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[quote who="StevenAus" reply="48" id="2836586"]If you call people idiots, you are not engaging in "normal debate". Say "I disagree" and leave it at that. Say you were one who didn't have a good argument. Do you think you would like someone saying "idiots like you" in your direction? Name-calling is inflammatory and part of a good argument is avoiding the personal attacks, which "idiots" definitely is. There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with someone and argui

Reply to ...And that's why retailers ranting about Steam is a joke in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="46" id="2836573"]Although calling people who post "idiots" isn't exactly normal debate either. Attack the argument, not the person. Best regards, Steven.[/quote] Why should I bother attacking "argument" (there is none in his post anyway) when this is his standart copy/paste reply to my posts when he has nothing else to say. It would be whole lot easier if this forum had "ignore" feature

Reply to ...And that's why retailers ranting about Steam is a joke in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="scratchthepitch" reply="38" id="2836195"] Guess what, salesboy, you still got no steam sale here. BTW, I forgot to mention that I recently bought something from Impulse... [/quote] Nice to see that trolls still arent capable of anything even close to normal debate...... Honestly I am glad that idiots like you dont use my favourite DD service.

Reply to ...And that's why retailers ranting about Steam is a joke in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="40" id="2836212"] Quoting Rebell44, reply 37 Every company want to dominate its marketplace (StarDock, D2D etc. are no exception) - its just easier to get into such position when when your competition start later and/or dont offer as many features as you. In 2001 Valve wanted someone else to provide them such service - nobody was willing to do it, so they created Steam - they invested lots of money and took risk and their current mar

Reply to ...And that's why retailers ranting about Steam is a joke in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="scratchthepitch" reply="36" id="2836158"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 35 Quoting Rebell44, reply 34 "So you think that it would be better to buy directly from each developer / publisher? Not only I hate idea of creating 150 accounts on all those websites, I also trust many of those companies much much less compared to Steam and Impulse (just look at how "reliable" is Ubisofts own digital distribution.....) I dont care if by buying from from my favourite c

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[quote who="scratchthepitch" reply="33" id="2835775"]I've got nothing against downloading, rather than buying the item in a store. Most of my life, I've been hunting for hard to find items in stores that rarely carried them. If you are not the type who prefers whatever is popular at the moment, stores generally never carry what you are looking for. Some specialty stores might, but they are very few and usually only in a large metropolitan area. Before, I had to mail order direct. Now with the

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[quote who="ZehDon" reply="15" id="2833806"] Add Impulse::Reactor is a viable alternative to developers that doesn't shackle their game to Impulse.[/quote] AFAIK Impulse: Reactor still isnt available to developers, so right now it ISNT an alternative to Steamworks.

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I am looking forward to day when PC retail will die.

Reply to Brad, will you please teach Firaxis how to write multi-threaded AI? in War of Magic Stardock Forums

When I play Civ5 my average load on CPU (Q6600 @3.2Ghz) is 80-85% and I dont wait for long when its AIs turn - only exceptions are late stages of epic games on huge map.

Reply to D2D announced Price matching in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="1" id="2826734"]Nowhere does it say it is valid only for those who live in the US, only that the price must be what US gets, and seen from the US website.[/quote] In their conditions: ....applies only to ...residing in the United States... - so most likely unless you are buying from US IP adress you wont be able to use it.

D2D announced Price matching in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Our Price Matching is only valid for digital game downloads on Direct2Drive.com Proof of purchase from Direct2Drive required. Only completed purchases from Direct2Drive.com will be considered for price match. Program valid November 17 thru December 31, 2010 You must find a price lower than

Reply to Do people know when King's Bounty Crossworlds will be available on any service without activation limits? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="5" id="2817578"]So the reason why it is on Steam with no activation is because Steam itself is a DRM? Best regards, Steven.[/quote] Yes

Reply to Valve released numbers about Steam growth - 30M active accounts in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="118" id="2814557"] Quoting ZehDon, reply 111 Quoting Rebell44, reply 109 To me it looks like you should learn to read what is written in posts to which you reply...... because your replies didnt make any sense. Shocking, Impulse fanbois cant read Actually, that would be 'fangurl'. In any case, when using Impulse::Reactor, one has the option of not using GOO. The only requirement is that y

Reply to Valve released numbers about Steam growth - 30M active accounts in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="115" id="2814356"] StarForce Companies still use that crap?[/quote] Yes, some companies still use it.

