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Reply to It’s not about Steam vs. Impulse vs. anything in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Digital downloads are nothing new. Speaking as another extinct dinosaur of the species BBS, where did we download the software for our systems from? Other BBS's. And yes, that even includes legit stuff. Wish i still had my RA2.50 key file as I'd love to weld it to the internet. Has STEAM won? No. Nor did ZMODEM. I don't think in this day and age one thing can actually 'win' on-line as things tend to evolve. A company will come out

Reply to Want to know why people pirate video games? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Interesting, two pages and many days since I posed my question to Ironclad, in a thread that they were appearing in. I'm afraid that I'm going to have to take that lack of response as a "Yes" answer. So, yes, they do want my money and if it comes to them via (C) infringment they honestly couldn't care less. So it is not about morals or ethics. It's all about the money and as such all arguments from them mentioning anything else should be considered void. Why di

Reply to Mac? in Technical Sins Forums

Something worth pointing out. BootCamp does require a copy of Windows which will add $$$ on to your quest. Both of my suggestions are free (one is free as in beer the other has a time limited demo). Ohh and no, the OEM version that came with your clapped out old Dell won't do... unless you know which sized sledgehammer to use on WGA.

Reply to Want to know why people pirate video games? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Bobucles" reply="3" id="2087946"]The biggest complaint I have with copy protection comes around with multiplayer games. Consoles had always scored the advantage here, where one copy can typically support two players, or in some cases up to 4.PCs have no such system, because one PC is expected to be used by one person.[/quote] The original Red Alert had two disks in the packaging (Soviet and Allies) either could be used to start a multiplayer game and doing so was A-OK with

Reply to Need help with cpu/gpu overheating and shutdown in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Basics 1. Are the fans spinning 2. Are the fans full of muck. 3. Are any of the fans making odd grinding noises (sign of the bearings going). 4. How long since you refreshed the thermal gunk? 5. Google 'thermal paste'. 7. Sniff around the power supply for the smell of ozone. 8. Ignore 'nifty utilities which show you temprature' they habitually lie; apparently my Semperon 2800 is BOTH 80dC and 43dC according to lm_sensors (two different s

Reply to Who watches the watchmen in Everything Else Sins Forums

TBH, I'm on the fence. True the Black Freighter is being done on its own. Perhaps the squid missing isn't such a bad thing. I don't know, I've read the comic repeatedly so I'll probably avoid opening night and wait to see what other, none reviewers, opinions of it are. I'm also dubious about the PG rating the thing is getting; considering small, annoying, Frodo enamoured child utterly ruined Return of the King (at a midnight showing no less). If the local

Reply to Advent: Honestly, Why I Choose Them . . . in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="DaxxTrias" reply="6" id="2087568"] Quoting Sotris, reply 5Thanks OP, now everytime my fleet captains say things like "WHO must SUFFER" I'll be interpreting it in BDSM terms. What he said[/quote] /Goes off to cool the dungeon down. Actually, considering everything. Ironclad, put the naughty stuff back in!

Reply to Want to know why people pirate video games? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="18" id="2087029"] That statement is "eye for an eye", a concept any child has mastery of, [/quote] If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. -- Exodus 21:23 Not something I would expect any child to have mastered the concept off. Tit for Tat I would have agreed with. But there ar

Reply to Want to know why people pirate video games? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="19" id="2087034"] The thing is the people with pirated copies of things don't expect the company to support them, provide patches or indeed anything. You'd be surprised just how often pirates try to get support or gain access to online play.[/quote] I probably wouldn't. I'd just weep for the species.

Reply to [Bug/wth?] Dominated ship using enemy phase node? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I'd very quickly rename that ship "The little carrier that could" :D

Reply to Want to know why people pirate video games? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="CobraA1" reply="16" id="2086968"] If your counting on people who will never pay for a product to begin with you are a moron. . . . and if people who never pay for products expect to be supported by the companies who create said products, they are morons as well. The companies are under no obligation to give products and support to people who don't pay for the products and support.[/quote] The thing is the people with pirated copies of things don't expect the comp

Reply to Where has the value add gone? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Alfonse" reply="7" id="2086540"] So, I'm spending the same amount of money on a purchase (in the £30 - £40 price range) yet as the years have gone by I'm getting less for my actual money. Of course. Because your money is worth less now. It's called "inflation". You can have it one of two ways: you pay the same for less than you used to, or you pay more for the same. £40 isn't what it used to be.[/quote] Tell me about it, inflation tha

