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| News Comments > EA Can't Say It Wasn't Warned About SimCity DRM |
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Re: EA Can't Say It Wasn't Warned About SimCity DRM |
Dec 18, 2012, 14:33 |
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Fion wrote on Dec 18, 2012, 14:21:
On SimCityV, it does look significantly simplified. But I'm not entirely sure we've seen all there is to know. What we've seen in demo vids so far has been pretty simplistic. It seems to me that you could finish a modern city in days and when then is left? So I'm reserving judgement on the game. What I see I like, though I wish they'd add more classic SimCity features. Its unlikely. They said they were a small dev team and betting everything on the social interaction (aka always online DRM). They probably don't have the resources to do much extra beyond what you see. Probably because EA figures that its not sims, so it won't be worth investing much into it, since they aren't expecting many sales. Which also means that people can complain or boycott all they want, EA isn't going to care. In fact, probably the ONLY reason EA funded the project was because of the social interaction features. EA figures they want to cash in on some of the casual game category (hence popcap acquisition), so they are doing a test run to see how well a simplified game from an established franchise with social features will work. If it does, they will do lots more stripped down games.
So yeah, think simcity lite, simcityville.
Edit: Yeah see the response below me, I'm sure thats how it all went down. |
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| News Comments > EA Can't Say It Wasn't Warned About SimCity DRM |
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Re: EA Can't Say It Wasn't Warned About SimCity DRM |
Dec 18, 2012, 12:44 |
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from a dev on the AMA:
we put all of our chips down on the city simulation and on city regional play. That's the heart of the game.
Regardless of what happens, and how many people complain, they aren't going to be removing the always on DRM (aka regional play), they aren't going to add offline mode. As they've said, they've put all the chips down on that. The entire game is designed around that. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Dec 18, 2012, 11:39 |
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If money is tight, watch front page of slickdeals for SSD sales, thats when you can get the $50 for 120gb price.
Also, 5400 green hdds aren't the super slow things of yesteryear anymore. Modern hard drives of whatever RPM are pretty nimble things, simply because of platter density increases. I still wouldn't use one for OS drive though. |
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| News Comments > Project GODUS Prototype Footage |
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Dec 18, 2012, 05:37 |
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nin wrote on Dec 17, 2012, 23:06:
Could have sworn it was 357K earlier, and now it's 352. Comments section confirms it. Whoops!  I wonder if it was a couple big backers to pull out, or a bunch of little ones. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Re: Steam Top 10 |
Dec 18, 2012, 05:36 |
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Verno wrote on Dec 17, 2012, 14:59:
Steam now supports multiple paths for game installs in the official client as well, its kind of hidden in the settings but its there. Only with games that have had the data files redone (the kidna thing that makes you redownload anywhere from 1 meg to multiple gigs to reinstall the game). All other steam games you can't do it with. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Re: Steam Top 10 |
Dec 17, 2012, 12:46 |
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wtf_man wrote on Dec 17, 2012, 11:01:
As a stepping stone, I don't fathom the work of manually moving my games to and from an SSD to a hard drive... especially if it requires re-installation of the game. Thats when windows symbolic junction type links comes in handy. Move a folder, and link to the new place. Nothing will ever know its been moved.
Also a way to move steam folders around. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Re: Steam Top 10 |
Dec 17, 2012, 10:36 |
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Verno wrote on Dec 17, 2012, 09:29:
Get a quality PSU at or around 400-500W, Corsair sells rebadged Seasonic PSUs which are outstanding. Again avoid anything OCZ, their PSUs have the highest defect/RMA rates. I agree with this. I have a seasonic, they are awesome. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Re: Steam Top 10 |
Dec 17, 2012, 05:05 |
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InBlack wrote on Dec 17, 2012, 03:50:
Im thinking of diving in and buying a new rig, my girlfriend's daughter is in for a surprise this christmas as she will be inheriting my old rig which is her first desktop and a not too shabby one if I might say so myself. I might as well ask a few questions here:
1. SSD's are they really worth it? They seem too damn expensive ATM and besides RAM is so cheap wouldnt that just be overkill? (Boottimes are not important for me)
2. Im definitely getting the i7 its going to be the most expensive part of the rig, any suggestions so I dont go overkill seeing as its basically going to be obsolete tech next year?
3. Im going to actually keep my old video card and stick it in the new machine as Im happy with it and so far nothing has brought it to its knees. (The really taxing stuff has been on my CPU). Any suggestions on a cheap vid card to replace it in the old rig? (GF's daughter doesnt really game except for the really casual stuff)
4. Powersupply?! How much do I really need? 1) At $50 for a 120gb SSD, its not too expensive IMHO. Don't use it as your main storage, only use it for OS, your programs, and a few favorite games. Get a normal HDD for the rest.
2) Get the cheapest, since it will be overkill for most stuff anyway (unless you have a specific need for more). If you live near a Microcenter, get the CPU from them. They have a habit of selling the CPU's as a loss leader (sometimes $50 less than best price online), to try and get you to buy the other parts from them.
Also, consider a i5. Nowadays there's very little difference between them. Cheapest i5 is about $200 vs cheapest i7 of about $300.
3) Watch slickdeals for a sale with rebate, or just hit up newegg for something cheap. $30ish will get a minimally capable video card.
4) Entirely up to you and how much you put into the rig. Whats your current video card? If its a QUALITY power supply, and you dont do things like SLI, its likely you won't need more than 500 watts. Most of those reccomendations for like 750 watt PSUs are because the average 750 watt power supplies suck so bad, then can't go over 500 watts without blowing out. And poor quality power supplies skimp on the load capacity of the 12v line which is the MOST used in your system (mobo, cpu, vid card, etc most of it runs from that nowadays). Most modern systems run under 100 watts when idling, unless they are loaded with expensive stuff. It won't hurt to get a larger PSU, but its better to buy a quality PSU than just randomly picking one that has larger capacity. Quality PSU's also tend to come with good warranties, such as 3 year or 5 year.
