Prez wrote on Mar 24, 2010, 00:28:
That nifty and clever little propaganda piece is so full of fail!!!!!!

I don't post on Foxnews.com!!

(And the rest of it is nonsense, but it IS clever.)

Prez wrote on Mar 24, 2010, 00:09:
Waaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!! I don't own Windows 7 yet. Anyone got a warez copy? Oh, and welcome to socialism, my fellow Americans.

That better Ray?

Pankin wrote on Mar 21, 2010, 15:25:

ledhead1969 wrote on Mar 21, 2010, 15:00:
Unless you want to be competitive. Your argument was just destroyed. Period. Goodbye.

Sorry ledhead, but my argument stands.

If you want to be competitive, then you must therefore want to make a purchase.

If being competitive is not something you're interested in, then making a purchase is similarly uninteresting to you.

This is all assuming that they are, in fact, making competitive items exclusively for purchase. This would, admittedly, be unfair. I don't mean to spoil the surprise or anything but...life is not fair.

So, in short, lick me.

spindoctor wrote on Mar 21, 2010, 14:16:
Can someone explain to me how this is different from the existing DLC support?

NKD wrote on Mar 21, 2010, 14:08:
I demand developers stop creating games and content that I don't want. They must now only make things that I feel are a wise purchase. I hate feeling like I'm missing out because my friends have content that I don't want.

Rigs wrote on Mar 19, 2010, 19:25:
So, how does it rate? My list: (in order...kinda)

Grand Theft Auto 4
Just Cause 2
Mercenaries 2
Far Cry 2
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Saints Row 2
Just Cause

I had to download the JC2 demo 3 friggin' times as the first two ended up being corrupt. You'd think that by 2010 they could have found a way to check the integrity of a file before you hit the Download button...
JC2 is good but I'm still fond of GTA4 and Mercs2, even though the latter could seriously be awarded 'Best of Show' in BugFest '09...Far Cry 2 still stands only because it's so easy to get into...and out of...at least on my system...


=-Rigs-=

I've Got The News Blues wrote on Mar 19, 2010, 00:47:

Prez wrote on Mar 19, 2010, 00:33:
Steam is not the same as Ubsioft's and now EA's new fandangled DRM.

I don't dispute that. In some ways it is a little better (offline mode), and in some ways it is much worse (universal kill switch).

If my internet connection goes down, I do not get booted out of the game with Steam.

No, but you won't be able to launch another game when you exit the current one if Steam refuses to enter offline mode which it does due to various restrictions.

I can select "Start up in Offline mode" in the Settings and never have to connect to a Steam server to play any of my singleplayer games.

Saying "never" is very misleading as the limits and bugginess of offline mode make its permanence very unlikely.

If Valve goes out of business today, I'm not locked out of any of my Singleplayer games on Steam.

You will be locked out if you ever want to install them on another PC, or on the same PC after a fresh installation of the OS, or if your last login to Steam failed to save the information, or if you want to use another Steam account, etc.

Yes, if you successfully entered offline mode the last time you used Steam and you never change your OS or your Steam files don't change, then you should still be able to play your Steam games offline assuming that the Steam client doesn't screwup as it has historically with offline mode for many people due to bugs. But, that is still pretty restrictive DRM.

I am not denying Steam is DRM; but it is far less obtrusive than the BS Ubisoft and EA are using.

It is more intrusive because at least EA and Ubisoft's DRM only affect games individually. With Steam's DRM, a single failure affects all of your games not just one.

Tom wrote on Mar 18, 2010, 19:34:
Someone looking at review scores should always look at not just the critics, but what the people have to say. Metacritic does a good job here. Assassin's Creed II for the PC has a critic rating of 82 there, but the user score is 2.3 out of 10 with 255 votes. Should be a red flag for anyone thinking of buying this game.

I've Got The News Blues wrote on Mar 18, 2010, 18:20:
Says a guy who uses Steam. Steam also does everyone of these things, and yet you loved HL2 and Valve's other games which use Steam from your posts on this forum. What you really mean, hypocrite, is that you will only bend over and take it from Valve and not EA.

EA is just taking a page from Valve's playbook as most of its fanboys don't realize or admit that Steam uses DRM either.