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Reply to Gamestop - releasing game early again. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Rishkith" reply="11" id="2454917"]Oh it wouldn't surprise me if Gamestop was playing dirty. But even if they didn't it is going to happen anyways. Plus as they become less significant, Publishers are going to start getting the nerve to tell Gamestop to "stuff it" one of these days. If you've got sales at Walmart, Best Buy, and Digitally... cutting Gamestop isn't going to impact your margin by a lot anymore. [/quote] Except last I heard a lot of Gamest

Reply to Star Trek Online in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="lordkosc" reply="9" id="2451606"]I'll subscribe once the client is free, I refuse to pay 50$ for the first month of play. [/quote] I've purchased a few over the years myself, but I absolutely hate the bussiness model they use. It's a cash grab up front and the idea that once that happens you'll feel obligated enough to keep forking out a monthly fee even as they fix the game to the status it should have been at release. The last one I purchased was a year afte

Reply to Gamestop - releasing game early again. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Hey one of the recent breeches was a decision made at the corporate level. Thing is, none of the publishers are in a position where they can do anything but shrug it off.

Reply to Consumerist post on an issue with Stardock in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

The consumerist used to be a great site. Now they have a censorship overlord named Roz who filters only new members and not oldies and keeps the opinion pages titled in one direction half the time, and they dont' check out their stories nearly enough for my tastes.

Reply to Dragon Age DLC "while supplies last" in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Teucrian" reply="33" id="2454457"] According to "common sense", that might be true. Not with economic theory though. Of course, I could be wrong, it's been a year since I took my last class for my econ minor. [/quote] Well it's been longer than that for me, although it wasn't my minor. The supply-side theory though was Say's Law, although I am more than willing to tell you there is no one and only in terms of accepting one eco

Reply to Dragon Age DLC "while supplies last" in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Teucrian" reply="31" id="2452368"] Quoting jongalt26, reply 27 and i bought the damn horse armor lol "while supplies last" is utter crap it is a way for the industry to regulate supply to artificially increase demand. Supply does not affect Demand! At least, not using economics definitions... marketing affects Demand, or throttling Supply affects Price. [/quote] Not necessarily true. Sometimes t

Reply to Digital Stores and Gifting in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="2" id="2451999"] Stardock, please support delayed gifting before Christmas! Agreed But I do like your method of giving a box with the info inside. Because unwrapping things is way more fun than just checking an e-mail [/quote] Agree. Delayed gifting is a must for me. I guess I'll stick to my usual then, Amazon and BM stores for my game/software gifting. And yeah, not a lot of fun involved in opening up an e-mail b

Digital Stores and Gifting in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

All right here is a question for you gentlemen, and the handful of women that might be around of course. It's the season of gifting, and as a gamer, games are often at the top of the list for my fellow gamers. I've said before that I prefer retail boxes for a lot of reasons, and they look pretty under the tree too, but for my distant relatives and for price and practical reasons, sometimes digital might be aok except, I can't find a way to gift via Steam, Impulsue or Direct2Drive and com

Reply to Stardock 2009 Report in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

The SP to MP has been brought up numerous times. It's unfortunate that that only 4% of the users are women, though I can't say I am entirely surprised. I suspect Steam isn't much better considering there is pretty much zero attempts to attract women gamers. I, however, enjoy the service a lot more than Steam so far. Now the one world, one price. That was interesting. It was also a noble attempt that will probably show up years later saying Stardock was too ahead of its time for that s

Reply to Dragon Age DLC at launch is bs..... in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="dfalken" reply="33" id="2447466"]I'll weigh in on this too as I've had pretty intense feelings on the matter. At first, I hated the idea. It felt like I was getting cheated somehow... But after some thought, and seeing a few examples of DLC, I've had a complete turnaround. I now thing DLC can be a great thing, CAN be. For me, it was Fallout 3 that changed my mind. I like the idea, and hope it catches on, but only under certain rules. The b

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

[quote who="kona0197" reply="3" id="2446872"]Have you thought about Trillian? [/quote] I was under the impression Trillian still did not have voice chat. Is that incorrect?

