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Reply to Forums go Boom every time I try to post! in Forum Issues Stardock Forums

[quote who="myfist0" reply="196" id="2664022"]I tend to just look now. Where I used to see a post I would reply too, now I usually couldn't bother. Buying a game from a company that has a forum like this is off my list. [/quote]2 I think you would be making a mistake to equate the quality of Stardock's games with the performance of their forums. I am sure some of the old timers could tell you the specifics, but it was my undestanding they've got a number of compl

Reply to OnLive is Live, Anyone Try it yet? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Aractain" reply="21" id="2663934"] I want to hear from someone who actualy likes OnLive. [/quote] Oops forgot to respond to this. I would like to hear from someone who uses and likes OnLive too, although I would rather hear from someone who also pays for the service (they're giving it way for free now). It's not because I am unwilling to believe this is a good service, I just don't understand who their target market is and what that market

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[quote who="Raven X" reply="20" id="2663930"] I'm sure that's true. What do you exactly know though about the parts in your machine? Maybe I'm over-pricing things or just haven't tried to build a PC on a less then $1000 budget lately? I don't see how you could have built a whole system though, two years ago, for $700 and Still have been able to run Crysis on anything above the lowest settings. Of course there's always going to be varying price ranges on parts. There's als

Reply to Forums go Boom every time I try to post! in Forum Issues Stardock Forums

[quote who="c242" reply="193" id="2663889"]Anyone else sick of 'We are busy with game XY.' as an excuse for anything else going down the hill ? [/quote] These are, by far, the worst forums I have had the pleasure of using. But really, what can you do but let them know just how bad it is (as if they don't already know) and shrug and continue to enjoy the community and the info. It's just seems to get worse and worse though which is pretty discouraging.

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[quote who="Raven X" reply="18" id="2663868"] Quoting DeCypher00, reply 17 Please read my post above. Disregarding the compression, OnLive is not running ANYTHING at ultra settings. These are 720p graphics, without shadows on Borderlands. A $100 ATI 4850 would run that. An nVidia 8800GT, $200 3 years ago, would still run that no problem. The fact is this: OnLive graphics are not ultra high settings. They are actually very undemanding, especially because it's

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[quote who="Sareln" reply="9" id="2662416"] They're offering to effectively "rent" you most of the hardware cost. A decent gaming PC most often costs in the $1500 ballpark if you assemble it yourself and reuse things like monitors and I/O devices (mouse, keyboard, speakers etc.) However, if you want to stay at the same level or so on the graphics scale you'll need to rebuy that $1500 about every 3 years or so. [/quote] Well many could build

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I just don't understand why you are supposed to pay for the privlege of using their service. It makes sense to me that you pay for the games of course, and that they should get a cut from that, but to have a pay yearly sub and then lose your games if you stop paying the sub... why would I ever pay full price for a game they are going to take away from me if i stop paying the sub? At least this is how it is being described on CAG anyway.

Reply to Impulse Celebrates 2nd Birthday with Catalogue-wide Sale in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

This maybe good for elemental, unfortunately Steams sale is pretty much stomping the Impulse sale on everything else and all over a fair amount of gaming forums.

Reply to Civ V game discussion in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Hey I don't think it's a coincidence a number of Civ players played HOMM. I preferred 3 above all the rest. I just got hours and hours of multi-player enjoyment out of that game. I hated V with a passion, not just because it didn't work on release and the multi-player simul turns weren't as advertised, ghost mode was pretty bad too. I did play HOMM 1 2 3 and 5, passed on IV. Then again, 99% of my HOMM playing was multiplayer too. I just love multiplayer/co-op s

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

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="571" id="2661441"] My primary issue is not with Valve's goals - I think a company in today's world needs to do more than the usual press release crap of Activision Blizzard if they expect brand name loyalty, and Valve do this in new and exciting ways, such as the Portal 2 information leak that was completed with an update to Portal. [/quote] I am not sure if I agree with this idea. Today's world pretty much says Activision

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I am pretty sure Spore and Black and White and a number of other games received some E3 awards that weren't exactly as good as a lot of people were hoping. I am still disappointed about Spore myself. Civ V, well I am fairly confident they won't let the game become shallow eye candy.

