|RaptoR| wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 15:27:
CJ Parker is literally a terrorist.

OK, guys. After all these years and years... mission accomplished! I guess that means I can finally go into retirement now!

Whether or not the store is a bad thing isn't really a concern when it comes to this particular piece of software; it's free. If you lose access to it in the future...uh, too bad? Paid purchases are the only thing you have any actual right to be cranky about, and CJ is technically correct, although filled with ulcer-inducing rage.

I plan on picking up Forza Horizon 3, but it also runs on the Xbone on the same purchase, so I'm not terribly worried about loss of access. I don't TEND to go back to older games, so loss of older titles isn't enough to bother me. There are plenty of newer games that work fine, and I have more interest in anyway. Not trying to invalidate CJ's anger over his sorta-loss of AOE3 access, just that *personally* it's not a concern.

I do think that games past a certain age should be made available for free, but that usually requires someone to code OUT their DRM, and no one's gonna do that for free. Or worse, they need some help to run on recent OS', which can be a monumental task, depending on how many now-dead tricks they used to get it working. For example, I'd love for Rocket Jockey to actually work, even if it's still butt ugly. It's hilarious fun in multiplayer and has mechanics no one has done since. But that'd require work, unpaid and probably largely unnoticed. It's more likely someone would make a spiritual successor than to resurrect the original.

jdreyer wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 15:12:

|RaptoR| wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 09:39:
I did not weigh in on my opinion of Microsoft or the App Store for Windows. Whether or not his points are valid, his approach is toxic and the overwhelming majority of his post history follows that same trend.

You can have a debate without being an abrasive, toxic, nerd raging asshole. They're not mutually exclusive.

I am calling this out not because I care about Microsoft, but because Bluesnews is a fantastic site with a few rotten apples that drag the comment threads down. Hold yourselves to higher standard.

Unfortunately you picked the thread, topic, and comment where his style is appropriate. Calling him out on threads where it isn't will engender greater success.

You missed the entire point -- being a toxic abrasive asshole is never "appropriate" in a forum like this. The validity of his points are a separate issue from how he conducts himself. He could've made all those points with the same impact without being a toxic asshole.

edit - how about this:

I don't give a fuck what he thinks about Microsoft, the dude is a motherfucking retard who has choked down the free market red pill and filled himself with so much self righteous anger that he can't hold a civil fucking conversation. Everything he argues is irrelevant because he doesn't understand how to take a respectful tone with anyone who may have a different point of view. You know who else acts like this? Fucking terrorists.

CJ Parker is literally a terrorist.

Do you see the difference now? One is appropriate, one is not. I can't agree with you that there is ever a time being a toxic asshole on the internet over a trivial matter is constructive. It's just not man, and the point doesn't justify the delivery.

This comment was edited on Sep 9, 2016, 15:36.

|RaptoR| wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 09:39:
I did not weigh in on my opinion of Microsoft or the App Store for Windows. Whether or not his points are valid, his approach is toxic and the overwhelming majority of his post history follows that same trend.

You can have a debate without being an abrasive, toxic, nerd raging asshole. They're not mutually exclusive.

I am calling this out not because I care about Microsoft, but because Bluesnews is a fantastic site with a few rotten apples that drag the comment threads down. Hold yourselves to higher standard.

Unfortunately you picked the thread, topic, and comment where his style is appropriate. Calling him out on threads where it isn't will engender greater success.

CJ_Parker wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 11:13:

GarthZombie wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 10:44:
Best thing to do is just report his posts, hope he eventually gets banned and we can have a healthy comments section without fat angry morons here.

Good. That means I get to stay cuz I may be angry and a moron but I ain't fat, bud .

Also, real intelligent to write shit about a "healthy comments section" and then insult posters as "fat angry morons". Looks like I'm by far not the most moronic moron around here but we already established that in this and many other threads before it.

Reagle has got you beat by several thousand country miles. No worries there.

CJ_Parker wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 11:13:

GarthZombie wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 10:44:
Best thing to do is just report his posts, hope he eventually gets banned and we can have a healthy comments section without fat angry morons here.

Good. That means I get to stay cuz I may be angry and a moron but I ain't fat, bud .

Also, real intelligent to write shit about a "healthy comments section" and then insult posters as "fat angry morons". Looks like I'm by far not the most moronic moron around here but we already established that in this and many other threads before it.

Do you not see what you do to the comments sections? Your posts turn it from talking about the article, to annoying people enough that we have to comment about your shit.

Make your points that you need to make (they're fine and valid) without being racist or slandering people, because clearly you don't like it either.

GarthZombie wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 10:44:
Best thing to do is just report his posts, hope he eventually gets banned and we can have a healthy comments section without fat angry morons here.

