I have a lot of reason not to like EA, securom, destroying spore, their crappy download service, their microtrans, shutting down MMOs. I know companies are in it to make money, i really do. But if you I guess so long as a they pop out Dragon Age games, people will continue to support them no matter how anti-consumer they are.
[quote who="ManSh00ter" reply="33" id="2500515"] I used the word "he" because I usually do not bother with being politically correct. I am fully aware that there are female gamers and strategy enthusiasts as well. I am quite sure that when she thinks of strategy games Sims are the last thing on her mind as well. [/quote] Considering the entire industry barely spends enough money on "ink" to study what a female gamer thinks, I seriously doubt that you would know what most
[quote who="Martok" reply="40" id="2500464"] Quoting Protoplazm, reply 38 Not to split hairs, but "this thread", sir, is about, "*YOUR* most *ANTICIPATED* games of 2010" So if you are expressing your opinion that my expressed opinion that HW3 is MY most ANTICIPATED game of 2010 is irrellevant, then you, sir, are irrelevant to your own conversation. And since HW3 is MY most ANTICIPATED game of 2010, I presume there to be no need to prov
Settlers 7 Elemental Star Trek Online, FF 14 And all of them I am perfectly happy to walk away from if they screw it up for me.
Isn't this the same industry that gives out awards to games that aren't even finished yet? Still, looking forward to Elemental myself, a little bit of press is good. I was looking at titles coming up that i might be interested in on PC, sadly, not that many aside from two MMOS that are sure to disappoint.
[quote who="ManSh00ter" reply="27" id="2500113"]So in your opinion Sims belong in the same category as Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron series or similar? I find that a bit strange. In fact, I would go as far as to suggest that the Sims series are about the last thing on the mind of an average strategy game enthusiast when he's thinking which game he should buy next. So I doubt that chucking it in the strategy bin will help gamers choose wisely. And if "planning ahead" is the mai
[quote who="Wintersong" reply="25" id="2500079"]Every game is a role playing game. [/quote] Haha. I am starting to really like you [e digicons];)[/e]
You can call this discussion whatever you want. If you think the sims actually simulates life, I wonder if you have played the game. The flight and train simulators reach a depth that most games wouldn't even consider. You want to classify games by the use of dictionary, most games are classified to help gamers find like games they might enjoy. If you say you enjoy strategy games, there is a like theme in you liking strategy games. If you say you like FPS games, then there is group of games y
[quote who="ManSh00ter" reply="20" id="2499701"]Social Simulator... essentially they are simulators. As in, they simulate something specific, people's lives in this case. They are not a strategy game (and neither are games like C&C because they deal with a battlefield on a tactical level, not strategic). There are a lot of titles which have been poorly typified. In the case of Sims, I don't see why they shouldn't be classified next to a flight simulator. The essential premise o
[quote who="Jalicos" reply="17" id="2499298"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 15 They've really not fond a great category for games like Sims 3. Seriously? No one ever thought to put Sims in the Simulation category? ("Life Simulator" would also fit, if you want to get specific.) [/quote] Are you just trying to be cute or are you being serious? You think the that Sims should be classified next to the flight and train simulators..
