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Diablo 2 was one of my first online co-op experiences. I hope there is enough new content being added to D3 to make it worthwhile.

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[quote who="taltamir" reply="76" id="2549981"]I thought you were referring to "activation servers" not "multiplayer servers". The problem of servers shutting down exists for every multiplayer game ever made, and has absolutely nothing to do with impulse. This is why it did not occur to me that you were referring to the multiplayer servers. The solution would be to release server hosting software with your game, as well as a server list aggregator with an easy to modify h

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[quote who="taltamir" reply="74" id="2549672"] I'm not very happy about that part either. But as far as I know SD I'd bet they will see to it that we don't suffer too much from it and offer a patch in time before they shut down the server(s). If they won't however they'd have to fear the players' wrath which would be a considerable one. That doesn't make any sense. it would be impotent wrath because they would be going out of business for that to happen. that

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[quote who="VicenteC" reply="105" id="2549460"] It's not only the price, is how easy is to play a console game compared to how easy is to play a PC game. Consoles don't have drivers, installs or other things that tied to PCs. It's a whole machine dedicated to gaming, it's easier to make gaming a more pleasant experience overall. And from the dev front is the same, it's not the same to have to support a finite number of very well known hardware combinations than the hardw

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[quote who="Star Adder" reply="72" id="2549342"]It's in here somewhere. IIRC it was Brad who stated that savegames will reside exclusively on SD's server(s). [/quote] Which actually makes Stardock more like Ubisoft than EA, except Ubisoft is applying their crap to singleplayer modes as well. I believe this little scheme of Stardock's is multiplayer only. Still a crappy move in my book.

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[quote who="taltamir" reply="57" id="2547295"] colins, implulse is not a form of DRM. the games (even patched to latest version) work fine with it uninstalled. and it is never run except to download games and patch them. it is a convenient tool if you have many stardock games. [/quote] Okay. Just to clarify for those who didn't follow this thread. I never said Brad or anyone at Stardock claimed Impulse was not a form of DRM. The quote above is what

Reply to Steam Vs. Impulse and Thrid-Party Sellers in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="joasoze" reply="20" id="2548044"] 1. ACME Gamedevelopment is a new company and comes to Stardock with a game called "Strategy - The Begining" which they want to sell on Impulse. Will Stardock check the game in any way to se that it isnt totally crap from a gaming standpoint or a technical one? 2. ANTARES Gamedevelopment has a long standning relationship with Stardock, but their latest game "Bambi the rugged killer" wasnt sold on Impulse. The

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[quote who="Aractain" reply="101" id="2547889"] Ella will need to equal Civ4 in Coop regards for me and with the tatical battles should be better overall for us if thats the case. [/quote] Me too. I play with my twin coop. It's our favorite pass time, well close anyway. Her boyfriend and my friends will join us sometimes, but we've played Civ IV coop since it was released and have been looking for newer games for awhile now, most o

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[quote who="taltamir" reply="64" id="2547848"]with impulse you can back up a fully patched game into a zip file (which you are free to store on any media you want) and later use impulse to install it even if the servers are down. with impulse you can uninstall impulse and the game will still run without any problems. Impulse is not "in the same realm as EA", not even close. Impulse is less obtrusive than steam which is far far far less obtrusive than EA's crap. [/qu

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[quote who="bluebogle" reply="62" id="2547755"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 61 Still have the forced proprietary server crap though which puts them in line with EA, EA being the one that just yanked servers for a game barely over a year old (PC). Which game? [/quote] Lord of the Rings Conquest, release 2009 already had its server's pulled. Fortunately, I avoided that game after all the terrible reviews though I

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[quote who="edpfister" reply="37" id="2547427"]It's a nice concept with some potential but when I tried looking at one of the items it took a long time to load. What was worse was that after a couple minutes it again loaded and took just as long, and again a couple of minutes later. That's when I gave up. Has anyone else had this problem? I have never seen this kind of behavior from other streaming services (Youtube etc). [/quote] I didn't. Videos loa

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[quote who="ZehDon" reply="59" id="2547710"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 58 Impulse IS a form of DRM taltamir... Technically, in the strictest sense, this is true however in terms of Copy Prevention - which is Taltamir's meaning - Impulse itself isn't. [/quote] Well in terms of copying often imperfect vanilla versions of games, sure Stardock games don't do that (not sure about all GOO games though). DRM isn't just copying protevtion thou

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[quote who="shadowtongue" reply="99" id="2547697"] Anyway, I know alot of people really liked GC2. I was one of them initially, but ultimately had to give up on it. [/quote] GC2 is getting up there in age though. I mean maybe I am asking a lot from developers, though I don't think so, but I expect newer games to advance to the point where old games start showing their age compared against them. I don't think it's would be an insult to GC2 in anyway to

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[quote who="Aractain" reply="93" id="2547249"]They arealdy do way more than play games. And sony and MS are clearly trying to diversify into whatever they can that dosn't compete with the games market. [/quote] Not only that, but in terms of Hardware, they sell at loss, except the Wii which is the only one that is actually just a gaming console. So even with high prices consumers get a good deal on the hardware and are forced to pay higher for software to make up that differnce.

