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2003 Vaporware Awards 502

Posted by CmdrTaco from the annual-traditions dept.
7x7 writes "Wired News has the 2003 Vaporware Awards available for your perusal. Winning the Lifetime Achievement Award, if you hadn't guessed already: Duke Nukem Forever!"
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  • Re:Duke (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @01:05PM (#8033157)
    Why didn't they include Linux for the desktop? every year is "The Year Linux Is For Desktops" and every year it never delivers.

  • HL2 should not have been #1... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by fireduck ( 197000 ) on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @01:05PM (#8033159)
    I think Team Fortress 2/Half-Life Fortress should take that spot, if one really feels the need to slam Valve. Fortress was preselling at the time of HL's release. It then disappeared, sorta re-appeared as the free TF mod, and was re-confirmed with the announcement and subsequent E3 showing of TF2. Then it re-disappeared again, and apparently is gone, now that HL2 is soon to be up to bat?

    HL2 had the source code stolen thing, and that's an understandable delay in shipping. TF2 just makes no sense... (particularly given how impressive the technology demonstrations were at E3 however many years ago that was, 4?)

  • Re:Hurd (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @01:09PM (#8033202)
    How about an open source businessmodel that actually work for developers?

    We have heard it for years from zealots but I would say that hardly anyone has come up with a businessmodel that actually works. Redhat and IBM just selling other peoples work (read free labour) certainly doesn't quality.

  • Osama? (Score:1, Insightful)

    by tommck ( 69750 ) on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @01:10PM (#8033226) Homepage
    What about Osama bin Laden?

    He hasn't bin seen in person, but he's bin heard and bin quoted all over the place!

  • Knuth V4 (Score:5, Insightful)

    by jefu ( 53450 ) on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @01:19PM (#8033326) Homepage Journal
    About six years ago I got a response card thingy from one of the publishing companies. They were telling me that I could sign up then to buy Vol. 4 of Knuth's Art of Computer Programming. So I guess that can't count as last years vaporware. Their optimism should have counted for something though.

  • Speaking of which... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by devphaeton ( 695736 ) on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @01:19PM (#8033330)
    any one got a news on Gran Turismo 4 and Driver 3 for the Playstation2?

    I've followed these for the first year, and after watching the dates get pushed back again and again, i haven't looked in a bit.

    Just curious if anyone's got info before i spend half the day weeding through all the google hits for "driver 3 release date" over the last 1.5 years.

    oh please oh please oh please be better than the Stuntman game

  • Re:HL2 should not have been #1... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by sTalking_Goat ( 670565 ) on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @01:21PM (#8033354) Homepage
    How does the stealing of source code delay shipping?

    Was there just the one copy?

  • Re:Just A Reminder Everyone (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Hungus ( 585181 ) on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @01:26PM (#8033400) Journal
    if you paid them anything other than cash and it doesn't ship out in 90 days you have grounds for a small claims court judgement. With cash I think it is 120 days. Needless to say go to small claims court and file a suit against them for the amount of the prepay + whatever it costs you to file ( usually about 10 dollars) and unspecified legal costs. I can virtually garantee you that you will have a check from them before the court date. The reason? even if they feel they are entirely correct in not refunding you it will cost them more to send someone over to sit in the courtroom than what they owe you.
    Note I am not a lawyer but I often work with them. The specifics may be different from municipality to municipality but the court can advise you on the specifics. Thats why we vote for all those JPs and such.

  • Weren't we promised... (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @01:30PM (#8033449)
    Iraqui Weapons of mass destruction and peace in the middle east by GWB?

    Still waiting on those *sigh*

  • Re:HL2 should not have been #1... (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Lehk228 ( 705449 ) on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @01:31PM (#8033451) Journal
    they would have to review the code so that when you play you dont have a 1337 h4x0|2 p\/\/n ur 80x

  • Re:HL2 should not have been #1... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Ryosen ( 234440 ) on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @01:40PM (#8033537)
    Presumably, they want to re-work some of the game and networking code to prevent l33t 3xpLo145. Understandable since it's a safe enough bet that the cheating community has a copy of the internal workings.

  • Console? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by phorm ( 591458 ) on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @01:48PM (#8033624) Journal
    If we can nominate console games, I'm going to FFX-2. As the first FF sequel, it's a huge dissappointment. Gameplay is decent, but it's got way too much focus on sexuality (there's a scene where the girls compare boob sizes... how sad) as opposed to plot.

    Yes, previous FF games has some of these aspects (FF7 ending scene anyone?), but they were backed up with decent plots.

    FFX-2 is a combination of several mini-quests, many often fairly unrelated, using much of the original maps/graphics/etc of FFX.

    Cash-grab anyone? Squaresoft should be ashamed.

  • Questioning the pace of discovery of WMD ... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by burgburgburg ( 574866 ) <splisken06NO@SPAMemail.com> on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @01:49PM (#8033638)
    means the terrorists have won and that you are a tree-hugging, latte-drinking, body-pierced, tax-raising, gay-marrying enemy combatant. You might as well be questioning how we can be in the middle of a "recovery" if it is jobless, or how we are much safer now even though our military is spread far too thin and we've had to resort to not allowing people to quit at the end of their terms of service.

