Blue wrote on Jul 31, 2012, 11:14:

Best comment:

"Well, he only eats 'em because they're Open Sores ;)"

Creston wrote on Jul 31, 2012, 11:15:

Oh good Lord. I bet he wears fucking hemp sandals too...

Creston

Verno wrote on Jul 31, 2012, 11:07:

Prez wrote on Jul 31, 2012, 11:05:

Creston wrote on Jul 31, 2012, 11:02:
Wait... what??? What kind of fucking hippie is this guy?

Creston

No kidding. Is he on drugs or something? It's been a while since I heard an argument quite that stupid. Wow.

He's always been kind of weird/crazy, he has these really arbitrary stances on things and condemns anything that conflicts.

I remember some video someone posted where he was giving a speech, he picked off something from his bare feet and popped it into his mouth in front of a crowd

Creston wrote on Jul 31, 2012, 11:02:
Wait... what??? What kind of fucking hippie is this guy?

Creston

Prez wrote on Jul 31, 2012, 09:59:

I'm not sure why you find it hard to believe that people buy games in spite of DRM.

You seem intent on poking holes in arguments I am not making. I said I don't accept that the majority of people who game on PC are oblivious to drm, which is something I keep hearing. By now if you are a PC gamer I think at least you are aware of what drm is. I never said I was surprised that people still buy games with drm; in truth I have no idea where you even got that from what I said. My contention is that drm causes lost sales (which frankly I don't even see as being arguable) and those are not made up by reduced piracy if you look at the piracy numbers which are actually higher for uplay games than they were for Ubisoft games before uplay existed.

Prez wrote on Jul 31, 2012, 00:45:

NKD wrote on Jul 31, 2012, 00:12:

Prez wrote on Jul 30, 2012, 23:56:
They cling to this bullshit DRM like it's their lifeblood. Are they really too stupid to realize that this garbage only serves to screw paying customers and limit their sales? Or is it just them being too mule-headed stubborn to admit that their precious DRM is an utter failure in every way?

Given that a large percentage of their sales are on console where no one even knows what DRM means... I don't think they really care.

I don't care about consoles - I was talking PC sales. If they are going to do PC releases, even if total PC sales are only a small fraction of XBOX or PS3 sales, I still assume that they would want the most PC sales possible. The conventional wisdom that most PC gamers are oblivious to drm is one I do not buy into; I just don't see how it's possible that this uplay garbage is NOT hurting sales.

They don't care. They firmly, genuinely believe that the vast majority of their lost sales aren't because of their policies, it is because of piracy. They don't have any doubt that it is so.

Their games are still heavily pirated even with their uplay bullshit. There's simply no way they can't know this, unless they are stupid. Meaning they knowingly keep an ineffective, broken system in place that hurts paying customers only, in turn giving people more incentive to pirate. Which would also seem to indicate that they are stupid as far as I am concerned. The other option, that they are aware of all this and are just being mule-headed, is slightly less damning I guess, but not much.

Prez wrote on Jul 30, 2012, 23:56:
They cling to this bullshit DRM like it's their lifeblood. Are they really too stupid to realize that this garbage only serves to screw paying customers and limit their sales? Or is it just them being too mule-headed stubborn to admit that their precious DRM is an utter failure in every way?

Snabel wrote on Jul 30, 2012, 21:05:

Class action?

Creston wrote on Jul 30, 2012, 17:12:
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I guess I didn't think about Steam just forcing that shit straight onto your computer. THANKS STEAM!

Creston

space captain wrote on Jul 28, 2012, 09:36:

netnerd85 wrote on Jul 28, 2012, 03:46:
They are movies. Fake. It's a bit of fun. Are you American?

asks the kid who wants roger moore to do bond...

sit down and shut up... the adults are having a conversation here

loomy wrote on Jul 27, 2012, 00:11:
lol there are people here trying to justify why we should lose the right to own what we buy and do with it what we please. sorry chaps you'll have to strangle yourself alone, I won't be joining you.

Kitkoan wrote on Jul 26, 2012, 21:59:

entr0py wrote on Jul 26, 2012, 21:41:
I hope I'm wrong about this but the screen shots just look sort of like they applied some Photoshop filters to everything. It would be nice to see a high resolution video. And to know the new native resolution for that matter.

That might be the real deal. There is nothing stating other wise in the list.

A new adventure, 3 new characters, some new voices, support for widescreen (not HD screens, just widescreen support), numerous "improvements" (maybe bug fixes? Doesn't state anything about new art so some of them might be photoshop filters and newer OS support) and improved multiplayer. Nothing about updated art.

RollinThundr wrote on Jul 25, 2012, 23:27:

Creston wrote on Jul 25, 2012, 22:41:
I can just picture fat man Balmer throwing a chair and screaming "FUCK GABE NEWELL! WHO THE FUCK DOES HE THINK HE IS? I WILL KILL HIM!" while his face gets all red and swollen and his heart takes three more huge steps to just giving out.

Windows 8 is a fucking joke. It's Microsoft's middle finger to every PC owner.

Creston

Just out of curiosity, if Balmer is fat, Gabe is what? Gargantuan?