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We discussed this before - console piracy is not on the same scale as PC piracy. And that's largely because it's far more complicated and carries greater consequences.

That's pretty much the case with majority of activation-based DRM. Change enough components and you need to reactivate.

From what I understand the problem was that SOPA allowed blacklisting sites for a mere suspicion of copyright infringement. But I agree that the opposition to it makes a poor impression. Not only are they in vast majority interested parties but also seem to value petty insults over meritorical discussion.

that's easy to explain. the majority of "pirates" are schoolkids that don't have the means to pay for a game online. they buy games in stores from time to time but the realization that they can get any game for free, for 12-16 year-old kids... anyway, the point about pirating demos is also correct. it's habitual. they tend to check their favorite torrent trackers for all gaming news. so as soon as something pops up, they only need to press the DL button This is a biggie, more importantly the part of them having no means to pay for a game online. I suppose the sellers could start promoting kids to start stealing their parents Credit Cards and using that, but I think that would create more problems then are already in existence. Honestly I'm quite surprised that this is still a problem. I know a lot of local services that can be used without any real age-checks by cell phone transactions. Then again maybe expecting the youth to sacrifice so many SMSes is unreasonable.

All game reviewers should in theory rate at least graphics objectively. In practice they just decide on the overall score and then write made-up nonsense in all the categories that were supposed to be the 'objective' basis for it.

What games would be canceled if true? IIRC they were working on 40k/WoD MMOs and publishing everything made by Volition/Relic. And how dose the South Park game look in light of this?

You can find the rulebook free on the internet. (including GW own site) Dose this legendary edition force a 3rd party DRM? I remember that the first edition did that and it didn't have the best reputation for reliability.

That claim is false. No it's not. Of course they would. In fact they would seek ways to make even more of them. Mind you - right now they don't need to. But then they had no idea how much money licensing tournaments would bring. About the sales figure - keep in mind half of it is Korea. Anything Starcraft could sell at least a million there. Compared to other high profile exclusives Starcraft 2 sold below expectations. Blizzard is simply smart about their games and looks for profit outside direct sales - hence trading wow mounts or taking a cut from Diablo 3 auction house.

Not sure how seriously you meant this but Stracraft II did fail to meet sales expectations.

Yup. Just trivial differences like lack of multiplayer.

And you think that 75% of a game will sell fine? Can't say I agree.

But it's done by point and click. Controls tend to be kinda important for the design of action games. For instance how do you single out a boss in the middle of trash mobs when all you have is a gamepad?

And it's already retracted.

Blizzard's made a lot of console games in their time. Even Diablo was on PSOne. I imagine they'll refine that old scheme a bit. What worked a decade ago doesn't matter - today the design pattern is clearly to go from PC-oriented design to console-oriented one. The standards have changed too much and I can't see how blizzard can get away with point and click menus in a console version.

So Blizzard is finally making the transition? Wonder how many adjustments it'll take to make it playable on a pad.

What the term was originally meant for is irrelevant. For most modern historians it has no such connotation and is used to underline the scarcity of written sources.

Yes there were. The name is just mistakenly attributed to the supposed lack of intellectual achievements while the real reasons should be the scale of population collapse and political breakdown.

Are really suggesting that works have been transcribed for almost a thousand years in the Christian world without understanding their content? I know Christian institutions are not highly regarded in popular understanding but this is going a bit too far.

That assumes some fundamental level of competency on the part of interplay. The whole MMO part of the deal was made like some sort of a bet and I'm not surprised that Bethesda came calling when it won. I certainly wouldn't want Interplay touching the IP that I paid good money for.

You seem to be under assumption that science doesn't do the same. There are plenty of scientific theories that are commonly accepted despite contradicting evidence.

You don't need to. Many religions can point to a variety of miracles that have been well documented. But since scientific method demands independent replication you simply can't consider metaphysical in scientific terms.

I really can't picture x-com turn based combat working with a controller. Most likely it will end up similar to Civ:Revolutions. Just ported to PC for IP milkage.

So far, the biggest difficulty for me is, that you can't assign favourite spells to quick keys (at least, I haven't found such an option). I've been putting myself on fire while healing goblins and killed myself by spontaneous forcefield creation that catapulted me through the air out into the ocean. Fancy robes or not, wizards swims like rocks Half the fun of the game are miscasts and friendly fire. You just need another player to appreciate it and res you afterwards.

After 50+ attempts finally finished Dungeons of Dredmor. Ironically the winning build was a joke meant to fail on the first floor. There must be something wrong with me because I immediately got DLC and restarted.