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Re: hmmmm |
May 25, 2005, 13:37 |
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Between designing a game for a buttload of variables in terms of each person's computer setup, to software piracy it's no wonder so many are turning to the console market.
It constantly amazes me that people talk about software piracy killing the PC game business and act as though consoles are somehow safe from it. If you actually look, pirated copies of x-box and PS2 games outnumber the amount of pirated PC games on the internet.
Just as you can get any PC game illegally, you can get any console game you want illegally as well.
I also have to agree with Shataan on the system variations when it comes to programming. There are only two video card makers that both have unified driver solutions and both of those use D3D, so they really only have to program for D3D and debug for 2 drivers, not for each individual card.
There's really only one sound card company out there (however much I wish there were more), the rest are onboard solutions that all use essentially the same chipsets and instructions. There's been very little advancement in PC sound reproduction in the last couple years and I doubt that will change any time soon.
There are only two CPU manufacturers to take into account and neither requires that you implement their proprietary special features to work.
Beyond those, everything else is standardized. There's nothing special you have to do for different motherboards, hard disks, dvd-rom's, etc. to get them working.
There are only three areas that I've seen common problems with in PC game development and only one of them has anything to do with game programming.
1) Users that don't know how to properly maintain their systems. (Spyware/adware/virii/driver updates)
2) Poorly made or hard-coded routers that interfere with online games. (Largely from Linksys' lower end line in my experience)
3) Constantly advancing copy protection schemes that cause more problems than they solve.
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| News Comments > 3000AD vs. DC Rd 2 |
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Re: No subject |
May 18, 2005, 19:16 |
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Only a Small handfull of people who actually PLAY THE GAMES come away not liking them.
Oh my, that comment just made me chuckle. I do happen to own UC, I found it in the bargain bin of a local computer store that was selling it for $5.99 cdn just to get the crap off their shelves.
I played it and within 5 minutes found more bugs and glitches than I had in any other game I'd ever purchased (and I've seen some buggy releases... galaxies anyone? Global Operations?), from walking through walls of buildings as a marine to distorted textures, a ground combat system that was barely functional, ai that couldn't figure out how to get around a building, plus to top it all off a ctd when trying to go back to the main menu. It was good for a laugh if nothing else, and that's precisely what every gamer I showed it to did. Laugh. Hard.
It must be comforting to think that anyone that says they don't like the game is just part of a grandiose conspiracy against Mr. Smart and his games. He brought on the reputation himself, no one helped him with it. From insulting customers who just wanted to get the game working, to filing lawsuits against everyone he works with to lying and boasting and bragging all whilst creating nothing but crap. I do have to give him credit for two things though... he always manages to find someone to fund said crap and what's even harder, manages to find people that enjoy playing with crap.
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| News Comments > 3000AD vs. DC Rd 2 |
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Re: Oh Derek |
May 18, 2005, 16:30 |
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I don't even know why publishers bother to work with him anymore... It's not like his games actually sell and he seems to bring pretty much any publisher he works with to court for some reason or another.
I mean... who in their right minds would pay someone to produce a shoddy product, and then take abuse from them afterwards.
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| News Comments > 64-Bit Far Cry |
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At least they kept their word. |
May 11, 2005, 02:57 |
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I don't really understand the foolish people claiming it's some sort of gimmick or marketing ploy. The game has sold all the copies it's going to and they know it. If they get any sales now, they're insignificant compared to the costs involved with producing and testing a patch that size. With their next project so far on the horizon that few even know it exists, you can hardly call this a marketing tool.
What they did that is of particular importance to me, is keep their word. Very important, in fact, especially with the recent fiascos involving Ubisoft with GR2 PC, and VU/Irrational with Tribes Vengeance. They said they were going to release this patch ages ago, and while it took longer than I would have liked, they had the balls to follow through. Gimmick or no, I may buy their next game just for that reason alone even though I wasn't particularly fond of Far Cry itself.
As for Far Cry MP, Dagok is absolutely right. The game's MP was dead the moment it was released for various reasons, not the least of which being shoddy netcode and the focus on a poorly executed primary gameplay mode. Pity, since the graphics engine was so impressive, it could have been a great game for the competitive community.
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| News Comments > Rainbow Six: Lockdown Release Plans |
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Re: This is crap! |
May 11, 2005, 02:31 |
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I imagine he's referring to the Black Arrow expansion to Raven-Shield that only came out for consoles.
Edit: I suppose that should read expansion to RB6:3 since it wasn't really for Raven-Shield at all, just the drastically changed console version.
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| News Comments > Bizz Buzz |
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Re: Ubisoft |
Feb 3, 2005, 00:14 |
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That's actually only part of the story. According to Bloomberg.com, the Queubec provincial government is giving Ubisoft $52 million on top of the $5 million that the Canadian Federal Government is handing them.
