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News Comments > Activision; Stems WoW Losses; Diablo III Slips
6. Re: Activision; Stems WoW Losses; Diablo III Slips Feb 9, 2012, 21:57 PropheT
 
DangerDog wrote on Feb 9, 2012, 21:17:
This graphic tweak really helps make the games graphics not look like ass.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3967848172?page=1

The difference between the default muddy/blurry graphics and the sharper effect offered with this mini mod is night and day.

That looks almost exactly like what happened with Skyrim and the graphics patches in the first few days after release, and for the same reasons.

I don't think either look bad, though I do definitely prefer the sharper version.
 
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News Comments > BAFTA Audience Award Voting
9. Re: BAFTA Audience Award Voting Feb 9, 2012, 16:22 PropheT
 
Dark Souls really should be on there, and Uncharted 3 really shouldn't.

 
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News Comments > Reckoning Dev: Piracy Prevents PC Exclusives
25. Re: Reckoning Dev: Piracy Prevents PC Exclusives Feb 2, 2012, 13:05 PropheT
 
Kajetan wrote on Feb 2, 2012, 11:42:
Yes, he is the one of the only one. To my knowledge, no Iron Lore dev has said anything regarding piracy being bad for TQ. As i recall this was ONLY Michael Fitch, THQ Creative Director at that time, who started this propaganda lie after the closure of Iron Lore to cover his employer. THQ killed Iron Lore. TQ sold well, the addon suffered mainly from the bad reputation TQ gathered for its rocky, bug-ridden start. In fact, an Ex-Iron Lore dev said a few months (?) ago, that TQ & addon are actually doing very well on digital plattforms like Steam or others and that they do not receive ANYTHING from these sales.

They've said it, they just didn't get headlines like Fitch did for it.

And the game only had a rocky, bug-ridden start to people who pirated it, so +1 to people who want to prove him right, I guess.

I don't see how his point is arguable. What major non-MMO PC-exclusive games are there anymore since Titan Quest besides Crysis, a game that was also pirated to hell and back?
 
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News Comments > Tomb Raider Reboot in Alpha
17. Re: Tomb Raider Reboot in Alpha Jan 29, 2012, 02:05 PropheT
 
Cutter wrote on Jan 28, 2012, 23:03:
I never understood the draw of these sorts of games. The desperation of the lonely geeks drawn to virtual big titted sluts is just beyond sad.

What kind of game is that, games with female main characters?

I know your knee-jerk reaction to every game you comment on is how stupid it is or how stupid the players are that are playing it, but I don't think you're characterizing this game (or any in the series since Crystal Dynamics took it over, really) based on reality.
 
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News Comments > Morning Mobilization
16. Re: Morning Mobilization Jan 26, 2012, 16:41 PropheT
 
Verno wrote on Jan 26, 2012, 13:31:
I don't get this at all, what apps and smartphone are you using? Get specific usage apps for your needs and there are many great offerings for pretty much anything you can imagine. Browsing the web is fine as long as the site has a mobile version and most of the popular ones do these days. Zooming and stuff sucks on regular sites but it's easy enough to do.

I don't worship my smartphone like some people but it is a very useful tool to do many different tasks. If you don't have a need for that then fair enough but surfing and using apps are fine on most smartphones these days. If you have no need of the functionality due to having other devices for it then you're not really the intended market for it.

I have a Droid X2. It's cool, I guess, I just don't think it's particularly useful. And you're absolutely right, I'm probably not the intended market for it because I don't find it to be useful. There are a multitude of apps out there, but I'm not sure I see the point of them other than as gadgets trying to find a way to make the phone useful; there isn't a single one that I've found that seems really necessary or that has had any impact on the way I use the phone.

Bandwidth caps make videos and streaming music seem pointless, and if I'm somewhere with a wi-fi network I can probably use a better device to do those things. Social media sites are apps that would make it useful, but I don't really participate to any meaningful degree. Books, PDF's, and documents are all things that are useful for a handheld device but the iPad or Kindle Fire are both so much better for this that I'd only use the phone if there was no other option.

