User Information - Will

Jerykk wrote on Dec 23, 2012, 17:12: Good to see that Interplay's cash grab is failing miserably. Half a percent of visitors tossing money their way isn't a bad rate when you compare it to spam email. By pure numbers the total cash might be a failure, but if that percentage continues as the story grows (remember its the holidays right now, so the story is just starting) then they could pull in some significant money. Edit: What IS encouraging through, is the amount of comments on the black isle site of people with a clue who see this for exactly what it is. I have no idea why they allowed comments on the main page with direct viewing for all visitors. I predict they will disable that as soon as they notice how toxic that is, perhaps with a moderation attempt first. This comment was edited on Dec 23, 2012, 17:32.

10.

Re: On Sale

Dec 23, 2012, 17:10

If you get the train game, don't forget there's a zombie DLC for it

News Comments > Op Ed

11.

Re: Op Ed

Dec 23, 2012, 16:55

nin wrote on Dec 23, 2012, 16:39: ASeven wrote on Dec 23, 2012, 16:36: This screams scam so clearly and loudly I'll be surprised if anyone at all will give them money. I'd love to see a tally of number of people/amount pledged. I suspect they won't through, for obvious reasons. I did a little more digging, they are using a crowdfunding site called invested.in to process the payments. Which actually does have stats. http://invested.in/projects/find Type v13, or black isle into that search box. 94 Contributors Raised $3,075 More info on the site: http://invested.in/help They are very skimpy on any details. Looks like very little in the way of controls or rules. Edit: 17566 Views not sure if those are views on the black isle site, or the invested.in site. But that means that half a percent of viewers are investing into it. Ugh. This comment was edited on Dec 23, 2012, 17:02.

News Comments > Op Ed

Re: Op Ed

Dec 23, 2012, 16:26

News Comments > Maxis: That's Rain on Your Leg

The actual link (I decided to edit the URLs to remove the linking part, don't really want to drive traffic or search engine rankings to them, but I left enough for ppl to copy/paste to check it out): blackisle.com They ARE doing some form of crowdfunding, but its NOT kickstarter, or indiegogo or anything else like that. They are doing it all through their own website. I'm guessing that's to avoid even the minimal controls and rules that places like KS have in place. This is pretty simply a money grab by Caen bros, who are basically trying to milk interplay's corpse dry. If you look at their financials for the term in which they were trying to dev fallout online, their BONUSES seemed to be more than the miniscule amount they spent to work on fallout online. Be sure to read the FAQ: blackisle.com/frequentlyasked.html Will my contribution get me a copy of the Project V13 game if it is released? No. What do the funds go to? Here's one item: Interplay's corporate expenses aka Caen bros pockets. They talk about how they will refund if they don't bother to make a forum, but they say they will only refund money thats not spent. Then in the very next section it says its "non-refundable" anyway. Oh also I noticed that they promise "immediate access to a private forum" despite the fact they haven't even made one yet! I wonder if they are going with that bulgarian masthead company again, with the one mostly failed MMO to their name. Whatever they are doing, if they had any work done at all, its going to have fallout references removed, and still trying to cash in on fallout. I mean look at the name, they using V13 as the game name (which beth doesn't own) and black isle as the studio name (despite that its basically black isle as a name only, nothing else). Basically handwaving and shouting, HEY LOOK AT ME, GIVE ME MONEY BECAUSE YOU THINK OF FALLOUT WHEN YOU SEE THIS! This comment was edited on Dec 23, 2012, 17:36.

86.

Re: Maxis: That's Rain on Your Leg

Dec 23, 2012, 16:07

Simon Says wrote on Dec 23, 2012, 06:52: looks at drm, looks at 56k modem facepalm Heck even steam nowadays is a no buy for me. Logging on takes forever, once logged on, bing bing mandatory update to steam. Once steam is updated bing bing mandatory 100+ meggers patch to download before being able to even try to start the damn game that's supposed to be playable in the shipping state. ctrl-alt-del kill process throws 60$ in the trash Thx bbye. Steam updates are optional to restart the computer. They are also pretty small, since the client itself isn't that large If you set steam into offline and play only there, you can get at least a few weeks out of playing most of their games without patching it. You can also set games to never update, although steam seems to have issues with respecting that. If you are indeed on a 56k modem, there are some things you can do to help or mitigate the situation. For instance, libraries often have broadband access and/or wireless. Many free wireless hotspots are out there. Most of GoG titles once you download them they install and you are done. So if you were able to download them at a friends house, that would get the titles installed at least.

