Mamoulian War

Um... I'm sure you will have an "Away" or "Appear Offline" function? I realy hope so, anything different is BAD!!!

And according to law of most of the countries EULA has the law value about the same like toilet paper if you cannot read it before you unpack the good... so if you are buying boxed Steam Only games, you are safe to sell your account with them, if they ban you, just file class action lawsuit against them, you gonna win it If you are buying digitaly, it is another case, because most of the time before you purchase any digital download you have to read EULA before you pay for the game... That still does not mean that in some countries are basicaly EULAs, which are not in match with local country customer protection laws, not illegal...

Main point is that there is a reason for Blizzard / battlenet to do this - Starcraft, Diablo and Warcraft are all about multiplayer. If you read the kotaku article there's going to be a lot of ways in which that persistent connectivity is used to improve gameplay. I also don't see anything that says you HAVE to be online all the time while you play? I do not mind at all the all-time online system for multiplayer match-making, but last thing i want when playing singleplayer games, is someone from my WoW friends trying to persuade me to resubscribe... When i do Single Player Gaming, i do always disconnect from net to be sure no one disturbs me with Skype ICQ or any other similar ****... sometimes I even turn off my cell phone to not get disturbed... Offline mode for SC2 Single Player is a must for me... so i most likely wait until someone release some workaround, or even wait for BattleChest to be sure to not pay more money that this system deserves... i waited for SC2 10 years, i can wait 2 more...

And how common is it really to crack a Steam game? Certainly not as high as retail games. And you still combat second hand sales with it. That is even easier to counter than you think... all you need is to make a new owner profile for each game you buy... You sell then whole profile with one game only... Voila the biggest anti second hand sale counter-measure cracked...

hahaha you realy think that Steam is an effective DRM? You would be surprised how easy is to bypass it... I was, when few people, i know told me about LAN party, they've attended just 2 days after Left 4 Dead was released on Steam...

One of the most interesting reads about piracy, made by the person who is in gaming business and is a gamer aswell... I recommend it to read to all of you, because he is one of the few people in the industry who still did not loose touch with his customers... http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AlanYoungbl...ging_piracy.php

According to Blizzard Starcraft 2 will have always connected feature for singleplayer... wheter it will be mandatory (same **** like ubisoft's ****) or voluntarily, is yet to be seen... http://www.starcraft2.com/features/misc/battlenet.xml

Is this just you insinuating your opinions as fact again? *yawn*

did not play Dante, nor i am planing to play it, but watching the videos with similar gameplay, does not automaticaly garant that the gameplay is similar for real... I've seen lot of awesome trailers to games, where gameplay looked godly, but when i touched the gamepad/mouse/keyboard i started to cry...

Sorry to burst your bubble, but books from Divine Comedy are mandatory reading in our Secondary Grammar Schools... At least they were when I was 14... So go insult someone else about their classic illiteracy.

i missed this one, because it was never sold in Slovakia

why not? I have 215 hours played on my current FFXII playtrough, 250 hours on Dissidia and about 40 on Final Fantasy VIII, and i have job, girlfriend, i attend part time university, i go often out to drink some beer, and i post on these forums, if someone wants to have go deep into long game, he can find the time... everything else are excuses

Same with me

That depends, if it will be Steam dependant

Is that positive or negative?

So i read about the game today for the first time O.o, and from what i read i got very excited, finaly a game where your actions have real consequences in-game and should have different gameplay than anything else what is released today... Will it be the new wind in the gaming industry, or will it fail like the previewer predicts... http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/02...ned-to-fail.ars I am willing to risk it and give the game a chance, just to show that some gamers want different stuff to play... what about you? PS: it's PS3 exclusive...

Abuse - Freeware Edition

the sad thing is, that something similar happened in real life... http://www.dailytech.com/British+Copyright...rticle16592.htm

God forbid, we would want to play our games in other time, than that was decided by the INDUSTRY!!!

Real men don't read readme nor manuals!!!

@Nightshape: It will when people notice, that they can't play their games, because snowstorm, their dog or E.T. has eaten their internet cables... and no, pirates and 2nd hand sales did not forced you to go this way, it was only your paranoia and greed... If it were the case, we would be all wearing Nike/<insert your favourite brand> shoes with blood sampler which will ensure that it can be only worn when your DNA matches it record, to ensure that we can't resell them or some naughty chinese bootlegers will not copy them... they are just not that stupid to drive away their customers, like you are doing it... Used sales drive the industry... Upper class buys new originals, middle class sells their used stuff to be able to afford new originals, lower class buys used or bootlegs... Cut off the middle class from their ability to resell and you loose most of your customers... Unless you are willing to sell your games for 10-15EUR... Because in this economic times, paying 50-60EUR for a non-essential good, which can't be used as people wish is ridiculous...

Just behead me, because i am pure evil customer, who wants to control goods which he purchased... what a blasphemy...

I can ask you the sam but the opposite: Why would you waste your time arguing over the use of the term theft instead of the proper name copyright infringement then? when i was a child I was always learned by my parents, to name the things with their proper name, and not to pull them out of my ass, whenever i did lied or pulled some stuff out of my ass which was very different from the truth, i got a spanked...

Quite a few people have hinted at it. then you must be seeing something different, than anybody else...

Name aside, what's the difference? Copyright Infringement: You work on your super secret business project and someone gets into your house copies all your work on his external harddrive, and then release the product as his own, you still have your product, so you can publish your version and compete with the Copyright Infringer with better support, more functions available in the product... You most likely do not get all the money you could when you would be only person in the world with the right to copy your work, but you still can make nice living out of your work and continue to make your product better and better, despite the leak... Stealing: You work on your super secret business project and someone gets into your house and steals your PC, all your backups, including the backup in the cloud, and then release the product as his own, you are ****ed right in the ass, because you lost everything all your code, all your notes you had and possibly go bankrupt... Hopefuly you now understand the difference between Stealing and Copyright Infringement...