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[quote who="ZehDon" reply="44" id="2469023"]I certainly understand your point, but looking at the Digital Distribution services currently dividing up the market, how would you suggest they change themselves to better suit their female demographic than the stereotypical, and not very realistic, 'Hello Kitty' skins and The Sims content? [/quote] Right, it's comments like these that show just how sexist the gaming community can be. You think all women who plays games want pink

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All i want is for digital distributors to consider that women game too and might want to use their service so why not keep us in mind once in awhile when it comes to marketing and design. For some reason, that doesn't sit well with some guys probably because they aren't the ones that have to walk into a Gamestop and get hassled just trying to buy a game because stores that are fairly gender neutral, like Target and Walmart, don't carry the game, or because you want it now and not two weeks la

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Most of the guys in this thread have also showed up in other threads saying they want to be catered to, as hardcore gamers, generally being unhappy that the mainstream games are supposedly, taking over... and yet hardcore gamers are the minority. Under that logic, stardock shouldn't even bother with their games, as it's not addressing the biggest market. The gaming industry catgers to young white males. It's not something i am making up. There are plenty of studies on this topic despite the f

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40% of the market of the gaming market is women. 60% of the market is not white men, there are minorities in there too. it is interesting to see that group still claim so much though. A majority, yes, but a shrinking majority.

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[quote who="Savyg" reply="34" id="2468435"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 33 Neither one of these stores really caters to women gamers at all Neither do most games. [/quote] Oh well that justifies it. After all two wrongs make a right.

Reply to Dell Mini 9 and Windows Live Messenger 14 Sound Problem in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

We gave it a go today, upated the mini's BIOS, already has the last sound driver dell posted... didn't work [e digicons]X([/e]

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I really like how Steam is setup better. With the profiles, joining my friends for L4D is a no brainer. I haven't used it for a 3rd party game yet so I am not sure if it is as smooth. Steam even tells me they've started it... it just great for multiplayer. I hate the color scheme, and some of the UI for both of them screams we didn't even try to sell this to women but we'll sit back and take credit that women found their way here anyway. Neither one of these stores really caters to

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[quote who="Melchiz" reply="17" id="2467402"] Quoting elias001, reply 16 people, if you bought the game, and for whatever god forsaken reasons the drm measures are hindering you from playing our game, get a crack from the internet. problem solved. If you don't have internet, go bug someone else that does, it is a simple google/bing search. I think that people dislike the idea that they must modify legally-acquired games in

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Thanks for the info. We're going to gie it a try in the next few days and hope it works. I really prefer MSN voice chat to the others so far!

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[quote who="TatertotEatalot" reply="1" id="2464647"]in ten years, i'm going to have games on 30 different freaken download distribution companies... [/quote] And they will all demand to be startup applications. Seriously though, I've been complaining about this for a bit, and guess what, all of them are going to have exclusives which makes having each of them necessary. They're already bundling clients and other unnecesary files with discs so that isn't going to help either. And

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All right second time its happened, so I am not sure it ia coincidence anymore. The second promotion never work for me. It just takes me to this site which shows nothing. http://promos.impulsedriven.com/images/56.ico Now if it's just an information piece, aka data, why does it link to anything at all?

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[quote who="Charvel1" reply="29" id="2463576"]I like the popups. And appreciate the deals. Keep em coming. [/quote] I'd probably appreciate the deals more if they actually worked. This Winter Desktop thing has popped up twice now and each time took me to a site that has a non working icon on it.

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So you are not advertising these on the main website so does this mean the only people who can get the deal will be the ones that have the promotion notification? As in I can't tell my sister who barely acknowledges Impulse' existance that she might want to check out a deal? Also, i went to the current promo sectipn of the tray and I see one large package deal and some other winter deal that doesn't bring me to a valid website at all. Is that the area you would see this if you

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Awesome news.

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="22" id="2461810"] What is D2D supposed to do if it think it's no. 2 based on the data it subscribes too most and someone else claims the spot, just sit there I would have not pointed to a report that didn't include its main competitors and still listed it as only having 7%. If roles were reversed, we would have not said anything. The Baha men analogy is apt. [/quote] Point taken. Your approach is probably

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[quote who="heavenlysynn" reply="60" id="2461527"] It is not amatter of being into it,but instead it's simplycommon sense knowing games are not always for kids. [/quote] QFT It is so disappointing to see people still link kids to ALL video games. It's as if there is this disconnect between reality and what people believe. Some of the games in question aren't exactly complex to the point where an 8 year old wouldn't get it, but the material covered is beyond the

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What is D2D supposed to do if it think it's no. 2 based on the data it subscribes too most and someone else claims the spot, just sit there? This is business, they're going to say something. If you have a company using data set 1 and another using data set 2 and the two aren't even remotely the same, well there is going to be disagreement and bickering. No matter how you slice it, Steam seems to be at the top either way because no one is going to exclude them from the study, so all that is le

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My apologies but I don't believe any of data presented by individuals who actually have a stake in it. I am not convinced that any of the data being gathered is being gathered in the same way (when comparing different reports) or actually including everyone involved. MMOs and microtrans, where do those fall in anyway?

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Neverwinter Nights

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Well because of free speech, there is no actual law against bigots, but I have no issues with society trying to weed those bastards out and giving them a good whatfor. There is a HUGE difference between forcing people to accept the fact that interracial marriage is a right vs. encountering sex and gore in your choice of media as something you can choose to avoid without actually forcing your own views on someone else.... thus the rating system.

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[quote who="Aractain" reply="48" id="2459766"]This debate, so old. Never ends. I totaly agree that people should have a right to choose to not see whatever it is that upsets them. They have a right not to be forced into hearing swearing within reason (free speach n all). They have a right to not be forced to view sex or gore or mixed race marriage. They have a right to never speak to forgien people if they wish. I totaly support that right. But they sho

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The point isn't where you draw the line, the point is you, or any other adult, trying to draw the line for me. I am an adult. I don't subscribe to your morality or your views; I have my own. All games are not for children. I repeat, all games are NOT for children. There are way too many parents out here who lack this very basic understanding which is why you've got grandma's buying 13 year old boys Grand Theft Auto and throwing a hissy fit that there is sex and violence in it.

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[quote who="Smidlee" reply="43" id="2458720"] Now if you happen to agree that children shouldn't watch their parents having sex then all we do is go one step farther and believe our children shouldn't watch anyone having sex. In America we are so exposed to sex,sex,sex we believe there need to be a line drawn somewhere. [/quote] I am a grown woman, and I believe I shouldn't watch my parents have sex at any age. I am certainly

Reply to New Security Software Ratings in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I used to use Comodo as my firewall, not the antivirus. When I switched to Win 7 64 though there was noticable slows downs while surfing so I ditched it. Really though, it's not that the free versions are actually bad, it's that a lot of them are not user friendly or designed for the people that call me up every once in awhile and tell me they have porn popping up on their computer and wondering if I can come over and fix it for them. There is only so much security software can do

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[quote who="Savyg" reply="39" id="2457160"] Quoting Campaigner, reply 38 Here in Sweden we think americans have a strange sense of morality with guns and fastfood being acceptable but GOD FORBID a tit or a bottle of booze! It's not that simple. Every nation you can name has some morals held to a stricter standard than others. Singling us out is completely ignoring that. [/quote] Too my knowledge, no legit game has ac