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| News Comments > City of Heroes to End; Paragon Studios Closed |
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Re: City of Heroes to End; Paragon Studios Closed |
Aug 31, 2012, 16:08 |
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StingingVelvet wrote on Aug 31, 2012, 16:03:
And now it just will cease to exist. That is what I hate about online games, no one will be able to experience this game again.
There are a lot of experiences people have that will never come again, and that makes the memories even more fond, IMHO. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Evening Previews |
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Re: Evening Previews |
Aug 31, 2012, 15:34 |
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| Twitter isn't customer support, and no account with 50,000 followers responds to every tweet they receive. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Guild Wars 2 Bans; Sales Success |
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Re: Guild Wars 2 Bans; Sales Success |
Aug 31, 2012, 10:24 |
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| Gotta sell more aviator sunglasses and boxing gloves. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > More on New Black Isle |
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Re: More on New Black Isle |
Aug 23, 2012, 18:46 |
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Freespace space sim/RPG? Please? Please?
*wakes up* |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Aug 23, 2012, 14:31 |
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gilly775 wrote on Aug 23, 2012, 13:42:
The problem is that people can't stand change. If you spent a few days with it (not an hour and just flat out comment that it sucks without even trying it), it might just catch on for you. Heck, we did that for all of these other OS's.
Well one thing to consider is that not everyones workflow and needs are the same. Metro isn't a significant detractor for me because I so rarely see it. I have a bunch of crap open, all of that crap has their own UIs, and I just switch between them.
But some people might spend more time dicking around with Metro for whatever reason, and it might bug them more. Though at the moment I can't think of any power user workflow in which a person would spend a lot of time in the Windows shell, specifically on the Metro start screen.
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Project Copernicus Footage; Details |
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Re: Project Copernicus Footage; Details |
Aug 23, 2012, 11:10 |
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Yeah, there is zero basis for any kind of fraud allegation. Rhode Island gambled on a risky business venture and lost. There wasn't some massive conspiracy hiding the fact that most MMOs don't do very well. And it's not like Schilling walked away from this any richer. Dude lost an enormous amount of money even for him.
People made their mistakes and have already paid for them. There's no need for additional witch hunting. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Aug 23, 2012, 10:43 |
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| I've been messing with Windows 8 and from a performance standpoint it's pretty nice. I can overlook the wacky UI for now. Hopefully in the next version though they scrap it. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy - The Expendables 2 |
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Re: Ships Ahoy - The Expendables 2 |
Aug 21, 2012, 12:18 |
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Verno wrote on Aug 21, 2012, 09:00:
The first movie was a fun nostalgia romp but the second movie is like a long running meme, it overstays its welcome and seems way too self-aware.
I thought the second movie was better. A little less focus on big explosions and more of the visceral close in action. Though I suppose that's a matter of preference. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > OnLive Layoffs Follow-up |
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Re: OnLive Layoffs Follow-up |
Aug 18, 2012, 17:10 |
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There are too many insurmountable technical issues with this kind of service for it to enter the mainstream any time soon.
Bandwidth usage is a biggie. Streaming HD video of any kind of useful quality eats a lot of bandwidth, and most people who game spend a lot more time gaming than movie buffs do streaming movies, for example. Heavy gameplay on OnLive, combine with your normal internet downloads and usage would quickly burn out a 300GB Comcast cap. To say nothing of the less generous caps of other ISPs.
Latency is another problem. To keep it low, they have to have locations all over, and even then, network latency combined with video encode latency is just too much for anyone trying to land a headshot. Even slower paced multiplayer console shooters like Halo can be really annoying on a high latency system, whether it be from network latency, or input latency (either from OnLive, a slow HDTV with a lot of filtering/scaling or whatever).
The issue of many spread out datacenters also raises another problem: Community fragmentation. It may be in many scenarios that you simply would not be permitted to play with people who are connected to different streaming hubs because of the latency differential.
This technology relies on best-case-scenario bandwidth and latency, which is mostly out of their hands to do anything about. They can optimize their video encoding, and try some predictive algorithms for input, but at the end of the day they are dependent on ISP routing and the simple factor of distance.
On top of all that, they can't charge very much without making it more expensive than simply keeping a mid-range gaming rig up to date. ($500 a year can keep you perpetually in the mid-range, which is $42 a month approx.) |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > BioWare on the Importance of Day One DLC |
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Re: BioWare on the Importance of Day One DLC |
Aug 14, 2012, 15:36 |
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NegaDeath wrote on Aug 14, 2012, 13:29:
They're confusing "importance" with "financially successful douchebaggery".
When you're a business, especially a game studio that is just one disappointing title from complete failure, financially successful douchebaggery is highly important.
