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English forum => Small talk => Topic started by: llamalord on August 19, 2008, 03:11:51

Title: 3rd party
Post by: llamalord on August 19, 2008, 03:11:51
We're always talking about 3rd Party this and 3rd Party that but does any one even know where this saying comes from.  Who are the 1st and 2nd Parties?  Where is this Party any way!?! :D

No really. :-\
Title: Re: 3rd party
Post by: Master Captain on August 19, 2008, 03:14:49
well heres my 2 pennies ( 2 cents :P) take a video game for example. 1st party would be the developer. 2nd may be workers of the developers. 3rd party is someone completly seperate, just like a customer, they have no prior knowledge, and game companies use 3rd party companies all the time for testing. ;)
Title: Re: 3rd party
Post by: Agent|Austin on August 19, 2008, 03:20:39
There is no 2nd party.

In the video game industry, many third parties publish the games they develop, such as Electronic Arts and Ubisoft, while others only develop games to be published under other companies, such as BioWare (2nd party Xbox and 3rd party PC) and Raven Software. Furthermore, third party developers can be owned by larger third parties, such as the relationship between Neversoft (creators of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series) and Activision. Because of this, much larger third parties that also publish their own games are typically referred to as publishing houses and not third party developers even though they do develop many of their own games internally.

Another example is a developer that is a separate legal entity from the software being used, usually providing an external software tool that helps organize or use information for the primary software product. Such tools could be a database, VoIP, or add-in interface software, among others.

"A third-party developer is a developer not directly tied to the primary product that a consumer is using. The primary product may be hardware or software."

Such as a third party (Paw Productions) creating an software/hardware for the 1st party developer (VSTEP, Ship Sim)
Title: Re: 3rd party
Post by: Master Captain on August 19, 2008, 03:22:25
well true, i was just explaining what a 2nd party would be ;)
Title: Re: 3rd party
Post by: Mad_Fred on August 19, 2008, 04:47:08
Quote from: Agent|Austin on August 19, 2008, 03:20:39
There is no 2nd party.

There is actually.  ;D

If you had checked the "See also" links on that very wiki page you quoted, you would have seen it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-party_developer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-party_developer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_developer


Fred
Title: Re: 3rd party
Post by: Ship Sim on August 20, 2008, 00:40:47
Couldnt the second party be publishers and beta testers.

1 party development team

2 party Beta testers, publisher

3 party Indipendent mod creators that mess with game files, Like Moders did with SH3/4. ;)
Title: Re: 3rd party
Post by: Mad_Fred on August 20, 2008, 00:48:59
Check the links I gave, they explain who is who.  ;)

Fred