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Apr 14, 2012, 13:14 |
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StingingVelvet wrote on Apr 14, 2012, 06:15:
Veterator wrote on Apr 14, 2012, 05:55:
Oh man you got me. It's almost like you ignored everything you couldn't argue with and went for sarcasm instead. How did you see past it all?!?!
I love how your ego changes "none of your bullshit was worth replying to" into "oh man I can't handle your amazing genius."
Everything you wrote centered around this idea of not liking something but funding it anyway out of need. There is no need to play ME3. Everyone purchasing the game accepts the terms or else they wouldn't do so. We can whine about DLC, DRM and whatever else but the cold hard facts are consumers accept them, there is no force involved in entertainment.
Ah, so now we are dropping the consumer has all the power bit. Or they only do, when they don't need, but want an item that they can't otherwise get once the producer of said item slowly eliminates all other options. That kind of power, in a broad general market or a individual product. "I'd like all my games to be DRM free." versus "I want Mass Effect 3 on Steam."
And now unless they NEED it, consumers wouldn't buy something that they don't accept the terms to.....that are inside the box or agreed upon after they try to install it and are about 10 times longer than the drugs information they take. Or rival their owner's manual on their car. Or change with the passage of time as they work on eroding the rights you had back in the 80s to media shift or otherwise make a copy of your purchase. IE, What you bought 10 years ago is not the same today as it was back then, because we say so.
The entertainment industry is so much more than just video games. The cold hard "facts" presented by one side concerted side in any argument, who has a vested interest is portraying their point in a certain light can hardly be called "facts". And nothing independent, IE not paid for by them, agrees with the claims they make. Government and entertainment, especially music and movies lead a pretty incestuous bed swapping in and out people who have government ties and paying off people to vote for them. Big oil does the same crap. Money makes lots of things easier to come to terms with.
Let me know if you are able to opt out of ISP monitoring thanks to the music/movie industry and the government, because no one is forced when it comes to entertainment. And let me know how they are funding that stuff, I'll be happy to hear anything you find concerning those costs not being directly on the consumers shoulders. Oh and show me in the paperwork where these things are told to the subscriber of those services so they can make a truly informed decision....from the one ISP allowed to operate in their area with this in place.
Or if you can buy a television without HDCP, or even a video card soon that won't have HDCP on it. So you don't have to pay for the extra hassle of it being in there. Maybe we have to stick to S-Video for all of our non-invaded needs on the televisions....or DVI will be a "specialty" port.
BTW: LOL at ego change. You should go back and read your own comments and see how all that sarcastic stuff sounds when you cherry pick out a line and use sarcasm to make a pretend point. Amazing genius <laugh>.
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Apr 14, 2012, 05:55 |
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StingingVelvet wrote on Apr 14, 2012, 04:58:
Veterator wrote on Apr 13, 2012, 19:41:
People do lots of things they'd like to have an alternative to, but lacking an alternative they are stuck with what's there.
Yes, because you lack an alternative to playing Mass Effect 3.
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Oh man you got me. It's almost like you ignored everything you couldn't argue with and went for sarcasm instead. How did you see past it all?!?!
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Apr 14, 2012, 02:20 |
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Amazon putting publishers out of business by offering an alternative to signing the majority of the profits over to a big 6 publisher.
Apple comes along and helps them make up an excuse for collusion that sounds quasi-legitimate...preserving their business models for a bit at least. Says it's "for the customer".
The only people benefiting in that Apple deal are publishers and Apple. Hell the signed author's MIGHT see a half of a percent increase on a per book basis, but they are probably missing out on overall sales numbers due to it.
Self pubbed author gets to keep about 70% of their book price on Amazon. Versus with a traditional publisher they get something like 15% after it's all figured out.
If you're interested in the subject, look up "Joe Konrath" and read his blog on this, he has years of data he's collected as both a signed author and a self-pub.
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Apr 13, 2012, 19:41 |
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I don't agree with over use of pesticides yet my food is often prepared from foods that have been sprayed or treated.
I don't agree with using antibiotics in every circumstance, but I still take them when the doctor prescribes them to me.