They've really not fond a great category for games like Sims 3. I don't care what the haters say, the Sims series did something unique; it did it well, and it sold very well. Having said that, the Sims and the Sims 2 were very progressive and enough of a jump between the two to warrant talking. Sims 3, not so much. It's not bad but, well you didn't see their expansion up on the charts lately have you? I am not sure even the original Sims 3 has been up there, and Sims and Sims 2 were at the to
Electronic Arts announced that by Feb. 2 it will take away online play from several sports games released in 2008 or earlier, thus negating any real reason to keep playing them and pushing customers to buying newer releases. Here's the list of hobbled games, as reported by IGN: “ UEFA Champions League 07 PC and x360 Facebreaker
[quote who="-RAISTLIN-" reply="183" id="2498311"] Quoting kyogre12, reply 180 You're missing out on a lot. Although, from your comments, I'm going to guess you're one of those RTS's suck, TBS's are better kind of people Why can't the RTS people and the TBS people just get along without arguing about one or the other being "better" or "more strategic"? Sins, despite being a pretty good achievement, is still pretty shallow compared to dedicated
Well I have a sig.bin file for GalCiv II, but that was out before Impulse so I don't think it's impulse specific unless they updated/patched the game. Impulse does have a form of DRM in that Impulse is required to install and update games purchased through Impulse or published by Stardock. That IS a form of DRM. That outside of GOO which is another form of DRM. Unless my understanding of what Impulse can and cannot do is incorrect, and it could be, I am not able to copy my Tropico 3 g
EULA for software are not unregulated Kodiak. There is copyright law involved. Software publishers/developers don't have a right to override copyright law at whim just because they want to. Look at Vernor vs Autocad. You act like these issues are so far in the future that it's not even worth looking at such far off "what ifs". There are cases working through the courts as we speak now. Not only that, but you seem to suggest we don't look at what ifs, but having people "laughed out of court" i
[quote who="Kodiak888" reply="47" id="2488079"] Lets forget about that "what ifs" and technical possibilities and lookat the situation rationally. [/quote] This is why I responded to you the way i do. If someone disagrees with you, that does not make them irrational nor does it mean that they will be "laughed out of the court." You appear to have very limited or no knowledge about how contract law works. You don't sign on the dotted line and therefore sig
Well the view promotions link is gone too from the tray. Hopefully they will let us know. I only have Impulse Now on startup for these promos.
[quote who="Kodiak888" reply="33" id="2487204"] Any sort of lawsuit against a gaming company for their promises to the users would be laughed out of court. Good luck quoting a forum from 2006 in a lawsuit in 2019 that you can't play any of your Impulse games anymore since it can't connect to it's server, and you can't even install your disc based game without that connection. You spend more on your left sock than you'd stand to make. [/quote] No. 1 : EULA a
[quote who="CraigHB" reply="31" id="2487153"]I think's its pretty unbelievable how these software publishers think they can make up their own laws simply by forcing you to agree to an EULA. It's just ridiculous and they are only making fools of themselves. EULAs are completely meaningless and they should spare us the trouble of making us agree to them during sofwtare installation. If they want' to make a point they should simply provide a link to the *actual* copyright laws
[quote who="vindKtiv" reply="29" id="2487116"] Agreed. This is why I'm a huge fan of retail, and only buy off of Steam or Impulse when it is absolutely necessary. The companies can spout whatever they want about legal stuff and fine print, but it does not and never will change the fact that they are screwing you over when the time comes. [/quote] I am sure it has been mentioned before, but the EULA's are very suspect, as in a lot of people don't think they stand
[quote who="shayde0007" reply="23" id="2486421"]I worked in online gaming myself, and when you get a forced refund on your credit card it is a mark against the company you do the "charge-back" on. Almost any company you do this to will permanently ban you, and I doubt they'll have any sympathy for you. As far as the online game downloads options, I've recently changed my mind about them. I plan on buying all the games I can in-store rather than online. When you ha
[quote who="Kodiak888" reply="21" id="2486079"] Impulse and Stardock will refund you the money you've spent on games when they ban you and you permanently loose access to all of them? I very much doubt it, but wouldn't mind be corrected on the matter. The very idea that your online distributed game collection can be denied to you from one bad (even if unlikely) scenario should send chills down your spine. [/quote] That was my understanding of wh
I am sure I was part of the Titan Quest target audiance, being a lover of D2, and I saw his rant, was it Michael Fitch that did it, blaming pirates and people not updating their motherboard drivers. I don't typically buy at the front of the wave for most my hardware so I almost never update a motherboard driver as it's pretty finalized when I get it and extra support is usually for new CPU's or specific RAM which I wouldn't need. Anyway, I demo'd Titan Quest and was pretty unhappy wit
[quote who="Campaigner" reply="3" id="2485886"]Why pay for an Office version when OpenOffice is available? On my school, the IT department says they won't switch because then the stupid personell would have to be taught to use the new program and that is time they don't work....my solution: Fire the dumb and bring in the smart (unfortunetly, that wouldn't be possible....) [/quote] OpenOffice has limitations and issues that most home users aren't going
[quote who="Darvin3" reply="18" id="2485028"]The larger issue is more that the software industry has somehow grown accustomed to using EULA's to push consumers around in ways that would be considered criminal in other industries. It's already been mentioned that a contract cannot supercede the law of the land, but that doesn't stop the people writing these licensing "agreements" from trying. Most EULA's are blatantly filled with unenforcable terms that would never hold up in court
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