Malcador

Played a bit of Tribes Ascend. Is really fun, nice to know my disc skills haven't rusted up after all these years.

Everything seems working so will grab Ground Control 2, Crusader, Stronghold Crusader, DK2 and Tropico. Might take a gamble on Haegemonia and Runaway : A Road Adventure, anyone have an opinion on either ?

And down they go, bit embarassing. This was on their FB

Empire Earth is free today, as well.

Holiday sale

Tried some more Tropico 3, still facerolling through things so blehh.

Nothing exciting. Generals was fun to play though, so maybe that'll be worth it.

Huh, so it is Generals 2. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-...quer-generals-2

How was I making excuses for thieves by asking about a situation you've admitted isn't thievery. Was out of curiosity.

Pft, authenticity.

Why not bring DRM into the topic though, it is related and not being laser like focused on the topic isn't exactly required here, heh. Besides, then all we'll have are posts with rageposting about pirates (although funny). Hm, so if someone buys a game and then cracks it, that person still an entitled scumbag to you people ?

You scumbag! Heh, probably true, although I think it'd have ended up that way regardless, companies love lock in after all. Kind of ironic that we'll be going back to that in that case.

Got my project done, and am enjoying that post-alpha bliss where it works for the dev tests but probably is broken in horrendous ways. Still though, this feeling is good, rather disturbingly happy at the moment. Now off to the office Christmas party.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/gaming/s...9-1226216184190

I suppose if you can lengthen the time to it takes break it, you might get really impatient people that'd buy rather than wait for the release. Not sure how large a segment that is though, but it is something DRM can do. Outside of cases like Drive or AC:R, heh.

Steam's done pretty well in Russia, from Newell anyway, so I guess DRM that people don't really notice as DRM can work. Well, it's expected.

Thunderthread. Two men enter..

Well, can't put her away with forum posts, heh. Who said exempt from contempt, though ? I just find it funny to read in posts. Guess I can't generate the anger. I'd wager most of the mocking and "poo flinging" comes from their legitimate customers rather than they do from those evil, subhuman people downloading stuff over torrents, Usenet, etc. or the groups making the releases, though. As an aside, similar situation with my company's product. Wouldn't work to pirate it anyway, although there is a joke about our clients being institutional crooks in the first place, heh.

Well, see above. That and, if you're going to post internet vitriol about people, might as well save it for truly scummy people - e.g. lady who scalded her baby to death then went shopping, etc.

It's a waste of effort, maybe.

I recall the OUTRAGE* on the BioWare boards when pirates were able to play ME 2 before the release date. *To be sure, people are outraged there constantly. Heh, I didn't know ME2 got leaked that early. One good thing about Steam I suppose, those are always cracked after release so you don't end up in that kind of situation. As for the harsh language about people pirating games, it's pretty amusing

Well, not much, they've cracked most pretty promptly.

It's the only honourable way out for a forum warrior.

Was also raised in this thread too. Maybe that will be their next idea, jack up the price to account for all their "losses" due to piracy.