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| News Comments > MS's PC Gaming Disregard to Continue |
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Re: MS's PC Gaming Disregard to Continue |
May 23, 2013, 08:28 |
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I switched from Mac to PC in the mid 90s because it had 10x the games. Both surfed with Netscape. Both had Office. Games was the differentiator. Only the most popular games got ported to Mac, plus a teeny handful of Mac native games.
Given almost all PC games are now console games ported to PC (dragging horrible console design with them -- simple-mindedness, lack of varied powers and complexity, emphasis on button mashing and asinine "special move" key combos) is there any reason to stay with Windows any more?
I can surf on Android. Office-equivalent is available on Android. Now I am just waiting for big-name games. Unfortunately they are still for consoles, and this doesn't get around the console nature of everything produced...yet. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
May 22, 2013, 18:58 |
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Creston wrote on May 22, 2013, 13:31:
SpectralMeat wrote on May 22, 2013, 13:26:
Did they actually confirm the amount (if any) that a person have to pay for a second hand game if he/she wants to activate it?
Phil Harrison confirmed that the second user simply pays full price.
Creston
Anyone wanna bet Microsoft and the game producer take all of the "full" resale price, and that the original buyer gets a $5 store-only credit? Which can't buy anyhing but already-existing bits in a database? |
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| News Comments > Age of Conan Turning Five |
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Re: Age of Conan Turning Five |
May 22, 2013, 17:13 |
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Rattlehead wrote on May 22, 2013, 13:57:
Didn't they cut out toplessness along time ago in AoC?
Last time I checked in December, looking for something after City of Heroes shut down, it was there. |
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| News Comments > Age of Conan Turning Five |
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Re: Age of Conan Turning Five |
May 22, 2013, 12:28 |
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The only R-rated game with hooters. They need sliders for that, nipple diameter, and color.
Still, given they now have separate armor and armor looks slots, it's easy to run permatopless without sacrificing a major armor slot.
True, there's a topless statue in Tera Online, in the major city (and of a goddess at that) so there's some progress. |
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| News Comments > Morning Patches |
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Re: Morning Patches |
May 15, 2013, 13:59 |
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YYou can customize your looks after creation?
I already have the widest possible hips, the narrowest possible waist, the biggest possible hooters, the thickest possible lips, and the sexiest Leia slave girl metal bikini.
So...now what? |
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| News Comments > Star Wars Focused DICE Studio Coming |
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Re: Star Wars Focused DICE Studio Coming |
May 15, 2013, 11:25 |
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Wallshadows wrote on May 15, 2013, 10:54:
Being a fan of Republic Commando, I'm interested to see if this is the direction DICE will take since fps/action is their bread and butter.
"A Sith is trying to mind control you. Press RIGHT TRIGGER quickly to resist!" |
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| News Comments > Sunday Metaverse |
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Re: Sunday Metaverse |
May 12, 2013, 16:41 |
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"I would go into a room to get something, and by the time I got there I'd forget what I was looking for," says Alex Pang, a Stanford University technologist who'd barely turned 40 when he began to feel that life online was melting his brain.
It's called "getting older". I'm sure online surfing is causing your joints to start aching a little bit here and there, too. |
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| News Comments > Bethesda Game Vulnerability |
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Re: Bethesda Game Vulnerability |
May 12, 2013, 10:00 |
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Here's the exploit: The company continues to convince people to pay for the series in spite of it being fairly boring to many.
badda-boom! |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
May 12, 2013, 09:54 |
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jdreyer wrote on May 11, 2013, 22:15:
That flying car looks really cool, but I have no idea how that design generates the lift to fly without those lift props.
From the end of plane-based cars in the 50s, to today, the only real contender was something ironically similar to todays hexacopter toys and drones. It had 6 (8?) horizontal fans around the body, with the intent to give redundant safe lift. It was estimated to cost about $100k mass produced. It worked but never seemed to go anywhere even though the guy pushed it for decades. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
May 12, 2013, 09:45 |
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*Auction:*Rare Video Game Manual Fetches Over $1,000 In Auction
nostalgia: n. veneration of that which formed us. |
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| News Comments > Saturday Legal Briefs |
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Re: Saturday Legal Briefs |
May 12, 2013, 09:38 |
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You guys would have hated it in the 70s -- one, government-granted monopoly on phone, and one, government-granted monopoly on cable, based on the theory that "this city ain't big enuf fer two cable companies", a notion of the far left, and one that some around here would no doubt would have rubbed their chins and agreed with.
You had to pay extra for your phone, and didn't even have the choice of buying your own.
