Krovven wrote on Apr 16, 2013, 00:00:
Second, if CoH did not move to Steamworks, the game and it's multiplayer were DEAD and would have been unplayable for all as of May because Quazal (now owned by Ubisoft) wasn't going to keep the game running. Are you going to tell me that would be a better solution than moving CoH multiplayer to Steam? You already had to log into a third person service (Quazal) to play CoH. Core, and two expansions are now under one one executable instead of 3, and the file system has been fixed so the whole damn game doesn't need to be downloaded every patch.

I'll repeat, the game was dead and buried come May 7th, never to be played again if this wasn't done.

So, why is moving to Steamworks to keep the game alive a bad thing?

You haven't played it and are calling it a mediocre beta showing? People rarely say good things about betas, that's why they exist, to help iron out issues. There have already been many great changes made in the beta, its a lot more fun than it used to be and more are coming including interface change. The 6 map beta has a very small amount of multiplayer focused content, people are trying to judge it compared to a retail product with 7 years of development work and 2 large expansions. It is ridiculous, if you guys don't want to buy it based on that unreasonable comparison then its your loss.

Cabezone wrote on Apr 15, 2013, 14:27:
I believe I remember them saying the next game will be on the Skyrim engine.

Leper wrote on Apr 15, 2013, 13:23:

Last I checked this was unplayable for AMD cards unless you reverted to Catalyst 10. Game crashed within 2 minutes of loading a game otherwise. So i have yet to be able to actually play the beta. This still the case?

They won't be seeing my money until they get their shit together

Sounds like another half-finished game. Pass.

Krovven wrote on Apr 15, 2013, 12:25:
Last I checked this was unplayable for AMD cards unless you reverted to Catalyst 10. Game crashed within 2 minutes of loading a game otherwise. So i have yet to be able to actually play the beta. This still the case?

They won't be seeing my money until they get their shit together

Parallax Abstraction wrote on Apr 15, 2013, 10:47:

Mr. Tact wrote on Apr 15, 2013, 10:31:
The fact that anyone makes a living off posting youtube videos still stupefies me..

I think a similar reckoning is coming in that space soon too. And I say this as someone who recently started putting videos on YouTube and hopes to one day make a bit of money off them. The difference in my case being that I have no desire or intent to make a full-time career out of it. I think it's cool that some people can but that strikes me as incredibly high-risk and that eventually, there will be a big shake out where a select group will continue to do well and the rest will fall off.

Cyanotetyphas wrote on Apr 15, 2013, 00:50:

Beelzebud wrote on Apr 14, 2013, 14:03:
Project Unity seems like an awful lot of effort to get the same results as a modded Xbox 1 with emulators on it.

Most of the reason people emulate things is nostalgia. I tried to get people younger than me to play some old classics and even Chrono Trigger didn't translate readily anymore.

Dev wrote on Apr 14, 2013, 14:19:
4 pack gets the price down to under $12.

I'm in if someone is doing a 4 pack.

They will give out steam keys when it hits beta

Dev wrote on Apr 14, 2013, 14:11:
I was impressed with the level of support they offered and the enormous amount of free content they offered. Plus the game itself was quite fun, I played it more than I did minecraft.

(yes I know they ceased active development for it, but they were upfront about it, and it got far more than I ever expected).

Redmask wrote on Apr 14, 2013, 13:54:
Yeah he doesn't seem to understand what's going on, just what he thinks is ok based on his preferences and is trying to mold them to fit.

I hope people look at the latest feature adjustments too, some annoying things in there like checkpointing.

Krovven wrote on Apr 14, 2013, 11:29:
Considering the Kickstarter only refers to what backers get, that logically, should be enough. No promises were ever made about the game always being available completely DRM-free to people that didn't back the Kickstarter. You say they didn't specifically state it was for backers only, and to that I say, they didn't specifically state it was going to extend to non-backers as well. Backers that still feel slighted can get a refund.

Good try by Harebrained blaming Microsoft. With all the insanely stupid decisions coming from Microsoft, everyone will believe them.

Personally, I'll just say in my opinion, feels like fraud to me. Lying at worst, omitting the truth at best to backers.

Darks wrote on Apr 12, 2013, 16:09:
Seriously Verno, Where did I ever tell anyone that they needed to play a game like I wanted them too? I never once said that, if you all assumed it then that’s your misjudgment. If you all don’t like how I come across on defending a game they sorry, but that’s how I feel. I stand, by my comments and will keep on doing so.

You’re trying telling me that I’m telling people how to play their games yet, you all except dumbed down pc games that almost require a controller to play them with. And you feel that’s okay?