Topevoli wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:45:
If you load money onto a prepaid credit card it is not backed by the FDIC.

Also laws are great when the offenders are held accountable. These same banks that had to adhere to laws are also constantly lobbying to change them in their favor.

I'm not (trying) to troll, I am merely stating that this guy is no less credible than the average credit issuing bank.

In fact, he actually has to be accountable for his actions (or lack of action) as proven by his current predicament.

Bhruic wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:46:

Creston wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:09:
Obviously I see the differences between Arma3 and WarZ, but I still would much rather Steam not allow Alphas on there.

They don't really have a choice. They want to alpha test it, but they have gone the "integrated Steamworks" approach. So there's no real way to get it tested without going through Steam. And since Valve wants companies to use Steamworks (more money for them), they aren't likely to throw anything in the way of companies going this route.

Agent.X7 wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:24:
Often the marketing budget is equal to the development budget or more. Did you really think that million dollar statue of Isaac was going to sell more games?

If they'd rein in the spending and stop paying upper management money that they aren't worth, they could make all the Dead Space games they wanted.

ASeven wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:12:
http://i.imgur.com/vV8PLqv.jpg

Wallshadows wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 11:04:
The lawsuit brought on to Monster should be thrown out of court and the mother should be held liable for gross negligence and capitalizing on her daughter's death (if that's even a crime).

You have a kid frequenting Starbucks and regularly consuming energy drinks with a heart condition, it's either shitty parenting on not educated the kid and the dangers of caffeine consumption, mom not paying attention to daughter, or the kid was just a Darwin-award waiting to happen.

...or it could just be natural and is a classic case of correlation does not imply causation but try slipping that one by on a parent who's on the warpath to cash-in rather than being responsible and could have prevented this whole mess to start with.

Topevoli wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 11:41:

Creston wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 11:17:
I wouldn't trust Kim StupidName with a stale crust of bread, much less with any of my actual money.

Creston

As opposed to your bank?

Verno wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 09:51:
I know indies paved the way for this but I am really iffy about alpha stuff being on Steam, it just doesn't seem like a good precedent to set even with all of their other efforts at curation.

EA has listened to the community, improved, brought back what was good, improved again and made the most marvelous city creator you could ever imagine.

nin wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 11:07:

Enough monkeys have pre-ordered this that it's already a success.

Yes and no. I'm sure they thought Dead Space 3 was a hit on launch day, too. But you also have to factor in how many people are buying this next week or next month. And the more word of mouth gets out about the various issues, the more it's going to hurt that (hello, A:CM).

Mad Max RW wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 09:34:
This could be a case of now or never for a Torment followup. By the time Wasteland 2 is out long enough to bring money in from sales a few more years will have passed.

bhcompy wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 10:04:

Verno wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 09:48:
I wish the critics were taking less EA ad money and the users would ignore the DRM for 20 seconds and comment on the actual game quality. It's difficult for the average user to find a reasonable in between these days.

Ars Technica has a moderately scathing review. Cities are too small, lack of save/restore limits gameplay, traffic simulation sucks as always, bugs galore, upgrading roads destroys surrounding buildings, etc.

Mikus_Aurelius wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 10:59:
I don't mind always on DRM that much. I probably won't play til the weekend anyway. I know some people do and they're welcome to that opinion. I'm not trying to start a fight there.

I do mind a program scanning my hard drive and sending the info to EA. I was under the impression that there are ways to make sure Origin doesn't see anything on my HD and reports back a blank to EA.