This is probably a stupid suggestion, but Brad, have you considered open sourcing the GalCiv II engine? That way lots of fans of the game would contribute on GalCiv II for free, making it compile natively on VS 2008 and 2010, and put the fixes mentioned here. You can still sell the game like before.
Are people actually able to play online with the PC version? I'm reading lots of people's complaints on getting disconnected often while waiting to join a game and lagfests in game.
The game Stalker isnt really based on that original movie, it was more of a borrowed some elements from it, and captured some of the atmosphere of it as well. A strictly based on the games movie would be completely unrelated.
Does the article foresee the shutdown of a DD service? To me it sounded more like it was referring to the overall state of the DD services businesses now.
Are the game sites making real reviews for this game, with it's real strengths and weaknesses, and not just buying into the hype? Or will this be like MW2, where at launch date and the several weeks after it was 10/10 reviews everywhere from your stock mainstream game review sites, and then several months later, they ran articles saying, "The game wasn't that good, honestly, it didnt deserve all that praise."
power armor grenade machine gun minigun and rocket launcher, you want to play as a space marine then?
To those saying games are now too big and complex, tough. It comes with the business. Sucks that the industry got into a technological arms race during the last decade and games are so tied with shiny new tech, but again, tough. Indie game devs don't bitch about that.
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Interesting what you mention on NBA 2K8. But that may only be because sports games are entirely a different thing from other games.
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They just relaunched windows marketplace this last week, didnt they? They're having some good sales right now.
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To give more support to Alstein's argument, computer program makers don't HAVE to make programs that run on windows, there are other alternatives and tools they can go for, but since "everyone just has windows" they write their programs for windows. That's been considered a monopoly by courts before, both in the usa and in europe. Only in europe something was done from it nonetheless, but still.
[quote who="Nenjin" reply="17" id="2806317"]Buying Steam is the most logical thing anyone has mentioned MS doing. I think Gabe wouldn't sell though; not unless MS offered him a billion or so. I guess my point is though, MS already has the PC market cornered through both the OS and intermediaries. And as was said, the industry loves a standard, even if it's an imperfect one. Short of someone else developing a DirectX replacement that doesn't work for MS....they don't have to worry.
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They may rely on popularity and they dont have any specific propietary technologies that anyone else could have, but they are the most streamlined ones. Apparently other competitors haven't yet placed all the infrastructure, the backend and frontend of the digital distribution service as neat and tidy like Valve has with Steam. Apparently it's too expensive for most companies, or they just dont want to do it.
[quote who="Nenjin" reply="12" id="2806268"] I'd say Microsoft is indeed interested in eliminating the PC game market and replace it with consoles only. After all they sell the 360s, not the pcs. They are not interested in Windows as anything but a business productivity base, not a gaming one. They don't benefit from windows PC games being sold, unlike 360 consoles and games sold. They get lots of earnings licensing the 360 to console game makers. Not so with PC game ma
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Like I mentioned before, Steam becomes a required windows service that has to be running for windows to function. Your windows admin name becomes your steam id. Windows updates notifies you of Steam game sales. That'd be the next step for Steam.
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[quote who="Tridus" reply="13" id="2806121"] Quoting Alstein, reply 7 I think the arguement could be made that Steamworks DRM requiring the Steam store is anti-competitive. This would likely have more success in Europe. Possibly in Europe, because the EU is fond of heavy government regulators that have a hate on for US companies. But not because it's anti-competitive. The fact of the matter
I'd say Microsoft is indeed interested in eliminating the PC game market and replace it with consoles only. After all they sell the 360s, not the pcs. They are not interested in Windows as anything but a business productivity base, not a gaming one. They don't benefit from windows PC games being sold, unlike 360 consoles and games sold. They get lots of earnings licensing the 360 to console game makers. Not so with PC game makers.
[quote who="Polynomial" reply="18" id="2803743"] Quoting qrtxian, reply 9 Unfortunately, it looks like I'll be getting the Impulse version after all. The CD does not have an option to run with DOS, making the DOS Box useless, and the Windows version categorically does not work. At least it only cost about $5 or so. Digital distribution is the future, sorry. [/quote] DosBox can load CDs and CD images too. Digital versions of dos g
[quote who="Nenjin" reply="36" id="2803401"]DoTA circles make mahjong rings in seedy places in Singapore look wholesome. [/quote] Exactly. There's places like that elsewhere, that look like cybercafes, but you cant do anything but play dota on them, most of the time at the end of a long corridor, and the place doesnt have a name or a sign, you have to know of it beforehand. Oh, and most of the time lighting is poor there.
[quote who="SivCorp" reply="35" id="2803393"] Quoting coreimpulse, reply 34 Quoting Polynomial, reply 30I completely agree about stupid pre order perks. I don't agree that DOTA is a welcoming game. It never will be. Not ever ever ever ever. I agree with that. The entire DoTa playing base, they're rude, unwelcoming, and they resemble crack dens more than anything else. L.O.L. that
[quote who="Aractain" reply="3" id="2803129"]Wow I can just imagine the meeting with the head man Kotick. The ranting and screaming about how much they spent only to make crap because it wasnt CoD. About how they were fit ONLY to make bad DLC that only fools buy. It would make a perfect "downfall" youtube. [/quote] :D
[quote who="Polynomial" reply="30" id="2803270"]I completely agree about stupid pre order perks. I don't agree that DOTA is a welcoming game. It never will be. Not ever ever ever ever. [/quote] I agree with that. The entire DoTa playing base, they're rude, unwelcoming, and they resemble crack dens more than anything else.
[quote who="Aractain" reply="6" id="2803189"] Quoting coreimpulse, reply 3 WoW was indeed an accident. Not even Blizzard knew it was going to become such a cashcow. Maybe there's only room for one mmo. They knew it was going to be bigger than everquest, the game they based pretty much everything on. Practicaly "Everquest 2" really. Just they wanted to get rid of some of the dumbass stuff Verant did back then. What
[quote who="acare84" reply="2" id="2803030"]Poor Raven, I really loved their old games. I hope Bethesda will buy their employees or whole company too like id Software and Splash Damage. Activision is really evil. [/quote] I believe most of the original employees have left, and with the recent layoffs at Raven, seems like the team is completely different now.
[quote who="Aractain" reply="2" id="2803126"]Warhammer failed because it was a crap game (couple o good ideas sure, but crap game). Everyone seems to be under the impression that WoW was 'accidently' the biggest (real, not some asia grinder crap) MMO ever. As if half its customers are ready to up and leave at the drop of a worgens top hat! Fools. [/quote] WoW was indeed an accident. Not even Blizzard knew it was going to become such a cashcow. Maybe there's only
Don't know if there are any Raven or FPS games around, but this sounded kinda importnat given Raven's early games. So apparently they're only making DLCs for Activision's main brands namely CoD now. Seems like the end of an era for a previous important studio with several legendary titles.