It's fun to play with when I'm bored and waiting somewhere, but that's about it. I think the only other thing I really use it for is to compare prices if I go shopping somewhere.
 
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News Comments > Morning Mobilization
6. Re: Morning Mobilization Jan 26, 2012, 12:37 PropheT
 
I have a smartphone and a tablet because trying to surf anything or use most apps on a phone sucks.

I'm a little mystified as to the popularity of smart phones, really. I've only had one for a few months, but it's just not that useful if you have other ways to access the internet and the apps just feel like novelties unless you hate your friends enough to share every moment of your life on a social media site.
 
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News Comments > The Old Republic Cancellation Issues; Trailer
142. Re: The Old Republic Cancellation Issues; Trailer Jan 19, 2012, 22:24 PropheT
 
Overon wrote on Jan 19, 2012, 18:03:
It always amuses me how some people can't handle criticism of their game.

Criticism is fine, but the forums were beyond terrible to the point of being completely useless for the reason they were there in the first place. It was virtually impossible to talk about anything there, whether it was the general forum or customer service, without having 20 people interject a long internet BAWWW fight over how terrible everything is. If anything, they should have locked the forum down weeks ago until they had the manpower to moderate it more strictly.
 
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News Comments > Star Wars: The Old Republic Emergency Patch
17. Re: Star Wars: The Old Republic Emergency Patch Jan 19, 2012, 13:10 PropheT
 
Wallshadows wrote on Jan 19, 2012, 11:30:
There's a huge storm on the forums about this and it seems as though the moderators/community managers/designers are getting torn to shreds based on the feedback they have provided to the community with page after page of users saying they've cancelled their subs.

There's a huge storm about everything on the forums and there has been since before the game even launched. They might be the single worst forums I've ever seen for a game, ever, and are even worse than Warcraft's forums were... so it's beyond difficult to take them even a little seriously.
 
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News Comments > Evening Consolidation
2. Re: Evening Consolidation Jan 14, 2012, 03:53 PropheT
 
Having had my own account hacked last month, my password wasn't crappy, or even guessable. 8 random characters with a mix of letters and numbers that doesn't form a word isn't something anybody is just going to guess or be able to brute force through in 8 attempts. The idea that anybody who gets hacked had a bad password is bullshit.  
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News Comments > Op Ed
33. Re: Op Ed Jan 11, 2012, 16:16 PropheT
 
Jerykk wrote on Jan 11, 2012, 12:26:
If pirates have no intention of ever paying publishers a dime, how are publishers losing sales to them..?

Because you're not entitled to have the product for free just because you don't want to pay for it?

Used sales aren't a problem on PC in even a miniscule scale compared to console games, so I don't know why they would use DRM schemes on PC's so heavily to combat a problem that doesn't really exist.
 
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News Comments > Op Ed
13. Re: SOPA Isn’t the Solution, But Can We At Least Agree There’s A Problem Jan 11, 2012, 11:45 PropheT
 
Kajetan wrote on Jan 11, 2012, 09:50:
There is no proof that DRM increases sales, there is no proof that the lack of DRM decreases sales. For DECADES, since the early days of tapes and video cassettes the fear of loosing sales is based on assumptions, not actual, proven facts.

Everyone I knew had copied tapes 20 years ago, burned CD's 10 years ago, and working IT jobs for the last 15 years half of the people I've worked with in that time have pirated games and movies constantly with no intention of buying them.

I don't know what proof you're looking for, but common sense says that this stuff being easily and readily available for free when companies need to sell the product is a major problem. It's not like piracy sites are unpopular and nobody with a sliver of intelligence and honesty really believes that pirates are just using those games as a demo before they buy.
 
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News Comments > Morning Tech Bits
3. Re: Morning Tech Bits Jan 10, 2012, 12:12 PropheT
 
Optional nickname wrote on Jan 10, 2012, 11:46:
can someone please explain to me the FAIL by intel as if I were 5? I don't get it.