I don't like having to take steroids or inhaled medications for my asthma, but I still do.
I don't like the idea of polluting the environment, but I drive a car.
I don't like the idea of scrapping perfectly good used vehicles for a credit on a new vehicle through cash for clunkers, but it happened.
I don't like having our troops in an open ended war that began on lies, but we're still there. Despite many people not supporting it after the truth came out.
People do lots of things they'd like to have an alternative to, but lacking an alternative they are stuck with what's there. If you pass laws to reinforce the status quo you will never get change. If you never get change, you are stuck with what's offered.
Your point is reinforcing something that there is no alternative to, simply because you reinforce it by claiming that only a minority cares or considers them wrong. Lots of people care, they might care LESS about them than say having clean drinking water but they care. It doesn't mean they have the time to post on this board to disagree with you. But claiming they don't care is ignoring the evidence that people have put out there in their choice of not purchasing or complaining about SOPA/PIPA and other laws. Or when they complain about movie quality or rehashes of the same old stuff every other year.
You may choose to not believe they care, but that's not going to actually solve a problem and will only create more by creating a false stance. If you are unwilling to even broach the subject with your consumer base and instead force it upon them, you are not giving a chance for people to be heard or represented.
Your point is predicated on a falsehood.
StingingVelvet wrote on Apr 13, 2012, 19:14:
But you are in the minority caring about such things, or even considering them wrong.
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Apr 13, 2012, 19:08 |
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I am simply pointing out that what they say in regards to consumer "rights" and offerings they provide end up being more deception than actual need or desire.
No matter how much they get to "combat" <flavor of the decade> it will never be enough and it just ends up costing the consumer more due to all the doodads and verifications that are now installed in your hardware, software, and monitoring being paid for out of your fees on ISPs and what not.
You don't have a choice to opt out of any of this if ever want to own any kind of entertainment hardware like a television, dvd player or blu ray player. Or plan on using the internet, you're still paying for the privilege of being monitored because it ain't free and the conglomerates are not paying for it.
You might win on one front, but they are hammering at the doors, windows, roof, supports, and every other aspect of your consumer rights "house".
Think of it like the zombie invasion, they may be slow and stupid but eventually you'll tire and then you're done.
No one wants to live constantly berated by these companies, and yet they gain more and more access to your life through monitoring and taking over your alternative channels for entertainment.
The fact that it's taking place is the failing, it shouldn't even be up for debate because common sense says that meeting consumer needs is the best way to do business. Not passing laws and restricting access to the very thing you are trying to sell.
People care about this stuff, they just get presented these things in pretty packages and outright lied to...and then find out about the deception after the damage is done. They specifically target younger generations for their goods because they don't know enough to be skeptical when it comes to media conglomerates. And they target younger artists so they can lock them into contracts before they know enough to question. It's how they rested the rights to artist's works out of their hands for 50-80 years now. Look at Stan Lee and the creators of Superman. Or the guy who came up with V for Vendetta or the Watchmen.
The industry of entertainment has no integrity, they have literally been screwing people over for decades for their gain. Today is no different. Piracy is just their new mantra.
StingingVelvet wrote on Apr 13, 2012, 18:45:
Sorry it took a while to respond, but there's not much to say really.
All the stuff you are angry at them for is stuff most people don't care about. If they agreed with you they would fight or vote with their wallet, but they don't. You seem like you're more mad at consumers for not agreeing with you than the companies selling shit that sells.
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| News Comments > Bulletstorm Sequel Cancelled; PC Piracy Mentioned |
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Apr 13, 2012, 06:24 |
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StingingVelvet wrote on Apr 13, 2012, 03:00:
Well you're not their target market anymore anyway then. Which is fine as long as you don't expect them to cater to you.
And yet I still buy and play games. They are not even trying to get customers back in many areas of the entertainment field, instead they pass laws and put in DRM to shut out second hand sales trying to force people back to them.
Of course they want you to spend as much as possible on them, they're a business, their goal is to make money. How is this a surprise? Shit, how is this even wrong? Capitalism 101. It doesn't mean you have to spend a dime, but nor do you have to pirate anything.
