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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Jan 26, 2013, 14:14 |
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The PC is not dead, well thanks for that information.
Seriously anyone who said "PC is not dead" is a moron. It's like running around saying "They sky is not falling on our heads", really thanks for the news flash, now go put corks on your forks before you stab yourself in the face, or not. |
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| News Comments > EA Server Shutdowns |
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Re: EA Server Shutdowns |
Dec 31, 2012, 12:06 |
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EA has been doing this for ages, deliberately timing server shutdowns for games with the release of sequels and the like trying to force people to buy the new game for multiplayer.
Though now they're making even singleplayer require the "okay" from the server with the sole goal of being able to completely stop people playing the game at all once they release the sequel. No doubt with the flawed mentality of not wanting to compete with their own, older, products.
It is not a technical necessity, it's not to fight piracy, it's not to add value or features. It's about control so they can pull the game out from under customers now entirely forcing them to fork out for the new version if they want to keep playing.
This is a good example of what happens when consultants and "number crunchers" get to direct a business instead of people who actually work in and have any passion for an industry.
Normally I have sympathy for people who get ripped off since we are all ignorant about something, though I can't feel sympathy for people supporting such companies with such tactics when they do the inevitable of ripping people off.
Personally I don't pay for a single game that can be remotely deactivated, disabled or crippled whether it's by design a mistake or due to a connection problem, that includes things that require online Steam DRM and I have missed out on no games and have had no problems.
If I'm going to pay for a game, I'm gong to be damn sure I can no only play it while on the move driving around on holiday, but can also fire it up years if not a decade from now without having the added "feature" of DRM doing nothing but causing problems to me as a customer. |
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| News Comments > Hardy to Star in Splinter Cell Movie |
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Re: Hardy to Star in Splinter Cell Movie |
Nov 14, 2012, 20:24 |
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Ever since the first Splinter Cell I thought George Clooney would be the obvious choice to play Sam Fisher in a movie, and if not Clooney then at least the voice actor for Sam Fisher, Michael Ironside.
Then again Splinter Cell is nothing like it used to be, last good one was Chaos Theory, after that it turned into garbage. Hell the new one "Blacklist" doesn't even seem have Michael Ironside as the voice actor anymore, the new one is 30 years younger.
I guess that falls in line with it the blow shit up and smash things game it's become rather than something unique that stands out from the lowest denominator drivel so many formerly good franchises are being turned into. |
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| News Comments > Valve on Linux Plans |
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Re: Valve on Linux Plans |
Oct 30, 2012, 10:12 |
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headkase wrote on Oct 30, 2012, 03:02:
Really. Check out my desktop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOE6fUQTjqs
I made that video, that's my voice, get a clue.
Sorry but those are the most useless features I've even seen being showed off, for anything not just Linux. I watched it twice just to make sure. All that shows is useless gimmicky features are being added instead of sensible usability.
In fact it's worse than that if anything, since you yourself in it state recording while simply using the OS slows things down.
Wow, impressive.
Oh and I just have to add, the video wraps around the cube? That's such a great feature, I'm going to watch all my videos like that from now on.
Oh my god.
http://i.imgur.com/PcUd3.jpg |
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| News Comments > Quoteworthy - Maxis on PC Gaming |
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Re: Quoteworthy - Maxis on PC Gaming |
Aug 30, 2012, 06:07 |
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Jerykk wrote on Aug 30, 2012, 05:06:
Unfortunately, D3's 6+ million sales don't really suggest that consumers are against always-online DRM. Rather, it suggests that they don't care about DRM at all provided that your game has sufficient hype and marketing.
I wouldn't say that, if anything it just shows how established Diablo is and how much it's fans are willing to go through to get it. It's clear noone likes being forced to be online for single player games, some might not care but noone goes "oh that's a great feature for a single player game, I love potential disconnects, being unable to play, lag, hackers, possibility of the game becoming unplayable in future etc". They put up with it because they have to
Also all the hype and marketing in the world will not make a game sell like that, again this is Diablo, something that's had a massive fan base for over a decade with them all waiting over a decade just between Diablo 2 and 3, just like people are waiting for Half Life 3 except Diablo goes back even further.
What I would instead say what that suggests is that most fans of established games are willing to put up with more to play those games and publishers know this and make them jump through more hoops and tie things to those games, of which DRM is not the only downside.
The success of Diablo 3 and all it's nonsense people put up with is only possible with a rare few game franchises and when that is the case people already want the game so much marketing has almost nothing to do with it, it's more of a case of "if you build it they will come". |
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| News Comments > Ubisoft: PC Piracy Rate 93-95% |
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Re: Ubisoft: PC Piracy Rate 93-95% |
Aug 23, 2012, 03:49 |
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People seem to be pointing the piracy finger at certain countries without any consideration of the wealth of those countries or it's people. In many of the countries having the finger pointed at them many people are living in conditions places like the US would consider destitute. Now if people in the US have problems with paying $50 for a game how do you think $50 looks to someone who has to worry if they have enough for next weeks food.
Even if the true number of piracy was 99% it doesn't change the fact that if there was no piracy sales number wouldn't change much, infact the only places sales number would really rise are in the wealthy countries like the US where people can afford such inflated prices.
Piracy does not mean a lost sale. This is not just some mantra against those that complain against piracy, it's a cold hard fact. |
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| News Comments > Nexuiz Free Weekend |
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Re: Nexuiz Free Weekend |
Aug 11, 2012, 13:42 |
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Fantaz wrote on Aug 11, 2012, 11:10:
they should give this crap away for free
Have to agree, from what I've seen it isn't nearly as good as UT99 or Quake 3. Sure it has better graphics but gameplay is by far the most important for this gametype.
