necrosis wrote on Jul 4, 2011, 19:56:

Shok wrote on Jul 4, 2011, 18:00:
So is the font in Eve still super tiny and not adjustable? My monitor's native resolution is 2048x1152 and Eve is unplayable without adjustable font sizes...playing at butt-ugly 1024x768 or something just isn't a solution. Maybe they have some DLC fonts now lol

A horrible problem with many games. I remember running 1600x1200 on my 21" Sony G500 when the average resolution at the time was 1024x768. God it sucked with a mess of games trying to read text.

Seams its happening all over again. Id cry consolitious if it was any other game.

Surf wrote on May 21, 2010, 00:19:
Smart move. The days of expensive video cards over buying a console are clearly over.

Who the fuck would pay $400+ for a vid card these days when the consoles are so inexpensive and PC makers are all bailing onto consoles.

Just like Creative Labs, why bother with a dedicated sound card when the onboard sound is more than fine?

I heard there were only 4 servers left..worldwide. Is that true? And I also heard EA took over WAR. What happend...and where is Mark Jacobs now?

i find it difficult to enjoy this game, where you can't even trust your teammates (corp members) to be on your team.

Building and farm your way to max level with little or no effort on the players part. You could also reach Max level in as little as 1 or 2 days with never experiencing any of the content.

Hmmm pay to play a game where i have to spend months collecting space pebbles in space for money so that i can maybe have fun if my ship dosen't get destroyed by another player's battle ship. OR go and my back yard and collect pebbles for free.

and it will be a long time (months?) before I could see a top of the line ship

"So this is it eh? The line in the sand? Forcing me to run a program I really don't want to or have to run (Steam) before and during the time your program is active for no good reason. No good reason for ME.

Give me Steam as an *option* and I'll buy, make me use Steam and you lose my sale...and I've purchased every Total War game since.

That's right, you've gained a new pirate boys, congratulations Creative Assembly! Treat me like a crook after all these years? You better believe I'm going to act like one."

Never bought a Valve game, eh?

You get the benefits of:

-Preserve the ability to buy at retail if you find a nice deal
-Toss aside the disk, never needing to worry about it again after initial activation
-No need to remember CD keys
-No messing with patches
-No CD in the drive while you're playing
-Far easier to re-install everything after a format instead of needing to swap a ton of CDs/DVDs for every single game you want to install
-Re-download everything as many times as you want, on as many computers as you want
-Integration with all of the community stuff instead of limited "add non-steam game" functionality.

But yeah, other than all that, no benefits at all!

Canceling that and a pre-order of DoW 2.

False, all games get patches. Next.

You've obviously never bought shit on Steam. It patches games automatically. No worrying about it. No worring "damn, do I need to download 1.1, then 1.2, then 1.3? Or do I just have to download 1.3?". Then you wait for it to download. Then you wait for it to install. Or...you wait 20 seconds for it to automatically download and install, and you're done.

Patently false? Tell me - which is easier:

1) Sit at my computer for at least an hour, manually installing 5 games, one at a time, then manually patching 5 games by manually downloading patches.

2) Right-click, click "install" 5 times, walk away or go to sleep for the night, come back and everything's ready to go.

Physical Media provides the same ability by design without restriction nor the time require to authenticate and download it. Next.

Great. Have fun with all those manual game and patch installations

Yeah, whatever. I call that 'marketing' not gaming. Since all 'that' is commerce or social hour, not gaming. Web sites and forums are just spiffy and better at it.

Well now it's obviously clear that you're simply a jaded asshole with no friends to play online with. Anyone who's played Left 4 Dead or Team Fortress 2 online with friends knows how freaking awesome all the community features are for scheduling matches, one-click joining games, communicating in-game, checking out stats, etc. But yeah, that's all "marketing", so whatever it doesn't count, right?

As for the retards still purporting the stupidly unlikely risk of Valve shutting down and you "losing everything", it's far more likely that your precious disks will get stolen, or broken, or lost, or just plain worn down than that happening.