Gift option is nice , I did not knew about it in SCD - how you can do it ? I guess it can be applied only to not yet activated games, right ? Anyway , see thats another way distributor can be "nice" towards customers (and generate more income on the way :))
[quote] ... if your argument is that Stardock should be more clear about not being able to transfer licenses ... [/quote] It is , as for "knowledge base" - how many people look there ?
[b]Jafo[/b] [quote] Surely people can differentiate between a 'hard copy' and a download. I know I can. The former is a shiny disk thing in a box....the latter is a phoneline preoccupied with obtaining data for minutes/hours from that Internet thingie... [/quote] That's exactly what I am talking about , most people view it exactly like you described , however my entire point is that's not all the differences. [b]Philly0381[/b] I can't make a head or tails
And another thing , I am not sure it's a bug of feature but feels like a bug to me: - When you have ship or fleet located on same place as starbase sometimes if enemy attack the starbase gets to fight , sometimes this fleet. And I was unable to understand the logic, sometimes totally defenseless starbase gets to fight and destroyed despite huge fleet "sitting" on same tile with it.
Ok , more bugs and details :) Sometimes "Next turn" become "SKIP" button but acts exactly as "Next turn". In case of problem 2 ("next turn" disappears completely) reloading game once does not help , however reloading it twice one after another solves the problem - hope it gives you hint on how to fix.
[b]Philly0381[/b], [b]Frogboy[/b] : [quote] ord KiRon you are stating that you feel there are problems in the way Stardock handles protection of their software from illegal distribution ... [/quote] You absolutely wrong. Either I do not express myself clear enough or you did not read it well enough :) My "problem" is that there is "hidden" approach shift within Impulse that most of the customers used to buy hard copies are not aware of. From their perspective it
k, got the following bugs so far: 1. Once Dreign declared war on me with empty message. (I understood it was declaration of war on next turn where I saw it in a news log). 2. "Next turn" disappeared once after reload of game, strasngly enough another reload fixed the issue. 3. Space miner in "Improvment standby" mode (when all mines are built) does not resume mining if "Mining" technology researched. You have to click manually "stop auto" and then it starts upgrading mi
[b]KarmaGirl[/b] [quote] o, though you can sell the hard copy, the person who buys it can't actually register it [/quote] True but before digital distribution "SCD/Impulse type" appeared nobody cared since registration in most cases gave you nothing - you could still get support with serial number etc. Now it does makes a real difference . Also I am sorry I did not kept a link on that EULA issue - it was not too interesting to me :) but the main ideas were that
It's was same with me and first GalCiv - got it, played couple of weeks, bought it , bought every GalCiv game/addon ever since :) Too many bad games on the market, so you first have to try it then buy it.
Last beta still have bugs, hope gamma/final will fix them.
On the topic: http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Microsoft-to-stop-authorising-songs-bought-on-MSN-Music.html Who can promise something like that will not happen with Stardock/Impulse ?
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It probably means he does not know himself without looking in the code :)
Ok, got the following bugs so far: 1. Once Dreign declared war on me with empty message. (I understood it was declaration of war on next turn where I saw it in a news log). 2. "Next turn" disappeared once after reload of game, strasngly enough another reload fixed the issue. 3. Space miner in "Improvment standby" mode (when all mines are built) does not resume mining if "Mining" technology researched. You have to click manually "stop auto" and then it starts upgrading mines.
Yes MoM style combat is a great thing. Why to invent something new when old is ideal ?
[quote]Clicking 'accept' on an EULA is legally arguable that you have read and understood the terms of that EULA, so NOT reading it exposes you to ALL sorts of fun.... ...and liability.... Read them....[/quote] I remember some research couple of years ago that found that about 90% of EULA (including Microsoft's) are not totaly legal and wouldn't stand trial in most of the cases/states. So indeed really "funny" can happen in both directions :)
Two words: ITS NOT :)
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[quote]Hard copies are much harder to replicate than a pdf.[/quote] Reasons are clear no argument here but it still does not means problem does not exits, that's why I started this thread - as psychiatrists say "admitting that problem exist is a half way solving it" :)
Indeed , check the eBay and "second hand software" shops. Anyway I also understand why StarDock operates this way , but StarDock is not the issue here, the issue is much broader thing. I started this thread mainly to start discussion on the topic, I do not have simple solutions as well. I also really wanted Frogboy to comment if possible at some point. So far I saw his as a very reasonable and fair person and I am sure when preparing "major industry change" he should
You missing the point guys . As I said I LOVE online distribution , it's quick it's easy it... many good things :) However the problem is (at least as I can see it) that it causes users unwillingly to gave up their rights, rights they have when they used to buy hard copy. May be even this is OK as long as user KNOWS what he doing. But usually he does not. And thats a big issue here. It's a same thing like with electronic books - legally you could sell your hardcopy
The digital distribution idea is great , I really love it but there are unnoticed strings attached that make it worse then buying DVD in store : With DVD (yes retail one , the one with annoying protection etc) you can : 1. Sell it. 2. Give it to someone else. 3. Even pass it as heritage :) The Impulse and SDC accounts are personal - you can't sell your game , you cant land your game and surely no one can inherit it af
I can give you one reason why its BAD for gaming - games crash . Simply games that runs fine under XP - crash. I do not know is it NVIDIA driver to blame or something else but this one reason beats 1,000 "why it's good" reasons.
I guess I was a part of "big move" after many people got disappointed with MoO 3 and looked for alternative which was GalCiv back then. I wander what other "waves" of users this forum (StarDock) had ?
At least UI play beta with them for couple of months already :)
All this Demigod stuff does not sounds too attractive to me but I guess it will find it's auditory.