I don't personally support the move, but hey, maybe they'll make games that work now instead of Raven-Shield (note that they left that out of their list of games made by Ubi montreal in all these stories).
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=a5rOdD8KSDJA&refer=canada
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| News Comments > EA & Ubisoft |
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Re: 20 percent |
Dec 21, 2004, 00:56 |
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...they're the Microsoft of the game industry...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't Microsoft be the Microsoft of the game industry?
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| News Comments > Valve Wins Cyber Café Suit |
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Re: Get the Vivendi Finger OUTTA THERE! |
Nov 30, 2004, 00:37 |
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This really isn't something new... It makes me wonder why some people act as if Valve is the devil incarnate for doing it. ANY form of entertainment that you take and use for commercial means requires you to pay extra. It's as simple as that.
Movie theaters have to pay through the nose to play the movies they do. Why? Because they charge the public and profit from the showing of someone elses work. This ruling just goes to show that games are no different.
Also note when you buy a movie there are all sorts of warnings on them stating that it is a federal offence to try to profit from public showings of them.
When you buy an entertainment product, be it movie or game, you buy the LICENSE to use that product for yourself or your family. When you start charging other people to use the product you bought a personal license to, YOU ARE BREAKING THE LAW. That's all that was reinforced in this case.
Cyber Cafe's make money by charging people to play video games in a social setting. Buying single user licenses to games and then pimping them out to the masses to make a buck does not make them the 'good guys' that are being oppressed by the evil corporation. It makes them people who saw a loophole in a new market and exploited it as long as they could until someone stepped up and said that what they were doing does not follow suit with the legal standard set by the movie industry.
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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy - Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines |
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Re: Gimme! |
Nov 17, 2004, 12:12 |
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My computer is kinda old, AMD 2000 and GF3.
You have a Geforce 3 and are complaining about how the graphics in a game look like they're from 4 years ago? Your card is from 4 years ago, ever consider there might be a connection? At least wait until you see the game on passable hardware before you start insulting the graphics.
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| News Comments > Spaceships Ahoy - Space Interceptor: Project Freedom |
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Re: funny thing... |
Nov 9, 2004, 13:11 |
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Well, aren't all of the weapons in a space sim "air to air".
Technically, that would be space to space.
I think Jim's got the right of it (though I've not played so can't be sure). If you notice, in some of the screenshots they're flying around right near the surface of the planet. That's where you'd need air to air I'd guess. Not that they'd be much different from those used in space, but that's besides the point.
Edit: Except of course for the fact that in the screenshot you pointed out, they ARE in fact using them in space. Maybe it's to differentiate from ground attack weapons? Who knows...
This comment was edited on Nov 9, 13:14. |
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| News Comments > Counter-Strike: Source Update |
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Re: No subject |
Oct 26, 2004, 21:40 |
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Since steam is a requirement, the patch is forced upon you, and you're fucked.
Good to see you actually did some research or learned even one single thing about the topic you're arguing before making an ass of yourself, VoodooV.
No patch is ever forced upon you with steam aside from the updates to the steam software itself. Each and every game you have running through steam can be set up at the time of installation or altered at any moment in time to NOT autoupdate. You want the freedom to decide when to patch? Feel free to use it, it's right there and even in nice user-friendly menus if you bother to take five or ten seconds to look. (hint: It's in the properties for whatever game you're looking to change the settings for)
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| News Comments > Half-Life 2 Submitted for Certification |
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Re: Blame |
Oct 15, 2004, 19:23 |
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Instead of refuting what I say, go look for yourself. The USA attacked Najaf. About halfway time wise thru the attack, the hurricanes started. The USA kept attacking so another one came. 4 hurricanes. No one seen anything like it in 50 or a hundred years, I forget. You think that is an accident?
Perhaps you should look into what you're saying yourself. Try to look beyond that 'center of the universe' attitude and look at it in a more global context. The US wasn't the only place hit by these hurricanes. Many people in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and other locations died as a result of these storms and they had nothing to do with the US elections. In fact, unless I'm mistaken, the vast majority of those that died as a result of this year's hurricane season were NOT americans. Jeanne reportedly killed over 1500 people in Haiti alone. Could there really be that may Bush supporters there?
How does that fit in with your 'Karma' explanation?
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| News Comments > DOOM 3 Patch |
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Re: No subject |
Sep 29, 2004, 14:03 |
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But you're expressing your dislike for people who persistently express their dislikes - persistently. It's like the relativists and how they argue truth is relative, unless of course you disagree with relativism. Ok that was an obscure comparison, but you get what I mean
It appears you have the wrong idea of what's happening here. I don't dislike the good Captain, even with his obvious hostility, nor do I dislike anyone that lives in a negative cycle for that reason alone. What I'm suggesting is that it is unhealthy for the individual to behave in that manner.
