Why do people always bring up the health insurance bollocks? If you have a car, you subsidize bad drivers. But you never see endless tirades on that. No, the silence is almost deafening. No, gotta get in the dig at fat people don't you, even though there's increasing evidence that there is a LOT more at work than eating junk food and lacking exercise behind obesity.
Please get your facts right, or at least fill things out more. You get 3 installs OUT OF THE BOX. If you need more, you have to contact EA. This is no different than a lot of other online licensing mechanisms. (Trymedia for example.)
I bought Spore, downloaded the crack and used that. Game works fine, online works fine. No authentication needed so I've used zero activations. Don't give a flying shit about anything else EA has in the pipeline so they can sell the games with zero authentications for all I care.
I know it's a ridiculous situation, but people should still get their facts right. This ain't Digg after all!
Nobody would accept such restrictions in other avenue of their life, and rightly so. And you'd think EA, given they publish Valve's stuff, would use Steam. Instead they use their pitiful EA Download Manager which I've heard nothing but bad things about.
I've had experience with various software that has activations, the biggest one being rFactor and while I've not used all 5 activations myself, I know plenty of people who have and they've gotten new activations within a few hours.
Of course if you use the crack for Spore and have a legit version, this is all irrelevant. I'm happily playing it with the online content, everything works fine. I just don't have to fuck around with activations, and I don't have that Securom crap on my system. Of course sadly I also count as a sale toward the total showing "People don't care".
Plus these people are COMPLETELY WRONG! After you burn the 3 installs you have to contact EA. While it can be a tedious process and you may have to wait a while, you are NOT OUT $50 WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH 3 INSTALLS. If you're going to start an organized protest against Electronic Arts at least get your facts right.
Don't get me wrong. EA suck. I bought Spore yesterday, and the first thing I did when I installed it was to use the crack. I'm happily running the game on 4 machines, none of which have any issues, and I've burned zero of three activations in doing so. I almost never buy EA stuff because I don't like supporting them, but my love for Will Wright's stuff outweighs their evil in this case for me.
The protest is a great idea to draw attention, but really, GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT FIRST! Just like I keep reading supposedly knowledgeable people saying it's got Starforce!
So long as the stroke isn't you stroking Bill's gyrating ass...
There you go, bastards, ENJOY THAT MENTAL IMAGE!
I think the ad agency behind this must be secretly owned by Steve Jobs. "Mwahaha... First we'll spend ten million on a comedian who ceased being funny or relevant a decade ago... Then... Oh what can we do... Let's have Bill shake his booty on national TV. YES! YES! GOD YES!"
Hammond can also remember phone numbers now, something he never used to be able to do.
Recent studies have shown that celery actually contains chemicals which help the brain repair itself in the case of an injury, making Hammond's taste for celery very interesting.
Did you even READ my post beyond a cursory glance? Because I'll be DAMNED if I can find any mention of NR2003's graphics. I mention that folk I know who are paying and playing on iRacing say the graphics aren't fantastic. That's it. Show me where I say anything about NR2003's graphics.
Do you actually KNOW Kaemmer? (Assuming you aren't him or one of his acolytes, since you don't have the balls to post with a real account.) Just curious, because I've spoken to several people who do, and they all say while he's very talented (no argument here), that the man is an asshole. One of these people was closely involved with him in earlier projects.
The mere fact him and his group were threatening customers of his own sim, NR2003, with legal action makes him one step removed from the RIAA, if that.
Happy you've drunk the Kool Aid, but if someone acts like an asshole, people who know them say they're an asshole, generally they're an asshole.
iRacing is simply the MMO business model applied to the racing genre. Sadly a bunch of my race sim buddies have fallen for Dave Kaemmer's bullshit and subscribed. However the reviews I'm hearing from folk are primitive graphics etc...
Papyrus know how to do racing physics. Grand Prix Legends is ten years old and still holds it's own on the current crop of sims from ISI, Simbin etc... But this just screams of publicity stunt. It's basically a subscription based ranking system. It's kinda like a virtual SCCA.
