MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Nov 13, 2011, 19:23:
Yeah their FAQ was pretty general, they warn that some games MAY require Steam/Desura at some point in one of the bundles, basically.

zirik wrote on Nov 10, 2011, 17:30:
zynga management should have realized it in the beginning and given out stocks proportional to the employee contribution to the company. i agree that the company should be dragged to court and forced to honor their original offer. the google chef is a new term on an old phenomenon for successful companies. when home depot went public they created a lot of millionares. among them were secretaries/front lobby receptionists and one very lucky caricature artist who designed homer.

Creston wrote on Nov 7, 2011, 23:18:

nin wrote on Nov 7, 2011, 22:09:

Xbox 720 Will Be Cheaper, 'Far Smaller Than 360' And Run On Windows 9 [Rumor].

Wow, let's just totally make shit up! I got it: it has a built in toaster.

If it runs on Windows 9, it'll have a release date of 2016 at the earliest, so yeah, that sounds about right!

I think the 720 will also have really broad bands!

Creston

Sepharo wrote on Nov 7, 2011, 22:40:
That's great and all but I think I'll wait for the resident lawyer here to tell us what this means.

ChangWizzle wrote on Nov 5, 2011, 22:04:

Pete wrote on Nov 5, 2011, 20:34:

killer_roach wrote on Nov 5, 2011, 18:09:

Ozmodan wrote on Nov 5, 2011, 15:08:
AT&T just does not get it, there is no way anyone is going to let them merge with T-mobile. It basically makes them a semi-monopoly with one competitor, Verizon.

Any politician that lets that happen will be crucified.

This is why you're not an economist. The odds that the merger doesn't go through are minimal at best.

Leave antitrust talk to those of us who have actually studied it.

Was Ozmodan wrong with his statement?

More importantly, HOW was Ozmodan wrong with his statement? (

Ozmodan wrote on Nov 5, 2011, 15:08:
AT&T just does not get it, there is no way anyone is going to let them merge with T-mobile. It basically makes them a semi-monopoly with one competitor, Verizon.

Any politician that lets that happen will be crucified.

Kythlyn wrote on Nov 4, 2011, 16:57:
Isn't it a bit odd that this announcement comes only one week before the launch of the game? I thought gold announcements go out as soon as the final discs start getting stamped. The copies of Skyrim are already printed and sitting in warehouses ready to ship.

Prez wrote on Nov 4, 2011, 00:19:
I'm thinking they started a bit too early with the DLC. The 4 weapons and 4 maps made for a bit of a scarce intial offering, though then again it's hard to be too pissed considering the original $10 price tag. I'm going to get my game fully patched with all the DLC and get gaming.

Hudson wrote on Nov 3, 2011, 09:58:
Is Space Marine really a "RPG" at all? Or more like Gears of War with Warhammer 40k skins?

Dev wrote on Nov 1, 2011, 14:58:
Bundle now includes a couple more titles.

Yaogun wrote on Nov 1, 2011, 13:54:

Ozmodan wrote on Nov 1, 2011, 11:07:
The publishers are losing a lot of purchases with always on DRM. No matter how good the game I will not purchase one and there are a lot of people like me.

I'm the same way. I didn't buy HoMM VI even though I love the series, and I won't buy Diablo III. Like you say, there are enough good games that I can skip the DRM'd ones and still have plenty of fun stuff to play.

I do buy a lot of games on Steam, though, but offline mode is the key there.

Bodolza wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 13:42:

CommunistHamster wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 13:15:
Oh boy, time for another 200 posts of social conservatives vs social liberals on the topic of homosexuals!

I don't see this as a conservative/liberal division. It's much more libertarian/authoritarian, and there are plenty of each in both major parties.

Metasparks wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 11:24:
Sincerity at its finest.

Beamer wrote on Oct 27, 2011, 14:33:
So that guy just said black face is ok.



And the conversation is still including him...?

Xombie wrote on Oct 27, 2011, 12:00:
GLADD is a great organization, but they're not above criticism for manufactured outrage.

Dev wrote on Oct 27, 2011, 03:03:

Cutter wrote on Oct 27, 2011, 01:23:
Exactly my point. Bethsoft wanted it all but dind't want to pay what Herve was asking, and here were are 4 years later back at square one. You can't blame Interplay for trying to milk it for all it's worth. Bethsoft dropped the ball here thinking they could do an easy end-run. Now they're F'd in the A.

It would have been crazy to pay that much more for what it was at the time.

Domgrief wrote on Oct 26, 2011, 20:25:
Dear Media, please stop referring to Valve as some sort of hold-out against the evil DRM overlords. They pretty much wrote the book on modern DRM. Love, Domgrief.

Until Half-Life, you could rent online games

Until Steam, it was considered normal to be able to loan, give or sell games to your friends

Early versions of Steam behaved so poorly offline that it was effectively an almost-always-on DRM scheme

You can't buy, install and play an off-the-shelf Steam game without connecting to the internet and attaching it to your Steam account

They might speak out about some piracy-encouraging behaviours like localising late, but as a publisher they still support piracy-encouraging behaviours like it-costs-twice-as-much-in-Australia