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[quote who="Dale_" reply="529" id="2659775"]Let's all agree to the following table, and let's move on eh? Single Players: - Like/Don't mind Steam - Hate Steam Multi Players: - Like/Don't mind Steam - Hate Steam Please choose your category and let's move onto something else. I'm a SP who likes Steam. [/quote] Err nope sorry, I don't hate Steam e

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[quote who="DeCypher00" reply="527" id="2659764"] Not sure why you keep thinking I'm talking to you when I'm quoting bonscott. Obviously, you don't share his opinions and my replies to him don't apply to you. If you want to make arguments on why Steamworks is a bad multiplayer service and is worse than Gamespy, GFWL, or in house coding, then by all means. You don't have to reply to every reply I make to bonscott, though. [/quote] I didn't think that you were

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

[quote who="bonscott" reply="523" id="2659590"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 522 99% of the games I played on Civ IV were multiplayer. You keep talking like you can just lump everyone into some neat pile to brush under the rug here to dismiss. The sooner you stop doing that, the better. That may be but overall the % of Civ 4 players that used Multiplayer was small. The lead developer (Soren?) remarked in the press once how surprised he w

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[quote who="Dale_" reply="89" id="2659296"]Actually in Civ4 it's easy to maintain a good level of peace between Civs. If you find you're always at war, then you're not doing it right. [/quote] That's not what i said. There really is no difference between Abe Lincoln and Genghis Kahn. I haven't been playing it wrong for a handful of years here. What makes Kahn go to war makes Ghandi go to war.

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[quote who="DeCypher00" reply="515" id="2659271"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 514 Quoting DeCypher00, reply 513 Good business for them, good business for consumers like me who are excited at the multiplayer prospects, good business for consumers who never had Steam, but with give it a shot to play Civ5. Bad for the minority of people who grew up on Civ, but refuse to change. The bottom line is this though: they will make far more money with Steamwo

Reply to Forums go Boom every time I try to post! in Forum Issues Stardock Forums

4 posts, 2 errors messages. This doesn't seem much improved to me. I still try to remember to copy all my posts before I hit that post button. It's not something I feel the need to do with most other forum type sites.

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[quote who="Jack Trowell " reply="87" id="2658800"]The only information that is withholding is in the diplomacy system, and it is because the system is *improved*, not by less information, but by th efact that different AI can react differently to the same stimulus. When you play an human player, do you get a number saying you how likely they are to declare war on you ? [/quote] They said that with Civ IV, that d

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

[quote who="DeCypher00" reply="513" id="2659122"] Good business for them, good business for consumers like me who are excited at the multiplayer prospects, good business for consumers who never had Steam, but with give it a shot to play Civ5. Bad for the minority of people who grew up on Civ , but refuse to change. The bottom line is this though: they will make far more money with Steamworks , than they would have without it. <

Reply to Crusader Kings 2! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="CrusaderScott" reply="10" id="2659235"]They also need to completely overhaul the UI. More than anything, that kept me from getting into the game. [/quote] I could partially agree with that, except the part not getting into it part. I would love for easier access to info in game. I spent way too much time looking at online spreadsheets and looking up guides trying to figure out what the hell was going on.

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[quote who="Profanicus" reply="8" id="2658495"]Possibly they are trying to determine Facebook activity to see if there is a market for a Paradox game on there? Either way, this is an announcement that there is a CK2 coming, just not an official announcement ie. a press release. [/quote] Well if they do it, I hope Paradox scraps the old code they could never fix just right and just run with the idea and fresh code. I've never found anything quite like CK, and I k

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

[quote who="Tridus" reply="502" id="2657992"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 500 And yet games that have a 1% population of complainers can still fail. Do you really want me to list the long lines of games that fell off the wagon? I am NOT saying I think Civ V is going this direction, because I don't think it is. I do know that even if the bulk of the buying population doesn't complain, they'll still walk away. And most game "protests" amount to nothi

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[quote who="Tridus" reply="499" id="2657747"] I doubt it. The #1 rule for game forums of any size is that the complainers are always louder then everybody else. People who are happy don't go to the forums to say it in anywhere near the number that people go to complain. It's not a good sample at all. We're talking about at the absolute most, 1% of the customer base (and really it's smaller then that most likely). Of that, the ratio of unhappy people to happy people will

Reply to Forums go Boom every time I try to post! in Forum Issues Stardock Forums

More then half the time I post I get that stupid error message page. I pretty much post expecting my post NOT to go through. Like this one for example, second attempt. Hmm so it did go through but the error message still popped up. I think most people here know what I am talking about anyway.

Reply to Forums go Boom every time I try to post! in Forum Issues Stardock Forums

More then half the time I post I get that stupid error message page. I pretty much post expecting my post NOT to go through.