I normally hate most of the garbage that comes out of Kotaku, but this is a really good article. That said, it reminds me a lot of Yossi Kreinin's C++ FQA. A good chunk of the article is spent talking about how Doom 3's source is good code despite being bad C++. What kind of language is best written in a way frowned on by the C++ community? Absurd!
I'm biased against EA, Bioware, and SWTOR. KotOR 2 is my favorite game ever (especially with TSLRCM), and I think SWTOR ruined the franchise beyond repair, like George did with the new trilogy. There's no going back, they already retconned like half the stuff form KotOR 2 and just labelled Kreia (a fantastic character with a lot of depth) a "crazy old woman." I doubt we'll ever get another KotOR game; this is probably the end, and for what? Yet another MMO moneygrab, and a buggy one at that. I think what EA did with this is absolutely shameful and I refuse to buy EA products now because of it.
That said, this summary is absolutely ridiculous. How is adding content that people requested (if only in a small chunk at first) "anti-gay?" The summary makes it sound like anyone who ever wanted same-sex options are forced to stay on one planet, which isn't the case at all; the content just hasn't been added to the other places yet. I don't know who wrote this summary, but they ought to be ashamed, too. There are plenty of bad things to say about SWTOR, EA, and Bioware that are actually true that nobody should need to make shit up.
That's absolutely fantastic. I was about to say that I think there's no problem as long as all the stuff's archived.
Also, your emulator is really great; I love it. Far better than the alternatives for SNES, and with one or two exceptions, it's the best emulator for every system it supports (at least that I've tried).
To Microsoft's OS division. It would be more like a large kick in the nuts to their Xbox division if it takes off, since that's what it's actually competing with. And like tibman said above me, the metric you should be using is percentage of gamers, not percentage of PC users. You seem to be implying that gaming is something other than a multi-billion dollar industry and I'm not sure why.
Except they're not. People in Diablo 3, at least, were getting hacked because session data in public games was being hijacked or something, allowing people to authenticate as someone else using that information (I believe there's a/. article about it, in fact). And as for WoW, I came back after 3 years of not playing and my account had been hijacked a year prior (God knows why, I had a single level 30 character). My password was not something easily breakable and was unique to my battle.net account, and I hadn't had any communication with Blizzard in that three year time period. The only explanation I can come up with is that they had a break-in that they failed to notify their users about or some other security flaw. Both of those are problems on their end.
Blizzard's security is absolute crap. Selling a car with a shitty lock and then handing out dongles to fix it is not an acceptable practice. I wouldn't care if they were free; that's simply not how a professional corporation should do business. They need to fix their shit or I won't buy from them; it's that simple. The customer shouldn't have to deal with that crap.
But that analogy's just wrong. This isn't Ford making you pay for gas, it's Ford making you pay because they sold you a car without a door lock and a very cheap ignition lock.
Nobody thinks content providers don't deserve money. People resort to piracy for all sorts of reasons: availability, lack of funds, convenience, try-before-you-buy, etc. I don't think anyone pirates purely out of spite for someone, and if they did they'd be pretty darn stupid.
Seriously, this is just plain dumb. I really don't see the point in preventing people from doing something that isn't an immediate threat to themselves. What next, are we going to refuse employment to people who eat too much steak or like to drive old cars that lack modern safety features?
For the record, I hate smoke and hate being around smokers. But what people do in the privacy of their own homes should be THEIR business, not the government's, unless they're hurting others or causing immediate harm to themselves.
On a certain video game discussion board, there's been a significant viral marketing campaign by the folks who published Borderlands 2 (much like there was for the first one). I'd take any gushing positive feedback you hear with a grain of salt. This, however, seems like a pretty reasonable review. I'm not sure why it's being reviewed here when Black Mesa hasn't been and Torchlight 2 probably won't be; probably because of all the hype, I suppose.
I'll pass on this one, just because I didn't like the first one. It felt more like 4 player World of Warcraft with guns than Diablo 2 with guns like the author here suggests.
I think the problem is more one of convenience than quality. I think most people have no problem ignoring that sort of stuff, the problem is that it's much more inconvenient to go out and buy or rent a product than it is to go to whatever torrent site and just download it (at least for many people; the remainder are probably the ones who still buy in-store).
I'd mod you up if I could. Grandparent talks down to those of us who don't follow cycling like we're (literally) 12, but presents no evidence whatsoever other than FUD. I guess FUD on/. gets you +5 informative.
DRM is usually in place to stop day 1 pirating. So here's my suggestion: go ahead and ship it with DRM. Then, once it's been cracked by the community, release a patch that removes it.
Civ4 BTS no longer has DRM, though they did it sometime around the time Civ5 came out.
I was kind of disappointed with SC2's competitive. Sure, it's balanced and all, but it's not very fun to me. I enjoyed the campaign a lot more (which I thought was brilliantly designed).
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I normally hate most of the garbage that comes out of Kotaku, but this is a really good article. That said, it reminds me a lot of Yossi Kreinin's C++ FQA. A good chunk of the article is spent talking about how Doom 3's source is good code despite being bad C++. What kind of language is best written in a way frowned on by the C++ community? Absurd!