Reply to Steam Vs. Impulse and Thrid-Party Sellers in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="DeCypher00" reply="12" id="2547236"] Quoting DoomBringer90, reply 11 there's one benefit to having it through a service, you don't need to have the disks to install the game, so if, for instance, you lose the disks in a move or they get scratched to the point of unreadability you can still download the game. Pretty much all MMOs allow you to download the game directly from the official website if you already have an account. [

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[quote who="taltamir" reply="57" id="2547295"]colins, implulse is not a form of DRM. the games (even patched to latest version) work fine with it uninstalled. and it is never run except to download games and patch them. it is a convenient tool if you have many stardock games. [/quote] Impulse IS a form of DRM taltamir. How many copies of Demigod do you think work as intended unpatched? They rebuilt large parts of that game to fix the problems it had coming out of t

Reply to Star trek online question in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Gargabee" reply="2" id="2546542"]The install itself should not matter. It should come down to your account. [/quote] Agreed. I've been playing MMORPG for years and all that really mattets is they have your account setup. Once that happens and you have your game registered with Cryptic, in this case, it doesn't really matter where get the client again. The benefit with digistore, I guess, aside from pre-orders, is they seem to have faster downloads.

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[quote who="Maccilia" reply="3" id="2545950"] One will get you HL2 EPS 3 and one will get you Gal Civ 3... One requires you constantly run it in the background and forces you to login every time you start you computer, drags down performance, and doesn't care too much about customers. The other lets you download and then delete it and will usually respond within 1 business day to any customer complaint. [/quote] Well Steam does not "require" you to login eve

Reply to Civilization V in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Aractain" reply="53" id="2545228"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 52 It was just... messy. Sounds fun! Quoting Nesrie, reply 52 The Civ series certainly has not be perfect, and I agree with the others, Civ V has to offer a lot more than hexagons to get me to switch. This is already on my preorder list. Even if it isn't quite as good as Civ4 it will probably still be fun, especially the way

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[quote who="MichaelCook" reply="51" id="2545014"] Quoting GJDriessen, reply 37 Looks cool on the screenshot, although I would also prefer a Alpha Centauri 2. Perhaps they can do both? Civ 4 Colonization..... [/quote] Bought the game, marginally enjoyable for someone who loved the first one but they didn't put much effort into it. Just sort of reskinned Civ IV slapped colonization on the front of the box and called it

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[quote who="bluebogle" reply="76" id="2544986"]Wow... wow... that's not cool. So if I wait a year or two, they'll release it as a "super duper gold" version or something, and have all three packaged as one? [/quote] Probably 2 or 3 years right? I mean they're not all planned to be released at the same time. So you'll probably get something like 1, then 2, then 1+2 together with some sort of extra, then 3, then the 3 together. Oh and then DLC because no publisher

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[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="47" id="2544635"]Hey, it can't be as bad as Ubisoft's DRM, can it? [/quote] Oh if gamers let Ubisoft get away with it, you can bet your last dollar that every publisher is going to want to do the same. EA is already yanking servers on PC games that are just over a year old. I am sure they'd love to do that to every game they have.

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The only reason why Elemental shouldn't be on a list with Civ is because Elemental isn't finished and released yet. However, in this case it's on a list with Civ V which is also not finished and released yet. I think it's silly to put games on the top of any list except perhaps a list of pre-orders anyway, hype or anticipation lists. I think the console vs PC wars are just a stupid. I've been hearing the same argument for decades now. It never changes. There's plenty of room for them

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[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="19" id="2543700"]Star Trek has had some war, namely conflicts with the Borg and the whole Dominion Wars thing. And the Earth-Romulan war. And the conflicts between the UFP and the Klingons. Sure, TOS and TNG were peaceful, but aside from that there's been a lot of war in the ST universe. [/quote] It wasn't constant war though. I mean, there is a quest in this game that pretty much has you beem down to a Bar and pretty much kill ev

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[quote who="arstal" reply="72" id="2543655"]I'm actually kinda upset Stardock is even carrying this game. I know that's completely unreasonable, but I just don't like the message that Impulse will accept such draconian DRM. [/quote] Well it's a storefront so I doubt they will take much of a stance against anything with Impulse. I like how it says the DRM for Creed II is a Ubi.com Account. No mention that you have to have a high speed internet connection at ALL times a