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Solid gold!

I wouldn't consider Jagged Alliance a larger budget title. Heck, I'd still consider Shadowrun Returns a small indie game. I get what you are saying though, they are a bit bigger than FTL.

Fantastic pics, I might need to show these to my students. We are learning about the Aztecs this week, good timing.

Go get Faster Than Light, or FTL. It's a pretty cool game, although you will die. That's actually the point of the game. It was a kickstarter project.

Play each one for a bit, you'll get a good feel for the right one.

I'm much more comfortable with this kickstarter than the Susan Wilson one. Of course I have plenty of autistic kids in my school and community, so I'll probably stick to helping them out.

They are almost at 100k, so they are still pushing forward. Plus they said they have some news coming down the pipeline. You can probably count on them getting a decent push at the end, so as long as they slowly gain until the last week, maybe reaching $230k, then they should be solid. I upped to $65 for a boxed edition.

After 3 hockey games in 24 hours, I feel very old.

I pre-purchased the expansion in January because I was playing regularly, but I haven't even bothered to log in to check it out yet, and probably won't any time soon.

Hey, the sexual harassment complain might help you land the adult store gig.

Statistically, all our records are based on an 82 games schedule. So I hesitate to embrace a shorter season.

If you didn't like the original, you wouldn't like the updated games. That's the point, they're releasing updated versions of the games to keep cash flowing so they can take chances on other ips I enjoyed SW:KoToR and SimCity. I still play them. EA hasn't released anything that I see as an improvement on them really...though there was the release of the double disk set of SW:KoToR I and II that I got...didn't think that was an EA release though was it? If it was I guess I got something, but their MMO and always online SC aren't improvement in my book, more like...putting more restrictions down without actually enhancing anything other then more restrictions. IMO of course. I'm not an MMO type of guy if you couldn't tell. The always online stuff doesn't really have anything to do with the quality of the games though. Your complaint about TOR is totally valid, they took the franchise in a very different direction.

I've been bamboozled!

Ea has had major missteps of late, but they really aren't total failures. In fact a lot of the games at the core of their experience are very good, even though they have been marred by server issues and such. BF3, SimCity, and TOR are all very playable games that also sold very well at release. Are these games inventive? Heck no, but that just means EA is the same as every other large publisher.

My movie ticket example is clearly poor, and I apologize and recant. It was made in haste. I'd like to focus completely on mkreku's unopened box. In that box is a product key, which he is not using. Instead he has downloaded from another source, clearly not a legal distributor. Do you guys feel this is acceptable?

You have an unopened box, so I don't see how that proves anything. The thing that really bothers me about your whole stance is how it can be abused. When you open up that game, you devalue it. But that is the price you pay in order to play the game. You are skirting around that. If someday your unopened collector's edition becomes valuable, you can sell it for a heck of a lot more than you could if it was opened. That might not be your intention, but I doubt everyone is so pure. I have one unopened game on my shelf, and that is because I received the key via email before the box. That means the key in there is registered to me. That is the agreement I made with the distributor.

You stole the game. For those that are hung up on specifics, you copyright infringed on the the game. It may not matter to you how you procure the code, but it does matter to the distributer of the code, and they have not authorized you to do what you are doing. Do you understand that what you are doing is considered illegal in most countries? It's not like we haven't had enough piracy discussions on these forums.

I noticed some people seem surprised at how slow this is moving, but this isn't Obsidian or inXile. This is an unknown studio with no real marquee names. They are probably going to hit their target at the current rate, but I don't see them going way over. It is likely going to take the whole 30 days. The Quest for Glory creators also barely hit their target, so even star power doesn't always work.

Is heinous a legal term? The content supplier is offering the content under certain conditions. If you don't like those conditions, then don't buy the product. Changing the conditions is not justifiable.

I have paid for exactly every one of the games I have played. Some games I've paid for three times (Gothic 3). Now tell me: what did I steal? You paid for a product (or a product key) and then you chose not to use it. That doesn't give you the right to then download it illegally. You don't see how silly that sounds? If I buy a ticket to a movie and decide to just hold on to the stub, then go home and download it illegally, that doesn't put me in the clear. edit: This is also a very slippery slope. If I buy a movie without a digital copy, does that give me the right to download it off a torrent?

Your updates about this MMO are interesting. I am considering trying this MMO out? I highly recommend doing so. It can be a bit overwhelming to get into, but it has a lot to love. We have a few people here who play pretty regularly, or used to at least. It's free to play makes it easy to try out, although subscribing opens up a lot of options too.

I've noticed you really are hung up on this. I agree it should be something that is worked on, but it was improved in 1.13. AI is a weakness in the entire genre, Xcom was horrible and the new one is only a slight improvement. That being said, I don't consider it the most important aspect of the game, it just needs to be passable.

The new Lord of the Rings Expansion will allow players to go to Helm's Deep. I'm pretty happy how quickly this is coming, Turbine is really hitting their stride on content releases. It also ups the level cap to 95. I just hit 75, so that is great news for me. I hate sitting at the cap, that will give me a lot more levels to gain. I'm guessing we wil be in Mordor in just two years. Pretty epic journey so far.

The latest update adds some good tiers, including a physical boxed game for $65. I also like that t-shirt and I'm thinking about throwing in for it. Even if the game doesn't turn out great, a Jagged Alliance shirt would be sweet. They are also in talks with some of the modding community behind 1.13, so that could be a cool addition. My excitement for this project has notched up a bit, and I'm looking forward to hearing more about their progress.

That would be cool. The JA2 modders are phenomenal, but I don't know how active guys like Batman are anymore.