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[quote who="Tridus" reply="16" id="2930629"] Quoting Thiryn, reply 15 After Spore I expected to hate it That's why I ignored it up until now. I heard "connected to Spore" and was immediately not interested after how bad Spore was. I wonder how many sales the name alone cost them.[/quote] Yeah, it's one of those rare cases where the franchise name hurts more than helps. People immediately recognize the name...and remember Spore was terrible.

Suddenly my paranoia of only using prepaid cards to buy PSN stuff doesn't seem so crazy. I'll just have to change my password. Others may not get off quite so easily. It's funny because our company is having to jump through hoop after hoop to become PCI compliant, meanwhile Sony apparently has all their customer and credit card information just sitting there in a file or something.

[quote who="kona0197" reply="18" id="2925365"] Quoting lbgsloan, reply 17Yeah, I figured AVG was considered bad these days. A friend of mine has shockingly poor common sense when it comes to the Internet, and AVG completely fails to stop his computer from getting cancer every 2-3 months. Funny. I have been running AVG for years. Never got a virus. [/quote] Like I said, I don't think any AV suite matters if someone is careless; which my friend certainty is. I had no

[quote who="Tridus" reply="24" id="2925328"] Quoting lbgsloan, reply 23Seems like a suckers bet to buy any Valve game at day 1. Not because the game will be bad, I imagine it will be pretty fun, but because it will probably be on sale for 25-50% this summer and 75% off during Christmas. It's a single player game, so there's really no rush to own to day 1 IMO. You could apply that line of reasoning to almost any game, including Sins (where you happen to be posting

I wouldn't touch that with a 40-foot pole. What if you need to replace the mobo? Oops, HDD thinks it's a new system and kills itself. Stick of RAM fails? *BLAM* I don't know how sensitive it is, but even in a business environment never being able to transfer that HDD seems like a serious drawback.

Wasn't there some company years ago that guaranteed they could protect your identity? They were so sure, the CEO posted his SIN; he got his bank account hacked into shortly after. Any security made by a Human can be cracked by a Human. The best you can do is not be stupid and know how to minimize damage when something does go wrong.

Yeah, I figured AVG was considered bad these days. A friend of mine has shockingly poor common sense when it comes to the Internet, and AVG completely fails to stop his computer from getting cancer every 2-3 months. Though in fairness with the amount of careless torrenting he does I'm surprised his system hasn't burst into flames yet, AV or not. Norton should be rated 'bloated trash'. My company used if before I started, and all I can say is that it s

Seems like a suckers bet to buy any Valve game at day 1. Not because the game will be bad, I imagine it will be pretty fun, but because it will probably be on sale for 25-50% this summer and 75% off during Christmas. It's a single player game, so there's really no rush to own to day 1 IMO.

You're lucky you missed Company of Heroes Online. It was a RTS were people who played more got stronger powers and hero units. Needless to say a new account could not beat a max level player regardless of actual skill. It died a miserable failure due to the fact that...well you could just buy the normal version for $5 and have a level playing field.

Easiest way to test it is to try the IP way with a group of regulars at least once and see if the lagging persists. Once that issue is confirmed either way, you might want email Ironclad support or something rather than post it here. I'd honestly be surprised if any of the devs come to this sub-forum.

If this really is true I'm done with Impulse. Gamestop is basically the lowest scum of the retail game industry, and I will not support them or trust them with my digital licenses. I guess Brad figured they will never compete with Steamworks and cashed in while he can. Good for Brad, questionable for Gamestop, bad for everyone else. Guess I'll be picking up The Witcher 2 from GoG.

Are people actually taking this seriously? I guess you should go order that Starcraft motion technology console title they announced too. [e digicons]:|[/e]

Way too obvious AF guys. Gamestop already has their own store with digital downloads, though you'd have to brain damage to support them and their $5-10 markups on everything.

