greylord

Who the heck is this Prosper guy anyways. I seem to be the only one that's been ignorant of who he is since he got here, whilst every other person seemed to know his background. He does seem distraught and angry most of the time...others seen him on other forums or something. I'd imagine if someone wanted to get ban there would be other wasy to ensure a banning took place...none of them good though.

There's a demo for something? I'm not her, but your statements on the series have perked my interest...I'll look it up and see if I like the style and game.

To put it in less words than Volourn, you have been affected by pirates whether you realise it or not. DRM is a response to both piracy and the attitude of those that feel that only other people should pay for stuff. Complaining about DRM and not the pirates is shooting the messenger. The airport security measures are an apt comparison. You get x-rayed through your underwear and bodily searched even if you are innocent, because some people don't "play by the rules" to get what they want. I'll believe that when they have a DRM that actually stops Pirates. DRM isn't designed against the pirates despite what they say...in fact it only spurs the pirates to hack the stuff more. No, DRM is the anti-consumer tool by people who have no idea what they are doing. Saying DRM is caused by Piracy is like saying the War in Iraq was caused by WMDs (sorry for the politics, but similar idealogy). I the end, were there any WMD's even found in Iraq? Sure, many supported the idea of the War (DRM) because of misconceptions of WMDs (that the DRM would even stop piracy) but when you got to the heart of the matter, there weren't any WMDs there (aka...pirates weren't stopped by the DRM overall). Except the DRM is worse...not only is DRM not effective, it hurts your real customers and drives them away. It's like if they retaliated at the very thought of WMDs in another nation by dropping nuke on Los Angelos. Someone should stand up and think...what they heck are we doing!? There is no real need for DRM...unless we LIKE hurting our own customers and driving them away. I'm trying to say, it's legal for all the wrong reasons. but that has to do with my view of modern economy in general. while in essence both acts are the same, the fact that the game is played by a single person rather than a thousand makes it tolerable for the publishers. which makes sense business wise, but not morally (how ironic) I think the opposite...that second hand sales are NOT tolerable to publishers. I think that's one of the big things they are trying to stop. Many of them consider second hand sales the true piracy out there...despite the law...and look for anyway they can to circumvent the law if the law profits someone other then themselves. So instead they bend it as far a they can (same thing with many of their EULAs...have you read those things!? I think some of those would NEVER hold up in court with some of the things they try to require) without actually appearing to be breaking the law.

When you originally stated your "pirates are theives and scumbags" it seemed to be in response to my writing how Producers are killing the Industry via 10 reasons....and NOT the pirates. That implied that I, (who haven't pirated games but only bought legit versions and have been impacted NOT by pirates, but by stupid producers...and actually been driven away a LOT by their stupid DRM schemes to play on consoles [once again with legit games...I'm not one that wants to screw my console by doing stupid things to it]) was not only a pirate, but also a scumbag. Since I haven't pirated (and from what I hear probably am one of the few that haven't gotten games via internet as such), I'd take such implications almost as a direct insult. Furthermore, after those who complain about how the producers are promoting piracy by hurting their legit customers, you seem to repeat this mantra...as if legit customers complaining is the problem. AKA...on this topic you seem to be trying to put down the legit buyers but ignore the true piracy promoters. As someone said, perhaps your just as clueless as those who are making it a pain to play PC games? Though to tell the truth I hold those who make stupid protection schemes like always online to play an SP game just as evil and destructive to the PC industry as any pirate...perhaps MORESO...as I haven't really been affected by pirates as far as I can tell...but have PERSONALLY been affected by stupid Game protection schemes as a legit buyer.

