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Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="487" id="2656926"] Or they won't care because Steam works pretty well for them. There's a large group of people pretty happy to buy games on Steam, and even prefer it to retail (sure is a lot more convenient). For them, Steamworks doesn't matter in the slightest. So long as Steam is working when the game comes out, I don't think there will be much of a backlash at all.[/quote] You're mixing issues. Buying the game on Steam or being able

Reply to Scratch Civ V off my buy list. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

No, they won't notice. Mainly because 99.9% of people who will buy the game will have no idea or won't care because they don't know any better. Most don't hang out on forums like this and actually know what's going on. Most won't know that Steam is required. What will be interesting is to see if there is any backlash on the Steamworks requiremnet *after* launch. Because Civ is very much a single player franchise and there a many, many people that only buy Civ g

Reply to Civ V game discussion in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

My general rule on pre-orders is I pretty much never do it other then Stardock games I want to get in on the beta for. Dragon Age was the first game I pre-orderd outside Stardock and frankly I didn't really need to do that. I was just too geeked up for the next Baulder's Gate (and I've played thru it twice so far). I also almost never buy games on release day...cost too much. I wait at least until they are on sale but most likely I wait for the Game of the Year editi

Reply to Civ V game discussion in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="8" id="2653614"] edited: lol Bonscott posted essentially the same thing using the same terms while I was posting this.[/quote] LOL. [e digicons]B)[/e] Many of the arguments in the thread in the end won't matter to me since I won't be buying the game anyway due to the issue that shall not be talked about in this thread. But to the "consolisation" of the game. We can see this in many games, even if a console version won't

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

[quote who="joasoze" reply="9" id="2654202"]It is interesting to see comments from the Steam people claiming that if they go bankrupt or something similar they will release all the DRMs. As if they will have any kind of focus on that in an extreme situation. They might not even be allowed into their offices. It is also interesting to see people commenting that there is no way Valve/Steam will go belly up. May we remind ourselves of Enron or the more recent problems at BP?[/quote]</

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

[quote who="Bill_Door" reply="11" id="2654324"] Quoting SwerydAss, reply 7Funny I just saw that portal 2 will be using steam on the consoles too. Welcome the drm machine to the console. The monopoly is almost complete. Surely you jest... The lack of a smilie worries me though. I shall have to look into this.[/quote] He does not jest. Valve and Sony announced yesterday at E3 that Steam is coming to the Playstation 3. I weep for this g

Reply to Preorder Shipping in War of Magic Elemental Forums

You can still download the entire game via Impulse right away and be playing before you get the actual box. :D

Reply to Civ V game discussion in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Honestly I haven't like much of anything I've seen about Civ 5 and this enforces that. [quote] [One of our] major goals with Civ V is that the game be accessible to more people than the previous Civ games. The best way to address that is by improving the interface and providing players with new tools for learning the game. [/quote] To me this means they are 1) Dumbing down the game to the least common demonator 2) Developing the game for consoles firs

Reply to Fallout: New Vegas will use Steamworks in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="41" id="2651620"] I'll put AU$100.00 on the table right now saying that it's available for piracy within 7 days of release and that the pirated version works without Steam.[/quote] LOL. 7 days? Try 7 hours. DRM never stops pirates. Having said that I've said before I have no problem with DRM in the game. I hate DRM as much as the next guy but a disk check or even a one time online activation doesn't bother me. What

Reply to [Technical/Graphic Bug] Extremely Blurry when zoomed in. in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Do note that with advanced lighting turned off you can get a "lens flare" type effect a lot as noted in the other thread I posted in.

Reply to Army Competiion: Already Failing in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I personally have stopped bothering with the army game since there is no way I'll ever be top 10, I just can't do all the stuff the others are doing. So I've got some points and frankly that's all you need to be entered in for the random draws. So just one forum post is good enough for that.