Good. That means I get to stay cuz I may be angry and a moron but I ain't fat, bud .

Also, real intelligent to write shit about a "healthy comments section" and then insult posters as "fat angry morons". Looks like I'm by far not the most moronic moron around here but we already established that in this and many other threads before it.

|RaptoR| wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 09:39:

theyarecomingforyou wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 07:00:

Kajetan wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 04:34:

|RaptoR| wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 04:11:
Your entire post history is angry nerd rage wharrgarbl. You lost credibility years ago and most people here pity you.

Him being most of the time some angry bitter dude does NOT invalidate his critic of Microsofts abysmal policy of shutting down and neglecting services, rendering purchases no longer usable.

Its not only games. Remember "Plays for sure"? Microsofts DRM for Music downloads? One day they simply canceled the service and all music which had this DRM incorporated did no longer played for sure.

There is a valid reason people get upset with MS regarding these topics: MS simply has a TERRIBLE track record.

Exactly. He may be obnoxious and wrong most of the time but his critique here is spot on. Microsoft is a bane on the gaming industry, especially PC gaming.

jdreyer wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 04:55:

|RaptoR| wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 04:11:
Your entire post history is angry nerd rage wharrgarbl. You lost credibility years ago and most people here pity you.

Although I'm not a big fan of CJ's posting style most of the time, this is one case where his nerd rage not only fits, but is appropriate to the topic. I got a few good chuckles from his post, and totally agree. Fck MS for their GFWL bullshit.

Kajetan wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 04:34:

|RaptoR| wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 04:11:
Your entire post history is angry nerd rage wharrgarbl. You lost credibility years ago and most people here pity you.

Him being most of the time some angry bitter dude does NOT invalidate his critic of Microsofts abysmal policy of shutting down and neglecting services, rendering purchases no longer usable.

Its not only games. Remember "Plays for sure"? Microsofts DRM for Music downloads? One day they simply canceled the service and all music which had this DRM incorporated did no longer played for sure.

There is a valid reason people get upset with MS regarding these topics: MS simply has a TERRIBLE track record.

I did not weigh in on my opinion of Microsoft or the App Store for Windows. Whether or not his points are valid, his approach is toxic and the overwhelming majority of his post history follows that same trend.

You can have a debate without being an abrasive, toxic, nerd raging asshole. They're not mutually exclusive.

I am calling this out not because I care about Microsoft, but because Bluesnews is a fantastic site with a few rotten apples that drag the comment threads down. Hold yourselves to higher standard.

Best thing to do is just report his posts, hope he eventually gets banned and we can have a healthy comments section without fat angry morons here.

theyarecomingforyou wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 07:00:

Kajetan wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 04:34:

|RaptoR| wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 04:11:
Your entire post history is angry nerd rage wharrgarbl. You lost credibility years ago and most people here pity you.

Him being most of the time some angry bitter dude does NOT invalidate his critic of Microsofts abysmal policy of shutting down and neglecting services, rendering purchases no longer usable.

Its not only games. Remember "Plays for sure"? Microsofts DRM for Music downloads? One day they simply canceled the service and all music which had this DRM incorporated did no longer played for sure.

There is a valid reason people get upset with MS regarding these topics: MS simply has a TERRIBLE track record.

Exactly. He may be obnoxious and wrong most of the time but his critique here is spot on. Microsoft is a bane on the gaming industry, especially PC gaming.

jdreyer wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 04:55:

|RaptoR| wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 04:11:
Your entire post history is angry nerd rage wharrgarbl. You lost credibility years ago and most people here pity you.

Although I'm not a big fan of CJ's posting style most of the time, this is one case where his nerd rage not only fits, but is appropriate to the topic. I got a few good chuckles from his post, and totally agree. Fck MS for their GFWL bullshit.

Kajetan wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 04:34:

|RaptoR| wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 04:11:
Your entire post history is angry nerd rage wharrgarbl. You lost credibility years ago and most people here pity you.

Him being most of the time some angry bitter dude does NOT invalidate his critic of Microsofts abysmal policy of shutting down and neglecting services, rendering purchases no longer usable.

Its not only games. Remember "Plays for sure"? Microsofts DRM for Music downloads? One day they simply canceled the service and all music which had this DRM incorporated did no longer played for sure.

There is a valid reason people get upset with MS regarding these topics: MS simply has a TERRIBLE track record.

I did not weigh in on my opinion of Microsoft or the App Store for Windows. Whether or not his points are valid, his approach is toxic and the overwhelming majority of his post history follows that same trend.

You can have a debate without being an abrasive, toxic, nerd raging asshole. They're not mutually exclusive.

I am calling this out not because I care about Microsoft, but because Bluesnews is a fantastic site with a few rotten apples that drag the comment threads down. Hold yourselves to higher standard.

