ASeven wrote on Aug 10, 2011, 13:25:

Ruffiana wrote on Aug 10, 2011, 13:12:

This is the future. Anyone not wearing blinders saw this coming a decade ago. Adapt, or get a new hobby. Cause no amount or raging in the comments of gaming news sites will change the minds of the suits ponying up the money to make our digital crack.

Thank goodness we actually have an alternative with the indies, huh? You know, those devs that treat gamers with respect and not as their private wallets. It's this kind of decisions that pushes gamers to indies, and thank god you're in the tiny majority in accepting this. Be with mainstream games, the rest of us will be having fun playing rreal fun games. You know, indies.

And good strawman use by throwing pracy. Notch doesn't care about it, he's become rich nonetheless.

Verno wrote on Aug 10, 2011, 13:14:

Cause no amount or raging in the comments of gaming news sites will change the minds of the suits ponying up the money to make our digital crack.

You had some otherwise good points but this one is way off base. It's been shown time and time again that bitching does get things changed, particularly with regards to Blizzard games. They caved on a number of issues related to Starcraft 2 for example and it was a better experience for it.

Creston wrote on Aug 9, 2011, 11:22:
The possibilities are endless!

"The demand is, unfortunately, well... uhm... how do I say this... it's pretty much about zero."


Seriously, is anyone interested in this?

creston

Silicon Avatar wrote on Aug 8, 2011, 13:05:
iD software kind of lost me sometime after Quake 2.

Verno wrote on Jul 29, 2011, 14:23:
Plasma is a bit of an outlier in terms of price. Vendors have no choice but to compete on price because while plasma's typically have great PQ and black levels they also often have fucking ugly bezels, are heavier and still to this day use more power than comparable LED/LCDs. They have a negative stigma due to image retention and burn-in as well, many people think that they can't game on a plasma because the UI will burn in for example. Educating the public on that stuff takes years so its often easier to just break down the prices. That's mostly at the mid and low end of the market though. If you look beyond the entry level 3D plasma stuff, it's still very expensive.

mag wrote on Jul 29, 2011, 11:47:

Cutter wrote on Jul 29, 2011, 11:39:
LOL! Remember a few months back, Cres when some clown was trying to argue that 3D wasn't a fad and it was here to stay. Haha! I wish I could pull a Nelson on all those jerks who bought 3D TVs.

I actually want a 3D TV just so I can have an enormous display that can actually accept and display 120Hz inputs. Mmm, 120fps.

Tumbler wrote on Jul 28, 2011, 16:02:
LOL at the Fox internet video paywall. Considering who their audience is I find it hard to believe those folks are going to stick with them for a monthly fee. Fox keeps it real, real amurica! You want me to pay you! TAXES YOU MOTHER FUCKERS!!!! YOU'RE RAISING TAXES!!!!

Kajetan wrote on Jul 28, 2011, 06:54:

ASeven wrote on Jul 28, 2011, 06:01:
Fuck ubisoft and fuck anyone supporting this drm. The sooner ubisoft leaves the pc market the better.

Why should Ubisoft leave the pc market? They still make good money with pc games, because there are enough people out there, who use cracks or just endure the DRM, because they are emotional dependent on games.

Beamer wrote on Jul 26, 2011, 18:29:

Why develop yourself when you can acquire others to do the development for you? That's basically been both how Activision and Microsoft have run their game development systems.

Yes, and how Apple made their cell OS.
Acquiring someone isn't a subsitute to R&D and I'm surprised you're alleging that. Acquiring people isn't a bad thing. It's a form of R&D. Why reinvent the wheel, so to speak? If you can acquire a good team cheaper than building one why build it?

It's how you use them that is bad.

Icewind wrote on Jul 26, 2011, 14:10:

StingingVelvet wrote on Jul 26, 2011, 13:37:

verrul wrote on Jul 26, 2011, 12:27:
I really dont get why people get so up in arms over the most non-invasive DRM out there.

Well for one thing your claim it is the most non-invasive is not a fact. For people like me who have no desire to have Steam constantly running on their PC it is in fact very invasive compared to some other DRM methods. Whereas a recent game like Dragon Age 2 requires a one-time online activation to my EA account and can then be run on its own offline whenever I want, Steam requires me to boot up the Steam client every time I want to play. That right there makes Steam more invasive.

People who claim it is the easiest and least invasive DRM method are usually people who have it running all the time and don't have to deal with it's long boot time every time they play a game.

All that aside though I don't really care in the end. DRM free versions of everything are online for when I need them, if I ever do.

Internet and PC neophytes like you crack me up, Velvet boy.

Long boot times? How slow is your PC? Are you running something from the stone age?

Steam *is* the least invasive out there. Plus unlike any other DRM, you can buy games for less than 5 bucks when they are 10x that in retail.

I love laughing at the anti-steam pussy sniffers like you. All the cock-sucking little pansy ass fuckers that think Steam is some boogy man out to rape their virgin assholes.

Fucking pussy.

Warskull wrote on Jul 25, 2011, 13:38:
The voice acting? There are so many other, massive problems with the game. The fact that they don't address them in the slightest tells me either they are in denial or don't understand how they screwed up. Either way, it indicates we'll probably never see a good game from them again.

Creston wrote on Jul 6, 2011, 18:55:

Parallax Abstraction wrote on Jul 6, 2011, 17:52:
So the general consensus is that it's everyone's fault except the piece of shit thieves who stole and leaked an incomplete product and that this clearly means the game will sell better, even though there's not a shred of evidence to that effect? It's beginning to sound a lot like TechDirt.

You also don't have a shred of evidence to the effect that it will cause the game to sell WORSE. So I'm not really sure what your point is.

Creston