Their goal is to make money, but you often don't find many businesses setting out to alienate all of their customers by selling them inferior products or nickel and dimeing them on extras that used to be included in the price. It's wrong because they are talking out of both sides of their mouth, one day you are a pirate and you need this DRM in your products to make sure you've paid and at the next moment they are putting out extra pay-for content for the product that everyone is stealing. Paying customers shouldn't even have to listen to this kind of bullshit, yet it's out there all.the.time.
Any other market place, someone else would have came in and ate their lunch by treating people better. The control through IP lockouts, technology lockouts, and sheer cost keep someone from really taking them to task. And then buying up all the small developers who even come close.
How well it works for others will of course vary, but the point was that this idea of not knowing anything about the product before spending money is ridiculous. There is a ton of information and unedited gameplay out there.
And besides, this is not such an alien concept. Have you ever gone to the movies? A show? Have you ever fucking gone out to eat? We put money down before getting the whole product all the time.
Oh it's quite possible to buy a game and end up with something that won't play on your machine, especially with DRM. Or have a thoroughly unplayable experience even though you did all your research and have to wait and hope they patch it to fix it. Remember you rarely can return media anymore.
And with a movie, you are free to complain and get your money back when someone talks throughout the movie or something goes wrong. A show if the lights go out or fire alarm goes off, you are reimbursed or given another ticket. If you go out to eat and the food is no good, you can get your money back or ask them to redo the meal to something edible. There's a level of service to be met in each of those things and yet with media entertainment you are not allowed to express dissatisfaction over dismal gameplay or horrible framerates or whatever else. And with movie theaters, shows, and restaurants, if they suck, they go out of business. Yet another counter-intuitive thing when it comes to mass publishers. When their business suffers they blame piracy. Restaurants aren't out there blaming piracy or telling customers their taste buds are faulty or expectations for 50 dollars are too high...or can't understand why you don't like getting frisked for items on your way in and out. Or movies patting you down for outside food.....how long you think a theater like that would stay in business?
Yes they want your money all the time, that's their job. No they can't "make you" buy anything, you sound insane.
If you want music and they have killed your ability to get affordable music from other sources, you either get their music or go without. If you want ebooks at 5 dollars or less and Apple comes in and makes a deal with all the big publishers and tries to force Amazon into raising all book prices by 3-5 dollars above where they were before, you can switch to the library. And when they go to the library and make it so they have to pay more or lend less, making it less able to service people on it's budget, where do you go then?
What about when they start monitoring your activity at the ISP and see you are downloading songs from an unrecognized song site (or not itunes/amazon) and deem that infringing behavior even though you are paying for it, just not from some place they recognize as legitimate due to slow adaptation or poor filtering. And you end up with a warning on your account and no review process to fix it, what if it gets your internet service cancelled? Are you going to keep risking buying your music anywhere else but providers A, B, and C because they are recognized and authorized sellers? What if they don't carry the music you want?
They can force you to buy their goods or no goods by simply limiting your options via the various methods they already have at their disposal. And when you don't buy their stuff? You are pirating and they just haven't found a way to prove it yet...they need more filtering and more power over you.
Consumers hold the power as long as we are in a capitalist system with free will and the ability to communicate. No matter how much you want to yell and scream about these evil companies forcing things on you they can't do shit without people buying their products.
You can point of how greedy these companies are all day long but it will never make me pause. Their job is to be greedy, that is what they exist to be. They only get away with flagrant greed if consumers accept it.
Consumers have ALL the power.
So ISP monitoring was something consumers requested and used their power to implement. DMCA is something consumers asked for. SOPA/PIPA and now CISPA are things consumers wanted. DRM is something consumers asked for. 15 minutes of FBI warnings and such are something consumers want on their movies. 15 minutes of commercials before movies at the theater are what consumers want. Commercials in television shows are what consumers want. Crippled DVD players, crippled televisions via HDMI, and other crippled hardware are things consumers demanded to pay for when they buy things. Not buying these things have turned up alternatives, because none of this stuff is required to be put into devices made for certain purposes or laws passed due to special interests that are counter to consumer desires.
