/AMSTRAD to Moondog on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 16:46:46
    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Moondog to Andeddu on Tue Aug 25 2020 10:59 am

    While i think it's cool to give free players a chance to play fair, games like these require some source of income to continue to keep others interested and generate more content. If I were to create an MMO, I might create free zones where players are limited to free enhancements. If you want to go big and
    bad and kit up with purchased items, that will require connecting to a subscrition server. On special occasions special weapons and armor or other items may be unlocked on the free servers to function as a carrot to draw them on to the pay servers.

    SWTOR is fairer than most. I was surprised to see they were giving away 8 massive character lines for free with the game being completely playable. I bought the game back in 2011 and purchased a few in-game items/DLCs to support the developers. Shooters like Fortnite are tied to skins and customisation only as a P2W model would be unsuitable for a competitive title. I heard a few years ago Epic Games were making around 30 million dollars each month on skins alone which is quite incredible. They did a great job of hooking the younger player base!

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Moondog on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 16:17:03
    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Moondog to MRO on Wed Aug 26 2020 01:35 am


    usually those are vanity items.

    They were also buying "levelled up" accounts so they wouldn't have to spend large amounts of time doing piddly tasks before being able to hold their own in a battle.

    ah well, that's not as common now. wow is a strange game though. his gear would become obsolete quick or he would be caught or he would have his account stolen back by the seller.
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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Andeddu on Thursday, August 27, 2020 14:48:58
    On 2020-08-24 10:41 a.m., Andeddu wrote:

    Me too. There are a few genuine F2P model games out there though... Star Wars the Old Republic is quite decent, you can easily level up to 50 without ever paying any cash for additional quality of life upgrades. Most battle ground genre games are fair also and are true F2P titles... I don't advocate playing it, but Fortnite is a good example along with Apex Legends. World of Tanks back
    in the day was a solid F2P game which didn't give an advantage to fee paying customers. I agree with paid customisation, not paid in-game advantages.

    Yeah, theses more original F2P like Old Republic are good, or the
    originals like wow etc, where you pay a montly fee and play in theses universes.

    Don't hear much about wow anyway. Not in a while, you think that with
    covid they should have made more promotions.

    But you do get desease there too :-D remember that one : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident ?

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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Moondog on Thursday, August 27, 2020 14:51:23
    On 2020-08-25 10:59 a.m., Moondog wrote:

    Years ago when I first heard about people buying in game items on ebay for World of Warcraft, I realized gaming leaped further into the trap most hobbies and competitions create. How far you want to go is relative to how much you want to spend. First it was tier one cpu's and gpu's, then it moved into the games.

    Oh yeah, I remember that, people payed for grinding in the game. I head
    that people where exploited in some country to work like in theses wow sweatshop where they would grind so that the boss would make money
    selling characters etc on ebay.

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  • From Andeddu@VERT/AMSTRAD to Moondog on Thursday, August 27, 2020 17:42:49
    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Moondog to MRO on Wed Aug 26 2020 01:35 am

    They were also buying "levelled up" accounts so they wouldn't have to spend large amounts of time doing piddly tasks before being able to hold their own in a battle.


    Chinese farming was massive back in the day in WoW. I remember you'd be able to get ahold of any epic item you wanted if you were below the level of 60 if you ordered it online, likewise you could purchase as much gold as you wanted for real cash.They were even offering PvP services where you'd pay cash to hit a particular rating in the 2v2/3v3 arena so you could pick up specific armour sets using arena tokens.

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  • From Andeddu@VERT/AMSTRAD to MRO on Thursday, August 27, 2020 17:52:25
    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: MRO to Moondog on Wed Aug 26 2020 04:17 pm

    ah well, that's not as common now. wow is a strange game though. his gear would become obsolete quick or he would be caught or he would have his account stolen back by the seller.

    The buyer isn't interested in the gear. In WoW raiding is the meat and bones of the game... that means 25 man raids in massive dungeons where you'd have to be on a voice chat group to formulate proper tactics. You needed a level 60 character in order to join the rest of your guild so a lot of serious players purchased alts of a different class. I played the game casually in '07 with my girlfriend back then but my best friend was a serious raider. He almost got chucked out of university as he barely had any time to complete his tutorials and essays as he was required to be online around 3 hours each Mon, Wed and Fri so the guild could clear specific end-game dungeons.

    That didn't sound like any kind of fun to me so I steered clear from the raiding.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Ennev on Thursday, August 27, 2020 16:44:27
    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Ennev to Moondog on Thu Aug 27 2020 02:51 pm

    On 2020-08-25 10:59 a.m., Moondog wrote:

    Years ago when I first heard about people buying in game items on ebay
    for World of Warcraft, I realized gaming leaped further into the trap
    most hobbies and competitions create. How far you want to go is
    relative to how much you want to spend. First it was tier one cpu's
    and gpu's, then it moved into the games.