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| News Comments > Half-Life 2 Held Hostage? |
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Re: No subject |
Sep 29, 2004, 13:49 |
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Actually no i'm saying EA and Codemasters are good publishers. I personally dont care for what they bring out, i agree it's all a load of shite. BUT what i am saying is that in the business sense they are excellent.
I almost forgot I had intended to comment on this. While it's true that EA generally meets it's release deadlines it does it by a do or die method for the developers. They force the games to be released at the expected time and if the game is not ready and buggy at release and doesn't sell well as a result, EA pulls the funding in a heartbeat. Ask anyone who played Global Operations about how 'good' EA is as a publisher.
Granted, it is the developers responsibility to meet their deadlines, but EA's methods are not what I would call ideal for their customers. The result is, you can never trust an EA game to play cleanly out of the box unless it is part of one of their major franchises, and even then that's not always true (BF:V anyone?).
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| News Comments > Half-Life 2 Held Hostage? |
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Re: No subject |
Sep 29, 2004, 13:35 |
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But the thing is that at the moment to download a game you have to wait in queues, trail the internet for hours trying to find a place that "serves" the game then download it mostly at a stupidly slow rate.
Unfortunately for game makers, this is not remotely true. You can find every single game that comes out in one place and the download speed is limited only by the speed of your connection. There are no queues, no slow download rates and for most no cost involved (dependant upon ISP). Much like everything else in the computer world, software piracy has evolved as well and has moved beyond www, ftp and IRC as base methods of transfer. The ISPs could interfere with one of the two major methods, but they just don't care enough to do it. In fact, I'm of the belief that some allow it to exist unhindered because it draws customers to them.
And for reference, I just did a quick search and both Barbarossa and Afrika Korps were made available through both these methods. I would agree that if EVERY company would go and sell only online then only the major names would be cracked. It wouldn't stop the system, but it would certainly slow it down from it's current pace. As well, to the best of my knowledge, more often than not, it's corrupt employees of the publishers that deliver the games more often than store salesmen.
I wonder sometimes what it is that video game companies are doing in an attempt to stop piracy. Nothing they've done so far has even made a dent and it's relatively easy for anyone to get information on how it's all done. They need to think up something better than the CD security that they're using now (safedisc, etc) because those don't even slow the pirates down for more than 5 minutes, which is somewhat silly considering how often they cause problems for people who actually bought the game. CD-keys for multiplayer games work decently as a deterrant, though private server patches eventually show up that allow limited MP usage for pirated copies.
Punkbuster did something useful about it with Raven-Shield, albeit inadvertantly by using their MD5 tool to check user's main .exe files for changes. While it annoyed some people that legitamitely owned the game and used No-CD stuff, it effectively made it so that anyone with a hacked, non-clone copy could not play online on PB run servers. Maybe that's part of the answer then... internal MD5 checks by the game to compare the server's executable with the clients, any that don't match are disconnected. Combine that with an automatic and forced update system for those who wish to play online or even for single player games on systems connected to the internet and that will interfere with the cracks that are shipped for a time, so long as the updates are frequent enough.
Steam may even be part of the solution as well. It's method of uploading files to your system in such a way that you can play the game without the complete content could end up working as internet connections become faster in the future. You buy a cd key, connect online and their system sends you the encrypted files that you need to play the game complete with a one time public/private key. The files only stay on your system for as long as you are playing, then they are removed automatically when you exit and the cycle starts all over again next time you want to play minus the need to pay again. With the way Steam works, allowing you to play before the download of the content has completed, it may make it take only a matter of minutes to begin playing a game.
Of course it all sounds very intrusive and inconvenient just to play a game, but in the future it will be possible to make it a seamless process.
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| News Comments > DOOM 3 Patch |
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Re: No subject |
Sep 29, 2004, 06:51 |
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Joseph, I'm hardly a pro and I make no effort to suggest that I am. While I'm aware that is likely sarcasm, it is in the end, unfounded.
I think perhaps you and some of the others misunderstood what I was saying, or at least in part, the point of it. Nowhere did I claim he should be more positive about the game, or about anything he dislikes. There's nothing wrong with disliking something or voicing that disapproval. However, doing so on a consistent basis every time the topic is raised leaves one focusing too much time and energy on that dislike. It's that overfocus on the negative that is self-damaging.
If you don't like the game or the movie or whatever else it happens to be at that point in time, by all means say your piece, but know when to move on. Consider an outside example of someone that dislikes say... spaghetti. If that person felt the need to express his dislike of spaghetti every time someone else mentions the word, wouldn't you find that odd? If you were in a restaurant and ordered spaghetti and some random person came up and told you how much they disliked it the first thought in your mind would likely be something to the effect of "What the hell is wrong with this person?" An odd example, perhaps but such as it is, one that suits my purpose. It's not the negativity that I question, it's the need to express that at every possible opportunity. That is why I characterize his comments as lashing out.
