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This reminds me of similar 'discussions' I had with my brother who is a musician. Obviously he feels the impact of music piracy very directly, his checks get smaller. There was/is very little room in his heart for the notion that piracy helps musicians. It's been established by an entire generation that Lars Ulrik (who is not my brother by the way) is a wanker, but all I can say is I've had a chance to view the other side's argument, and not all artist with a couple of CDs to their name make a lot of money.

I met a taxi driver who was Albanian on my way home from work the other day. He was listening to an Albanian radio station. They are very worried that their language and culture are going to disappear and be replaced with Macedonian or Bosnian, and like everyone down there they fiercely want independence. (the minorities in Macedonia that is) I asked him if he thought things could get out of hand again, like in the war, he didn't think so.

Although, we can't really be surprised. Bethesda was one of the pioneers of the salami approach to selling games after all. Man I must have clocked thousands of hours on those games. Good mindless multiplayer fun.

I am not sure if this is a distrubution only agreement or more but Namco's own DLC policy makes me a bit worried: Ohh my gawd. You mean we either have to wait for the gooty edition or buy the game in tiny slices over the space of several months. DLC sales gimmics make baby Jesus cry.

You need a cracked game and a cracked server. How many of the people who play there bought WOW and played it legally at some point, I'll throw out an unsubstantiated number 90% or so. Mmorphegers are not seriously hit by piracy compared to single player games, and this always online deal is obviously an attempt to mimic them.

There are still a gazillion more people with computers than with consoles. Of course if publishers think they can make their games more or less immune to piracy like WOW the prospects are enormous. I bet the idea is to wane us unto allways online by selling their games in tiny fragments or having a version update every other weekend.

I bought Xcom as well. Can't be bothered to play it. 2 euro well spent.

Well whatever, you can afford to lose 2 quid to find out.

This is exactly what I meant when I said that popular usually means crap.

Remember back when the Half life code was stolen. Well apparently it wasn't stolen - Potato Pot

What would stealing be in a digital enviroment. Dowloading code off a developers FTP and then deleting it, so you were the only one with a copy ?. The illustration assumes the importance of an orginal in it's definition of the concept of stealing. That seems innacurate to me.

The thing about that is that in a digital environment the concept of 'original' ceases to be important. A little bit of apples and oranges going on here. The stealing illustration assumes the presence and the relative importance of an original. More to the point, Piracy is 'Robin Hood' stealing, Stealing is well, just stealing.

Compare and contrast http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/x-com-...nse/screenshots And now screenshots from Steam http://store.steampowered.com/app/7650/

It is a bit disapointing that they couldn't manage to integrate the Amiga/Playstation textures though.

A risk i'll take, having just looked at my latest power bill.

Don't forget random explosions! actually when you think about it XCOM already has bullet time.

Meh. Does the world need a streamlined realtime XCOM remake? XCOM with bullet time and romances. Win!

If someone can't play the first 2 XCOm games because they are ugly that's your loss. They are still 2 of the best video games ever made, which when you think about it, given almost 20 years of technological and gameplay advancement since XCOM was released, is pretty ****ing sad. Well the Amiga and Playstation ports are the same game, only with tolerable graphics. Come to think of it you could probably play the Amiga versions with an emulator. If anything like that still exists.

The problem there is that the good versions are the playstation ports + the Amiga releases. Terror from the deep and UFO defense, which you can stand looking at. The PC versions are nothing short of the ugliest dates at the DOS graphics party.

Politically high impact arms deals are surely problematic in their own right. The US has an arms industry that needs customers, and the president can't refuse sales without extraordinary circumstances, he has to distabilise the world with one hand and stablilise it with the other.

Wasen't the 'Italian' elf assassin from Orlay as well.

It's not that hard being philantropic when you have made more money than you could spend in a lifetime, but yeah at least he's got the right idea. Good on him.

If the other DLCs are anything to go by you will get a suit of armor and 15 minuites of gameplay out of your 3

Looks like it's being played with a controller in the demo. I wonder if it's one of those games like Deadspace who consider mouse users as an afterthought. I can't play a shooter if it's still got auto aiming, 'snap to' functions or periphiral pointer slowdowns around the target.

Quite the romantic Digmeat. Who would have thunk.