I'm more in the mindset that ICO needs to die entirely, and a new system put in place with proper matchmatching, ladder functionality, and an end to smurfing entirely (ie one account per person). Simply putting new paint on the current ICO system will result in the same dead multiplayer very quickly.

I'm not sure a starbase style upgrade system would be appropriate here; Starbases were designed to be available early on, but can be enhanced as resources allow. The Titans on the other hand strike me as more an end-game thing; more along the lines of a mobile super-weapon you build when you want the game to end. It wouldn't really make sense if you could build them for cheap, but then pour upgrades into them to actually make them the super units they were supposed

All of this is even more funny when you notice that Crytek themselves flat out admitted working for consoles is hurting PC game development. http://gamer.blorge.com/2010/12/03/crytek-video-game-consoles-holding-back-pc-gaming/ It must be a bitter pill for them to have made the Crysis 1 engine, then basically be told to downgrade it so it will work for consoles. Worse, they

Efforts to 'de-consolize' Bad Company 2 were actually made in light of all the complaints from PC gamers over MW2. They used it as marketing opportunity to come out and say, "Hey guys, BC2 is being built from the ground up to have dedicated servers and larger player counts!" You know it's bad when EA makes someone else look evil.

Australia games really seem to get the shaft with this. Sometimes weeks or even months for, as ZehDon said, games that are often available digitally. It really is a rare case of the publishing industry actually encouraging people to pirate, or at the very least screw over local game shops when people just import. Here in Canada they used to have about a 2-5 day delay from US releases, but it has gotten a bit better in the past year. Damn French manuals for games that

I heard NVIDIA was up to their old bribery tricks with this one, paying 2 million to EA to make sure the DX11 patch only works right for NVIDIA cards. I don't really get why NVIDIA is still trying to divide the PC hardware market when console competition is at its strongest, but all they're accomplishing is losing sales from ATI users. And future sales for NVIDIA cards as more people get disgusted with them.

Could something be done about ship movement? Specifically, the insane giant u-turns ships make to turn around while moving? It make often make retreating suicidal as your ships go deeper in for a good 30 seconds before turning around. I would also like to see pacts and envoys rebalanced and made more useful. As it is, it's something to do when you're already winning for some extra bonuses; it's not something anybody would ever concentrate on a

Openly banning people from your forum for critizing your company and/or products is terrible PR, but not outside of reason. Banning people from installing a game they legally purchased for the same reason is catastrophic PR, and heads into questionable legality territory. People who were on the fence about buying it will definitely walk away after seeing proof of nonsense like this. The moderators who decided to handle the negative posts on their forum by flaming back and

Haven't played the game and have no bias either way, but Metacritic user reviews are essentially a joke. Kids rate the game 0 or 10, with maybe a few ignored reviews that actually tried to rate it fairly and give it realistic score. Gamefaqs user reviews still have bias, but at least they have to give more than one sentence reviews to actually back up the rating. They should honestly just take the Metacritic user system down as it has become meaningless. On the flips

Happens in all genres of games, and it's equally stupid no matter where you go. Some people found out how to boost their rating in Street Fighter by playing against their own fake account. Thing is if this person ever actually played someone at their new inflated rank, they would get stomped so hard they would instantly be revealed for what they are (not that they weren't anyway, since people are immediately skepticial of a high rank player with no replays of them in action;

More complexity isn't always better, but significantly less complexity is almost always bad in a strategy game. Strategy gamers tend to crave at least a certain level of complexity. If I want something simple, I fire up something from a simpler genre. 'Dumbed down' and 'strategy' don't mix. I also lol'd hard at EA openly saying 'cutting content' is a good idea. Only EA.

As others have said, big changes at this point simply aren't doing to happen in a Diplomacy patch with the expansion in the works. I'm pretty sure everybody would like to see a major Visari tech overhaul in the xpack to make all their weapons viable, or perhaps leave them as is and make the 'rebel' Visari heavier on other weapon types. However within the scope of a patch now: -Bomber spam does need a fix of some sort. Whether flak or fighters or both get a tweak so