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Reply to The Elder Scrolls V - Let the rumour mill begin! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="TheProgress" reply="6" id="2830062"] Quoting GoaFan77, reply 5 Some valid points, but I haven't had any stability issues on my current laptop with the GOTY edition. I never used magic for very much either, though I would like a different leveling system across the board, but I've been using mods to get around that in IV. Oh yes please, I had totally forgotten about that. Scaling enemies makes for no fun. I loved morrowind because

Reply to DEAL EXPIRED - Age of Empires III Complete on PC - $.10 (10 CENTS) today only in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="uga-bugga" reply="22" id="2829229"]Ah man, you sux. No one told me. [/quote] Well it was on fatwallet, slickdeals, cheapassgamer, all over the place really.

Reply to Retail pain accelerates in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I'll get in line for the death drums when virtual reality and holodecks show up... course I remember when that one cowboy hologram [?] game was supposed to change everything years ago too.

Reply to DEAL EXPIRED - Age of Empires III Complete on PC - $.10 (10 CENTS) today only in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="10" id="2828690"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 9 Well it got me to download their client, and 10 cents is about right. What a pain in the ass system. Why the hell do I need an xbox live account to play a pc game anyway? Microsoft are tying all of their 'Live' sites together. Xbox Live, Windows Live, etc. It's a centralisation thing. Handy for people like me who use a lot of their services - annoying as shit for everyone el

Reply to DEAL EXPIRED - Age of Empires III Complete on PC - $.10 (10 CENTS) today only in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="joempire" reply="8" id="2828679"]thanks for the notices, a real deal... wonder what the actual angle is because they must be paying more for the credit card use then what the price was. [/quote] Well it got me to download their client, and 10 cents is about right. What a pain in the ass system. Why the hell do I need an xbox live account to play a pc game anyway?

Reply to Retail pain accelerates in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Savyg" reply="45" id="2828506"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 41 In what world are the games for notebooks different than desktops? I mean sure you can scale down some games to get them to run on weak mobile gpus... but they're the same games. But hey, I know you folks have been beating death drums for PC for decades, keep up the "good" work. Sandy Bridge and Llano will be awesome for pushing up the integrated graphics level in lapt

Reply to Retail pain accelerates in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="MOIISKA" reply="40" id="2828245"]Things change. With the power of hand heald devices constantly growing, the table top PC market is dying and the laptop market has to keep up or die as well. [/quote] In what world are the games for notebooks different than desktops? I mean sure you can scale down some games to get them to run on weak mobile gpus... but they're the same games. But hey, I know you folks have been beating death drums for PC for decades, keep up the "good

Reply to Retail pain accelerates in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Ozzy38" reply="33" id="2827680"] Quoting SpardaSon21, reply 32 Sins of a Solar Empire - Computer won't read some DVD discs. Turns out my disc drive is dying. Extra knowledge required: Disc drives. Extra purchases required: (For other DVD games) New DVD disc drive, installation of disc drive (if internal, optional at own risk). Consoles can't have dying disk drives? Ah true, but in-warr

Reply to Retail pain accelerates in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Savyg" reply="18" id="2826203"]I know I'm going back to preordering at Gamestop. Picking up a disc seems vastly preferable to downloading for 24+ hours. Course, at the moment it doesn't seem like that will matter until February, by which time I might've forgotten the pain [/quote] I use Amazon a lot myself. It's still a physical disc but not a physical store. I don't know that having no shelf space means no physical discs or PC is dyin

Reply to D2D announced Price matching in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I am not sure how this is much of a price match policy. I mean without a promo or percent off, all the digi stores pretty much sell the same game for the same price. Maybe some competitor will do a PM policy with actual teeth though.

Reply to Reviewers vs. Users in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="RFHolloway" reply="74" id="2824621"]Talking about reviews and perhaps how to manage it a bit better - try looking at www.Boardgamegeek.com that seems to manage things quite well, I wonder what a computer game version of that might look like. [/quote] I like that website, but it's a mess to wade through.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations: The case for no multiplayer in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote who="charon2112" reply="578" id="2824832"] Quoting RenegadePeon, reply 576 If not already said, many people view single player as training for multiplayer. If there isn't multiplayer, they don't feel there is a point. I have to totally disagree with this. Some games are fun with MP, but a turn-based 4x empire building game...not so much. That is something to be enjoyed slowly, at your own pace, against goo

Reply to Steam: A monopoly in the making? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

My past experiences say neither one of them has live support. I hate buying a game on the weekend, you know when I actually have a lot of time to play games, only to run into a problem that has me sitting around and waiting until Monday to get any sort of support.