A common misconception is that the power supply rating is how much it uses. No, it only uses what it needs, the power supply rating is the MAX available to use.
If you want to get technical, you can get the TDP figures from CPU and graphics card and easily estimate how much 12v amps you need. For instance, if the CPU is 80 watts TDP (which is an actual example from a i7), then thats 80/12=7A. Then perhaps the GPU is 160 watts TDP (which is an actual example from the geforce 460 fermi), so its 160/12=14A. So you'd need probably a 30A capacity on the 12v line which would be something like a 450 watt quality PSU.
Edit:
http://www.freeshippingday.com/
Looks like monday a lot of merchants are doing free shipping.
This comment was edited on Dec 17, 2012, 05:14. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Re: Steam Top 10 |
Dec 17, 2012, 04:42 |
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xXBatmanXx wrote on Dec 17, 2012, 04:09:
ummm, did you guys notice that Don't Starve is a 2 pack? FYI.
I have an extra copy. That would be why I was asking for one earlier
I'd like that copy if its still avail, msg me your paypal on steam and I'll send $7 your way. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Re: Steam Top 10 |
Dec 17, 2012, 01:06 |
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wtf_man wrote on Dec 17, 2012, 00:08:
The simple thing is that SSD's haven't hit the Price per Gigbyte that I'm willing to pay, yet. They're getting close... but still not there. Coupled with the fact that my old Motherboard can only do 3GB SATA, and I'm not willing to buy a controller card, makes an SSD not so great of a choice for me.
I mentioned prices, for the same $50 for the 500 gb hybrid, one could get a 120gb SSD. Thats under 50 cents a GB which is lower than the raptors used to be, they used to be like $1 per GB.
Also about controller card, if you end up thinking about that route probably not worth the bother. Majority of lower priced controller cards are based on that marvell chipset, which can't top 6g SATA. The lowest priced controller card that can do full 6g bandwidth are raid cards that run at least $100 (and thats if you get them used). That includes mobos with SATA 6g based on marvell chipset. From what I've seen Marvell at best does around 4.5g SATA speeds on the SATA 6g chips.
But yes, I can see the increased draw of a hybrid if you don't have a intel SATA 6g. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Re: Steam Top 10 |
Dec 16, 2012, 22:36 |
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wtf_man wrote on Dec 16, 2012, 14:53:
reinstalled OS and games on Saturday (New hybrid Hard Drive) In general for desktop usage, hybrid drives aren't worth it. Its far better to get a SSD (which are becoming increasingly cheaper nowadays) for the OS and a few favorite games, and then normal mechanical hdds for bulk storage. Hybrids do increase performance over mechanical, but not nearly as much as an SSD (which nowadays can top out SATA 6g, speaking of which where's the 12g standard??). Plus SSDs are advancing so fast, by the time a hybrid drive is released often the SSDs have gone way past the performance of the internal flash. I've seen 120gb SSDs as low as $50 and 240gb ones as low as $100. I've seen a sale on a 500gb seagate momentus XT 2nd gen hybrid drive for $50, so if I had to choose between the a 500gb hybrid for $50 and a 120gb SSD for $50, I'd choose the SSD anyday for desktop use.
One exception might be a laptop, where you can typically only have 1 drive and SSD might not hold enough for someone's normal usage. I have thought about getting a hybrid drive for my netbook, it has a 320gb drive on it now and that would be an upgrade in both space and performance. It would cost WAY too much to get a SSD larger than that size.
This comment was edited on Dec 16, 2012, 22:42. |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Dec 15, 2012, 13:49 |
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Creston wrote on Dec 15, 2012, 13:46:
Let's look at it this way: Every game made through Kickstarter is a game for which those fucking parasitic roaches at publishers get ZERO FUCKING DOLLARS. Aside from games that use kickstarter funds to make a pitch demo to get publisher funding. Or to show publishers that there's still interest so they fund more. |
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Dec 15, 2012, 11:18 |
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| And no, its generally NOT worth getting an entirely new PSU just for efficiency's sake. Odds are its only going to be 10% or so more efficient than your existing PSU, and if you are only sucking down 100 watts or so, then it would take a long time to make up that difference. Unless you run the computer 24/7. |
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| News Comments > GameSpy Responds to Server Closures |
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Dec 13, 2012, 12:09 |
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Axis wrote on Dec 13, 2012, 11:58:
Gamespy isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Sounds like they could have been more prudent about how they go about shutting down services though, I doubt we know the whole story.
LOL, gamespy didn't shut the services down. Glu did. |
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| News Comments > November Steam Hardware & Software Survey |
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Dec 13, 2012, 10:51 |
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As usual, please note that the software part hasn't been updated in years.
I believe the respondents are a large enough pool to term this the average gamer computer.
Windows 7 is a good 70%+ of the gamer market.
XP is about 10%
Win 8 is about 5%.
Mac is about 3%
I wonder what composes the half a percent category termed "other" ? If its mostly linux flavors, or? |
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| News Comments > Steam Community Market Beta |
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Dec 13, 2012, 10:45 |
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fiftykyu wrote on Dec 13, 2012, 09:42:
nin wrote on Dec 12, 2012, 22:24:
I'd be happy just to register steam serials as gifts instead of just for my account.
Wow, that's a great idea. Why the heck not? They may not want all those serials made into giftable items. For instance they may see that as causing a potential decrease in sales, which the small fee may not make up. |
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