Reply to Valve released numbers about Steam growth - 30M active accounts in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

What is interesting is that publishers view Steam DRM as good enough protection, that they often drop other DRM from Steam version of game (for example Kings Bounty Crossworlds) while they still use Securom, Tages or even StarForce when sold via reatil and other digital distribution services.

Reply to Valve released numbers about Steam growth - 30M active accounts in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Alstein" reply="110" id="2814209"]GOO I believe was renamed into Impulse Reactor, at least on Gamersgate. The DRM(Reactor) and Impulse are seperate though, unlike Steam. [/quote] Yes, I agree. (btw. it would be nice if this forum had multiquote feature :) )

Reply to Valve released numbers about Steam growth - 30M active accounts in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="111" id="2814226"] Quoting Rebell44, reply 109To me it looks like you should learn to read what is written in posts to which you reply...... because your replies didnt make any sense. Shocking, Impulse fanbois cant read Actually, that would be 'fangurl'. In any case, when using Impulse::Reactor, one has the option of not using GOO. The only requirement is that your game be made available on Impulse, as well as where ever else you chose to

Reply to Do people know when King's Bounty Crossworlds will be available on any service without activation limits? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Steam version doesnt have any 3rd party DRM - it was confirmed by publisher. All other services (AFAIK) have either StarFoce or Securom - both with 3 activations

Reply to Valve released numbers about Steam growth - 30M active accounts in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="108" id="2813968"] Quoting Rebell44, reply 107 Ractor contain DRM (GOO) - Its even listed as core feature http://frogboy.impulsedriven.net/article/378128/GDC_2010_ImpulseReactor_is_revolutionary http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/62814 "Impulse::Reactor uses GOO as DRM, but requires no client to operate. Games utilizing Reactor wouldn't even need to be bundled with Impulse..." <br

Reply to Valve released numbers about Steam growth - 30M active accounts in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="106" id="2813932"] Quoting Rebell44, reply 105 Quoting Nesrie, reply 104 Quoting Rebell44, reply 103 Quoting Nesrie, reply 102 Quoting Rebell44, reply 101 Quoting Nesrie, reply 100 Quoting Rebell44, reply 99 Quoting Nesrie, reply 98 Steam is a form of DRM. I don't care what Valve says or their fans, it serves that p

Reply to Valve released numbers about Steam growth - 30M active accounts in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="104" id="2813836"] Quoting Rebell44, reply 103 Quoting Nesrie, reply 102 Quoting Rebell44, reply 101 Quoting Nesrie, reply 100 Quoting Rebell44, reply 99 Quoting Nesrie, reply 98 Steam is a form of DRM. I don't care what Valve says or their fans, it serves that purpose too. I didnt say it isnt DRM - I said that both Impulse Reactor

Reply to Valve released numbers about Steam growth - 30M active accounts in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="102" id="2813604"] Quoting Rebell44, reply 101 Quoting Nesrie, reply 100 Quoting Rebell44, reply 99 Quoting Nesrie, reply 98 Steam is a form of DRM. I don't care what Valve says or their fans, it serves that purpose too. I didnt say it isnt DRM - I said that both Impulse Reactor and Steamworks offer to developer many same/similar features, including DRM (CEG in case

Reply to Valve released numbers about Steam growth - 30M active accounts in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="100" id="2813562"] Quoting Rebell44, reply 99 Quoting Nesrie, reply 98 Steam is a form of DRM. I don't care what Valve says or their fans, it serves that purpose too. I didnt say it isnt DRM - I said that both Impulse Reactor and Steamworks offer to developer many same/similar features, including DRM (CEG in case of Steamworks and GOO in case of Impulse Reactor). Then I think you are conf

Reply to Valve released numbers about Steam growth - 30M active accounts in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="98" id="2813381"] Steam is a form of DRM. I don't care what Valve says or their fans, it serves that purpose too.[/quote] I didnt say it isnt DRM - I said that both Impulse Reactor and Steamworks offer to developer many same/similar features, including DRM (CEG in case of Steamworks and GOO in case of Impulse Reactor).

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[quote who="Alstein" reply="96" id="2813016"]It doesn't matter what you're promoted as, but what you are used for. If companies are using this primarily for DRM, which I think could be proven, there could be anti-competitve behavior alleged on that front also. The question is would this apply to Impulse- and I think it wouldn't, as there aren't really any games exclusive to Impulse that aren't Stardock-published, and I think Gamersgate sells games with Impul