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SF4 and business and office horseplay

Jul 24, 2009 11:18

Street Fighter 4 for the PS3 was great, but... you see, PS3s are expensive, and some guys have Xbox 360s and some have PS3, and we can't play against each other. And few companies will approve buying a PS3 or Xbox 360 for the office, especially during these trying times.

But EVERYBODY has PCs. And companies have LOADS of PCs.

So I've moved all my SF4 gaming to the PC, both at home and... in the office. Yeah, you heard right, in the office. I now get to play against people I work with everyday, and punch the living daylights outta them, both at home and in the office (after hours).

We set up a killer rig for cheap, jerry rigging it from all the spare parts we found around the office, sponsored a couple of killer joysticks (Hori Real Arcade Pro 3 non-SA edition), connected it up to the Net and a projector, and we now have Street Fighter 4 in the conference room on a 120-inch screen.

We had only one joystick yesterday (the other one is coming in today) and it was crazy. StarHub for corporates has incredibly great ping times, say... European mainlanders give me two bars of signal at home, but in the office we have four bars. We were power levelling one of our guys and won 15 matches in a row against everyone we could find online.

Anyway, we decided that it would be great to have our office SF4 company account at Windows Live, but I can't share with you the gamertag as stupid Xbox Live is experiencing errors but still spamming us to verify our email addresses. Stupid thing, Live. In an attempt to integrate Windows with the online gaming platform, I also had to spend days researching HOW to make the world see that I was from Singapore instead of the default US. This is one brilliantly poor effort from Microsoft, in line with the rest of its stuff, which is... typically falling asleep for seven years since XP was launched, while bleeding R&D money all the while.

An exception has to be made for Windows Media Player though, the best software Microsoft has ever released in a long while.

While we're on the subject of SF4, it's nice to note that we bought hundreds of copies of SF4 for PC from somebody and bundled it together with some high-end graphics cards and power supplies, and it sold terrific. It's probably worth mentioning that when we bought these hundreds of copies of SF4 we probably depleted SF4 stocks for a while.

In the meantime, now we have SF4 in the office, a real cheap way to emulate Commander Adama's free-for-all boxing match to relieve stress and to punch the living daylights outta the guy you really wanna punch at work.

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Michael Tan is lucky enough not to have to choose between his job and his passion. He is the responsible for all aspects of developing new businesses and sourcing new productlines for a regional IT distribution company. He also oversees the company's legal affairs as General Counsel. In real life, he is a technology enthusiast, from both the fun and business viewpoint. The only choices he has to make are whether to play with his astro telescopes, his PC games, his Wii console, hit the track, tweak his car, or refine his biofilters, post his blogs, research for a new digicam, scour every forum to feed his habit further, play with his son… You can reach Michael at michaeltanyk@gmail.com ALL BLOGPOSTS ONLY REFLECT MICHAEL'S OPINIONS AND NOBODY ELSES'.