Then I don't understand... I got a brand new computer with great specs including the 9800 pro for $600 including the shipping.. plus it is tax deductible(well, if you are part of a corporation)...
And as for doorman... You don't need to be rich to get a videogame... Once you get into the "real world", you will realize how little $50 really is... It is pretty much pennies... Wait till your cat needs $2500 surgery and you'll see how little $50 goes. Even at a MINIMUM wage job(which only fools would get, as you could easily double that as a waiter), it would take very few hours to get $50 for a game... Since games usually go to down $40 anyhow, and considering you could get $5 off any game at best buy, we are really talking pennies here.
Saying that you need to be rich to buy videogames is ignorant, so I think you need to look up the word.
It's DEATH AT THE DOOR, shadow9d9, repeat after me, Dee Ee Ay Tee Eighsch...
Alright, I suppose it's not much, but why my parents can't give me 50$?
BTW, I am sadly alergic to cats <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" /> (although I really wanted one!).
What are minimum wages if not waitreses? (I am not trying to bite you, but I thought minimum wagers were people who work in McDonalds)
Depends. But yes, usually games cost 5-10$ less when they come out.
Still, I cannot afford the game now.
This is silly... first of all.. 256 megs is overkill... and if I am saying a full blown computer with the support of dell, dvd drive, cd-r drive, 512 dual ram, 9800 Pro, with a 2.8 p4... costs six hundred dollars... Why would you waste money buying it separately? Because it is an xt over a pro? Would you rather a brand new computer with the above specs and a pro or 4/6 of the cost just for an xt alone...?
AGain, $50 for other things... then get ANOTHER $50... Back in highschool I made sure to get money for my birthday and the "holidays".. I used that money to fun my games for the year... And AGAIN, it really will be $35 after it drops to 40 dollars which usually takes a week or 2... and then take $5 off by using a gamer's gift card at Best buy! $35! Nothing! Chump change! One group trip to the movies!!!
shadow, Dell are good computers but often the parts are not top quality, as you might know. It's safer to buy separately. BTW, I found that if you buy them separately, it'll be MUCH cheaper than if you order a system (you pay for the assembly, don't forget).
Tower mobo and power supply for 200 CND.It's not the best nor it's the worst.
shadow, not everyone has rich parents. I can't complain since I often get what I want but...
You're not wrong, though.
Sorry, Lews, you made a couple of good points before but shadow was right here. A card is important but the processor is nevertheless the key point. For example, Spellforce asks for a 1 ghz processor. I got arround the half but I have a pretty good Hercules Geforce 2 GTS 64mb (pretty good for 64mb, of course <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />). Well, the game is a slideshow here.
Most of the computer parts are equally important: RAM, Processor, Video...
Let's switch to BD now <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />.
EDIT: Just read about the credit card.
I agree, it's just a clever trick to make you think you can keep borrowing money... usually it just dramatically lowers your status. When you're in debt, it's VERY difficult to climb back.
Ah yeah, it's better to take a deluxe model of an older card than a new card. But why geforce, shadow? IIRC you had trouble with ATI in the past, is it because of that?
What else can be said about the demo?
I noticed there are many topics arround related to this. But every demo release I assisted was rather chaotic. Ask Beef about the Freelancer demo release, the boards were crawling with angry n00bs who kept asking the same questions (which they could read in the demo's readme file).
Tomorrow or a day later, everything would return back to normal.