Dave Kaemmer stuck a stake through the heart of the NR2003 community when iRacing first came into being as First Racing, and threatened a bunch of folk with lawsuits, actually DID take Tim McArthur to court if I recall (ultimately settled out of court), just so they could reuse code from NR2003 for this thing. Apparently modding a now five year old video game was somehow damaging their business. They changed their name to iRacing after all the bad publicity of threatening their potential customers with legal action.
I'll stick to sims made by DECENT companies who don't screw their users over, thanks.
I believe they all use lithium batteries to store the power. The actual devices that generate the power, there's electronic, mechanical, and a hybrid system. I THINK Williams are the only team trying a hybrid system.
The iPod Touch easily blows away every other MP3 player out there. I have had lots of different MP3 players, and the Touch was the one that finally got me on the iPod train. The device, even after having one eight months, still blows my mind it's so good.
Yes it was massively pirated. What is your point? It sold a huge number as well. Just like Quake. That was massively pirated, had no copy protection and sold huge.
Software piracy drove sales of the Amiga. Every single Amiga owner I knew, including myself, pirated software. Though most did do the decent thing and buy the good titles. (Anything from Sensible, a lot of Microprose stuff etc...) The fact is being able to get free stuff was a MASSIVE selling point for the hardware.
A lot of people claim that piracy is what ultimately killed the Amiga. That was completely untrue in my experience. What really killed the Amiga was id Software releasing "Doom".
That'd be awesome if they did that. One thing that has always pissed me off is how nothing ever changes in the game. Those poxy gnomes have been running out of Gnomeregan for 3 goddamn years now! The big thing they did, with the pyramid things outside the cities (I completely forget what they were now) would have been awesome, except they HYPED IT UP before it happened. (And completely bollocksed it when it came out.) I think it's far better to spring huge stuff like that as a surprise. Stuff to make people say "Holy shit!" and think anything could happen. Even hardcore addicts I know begrudgingly agree with me that, despite Blizz claiming it's an "ever changing world", nothing ever changes, and it's by and large the same crap for years.
I don't know what other MMORPG's are like in regards to changing the game world. I remember Matrix Online offed Morpheus in the game. Anyone care to make a comparison? Because I like WOW (most of the time) but nothing in the world ever changes. There is no random element to it to imply a living, breathing world.
Awesome cinematic... Cool to see Sauron... I mean Arthas... (Peter Jackson has a lot to answer for.)
Yeah, that's not an open beta IMO. People who pre-ordered should have been in the closed beta. The open beta should be just that, no caveats. I ALMOST pre-ordered a few months back but managed to restrain myself. Glad I did as this is shaping up to be an absolute disaster. Cities ripped out, classes ripped out etc... Fairly certain they'll be included in the first expansion, which of course means those who pre-ordered before that happened will essentially be paying for the same content twice.
Really disappointed with how Mythic have done everything in recent months.
I don't usually waste time on AC's, but you are clearly new around here. Having been using this site for some 10 years now, it's not unusual for a book to be bashed. "News for Nerds, Stuff the Matters".
This is news for nerds. It's a warning to avoid the book. It is stuff that matters, if you like to not waste money.
Now grow a set and post with a real username in future.
The guy was working. He shouldn't have been playing with his dick on the job. He deserved to be fired.
Given the issues with corrupt GM's in Eve Online, having any GM in a game open to exploitation due to past acts or even the implication of such is going to be a problem.
I fail to see the problem with this.
And it's certainly a cyberfuck he'll never forget.
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Why do people always bring up the health insurance bollocks? If you have a car, you subsidize bad drivers. But you never see endless tirades on that. No, the silence is almost deafening. No, gotta get in the dig at fat people don't you, even though there's increasing evidence that there is a LOT more at work than eating junk food and lacking exercise behind obesity.
See if you can mention some other archaic internet tools. Go on, GOPHER IT!!!
Please get your facts right, or at least fill things out more. You get 3 installs OUT OF THE BOX. If you need more, you have to contact EA. This is no different than a lot of other online licensing mechanisms. (Trymedia for example.)