    Step away from the computer and await the relocation experts from Guantanamo.

  • Re:very important missing game (Score:2, Insightful)

    by El_Ge_Ex ( 218107 ) on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @01:49PM (#8033646) Journal
    Isn't EQ a big game, relative to anyone that would be playing Duke Nukem, even if it had come out?

    Why release a new one when there's more than enough suckers that pay for the current one?

    Kind of the same reason it will take a while for a new Sims engine to come out.

    -B

  • Re:E3 Needs to Change (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Mike Hawk ( 687615 ) on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @01:51PM (#8033665) Journal
    E3 is not for consumers. If you don't want to hear the buzz, don't listen. E3 is for publishers and other vendors to present their products to retailers. E3 is an industry trade show that is not open to the public. If you are disappointed by something that occurs based on E3, you have noone to blame but yourself.

    Now, something announced in a press release is another matter entirely.

  • Re:Do you folks even know what VAPORware is? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by NDPTAL85 ( 260093 ) on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @01:51PM (#8033669)
    20 years man. 20 years . Yes you can download a tiny part that somewhat works on a limited range of hardware. But its been 20 years. Its taken so long to be produced that it has become irrelevant. GNU runs just fine on Linux. And since GNU/Hurd would have the same damn license as GNU/Linux whats the point of using Hurd at all? People who want a better *NIX than Linux already have that choice in FreeBSD.

  • How can.... (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Mr. Troll ( 202208 ) on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @02:05PM (#8033800) Homepage
    How can Fallout 3 be vaporware if it was never offically announced? We only learned of it when the news came out that the BIS team had been canned....

    I dont consider canceled things vapor....hell, let's call TORN vaporware too....

  • List is dominated by games (Score:3, Insightful)

    by The I Shing ( 700142 ) * on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @02:07PM (#8033822) Journal
    I'd like to see the Vaporware Awards split up into some major categories like "Games," "Software," and "Hardware," or something like that.

    I don't eagerly await shipment of new games, being an old fuddyduddy with not a lot of free time, and I'd like to see some actual productivity and imaging products get on that list, in addition to all the games and wrist gadgets.

    What about that digital film that was supposed to come along? Whatever happened to that? I've got an old, sturdy 1970s Canon AE-1 Program that's just dying to come out of semi-retirement and use those extra-sharp FD lenses to make digital photos.

  • Re:probably best left on the drawing board... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by adrianbaugh ( 696007 ) on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @02:09PM (#8033855) Homepage Journal
    All Metallica's albums since and including the Black Album?

  • Re:Just a few... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by magarity ( 164372 ) on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @02:42PM (#8034223)
    Methinks you misunderstand the term at hand, "vaporware". Vaporware are products that never made it into actual release. No product that actually makes it to market is still vaporware no matter how lame, annoying, or poorly meeting expectations.

  • Re:interesting, but... (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @03:30PM (#8034718)
    Iraq brokered an 11th hour deal to once again allow unfettered UN inspections. Had he not made tht deal, WJC was fully ready to roll in with the troops, with or without international support. When Saddam broke that deal, GWB ramped up for war again.

    Who broke what when now? I seem to distinctly remember UN inspectors being on the ground and doing their job in the run-up to the iraqi war, with their efforts being dismissed out of hand by the Bush administration. Then they had to clear out not because saddam wanted them gone, but because war was coming.

    Now, we can argue all night about why saddam let them back in, but let's not try to argue that GWB invaded iraq because of the un inspectors. The run-up to the iraqi war clearly demonstrated he has zero respect for the un and its efforts. And even if he did care about it, he would have just let them do their jobs.

  • Re:interesting, but... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Homology ( 639438 ) on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @03:33PM (#8034741)
    Do your homework, and pay closer attention, and you will find that the reason is simple: Iraq brokered an 11th hour deal to once again allow unfettered UN inspections

    Heard that on Fox "News"? May I suggest that you don't swallow all and any propaganda/lies you hear.

  • Re:I nominate (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @03:46PM (#8034919)
    Dillo renders many sites just fine, but it can't render any slashdot page without it looking like an abortion. My point of the joke was that most slasdotters will go on and on about how people should adhere to standards and yet they frequent a site with hideous HTML. It's so bad that CmdrTaco disabled slashdot.org from W3's validator site.

  • Re:probably best left on the drawing board... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by cgenman ( 325138 ) on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @03:49PM (#8034951) Homepage
    Win ME?

    Win ME Plus?

    DVD's that can't play on Pc's?

    Napster 2.0?

    Both 2003 Matrix Movies?

    Memory Sticks?

    Incompatible ports at the bottoms of PDAs?

    Full-Speed USB 2.0?

    That Deus Ex demo. You know, the one where the mouse was turned off.

    Did I mention Win Me? Win Me Plus?

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