My favorite part is the quote about the entire industry's advertising budget at $155 million. That is roughly Call Of Duty's advertising budget, all by itself.
Oh man, anectodal evidence! The best kind of evidence!
Let's put this another way: You realize that there is no piece of software that you run on a daily basis that isn't beta, right? We've been making software for only about fifty...
There is no difference between an Nvidia beta or release driver. It's just a matter of which set they bothered to send off to WHQL cert. Avoiding Nvidia betas is just silly.
"I always saw the purpose of points as three fold."
There are a couple of big ones missing here. A) Points move the value away from a specific country's currency. B) Tax becomes a lot more ambiguous in it's application.
Over the life...
"Is it worth $10 for the 3 fear games? I've never played any of them."
Fear 2 does a great job of telling an interesting story. Plus, you get to run around in a robot every once in a while. It's the weakest of the three, but it was...