    Oh yeah, I remember that, people payed for grinding in the game. I head that people where exploited in some country to work like in theses wow sweatshop where they would grind so that the boss would make money selling characters etc on ebay.


    those chinese farmers actually helped the economy. they would kill tons of stuff and then sell the cloth or whatever on the auction house. now they are mostly gone and idiots sell stuff for high prices.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Andeddu on Thursday, August 27, 2020 17:31:58
    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Andeddu to MRO on Thu Aug 27 2020 05:52 pm

    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: MRO to Moondog on Wed Aug 26 2020 04:17 pm

    ah well, that's not as common now. wow is a strange game though. his
    gear would become obsolete quick or he would be caught or he would
    have his account stolen back by the seller.

    The buyer isn't interested in the gear. In WoW raiding is the meat and bones of the game... that means 25 man raids in massive dungeons where you'd have to be on a voice chat group to formulate proper tactics. You needed a level 60 character in order to join the rest of your guild so a lot of serious players purchased alts of a different class. I played the game casually in '07 with my girlfriend back then but my best friend was a serious raider. He almost got chucked out of university as he barely had any time to complete his tutorials and essays as he was required to be online around 3 hours each Mon, Wed and Fri so the guild could clear specific end-game dungeons.


    well in wow it's all about the gear. if you dont have the gear score, you arent shit. nobody will raid with you. raiding did take up a lot of time and lots of time i didnt get jack shit. i ended up having to pay a lot for potions, food and repairs, though.


    i ran a guild and it's very hard to deal with the sociopath/psychopath players who take all they can and leave. the last lord developer was in a guild with my son and he helped run his guild. he hated all the drama that these people drum up. i just like to be on my own and play alone.
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  • From Atroxi@VERT to Arelor on Friday, September 11, 2020 21:44:00
    Arelor wrote to Moondog <=-

    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Moondog to Andeddu on Tue Aug 25 2020 10:59 am

    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Andeddu to Ennev on Mon Aug 24 2020 03:41 pm

    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Ennev to Ogg on Thu Aug 20 2020 09:51 am

    Don't start me with that :-D I'm so against the "Free-to-play" ( in my
    mind it's more "FREE-TO-PAY" ) model. When you hook a player to you
    game and like drugs y
    ask for money to give weapons/ammo etc so you can actually win in a
    gam
    e. Free to lose, pay to win.

    Rather prefer to do a single purchase and own it. Or montly model like
    Apple Arcade or Xbox All Access where for a montly fee you have access
    to hundreds of game. The problem is that you stop to pay and your game go away. No so good but at least you keep more control on how much you
    spend.

    Me too. There are a few genuine F2P model games out there though... Star
    W
    ar the Old Republic is quite decent, you can easily level up to 50
    without ever paying an
    cash for additional quality of life upgrades. Most battle ground genre
    gam
    es are fair also and are true F2P titles... I don't advocate playin it, but Fortnite is a
    good example along with Apex Legends. World of Tanks b in the day was a
    so
    lid F2P game which didn't give an advantage to fee paying customers. I agree with paid
    customisation, not paid in-game advantages.

    While i think it's cool to give free players a chance to play fair, games
    lik
    e these require some source of income to continue to keep others interested and generate
    more content. If I were to create an MMO, I might create free zones where
    pl
    ayers are limited to free enhancements. If you want to go big and
    bad and kit up with purchased items, that will require connecting to a
    subscr
    ition server. On special occasions special weapons and armor or other items may be unloc
    on the free servers to function as a carrot to draw
    them on to the pay servers.

    Years ago when I first heard about people buying in game items on ebay for
    Wo
    rld of Warcraft, I realized gaming leaped further into the trap most
    hobbies and competitions create. How far you want to go is relative to how
    m
    uch you want to spend. First it was tier one cpu's and gpu's, then it moved into the gam


    Yeah, games need a source of income, but some of those get crazy expensive.

    Take Howrse as an example. It is free to play. However, the game is engineered in such a way that you have to log and play often (in order
    to keep the player involved with the game) and in-game purchases are
    jus evil. What I mean is that a lot of the purchase system involves
    "luck items", which are vaults that contain a variable amount of
    tresure and objects... for beating some events, you often need objects that are only found in luck items... so in the end you either start
    buying luck items with real money hoping you wil find the objects
    needed to beat the event, or you basically skip the event.

    Which would not be very bad if the estimated cost of beating the event with luck items weren't 200 USD.

    For a browser game about ponies.

    Played by 8 yo girls and  relors.

    Sickening.

    I think games like Equine Passion get it right. The game is free but
    there are some characteristics that require an AFFORDABLE premium membership. If you like the game you sepnd a couple of bucks a month
    and become a member so you have some interface tweaks and some more
    game featuresthat make your life easier but are not critical to the
    game.

    This made me think how video games would look like if making money isn't a factor in their design. Perhaps we'd see more of those almost art piece games, or maybe not. Who knows.

