They disallowed people who purchased half-life 2 in Thailand from playing. Those who bought a copy in Thailand and were using it in a different country where locked out of their game.
This effected me because I hop between countries a lot.
It's not a license clause, it's actually happened. Valve has taken back without refund their perfectly working single player product.
Maybe I'm the only one but it just feels too much like Oblivion.
I hate the quest dialogue which has crossed over from oblivion. Why can't they make it more like mass effect where your character interacts with characters rather then just sitting back in FPS mode looking at the characters.
I don't like how emotionless the characters look as they speak out their lines (another oblivion trait).
They even have some form of mud crab in there.
It feels like Bethesda did the quick job on this one trying to figure out how they could mod Oblivion into a Fallout conversion.
I'm not saying that fallout 3 is going to suck, but I don't think that it will be as good as it could be but I'll reserve judgement for when it's released.
I played Morrowind for months, finished and really enjoyed it. I didn't find the towns boring and actually feel there is more varitey then there is in Oblivion. I just didn't have the same experience with Oblivion. I think what killed the experience for me was the leveling system and the fact that pure magic users (which is what I started out on) felt gimped. To get decent spells you needed to spend absurd amounts of money.
Exploring wasn't as fun as it was in Morrowind too. I think it's because Morrowind was a whole island, you could go everywhere which I loved exploring but Oblivion had "magic walls" which made the experience feel limiting.
Pretty radical but I wished more developers did what introversion did and put the source code on the game CD. That doesn't mean you can redistribute the source code (it would still be their copyright). It would just be useful when the game is 10 maybe 20 years older there are some games which were made in 1997 which still have close nit communities but can not modify the game enough to fix memory leaks, etc.
Also if you look at ID, they release their engine source code and doom is still playable.
Going back on topic I think the least they could do is document their file formats which would giver modders information on how to make their own tools.
Again, because you didn't learn in the other thread you posted this apple store crap..
If the item is returnable and you send it back to us unopened in the original box, Apple will offer you a refund based on your original method of payment.
Problem is it doesn't work for media such as games and movies because they just blame it on piracy or the specific game. Then they make a new game and forget about the whole thing.
A lawsuit sends a very clear message and if EA makes another game with DRM then you just sue them again and again for every game.
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No they don't. You failed to prove anything.. again, bullshit..
Everyone else however are having frequent crashes and problems with spore with the only offical suggestion being to reinstall the game.
1) Install game - frequent crashes, EA tells you to reinstall the game. 2) Game reinstalled - Still problems, EA releases patch which causes EVEN MORE problems with no way to uninstall it 3) Install game again to get rid of patch.
Not really. If there was a lawsuit for every DRM game that EA release eventually they'd stop putting DRM into their games.
Also lawsuits makes EAs stock go down. If you check out todays stock (ERTS) you'll notice it's been going down. Investors were told by EA that they needed more money for Spore in 2006 and that spore was going to be the big money win. It's been the opposite and turned into an investor nightmare for them.
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Seeing how the dollar is going it's probably going to cost that much to buy a car in the future anyway.
The "came out ok" people are the 20 year olds in university.
If you think 5th and 6th graders are going to be spending their time watching R rated movies you're sorely mistaken.
Two points:
1) Them != You
2) You have trust issues
You said it best yourself you're a hysterical over protective twit.
Seriously?! You just described most magazines (including womens), marketing and movies.
They disallowed people who purchased half-life 2 in Thailand from playing. Those who bought a copy in Thailand and were using it in a different country where locked out of their game.
This effected me because I hop between countries a lot.
It's not a license clause, it's actually happened. Valve has taken back without refund their perfectly working single player product.
So it's a giant ring, it's had heating problems?
It's acquired the red ring of death.
good luck that, lol
Maybe I'm the only one but it just feels too much like Oblivion.
I hate the quest dialogue which has crossed over from oblivion. Why can't they make it more like mass effect where your character interacts with characters rather then just sitting back in FPS mode looking at the characters.
I don't like how emotionless the characters look as they speak out their lines (another oblivion trait).
They even have some form of mud crab in there.
It feels like Bethesda did the quick job on this one trying to figure out how they could mod Oblivion into a Fallout conversion.
I'm not saying that fallout 3 is going to suck, but I don't think that it will be as good as it could be but I'll reserve judgement for when it's released.
More importantly will they get the game released before interplay goes under.
I played Morrowind for months, finished and really enjoyed it. I didn't find the towns boring and actually feel there is more varitey then there is in Oblivion. I just didn't have the same experience with Oblivion. I think what killed the experience for me was the leveling system and the fact that pure magic users (which is what I started out on) felt gimped. To get decent spells you needed to spend absurd amounts of money.
Exploring wasn't as fun as it was in Morrowind too. I think it's because Morrowind was a whole island, you could go everywhere which I loved exploring but Oblivion had "magic walls" which made the experience feel limiting.
That sounds interesting, I must have missed that. Could you find a link, I'd like to read that.
Whatever dude, you're the one posting anon. You're the one getting all his posts modded troll.
Pretty radical but I wished more developers did what introversion did and put the source code on the game CD. That doesn't mean you can redistribute the source code (it would still be their copyright). It would just be useful when the game is 10 maybe 20 years older there are some games which were made in 1997 which still have close nit communities but can not modify the game enough to fix memory leaks, etc.
Also if you look at ID, they release their engine source code and doom is still playable.
Going back on topic I think the least they could do is document their file formats which would giver modders information on how to make their own tools.
You're getting childish. I'm not discussing this with you anymore until your stop posting off topic.
If you want to discuss this in the relevant thread then go ahead but right now you're trolling.
What's any of this got to do with my post? You're offtopic..
If it is EA's digital store or steam then you got a point but most purchases you'd have to agree are made in stores.
Again, because you didn't learn in the other thread you posted this apple store crap..
APPLE DOES NOT OFFER YOU A REFUND!!!
Problem is it doesn't work for media such as games and movies because they just blame it on piracy or the specific game. Then they make a new game and forget about the whole thing.
A lawsuit sends a very clear message and if EA makes another game with DRM then you just sue them again and again for every game.
No they don't. You failed to prove anything.. again, bullshit..
That's great that it's not a problem FOR YOU.
Everyone else however are having frequent crashes and problems with spore with the only offical suggestion being to reinstall the game.
1) Install game - frequent crashes, EA tells you to reinstall the game.
2) Game reinstalled - Still problems, EA releases patch which causes EVEN MORE problems with no way to uninstall it
3) Install game again to get rid of patch.
oh shit I ran out of installs...
Not really. If there was a lawsuit for every DRM game that EA release eventually they'd stop putting DRM into their games.
Also lawsuits makes EAs stock go down. If you check out todays stock (ERTS) you'll notice it's been going down. Investors were told by EA that they needed more money for Spore in 2006 and that spore was going to be the big money win. It's been the opposite and turned into an investor nightmare for them.
Not for PC games. If you go in for a refund all you will get is money off a different game. You will never get your money back.
Wow, that's fucking bullshit. There's NOWHERE you can purchase a PC GAME from and RETURN it. Where are you from, the 1990s?
No stop being a moronic asshole just to "win" your pointless argument.
You do realise that once you return the game, the store can't return games purchased to the publisher right?
You're just fucking over EB and Gamestop because as far as EA is concerned they've made a sale.
because whole guilds wouldn't exploit that now would they...