[Woolie Wool]

I just heard on the news about a bunch of theives who stole a painting from a museum in Scotland. I was too late to hear the name of the painting on the news, but I caught the part where it said the painting was worth FORTY MILLION DOLLARS.

[Tiara]

I still can't see why people pay $40000000 for a damn painting. No matter how rare.

[mikhael]

It was a Leonard Da Vinci. It doesn't get much more valuable than that. I can understand it being $40M. You're talking about one-of-a-kind, never to be recreated, touched-by-the-master-himself. Yeah. That I can understand.

There's a lot of other stuff in the world that's overpriced for what you actually get. There hasn't been a car made in the last fifty years that was worth more than $5000. Neither Intel nor AMD have made a chip that was worth more than about $20/ea. There hasn't been a console/handheld that was worth more than $75 in the history of the industry. Most of us, however, have paid much more for any number of these things.

[diamondgeezer]

Well, it's worth as much as you're willing to pay for it isn't it?

[Woolie Wool]

Of course. If people are willing to pay $500 for a chip, it's worth $500.

[Fineus]

And that my friends is why computer games, CDs, videos and many other kinds of media are so vastly overpriced.

Unfortunately, De Vincis can't be passed around via Kazaa

[diamondgeezer]

You don't have the new version?

[Tiara]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
You don't have the new version?

Yeah, I've had my version poop out Rembrandts through my floppy drive

[diamondgeezer]

I'm d/l the complete collection of Monet's water garderns... you know, the ones with the bridges and stuff. This oil-on-canvas printer was worth the money

[Nico]

Originally posted by mikhael
There hasn't been a console/handheld that was worth more than $75 in the history of the industry.

I just wanna say that the Xbox is currently sold at loss, so I guess we actually pay it cheaper than what it's supposed to be ( just an exemple, mind you )

[Zeronet]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
And that my friends is why computer games

Well computer games cost millions of pounds to make. They actually reckon a lot of smaller companys are going to disappear with the advent of the next wave of consoles, as development costs rise so much so, that they can no longer make a profit.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Unless the police (or someone else) is able to retrieve the painting it'll be very long before we'll be seeing it again as it'll probably end up in some rich ****tard's personal collection so he can drool over it in the knowledge that no one else can enjoy it.

If they find him I hope they shoot him

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
I'm d/l the complete collection of Monet's water garderns... you know, the ones with the bridges and stuff. This oil-on-canvas printer was worth the money

Man, KaZaA has EVERYTHING! I downloaded the actual water gardens that inspired those paintings - they flooded my hard drive they were so big!

[Fineus]

Ha. Ha.


*coughs* Anyways... I guess computer games do cost a lot to develop - but not to produce. And a lot of money goes to the producers that should be going to the developers. At £40 a piece, thats a lot of money per sale!

[Solatar]

Well, everybody has to make a living. But then again if you already have more money than you know what to do with, you get more.

Corporate bastards...

More money to the developers *waves banner*

[Taristin]

More money to me!

[phreak]

figure a team of 25-50 people (volition's case over the years), working for two years with about $35,000-50000 average salary

[Stryke 9]

Originally posted by Crazy_Ivan80
If they find him I hope they shoot him

YES! Death penalty for burglars! Or art collectors! Not clear which, let's just kill them all! And the children, too!

****in' children. Why can't they just goddamn grow up for once?

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Crazy_Ivan80
Unless the police (or someone else) is able to retrieve the painting it'll be very long before we'll be seeing it again as it'll probably end up in some rich ****tard's personal collection so he can drool over it in the knowledge that no one else can enjoy it.

If they find him I hope they shoot him

Originally posted by Kazan
let's string him up by his balls

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Stryke 9


YES! Death penalty for burglars! Or art collectors! Not clear which, let's just kill them all! And the children, too!

****in' children. Why can't they just goddamn grow up for once?

Some people take things too far.