Kajetan wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 04:34:

|RaptoR| wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 04:11:
Your entire post history is angry nerd rage wharrgarbl. You lost credibility years ago and most people here pity you.

Him being most of the time some angry bitter dude does NOT invalidate his critic of Microsofts abysmal policy of shutting down and neglecting services, rendering purchases no longer usable.

Its not only games. Remember "Plays for sure"? Microsofts DRM for Music downloads? One day they simply canceled the service and all music which had this DRM incorporated did no longer played for sure.

There is a valid reason people get upset with MS regarding these topics: MS simply has a TERRIBLE track record.

Exactly. He may be obnoxious and wrong most of the time but his critique here is spot on. Microsoft is a bane on the gaming industry, especially PC gaming.

So just tried this out of curiosity. No 21:9 support and performance sucks with a 960gtx on full HD. They recommend 12 GB ram, 4GB Video ram and a 970GTX probably a side effect of the port.

|RaptoR| wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 04:11:
Your entire post history is angry nerd rage wharrgarbl. You lost credibility years ago and most people here pity you.

Although I'm not a big fan of CJ's posting style most of the time, this is one case where his nerd rage not only fits, but is appropriate to the topic. I got a few good chuckles from his post, and totally agree. Fck MS for their GFWL bullshit.

|RaptoR| wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 04:11:
Your entire post history is angry nerd rage wharrgarbl. You lost credibility years ago and most people here pity you.

Him being most of the time some angry bitter dude does NOT invalidate his critic of Microsofts abysmal policy of shutting down and neglecting services, rendering purchases no longer usable.

Its not only games. Remember "Plays for sure"? Microsofts DRM for Music downloads? One day they simply canceled the service and all music which had this DRM incorporated did no longer played for sure.

There is a valid reason people get upset with MS regarding these topics: MS simply has a TERRIBLE track record.

CJ_Parker wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 03:03:

noman wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 01:05:

CJ_Parker wrote on Sep 8, 2016, 20:49:
Again: I'm not touching Microshit's garbage store with a 10 lightyear pole. Not after what they pulled off with GFWL. I uninstalled the store immediately after upgrading, never to be seen again (OK who am I kidding... next major update they will reinstall it w/o my consent but it will fly off the disk again just as swiftly as it returns!).

While GFWL store closed down, that is you can't purchase new games from them, the service is still out there, supporting GFWL games. I have it installed on Windows 10, and it works perfectly fine, still serving out downloads for the game I added to the GFWL account, and keeping track of achievements and other things.

That is complete bullshit. I own(ed) Age of Empires III Complete on GFWL. Can I still install the GFWL client? Yes. Can I download AoE III Complete? Yes. Can I play AoE III Complete? Fuck no.
The game asks for a fucking key when I try to start it. I never got a fucking key because the game is/was tied to my GFWL account.
So what I had to do to be able to play my legally purchased game was google a AoE III key and that luckily worked but without Google I'd be fucked out of a game by Microshit's utter incompetence.

You know, I can even still see the original transaction in my MS account so MS has a record of my purchase. So why did I never get a key when they shut down their retard service?
The very least they should have done would've been to either... A. give everyone a free Steam key for AoE III Complete or... B. add the game to people's MS accounts and provide a key or account-bound version from there or... C. select any other method of their choosing to allow GFWL game owners access to their legally acquired games.

Microshit did none of that. They effectively stole my game from me. They are the only digital platform so far who have lost a game and they (unfortunately) do not even have the excuse of going out of business or anything. They just didn't give a fuck when they shut down GFWL.

That is why I am NEVER going to purchase a game from a Microshit storefront again. NEVER. They have broken rule no. 1 which is trust. Who is to say that their CEO or Phil Spencer doesn't consider the Win 10 store a "failure" next month and they shut it down in similar fashion to GFWL, not giving a fuck and screwing people out of their legal purchases? I ain't taking that risk again with these jokers. Fuck Microshit.

noman wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 00:33:
Aaha, another one smoldering with generic rage, or may be this is full time parody season in this thread.

[...]

These application just simply are few of the best of such news and sports stats collectors.

The only "parody" here is that you seem to honestly believe that those Win 10 apps are among the "best" apps for the related purposes. Are you for real? That is outright hilarious. Have you ever had your IQ checked? I'd be extremely curious if it's much above room temperature (in degrees Celsius). I'd bet it's a really close call...

Your entire post history is angry nerd rage wharrgarbl. You lost credibility years ago and most people here pity you.

