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Perhaps as made by football hooligans.

Direct comparison of computation power between Consoles and PCs is a pointless effort. Not only are consoles designed to avoid the traditional bottlenecks that hamper PC performance but also allow more direct access to hardware that PC just won't do. Couple that with hardware standardization and you have a far better long-term result than any TFLOP count would indicate.

Next gen heading to always-online. Unsurprisingly publishers will try to push forward where Microsoft failed.

Facts can be manipulated to suit a persons point of view. No. Facts by definition stay the same no matter what your point of view is. You may interpret them however you wish in the larger context but they are something unchangeable.

I hear you, that's probably what happened. I am hoping Steam support will just update my German version with an English one. I am not sure of the logistics but I can't imagine its that hard to do? Since some German versions are specially censored in accordance with local law that may be impossible.

Intresting opinion piece: I’m a little tired of being a murderer I've been having similar reaction of late and have been wondering why. I think it's that technology has progressed to the point where games are so immersive that sheer amount of violence and huge bodycounts hurts the experience.

Seems so. Too bad, I liked Faith's look in the original, not that she looks bad here or anything. The one thing that put me off in that trailer was that it seems that Dice took the route of "we'll fix the horrific combat" rather than "we'll get rid of the combat entirely and let the people do what they really want to do, run". Hopefully with the game being "open world" that will mean every single battle will be avoidable if you're creative and perceptive enough. They are also pushing 'combat always an option'. If anything I would expect that anything but combat will be avoidable.

Polls showed that majority doesn't mind. FWIW they also showed that majority doesn't believe whistle-blowing to be treason.

The general simplification when it came to weapons/moves/combat score and boss fights. The latter got so bad with the pull chains that any form of regular movement was undesirable. Just so I understand what you mean are you saying that using the chain pull strategy made the boss fights too easy? It's not so much that they were easy as shallow. Spamming the same combination of chain pulls allowed you to doge attacks and close distance that would ordinarily require some complex dodging or maneuvering.

The general simplification when it came to weapons/moves/combat score and boss fights. The latter got so bad with the pull chains that any form of regular movement was undesirable.

That sounds extremely unlikely. There are already voices insisting that MS is trying to do a 'tail-end' steam-like business model with Xbox one which should mean cheaper games or at least lower bottom prices. The problem is I don't think anyone trusts MS/publishers to lower prices to a level competitive with used games.

I know you said high profile games, but do you think the recent trend of Kickstarter games being released DRM free on GoG will change this? I really wish Kickstarter could change anything but just don't see that happening. Some people may see it as the start of the new publisher-less golden era of PC gaming. I think it's more of a last minute sell-out of once cherished names and titles before the shop closes doors. Can't say I agree but that issue aside consider this: Steam didn't stop the use of always-online DRM in Diablo 3 and Sim City. The only question now is whether always-online and F2P model are the future of PC gaming.

If you are going to recommend visions of dystopian future I'd say get 'Brave new World' instead. In the future no technologically advanced totalitarianism will need monitoring or repression. It's citizens will simply be incapable of any dissent whether by thought or action.

The only reason steam won out is because there are no high profile DRM-less PC games anymore. If publisher doesn't have their own platform they may as well use steam. It's not a given that the same logic will prevail with consoles as some competition is still happening there.

Learning the habits of potential customers have proven to be very good for business. MS will do it if they think they can get away with it.

What they are saying is that publishers can mandate the same on PS4 that Microsoft demands for Xbox one. This could essentially mean always-online on every game. Sony may defend itself however they want but after E3 announcment most people will expect them to fight that practice.

Supposedly PS4 will have the same DRM as Xbone. If true I wonder will people care.

Why would it need to store everything? Part of the program is direct access to data of services like google/youtube/facebook.

Please remove.

Yes, it has. Does this blow your mind? Not really as it wasn't what I meant and it doesn't change anything. Paper mail analogy aside this is not the same as what modern system dose. You cannot defeat back-doors by encryption. If ECHELON could do that this system would be redundant.

No it has not been going for the last 50 years. The very fact that 'laws' enabling this taping are kept secret by recent regulation indicate as much. Your "it has been done before" argument can be stretched as far as civilization existed. And even if true it completely misses the fact that all traffic has been analyzed and possibly recorded. Unless US government has been opening all foreign mail for the last 50 years it's a major escalation.

I can't believe you think that any such system works. My country has been breaking human rights for a while now and all politicians have to say about it is that discussion of it is 'unpatriotic'. The only people willing to discuss it in open political space are various radicals and extremists.

Everyone who wants the system exposed and taken down benefits from this 'leak'. That covers far more than just terrorists.

Microsoft will need to develop PS4 piracy to have a shot in direct competition. Unless there are some other downsides to Sony that we have yet to learn.

Funny you should mention it. But consider something more relevant to modern times: Some 80 years ago Supreme Court ruled that US government cannot wire-tap phones at will because it would invade privacy and because end cannot justify the means. Today government breaks similar laws outright and it seems that people are actually in favor of this. Maybe it's true that men are tired of liberty.