This article reminds why all these pro anti-piracy people are idiots and are out of touch with the real effects of their products in dealing with DRM and the rest of the online mess for PC gaming. Using the article statements, here's 10 reasons to avoid PC games completely from those who have anti-piracy measures.... 1. Stability DRM makes my PC cry. So many times these Protection programs actually screw with my computer. Why just the other day it suddenly slowed to a halt, I couldn't even open up browser windows. what happened. did windows have a bad update...something with Firefox not agreeing with windowns...nope...just some stupid game's DRM acting up when the game wasn't even being played...Stupid game protections. Then there's going to be the fun about playing Diablo 3...internet connection has a jink...your game goes haywire...so much for that stability. In fact, I'd say the pirated games probably now offer MORE stability on a PC than the stupid legal releases I buy. 2. Storage Actually, it doesn't matter whether one pirates or not. I buy a game on a CD at the store...it still forces me to use steam to freaking DOWNLOAD the entire game onto my harddrive anyways. In fact, that seems to be how it works now...the games simply get all downloaded and THEN installed. With a pirated game I imagine I could at least burn it to DVD and then install it from there instead of having the computer download the entire thing...THEN install and try to delete the original download behind it...leaving literally gigs of stuff left over in the temp folder. In fact I'd say manytimes the pirated versions will be half the size due to me not having some stupid d/l and then forced install from that install on the HD right afterwards which means I have both d/l and install on the disk at the same time. 3. Updates Two edged sword. I like SP play. Unfortuantely sometimes the game decides it's time to update a major update which takes dozens of minutes...and there I am left simply staring into space wondering why I can't just start up the game and play instead of being forced to wait for it to update. Pirated games might not have updates...but then the updates aren't automatic instead so you're never forced to do something else instead of playing the game when you wanted to. (Note: actually I believe some pirated games can do updates...but I'm not the biggest on how to pirate since thats not something I really do...but I can tell you all my griefs with the current PC system of things...and why its driven me towards playing more console games). 4. DRM People who try to blame DRM on the pirates, claiming it wouldn't exist except for pirates, look like idiots. DRM there is more for the second hand sales than anything else, as anyone who knows anything about piracy knows that DRM doesn't really stop the pirates. The only reason DRM is there is because stupid people put faith in jumping out of airplanes with umbrellas to their backs and think that will operate like a parachute. DRM is the major reason I've debated about pirating things in the past...specifically so I won't have to DEAL with DRM in the first place. DRM...legal players are forced to be limited by it...pirates aren't... Or DRM...hurting legal players everyday...#1 promoter of piracy in the world. 5. Viruses & Malware I have to say...the pirates probably DO win that one...you probably have more of these from pirated software. Then again...nothing like having to reinstall my OS recently because Norton flagged some games' piracy protection as harmful and then the conflict froze up my computer... That might not exactly be a virus...but in truth...with what happened and me losing most of my saved data and a forced reinstall of the OS...I think the virus may actually be the lesser of the two evils there... 6. No Tech Support That's right, most games don't have tech support really. Their forums have self help...which means forum members helping forum members. I HAVE seen piracy threads. In fact one site I frequented recently that discussed Diablo 3 had a Diablo 3 pirated beta thread...and that thread had FAR more responses on how to handle tech problems and difficulties than any other tech related stuff. I'd imagine if you are in with the right pirates...since they designed the cracks...they'll know far more about how to run the game and give FAR more support than more than half the games I've gotten. I've even done the tech support as a member on forums and seen very little from the official people. Tech support these days from computer game companies is a joke...you get more Tech support from Piracy boards then you do the official boards. Actually, now that I think about it, there was one game I couldn't get running on the PC and tech support on their official forums stunk. I actually did turn to reading other forums and one of those was probably a pirate forum...ironically they were the ones that were able to know what was wrong and get the game running...so once again... No tech support for us legal players...not really at least. 7. Legal Issues You're right, you wont' get sued (hopefully) for buying a legit software. Of the ten reasons, this may be the only real reason to buy a legal copy. Then again, with some of those agreements you have to agree to to install the game I wonder if someone else actually owns my soul at this point. 8. Killing PC Gaming (Sorry Gordon.) Yep...I think nothing has killed PC gaming as strongly or quickly as DRM. PC's have flatlined overall in PC game requirements over the past 3-4 years. If you could run most games 4 years ago...you can still run most games. It's not really all that complex tech changes these days as much as the tech problems dealing directly with DRM conflicts...and DRM in general. It's not pirates that killed PC gaming, Piracy has been around since at least the 80s (afterall, remember...don't copy that floppy). Tech challenges have been around since the beginning of the PC and I'd say are probably less challenging today then they were in the 80s and DOS days. The only big boss changer in the room that I can see that has occurred in the past 8 years that caused the decline in PC gaming revenues overall...would be the "Better" copy protections (like Sony's root kit?) followed by the even "Better" protections of DRM. Way to go guys...killing your own base. Luckily you chased them all to consoles where you can still make a profit...though I expect that you'll kill that revenue sooner or later too. 9. Slows R&D Efforts Really, blame that on Piracy? The only lengthing out is in dealing with how to screw your customers more by making a better DRM that they can't use so that they can't run their legal games on their computers. Get rid of DRM and that point is useless. No, this is more a neutral thing...where PC games and other games have much more to look into as long as the graphics have gotten better...then again...for the most part it seems that R&D has overall stagnated over the past few years on the PC> 10. You

