Calax Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I just wanted to mention that currently people seem to be developing games with the steam architecture in mind. EG, you HAVE to have steam to run these games (Anything from Valve, FEAR2, DOW2 are the major ones I can think of off the top of my head) and thus I believe that they won't shut down Steam for a long while because they don't want to anger the customers and loose a significant portion of their market. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I just wanted to mention that currently people seem to be developing games with the steam architecture in mind. EG, you HAVE to have steam to run these games (Anything from Valve, FEAR2, DOW2 are the major ones I can think of off the top of my head) and thus I believe that they won't shut down Steam for a long while because they don't want to anger the customers and loose a significant portion of their market. When have they ever just shut down a server for a major company like that? People worry too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamoulian War Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 (edited) I just wanted to mention that currently people seem to be developing games with the steam architecture in mind. EG, you HAVE to have steam to run these games (Anything from Valve, FEAR2, DOW2 are the major ones I can think of off the top of my head) and thus I believe that they won't shut down Steam for a long while because they don't want to anger the customers and loose a significant portion of their market. When have they ever just shut down a server for a major company like that? People worry too much. I posted two links few posts ago about MS and Sony shutting down their DRM servers, it would be not 1st time when obsolete bussiness was shot down when new one emerged to save money. Edited February 12, 2009 by Mamoulian War Sent from my Stone Tablet, using Chisel-a-Talk 2000BC. My youtube channel: MamoulianFH Latest Let's Play Tales of Arise (completed) Latest Bossfight Compilation Dark Souls Remastered - New Game (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 1: Austria Grand Campaign (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 2: Xhosa Grand Campaign (completed) My PS Platinums and 100% - 29 games so far (my PSN profile) 1) God of War III - PS3 - 24+ hours 2) Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 130+ hours 3) White Knight Chronicles International Edition - PS3 - 525+ hours 4) Hyperdimension Neptunia - PS3 - 80+ hours 5) Final Fantasy XIII-2 - PS3 - 200+ hours 6) Tales of Xillia - PS3 - 135+ hours 7) Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 - PS3 - 152+ hours 8.) Grand Turismo 6 - PS3 - 81+ hours (including Senna Master DLC) 9) Demon's Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 10) Tales of Graces f - PS3 - 337+ hours 11) Star Ocean: The Last Hope International - PS3 - 750+ hours 12) Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 127+ hours 13) Soulcalibur V - PS3 - 73+ hours 14) Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - 600+ hours 15) Tales of Xillia 2 - PS3 - 302+ hours 16) Mortal Kombat XL - PS4 - 95+ hours 17) Project CARS Game of the Year Edition - PS4 - 120+ hours 18) Dark Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 19) Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory - PS3 - 238+ hours 20) Final Fantasy Type-0 - PS4 - 58+ hours 21) Journey - PS4 - 9+ hours 22) Dark Souls II - PS3 - 210+ hours 23) Fairy Fencer F - PS3 - 215+ hours 24) Megadimension Neptunia VII - PS4 - 160 hours 25) Super Neptunia RPG - PS4 - 44+ hours 26) Journey - PS3 - 22+ hours 27) Final Fantasy XV - PS4 - 263+ hours (including all DLCs) 28) Tales of Arise - PS4 - 111+ hours 29) Dark Souls: Remastered - PS4 - 121+ hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calax Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I just wanted to mention that currently people seem to be developing games with the steam architecture in mind. EG, you HAVE to have steam to run these games (Anything from Valve, FEAR2, DOW2 are the major ones I can think of off the top of my head) and thus I believe that they won't shut down Steam for a long while because they don't want to anger the customers and loose a significant portion of their market. When have they ever just shut down a server for a major company like that? People worry too much. I posted two links few posts ago about MS and Sony shutting down their DRM servers, it would be not 1st time when obsolete business was shot down when new one emerged to save money. Except that those appeared to be in the Music sector rather than the games side of things. You present those and I reverse with Itunes (which is still going strong). The biggest thing about Music micro transactions is that people are putting them on their Ipods mainly, or their computer. The former can only get songs from Itunes (as far as I know, I wouldn't understand why it would take a competitors music) and the latter probably would just pirate the music anyway. Games are different in that there isn't ONE set unit that is used primarily as your player. Instead all computers can use steam and thus have an ultimately larger market share than either of the servers you posted could probably hope to reach. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I remember Wall-mart shutting down part of its music servers, but that was because they were changing format and they gave plenty of advance notice so users could adapt to the new model. Didn't Sony and MSN run subscription services, where you access the whole music library for a flat monthly fee? It's not surprising that eventually that type of service would end and you would no longer have access to the songs. I'd be pretty sore if I bought individual songs. But Steam is an entirely different business model, as Calax explained well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taks Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 010110010110010101110011001011000010000001101001011101000010000001110011011010000110111101110101011011000110010000101110. agreed, but you'll never get MC to sign on for this. taks comrade taks... just because. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humodour Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Well, perhaps not. I've never bought a whole big ol' game online before, and am considering doing it. I'm not as IT literate as you lot, so how does it work? Can I burn a copy so I actually have something tangible? What if the download is interrupted? Etc. I've got a pretty vanilla wireless broadband internet connection - any issues there? Please don't move this to the tech forum. It's scary, and full of people who talk in 1's and 0's. Cheers MC 01001101011011110110111001110100011001010010000001000011011000010111001001101100 011011110010000001101101011000010110101101100101011100110010000001101101011001010 010000001110111011001010111010000101110001000000100100100100000011101110110111101 101110011001000110010101110010001000000110100101100110001000000110100001100101001 001110110110001101100001000000110100001100001011101100110010100100000011011010111 10010010000001100010011000010110001001101001011001010111001100101110 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maria Caliban Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 (edited) <snip> *spews tea at the monitor* Edited February 15, 2009 by Maria Caliban "When is this out. I can't wait to play it so I can talk at length about how bad it is." - Gorgon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte Carlo Posted February 15, 2009 Author Share Posted February 15, 2009 <snip> *spews tea at the monitor* I suppose you all think mocking the illiterate person is funny? