Magister Lajciak

I didn't manage to find it in the local store today. The earliest next opportunity I will get to buy it will probably be over the weekend. Download is not an option, because I despise online activations, so I will probably have to wait until the weekend at least.

I am going to go to GameSpot today to see whether they have a copy.

The Escapist Magazine Strikes against EA/Securom It's funny! Wow, EA, SecuRom and Sony are really starting to gain a superb reputation with their great DDRM-induced customer relations. :roll:

Yeah, as I said, it turns out I was running something in the background that slowed it down. But I have been so absorbed in King's Bounty: The Legend since then, that I have put Fallout 3 on hiatus until I complete that game (and it is huge)!

Now I have to go and find the review for Assassin's Creed!

OK - it was deleted by the time I looked.

Why? It has been two years. Are you having the same problem or something?

Yeah, that's probably a correct assessment.

Well, I am glad he didn't go mellow on Peter Molyneux!

I agree with you 1000%. Hahahaha, I love this thread. But yes, if the intended meaning of the OP is taken into account, I have to agree that SWOR is the prime candidate for the title.

Some EA/DRM cartoons: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/v...nge-is-Progress http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/v...-of-Limitations http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/v...conomics-Lesson http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/v...-Reconciliation http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/v...es-Who-Love-You

The main playtest of classes has now finished, but playtesting continues for other areas. I think there will be substantial changes to the classes based on the playtest feedback. There certainly were strong hints in this regard. I have also been an incessant advocate of bringing down the power level a notch, so we will see what happens with that.

True - and back to the original topic it is!

! I guess I am lucky it didn't do anything to my computer! Are you sure about this? The full English version of King's Bounty uses SecuROM, but without the limited installations and without the need for online activation, so it is only a disk-check (I know for sure - I bought the full game [bTW: It is excellent!]), but the Russian version does use Starforce (though the DRM has supposedly been completely removed in the latest patch).

I don't know how to react to this. On the one hand, it is a great thing, enabling cheap reliable distributed power and providing a stable power source for remote communities. Yet, I cannot help but think about the huge proliferation issues this may lead to in the long term. It will make access to radiological materials easier, particularly in countries with little-to no security capabilities that might want this most in the first place. It will also probably spread nuclear technology. Once a country buys a reactor, it will want to develop the capability to refuel it itself (and some to build it themselves in the first place) and will thus have an excuse for building enrichment facilities. I don't see this as a rosy development in the area of nuclear proliferation. We will also see how nuclear waste disposal will occur. If sell such a supposedly hassle-free reactor is sold to say the Central African Republic, I have strong doubts that nuclear-waste disposal is going to be dealt with responsibly... I can see the enormous potential of these mini-reactors, but the associated problems could be considerable too. I have not made up my mind yet as to whether the positives or the negatives predominate and this despite the fact that I am generally supportive of nuclear power. Regardless, I do have to say that this is innovative and exciting in the technical/economic sense.

Congratulations on the new rig!

Hmm, I am afraid in that case I don't know what could be causing the problem.

Thanks for all the info on Mass Effect guys! I think we should not really derail the thread with it any further (sorry for starting that in the first place) - this thread is for other discussions after all.

Thanks for the expose. There is another case for releasing on a Friday rather than a Tuesday. Major gaming websites and online gaming magazines are not usually updated over the weekend, so the game is pretty much guaranteed to stay on the front page for three days rather than one!

Yeah, sorry about the shifted railroad junction in the thread, but it was kind of bound to happen with the announcement and all that...

ROFL Some of the newer things the EU has come beat even that... but a good one indeed!

A shame it is not the British legal system. No legal agreement is binding - a EULA for example - if the terms are judged to have been unreasonable. The first of those two cases, as described, would almost certainly be upheld in favour of the plaintiff. Yeah, I think if EA got sued in some European countries, rather than in the U.S., it would be much more likely to lose. Alas, in Slovakia at least, people are very reluctant to initiate lawsuits.

I don't know, but this is the only game from Obsidian that I can't get myself excited about. For some reason, I like a bit of the fantastic (whether that means fantasy or Science Fiction) in my games.

Thanks for the link!

Ouch, but who knows how far these lawsuits will actually get. DDRM is nasty, but the legality of it is another matter.