I believe they ended all PS3 region blocking on PS3s. AT least it seems that way since my PS3 (and I haven't done anything to the PS3, no jailbreaking, no nothing, completeyl legal on it) can play games from Japan, the US, and the UK (don't have games from anywhere else, just those three areas).

I probably will lump for minecraft. But all the same, it would be good to have something a bit more technical. I should explain she's fourteen, very fierce, but suffers from a bunch of ailments which mean she enjoys playing at home as a bit less manic an option than with schoolfriends. Not on the same arena as minecraft or other games, but perhaps a civ builder type game. Tropico or Tropico 3 should be getting cheaper, Civ 4 ultimate edition should be rather cheaper. If she likes Boy stuff and building, Trackmania is actually awesome in that regards. It allows you to build your own tracks and environments and then do crazy racing on them. Older games all but should appeal to the builder in her.

Ubisoft and their "clever" DRM scehems are cancer to the game industry. Cut them out, and leave them to rot. Ubisoft is surviving on it's console sales right now. PC is an afterthought, if it doesn't take much to put it on PC, they do and then just have the icing on top of the cake if anyone buys it. It'll be funny if they ever do a similar DRM scheme with consoles with an always on Internet connection required...I'd laugh if they killed themselves by killing their income on the consoles as well. Then again, then they'd be extinct and not doing any DRM at all.

Surely there has to be something more. If I were willing to crack my PS3 OS (which I'm NOT), I could d/l their games for the PS3 also. Those console versions even get more hits on the d/l's then the PC versions. Don't D/L any of them (though normally I'm browsing for cracks for my legit PC versions which are hampered by the anti-piracy measures the companies take, which ironically make me go to the pirates to look for solutions because the companies can't even troubleshoot their own tech problems they created with their DRM as well as the Pirates can), but to focus so strongly on the PC side when the console side is actually hotter right now...shows someone either has their head up their rear end and have NO idea about the true piracy market right now...OR their trying to blow smoke up my rear end and failing. I suspect the real reason is they've KILLED their own PC market with their stupid DRM schemes and now it isn't even worth the money for them to invest in a PC port.

Or it could come up like a great Japanese action-RPG like the Tales series, or Radiata Stories, or Drakengard, or the Secret of Mana series. Yep, Japan isn't known for making Action-RPGs, you're totally right. Hmmm...all of those except MAYBE the Mana series stunk compared to Western Action RPGs. Even a game I thought was so..so... that I just finished, War in the North blows any of those out of the water in relation to action RPGs. Then again, FF lost me wtih FFXIII. Sort of have no interest in the FF series anymore after that one. If I hear REALLY good things about FFXIII-2 I MIGHT buy it. Currently it's not even on the list...which is a shame. I bought one of the original 60gig PS3s specifically because originally FXIII was coming out for the PS3. When I got it...that was the disappoinment of the century...well at least the decade for Video Games.

I've been through the campaign once and am about 1/3 the way through it again and am having a good time as well. I'm playing the dwarf since the start. Also, putting in some time with Battlefield 3 and Skyrim, plus a little Saints Row: The Third on the side. (War in the North) Been there, done that...wasn't impressed. It gets better as you go further along in the game, but just didn't hit the right chords with me. As for Skyrim...more of a MW3 type guy myself...for which oddly enough, I think I may be the odd one out on these boards...unlike most other places.

There's actually nothing in the leaked information that states outright that this happens - read through it yourself if you don't believe me. Some of the dialogue with The Illusive Man sort of hints at it, but it's far from definite. The leaked plot info is fairly incomplete - there are mentions of but not much on what these things actually are or how exactly they are used to defeat the Reapers. I wouldn't doubt it. One of the few things I did actually like is . Kinda sets them up as a nice foil to the Reapers. We must have read two different things then, because the one I read had several endings on it. Don't read the spoilers if you don't want to read the ending of the book before it begins... I'd say that's pretty outright...