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Thank you. I haven't changed my wallpaper in years, but I just might now though.

Reply to Why did Microsoft kill PC gaming with it's own xbox? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="RikazeMA" reply="83" id="2817793"]SavyG has a point about Nintendo though... Sure, the gameplay concepts in their newer franchise titles are generally new and 'fresh,' but Nintendo's also marketing to easily the most idiotic market on the planet... Kids. Kids don't see the Gameplay, the Gameworld, or the Strategy of a game... They see Mario, Kirby, Sonic, what-have-you, and piss and moan until their parents buy them the game with their favorite ch

Reply to Diablo III in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="115" id="2816671"] I really don't know why you're so bitter at Blizzard, but all of your arguments are completely baseless and, quite frankly, insanely terrible. There are plenty of legitimate arguments to make, such as the state of the current Battle.net being widely regarded as a downgrade to the original, the push to make everyone use realID (even though that one failed), the crazy Facebook integration, etc.. [/quote] You know what is i

Reply to Help with expansion packs on steam in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="1" id="2816458"]Generally speaking, all the DD platforms get their own set of keys, and retail keys (unless the game uses Steamworks or Goo) and especially for old games, aren't recognized by the DD clients. So, basically, you can't convince Steam that you have the game because you can't get it to recognize the key. On top of that, Steam uses its own directories for games, sometimes has separate Steam-only patches, and in a few occasions mods for

Reply to Valve released numbers about Steam growth - 30M active accounts in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Alstein" reply="129" id="2815591"]Ah, there's no real name, it's just called Risk Aversion theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_utility_hypothesis This sounds like part of it also. [/quote] Okay I see what you were getting at. Of course I know about risk aversion, but I've never heard professor or an economist generalize "large" corporations like you were mentioning. It sou

Reply to Why did Microsoft kill PC gaming with it's own xbox? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="OMG_blackmage" reply="81" id="2815026"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 80 Quoting OMG_blackmage, reply 79 Quoting ZehDon, reply 75 Quoting Savyg, reply 74...If the gameplay is SPECTACULAR but I couldn't care less about the game world, what's the point? Did you really care that much about Super Mario Bros.' gameworld on the NES? Of course not. You played it because it was fun. Why is a fun

Reply to Valve released numbers about Steam growth - 30M active accounts in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Alstein" reply="127" id="2815022"]Unsure if it has an actual name. I do know that this was stated as fact as an inefficiency in several econ classes I took. I believe it's based on discount rates. [/quote] If it's a "standard" economic theory, it would have a name.

Reply to Valve released numbers about Steam growth - 30M active accounts in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who=" Alstein " reply="123" id="2814898"] True, large corporations are by their nature risk-averse, and publicly traded corps are by their nature short-sighted. It's pretty much a standard theory of economics, though I'm unsure how exactly it's handled quantitatively. That said, the smaller companies will take the risks, then the bigger companies will catch up. Invasive DRM will disappear by the end of this decade in the PC mark

Reply to Why did Microsoft kill PC gaming with it's own xbox? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="OMG_blackmage" reply="79" id="2814943"] Quoting ZehDon, reply 75 Quoting Savyg, reply 74...If the gameplay is SPECTACULAR but I couldn't care less about the game world, what's the point? Did you really care that much about Super Mario Bros.' gameworld on the NES? Of course not. You played it because it was fun. Why is a fun game not enough? Gameplay - as in, the act of actually playing the game - is the most

Reply to Why did Microsoft kill PC gaming with it's own xbox? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="75" id="2814822"] Quoting Savyg, reply 74 ...If the gameplay is SPECTACULAR but I couldn't care less about the game world, what's the point? Did you really care that much about Super Mario Bros.' gameworld on the NES? Of course not. You played it because it was fun. Why is a fun game not enough? Gameplay - as in, the act of actually playing the game - is the most important part of the game. Un

Reply to Valve released numbers about Steam growth - 30M active accounts in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Rebell44" reply="120" id="2814602"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 118 Quoting ZehDon, reply 111 Quoting Rebell44, reply 109 To me it looks like you should learn to read what is written in posts to which you reply...... because your replies didnt make any sense. Shocking, Impulse fanbois cant read Actually, that would be 'fangurl'. In any case, when using Impulse::Reactor, one has the opti

Reply to Why did Microsoft kill PC gaming with it's own xbox? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Savyg" reply="69" id="2814764"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 68 Well I guess that just makes a difference between us. There are plenty of things in this world I don't care for, but I don't label them as crap just because I don't like it. I'm sure there's more than one. [/quote] Heh, well I did say A difference [e digicons]^_^'[/e]