[quote who="MagicwillNZ" reply="3" id="2522885"]You played NWN for the community and the modules, not the base game. [/quote] It was enjoyable playing with your friends too. They kind of messed that up a but with NWN 2 though.
[quote who="vindKtiv" reply="59" id="2522667"]EA is getting better now. They use to be absolutely horrible, using Activation Limits and SecuROM. I don't really give a crap about Ubisoft anymore though, I was going to by Prince of Persia but was turned off by the lack of DLC. Now, Ubisoft has zero games that interest me at all. [/quote] That's funny. I purchased Prince of Persia because it had no DRM and no DLC and was really cheap.
[quote who="narbytrout" reply="18" id="2520461"]Here check this out... about MSE. LINK [/quote] I'll second this one. Good results so far and low impact on performance. I only wish it gave me a little more feedback info.
I beta's this game. Disliked the limitations and especially hated the fact they wanted to charge me like an MMO when it was so... well, lacking is the best word I could come up with it. Apparently, I was not alone. Oct to March, is this the most short lived MMO to date, maybe close (not counting the ones that never made it to retail space)? Oh more discussions to be had on simtropolis about this, and it doesn't look like they are doing much for those people out there who
[quote who="Spooky__" reply="40" id="2519305"]Online Service Platfrom Q&A [/quote] I've seen this before, as in before I made my decision not to buy Ubisoft titles. Ubisoft is now above EA in publishers I really don't want to support. At least with EA there are some titles I am willing to buy and many of them are released with only disc checks (retail versions) so when they are done milking customers with dangling DLC, the packaged versions will be wortwhi
[quote who="arstal" reply="38" id="2519295"]I really think (unsure if this is illegal under anti-trust) Brad needs to talk with Gabe over at Valve and whoever is over at Gamersgate, and you three should come together and publicly suspend Ubisoft from being able to sell games on your services until this is removed. Maybe that will send a message. This is literally a "don't be evil" moment. I will be UPSET if Stardock sells this game using this DRM schem
[quote who="psychoak" reply="1113" id="2519000"] I assume it has something to do with which side you are on.... After the Frog called me a pirate for saying it took a few minutes with google to find an up to date version of Sins, I wasn't exactly polite. [/quote] Your posts are little more than a string of insults colored with bad language and a general lack of ability to communicate with anyone civilly who doesn't share you viewpoint down
[quote who="Cerevox" reply="31" id="2518872"]Requiring logons all the time is pointless. Pirates will still pirate it just fine. The only people who will be bothered by this are the legit customers. Although everyone but the producers seem to already know this. [/quote] You must have missed the memo. The only people who complain about DRM (And this IS DRM) are the pirates who aren't affected by it. [e digicons];)[/e]
His examples were about EULA's for other industry like the medical/pharm industry as if that is even remotely the same as software.
This is certainly not better than the so called "old way". Some of you who like this idea act as if the "old way" was only Starforce of Secruom when there are several other methods that do work that aren't elitist, don't lease games, don't rely on company's to pay for servers whicch they can yank at any time, which don't force you to be online everytime to play your game... this is not better. If you want you no DVD/CD fix, go to a digital store and get it. Screw publishers that pull this cra
That's bull. DRM all around. I think this is part of that game launcher crap they are using too. It's close to having a digital download without the benefits. I wouldnt' even put up with 1404 DRM, and I will certainly not go for this. Was also hugely looking forward to Settlers VII until... well this.
This girl loved the original UFO Defense. I lpayed it on Playstation and Computer, excellent game. It was tactical, strategic and extremely difficult. I wish they had continued the series and added some sort of co-op (online). There are a lot of turn-based games I don't have patience for these days, but this is not one of them.
[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="34" id="2515838"]Why shouldn't intellectual property be patented/copyrighted? If you invent something, shouldn't you have the exclusive right to sell it, simply because it belongs to you because you created it? Now, imagine a company that spends millions of dollars on a product. Without protection of their intellectual property, their competitors can sell the created product at a lower price, simply because they didn't spend a great deal of mo
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="5" id="2515097"]People still use IE? Chrome!!! [/quote] Heh, this coming from a guy who so often talks about choice? IE is a choice, and in work settings, sometimes not ;-).
Looks like someone used some unfriendly code again and broke the thread above.
[quote who="ZehDon" reply="13" id="2514517"]I understand your point Nesrie, often a companies collapse is a sudden one and no company has a folder sitting on a shelf labelled "In case of bankruptcy". However, I find it difficult to believe that a plan could not be formulated quickly. And despite what Newell said, I think the most likely situation is that the platform itself would be patched - Steam, for example - to remove the online authentication; any game currently installed would be avail
[quote who="ZehDon" reply="10" id="2514432"] I think you'll find that if a service ever closed down, its licenced games would received patches that allow the player to play without the use of the service's platform. I believe Gabe Newell, from VALVe, has already stated that if Steam were ever to close - and it wouldn't be a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shut down either - then all of the games available on your Steam account would be unlocked before the shutdown. [/quote] Here's
[quote who="MagicwillNZ" reply="7" id="2514363"]I'm going to say that I don't think this is a giant conspiracy to make players rebuy games... I'd say by the time most players reach their activation limit the game maybe costs $20. I certainly would never rebuy a game for over $20. [/quote] This seems to contradict itself. First you don't think company's are trying to get gamers to rebuy their games, but when they do it's going to be 20 or less. Which is it? If the former is
[quote who="FutileEmotion" reply="3" id="2514221"]Just because DRM has not been an effective method to stopping piracy does not mean that its purpose is to screw customers over. [/quote] How do activation limits not just screw the customers over? It's not as if pirates are going to run into them... they pirated the game remember? I would say a huge portion of DRM being pushed does nothing but punish customers, try to get them buy games more than once AND ensure that current
[quote who="Moosetek13" reply="39" id="2513528"] PC's are finicky, and much of it has to do with the BIOS and specific controller chips. You never know until you try - and sometimes it takes more than one try to make things work correctly together. [/quote] 100% agree there which is why they can be a bitch troubleshooting and why you find people asking for help on pretty much every message board there is.
I don't know how much Cryptic got from Perpetual though since they didn't actually get any game code. Without transferring game code, I don't know you could say STO, as is, had been developed a long time. I mean the Away Missions is Champions Online with a Star Trek skin and very little tweaking. I kind of like space ship battles, but not enough, to really buy it at this point. I've purchased MMOs a year or two after launch before though. Maybe i'll give it go in a year or so to see if Crypti
Yeah, what Heigar said. It recognizes one but not both. Scratch what I said before, according to the manual, it doesn't look like it would be the Soutbridge but the NB that controls RAM anyway. http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Downloads/ProductsDetail_Download.aspx?detailid=589&DetailName=Ne
[quote who="kona0197" reply="33" id="2513340"]Windows XP will recognize up to 3.5 GB of RAM. Sounds like a motherboard issue to me. Have you messed around with any settings in BIOS? [/quote] There is definitely something funky about that board. He's not the only one though. HP had a few people with this model post something similar, and i posted a link to one of the threads with a potential solution, but there was no word in that older thread if it actually worked. Did you t
The same group that is calling Demigod a failure is probably the same group that still considers the Wii to be a no good piece of garbage fad that will die any... minute... now.
[quote who="Raven X" reply="66" id="2513085"]Majesty 2 is ok, but it's no Majesty 1. A good game sure, it just doesn't capture that feel that the first one had for me though. [/quote] I loved the first one. Really, really, really loved the first one. After some reports from my sister with no. 2, didn't even buy it.
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