Wraith wrote on Jan 21, 2015, 14:01:
They're fooling themselves. Alien Isolation is another missed opportunity. The game itself has great atmosphere but appalling game-play. Lazy AI and no attempt to reconcile the difference between Alien capabilites and the player's. Minimal to no opportunities to strategise. The list goes on and on.

They need an actual game designer.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well so was surprised to see them patting themselves on the back.

And the take away lesson from this? Don't make a shitty MMO and then leave it for the gold spammer vultures to pick clean?

Oh no, nope.

The take away lesson for this will be that MMOs are dead and don't make money and must be F2P to survive.

/facepalm

You guys voted for bold bright garish colours on a dark background?
Oh well...

What's with the new font colour? Or is that just me?

I wonder how bad the game is if some people have to resort to a cheating tool that incorporates some kind of "quality of life" improvements...

Cutter wrote on Jan 16, 2015, 11:19:
You think someone would fill the void of having a standardized, streamlined OS for PC gamers.

Well they do have something like that, but they are called consoletoys, and are pretty shit. Valve was trying to do something like that with the steambox, but as you can see yourself that isn't going anywhere but belly up.

What do you care about spyware when you post links directly to the FBI website...

But it's about internet trolls trolling gullible internets peeplz!

Deathman29 wrote on Jan 16, 2015, 10:53:

Killswitch wrote on Jan 16, 2015, 10:34:

garrywong wrote on Jan 16, 2015, 09:45:
Man, would you please not link directly to US government websites?
I let my guard down for a second and opened it. Now I will need a new hard disk...

I second this. I would never, knowingly, visit a government site.

Talk about paranoid... What you didn't know is they already have access to your PC if they choose to do so. In other words, don't go online if you don't want the government to track you.

No, they don't. It takes effort and time and even a little legal process to do that. But by visiting their website they simply plant spyware on your PC and bam! No need for no process. Go read up on the documents that Snowden had leaked, if you're still not up to date with that.

This is like you cherishing this undone, unfinished thing, maybe like a creative piece of work or maybe a soup, which you love, and you want to see it grow and succeed. And then this Xbox boss Phil Spencer comes along and just spits in your soup and says "We've been doing this for 40 years, trust me you'll love my saliva!"

Man, would you please not link directly to US government websites?
I let my guard down for a second and opened it. Now I will need a new hard disk...

In case anyone got interested from the mention of Legacy of Kain, this game has absolutely nothing to do with the series.

Who in their right mind would even join a union with such rules?

These are the guys that did Miner Wars? That game was so bad, nothing at all like what they promised.

That idiot isn't going to get re-elected anyway, who cares what he says?

Yeah, and what's worse is that people agree to settle rather than fight it in court. Which is exactly what these people want, because they know they have only very tenuous evidence and they will lose in court and that will be the end of their business because nobody will fear them any more.

Well that didn't last long...
I wonder if they will now try to lobby for a bill that will create those laws.

Also, he's reviving CISPA? Is he dumb? If he's really concerned about cyber security he should write a new bill that focuses on only that and none of the other hidden secret stuff that's shoved into CISPA. But of course we can see by his actions that cyber security is not his goal at all.

Good thing I never visited that clickbait website. Honestly don't know why Blues keeps linking to so many clickbaits.

Really? What bitcoin exchange hasn't been hacked yet? It's like any time one opens up, it gets hacked.

Jerykk wrote on Jan 4, 2015, 23:42:
When your game is on Steam, your potential sales skyrocket. Steam is by far the biggest distributor of games on PC. Taking a 30% loss on each sale is more than made up for by the sheer volume of sales you gain.

Sure, but that's what it used to be like, not what it's now anymore. Ask any indie dev that made it onto steam what their sales are like unless they have had some kind of outside marketing influence. Their little indie game gets buried beneath a shitton of DLCs, old re-releases and other junk that gets pushed onto steam these days, and their game never even gets noticed.

Used to be being on steam was just about all the marketing you needed. Not anymore. Steam is just a distribution platform now, you need to bring your own marketing to drive sales. That's why 30% cut (which is standard in the industry, it's not like steam is the only one that takes that kind of cut) is just a little too much for a small-time indie dev.