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musopticon? Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 (edited) 01001011011100100110010101111010011000010110001101101011001000000110100101110011 00100000011000010110110001110011011011110010000001101111011011100110010100100000 011010000110111101110100001000000111001101110100011101010110010000101110 Edited February 16, 2009 by Musopticon? kirottu said: I was raised by polar bears. I had to fight against blood thirsty wolves and rabid penguins to get my food. Those who were too weak to survive were sent to Sweden. It has made me the man I am today. A man who craves furry hentai. So let us go and embrace the rustling smells of unseen worlds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidesco Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 I thought you loved me. "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian touristI am Dan Quayle of the Romans.I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands.Heja Sverige!!Everyone should cuffawkle more.The wrench is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Huh, I just decoded that. Imagine my surprise that binary somehow converts to text! Cool. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkreku Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Huh, I just decoded that. Imagine my surprise that binary somehow converts to text! Cool. What, you need a translator to read binary? Weak. Swedes, go to: Spel2, for the latest game reviews in swedish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgon Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 I thought it was morse code or something Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 I thought it was morse code or something Are you people new to the internet or something? When did binary stop being cool and geeky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgon Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Huh, I just decoded that. Imagine my surprise that binary somehow converts to text! Cool. What, you need a translator to read binary? Weak. And you of course have all the ASCII codes memorised. How does binary translate to numeral. Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadly_Nightshade Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 I thought it was morse code or something ...---... is not 01110011 01101111 01110011. "Geez. It's like we lost some sort of bet and ended up saddled with a bunch of terrible new posters on this forum." -Hurlshot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgon Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Morse code is binary. Long and short is all there is. Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calax Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 I thought it was morse code or something ...---... is not 01110011 01101111 01110011. I'd guess that ...---... is 000111000 or it's inverse but that's just me. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Huh, I just decoded that. Imagine my surprise that binary somehow converts to text! Cool. What, you need a translator to read binary? Weak. I wear ribbons of shame. I thought it was morse code or something ...---... Ha, I actually know that one, SOS (Save Our Ship). "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamoulian War Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Actualy save our souls Sent from my Stone Tablet, using Chisel-a-Talk 2000BC. My youtube channel: MamoulianFH Latest Let's Play Tales of Arise (completed) Latest Bossfight Compilation Dark Souls Remastered - New Game (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 1: Austria Grand Campaign (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 2: Xhosa Grand Campaign (completed) My PS Platinums and 100% - 29 games so far (my PSN profile) 1) God of War III - PS3 - 24+ hours 2) Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 130+ hours 3) White Knight Chronicles International Edition - PS3 - 525+ hours 4) Hyperdimension Neptunia - PS3 - 80+ hours 5) Final Fantasy XIII-2 - PS3 - 200+ hours 6) Tales of Xillia - PS3 - 135+ hours 7) Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 - PS3 - 152+ hours 8.) Grand Turismo 6 - PS3 - 81+ hours (including Senna Master DLC) 9) Demon's Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 10) Tales of Graces f - PS3 - 337+ hours 11) Star Ocean: The Last Hope International - PS3 - 750+ hours 12) Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 127+ hours 13) Soulcalibur V - PS3 - 73+ hours 14) Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - 600+ hours 15) Tales of Xillia 2 - PS3 - 302+ hours 16) Mortal Kombat XL - PS4 - 95+ hours 17) Project CARS Game of the Year Edition - PS4 - 120+ hours 18) Dark Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 19) Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory - PS3 - 238+ hours 20) Final Fantasy Type-0 - PS4 - 58+ hours 21) Journey - PS4 - 9+ hours 22) Dark Souls II - PS3 - 210+ hours 23) Fairy Fencer F - PS3 - 215+ hours 24) Megadimension Neptunia VII - PS4 - 160 hours 25) Super Neptunia RPG - PS4 - 44+ hours 26) Journey - PS3 - 22+ hours 27) Final Fantasy XV - PS4 - 263+ hours (including all DLCs) 28) Tales of Arise - PS4 - 111+ hours 29) Dark Souls: Remastered - PS4 - 121+ hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Were both right. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgon Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 My brother used to go around talking to himself in morse code while preparing for some kind of seaman qualification, back in the days morse code was still required. 'Di daa di daa daa daa di'. Drove the rest of us crazy. Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanschu Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 My brother was a ham radio operator and god was it annoying when he would start talking via morse code around the world at 7 AM!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkreku Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I was a long wave radio operator in the army, we had to learn Morse. 80 signs per minute or something like that.. And since some signs can be up to five beeps long, that's an awful lot of beeps in one minute. Swedes, go to: Spel2, for the latest game reviews in swedish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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