He's standing there holding a racing wheel talking about playing a DX11 game and the video controls pop up on screen showing it's just a video of the game and not an actual game.
 
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News Comments > Diablo III in February?
58. Re: Diablo III in February? Jan 8, 2012, 21:40 PropheT
 
Dev wrote on Jan 8, 2012, 14:57:
A random storechain with a random date is almost never right (we've seen gamestop frequently do this in the past).

That sign has been there in that Best Buy since before Christmas, I saw it when I was finishing up my shopping in the middle of December. If I'd thought it would be news I would have taken a picture back then :p

It's been a long time, but I thought the release date for Diablo 2 wasn't announced until just before it actually shipped as well...like a matter of a few weeks.

 
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News Comments > etc., etc.
6. Re: etc., etc. Jan 6, 2012, 21:53 PropheT
 
PHJF wrote on Jan 6, 2012, 21:35:
It wasn't even done properly on the PS3 in the first place. There were SERIOUS frame rate problems.

Blighttown has framerate issues on the 360, too.

I still love the game, I'd actually double dip on it if they brought it to PC... don't see them doing it, though.
 
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News Comments > Morning Consolidation
5. Re: Morning Consolidation Jan 6, 2012, 16:34 PropheT
 
Xbox Live accounts being hacked is way more common than it gets press for. I'd be willing to put money on more people being affected by having hacked Live accounts in the last year than people who actually lost anything as a result of Sony's widely publicized hack last spring.

Mine was hit just before Christmas, and they bought Super Meat Boy and Pac Man on it, blowing through 1600 points I had on the account. The worst part was, it was better to eat the money for the points than it was to have Microsoft "investigate" it and lock my account out for who knows how long, being advised that I probably wouldn't get anything back anyway.

 
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News Comments > Evening Tech Bits
2. Re: Re:Why 3d TV.... Jan 5, 2012, 21:32 PropheT
 
UttiniDaKilrJawa wrote on Jan 5, 2012, 20:51:
2 words.

Dorky Glasses.

Dorky glasses that add another 50% or more of the initial price of the TV in order to have enough for a family to watch it in 3D, and then another charge on top of everything else for the content...all for something I don't even know that I'd really want after the investment anyway.
 
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News Comments > True X-COM Sequel: XCOM: Enemy Unknown Revealed
11. Re: True X-COM Sequel: XCOM: Enemy Unknown Revealed Jan 5, 2012, 12:13 PropheT
 
Minuit wrote on Jan 5, 2012, 12:06:
Okay, it's a console game. I'm a little less excited now, but there's still hope.

The original was on the Playstation.
 
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News Comments > Childs Play Raises $3.5M
4. Re: Childs Play Raises $3.5M Jan 4, 2012, 21:49 PropheT
 
eRe4s3r wrote on Jan 4, 2012, 21:04:
If only they had more locations outside the US than inside. Because if theres one nation that needs charity, its the US.. meh.

Kids get sick here, too. Really not sure what you're aiming at with that statement.
 
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News Comments > The Old Republic Bans?
39. Re: The Old Republic Bans? Jan 2, 2012, 00:12 PropheT
 
Cutter wrote on Jan 1, 2012, 21:53:
Haha! Sucks to be you, hey fanboy? It must really hurt that I'm right most of the time. You need to stay far away from any sort of career in investing or anything remotely related to the future for that matter. It's what makes your nick so ironic lol!

Yeah, you were spot on about Rift going free to play in 6 months. I remember you touting that one on a regular basis about a year ago. You're a regular fucking psychic.

Seriously, you're like a broken record with these games. It's always the same thing.
 
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News Comments > The Old Republic Bans?
23. Re: The Old Republic Bans? Jan 1, 2012, 17:44 PropheT
 
Cutter wrote on Jan 1, 2012, 15:01:
Yet another reason this game is doomed.

If the game designers got a nickel for every time you said that about an MMO they wouldn't need the subscription fees.
 
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