Reply to Video Issues: Entire Map Looks Like White Cloud in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

Please add your info and DxDiag to this thread to track this issue: https://forums.elementalgame.com/384162

Reply to [CRASH][Bug/Graphics] Blur, NPC and Research in WOM BETA Builds Elemental Forums

I have the exact same graphical issues with total blur unless advanced lighting is turned off. Turn it off and I get the weird lighting distortion. The screenshots above are exactly what I see so I didn't include any. I also see the menu overlay issue when pulling up the save game menu. ATI 3870 with latest drivers. Win XP with latest patches, 2 gig RAM Link to DXDiag: <a title="Bonscott DxDiag" href="http://www.webcorners.com/elemental/bonscott

Reply to Knowing when to hit 'end turn' in War of Magic Elemental Forums

In Civ there was a small flashing message that said "Press Enter or click to end the turn" or something like that. It is a great indication that there are no more movement left. I'd like to see something like this in Elemental. Or maybe the end turn button glows or something. It's been a while but I don't remember what GalCiv 2 did to indicate it there were no more units to move and to click end of turn button. I personally don't like the auto-turn option

Reply to Fallout: New Vegas will use Steamworks in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

My plan, like I did with Fallout 3 is to wait for a "GOTY" edition that will include all the DLC's and expansions and whatnot and see if it then comes without Steam forced on you. If Steam still is then still no sale. I'm sure Steam will still be required because Steamworks is being built into the game. Like 2K is saying for Civ 5, there is no way to take Steamworks out of the game because the game is being built around it. Thus with Civ it will be the first time in 20

Reply to Elemental army is buged in War of Magic Elemental Forums

On the Digg thing, I dug some old stories that others did and points for mine were rejected while the others weren't. No big deal, just an FYI. Digg, Twitter and forum posts are about the only way I can earn points as I have no skills to do any of the other things like video's and whatnot.

Reply to Fallout: New Vegas will use Steamworks in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="the_hunger" reply="18" id="2644561"]However, I am a huge Elder Scrolls fan, so I really hope that TES V does not use Steam.[/quote] I am now officially VERY worried about this. I'm actually about ready to reinstall Morrowind and check out what new mods are out there for it. If TES V also goes the Steam route I will be really upset by it. I guess I'll just have to live with Morrowind and Oblivion with mods to change the game to make it fresh and hope that

Reply to Fallout: New Vegas will use Steamworks in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="ozo" reply="13" id="2644203"]Considering what shitpile GFWL was... this is an improvement. Of course one can wonder why there must be some idiotic dependency on first place. [/quote] Here's the thing though with GFWL and Fallout 3. All that was required was that GFWL was installed. That's it. I never once ran it, I still don't have an account on it and don't plan on it. All FO3 cared wast that it was just installed. I chose not to use any

Reply to Fallout: New Vegas will use Steamworks in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

You have got to be freaking kidding me. Game after game after game requiring Steamworks. So yet another high anticipated game that I will not buy. I'm about to just give up on all gaming at this rate. Seriously.

Reply to Elemental army problem with people with lots of quests in War of Magic Elemental Forums

No problem for me in Firefox. I just tried in IE 8 as well and no problems either. I have U.S. Windows XP.

Reply to What is the point of the "Army"? - Marketing Genius in War of Magic Elemental Forums

I had a similar feeling of "what the heck is this" but it really is marketing genius. I gets Elemental a lot more Diggs then it would have, spreads the word in Twitter and more. It really is a great idea and I'm surprised that nobody else has done anything similar before. I for one am checking daily now for new digg articles on the game and retweet what I can. Also it may spark me to get on the forums more. Good job!

Reply to Dungeon Siege III is coming from Obsidian Entertainment! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I agree that Impulse needs to get DS1 and 2, maybe as a combo pack for $20 or something. I have my original DS1 install disks but it just won't play on Win XP, crashes. I loved DS1, tried the demo for DS2 and didn't like it as much so I never bought it. I look forward to seeing what they do with DS3. BUT I fear as others do that it will use Steamworks which will then make yet another game a no buy for me. Boy, Steam is saving me a ton of money lately by forcing

Reply to Elemental Army question in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Sounds good. You need any part time help checking this stuff I'll send my resume on over. :D

Elemental Army question in War of Magic Elemental Forums

First off, pretty cool contest and a great way to get people to participate more. Now my question on forum posts, do you really want a quest submission for every single forum post? I'd think that will get a bit overwhelming to manually check. Or will you have a program in the background that will detect forum posts and automatically give credit for them? Thanks!

Reply to Quest & Monster Packs in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Stardock is well known for this with Gal Civ and especially GalCiv 2. They realease TONS of free new content (and did it long before "DLC" was thought of by the likes of EA and such) for a game. Not only as a thank you for buying the game but as an anti-piracy "DRM" so to speak. You make people want to buy the game by giving more and more cool and free content.