I bought Spore, downloaded the crack and used that. Game works fine, online works fine. No authentication needed so I've used zero activations. Don't give a flying shit about anything else EA has in the pipeline so they can sell the games with zero authentications for all I care.
I know it's a ridiculous situation, but people should still get their facts right. This ain't Digg after all!
Nobody would accept such restrictions in other avenue of their life, and rightly so. And you'd think EA, given they publish Valve's stuff, would use Steam. Instead they use their pitiful EA Download Manager which I've heard nothing but bad things about.
I've had experience with various software that has activations, the biggest one being rFactor and while I've not used all 5 activations myself, I know plenty of people who have and they've gotten new activations within a few hours.
Of course if you use the crack for Spore and have a legit version, this is all irrelevant. I'm happily playing it with the online content, everything works fine. I just don't have to fuck around with activations, and I don't have that Securom crap on my system. Of course sadly I also count as a sale toward the total showing "People don't care".
Wish Wright was with someone else:(
Plus these people are COMPLETELY WRONG! After you burn the 3 installs you have to contact EA. While it can be a tedious process and you may have to wait a while, you are NOT OUT $50 WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH 3 INSTALLS. If you're going to start an organized protest against Electronic Arts at least get your facts right.
Don't get me wrong. EA suck. I bought Spore yesterday, and the first thing I did when I installed it was to use the crack. I'm happily running the game on 4 machines, none of which have any issues, and I've burned zero of three activations in doing so. I almost never buy EA stuff because I don't like supporting them, but my love for Will Wright's stuff outweighs their evil in this case for me.
The protest is a great idea to draw attention, but really, GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT FIRST! Just like I keep reading supposedly knowledgeable people saying it's got Starforce!
So long as the stroke isn't you stroking Bill's gyrating ass...
There you go, bastards, ENJOY THAT MENTAL IMAGE!
I think the ad agency behind this must be secretly owned by Steve Jobs. "Mwahaha... First we'll spend ten million on a comedian who ceased being funny or relevant a decade ago... Then... Oh what can we do... Let's have Bill shake his booty on national TV. YES! YES! GOD YES!"
That may be one of the oddest and most horrifying things I've ever seen. Gates shaking his ass.
YOU ARE NOT BEYONCE!
If you like Hamster, you really should read his book (or get the audio version like I did). Fascinating and scary stuff what he went through.
And I think it was probably actually craving it. Seems way too coincidental that he'd just happen to start liking celery.
Regardless, I'm still happy Hammond is okay. He's apparently the prime candidate to anchor the F1 coverage when it returns to the BBC next season.
And I am still very sad about the death of Geoffrey Perkins.:(
Hammond can also remember phone numbers now, something he never used to be able to do.
Recent studies have shown that celery actually contains chemicals which help the brain repair itself in the case of an injury, making Hammond's taste for celery very interesting.
Did you even READ my post beyond a cursory glance? Because I'll be DAMNED if I can find any mention of NR2003's graphics. I mention that folk I know who are paying and playing on iRacing say the graphics aren't fantastic. That's it. Show me where I say anything about NR2003's graphics.
Do you actually KNOW Kaemmer? (Assuming you aren't him or one of his acolytes, since you don't have the balls to post with a real account.) Just curious, because I've spoken to several people who do, and they all say while he's very talented (no argument here), that the man is an asshole. One of these people was closely involved with him in earlier projects.
The mere fact him and his group were threatening customers of his own sim, NR2003, with legal action makes him one step removed from the RIAA, if that.
Happy you've drunk the Kool Aid, but if someone acts like an asshole, people who know them say they're an asshole, generally they're an asshole.
Really? Fuck me, I never knew any of that! Though my exposure to the SCCA is largely just from the yearly Runoff's.
iRacing is simply the MMO business model applied to the racing genre. Sadly a bunch of my race sim buddies have fallen for Dave Kaemmer's bullshit and subscribed. However the reviews I'm hearing from folk are primitive graphics etc...
Papyrus know how to do racing physics. Grand Prix Legends is ten years old and still holds it's own on the current crop of sims from ISI, Simbin etc... But this just screams of publicity stunt. It's basically a subscription based ranking system. It's kinda like a virtual SCCA.
