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[quote who="TorinReborn" reply="57" id="3020937"]What terrorist? You will need to explain that one [/quote] Just joking. I will never download anything illegally without extremely good reason (say I bought it but the company no longer lets me download it or other such unlikely situations) and so far I don't even like Witcher 2 as much as the first one. I have other stuff to do, and other things to download, so why stress over it. I did email Stea

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[quote who="TorinReborn" reply="52" id="3020510"] Or you download it from torrents. You already payed for it so no moral problem here. As it is DRM free you can also patch the torrented version without any problems.[/quote] And let the terrorists win? No way! ;)

Reply to Gamestop, Impulse, Stardock in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Considering they already more than tripled the dedicated staff on Impulse I don't think they've screwed the pooch yet. They just need a major upgrade to get people interested again.

Reply to Gamestop, Impulse, Stardock in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="psychoak" reply="19" id="3020226"]Yeah, that would be why we don't shop there, either you pre-order it, or they typically don't have it.[/quote] It's just how they operate. If a lot of people preordered something, there's an assumption of a lot of people buying it down the road as well, therefore they order more copies than they need. If noone preordered it, noone's going to want it later on either. Considering how long the PC stuff ha

Reply to Important! Please Do This Today. Microsoft Issues Fix for Duqu Zero Day True Type Vulnerability in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="7" id="3020354"] Might come in an attachment from someone you know/trust.... spear phishing. Unfortunately, no one is invulnerable. Of course one shouldn't open an attachment from an unknown source and delete the email immediately[/quote] I rather disagree. Intelligence is the best armor there is.

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People open email attachments? Weird.

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[quote who="Tridus" reply="50" id="3020031"]Remember to thank CDPR for adding Securom to the Steam version deliberately to push sales on GOG (which happens to be owned by the same company), and then removing it two weeks later. That was the cause of half of these problems. Very poor decision making on their part.[/quote] If only that was the extent of it. First it was that. Then it was that every time they patched it I had to download at least 9 gigs of files, because Stea

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[quote who="Tridus" reply="16" id="3020033"]Yeah that sounds about right. I've also had them tell me I was a bad person for not pre-ordering a month in advance when I wanted a new game. So I just walked across the street to a big box store that somehow manages to stock games more successfully then a so-called "games store". I can't think of a company more deserving of bankrupcy then Gamestop.[/quote] I've always met neat and intelligent people working at ours, e

Reply to The Witcher 2 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="TorinReborn" reply="48" id="3017882"]This is why I bought a boxed version of W2 and never had similar problems.[/quote] This is the only time I wish I had. I've never had this bad an experience with any other title on any download service.

Reply to Impulse Sells 'SotS II' which Requires STEAM?! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="46" id="3019464"]I dunno. I was just playing Dungeon Defenders (Steam version). A friend of mine saw in Steam that I was playing it (from another game), so I fired him an invite and we went off and played with a couple more random people joining in. When some other DD service is coming close to that level of "make it easy to play with my friends", then we'll talk. Right now Steam does a lot more then just act as a fancy download manager.[/quote]

Reply to Windows 8 OEM Won’t Allow Other OS’s to Boot in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

So alternative OS users are too dumb to know how to turn secure boot off eh? Seriously don't see the problem there. As far as HP, standard PRspeak. I doubt they've really given the issue much consideration...it's not worth worrying about when there isn't even a beta to build and test machines against. You're right, I do think it'll work itself out. Either way there's really nothing to be done but wait and see. IMO people ar

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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/leading-pc-makers-confirm-no-windows-8-plot-to-lock-out-linux/4185 Snips - In an e-mail exchange and a follow-up phone conversation, a Dell spokesperson told me, “Dell has plans to make SecureBoot an enable/disable option in BIOS setup.” (That’s exactly what the FSF is demanding.) Dell plans to move to th

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If MS was causing this to intentionally lock out competition they'd have the Justice Department right on their ass. They aren't that stupid. Last time that happened they lost a lot of customer respect and had to stop development on a lot of things (like IE) that've had a long and venomous tail. Also, I like Metro. The version in the Dev Preview does suck a bit, but it's already been modded for the better. Anyway, I have stuff to do so it'l

Reply to Impulse Sells 'SotS II' which Requires STEAM?! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Hey it matters to me. Even my subpar connection often feels shortchanged on Steam. Origin is certainly better with it, and I haven't bought anything off Impulse lately. I hope they work through their new account issues, because I do like the Impulse service in general. Just been buying retail a lot more often.

