Mamoulian War

That doesn't make it a single player game. While I don't like DRM, I think that this actually has some benefits, unlike the limited activation thing. Such as persistent stats and whatnot. the stats are not worth the loss of the ability to play it anytime you want, even if your ISP has some technical fault...

Having to be online to play is better than having a limited number of activations. Until they turn off the server... software with limited activation can be used after that, untill you reinstall your PC, or you use some less conventional means (you know what i mean ) But online only Single player game??? nothing will help you ever unless you are so pro that you buy yourself a computer and set up there fully functional cracked virtual server so you can play the game after big shutdown... i never thought i would say it but i take limited activation game over online only any day... in our country it is legal to circumvent DRM for product you purchased legaly... I somehow doubt that this won't get cracked, and you won't be needing a virtual server for that. Also, It's not a single player game. You can play it single player, but it also has co-op and vs modes, it's like Left 4 Dead. It might be very strange for you, but C&C games were always Single Player games for me

Having to be online to play is better than having a limited number of activations. Until they turn off the server... software with limited activation can be used after that, untill you reinstall your PC, or you use some less conventional means (you know what i mean ) But online only Single player game??? nothing will help you ever unless you are so pro that you buy yourself a computer and set up there fully functional cracked virtual server so you can play the game after big shutdown... i never thought i would say it but i take limited activation game over online only any day... in our country it is legal to circumvent DRM for product you purchased legaly... I realy wish it will be something different than new sort of DRM mechanism... but i am realy sceptic about it... We'll see when it comes out. I'd like to think that they learned something from the whole Spore spectacle. I realy hope every publisher learned from that spectacle aswell

That's so 2008, man. What new game has limited activations? Even Bioware dropped the DRM on Dragon Age. Over here PC games cost around $50-$60 and console games cost $90-$100.(converted) DA is not released yet... And with the current stunt pulled by EA on C&C 4 i would not be surprised if DA will be "online only" aswell... Ubisoft is in making of new "antipiracy measure" aswell... i am realy curious what that will be... I realy wish it will be something different than new sort of DRM mechanism... but i am realy sceptic about it...

Yeah I buy all my games in the UK by post... Because even old games like Metal Gear Solid 4 or Devil May Cry 4 still cost here about 2500 old SKK (aprox 82 new EUR) which is totaly retarded and people are still wondering why is piracy so common in ex-communistic countries...

how does it play btw? tbh i never ever played with Bard (not even in group) in 3.0 & 3.5 based CRPGs... But i loved them in 2nd edition games...

Mass Effect is out already... That's been cancelled. So true and yet also so sad. Yeah i know

Final Fantasy Dissidia Final Fantasy XIII Final Fantasy versus XIII Gran Turismo 5 God of War III Alpha Protocol Alien versus Predator 3 Aliens RPG Starcraft 2 (if they patch LAN into the game or I just wait for the BattleChest) Diablo 3 (see above)

Problem with 1.22 is that AoE spells cast by your party does not damage your party even on highest difficulty... 1.23 has problems only if you have external USB CD/DVD-ROM... if you dont have, i recommend it to apply asap, many fixes for game in there aswell!!!

my current SoZ playthrough Strongheart Halfling Rogue/Shadow Thief of Amn/Invisible Blade Gray Orc Cleric/War Priest Duergar Fighter/Neverwinter Nine/Dwarven Defender Rock Gnome Wizard/Arcane Scholar of Candlekeep And I played OC and MotB with pure Wizard

Yeah OC is pretty much the weakest campaign of the whole pack, i was kinda dissapointed about it when i played it for 1st time, but at the end i had my share of fun So dont stop to play and if you want more fun, don't make yourself powerful character and make some "in-house rules" for yourself, like only 1 rest allowed per dungeon (that for example made the game more fun for me at 2nd playthrough )

In OC you can't multiclass your companions, with exception of Khelgar Ironfist, after he finishes his Monk quest...

I've never heard of that, but I don't know why Blizzard is tying it to LAN, since they could just, y'know, fix b.net instead. to much hassle

connecting to battle.net with hammachi running in background is impossible... (if it is not blacklisted, it might be possible to solve with port forwarding) you can't connect to battle.net without real cd-key... but you can connect to battle.net with pirated w3, if you did download the real cd-key aswell, key generator is useless, because it guess the real cd-key maybe in 1 out of 1000 attempts... but two same cd-keys can't connect to battle.net at same time...

Starring Vin Diesel as Rend Blackhand!!!

to much money involved in it nowadays, so they rather cut it and make more shiny graphics or more voiceovers

You should try to socialize outside of facebook/twitter/whatever... maybe you will find that playing against real friends face-to-face and speaking to them while doing BBQ in the garden is indeed fun...

Uh, because they are special encounters meant to be discovered only by characters with exceptional luck? And MZ is special encounter meant to be encountered only by people who purchase the newest DLC... i don't see a difference...

useless for you, but i still enjoy LAN every time we play it, and we are all of us at different skill levels... we just random the teams ... 1v1 is not for LAN for sure, but 3v3 - 5v5 games or FFA is the best stuff ever... War3 is the game for us atm, and looks like it will be the game for us for even longer

Never heard of that before, sounds crazy. How can they stop you from using a router/switch? Anyway, who carries their computer around anyway? Just play from the comfort of your own house with voice chat? If i am correct ISP can find that you are illegaly using router with deep packet inspection... And none of my friends bring computers to my LAN... all of them bring their notebooks/laptops... 1.5 - 3kg to put in car and drive 2-3 km just to get some action was never a problem... we are all about 30 years old and we still love LAN more than playing over internet with teamspeak or ventrilo... you know drinking beer over ventrilo is pretty much retarded and that is one of the very "social" parts of LAN gaming

This. People need to whine about more important stuff. See, this attitude pisses me off. You spent most of your time with the campaign. That was the draw for you. That's fine. But because I spent most of my time playing 8 player LAN matches with friends, my opinion and wants are somehow less important than yours? Who said it was less important? I was just agreeing with Morgoth... The only difference is that everyone needs a copy of the game and your network will have to be connected to the internet. The everyone-must-have-a-copy thing has been around for a while now. That is the biggest problem... as Magister Lajciak said, there are many ISP in my country which do not allow to connect more than 1 PC itno their internet unless you pay higher programme... That in other words means, that if you bring a router and connect 7 your friend into your internet account there is high probability, that next month you get penalty of around 1000 EUR for breaking the rules of your connection... No LAN for SC2 is aswell no buy for me unless they release the SC2 Battlechest with all Single Players Campaingns in a single box... Diablo 3... i still have to think about it... i actualy never played Diablo 2 on LAN nor batlle.net so this might not be an issue for me... SC and War was in 95% cases pure LAN game for me with 4 to 10 people in one place on almost daily basis...

on a scale from 0 to 10 the EA download store is on -64

curently in big boredom having fun only with Final Fantasy IV on Playstation 2, Crisis Core on PSP and DotA on PC... hopefuly i will have new NWN2 patch this week...