HoMM4 was 3DO still, did you mean HoMM5? I'm assuming you're talking about the SSG and then Infinite Interactive Warlords series? 3DO was going under already when the third was released, the fourth might not have sucked donkey balls if they'd had something resembling a proper budget and staff. NWC had already been dismantled by the time they got to it.
That would be the context.
The typical business connection isn't that high. You don't need a 100Mb connection for email access even if you have a thousand employees. Only companies that center around high use would be going for the large end of that.
Aside from an utter lack of context, I believe that's an accurate statement. I'm pretty sure I remember one of you saying that you didn't do a campaign because it would take to much focus away from the gameplay.
Further info, NPD statistics show Spore as having sold 406k copies in September.
Wow, that's petty... Hit up a proxy and keep your internet though, I'd groan with you but my own satellite connection has monopolized them already...
Fear the herd mentality. Since they have no actual proof that piracy hurts them, but can see the numbers of pirated copies, you need to worry that all the other morons will switch to the same idiocy the first one does in an irrational attempt to alter reality. EA can just be the first tard publisher, not the only.
No, actually, the claim is that the batshit insane forms of DRM are for our benefit. They've moved away from those nasty CD checks into something more reasonable, like anal probing. This is an entirely serious post, obviously.
Poor guy. You'd need a mod to edit those for you. :(
Campaigns are not standard in 4x games. Mainly because they tend to really fucking suck. That said, I think the game is much more conducive to one than a standard 4X and probably should have had one just to appease the masses, but what's really the drawback of it? An individual game can take hours, even days to complete.
[quote]And I address that point later in my post.[/quote] No, you don't. You're still assuming loss where there is no proof of loss. The evidence points the other way. [quote]How could trick-or-treating possibly be considered theft? The candy is there for the specific purpose of being taken by costumed children. It is OFFERED to them. The fact that they aren't paying doesn't change that.[/quote] Technically, so i
I'd be more impressed by a president that will send in snipers to kill the stupid bastards. If someone had assassinated Hitler early on instead of "talking" to him, one hell of a mess would have been avoided. Gestures and appearances are for rational people interested in a peaceful existence. The ones that aren't cooperative towards that goal just need exterminated.
Ok Bodyless, I know it's hard, but think about this, carefully. Shit is plant and bug food. What, if civilization weren't adverse to stepping in shit, would be the problem with feeding the cycle of life? [quote]Depends entirely on you philosophy. While you cannot enforce morale with laws, there are a lot people who view any break of laws as immoral, if you would actually read the post of others. The existance of peop
Sorry Annatar, but Spore isn't doing that hot. Spore Creatures for the DS maybe. We have access to real time tracking of their account list, which is buyers plus people that got a version of the creature creator but not the full game. :) Total number of users: 2081589 They're down to only a few thousand new members in the last 24 hours. It came with a major ad campaign, a massive following from The Sims, years of
I'm of the opinion that anything out of print is free game. The current bastardization of copyright is disgusting, it was originally intended to allow market saturation. You had a whopping 14 years, and that was when it might take that long just to get in print on a more than local scale.
Half-life 2 has excellent atmosphere to immerse in anyway, old farts tend to do a lot better when there's more than just blowing stuff up. So just get him another orange box. :) Sadly, PC Halo probably is a really good place to get him started though. OMFG easy game with a decent story, weapons, and badguys. Oh the Id front, am I the only one that enjoyed RTCW more than Doom3 and Quake4? A truly annoying game, I got killed by tho
Being pervasive in developing countries doesn't make commercial piracy an actual threat either. The pirates happen to be the ones meeting price requirements for there to be demand in such low income areas. It's more a problem of, despite regioned dvd's, producers charging far too much to actually get their product out. With the prices they charge here, I'm continually amazed at how often I buy a movie. 20 bucks for a piece of plastic I might only use three or four time
Bodyless, trillions of creatures already shit in the woods, from bugs to people. It's natural. It takes civilization to make it a problem. Way to grasp the point without the subject. Roxlimn, internet piracy doesn't make pirates rich. The guy that cracks Spore because he can isn't making a dime off the endeavor. He's just doing it because he can. Internet piracy isn't traditional piracy, the motive is different. They aren't serv
Two million copies for Spore is pathetic, it's a flop of monolithic proportions. The concept should be on par with The Sims sales, perhaps higher, they had over a million people get the Creature Creator just to dick around with making stuff. Two million seems like a big number, but it's peanuts when you're looking at a 5 year development cycle, a 70 man team, and a revolutionizing game concept that is supposed to appeal to everyone from the casual gamer's five yea
I guess you could call it fun... I'd go more with short lived. :) It's hell on the engine(utter piece of shit) but a couple of the more expansive mods seriously increase the limits and scope of the battles. Some of them even go so far as to add in real super capitals that are actually the size of super capitals, instead of the dinky ships they have in the original. It's both fun and irritating, as maneuvering a SSD can be work. S
You're utterly hopeless, or you took debate class, one or the other. Probably both. It's terrible what schools do to people. [quote]Yes on both counts. For the first point, I've said twice now (three counting this) that I'm debating the morality of those who pirate games to get a game rather than find out if a game is worth getting. For the second, a shoplifter has no intention of paying for a game either, so the point is moot.[/quote] &nbs
Modders quite often surpass the original games. Half-life was far outstripped by the modding community, as has been Civ 4, EAW and many more. The difference isn't quality. It's that one bunch is doing it to feed themselves, and the other because they are insane. :) There just aren't enough nuts to keep everyone entertained for free. Edit: Regarding TF2, when you sell millions of copies, you're making tens of millions of dollars.&
You refute yourself. "It" is the ratio of illegal copies disabled to legitimate purchases. Various enterprising publishers have done studies on their own markets, the brilliance of them, to see just how fucked over they really are. The 90% piracy rates for instance, utter crap, but they list it as a statistic fairly often. Occasionally one will do real time tracking of sales versus anti-piracy measures. An online aspect game where people are ille
Probably. :) The US government talks to Iran regularly. The fiction that the Bush administration refuses to talk to countries they don't like is pure nonsense. Obama's just the only idiot that will drop to the guys level and have an in person meeting with no point. "Ok Mister President, hey, we've got the same name! This is really cool! Anyway, I know you've got that whole inferiority complex going and you want to wipe out a certain country
[quote]Enlighten me then, as we obviously don't think in anything approaching a similar fasion. What, exactly, are you saying lends value to the item? Reading your last post, the impression I get is that you think that the box is the most important part. Is this a reasonable assumption? And could your next response lend itself more to clarification rather than attacking me for not drawing the same conclusions you would?[/quote] Value is irrelevant, it has no bearing on
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