coreimpulse

coreimpulse

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Reply to Mafia® II Shipping with Steamworks in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="65" id="2695347"]Didn't we already go through this on another thread? Steamworks is free. Says so right on the website and in the brouchure. Valve's cut comes from the contract to get the game sold on Steam. Unlike other middleware that doesn't have a storefront, Valve can get their cut when people buy the game. They WANT people using Steamworks because it helps grow Steam, they're not going to throw up big price barriers to encourage people to go elsewhe

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Reply to BFG not making video cards anymore... in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Well, I think two points apply here. One, video cards have gotten too expensive lately. The most expensive ones cost more than a console. Which brings to the other point. All games are now being focused on consoles. Who is going to buy specialty GPUs to keep these companies in the green then?

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Reply to Hate to encourage: Release via steam in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="29" id="2645668"] Quoting caross73, reply 28 As they say, every industry needs people who make bad or unpopular decisions only if to make their competition look good. Who says that? Because obviously they've NEVER met Kotick. Kotick, as any well-informed PC gamer knows, is THE UTTER ABOMINATION OF VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY. Kotick HIMSELF has stated that his ENTIRE GOAL in the video game industry is

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Reply to North Korea's Nuclear Threat in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote who="Draakjacht" reply="19" id="2695080"]Don't imagine things have changed, impulse. Although Obama said he would set a deadline and get our boys out, he's pretty much just let things lie. He's no better than Bush as far as getting things done, he just benefits from not getting the blame of starting them. I imagine this administration will be known for having little activity on a positive front. Even the party as a whole is concerned about that, but the Democrats have never managed to

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Reply to Mafia® II Shipping with Steamworks in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Raven X" reply="59" id="2694513"] Quoting coreimpulse, reply 58 I think Valve gets a cut for every game sold that has steamworks, whether bought online or not. Someone should try to find out for sure. I'd would still think though, even if they do get some kind of cut for the gaming using Steam, it wouldn't get as high a cut as if the game was bought on Steam. [/quote] I asked about this on another thread. This is

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Reply to North Korea's Nuclear Threat in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="9" id="2693193"]Being a fascist-like state, North Korea requires a continual "enemy figure" to keep the population scared and willing to "sacrifice individual privilege for the good of their country". Without that constant threat of "those people over there will come and get you", the government would have a hard time keeping everyone in line. When the US does these military exercises, they make it easy for Kim's boys to create that enemy figure, and provoke them

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Reply to North Korea's Nuclear Threat in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote who="Anthony R" reply="12" id="2693378"]When Hitler began rattling sabers everyone shrugged it off and dismissed it. It was just rhetoric... or something that was only for internal consumption. But he was deadly serious. When dealing with the threat of nuclear war I wonder if anyone has the luxury of waiting. [/quote] That Hitler-was-doing-the-same Bush rethoric to justify invading Iraq is tiring in 2010.

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Reply to Mafia® II Shipping with Steamworks in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="55" id="2692226"] Since they're in direct competition with PC games, no it's not. You're saying that you don't like the current market leader on an open platform because they might close the platform, so you're going to a closed platform instead. The market signal sent here is pretty clear: locked down console versions where nobody can compete with the console makers network are better then the market picking a winner on the PC.

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Reply to Mafia® II Shipping with Steamworks in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="43" id="2691404"] Quoting Island Dog, reply 39 So, your point is to buy PS3 version just to fuck Steam? Let me be clear here that this is my personal opinion alone. On principle, yes I would rather buy the PS3 version rather than being forced to use Steamworks. To say I'm not supporting PC gaming is nonsense. I spend more on PC games than console games hands-down, with the great majority bought from Impul

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Reply to Mafia® II Shipping with Steamworks in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="32" id="2690812"]Cooking, travel and twilight. I gotta say, this is the strangest of the anti-Steamworks threads. [/quote] It's all DeCypher00 's laughable analogies. Don't forget cell phone stores too, from the other thread. ;)

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Reply to Mafia® II Shipping with Steamworks in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Saije" reply="20" id="2690439"]I love how they make it sound like they're doing you a favor... Not that I care one way or the other, I just wish they'd be honest with the fans instead of this PR BS! "Were adding it to steam so you can't steal because we don't trust you *Fake Smile*" I can feel the love in the air... No wait, That's the smell of money. [/quote] Yep, if they were as honest as CliffyB instead. But that kind of

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Reply to Mafia® II Shipping with Steamworks in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Aractain" reply="15" id="2690340"] If you refuse each companies 'platform' (whatever the specifcs) you lose out but with Steam you lose BIG TIME. [/quote] Isnt that a monopoly?

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