Well, the thing that I can't seem to figure out is Anyways, sounds rather corny to me. Still am going to buy the game...you better believe that!!!

Ah, and something I wasn't really aware of. I'm not certain tons of others did either. I think TW1 probably had far more success through advertisement articles (like PCGamer) and other places rather than ANY connection it had to Bioware.

I was with you right up until this point of your post, since I also got DA2 off of Bio's good name and that did significant damage to it. I'll get ME3 since it's a different game and hope due to Bio's good name it's good as well...but if that one stinks...Bio's good name is no longer a good name...more like TRASH). However...when you stated the witcher was as successful due to Bio's name...I shook my head in pure wonder and thought...what are you SMOKING. I still know no connection between the Witcher and Bio...in fact I first heard of The Witcher from PCgamer and my first exposure to gameplay was a Demo off of one of their discs which had the Witcher on it. Unless somehow Bio owns and publishes PCgamer...I'm thinking you've lost it on that one.

Yeah...so I watched the spoiler video on you tube...and brought about the spoiler question above.

Doubtful, the "story" people have been loud in Bioware forums and similar locales since BG2 came out, at the very least, so it would kind of make sense to have a dedicated preset for them just as there's one for the "but I like Uncharted!" people. Could somebody explain to me what the "problem" here is? I mean, the more I think about it the clearer it is to me that this allows for them to add complexity to the system in a tiered manner. This could bode well for future DA iterations, where you'd have "awesome button mode", "mook mode" (for the people who just want to feel the NPCs watch them) and "genuine RPG mode". Something that does stand out amongst those options to me is that it defines those options. The Story mode let's you make choices and play on minimal difficulty, the Action has pre made choices (my guess is actually what occurs in the "default" story), and the RPG mode lets you make choices and play on normal difficulty. The question is if there are MORE character choices to make in story mode, or if there are more character choices in available at all as those options don't mention character building in it. Will the character building be more non-existent in story and Action mode and be existent in RPG mode...or how is it?

I actually like the options. I think they are great. Of course my question is if you want to play on a harder difficulty then Normal...is that an option from the very start, or is normal the highest difficulty you can start/try it on?

You already have that on Xbox360 and PSN overall. Many of the games that come out on disk also come out for D/L. Many PS1 games not on disk and old Sega and Nintendo games have also come out on the console networks for d/l.

For Consoles I can definately see how it's a LOT like Dark Alliance. Much more like Dark Alliance than Champions. I think it would be far better with a console controller and on a console than a PC. Hopefully the MP is better on console then PC.

Here's a Jawdropper...for me at least. I thought Console sales were bad with Piracy overseas...but from this report they are down from total sales in the US http://www.gamespot.com/news/6343451/56-of...ws%3Btitle%3B12 Summary: 56% of console gamers do not buy the games they play, they borrow them from others and play them. Believable or not? If they could force everyone to buy the game who wanted to try it...do you think it would drive up sales or drive customers away?

Probably already posted here someplace....but if no one has seen it yet...about Obsidian here... go go obsidian Feargus.... http://www.gamespot.com/news/6343997.html?...%3Bheadline%3B2 Wow...that puts the price tag on Obs....a Million a MONTH!!! Other comments, hate DRM stuff and requiring authentication via online methods...that said...I DO love DLC content that ADDS to the game...

Better or worse than Uncharted 2?

I'm about to Rage quit... I'm hitting lag in conversations constantly. I'll push a button to say a comment...wait for it...wait for it...and then finally it starts. It's like they built in some sort of long lag so that you wait interminably to select your statements in conversation. It's like a poor knockoff of Bioware's conversation trees. Anyways, may get this on PS3 when the price drops. I think it actually may be fun on consoles...probably a lot of fun. It seems in some ways a lot like BG:DA as you get further along in it, and I played that on consoles and enjoyed it, so that may be the missing key here. I just don't like that type of game when it's not on a console. I don't know if it's the controls or what. I'll probably finish it just on principle...but then in a year or so when it's cheap on consoles, buy it for the PS3

It's a little better, still not having a great time, but at least now goblins take fewer shots to kill, I just needed to power up the right ability. It's not characters aren't powerful enough that is making it not fun, haven't narrowed down why this seems more like work than fun to me. I think a fan of the other Lord of the Rings games which had you hacking and slashing orcs may enjoy it though.