Day 1 DLC works. People buy it. Consumers have spoken with their wallets and unfortunately they disagree with the popular Internet opinion of Day 1 DLC. It's not even an essential product. It's not like you absolutely have to have the DLC and you are being forced at gunpoint to buy it. Yet people still buy it.
A lot of these companies are portrayed as being somehow needlessly greedy. But most of them are financially struggling, at least in business terms. Greed is about excess. A lot of these companies are just keeping their bottom line intact with these supposedly greedy tactics. Sleazy? Yeah. But hardly excessive.
Everybody wants to play triple A blockbuster games, but nobody wants to pay what it costs to develop them.
Convince the industry to lay off 75% of their employees and make lower budget games and you won't have to deal with Day 1 DLC or any other of these recent sleazy tactics. But if people expect game budgets to continue to increase, logically the developers' income must also increase. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Zeschuk's Changing BioWare Role |
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Re: Zeschuk's Changing BioWare Role |
Aug 10, 2012, 11:20 |
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| Yeah Zeschuk only popped down to Austin to make sure the women and children got to the lifeboats first. No surprise that he's heading back to the mothership. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Battle.net Security Breach |
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Re: Battle.net Security Breach |
Aug 10, 2012, 06:31 |
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Dev wrote on Aug 10, 2012, 06:20:
Oh, you mean the hacking that was denied about the session id being hijacked to grab an account?
Or is this some completely different hack that they are finally admitting?
This has nothing to do with just hijacking accounts, bug exploits, keylogging people, or any of the excuses dreamed up by incompetent users. It's an actual unauthorized access of their databases that occurred on or around August 4th. Nasty bit of business.
Someone got email addresses, security questions, passwords (encrypted, not stored plaintext), and mobile and dial-in authenticator info (not the little keyfob ones though) My guess is that means the serial # associated with the account. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Epic Forms Impossible Studios from Big Huge Ashes |
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Re: Epic Forms Impossible Studios from Big Huge Ashes |
Aug 9, 2012, 19:03 |
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| Mobile development is where it's at. You're not going to make triple A blockbusters, but you're going to be profitable and you're gonna have a job. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Rumored Mafia 3 on Rumored Next-Gen Consoles |
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Re: Rumored Mafia 3 on Rumored Next-Gen Consoles |
Aug 9, 2012, 03:24 |
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Jerykk wrote on Aug 9, 2012, 03:11:
If they make a Mafia RPG, I'll die happy. So much potential there. Ambiguous moral choices with potentially far-reaching consequences, the ability to align yourself with different families (maybe even the feds), different character archetypes (hitman, smooth-talker, sneaky dude)... make it happen, 2K.
I would definitely love some more choice both in story and gameplay. There's value to a linear story experience, but I'm not really much for the ever-dwindling interactivity in our games. A gangster movie where you only control the car chases and gunfights isn't nearly as cool as also controlling how the story and social aspects play out. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > NCsoft Financials |
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Re: NCsoft Financials |
Aug 9, 2012, 03:22 |
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| Women and children to the lifeboats first. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Rumored Mafia 3 on Rumored Next-Gen Consoles |
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Re: Rumored Mafia 3 on Rumored Next-Gen Consoles |
Aug 9, 2012, 01:21 |
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Sepharo wrote on Aug 8, 2012, 21:58:
"Mafia" is way too strong of a title to let die. They'll be releasing these, quality or not, forever based on the name alone.
I liked Mafia 2 a lot, I thought it did a great job as a sequel. Of course it'd be great if there were more things to do, same for L.A. Noire.
That's how I feel too. I felt the same about the first Mafia as well. Crafting this beautiful city is nice, but if there's nothing to do in it, nothing going on, it feels kinda like a facade. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Morning Legal Briefs |
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Re: Microsoft's patent pressure |
Aug 8, 2012, 14:30 |
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Kastagir wrote on Aug 8, 2012, 13:52:
Why innovate when you can litigate? That's the Microsoft motto.
I dunno, I'd be surprised if they were even in the top 50 most annoyingly litigious tech companies. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
Aug 8, 2012, 14:27 |
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| Better than being shackled to a 7 year old hardware platform I suppose. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Steam Adding Non-Gaming Titles |
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Re: Steam Adding Non-Gaming Titles |
Aug 8, 2012, 13:52 |
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| Steam sales for apps? Yes please. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > THQ Results: InSane Cancelled |
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Re: THQ Results: InSane Cancelled |
Aug 7, 2012, 01:57 |
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Smart move. A company in difficult financial position shouldn't be taking risks on new IP. Even companies who are well-off like to avoid it.
We like to complain about sequelitis, but they sell in big numbers, have already-established fanbases, and require less investment on the creative side. In short, it's the same money as a brand new IP, perhaps more, but with much less risk.
Sucks, but that's the way it is. Consumers like familiar names, it's been that way for decades. |
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