Microsoft Windows Store is the FUTURE, the Windows Store is LIFE!

noman wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 01:05:

CJ_Parker wrote on Sep 8, 2016, 20:49:
Again: I'm not touching Microshit's garbage store with a 10 lightyear pole. Not after what they pulled off with GFWL. I uninstalled the store immediately after upgrading, never to be seen again (OK who am I kidding... next major update they will reinstall it w/o my consent but it will fly off the disk again just as swiftly as it returns!).

While GFWL store closed down, that is you can't purchase new games from them, the service is still out there, supporting GFWL games. I have it installed on Windows 10, and it works perfectly fine, still serving out downloads for the game I added to the GFWL account, and keeping track of achievements and other things.

That is complete bullshit. I own(ed) Age of Empires III Complete on GFWL. Can I still install the GFWL client? Yes. Can I download AoE III Complete? Yes. Can I play AoE III Complete? Fuck no.
The game asks for a fucking key when I try to start it. I never got a fucking key because the game is/was tied to my GFWL account.
So what I had to do to be able to play my legally purchased game was google a AoE III key and that luckily worked but without Google I'd be fucked out of a game by Microshit's utter incompetence.

You know, I can even still see the original transaction in my MS account so MS has a record of my purchase. So why did I never get a key when they shut down their retard service?
The very least they should have done would've been to either... A. give everyone a free Steam key for AoE III Complete or... B. add the game to people's MS accounts and provide a key or account-bound version from there or... C. select any other method of their choosing to allow GFWL game owners access to their legally acquired games.

Microshit did none of that. They effectively stole my game from me. They are the only digital platform so far who have lost a game and they (unfortunately) do not even have the excuse of going out of business or anything. They just didn't give a fuck when they shut down GFWL.

That is why I am NEVER going to purchase a game from a Microshit storefront again. NEVER. They have broken rule no. 1 which is trust. Who is to say that their CEO or Phil Spencer doesn't consider the Win 10 store a "failure" next month and they shut it down in similar fashion to GFWL, not giving a fuck and screwing people out of their legal purchases? I ain't taking that risk again with these jokers. Fuck Microshit.

noman wrote on Sep 9, 2016, 00:33:
Aaha, another one smoldering with generic rage, or may be this is full time parody season in this thread.

[...]

These application just simply are few of the best of such news and sports stats collectors.

The only "parody" here is that you seem to honestly believe that those Win 10 apps are among the "best" apps for the related purposes. Are you for real? That is outright hilarious. Have you ever had your IQ checked? I'd be extremely curious if it's much above room temperature (in degrees Celsius). I'd bet it's a really close call...

I had to update windows for this, I guess I must have turned updates off after the auto-download messed up my connection during a game of ARMA. Probably the only thing about the new OS that has annoyed me so far (Oh, and some admin functions got bumped up to the pro version, that sucks as well).

Yeah it's a Trojan horse of malware and state sponsored surveillance, but I traded my privacy to silicon valley a long time ago. I'm pretty sure google/apple have known exactly how long and often I spend taking a shit for a few years now.

I love me some Halo, skipped 5 because I skipped that console (For the time being) so this will be nice. Seems to have all the non co-op/warzone MP content but no matchmaking which makes it kind of useless.

Cool that people have a way to make and test their levels on another platform though. Forge maps and customs nights were always a highlight in H3 and Reach. Hopefully they learn their lessons from this on how to make a proper PC game, knowledge they somehow lost in the last few decades.

CJ_Parker wrote on Sep 8, 2016, 20:49:
Again: I'm not touching Microshit's garbage store with a 10 lightyear pole. Not after what they pulled off with GFWL. I uninstalled the store immediately after upgrading, never to be seen again (OK who am I kidding... next major update they will reinstall it w/o my consent but it will fly off the disk again just as swiftly as it returns!).

While GFWL store closed down, that is you can't purchase new games from them, the service is still out there, supporting GFWL games. I have it installed on Windows 10, and it works perfectly fine, still serving out downloads for the game I added to the GFWL account, and keeping track of achievements and other things.

By the way, I consider GoG the best place to buy games.

RedEye9 wrote on Sep 8, 2016, 20:33:
I know awesome things, and the microsloth store ain't one of them.


And there are about 8 quintillion news websites on the web that I curate myself.
Espn and others does sports just fine.

I sure as hell don't need the makers of Windoze ME, Vista, 8 and 10 to spoon feed me news, monitor my daily calender or offer financial advice etc.

Thanks but no thanks.

Aaha, another one smoldering with generic rage, or may be this is full time parody season in this thread.

There is simply no need to burst a vein on this issue. Windows store and the apps I mention, do not stop you from going to the 8 quintillion websites on the net. These application just simply are few of the best of such news and sports stats collectors.

Task wrote on Sep 8, 2016, 22:06:
"Now eventually you do plan to have a Halo 5 game on your, on your Halo 5 game tour, right?"

You sir, have my imaginary upvote.