Dave Kaemmer stuck a stake through the heart of the NR2003 community when iRacing first came into being as First Racing, and threatened a bunch of folk with lawsuits, actually DID take Tim McArthur to court if I recall (ultimately settled out of court), just so they could reuse code from NR2003 for this thing. Apparently modding a now five year old video game was somehow damaging their business. They changed their name to iRacing after all the bad publicity of threatening their potential customers with legal action.
I'll stick to sims made by DECENT companies who don't screw their users over, thanks.
I believe they all use lithium batteries to store the power. The actual devices that generate the power, there's electronic, mechanical, and a hybrid system. I THINK Williams are the only team trying a hybrid system.
The iPod Touch easily blows away every other MP3 player out there. I have had lots of different MP3 players, and the Touch was the one that finally got me on the iPod train. The device, even after having one eight months, still blows my mind it's so good.
I wish there was a button that instantly electrocuted all AC's testicles. What is your point?
Yes it was massively pirated. What is your point? It sold a huge number as well. Just like Quake. That was massively pirated, had no copy protection and sold huge.
Software piracy drove sales of the Amiga. Every single Amiga owner I knew, including myself, pirated software. Though most did do the decent thing and buy the good titles. (Anything from Sensible, a lot of Microprose stuff etc...) The fact is being able to get free stuff was a MASSIVE selling point for the hardware.
A lot of people claim that piracy is what ultimately killed the Amiga. That was completely untrue in my experience. What really killed the Amiga was id Software releasing "Doom".
That'd be awesome if they did that. One thing that has always pissed me off is how nothing ever changes in the game. Those poxy gnomes have been running out of Gnomeregan for 3 goddamn years now! The big thing they did, with the pyramid things outside the cities (I completely forget what they were now) would have been awesome, except they HYPED IT UP before it happened. (And completely bollocksed it when it came out.) I think it's far better to spring huge stuff like that as a surprise. Stuff to make people say "Holy shit!" and think anything could happen. Even hardcore addicts I know begrudgingly agree with me that, despite Blizz claiming it's an "ever changing world", nothing ever changes, and it's by and large the same crap for years.
I don't know what other MMORPG's are like in regards to changing the game world. I remember Matrix Online offed Morpheus in the game. Anyone care to make a comparison? Because I like WOW (most of the time) but nothing in the world ever changes. There is no random element to it to imply a living, breathing world.
Awesome cinematic... Cool to see Sauron... I mean Arthas... (Peter Jackson has a lot to answer for.)
Say it again.
You make me long for the halcyon days of Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, and hot grits.
Yeah, that's not an open beta IMO. People who pre-ordered should have been in the closed beta. The open beta should be just that, no caveats. I ALMOST pre-ordered a few months back but managed to restrain myself. Glad I did as this is shaping up to be an absolute disaster. Cities ripped out, classes ripped out etc... Fairly certain they'll be included in the first expansion, which of course means those who pre-ordered before that happened will essentially be paying for the same content twice.
Really disappointed with how Mythic have done everything in recent months.
This isn't going to be a disastrous release at all is it! 11 day open beta? With half the content now removed.
Earlier this year I was really excited for this game but the release looks like it has epic fail written all over it.
Hope I'm wrong, as the game truly has some innovation going on, but man...
I don't usually waste time on AC's, but you are clearly new around here. Having been using this site for some 10 years now, it's not unusual for a book to be bashed. "News for Nerds, Stuff the Matters".
This is news for nerds. It's a warning to avoid the book. It is stuff that matters, if you like to not waste money.
Now grow a set and post with a real username in future.
The guy was working. He shouldn't have been playing with his dick on the job. He deserved to be fired.
Given the issues with corrupt GM's in Eve Online, having any GM in a game open to exploitation due to past acts or even the implication of such is going to be a problem.
I fail to see the problem with this.
And it's certainly a cyberfuck he'll never forget.
I think this is awesome news personally.
Next stop: Cold fusion! :)