13.

Re: On Sale

Dec 23, 2012, 00:28

jacobvandy wrote on Dec 22, 2012, 23:38: I didn't have issues either, however many months ago. But they just recently released a brand new client app that totally drops all pretenses of it still being Impulse, plus mandated the merging of accounts. If you go to try and login now, in the new version, consider yourself lucky if you don't have to jump through a bunch of hoops. Oh joy.

10.

Re: On Sale

Dec 22, 2012, 21:48

Maybe its just me, but I didn't have any problems (at least that I can recall, its been a while) logging into gamestop with my impulse login. Of course, that doesn't mean I'll be buying anything from gamestop (unless they have incredible steamlike sales, and that doesn't look like it will ever happen). Also, I will also rebuy as much as possible on steam if they are on sale for a good price. I'm glad to see stardock is seeing the light of day and starting to put up their old titles on there.

Re: On Sale

Dec 22, 2012, 20:27

News Comments > Maxis: That's Rain on Your Leg

Cutter wrote on Dec 22, 2012, 19:42: I'm surprised nothing really going on on GMG. They had a big 1 day sale where they had 75% off a bunch of packages, just a couple days ago. Now they are re-running those packages one a day. Today its the one mentioned above.

47.

Re: Maxis: That's Rain on Your Leg

Dec 22, 2012, 18:06

News Comments > Project GODUS Funded

opie wrote on Dec 22, 2012, 17:57: If you need EA's contact info: (cause it is hard to find) Actually I'm more interested in VALVE's info. Since they've been dragging their heels through the stupid support ticket system. Its been like 3 weeks now, after I purchased a package that said it included a particular item, and it didn't. They also keep trying to close my support ticket without resolving it. Or does valve have twitter or something? I know gabe's email is public, I wonder what would happen if I emailed that.

26.

Re: Project GODUS Funded

Dec 22, 2012, 16:22

News Comments > Project GODUS Funded

Fibrocyte wrote on Dec 22, 2012, 16:19: nin wrote on Dec 22, 2012, 13:30: 6 hours left on Limit Theory! I would fund it if the $15 hadn't sold out... oh well, I'll just buy it @ release. I've noticed sometimes in lower priced limited qty tiers a spot opens up in the last few hours, because people upgrade pledges.

25.

Re: Project GODUS Funded

Dec 22, 2012, 16:22

News Comments > Maxis: That's Rain on Your Leg

This is one game I'm going to wait until its out and read the reviews first before I get it. I think this mostly got funded because people read "populus" Only time will tell if funding it was a good thing or not.

38.

Re: Maxis: That's Rain on Your Leg

Dec 22, 2012, 15:52

LOL, just for fun I was checking origin yesterday. The only simcity that they show on the front page is an $80 digital deluxe version. Rhino wrote on Dec 22, 2012, 12:09: Leaderboards are fine for some games; but given that each player will have their own priorities or objectives then there is no consistent method of measurement for any leaderboard. That guy over there has a population that's several hundred times my own? Fine, assuming that I'm even trying to make a high population city. Plus, nearly EVERY SINGLE GAME I've seen with leaderboards has had hackers all at the top with impossible to beat scores. The very few that don't usually have to police them manually to remove hackers. I doubt they built the game from ground up to be hacker proof. And I doubt they will have someone whose entire job for the next 5 years is is to find cheaters and ban them and remove the scores from leaderboards. Except maybe snuggle trucks. I checked the leaderboards on that once or twice and they looked legit.

18.