If consumers have ALL the power, SOPA wouldn't have made it past the wet dream stage because businesses would fear overstepping their bounds and angering the consumer. It ended up failing, but that's only after corporate interests on the other side came out against it. When there's no corporate interest otherwise, you as a consumer have the option to either take it or leave it. Good luck getting hardware for your computer or entertainment system that doesn't have any of this stuff built into it. Good luck finding an ISP that won't be monitoring you in a 1 or 2 ISP choice area. Good luck with the always on DRM without an internet connection. Enjoy the commercials.
Saying consumers have all the power is like saying being a voter gives you all the political power. When it comes to getting laws passed, the consumer has no say in what politicians decide, voters might. But we see what's going on in Michigan now and how disenfranchised the majority of voters are ending up there...basically having their local government flat out trodden over by the state and it's "emergency" bills. This is an excellent example of how little control each and every person has even with constitutionally backed rights.
And we're talking about how consumers get screwed on how they get their entertainment, I mean it's the lowest of the low in terms of productivity or benefit to society and yet it garners laws and special interests......of course they will let monied interests bend you over for a buck. They get a handful options and are left to decide if they can muster something out of it worthwhile or abstain entirely. That's a sham of a choice in an area that should be able to offer a plethora of options in all media facets due to technology. Technology entertainment businesses refuse to embrace and have laws written up keeping the old models viable. It's wonderfully innovative, like consumers have always demanded in each decade...less options....less content for more money......inability to watch it how they want.......no ability to share.......
I see absolutely no forthright and honest effort on media conglomerates part to address even a modicum of consumer desire. Hell they are still trying to rebel against Steam, look at EA with Origin. Apple book deal with all major publishing companies to spite Amazon, whom independent authors are doing well on and throwing back in the faces of the publishing houses who are trying to curb their success. Independent authors, musicians and developers are about as close to honest as you can hope to get in them wanting to keep you happy and meet your demands, but they aren't able to do that as well as a conglomerate due to their profit margins. And these independent guys aren't even covered under any of these measures being put in place, because NO ONE cars about the individual's rights. See any political campaign that steals artwork from photographers and uses it on their sites in infringing ways, good luck getting the price of a song out of the politician like the RIAA tries to get out of regular people.
Supporting them by buying into their piracy stance while they do all this other dishonest and counter-consumer crap is a fool's game.
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Apr 12, 2012, 22:43 |
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Capture and Hold mode is not very good. Needs SOMETHING to make it more focused, slower caps (5 second turnovers is stupid), and it has definite favoritism to a handful of classes by design.
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Apr 12, 2012, 17:27 |
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StingingVelvet wrote on Apr 12, 2012, 08:05:
They wouldn't go buy a thousand blu-rays but would they spend more money on entertainment? Of course they would. This idea that most pirates would just completely stop gaming or watching movies and shit cold turkey if piracy was stopped is such silliness. People who have been gaming consistently for decades are just gonna completely stop rather than buy some games? I doubt it.
Again, the extent to which they would spend is debatable and varies on income and such, but no one can ever convince me companies aren't losing money.
So one download does not equal one sale. This is why it's hard to come to an agreement with them if they claim all downloads equal a lost sale and that people who make 50 grand a year would spend it all on entertainment....or should spend it all on entertainment.
If they wanted to force me to a console where everything costs money and there is no use for it without paying that money, I would stop gaming today. I've already significantly cut back on what I spend waiting years for releases to drop down to the 5 and 10 dollar range.
And they are "losing money" on me, simply because I don't buy it day 1. They assume that because I wait to buy it, I must have pirated it earlier and bought it when it was super cheap. I don't like being called a pirate enough so that I will actually not buy games from companies who do that stuff specifically because of it. Nothing will ever make them happy besides you being forced to buy stuff at maximum price and paying more than that on DLC while you pay for a monthly fee.
