[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="54" id="3328497"] Looks like EA is giving a free game to Simcity players. Taking a bit PR page from Stardock. Not something that I would expect from EA at all. What do you all think, too little too late? http://www.ea.com/news/a-simcity-update-and-something-for-your-trouble [/quote] For me it depends which game. It's stupid when
[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="17" id="3328457"] SimCity isn't just service-enhanced though, IIRC. I think you actually run your city on their servers like it was an MMO or Diablo 3.[/quote] Some of the processing is certainly done on their servers (most likely all region related) but I highly doubt the entire city. [quote who="bonscott" reply="18" id="3328461"] Pretty much, you can't save it locally. Basically if you lose your I
[quote who="joasoze" reply="43" id="3328406"] You are not stressed about the small cities? Great for you [/quote] Assuming 300k per city (I don't know what the actual max is) and 16 cities per region (which is more like a real city anyway) that's 4.8 million, right? Doesn't seem all that small.
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="15" id="3328381"] Well, to be fair, I lost the ability to play Dragon's Age when it couldn't connect to a server. It took some fiddling around with to prevent it from happening again. And it's not unlikely that future consoles will have this kind of requirement to stop the resale of games.[/quote] They might ship with a key like PC games (in theory, since the EU might take offense) but I don't think many will be alway
[quote quoting="post"] A console is a different story, because they are designed specifically with gaming in mind. Many PC games now are basically console games ported over to PC format, or they are made with multiple platforms in mind. I own a PS3, and i am impressed with how games play on it. It will be interesting to see what the next gen consoles can pull off. However that still leaves the question of PC gaming, and where it stands now. What happens when the venerabl
[quote who="myfist0" reply="8" id="3328107"] How would that kill PC games as Consoles use constant online DRM and even crappier code that sucks compared to PC? You should hear the screaming at my sisters house when she cuts off net access because of the bandwidth limit, and the lazy brats cant even play single player on the consoles. [/quote] What consoles are you talking about? Neither the 360 nor the PS3 require internet access at all time
I went out and bought it and already played over twelve hours worth so far. It's a fantastic game, and once the server issues clear up it'll be less about the anti DRM diatribe everyone's going on about and more about the actual content of the game.
MSE does have bad detection, and this is coming from a fan of it. But it also has a fantastic lack of false positives. BitDefender goes a little overboard with the network scanning...it affects legit programs (The Secret World launcher for one example) pretty obnoxiously and I couldn't find a way to fix it without disabling features. The free version no longer silently and unrecoverably deletes, and unlike MSE it supports my WHS2011 box so I stuck it on there.&nbs
[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="21" id="3328093"] Quoting Savyg, reply 19Considering iirc the original statement only said they have the ABILITY to do microtransactions in all their games, I wouldn't call it a retraction. Just a poor initial choice of words.Good point. It still doesn't exactly sound like a good thing (why put in the ability to make microtransactions if they aren't going to bilk people?), but it's not as disastrous as I suspected.[/quote] Because peo
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="18" id="3327654"] Statement retracted http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-03-06-ea-cfo-backs-off-microtransactions-in-all-games-statement [/quote] Considering iirc the original statement only said they have the ABILITY to do microtransactions in all their games, I wouldn't call it a retraction. Just a poor initial choice of words.
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comics, eh? huh. Ultima Dragons more fawn over how awesome Ultima 7 was and that nothing these days even comes close while I roll my eyes at them.
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[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="21" id="3327807"] 3. Interact politely with other, similar life forms. [/quote] Erm, but I do this on the internet. Here. Other forums. Weyrmount. Why are Ultima Dragons still a thing? Ultimas dead, get over it [e digicons]:-"[/e]
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[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="21" id="3327807"] 1. Turn off the computer. 2. Go outside. 3. Interact politely with other, similar life forms. 4. Repeat often.[/quote] Well, today the servers have been down for like nine hours so I could've done that [e digicons]*_*[/e] I played Crysis 3 and Tomb Raider instead.
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Geebus, I'm becoming obsessed with SimCity. Someone help me ;)
[quote who="AgentExeider" reply="415" id="3326875"] and also more importantly, upgrading to Windows 8 pretty much turns your system into a walled garden platform, this critisicism is shared by the likes of Gabe Newell - Valve, Rob Pardo - Blizzard, and Markus Person - Minecraft, who out of protest refuses to make Minecraft work on Win 8. [/quote] Except that it still runs every other Windows app fine, so does nothing of the sort. And Minecraft works fine in Win
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[quote who="starkers" reply="4" id="3326628"] I couldn't manage even two hours straight on my PC. I need to get up and move around every 30 minutes or so, otherwise my joints and muscles seize and I stiffen up too much.... arthrits/fibromyalgia. [/quote] I'd think people who die from it are usually the kind of people making money off it. If they need the money, they'd be more inclined to do stupid things to make it. I ca
Android 4.1 and up are fun. The old stuff is crap.
We can and will disagree on that til the end of time :) I must sleeps.
[quote who="Jafo" reply="399" id="3326593"] I am pretty sure I have said from 'day one' that Win 7 was the FIRST MS OS they actually got right. It was/is certainly the first one that actually WORKED.[/quote] You very well might have, and I know I did, but it certainly had its naysayers.
[quote who="Jafo" reply="396" id="3326581"] You were apparently attempting to negate findings re Vista by comparing flawed predictions surrounding XP, underminimg potential confidence [other than 'probably'] in current assertions that Win 8 is flawed. Yes, I read quite well...[/quote] What I was actually implying is what you said about Impulse. Very little is well received at launch in the software world.
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[quote who="starkers" reply="2" id="3326360"] The Internet Will Be Able to Kill You by 2014 There's idiots who already do that to themselves. I read recently of two people who died after marathon bouts of on-line gaming. Beats me how anyone could play an online game for 26 - 28 hours straight... apparently with no food or toilet breaks... any kind of break. That's totally nucking futs [/quote] I've done ten hours IIRC.&nb
[quote who="Jafo" reply="394" id="3326474"] Since Frogboy has been 'proven right' re Vista's actual success....but someone on ZDNet was 'proven wrong' about similar predictions for XP does not determine that Frogboy is going to be wrong about Win 8.[/quote] I don't think Eds sources were at ZD, but they could be since he does occasionally take a swipe at them (and I can understand why, they're occasionally idiots.) Also, I never sai
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="383" id="3326398"] I'm sorry you're not much of a customer anymore. [/quote] As to that, I suppose I was far more of one when you had Impulse so it's only natural. Ah well :)
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="383" id="3326398"] Except that I first have to launch the desktop or some other app to get back to the Windows 7-like desktop. Are you saying you won't even concede that's a bit annoying? Like what? I've read this whole thread and the only conceivable advantage I've seen listed for Windows 8 is that the Start screen allows for faster launching of apps since they're already on the screen. That's a pretty small b
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="379" id="3326298"] You didn't "prove" anything wrong. All you did is show multi-step workarounds for things at we're quicker in Windows 7. Workarounds I already knew of and use.[/quote] In one instance you said they were many more steps than 7, and when you use the search by just typing those steps are gone...it's the exact same as 7. I could also point to many instances where there are far less buttons pressed than 7, but I a