Reply to Greatest Finds in PC Gaming Sins Forums

In recent memory? Starscape. Stupid little game that appeared on sale in Impulse for some silly amount of money. Kept me going for a few weekends and for less than a cinema ticket. Homeworld 2. Made me hunt down Cataclysm and the original. Before that? Deuteros. Picked it up at a computer fair (back in days of yor when 16bit and 512KB of RAM were swish) still fire it up in HATARI from a Pompey Pirates image. Must try and find Magic Fly

Reply to Want to know why people pirate video games? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Thoumsin" reply="10" id="2086388"] Game publisher have not the power to stop pirate... put so much protection your wish, soon of later, someone will break it... Only Goverment can stop Piracy... not by creating new laws but by enforcing these who already exist... if the country is too much poor, other solution need to be found... by example, game can be "printed" in the country itself for a lower cost due to the cheap labor... this will only be possible is gov don't make war

Reply to Where has the value add gone? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I would agree to a degree. Good games need little to none value add... the perception of what makes a game 'good' is pretty much up to the individual (i.e. you like Spore, I'm not it's biggest fan) and all the 'plastic crap and cloth maps' in the world will not change someones fundemental optinion of the game. Perhaps I'm just looking back with rose tinted spectacles, but I do kind of miss those maps and the Janes sections of manuals in simulations. I also agree that the 1AM eff

Reply to I cheated on TEC last night in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yes. It would be nice if IC would post the decision tree the AI is following. It would at least offer some idea as what the AI is 'thinking' when it surrenders (and potentially generate a stronger AI as we find the blind alleys it can get itself in to). Setting Victory conditions would also be an excellent move.

Reply to New to Sins, and... doh ! Where are the starbases ? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="jeremyshaw" reply="3" id="2086221"]Well, the gui icons are a dead givaway...[/quote] It's not "RandomlyRetarded" for nothing you know :D But if can happen, it will happen.

Reply to Retailers Objecting to Games Installing Steam? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

As someone else pointed out, most of these stores make their money from console games (be it new or used), the PC section of a store, if there actually is one, is just a minor nod to get the occasional foot traffic sale: I've seen such places as Game, Virgin Megastores, HMV and the like selling what are now budget PC games in their original (and dusty) initial release packaging... for full RRP. It's also true that console publishers would love nothing more than to kill off the s

Reply to Differences between Normal, Hard and Unfair in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I agree a setting where the full AI was let loose but with a regular players amount of resources would be interesting to see. Until I read this thread that's what I thought 'Normal' actually was :S

Reply to New to Sins, and... doh ! Where are the starbases ? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Also... make sure you run Entrenchment and not Sins. Done that a few times and wondered WTF?

Reply to I cheated on TEC last night in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I think the Entrenchment AI sometimes surrenders when it realises the situation is hopeless, such as "War Fleet Bacon Maker" appearing behind its defensive lines. And I've seen an AI get the hump with pirates in original sins, although they never capture the base. Oddly enough the AI doesn't seem to employ the super weapons... it could be really vicious if it did.

Reply to Planning on getting a new video card. What do you recommend? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Aarojw" reply="7" id="2084511"]Well, this here is what you call irony. It turns out I do have a PCIe x16 slot So, I'll try to sell this AGP card on Ebay, and I'll go to Best Buy and get a new PCIe card this afternoon. I feel like a royal idiot [/quote] Don't worry about it, as I said google and you'll get puka terms not the ones marketting drones use to try and flog you extras. I'll take my bows and be on

Reply to Where has the value add gone? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

As an addendum I'll pull apart one of my more recent purchases. Sins of a Solar Empire. Now this game cost less than the AAA title but more than a budget offering (£20 give or take an odd number of pence for the digital only version). Their is no box, DVD case, printing of any kind. Their is however, AFIC a PDF manual tucked away in the games install folder which covers most aspects of playing the game, installation (obviously a clone of the retail versio

Where has the value add gone? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Go to a store. Buy a AAA title (such as Spore) now also buy a budget game (such as Homeworld: Cataclysm) and return home. Sit there and look at the games. Now because you are on these forums you probably have some form of insider knowledge about how much programmers are paid, project over runs and how much it costs to build a game. Ignore that and put yourself in the mindset of a consumer (yes yes, OM NOM NOM NOM... up the IQ slightly... thanks). </

Reply to Want to know why people pirate video games? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Craig Fraser" reply="4" id="2085875"]That a good list Bobucles. I would add one more 12) The Entitled. Has the money, but prefers to save it for things that he/she cannot steal. Transfers his/her network of poor experiences with any corporation, developer, or publisher and maps these experiences to ALL companies, regardless of their differing policies and history. Pirates and enjoys games, then actively seeks out reasons to dislike the game to