Comparing media to physical goods never really ends well. In any case with games at least walkthrough videos, reviews and forum posts offer plenty of pre-purchase info. I know a ton of people here find that idea ridiculous, but honestly for me it is 100% true. I watch quicklooks on giantbomb or youtube and read reviews and then make my purchasing decision... I am rarely if ever wrong.
So you've found a way that satisfies your purchasing decisions and expect it to be good enough for other people. This is why other services come to fruition because what some people want from services are not being met. RIAA/MPAA/video game/book industries have spent much of their time trying to limit these alternatives from ever seeing the light of day. Netflix is being attacked. Amazon is being attacked. Itunes was attacked and probably still is. Blockbuster rentals were attacked. Libraries are being attacked.
This shows a pattern of behavior that WHATEVER you do will not make them happy, they will find some way to make you buy things outright whether by law or by killing services making you withhold from doing so. Piracy is just a channel they can't easily kill, it does not change their ways......once they have those laws they will use them to prevent other services from coming forth that doesn't make them X per Y and give them Z control.
They want you to do that shit but in no way am I saying you should. Consumers hold all the power, they control pricing and product through what they buy. If most people accept 6 hour campaigns, DLC and $60 prices that just means you are in the minority for not doing so, it doesn't mean the companies are "wrong."
And what that has to do with piracy is beyond me... you don't need to pirate to send a message, just not buy the damn thing. Entitlement all up in that shit.
Consumers hold power as long as they can't be cut off from the internet due to legislation allowing ISPs to monitor them and cut them off after "infringement" that has no legal test to meet. This is already in effect with major ISPs whom also happen to be tied to content creation companies. They get to decide if you are infringing now, perhaps it will come in the form of Torrent, Dropbox, email, HTTP, FTP, Netflix, other streaming service, or you will just be questioned because you are encrypting your connections because this shit is BS.
Entitlement goes both ways, and corporations are getting laws entitling them to a lot. Eroding consumer power to demand new services be offered. Just because they limit your choices and keep you locked into a pricing scheme does not mean it's what the consumers demand. It could just as easily be the only choice offered. IE Digital Books should not be more expensive than their paper bound counterpart. Signing agreements with Apple making it even MORE expensive = lawsuit that will do nothing in the end because the companies have other ways of forcing it down our throats due to them being hugely wealthy and having influence and power due to that. They speak with a few voices with lots of money behind them, and the consumer speaks with a million voices with a few dollars behind each. It's much easier to appease the few really wealthy people...as we've seen them do in politics for many years now. Piracy just happens to be the "reason" this decade. In the 80s it was VHS and copying, they even had to update fair use to stop the abuse. And it didn't kill the industry as they claimed. In the 90s it was CDs, it also did not kill the industry....but they made extra money on it in some countries by putting "piracy taxes" on the CDs whether they were used for that or not.
They have shown themselves to be unhappy no matter what happens... this is just another farce of a debate that they reinforce purposefully by skewing numbers, eliminating services, and even buying the companies that PROMOTED digital piracy in the early stages of the internet such as Cnet who used to review torrent and P2P programs, even offering links to the program downloads AND songs on their websites. Where's the outrage over corporate sponsorship of piracy? Shouldn't they look to them for damages for promoting this behavior?
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Apr 12, 2012, 06:26 |
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StingingVelvet wrote on Apr 12, 2012, 06:01:
Prez wrote on Apr 12, 2012, 03:56:
I admit it doesn't prove anything, and I remain strongly against the practice of taking others' hard work and not paying for it, but it certainly debunks a lot of the shit spewed by industry suits who use piracy as a crutch as to why their businesses are sagging.
Well my point from the start has been that I see WAY too much piracy all around me to think it has no negative impact. Every time my girl and I go to someone's house they are watching pirated movies, playing pirated music or playing pirated games. Everyone my age brags about it, they laugh at me for spending money on this stuff. It's SOOO pervasive.
On the other hand so it Netflix... so I guess the point really is that no one knows. For rights holders though, one pirated copy is too much. They are not going to just deal with a world where their shit is available for free everywhere. Expecting them to just swallow that is naive... abuses mean regulation.