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  • From Atroxi@VERT to Moondog on Friday, September 11, 2020 21:46:00
    Moondog wrote to MRO <=-

    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: MRO to Moondog on Tue Aug 25 2020 06:52 pm

    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Moondog to Andeddu on Tue Aug 25 2020 10:59 am

    Years ago when I first heard about people buying in game items on ebay World of Warcraft, I realized gaming leaped further into the trap most hobbies and competitions create. How far you want to go is relative to much you want to spend. First it was tier one cpu's and gpu's, then it moved into the games.


    usually those are vanity items.

    They were also buying "levelled up" accounts so they wouldn't have to spend large amounts of time doing piddly tasks before being able to
    hold their own in a battle.

    This is actually interesting in a social point of view. How online games seem to create a social game above the actual game that is then fueled by an external economy that drives demand for that social game.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Atroxi on Saturday, September 12, 2020 14:29:00
    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Atroxi to Moondog on Fri Sep 11 2020 09:46 pm

    Moondog wrote to MRO <=-

    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: MRO to Moondog on Tue Aug 25 2020 06:52 pm

    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Moondog to Andeddu on Tue Aug 25 2020 10:59 am

    Years ago when I first heard about people buying in game items on eb World of Warcraft, I realized gaming leaped further into the trap mo hobbies and competitions create. How far you want to go is relative much you want to spend. First it was tier one cpu's and gpu's, then moved into the games.


    usually those are vanity items.

    They were also buying "levelled up" accounts so they wouldn't have to spend large amounts of time doing piddly tasks before being able to hold their own in a battle.

    This is actually interesting in a social point of view. How online games see to create a social game above the actual game that is then fueled by an external economy that drives demand for that social game.

    ... The number you have dailed...Nine-one-one...has been changed.

    It's like an amusement at that point. Either wait until you earn enough experience or points to ride the new ride, or pay real cash for a ticket.

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  • From Terminator@VERT/SBBS to The Millionaire on Sunday, March 14, 2021 01:39:54
    On Wed 19-Aug-2020 12:18 , The Millionaire@1:275/201.0 said to Ennev:


    An app for an iPad. Some developers make you pay a monthly subscription
    for the
    app.

    $ The Millionaire $

    The applications are pretty cheap and the app store has a lot of free stuff that you can download.
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  • From Terminator@VERT/SBBSVA to Nightfox on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 21:14:00
    On Thu 20-Aug-2020 14:46 , Nightfox@1:275/201.0 said to Ogg:

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    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Ogg to All on Wed Aug 19 2020 07:49 pm

    An app for an iPad. Some developers make you pay a monthly
    subscription for the app.

    A lot of the programs in the apple store is cheap unless you are getting in to some of the business applications.

    I've never heard of such a thing before. It must be an amazing can't-live-without-it app. What is the app for, games?

    I am not much of a game person but I will a lot of the other applications.

    Some software is going toward a subscription model. I've heard Adobe is doing that now; Microsoft Office 365 is another example of subscription software.

    You can get this product cheap on the internet.

    Nightfox


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Terminator on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 19:36:33
    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Terminator to Nightfox on Wed Mar 24 2021 09:14 pm

    Some software is going toward a subscription model. I've heard Adobe
    is doing that now; Microsoft Office 365 is another example of
    subscription software.

    You can get this product cheap on the internet.

    "On the internet" - From Microsoft? If not, that sounds sketchy.

    Nightfox

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  • From Terminator@VERT/SBBSVA to Nightfox on Tuesday, March 30, 2021 01:32:42
    On Wed 24-Mar-2021 19:36 , Nightfox@1:275/201.0 said to Terminator:

    Some software is going toward a subscription model. I've heard Adobe
    is doing that now; Microsoft Office 365 is another example of
    subscription software.

    You can get this product cheap on the internet.

    "On the internet" - From Microsoft? If not, that sounds sketchy.

    Nightfox

    No offense to you Nightfox. Some individuals act like they do not have a life and spend to much time much making fun of other individuals. I really do not give a f*ck.

    All the Microsoft products I have purchased from a Microsoft partner has worked with no issues.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Terminator on Tuesday, March 30, 2021 08:17:34
    Re: Re: Rental Apps
    By: Terminator to Nightfox on Tue Mar 30 2021 01:32 am

    You can get this product cheap on the internet.

    "On the internet" - From Microsoft? If not, that sounds sketchy.

    No offense to you Nightfox. Some individuals act like they do not have a life and spend to much time much making fun of other individuals. I really do not give a f*ck.

    I don't know what you mean, as I wasn't trying to make fun of anyone.. ?? I just wasn't sure what you meant.

    All the Microsoft products I have purchased from a Microsoft partner has worked with no issues.

    I can understand that.

    Nightfox

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  • From Terminator@VERT/SBBSVA to Nightfox on Wednesday, March 31, 2021 04:11:18
    On Tue 30-Mar-2021 8:17 , Nightfox@1:275/201.0 said to Terminator:

    I don't know what you mean, as I wasn't trying to make fun of anyone.. ??
    I just wasn't sure what you meant.

    I was not refering to you. But to some of the other users on DovNet.


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