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

[quote who="Philly0381" reply="1" id="2445896"]Usually you don't have to update things like messanger. I would use the restore function and go back to before the update posted and see if that works. If that doesn't work you might have to find what the update number is and then go into add and remove programs and uninstall it. Someone with a little more knowledge will probably stop by and let us know if I am right. Give it a little time. [/quote]

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

Well ever since windows live messenger forced everyone to upgrade to the 14 version, my sister and I am no longer able to use voice chat with that messenger. It's been our messenger of choice because her company uses it so we sort of stuck with it. She has a Dell Mini 9. Windows MSN Live 8.5 worked fine. AIM, Yahoo, Skype, pretty much all the other programs work fine with it but this new version has my voice all chopped up at her end. We've already updated her sound drivers to the lat

Reply to Dragon Age DLC at launch is bs..... in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="DraekAlmasy" reply="19" id="2445647"] Frankly, we already had this conversation weeks ago and I'm already tired of it. You know what I think? I think that Dragon Age: Origins is the finest videogame ever created even without a single plece of DLC, free or otherwise. And I think that we should judge a game's value by itself instead of being jealous of "what could've been" if you had more money. And the base game is easily worth the $50 asking price, for anyone with

Reply to Dragon Age DLC at launch is bs..... in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Rosco_P" reply="5" id="2445427"] Quoting DeCypher00, reply 1 The Stone Prisoner comes with EVERY new copy of Dragon Age, for free. I think he was saying, "Imagine if it DIDN'T, and you had to pay for it." [/quote] Yeah, I got that impression to I am right there with him. At the way people are supporting EA and Bioware over this constant stream of new revenue, I mean valuable DLC, it looks like Stardock shouldn't be giving a

Reply to Dragon Age Reviews Are Coming In in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Sola_III" reply="30" id="2445414"] There are a few whiners on the DA forums, but nothing like you see with pretty much every new game today. Seriously - if you like story driven RPG's, or RPG's in general, or the whole DPS, Tank, Heal thing, pretty awesome game. Best in game story I think I have ever played. On first character about 40 hours in. [/quote] Wow. I can't imagine why people might opt to hold b

Reply to Rated M and AO Games, Will we be seeing more as digital distribution becomes more popular? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Charvel1" reply="31" id="2445197"] So, enough with the 'conservatives are out to take away all our freedoms' junk here. It's baseless mud-slinging that might belong in another thread but certainly not this one. [/quote] Not sure what you are getting all worked up about. Personally, I don't think i even used the word "conservative" in any of my posts. And the fact that some people think their beliefs are so important and superior it has to be law are g

Reply to Rated M and AO Games, Will we be seeing more as digital distribution becomes more popular? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Kaltes" reply="28" id="2444618"]what gets me is that retail stores can sell tabacco, and alcohol. Yet they cant sell AO games. [/quote] When there are tax dollars involved, many governments seem willing to sell products that actually kill, but hey if it assaults someone's "morale" values, gotta stop that.

Reply to Rated M and AO Games, Will we be seeing more as digital distribution becomes more popular? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I guess I am in the state of mind where it is not my business to tell people what they are allowed or not allowed to watch or play or listen to. If parents aren't willing to police their own children, the answer is not to come into my home and tell me what is allowed and what isn't. I am a grown woman. It's my choice. I'd like to see more adult content (sexual and thought provoking stuff) and less violence in the games I, I repeat, I play. There are several series I don't touch because I

Reply to PC Gamers not worth Infinity Ward's time. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="arstal" reply="16" id="2440893"]No point in voting with your wallet, IW is making mad bank on this. Fact is IW has no reason to care about PC gamers. [/quote] Who ever said that voting with your wallet meant you were going to put a company out of business? Beanie babies were selling like hot cakes in the what, 90s was it? I didn't buy those either. I am not going to buy something just because everyone else is simply because the company won't "fe

Reply to PC Gamers not worth Infinity Ward's time. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Vote with your wallet.

Reply to Question about games in general... in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Well Japan isn't giving the 360 as much love as they want so I am certain they'll pay whatever to try and get more. Tokyo is huge though, so what's relevant to one crowd (gamers, anime and manga fans), may not be relevant to another. It's too bad most of Left 4 Dead's advertisement focuses so little on actual gameplay. I hate it when ads focus on the game's videos and not the 99% of the part of the game you are actually playing.

Reply to Question about games in general... in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Luckmann" reply="2" id="2437315"]Ha. That's funny. Because I haven't seen anything on L4D2. [/quote] I've seen the commercials a few times, during primte time TV mostly oh and all the bought and paid for gaming sites. Still that pales in comparison to the number of Dragon Age commercials and advertisements I have seen.

Reply to Dragon Age DLC "while supplies last" in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="AQuantumEvent" reply="21" id="2430149"]They never actually said that they had the specific content planned out, just that they had plans to release more content on for about 2 years on a rough schedule. And actually they've already started talking to the community about these things over on the dragon age forums on bioware's site. They've taken ideas, and will continue to take feedback. I know you want to demonize EA, but bioware is trying to do things right for

Reply to Dragon Age DLC "while supplies last" in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="AQuantumEvent" reply="19" id="2429782"] Despite the fact that one of the "DLC" packs is included with all new copies, and the other is part of the collector's edition? That's not exploitation, because you can get them as part of your purchase, without paying additional fees. [/quote] You know what else it is not, not actually waiting for player feedback to expand the game. I guess with 2 years of DLC already lined up, no reason to find out what