Aractain

Aractain

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Reply to Question to Brad regarding DD marketshare in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote]stardock does a number of other programs besides games, in fact if i remember correctly games is almost like a side business to stardock, or at least not their bread and butter[/quote] Stardock's primary business is selling underground volcano bases to evil villians. (Someone really needs to make Evil Genius 2) Anyway, Steam exposed itself to me... and I liked it. Whoever is to blame for sexy sales, I have picked up some serious fun from st

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Reply to Epic President: “The Money’s On Console” in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote]Tip: The money is on the consoles because console standard for FPS' are much lower. Gears of War and UT3 failed on the PC because they were subpar by PC standards. Apparently brown and bloom is game of the year material on the 360.[/quote] This is very true. While I like Gears of War - it was only as a pew pew action fun game. Not a real game for me. UT3? AMAGADLMAO! what a piece of trash "hey guys we brought you UT2... 4 years after the first time. Why u no bu

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Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote]Brad and Co. haven't said they plan on milking everyone out the gate with DLC right?[/quote] I don't think so, so you implie a good point. There isn't a conflict of interest if they arn't competing.

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Reply to Elemental(ist)!!! in PC Gaming Sins Forums

The real question, is whether it will still have that anmie feel (I don't mind all the pantie shots but my friend hates it and he hated the overland world in the original also). (The answer is yes btw, was a rehtorical question.)

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Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Lets remember that if you actually take content from a DLC and rerelease it as a mod, they definately will try and ban/remove/stop you since your distrobuting thier copyrighted materials without permission. Considering that many (many!) mods have copyrighted material I can see 'false' drama being made (which my earlier failed joke post refrenced but was seriously far too vauge). If you can still install and use manually then there wont be any problems. &

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Reply to OnLive gets a new partner...one step closer to owning your games... in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote]I will fuck a cow[/quote] Horses are better. Now then, OnLive. Real-time youtube as my hourable friend-of-animals here pointed out is NOT gaming. Its a horrible idea, it closes the PC system into a console and destroys any modding. Trying to turn a PC into a console is kinda stupid IMO. If people want to play a console game, get a console. Why arn't there consoles with keyboard style constrols? It dosn't make sense, are there

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Reply to woah woah woah.... what??!? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="1" id="2619334"]Slight misremembering on Brad's part--the phase lanes came in at least a year before release (they were present in all public betas). Infinite resources was a very late change, though. The gameplay slowed to a crawl when you inevitably wound up scraping by on refineries alone. [/quote] What else did he 'conveniently forget'?

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Reply to I’m on Skynet’s side in Elemental Dev Journals Sins Forums

He means more code in the sense that certain side cases that arn't being handled by the state machine's simplicity will need traditional implementation. Now - I think hes wrong, but then Im assuming Brad* is a good coder by now. Amirite? * and any sidekicks he employs.

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Reply to So EA finally went and did it. in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="23" id="2617388"]EA is just shooting itself in the foot. It boggles my mind that people buy games and exchange them and then other people come up behind them to save 10 bucks and buys them used. However, these people that are buying games and then exchanging them tend to buy a lot of games. They buy a heck of a lot more games than I ever have in a year. They buy it for 60, turn it in for what 20-40 de

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Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="taltamir" reply="320" id="2617831"]your = something that belongs to you. Your house, your statement, your car. you're = you are your wrong = the wrong which you have committed. you're wrong = you are wrong (which is what you should have said)[/quote] Aye. A knae hae to spell, noo gat ta fook oot mate!

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Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Sins Forums

"Are people here really that ignorant about Steam. You can just go into your game folder and launch it via the startup .exe and never have to even start Steam. this is one-time only internet activation for DRM." How many games on steam can you do that with? X-Com: UFO - Enemy Unkown (my name) does but anything from THIS decade? lol Anyway you missed ALL of the points about the argument, that seems to be a common pattern in this thread. Yes steam

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Reply to Ubisoft - The next step? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

If someone buys a bananna in real life they can eat it on the spot. They can eat it at home, on the street. They can have it in thier car or they can use it as a slapstick prop, stick it in a bag and pretend its a gun to rob a bank or they can stick it in various orifices and enjoy it that way. Id say thats quite a lot of "use-options".

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Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="arstal" reply="23" id="2612569"] Quoting Haree78, reply 19Is a Developer who says "no, only our shop can sell our game" any different? First-party can do that all they like. They're not doing it to lock others out of the market. [/quote] a ) Third party can do what they want also b ) They ARE doing it to lock others out of the market (or steamworks would be a seperate install

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Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote]All that while a security man from their company watches me frommy own room to make sure that I use a legitimate copy of the client (in addition to online checks), that no one else plays with my license (in addition to be forced to play with the webcam on so they can watch me)... e t c[/quote] Umm... .... thats not for 'security' thats called an internet perv. One of my favourite kind of people. Anyway, Im still buying it - Im willing to to

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Reply to Bungie Signs 10-Year Exclusivity Deal With Activision in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Blizzard has earned much respect and trust - despite being allied with ActEVILsion. When Blizzard says "we are going to charge you three times" that means "we have three times more awesome for you to buy!" for many people. Considering I have loved every Blizzard game I've ever played (and they never released Ghost because it would be crap unlike many many games) Im giving them the benifit of the doubt.

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Reply to Starcraft 2 release date announced July 27 in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="Callagan111" reply="5" id="2610831"] Quoting Aractain, reply 4Get ready for the first blizzard cash raking operation this year. Clearly you missed out on Sparkle Ponies™.[/quote] I love the sparkly my little ponies! But that was chump change compared to SCII, then Cataclysm and then Diablo 3...

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Reply to Pirating/emulators, and all that good stuff. in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Whatever the half-life of your Half-Life CD (did you see what I .. nevermind) the point is that you shouldn't be breaking some law or a contract to secure your 'belongings'. Digital or otherwise. (And yes I know half-life dosn't really fit the use above - it was for a failed joke ok?)

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