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« on: January 28, 2005, 11:37:20 am »
Today I heard a rumour and saw intense chatting about it in GR:

Rumor : apple is coming out with a new gaming service called "apple gaming". It will be a yearly charge for access and it is supposed to outdo gameranger as far as options. Plus connectivity w/ iChat to directly link games from private messages.

Pretest for a special "mac game hardware" should be the MacMini. In addition Scott K. was contacted to provide knowledge and infrastructure for this service.

Wee, so we could get soon an "apple ranger"? lol
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« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2005, 01:15:37 pm »
Hmmm im not sure weather to laugh or pray...
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« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2005, 03:22:01 pm »
If this happens I will laugh a hearty laugh, then but Steve Jobs instead of Scott Kevill.
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« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2005, 03:47:49 pm »
I'm sure kevill will still be in there somewhere. He's got mad user base as well as the infrastructure already in place. We're a prebuilt market!!
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« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2005, 04:49:53 pm »
... But whats in it for apple? a yearly fee... smells like .mac

hmm if .mac came with a gaming service that would be a mighty fine idea of pushing the gaming market up a touch...
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« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2005, 04:57:23 pm »
.Mac idea is pushing my speculation on the service. Recently apple offered developers a free .Mac SDK to integrate into their applications. I think this is the beginning of software distribution via the internet in a much more serious way. A apple gaming service could push game purchase and DL via internet.
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« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2005, 05:25:15 pm »
well in terms of buying games online they have it all there - and its not hard to integrate into the itms in that sense of 'one click purchasing'  .. but i don't think its there - it think the emphasis here is on a sense of integration definatly - and .mac seems to be the 'internet services' setup that a gaming service would fit into perfectly - idisk, mail services, web-hosting, game hosting... just fits very nicely

... I don't supose Scott is exactly going to post here and enlighten us to all these rumors however! Wink
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« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2005, 05:31:33 pm »
It would save places like amazon.com to have one click buying.
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« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2005, 06:53:29 pm »
I dunno if Apple would do something like that, though. Gameranger is (pretty) well-known in the Mac community, and pushing him out so Apple could have it's own thing just doesn't seem very Appleish. Bad public-relations, yanno?
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« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2005, 06:54:56 pm »
Unless they are doing a itunes style software deal where they buy the techology and 'applefy' it to look all smexy etc. Scott gets loadsa money, keeps his job, and GR suddenly has big money behind it...

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« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2005, 08:28:51 pm »
heeey, i had the same dream... it can't be coincidence! Roll Eyes
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« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2005, 08:34:42 pm »
Apple weuld get fewer players and people would stay on GR if we had to pay to play.  At Apple.
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« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2005, 08:43:48 pm »
I think it's actually very like apple to expand into the market of successful third party software makers.
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« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2005, 12:29:59 am »
Quote from: DarK. on January 28, 2005, 08:34:42 pm
Apple weuld get fewer players and people would stay on GR if we had to pay to play.  At Apple.

I would have to disagree. So many people are paying for GR Premium, I don't think they'll hesitate to pay for an Apple gaming service...  I know I wouldn't hesitate to drop some more money into Apple for a new online gaming service.

Apple, I'm sure, would end up with many more users than GR over time.
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« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2005, 05:52:29 am »
Apple needs TV ads to draw in users. A gaming service along with all their other apps would add more authenticity.
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« Reply #15 on: January 29, 2005, 01:55:27 pm »
There are several advantages - firstly they expand the .mac capabilities in a field that in my opinion apple have been pretty quiet on. secondly they can bundle this software with every single mac that leaves the factories which game-ranger can't do. thirdly they can show game developers etc that they are serious about mac gaming and with this help people to realise that mac gaming is a real option - if there is more support for mac gaming then your going to sell more macs, if you sell more macs your going to get more mac gamers.

In terms of mac gaming at the moment i see two huge problems. The first problem is called DirectX
the second is Middleware gaming technology (for instance phyics engines like havok)
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« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2005, 12:54:55 am »
Quote from: Mr.Mellow on January 28, 2005, 06:53:29 pm
I dunno if Apple would do something like that, though. Gameranger is (pretty) well-known in the Mac community, and pushing him out so Apple could have it's own thing just doesn't seem very Appleish. Bad public-relations, yanno?

They already did that with Konfabulator.
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« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2005, 01:04:04 am »
Once you pop start u can't stop (ripping off other applications) Wink 

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« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2005, 01:17:59 am »
Konfabulator was a rip off of a application designed into pre OS7.
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« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2005, 01:28:04 am »
These sorts of rumors seem to come up pretty regurally, how often do they turn out to be anything?
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