As for my comments being self-serving, in essence everything one does is self-serving in some fashion or another. That does not, however, mean that the advice is any less useful. You took it as an insult against him when it was in fact simply a suggestion that he could be happier by finding an alternate path. I could have likely worded it better, but what's done is done. For reference, I do not believe there are "lots of other possibilities" but that's another conversation outside the scope of this one.
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To the Captain himself, wasn't it you who commented earlier on people who feel the need to make personal attacks when they disagree with someone in lieu of providing proof of their opinion? Don't you find it ironic that you just did the same thing? More ironic even that the topic itself is your ceaseless negativity, which when commented on you respond to with more negativity complete with insults.
Self-expression is all well and good, but take a look at what you're expressing sometimes and how often. I'm quite certain you'll find a pattern to it very quickly. You claim that you want to make a difference in the choices made by developers, but do you really think that this course of action will accomplish that? I have my doubts as to whether or not that is the real motivation behind your posts.
Another question for you to consider. Why, when someone gives you a piece of advice, do you feel the need to insult them? Why do you feel the need to denounce them as 'children' or 'childish', elevating yourself in your own mind? Did that look in the mirror really hurt -that- much?
Everything I said boiled down to one simple rule of common sense. "If something bothers you, fix it. If you can't fix it, find someone that can. If you can't find that someone, move on. Dwelling on it is self-defeating."
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| News Comments > DOOM 3 Patch |
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Re: No subject |
Sep 29, 2004, 00:21 |
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gotta love how anyone who has a negative opinion of doom 3 has to be personally insulted by the fanboys, to prove how the fanboys are right about their positive opinion of doom 3
seems like that may indicate they dont even trust the self-evidence of doom 3 themselves
not surprising tho
Turn the mirror on yourself once and a while and take a long look. Why do you feel it necessary to voice your negative opinion about something you apparently care so little about that you've 'forgotten it' every time a thread appears about it? A plea for attention? Respect? Do you think it will make a difference in even the smallest way towards correcting whatever 'flaw' has disillusioned you so?
If your disappointment is so great over a simple game you disliked that you feel the need to lash out about it at every opportunity then perhaps it's time to re-evaluate your life. All you're doing is wasting energy by focusing on that which obviously upsets you. Energy which could be spent on something far more constructive. In all the time you've spent posting arguments and complaints about the game you could have spent researching modding texts and been on a path to correcting whatever injustice it is you feel has been committed against your person.
Negativity in and of itself is not bad. Negativity can lead in two directions though. It can move someone to look for a better solution or it can sit in a permanent cycle and just feed on itself. Only a lazy or emotionally unbalanced person allows the latter. A better solution can be something as simple as moving on to focus on something different that you happen to like. Why not take that route rather than allowing yourself to get upset every time you see the title "Doom 3"?
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| News Comments > Half-Life 2 Held Hostage? |
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Re: No subject |
Sep 28, 2004, 23:43 |
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Bad points:
Games released in parts and over the net (just like HL2 at the moment) will be cracked. No doubt about it. I predict within 2 or 3 days of all the preloads being on steam, someone somewhere will have cracked the Steam(or however it's released) protection and will offer a small 1 file that allows you to play without pay.
And that's different from store bought games how? They're cracked and released on the internet the day of or in many cases before the game hits shelves.
Publishers do suck, true, but only a minority. Look at Codemasters, look at EA. Need i say more?
I'm confused... you were talking about bad publishers being a minority, then you put EA up as an example of a good one? I sincerely hope you are joking or that I've misread your intent with that somehow.
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| News Comments > DOOM 3 Patch |
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Re: No subject |
Sep 28, 2004, 21:00 |
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Here's a thought. If you bashed the game 2 months ago because you hated it...more power to ya. But why do you feel the need to CONTINUE to bash it? Some of us actually like the game. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying "dont say anything if you have nothing nice to say" .... I'm definitely not saying that. But I just don't understand the need to keep on and on with the negative stuff about a game that supposedly was "forgotton in less than 3 weeks". Is the mere existence of this game actually causing you pain and sorrow somehow? I pity you if it is.
People these days need something to blame for the anger and disappointment underlying their existence that they cannot explain. In other words, they always need something to bitch about and if there's nothing current to bitch about, they'll bitch about something from the past because they're so locked into this negative cycle that they are unable to move on, however much they claim to have 'forgotten' about something.
It's not the existence of the game that is causing them pain and sorrow, but their own meager existence in itself. Personally, I'd save the pity for someone that deserves it, rather than someone that lives in constant oppression of themselves.
As for the game itself... I enjoyed the atmosphere but I doubt I'll ever play it through again. Bought at $50, played through once and got my fill, sold at $30. I got my $20 worth.
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