Mamoulian War

What's wrong with Steam as DRM though? This isn't exactly Starforce we're talking about here. That's like saying there's no benefit to programming languages since you can code everything in binary, or no benefit to cars since you can walk everywhere. Steam makes doing things you could do before easier. Also I thought you were all about competition so how is another program doing something a current program already does a bad thing? Why you can not accept that some people are having issues with program running in the background and having all of their games under one account, which can be hacked, and than having troubles with customer support... We do not force you to stop using Steam, if you love it, so stop us forcing to use Steam, if we do not like it... Having more options is good, having only one option, is bad... mkay? I still have not working Counter-Strike (it was retail copy which I purchased before Steam even existed, but with 1.6 they forced us all to go the Steam only route), because somebody stolen my key with keylogger and registered it with their account (I was young and stupid and did not have a clue about viruses and how to defend against them at that time)... And customer support was not willing to help me...

Hell yeah, all of you have to pay for my maximum convenience!!

And copy paste from another thread... Which is cool, I really don't have a problem with people liking steam, my problem is pretty much entirely with steamworks as I have a problem with the unlevel playing field, shift towards lock in and closing of an open platform, all of which are ultimately very large problems. The rest is just frustration at, well, steamtards. The sort of people who celebrate lack of choice because the only choice is one that they like. If I were appointed God For A Day I'd never in a million years do the reverse and wave my hand to make steam disappear yet many steam fans would clearly be happy to force everyone to use steam just because they like it and anyone with other preferences can go asterisk themselves, an attitude that for anything other than steam would be widely deplored. It's unimaginable that you'd get hordes of people advocating only one flavour of ice cream or milkshakes or one make of car or one television provider, yet only one flavour of PC game supplier? OH GOD ITS HEVAN, to quote the great philosopher ~aphatmc. Anyway, bored now, next steam rant in 60 days. What exactly is so bad about Steam though? You can still mod games, still play offline, hell it doesn't even limit people playing the same game on the same account at the same time (as long as one is playing offline). About Steam as a distribution model is nothing wrong, the problem is Steam as DRM, because people who do not like some "features" of Steamworks do not have possibility to play Fallout: New Vegas on PC for example...

And this is the reason, why I do not like Steamworks, why in the hell you have to download 30GB from the internet, when you just bought the disc?

I never had PSX, but I have tons of PSX games, and I like to have possibility to play my stuff on one box, you know, my living room is unfortunatelly not inflatable... Therefore I am playing my PSX and PS2 games mainly on my PC... My old PS2, DS, PSP, Wii, Atari 800XL, PC 386DX40, PC 486DX4-133 are still functioning without flaws...

Which is cool, I really don't have a problem with people liking steam, my problem is pretty much entirely with steamworks as I have a problem with the unlevel playing field, shift towards lock in and closing of an open platform, all of which are ultimately very large problems. The rest is just frustration at, well, steamtards. The sort of people who celebrate lack of choice because the only choice is one that they like. If I were appointed God For A Day I'd never in a million years do the reverse and wave my hand to make steam disappear yet many steam fans would clearly be happy to force everyone to use steam just because they like it and anyone with other preferences can go asterisk themselves, an attitude that for anything other than steam would be widely deplored. It's unimaginable that you'd get hordes of people advocating only one flavour of ice cream or milkshakes or one make of car or one television provider, yet only one flavour of PC game supplier? OH GOD ITS HEVAN, to quote the great philosopher ~aphatmc. Anyway, bored now, next steam rant in 60 days. What exactly is so bad about Steam though? You can still mod games, still play offline, hell it doesn't even limit people playing the same game on the same account at the same time (as long as one is playing offline). About Steam as a distribution model is nothing wrong, the problem is Steam as DRM, because people who do not like some "features" of Steamworks do not have possibility to play Fallout: New Vegas on PC for example...

If you do not care about your old stuff, it is your problem and says a lot about your personality... I have lot of PS1 and PS2 discs which do not have single scratch on them, and I am still playing them on my PC, PS2 and PS3...

In a ideal world, you would put into PS4 your original PS1, PS2 or PS3 game, and it would immediately launch from cloud... I doubt that this will ever happen...

The presentation made me for a first time in a long history to hate square enix... Hashimoto: "there will be new final fantasy title for PS4, but we will announce it at E3, move along..."

At least you are suggesting that they keep picking it back up Hi Melk I like Bioware and despite all this "Bioware Bashing" I guarantee you that almost every person on these forums who claims to dislike Bioware and that there games are sub-par will play Dragon Age 3 when its released. Mark my words Not me My last Bio game was Jade Empire, and I am proud about it And I am also proud that I own every single PC Bio game, expansion pack and DLC up to Jade Empire, all were excellent games, even thought hey were not all my cup of tea... After they sold out to EA, I just found another companies which provides me with high quality products. Thankfully there is enough companies which offer quality gameplay, instead of idea of broadening the audience...

I run as an introduction for my friend the First steps series of PFS, they have really enjoyed it, but is it normal to play 4 hour designed adventures for 8+ hours for completely new players to PnP gaming, or is our group the prime example of suck-fest? I would like to ask as well which Pathfinder Adventure Path would you recommend me for new players... I have atm Council of Thieves, Kingmaker, Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition and Serpent Skull... I am willing to buy more and I have no problem of converting Adventure Paths made for 3.5 edition into PFRPG edition... Any advice appreciated, thank you...

The truth is, that you can romance your left hand in this DLC!

I did understand from the interview, that Sony is still not willing to talk if they will block their own published games or not, yet... as I see it, I would bet, that they will allow they first party games used if you pay some fee... something like online passes which they used in Uncharted 3, White Knight Chronicles 2 etc etc... Every other publisher will have the choice to block it or not... And I am willing to bet my ass on EA, Ubi and Capcom blocking used games for PS4... Edit: And I think as well, that modding of consoles will be very profitable business this generation...

Althougth I think that FPS games are epic ****e and fail, I commend the guys who finally found, that it is possible to create more than brown and grey colors with the next gen console developers kits...

More info about PS4 and used games... http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/02/sonys-yoshida-playstation-4-wont-block-used-games/

Unfortunately it will be anticipating and predownloading of your next purchase... people with limited bandwidth will love this feature... especially in the cases when the algorithm completely misses your gaming tastes...

Hopefully the personalization **** can be turned off...

Still would be nice, if someone with enough courage in SEGA would give this project green light again.

Thats why I do not support companies with such behaviour, there is plenty of awesome games available DRM free without the need of online passes and with great storytelling...

Hmm I can really recommend to you to try it out, if you have a possibility to borrow it or rent do it, if you like that kind of stuff buy it... The game is really big adrenaline rush and can you drive crazy lot of time, not many people's cup of tea, but I really enjoyed it to the max... But, tbh for som reason I liked much more Demon's Souls...

Okay thx, then I would I missed it as I pledged $100 And I think it was in the digital only tier? Not sure about that...

/jealous

Yes we do, we share common sucky game distrubutors as well :D And no offense taken

Why not order it online?! Don't be nasty, you know they don't have the Internet in Slovakia ? I ordered it online... but my stupid mistake, it was from slovak shop, which got supplied 1 box in total from that retarded distributor... game.co.uk sold out and amazon got ridiculous prizes atm for me... even though I would buy it now from UK, it would come in 10 days soonest...

Bah stupid distributors for our country imported like 5 boxes of Ni No Kuni all sold out in like 15 seconds after opening sales... That happens when their Sales Executives knows **** about game preferences here... Have to wait another 2 weeks for the second shipment... Meanwhile started after big break to play League of Legends...