If they stopped your friends from pirating, would they buy stuff? Would they buy as much stuff as they had downloaded? Could they buy as much stuff as they downloaded? Could they afford to buy half? A fourth? A tenth?
Plus we have people growing up trying to find what they like, and if they can't afford to buy something to try out other options......you're going to have a hard time getting anything but the most popular and most advertised things to these people.
I just don't see people buying things in these circumstances, only once they really know that they want something whether based on past experience with the products from artist/producer/whomever or because they've actually played/heard/saw this stuff and know they liked it. I mean it's literally just pissing money away buying things you're not sure you'll even like..... And later in life you realize you don't want a bunch of shit laying around that you never use....so you stop buying stuff you can't try first.
Just look at the process like buying shoes...they got some cheap ass shoes out there and some really expensive shoes out there. If they make you want to chop off your feet because they are so uncomfortable, it doesn't really matter how inexpensive/expensive they were...you got robbed. Imagine trying to find out what shoes fit the best without being able to try them on, and they came with no helpful sizing or other information to make a decision on.
This is pretty much how they want you to buy everything, unseen, untested, etc. No reviews, no nothing. You buy it the first week it comes out, pay maximum price and never say a bad thing about it. Because if you say something bad about it, you probably didn't get the true "retail" copy and are complaining about the inferior "pirate" version. Hell if it causes your house to burn down because it made your computer catch fire, you keep your pirate mouth shut....never mind you have a receipt and other people complained about the issues who also have receipts. Pirates will say or do anything.
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Would like to try it for a week before I buy anything........burned too many times in the past on MMOs and early buy ins.
Looks decent, but I dunno.....watched one guy play a caster guy and it looked pretty dull but all MMOs look dull as hell when you watch others play.
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Got it for like 2 bucks using amazon coupon from christmas. It was a decent game but some of the levels ran too long for my taste or it felt like I wasn't progressing because of them being very similar...mostly later in the game.
There were some levels that were very cool and some of the boss encounters were cool. But the game was extremely short overall and some of the problem areas were more irritating than the cool stuff.
Uh.............I would have played the sequel when it reached 5 bucks. I would not recommend buying the original for anything over 10 given it has zero replay to me.....
So......if they want to say "Hey you know people won't pay our 40+ bucks we need to make this game, so we're not producing it." No problem. Blaming piracy is just bullshit IMO. I didn't pirate it, I wouldn't have bought it if it hadn't been for the coupon expiring and it being on sale. So they need to consider other reasons before I'll believe "Piracy is the reason for everything bad".
Much like Indie games, I ain't going to buy em without some awesome and plentiful reviews of the game or unless they are sold in a bundle where at least half the bundle looks decent or one game REALLY sticks out. If one of them tells me piracy ruins their sales, I won't buy their shit because they are obviously not going to listen to anything I have to say or see what really bugs me about their game versus other stuff I buy. So fuck em.
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Alternate universe maaaaan, everyone's gameplay experience took place in an alternate universe. In the IMPORTANT universe none of this happened. Isn't that how it goes with sci-fi?
And then drama shows have memory loss or dream sequences.
And comedy has the "what if" path that looks eerily like a dream sequence...
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First encounter post update is that, lots of invisible people with 3 shots of detonated mines is really irritating. Haven't seen the smoke grenades in action like you see the video.
And I have seen no one using the knives...it has near the same stats as the peashooter pistol, but it carries a splash damage...looking at it's ratings on the equipment screen as the sole determination for these statements.
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You'll notice they aren't going back and removing DRM from their older titles to let people put their money where their mouth is and buy the games DRM free.
I think that's because they are afraid they will find out that they actually earn money from that action and it might expose the FUD the industry keeps spreading about the need for DRM because otherwise EVERYONE pirates instead of buying.
Say it, do everything in your power to make it true, repeat it, then get laws passed to insure your revenue stream in spite of anything you may do. That's the US media conglomerate way.
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If they are going to write a story driven video game, people are going to be mad when they make the ending pointless or change the way the story is told (look at Dragon Age).
Hell reading books, I get tired of authors who go batshit with their books after the first 3 or so or who never finish their story because they ramble on too long and die before they can finish or lose support.
