Creston wrote on Aug 12, 2011, 00:53:
I think Vegas put the odds at 500,000,000 to 1 that EA will release a patch. Iow, it's not happening.

Verno wrote on Aug 11, 2011, 18:47:
I don't know any such thing. I'm actually surprised at the majority of the responses I've seen so far being fairly frustrated and the fact that its making people rethink the game.

Creston wrote on Aug 11, 2011, 18:18:

StingingVelvet wrote on Aug 11, 2011, 17:50:
Have you been job hunting lately? You literally have to make a new account for every single fucking job you apply for.

Ur doing it wrong.

Creston

Verno wrote on Aug 11, 2011, 18:02:
It is annoying and time consuming so maybe that's why people don't want to be doing it in their entertainment hobby when it serves no one but the company doing it. Having yet another game library to worry about, another program installed and so on is not what many people want to deal with. People have said pretty emphatically that they don't want it in many topics here so obviously it's a big deal to some. At what number does it stop being ok?

MrBone wrote on Aug 11, 2011, 16:53:
The big fucking deal is having to use yet another game manager...are you really that dense?

Bhruic wrote on Aug 11, 2011, 11:24:
EA has already repeatedly demonstrated their willingness to shut down servers. Why expect they'd keep them up longer if they also serviced single player games?

kanniballl wrote on Aug 11, 2011, 08:30:
I don't MIND always-on DRM since I tend to be always online and I've hardly ever had any problems with FIOS. And my gaming sessions tend to be shorter now.

But if my ISP was flakey or I traveled a lot and played games on a laptop, I'd be ticked.

Prez wrote on Aug 10, 2011, 19:29:
For anyone not a trolling retard, it should be easy to understand that I don't play MMO's for the same reason. I want a game that is there to be played when I'm ready to play it, whether it's 2 years or 2 decades from now.

The Hobbit was written 8 decades ago, and I can still read it. Citizen Kane was filmed 7 decades ago and I can still watch it. I don't think it's unreasonable at all, retards opinions be damned, for me to expect to be able to play a favorite game a similar amount of time in the future. GOG ensures that I can. Blizzard now is ensuring that sooner or later, I won't be able to.

Thus I will support GOG and abandon Blizzard. Simple.

Verno wrote on Aug 10, 2011, 17:27:
Why should I try? It's a pointless aside that has nothing to do with the topic and can't be proven either way.

I don't think you'll find many people subscribing to the idea that Steam is anything but incredibly supportive to the indie side of the industry in general.

Nah I'm not buying, you repeatedly criticize specific aspects of Steam all the time having nothing to do with marketshare but don't do the same thing with other services.

The people who only buy things on Steam are probably the least likely to branch out so that makes no sense to me.

The platform is wide open for development

If Steam steps out of bounds the industry will adjust, that's the nature of an open platform. If Steam started purchasing competitive services and other publishing companies then we've got a problem.

Prez wrote on Aug 10, 2011, 18:09:
For the frickin' BILLIONTH time, it's not MY computer I'm worried about being always online; it's theirs; i.e. whoever decides to use this bullshit DRM scheme insultingly disguised as a "feature".

I play games from 1988 on GOG. That's 23 years ago for the trolling retards who can't be bothered to see past the nose on their face and keep telling us "Your computer is always connected - quit whining!"

Maybe Blizzard will still be running the Diablo 3 services then; maybe they won't. Who's to say? Point is, I like to revisit old games for nostalgia, history, and just plain fun. I'm not going to be told by anyone that I can no longer do that because they want to treat me like a thief and then insult my intelligence by giving me some utterly lame excuse about how they "have to do this", and how it's a "bonus" or a "feature".

As it stands now, the only way I will ever play Diablo 3 (as I am only interested in LAN and singleplayer) is if Blizzard abandons this stupidity or I pirate the warez version.

Thelemite wrote on Aug 10, 2011, 16:42:
All of the bitching in the world isn't going to stop this. The seeds were planted years ago with Steam. Always-on is the logical end result of the shift to digital distribution. Some of us tried to warn you, but you were too busy making fun of us and calling us paranoid to listen.

Hellbinder wrote on Aug 10, 2011, 14:34:
This is yet another tiny step in converting the way people think about life. from the youngest to the oldest within a decade or so everyone will be plugged in or left out in the cold. The end game is a unified economic and control system over the majority of mankind. It is happening slowly right now and the transformation continues. The end result is that everyone will be part of the system and it will be considered normal, acceptible and totally logical and anyone on the outside who refuses to participate will be considered dangerous, a threat, a nutjob etc.

It still amazes me that there are people out there, and even many of you who see this happening and know its happening and yet laugh at Bible prophecy about the end game that is coming. "no one can buy or sell without a mark on their hand or forhead".

The danger is, there is coming a time when the brakes will be taken off, and the voices of warning will fade, and like something striaght out of star trek everyone will be absorbed like the borg and not even have the desire to resist but hate anyone who is not part of the collective. 10, 20, 30 years from now its not that far off now. You all know the technology is not that far off.

As Jesus said "he who has an ear let him hear."

Act now, believe now, receive now dont wait till its to late and the door is shut.

Verno wrote on Aug 10, 2011, 08:59:
I'm not sure Gemini Rue's chances will be any better getting on Origin. Let's totally get into a game by game list of what did and didn't get on Steam, that will be productive.

It means you're a hypocrite like you accused everyone else of earlier. You're fine with anti-consumer policies and practices as long as Steam isn't responsible.

People spend the money where they see value, of course they will be resistant to a transparent attempt to force them to go elsewhere. No one has built a competitive platform to Steam yet and Origin is no closer to that goal unfortunately.