taviow

First of all, you have to log into B.net to play the game, regardless of whether or not you want to play single player (with achievements enabled that is, offline mode exists but it disables the achievements). So, technically, they were indeed online. The players who did this have done so to abuse the achievements, which are, well, an online function. If they wanted to get through the campaign quickly or cheat during matches with the AI, they could have done so using the in-game cheats. They used trainers instead. I agree that in single player mode people should do whatever they want, trainers and cheating included. It's all about altering the game files which shouldn't have been done *online* in the first place. But as it stands, I don't have much of an issue with this. Blizzard gave them a 14 day ban, when they could have easily justified a permanent ban, since they can start up online games just as easily as they started up games versus the AI, or the campaign. Also, Blizzard can't possibly tell the difference between someone using trainers in single player without malicious intent and someone who intends to eventually use it online. So they were not banned for cheating during single player. They were banned for using trainers while logged in. Besides, their intention of getting achievements seems malicious enough already, considering you get in game rewards for achievements you've done, that other players can see, such as portraits. When playing online, you see this cheater's portrait, and you end up with the illusion that you're up against a guy who won 1000 matches as protoss/terran/zerg/random.

Chill out people. I don't see how anything could go *wrong* (like AP wrong) here.

I know right? Great news. NEXT UP: BG2!

Then you should play Terran. No thank you, already played through the campaign twice and I never want to play a terran match ever again. Ironically the only recent win I've had is when I switched to protoss accidently. Playing terran or protoss is like building a birdhouse with a decent hammer. Playing zerg is building a birdhouse with your hands while your apartment is on fire and you have to constantly stop to drop water on it. Perhaps I could help. I'm not the best but I'm... alright. I suppose.

Perhaps we're underestimating them now. They say they've barely worked on the engine, about a year and a half focusing on creating the world and quests. I suppose it is possible to make a larger number of quality quests in that time?

I believe the reason is not killing off retail businesses.

Oh god, and it is all my fault. ;_; Please don't punch me in the face.

Yeah all other options were too ****ty to consider. I am glad they didn't change anything. So Obsidian can finally do what they do best, create a compelling world and story.

But my crowning of this thread can't be deleted! Outrageous idea. Hmpf.

And so shall it be. I declare this the official Extra Punctuation thread. ...if I may.

Refer to this, really.

Rumor has it they're releasing the IE games in the order they were released back then. So BG first, PST, and IWD should be next.

For those who bought PST recently, here's an useful blog post. You can skip the CD related steps, of course. As for the tweaks in 5b, well, I wouldn't install them personally. At this point, as a new player, you'd be changing stuff and you don't even know what. Much more important is the widescreen patch and the ultimate fix pack.

No disc check on GOG games.

What about, one of the best games ever?

I've been hearing reports of some anti virus programs detecting Vundo trojan in the demo. What do you guys think of this?

PST on GOG is all I ever wanted. I must commemorate now. spKDSHFUIZ\OJ423PL

Believe it or not it looked just fine on my 20'' widescreen LCD. I opened it and I was like "wtf this actually looks pretty damn fine!"

I recently played through BG1, vanilla, 640x480. Yeah. DEAL WITH IT! ;_;

Because they sometimes hold guns.

It doesn't. It's just the vanilla game without the need for a CD. Still need tutu.

Downloading now. Wondering how it'll run on a lesser system ;_;

Some serious burning going on here. I better run out of here. D:

I am angry because of what they did. I hated it. But I am also happy they're gonna be fine. Can't decide whether I'll be angry or happy. brb figuring it out.

Never heard of them... what did they do? GOG stands for "Good Old Games". They used to sell old games such as Fallout, with support for Windows Vista/7 etc. The GOG version of Fallout was the best. Worked perfectly on my computer, and it also came with the soundtrack, manual, Fallout bible, wallpapers, artwork, avatars etc etc.