But having them lose the entire point of their series in a single book wouldn't even make it through most publishers. The book would be rejected before it ever got to the shelf. The fact that authors can make dramatic decisions, WITHIN the story arc they've built is awesome. But when they step out of it in the course of one book, chances are that author wouldn't even see the book published. And this is why EA fails as a publisher, they taint story driven content to make it more marketable for future projects instead of making it a good story first and figuring out how to continue using it if support remains.
So they've screwed the fanbase following for the game, while they try to built on the name recognition of the game by leaving some of the stuff opened ended PROBABLY for an MMO (because it's the easiest way to get constant money in their mind).
I haven't even played ME3, but looking at the endings and the top 10 reasons plus just the sheer amount of people pissed off. You know someone screwed up.
Professional critic reviews don't even matter, because most of those don't even finish the games before writing a review...because they want to get the review out at least the same week of the game release. They certainly aren't going to finish it twice and figure out the ending is a joke.
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That's funny as hell.
But I still wish they'd tie generators to capturing. IE you need a working generator to cap a flag. That way the game doesn't become flag chasing 100% of the time and there's a reason to defend the gen.
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Warskull wrote on Mar 20, 2012, 20:05:
Doombringer has a slower projectile speed than most guns, I don't think most aimbots work with it.
Yeah that might explain it...it's really hard to hit things with at any kind of distance.
You can't even see how fast the infiltrator bullets are unlike the other machineguns...so I wonder if they are just really fast.
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Infiltrators have an SMG as primary and a pistol as secondary.
They can unlock a stealth spinfusor, but Im not sure if they get any additional secondary unlocks.
I have seen some people who are amazingly accurate with the SMGs, and sometimes even I shock myself with some luck line ups on hits. But I have suspected some of aimbots when they can dance all over jetpacking up to the ceiling and being blown all over and hitting consistently throughout the fight.
I mean hell half the time when I get blown across the room Im lucky if Im not suddenly shooting the wall instead of in the general direction of the enemy.
If I were going to aimbot using a machinegun, I'd use doombringer...with no reloads and you can do up to 100 damage per bullet. Where as I think the infiltrator does about 75 maximum on it's SMG and like 150 or more with the pistol.
I still haven't figured out how to aim the sniper rifle on the sentinel. Some games I do really well and others Im lucky to hit them once, and Im not sure if that's my lag, their lag, server lag or me just losing my timing. Plus the reticule on that thing often blocks out people you're aiming at due to it's huge crosshairs.
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wrigleyvillain wrote on Mar 20, 2012, 15:03:
So it's accurate to say skiing in general is much improved now or...?
Im still getting caught on all kinds of things. I kept running into invisible barriers, I thought it was invisible players at first so I kept shooting each time I'd hit something.
This happened in places that previously didn't act as a barrier. Hell some of the ammo terminals won't let you on, or will trap and hold you until you manage to jet pack around enough to get loose.
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sc4r4b wrote on Mar 20, 2012, 12:21:
I can catch them most of the time. The idea is not to follow directly behind them. The shortest distance from one point to another is a straight line. Not to mention that you know where the flag goal is.
You guys are right though both changes are significant.
I play the path finder formerly "jumper" with a thrust pack, two capacitors,a bolt launcher, shotty, and nitron. Add me to your friends list if you're down.
Im not saying you can't catch them ever. It's just that when they have all those speed boosters and what not at their use while carrying the flag, the only people that can catch them are similarly equipped and skilled pathfinders.
If you miss them in the one encounter you'll have with them if you cut across their path trying to intercept, they are gone and you'll never catch up.
You'll often see these guys just sitting near their homebase making big U shaped back and forth runs, where they go up one hill as high as they can fly above it, then skii down it and cross to another hill where they fly as high as they can. It's really really hard to hit them and they are right where all their teammates spawn.
I wish they added a need for the generator to be up to capture flags, because at least then you wouldn't have to chase these annoying speed guys around for minutes on end, you could just run down to their generator and blow it up. Meaning part of their team would have to come off of flag offense and defense to actually be able to capture.
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