Re: On Sale

Dec 22, 2012, 15:50

xXBatmanXx wrote on Dec 22, 2012, 12:52: Well, then something is wrong, as i have a top of the line rig....so I need to figure out what is going on... I don't know what, if anything, is going on. But, I've seen in a couple past games where maxing everything screwed stuff up (dunno if it was from drivers or just they didn't expect anyone to be able to max everything). So my suggestion would be to turn everything down a notch, or choose medium settings, as a first step to seeing what might be wrong.

Re: On Sale

Dec 22, 2012, 06:27

Sims still takes $155 to get all the DLC even on sale. If they ever offer a PACKAGE DEAL where I can get the whole thing for a reasonable price, I'd probably get it. I picked up the darksiders set from amazon (redeemed on steam), both so I could get codes for the stuff I didn't use (already had DS1, and it oddly gave you an uneeded code for one of the DLC), and because it was cheaper. jimnms wrote on Dec 21, 2012, 23:24: http://www.gamersgate.com/DDB-BETHESDANYC/bethesda-new-year-collection-bundle Interestingly thats NOT the same beth bundle as whats on steam for $90: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/18743/ While they both include a lot of the same games, the steam one includes id stuff like quake and doom, while the gamersgate one includes things like rogue warrior and hunted something or other (which is doubly odd considering that gamersgate says they are steamworks).

Re: On Sale

Dec 22, 2012, 06:25

Going to repost what I did in the previous thread: Not going to get them all at $60+. Now if they had a 75% off on the PACK as well, I'd probably pick it up. Plus I already own the best of them in steam, most of the splinter cell ones. Since I was bored: Tom Clancy's EndWar Metascore 68 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter Metascore 80 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 Metascore 76 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Metascore 80 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Desert Siege (expansion) Metascore 82 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Island Thunder (expansion) Metascore 82 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Metascore 71 Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. Metascore 70 Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 Metascore 66 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Lockdown Metascore 59 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 Gold Metascore 85 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas Metascore 85 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Metascore 78 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Metascore 92 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction Metascore 83 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent Metascore 80 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Metascore 91 This comment was edited on Dec 21, 2012, 16:24.

141.

Re: Steam Holiday Sale

Dec 21, 2012, 16:14

Not going to get them all at $60+. Now if they had a 75% off on the PACK as well, I'd probably pick it up. Plus I already own the best of them in steam, most of the splinter cell ones. Since I was bored: Tom Clancy's EndWar Metascore 68 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter Metascore 80 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 Metascore 76 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Metascore 80 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Desert Siege (expansion) Metascore 82 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Island Thunder (expansion) Metascore 82 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Metascore 71 Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. Metascore 70 Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 Metascore 66 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Lockdown Metascore 59 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 Gold Metascore 85 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas Metascore 85 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Metascore 78 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Metascore 92 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction Metascore 83 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent Metascore 80 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Metascore 91 This comment was edited on Dec 21, 2012, 16:24.

139.

Re: Steam Holiday Sale

Dec 21, 2012, 14:11

My advice: Do NOT buy the tom clancy's bundle today: $64.81 Price of individual games: $67.99 Bundle cost: Turns out the bundle costs MORE then getting ALL the individual games. So buy the ones you want instead. So with that said, anyone know what the best games in the series were? $2.50 per game on most of them right now. This comment was edited on Dec 21, 2012, 14:19.

137.

Re: PoP

Dec 21, 2012, 13:47

News Comments > Jagged Alliance Online Updated

Ant wrote on Dec 21, 2012, 13:06: Dev wrote on Dec 21, 2012, 11:09: Bats: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time is a GREAT game, I think that was one of my favorites of all 4 new PoP games. Ditto. I wished they had that 2D Xbox 360 remake for computers. I would SO replay that in Windows/Linux/Mac! I loved the original 2D game and its sequel on my IBM PS/2 Model 30 286 10 Mhz system! Doesn't GoG have the original PoP 1 & 2? Also, I heard about the thing with xbox, how was it remade?

Re: Jagged Alliance Online Updated

Dec 21, 2012, 12:01

Thanks for the info!

129.

Re: Steam Holiday Sale

Dec 21, 2012, 11:49