From what i've read, they only have CC info for cyber cafes. If they're like every other business out there, they probably don't actually keep CC info for normal transactions.

Also, the hacker that did this is fucking lame. He's some anti steam guy who hates steam simply because it means he has to pay for games.

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No, Wildone, but i'd try the new nvidia drivers that came out on monday.

Is this the patch that makes this not a really shoddy port?

That is actually about the 10th delay for that game. I almost consider it vaporware at this point.

I think you're thinking of UFO Exterrestials.

High res textures make this game look miles better. If you have the preorder disc, they're on there.

I just wish their patcher didn't suck. Failed to download patch? YOU DONT SAY!

I didnt' have a problem before the 1.02 patch and now i get an error when I go to exit, every time.

The error? "Exception in Exception handler"

PC Gamer review also says that the scrin happens very late in the game.

No no, now he makes the battlecruiser MMO, remember? Now he can ban supplicants from his game at a whim.

why have I never heard of this game?

Because it sucks balls?

Now that they've revamped it again, I may have to try this though. I always though it was a good concept but the game itself sucked. That was a few years ago.


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LOL! Given the financial commitment and the lengthy development time of video games, it sure as hell would make a huge difference if it only lasted 6 months. If a game were green-lighted for development based upon promises my Microsoft for co-marketing and maybe some seed money through the Games for Windows program, and Microsoft then pulled the plug on the program, you can bet that the developer or publisher of the game would be pissed as hell at Microsoft for not keeping its commitment to help support and market it.

I doubt many companies are going to base their publishing/marketing strictly on Microsoft helping to market the game, but that is a good point that I didn't think of.

Amen. If that weren't the case there would be DirectX 10 and Windows Live for XP.

I think Windows live not being on Vista is probably something that makes sense, but I dunno. As for DirectX10 not coming out for XP, that's still retarded. Then again, there aren't going to be many DX10-only games (if any) for the next few years. Other than Conan and a few others, it's still DX9. By the time DX10 is the mainstay, people will have bought new systems and most likely will have Vista.

I'll admit, there's really *no* reason to get Vista yet. There won't be for at least another year.

by the way, doktor_tchock, where's the option to turn off indexing the files on the drive for Vista?

and that just scratch’s surface of M$’s DRM practice, so no thanks until there is no other choice for gaming but to upgrade I aint going there!

Um, my friends got busted because someone who came to their house and couch-crashed downloaded a movie through P2P when they were running XP vanilla on Cox. Newsflash, your ISP *can* see what you're doing with no assistance from the OS.

Specifically, however, you suggesting that Doug's comments are just "rhetoric" is rather silly - he's making very valid points. MS is not billing "Games for Windows" as "Please buy Vista", they are billing it as support for Windows gaming. Over 95% of the Windows using population is using XP or earlier. Are they supporting Windows gaming for them?

Yes and no. Obviously they want to push people to vista, where they've built in things to make gaming easier. Naturally, we all read games news sites daily or almost daily so we know about hardware, software, drivers, etc but Vista does do some things like the Windows Experience Index which applies a number value to your machine. The idea is that my new system is a 4.7 or some such, and if a game says it needs a 3, I can run it. That's good for the industry because a lot of the people who play games, be it WOW or whatever, don't know a whole hell of a lot about their systems.

However, they've been pushing games for windows for 3 or 4 months now. Company of Heroes was one of the first major Games for Windows products, and I know that a few upcoming ones are like LOTRO. None of the games I've seen that are games for windows, with the exception of Shadowrun and Halo 2 PC, are Vista exclusive.

I suppose saying "rhetoric" is a little harsh, and I guess I can understand the skepticism about whether MS (M$ vi$ta, laffo) is in it for the long haul. I just think he's being a little too critical about it. If it's a marketing push to get people to vista, but it helps sell games now and actually makes some sort of difference because MS is paying for more windows games space in Best Buy, I don't see why it would make much difference if it lasts 6 years or 6 months.

The bottom line here is that anyone with a modicum of intelligence can see that Vista is setting Pc gaming back another 10 years. More driver issues then WinME, weaker legacy support then even Win2K, and horrible backwards compatibility are just some of the myriad of issues gamers who foolishly upgrade have to tolerate

Where is this coming from? Please don't base your experience on the betas, because the betas sucked. I have Vista on my new machine (came loaded) and it works great. After a few shaky video drivers, they're pretty up to speed now.

Vista is a good OS that just happens to have bad drivers because all the hardware companies decided to wait until AFTER release before making their drivers. I already have every driver I needed (now that HP has come out with their new drivers). You may not like Vista, and I might not be able to figure out why, but that's fine. Don't even rate it with WinME though. WinME was a pile of garbage.

I really wish people would stop dismissing reports of problems simply because they haven't experienced them. Your good fortune doesn't negate the bad fortune others have had.

A lot of people are rating on their experience of beta 2 and beta 2 sucked hardcore. Aside from that, I have heard problems with audio drivers because of the change in directx sound. Creative just came out with drivers for that.

What I do hear from people is that UAC prompts them for everything such as going to websites and recieving any network transmission, and that's bullshit. Things like not finding drivers for 2 year old hardware. My old barton 2600+ with a nforce2 and some weird cards in it didn't have a single issue. Not saying people don't have issues, but the degree of problems is being put way out of proportion because it's hip to hate microsoft. Doug's comment is just the same retortic. Is it trying to sell vista? Of course. Microsoft wants to make money. SURPRISE! At the same time, it's free advertising that THEY are giving to people FOR FREE as long as they meet like 3 requirements, which are that it has to have install set up right, has to interface with the new vista games panel (which is like a few extra properties) and has to support the 360-pc gamepad (which is a little bewildering tbqh).
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It's cheaper than $15 a month. You can just buy the limited edition collector's edition for like $5 at compusa* and just keep making new accounts.


*(no you can't, they're all gone probably)



Still, this game is such a disaster. It could have been neat but last time I tried it, it was such a wreck that the sound didn't even work and the forums seemed to say that it was a pretty common problem.

at this point we're unclear on what series that is

They're trying to claim it's part of the X-Com series, which is called UFO in europe for some reason.

I got burned with the last game (Aftershock) but apparently this one is better from what I hear. I still don't know about it though...

How is extraterrestials a sequel? What are they trying to say that it's an official x-com game (which was called ufo in europe)?

It's bad enough that the game has snakemen basically ripped out of x-com. Now they're trying to say it's an official sequel? That's some balls they have...

I suppose I should update my x-com page with this news...

This series got shit on so much near the end that I'm going to remain very cautious before I freak out about this...

cutedge do you have more information to share on how this scandal was exposed? i'm very interested in how it transpired.

A guy with the handle of kugutsumen apparently has hacked into various forums and came across various information and did a bunch of tying together to point out various things. In this case, it's how some devs are in BoB and how they got tech 2 bpos.

Here's links to the guys posts in his own forums.

http://www.kugutsumen.com/showthread.php?t=66
http://www.kugutsumen.com/showthread.php?t=68
http://www.kugutsumen.com/showthread.php?t=73
http://www.kugutsumen.com/showthread.php?t=74
http://www.kugutsumen.com/showthread.php?t=80
http://www.kugutsumen.com/showthread.php?t=94

So far the only player that has been banned was the hacker (as well as his coworker) who, it's worth noting, got the information that caused all of this from hacking forums of some of the alliances. They also called his work and tried to get him fired. Too bad it's his wife's business.