EmperorPalpatine89, Sorry to say but you spouted so much nonsense in your post that it's tough to only look at the reasonable points you made there. "We have defined the words Peace, Celebrate and Happy, and have defined the words Slaughter, Kill, and Annihilate." -Okay i get it, jesus (for instance)
Only excuse here to kill someone without being a crime is self-defense. From what i can tell, in the US it also includes property defense. And i'm giving an example of different values between 2 western countries. If you compare what is considered right/wrong or good/evil between western countries and eastern (or christrian vs muslim) you'll see that what we take as universally true, is only universally true in our medium, which doesn't make it less valid.
It was common for roman men around 30 to marry young girls around 12. That would be a crime in my country nowadays, marriage or no marriage (people younger than 14 having sex with adults - over 18 - is considered to be a pedophile act). Is being a pedophile in such scenarios (30 with 12) evil? Nowadays yes. Back then no. --- Is killing someone who's trespassing in your lands evil? In the US no (or so i hear), over here it is indeed evil and a crime. -
[quote]It is NOT a campaign. As easy and tempting as just doing a scripted campaign might have been, we wanted to make a single player experience that people would want to play again and again.[/quote] Hopefully, the "NOT a campaign" campaign won't be as weak as sins of a solar empire's "much more than a standard campaign".
If it was right to charge everything again because you lost the physical media of your rightfully purchased software, i believe we would have seen a lot of much lower quality CDs in the stuff we pay for... Concerning the burguer software, i'm not sure that when you get a Big Mac, you paid for the license to use it in your organism until it gets assimilated :S
Nominal prices in euros are equal as nominal prices in $ (often even for digital distributions). that says everything about the who has the most power to fix prices in the supply/demand curve. What people don't understand is that "each" game is a monopoly on itself, as such, the publishers have much more power to define prices that what would be good economic outcome. (more isn't necessarily better). As such, no amount of piracy or lack thereof will ever have any signi
Well, right or wrong are "generally" cultural values and not absolute values. Talking about right or wrong, i bought sins of a solar empire and i didn't like it (no time to play multiplayer unfortunately), is it right that i can't get my money back for something I didn't like?
The store paid for the copy (and thus loses money while publishers get the money anyway) and when you download it no one paid for it (both the store and the publisher don't make money BUT they don't lose anything)
But not paying taxes is also a crime too, if i'm forced to buy something from abroad so that i don't "steal" from the one who should get payed, i'm effectively a criminal for doing contraband. So, i'm a criminal if i buy it, and i'm a criminal if i don't buy it.
I said "download a game you couldn't have bought" (or paid for) And i add, is it theft when you couldn't have bought it either even if you wanted? Cause i mean, over here games tend to arrive over 3 months later so if there's no way to get it paying, it can't be called stealing... Another grey area: Imagine I could have bought a digital distribution from the US, but cannot buy a digital distribution or physical copy where i live (and pay the adequate taxes to my govern
Is it piracy to download a game you couldn't have bought? (ie the game isn't for sale in your country)?
[quote]So why is should we pursue ppl who download stuff, and don't pursue ppl who consume or are addicted to drugs?Drug addiction is far worse for the society than "virtually" hurting game developers/movie industry/music industry's income. Drug addicts [mostly] hurt themselves...if they are silly enough then good luck to them. Piracy on the other hand hurts others...and NOT the pirate As to the 'we' ....druggies, etc has no relevance to either this
I always find it funny this sort of crucification of people who dowload pirated games generally done at game developers forum's. It's obvious that if people don't download them, games will stop being pirated (well not really but we can do this simplification for this specific scenario). It's also obvious that if you arrest all drug addicts/consumers, trafficking will stop (this one effectively in all scenarios). So why is should we pursue ppl who download stuff, and do
Smart exception doesn't work properly on vista 64 (i think). The game crashes when alt + tabbing with windowed is when it doesn't fully auto + tab. That is when i alt tab to an msn window that doesn't cover the full window, so i guess there's some issue with the screen refreshing. I also get occasional crashes on turn processing. Auto-attack is mostly bugged too, ie it attack one enemy and then it freezes, you need to click on teh fleet for it to proceed to the next target (tho
Everything up to date etc. (as in last week) Obviously TOA doesn't crash to the point it's unplayable, only to the point it's annoying.
The amount of fanboyism in this forum is impressive. The least you can say is that that image was deceptive advertising. --- This is the thing that bothers me about computer gaming. You can't just get something cause you think it might be cool (either because someone advised or you read a cool review about it, or just simply cause it sounded promising) you HAVE to research all about it. For someone who doesn't frequent these forums it would be easy to be fooled by
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I have no idea how to post images correctly, sorry. Also, the planet that has an area around visible, is in the same situation as the otehr ones, no idea why i can see in that one, but not around arcea. I also have sensors +1 (the tech)
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In a game i'm playing, 2 races surrendered to me (arceans and Altarians) and i don't see the area around their planets. Later on i gave a couple of the planets to someone else, and i keep seeing what's around them. [URL=http://img211.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bugsm8.jpg][IMG]http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/9996/bugsm8.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] <img src="http://imagesh
you have to go to totalgaming to buy with tokens, but the page seems to be down ATM
don't forget to check whether you have your cpu running at full steam or not (balanced or high performance energy scheme)
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In my country there's a law that forbid selling stuff below the money they cost to make (specially in what comes to agriculture goods and such) and the reason for that is simple, it's no conspiracy. In certain markets the retailer is the force that can influence offer and demand the most and thus the retailer can easily sell stuff for very low prices and then force their suppliers to sell them stuff for less. The result is that they can pretty much decide the price of things while not s
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[quote]Pirates still try to get support, wasting our time and making delays for legitimate users. With the large number of people getting the game, this is a very real issue.- If cracks are needed, pirates may experience issues that legitimate users do not, due to sloppy cracks.[/quote] People asking for support for a game they didn't pay (or anything else for that matter) should get shot on sight :D
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A digital copy of any software downloaded from a server or any p2p method that doesn't incur a bandwidth cost for the developer or the publisher can't be called stealing because neither of those lost anything. (i'm not saying it shouldn't be a crime) Saying that it can't be a crime isn't very reasonable either, look at books. Basically what all publishers do is to reproduce the same text(s), would you say it's right to get a copy and reproduce it yourself making it so that the publisher
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I do believe that linking a game's content to the internet and requiring a valid serial is the way to go for anti-piracy PC gaming, but it doesn't necessarily need to have a multiplayer portion. Look at Galciv2, it gets constant updates that change/improve a lot of stuff and if you don't have an original copy you'll have to sweat to find the cracks mostly because most if not all pirate release groups don't bother with repeatedly cracking the same game just because a new patch that adds
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