Now here we are 40 years later. A victory for choice. Good. Let that socialist command-and-control stuff lay dead and buried, while people memetically attack it the way they used to support it. |
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| News Comments > Gatherings & Competitions |
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Re: Gatherings & Competitions |
May 2, 2013, 15:27 |
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I know absolutely nothing about Elder Scrolls Online, so, at the high risk of making a complete fool out of myself, here goes:
Is it a game with a tough guy with a wet noodle in his hand and a magic power to make monsters attack him, while a healer and caster pew pew heals and damage?
Oh god, what if I'm wrong? I will be so embarassed. |
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| News Comments > EVE Online TV and Comic Plans; $149.99 CE |
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Re: EVE Online TV and Comic Plans; $149.99 CE |
Apr 29, 2013, 14:56 |
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Cutter wrote on Apr 28, 2013, 17:11:
BadIronTree wrote on Apr 28, 2013, 16:06:
LoL do you know any other MMO that 10 years after it came out is still getting BIGGER with more and more subscribers ?
from 350k it went to HALF a million now...
YES is a niche market but the people playing are hard core...
EvE is not for 10 year old COD kids 
Says who? CCP? Yeah, because they've never lied or cheated before. I'd be amazed if they even had an actual 50k persistent subscribers. And no, it's not for 10 year old COD kids. It's for 10 year old griefers who think the height of entertainment is trying to ruin everyone elses fun. When these comics fail to move and this TV show gets canceled after its failed pilot you'll see.
Thar's a fair description. People in 0.0 space will see someone from their own coalition, log on their alts from an enemy one, and go jump them.
This is not the same thing as legitimate conflict as you try to sneak through dangerous space, running into a warp scrambler in line-of-sight warping between stargates, or having a chance encounter with a bunch of reds. It:s pure griefing. |
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| News Comments > Thief Production Issues? |
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Re: Thief Production Issues? |
Apr 27, 2013, 10:09 |
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nin wrote on Apr 26, 2013, 23:40:
Hyatus wrote on Apr 26, 2013, 22:42:
lack of publisher oversight
What's the problem with this one?
They apparently made a game the publisher didn't like...
That either means they're way behind with just smoke and mirrors, or the design isn't actiony enough.
I'll go out on a limb and hypothesize the problem is not that it's not Thiefy enough.
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| News Comments > Gearbox Snags Homeworld IP |
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Re: Gearbox Snags Homeworld IP |
Apr 22, 2013, 18:09 |
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Brian intends as first priority to direct Gearbox's interest to preserve and assemble the purest form of the original acclaimed and beloved games, Homeworld and Homeworld 2, with the intent of making them accessible on today's leading digital platforms
Translation : Let the console-oriented rape commence.
In businessman-speak: We're re-imagineeringating it! |
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Apr 22, 2013, 14:21 |
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Cutter wrote on Apr 22, 2013, 10:59:
Mr. Tact wrote on Apr 22, 2013, 10:33:
While I agree it is a silly commercial it did what it was supposed to, put the product into your head.
No, it puts the product into your head in a negative way so you're less inclined to want one. Wtf do a bunch of breakdancing 20 somthings with bad clothes and hair have to do with a device that applies to me and my life? Zero. Less than zero actually. I'd be fucking embarrassed to be associated with said product after that. I can just see people seeing it and then asking you if youu have to breakdance in order to use it. There is bad publicity.
Hah! The ad failed then. I saw a laptop in my peripheral vision while some guy was one-arm hopping across a business meeting desk, so I knew it was a laptop ad, but for what who cares?
If I buy it will I become a good looking, in-shape man with black hair and 5-day short beard who gets the babes or will I use it to curl up on the sofa, rocketting even faster to a lonely, early death from heart disease? |
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| News Comments > Saturday Mobilization |
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Re: Saturday Mobilization |
Apr 21, 2013, 12:02 |
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I wonder what other carriers are trying to jack AT&T -- they should be big enough to force a mutual exchange concession. Other countries with government monopolies, maybe.
As for the other listed reason, some munincipalities outlaw cell towers then charge 4x the going rate to rent spots on their police towers. I don't know if that's the case here but NIMBY types should look in the mirror maybe.
I'd like more details. One of the other "mysterious fees" was phone companies making you pay for their regulatory burden to call it out into voters' faces. |
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| News Comments > Morning Previews |
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Apr 18, 2013, 19:48 |
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After reading the SW power changes, does anybody actually like that kind of gameplay?
"If you use this power and that other power is active and monster has one stack of X, then you get one stack of Y which gives you 1.5% damage reduction for 15s, stackable up to 3 times?"
Review the game that was made, not the one you think should have been made, sure, but I miss good old fashioned, straight-forward damage, buffing, and debuffing, and stats which directly affected it.
I guess I'm a small minority, and that's why City of Heroes is gone and stuff like this, WoW, and Champions Online, which also does this, are still around. |
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