I'm biased against EA, Bioware, and SWTOR. KotOR 2 is my favorite game ever (especially with TSLRCM), and I think SWTOR ruined the franchise beyond repair, like George did with the new trilogy. There's no going back, they already retconned like half the stuff form KotOR 2 and just labelled Kreia (a fantastic character with a lot of depth) a "crazy old woman." I doubt we'll ever get another KotOR game; this is probably the end, and for what? Yet another MMO moneygrab, and a buggy one at that. I think what EA did with this is absolutely shameful and I refuse to buy EA products now because of it.
That said, this summary is absolutely ridiculous. How is adding content that people requested (if only in a small chunk at first) "anti-gay?" The summary makes it sound like anyone who ever wanted same-sex options are forced to stay on one planet, which isn't the case at all; the content just hasn't been added to the other places yet. I don't know who wrote this summary, but they ought to be ashamed, too. There are plenty of bad things to say about SWTOR, EA, and Bioware that are actually true that nobody should need to make shit up.
I never thought I'd see the day where I pirated Minesweeper.
I'd say Russian, Japanese, or German; those three countries seem to have a pretty big focus on technology.
Mod parent up. This says it far better than I could have, and I agree 100%.
That's absolutely fantastic. I was about to say that I think there's no problem as long as all the stuff's archived.
Also, your emulator is really great; I love it. Far better than the alternatives for SNES, and with one or two exceptions, it's the best emulator for every system it supports (at least that I've tried).
To Microsoft's OS division. It would be more like a large kick in the nuts to their Xbox division if it takes off, since that's what it's actually competing with. And like tibman said above me, the metric you should be using is percentage of gamers, not percentage of PC users. You seem to be implying that gaming is something other than a multi-billion dollar industry and I'm not sure why.
Except they're not. People in Diablo 3, at least, were getting hacked because session data in public games was being hijacked or something, allowing people to authenticate as someone else using that information (I believe there's a /. article about it, in fact). And as for WoW, I came back after 3 years of not playing and my account had been hijacked a year prior (God knows why, I had a single level 30 character). My password was not something easily breakable and was unique to my battle.net account, and I hadn't had any communication with Blizzard in that three year time period. The only explanation I can come up with is that they had a break-in that they failed to notify their users about or some other security flaw. Both of those are problems on their end.
Blizzard's security is absolute crap. Selling a car with a shitty lock and then handing out dongles to fix it is not an acceptable practice. I wouldn't care if they were free; that's simply not how a professional corporation should do business. They need to fix their shit or I won't buy from them; it's that simple. The customer shouldn't have to deal with that crap.
Shit, modded this wrong. Reverting.
But that analogy's just wrong. This isn't Ford making you pay for gas, it's Ford making you pay because they sold you a car without a door lock and a very cheap ignition lock.
I believe she plays on an RP server, where they're often less focused on gear and more on role-playing.
And I definitely won't use them now. They can rot.
Nobody thinks content providers don't deserve money. People resort to piracy for all sorts of reasons: availability, lack of funds, convenience, try-before-you-buy, etc. I don't think anyone pirates purely out of spite for someone, and if they did they'd be pretty darn stupid.
Seriously, this is just plain dumb. I really don't see the point in preventing people from doing something that isn't an immediate threat to themselves. What next, are we going to refuse employment to people who eat too much steak or like to drive old cars that lack modern safety features?
For the record, I hate smoke and hate being around smokers. But what people do in the privacy of their own homes should be THEIR business, not the government's, unless they're hurting others or causing immediate harm to themselves.
This one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2evIg-aYw8
I admit, I also like it a lot. Some of the Act 2 music from D2 was really good, as well.
Questing in Borderlands 1 felt extremely similar to WoW questing. A lot of quest text with not much going on in the actual quest itself.
I said in my post that it was present for the first one. And I used the term I've seen used more commonly; if it's incorrect, I wasn't aware.
On a certain video game discussion board, there's been a significant viral marketing campaign by the folks who published Borderlands 2 (much like there was for the first one). I'd take any gushing positive feedback you hear with a grain of salt. This, however, seems like a pretty reasonable review. I'm not sure why it's being reviewed here when Black Mesa hasn't been and Torchlight 2 probably won't be; probably because of all the hype, I suppose.
I'll pass on this one, just because I didn't like the first one. It felt more like 4 player World of Warcraft with guns than Diablo 2 with guns like the author here suggests.
Then why are they including data on it?
I think the problem is more one of convenience than quality. I think most people have no problem ignoring that sort of stuff, the problem is that it's much more inconvenient to go out and buy or rent a product than it is to go to whatever torrent site and just download it (at least for many people; the remainder are probably the ones who still buy in-store).
I'm still lost. Can you give me a car analogy?
I'd mod you up if I could. Grandparent talks down to those of us who don't follow cycling like we're (literally) 12, but presents no evidence whatsoever other than FUD. I guess FUD on /. gets you +5 informative.
Correction: Apple gets an appeal courtesy of Samsung.
DRM is usually in place to stop day 1 pirating. So here's my suggestion: go ahead and ship it with DRM. Then, once it's been cracked by the community, release a patch that removes it.
Civ4 BTS no longer has DRM, though they did it sometime around the time Civ5 came out.
I was kind of disappointed with SC2's competitive. Sure, it's balanced and all, but it's not very fun to me. I enjoyed the campaign a lot more (which I thought was brilliantly designed).