They should have gone free to play, maybe have ingame billboards with adverts. Still either way I wouldn't play it, would much rather fire up the old UT or Q3. |
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| News Comments > The Witcher 2 Mod Kit Details Next Week |
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Re: The Witcher 2 Mod Kit Details Next Week |
Aug 10, 2012, 03:04 |
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Good news, though I can't help feeling disappointed that they didn't release the SDK around the time the game was released.
It's a great game and mods could add a lot but it's been out for so long the fanfare has long died down.
I find it strange that they don't make the SDK as user friendly as possible before/during making the game, as it would only help them make the game more efficiently and having it at release would generate more interest. Sure polish the SDK after the games release but releasing it so long after I feel that the game, the players, the modders and CD Projekt have missed missed out on something.
Great game and company but to little to late here, I doubt there will be any significant interest in modding it especially as since the games release another Elder Scrolls came out and modders as expected have flocked to it. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
Aug 8, 2012, 13:06 |
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Jerykk wrote on Aug 8, 2012, 12:44:
It will be interesting to see how Thief 4 turns out. No big publisher is going to fund a pure stealth game these days.....I suspect Thief 4 will make combat a much more viable option than in the previous games.
I wouldn't be all that surprised if that happens, these days they happily change a franchise, pretty much always for the worse, just to make it appeal to more people.
While it could be argued that being able to complete a game in more ways is a good thing I feel having action combat as an option to go through a thief game would ruin it, even if it's only an option.
Thief is about sneaking, getting trapped in a dark corner hoping no one finds you because if they do you're screwed is part of the atmosphere, the theme and style. Removing that by simply making combat and alternative would remove any feelings of desperation, suspense or hopelessness followed by relief when they don't find you rather than "blasting" your way out.
As for them waiting for the "next gen" consoles to release it doesn't make any sense whatsoever, this it the usual "next gen" nonsensical speculation that always flies around even before anything worthwhile is known about what is coming. |
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| News Comments > Sunday Legal Briefs |
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Re: Sunday Legal Briefs |
Jul 15, 2012, 20:21 |
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Torchlight maker outraged over what, another game that looks cartoonish and is hack and slash like, well guess what Torchlight wasn't the first there either so get over it.
Watching videos of this game and having played Torchlight the biggest similarity are the giant spiders, wow how original is that to begin with. |
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Jun 7, 2012, 21:35 |
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Hell I hate installers that want to download during install, means you can't take it somewhere and install it quickly or without internet/bandwidth, on top of that this one doesn't have a cancel button so it just keeps trying and trying to connect until eventually giving up then has language like "Do you want try again"
Sure if you go hunting you can find a full download though even that makes a ridiculous number of connections, if you watch it with a firewall it is crazy how many places it tried to connect to.
Also it's one of those programs that wants to connect to itself, which is a bad practice and could be an indicator of something bad.
But it gets better, it looks are horrible and it loves starting other executables like it's "helper" this and "downloader" that.
Just to top it off uninstalling doesn't remove all the files from the system.
Damn, when will I learn to stop trying software... |
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| News Comments > Evening Mobilization |
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Re: Evening Mobilization |
Jun 5, 2012, 05:43 |
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I also thought there was nothing sexist about the comment, at absolute worst it simply isn't the most appropriate thing for a company to say, then again it's simply showing a human side to a company which doesn't have to be a bad thing.
Also shouldn't her opinion about this be what matters and I doubt she cares, who would be offended by someone saying they have a nice rear which is basically a polite compliment compared to what others might say, after all that's basically why she's there and chances are she knows all that. Hell chances are the extra attention will only help her career as a model. |
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| News Comments > Hardware Reviews |
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Ultimate Hardware. |
Apr 27, 2012, 15:59 |
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Could Ultimate Hardware have worse benchmarks, wait I guess they could but that's like saying could a lame horse be worse at racing, wait I guess it could.
Who submits nonsense like that, though I don't even want to know who creates nonsense like that. |
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| News Comments > Morning Screenshots |
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Re: Morning Screenshots |
Feb 8, 2012, 18:06 |
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While there are some improvements, the best I've seen is Verno comparison example, I can't help thinking that the texture mods created by the community are much better and have been available for some time and continue to improve with updates.
It's sad that Bethesda had to do this in the first place, it's one thing for the modding community to add to a game but for it to fall onto them to actually turn a PC version of a game into a PC game is well, sad and cheap.
It's far easier to downscale things and remove features, so I wish they would start with developing for the PC and scaling things down as needed for consoles. |
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| News Comments > Unscheduled Ubisoft Downtime |
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Re: Unscheduled Ubisoft Downtime |
Feb 8, 2012, 17:55 |
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I love how they always say "it seems some of you" couldn't play your purchased games, when in fact without the server authenticating not a single paying customer can play that game.
Origin, UPlay, Steam etc, they can all go to hell, I will never pay for something I can't use when I want or be in a situation where they can just take away anything/everything I've purchased.
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| News Comments > Thief 4 Online Features? |
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Online Features or DRM |
Jan 17, 2012, 03:36 |
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As long as the online features are not authentication, activation or otherwise DRM with another name.
Would be nice to see a known franchise going back to using online to add value to a game instead of control.
Might end up being one of the few newer games I pay for then. |
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