Reply to The Witcher 2 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="45" id="3017207"]Yeah the combination of Steam's handling of files and CDPR using and then quickly removing DRM made things kind of a mess. I've heard Valve's adding delta patching to Steam at some point which will really help.[/quote] They did. This conversion is supposedly the last time anyone'll have to download huge files with Witcher 2. Supposedly. I don't actually believe it.

Reply to Impulse Sells 'SotS II' which Requires STEAM?! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

True, though I have no idea how far it goes with that. I'm not buying it for another few months.

Reply to The future of Stardock games and Impulse in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="4" id="3016020"]Stardock is developing it's own store/distribution for our own products. [/quote] I assume you'll still distribute to Impulse? I mean no offense of course, but I don't want a self-serving purchasing account for smaller devs/distributors. (Which is why renewing my Object Desktop subscription isn't even a possibility now, but I wasn't sure how much I wanted it anyway.)

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This anti MS idiocy makes me laugh. All MS is doing is securing the computer. They're not demanding OEMs lock out other OSes, and never have. All they are demanding is that an existing UEFI option (that they did not create) be enabled and usable by their OS, to lock out rootkits getting between the OS and its loading process. They're not forcing anyone to lock out Linux or any other OS. Rootkits are the only major security problem left in computers, b

Reply to The Witcher 2 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Steams handling of the game has been a joke. I launched the game a few days ago only to find out they've converted it to a new system and I had to redownload 8 gigs or something. And the patch process didn't work, so now I have to download another 15 gigs. ****, if any of my other games were handled this badly I'd need a new hobby. (Obviously I wouldn't be this mad if it'd used the normal auto-update system. I

Reply to Impulse Sells 'SotS II' which Requires STEAM?! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="7" id="3017077"]That's why Battlefield 3 is Origin exclusive, and why we'll be seeing more of that in the future (it's the only place to pre-order TOR online).[/quote] http://www.impulsedriven.com/battlefield3 It requires Origin to play, yes, but it isn't Origin exclusive.

Reply to Sword of the stars 2 - are you playing it? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

If you guys can describe the game beyond what the sales pitch is I'd appreciate it. I'm curious, but not enough to buy it without some more info. Mind you, I'm hearing I don't want to be getting it right now anyway but I appreciate products that ditch XP support.

Reply to The future of Stardock games and Impulse in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

They've already answered it a few times. For the foreseeable future the games will stay on Impulse.

Reply to MS Pushing Critical Patches for Windows, IE9, Silverlight, .NET - Some Relevant to Mac Users in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Uvah" reply="1" id="3009615"]Did this go out yesterday like a patch Tuesday?[/quote] Yes.

Reply to Steam - upclose and personal in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="joasoze" reply="12" id="3005888"]Chapter 5: Annoying shutdown Every time I do a computer shutdown, my laptop hangs some seconds on "Steam screenshot manager" or something similar. I am asked if I want to force close it, but it will go down after a few seconds by itself. This is annoying. [/quote] Yes, Steam takes some time to disengage. It's not very long anymore (it used to be several minutes) so not a big issue.

Reply to Anyone played Rage? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I already unlocked 8 of these nonexistant Steam achievements. How does that work? Are we in a different universe here? I'm confused. I think the game is fantastic, aside from the driver issues. The only spot I've found particularly ugly while using the Rage AMD drivers is in Dead City...most of the game looks great IMO. I wish more games looked this bad!