They even made the Steam release date of Summer 2012 with a day to spare.
According to Google:
The last day of the (astronomical) summer (Northern Hemisphere) is on Friday, September 21, 2012.
I'm more interested how many of them actually own their games and downloaded the cracked version just to escape the horrid DRM...
As an example, I had to get a crack for Bioshock and Fallout III. I spent over a week on Bioshock going back and forth between CS agents until I finally said "screw it," and got a crack. The solution I was given when the same thing happened in Fallout III was to "upgrade" some parts of my system to something the DRM wouldn't choke on or go pound sand, so I got a crack for it too.
In both cases the games still ran off of the CD/DVD, the only thing that was different was the DRM was bypassed. It sucks that I've missed out on some releases since then but I've started checking up on what releases have what types of DRM before I buy and I've stopped buying games with bad DRM.
I've just got to ask, what's a "liberal fact"? Facts don't have political leanings. Facts aren't ideological. That's like saying gravity is right wing or red shift is centrist.
Ask Ruby Dhalla, MP.
In a recent letter to the editor in the Toronto Sun she accused one of their writers of disseminating "incorrect facts" about a bill she had proposed.
Forget political leanings, here in Canada facts can, apparently, be wrong!
Are they going to fine the phone company when I call my friend up and we arrange a road trip where he agrees to pay for half the gas?
This is a bad analogy because the phone company does not charge you for the service of connecting you with unknown persons for the explicit purpose of arranging the road trip. You are using their service for the purposes of doing so. That's not the same thing.
What about the message boards at colleges where drivers and passengers arrange for long trips back home? Sue the college?
The message boards (a) are provided by the schools for postings by students, students take the responsibility for the contents of their posts; and (b) are provided at no charge (in every case I am aware of).
Between the driver and passenger, which is a private transaction that has nothing to do with PickupPal. It is not a transaction between the driver, passenger, and 'arranging' entity (taxicab company). Now, if you want to go after a driver because he is accepting money for a ride without having a taxi license, then go ahead. But going after PickupPal is just absurd.
Except that PickupPal is, like a dispatcher, acting as an agent to connect the driver to the passenger and charging both for the service. That is the complaint. If two people meet by chance, either online or in person, and decide to carpool then yes, it's nobody's business. That is not the case here.
I think (and I could be wrong) that the moderators are being paid to weed out the meaningful questions and comments and present them to the upper echelon, and return to the players with meaningful replys.
The demands from the players to interact directly with the developers comes more from the castrated responces from the moderators and their own admitted uninvolvement in any decision process than a real desire to speak with the people who make the game.
Having read the discription of how the last Priest review was conducted (providing it was accurate) makes me wonder why anyone would want to do that job.
Perhaps putting a little more detail into the coming soon page, maybe answering at least 1 question from each of the forums each month (not all at once), or provide some sort of progress indicator would (I was going to say reduce the number of complaints, but that would be naieve) reduce the amount of animosity and alienation your players feel.
So here comes my question:
What are the challenges from the developers point of view with keeping lines communication open with the representatives in the field?
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They even made the Steam release date of Summer 2012 with a day to spare. According to Google: The last day of the (astronomical) summer (Northern Hemisphere) is on Friday, September 21, 2012.
the Parti Internationale Pirate Association ?
I'm more interested how many of them actually own their games and downloaded the cracked version just to escape the horrid DRM...
As an example, I had to get a crack for Bioshock and Fallout III. I spent over a week on Bioshock going back and forth between CS agents until I finally said "screw it," and got a crack. The solution I was given when the same thing happened in Fallout III was to "upgrade" some parts of my system to something the DRM wouldn't choke on or go pound sand, so I got a crack for it too.
In both cases the games still ran off of the CD/DVD, the only thing that was different was the DRM was bypassed. It sucks that I've missed out on some releases since then but I've started checking up on what releases have what types of DRM before I buy and I've stopped buying games with bad DRM.
I've just got to ask, what's a "liberal fact"? Facts don't have political leanings. Facts aren't ideological. That's like saying gravity is right wing or red shift is centrist.
Ask Ruby Dhalla, MP.
In a recent letter to the editor in the Toronto Sun she accused one of their writers of disseminating "incorrect facts" about a bill she had proposed.
Forget political leanings, here in Canada facts can, apparently, be wrong!
This seemed familiar somehow...
Same town, same complaint. According to the article he's part of this first group.
Another claim of sensitivity that didn't go very far.
You missed the last lines of the email:
The deadline for filing your comments is today (April 14 [sic]) at midnight, so hurry!
Regards,
Rocky
This DRM scheme worked and was even popular, at even shorter intervals, for The Typing of The Dead.
Are they going to fine the phone company when I call my friend up and we arrange a road trip where he agrees to pay for half the gas?
This is a bad analogy because the phone company does not charge you for the service of connecting you with unknown persons for the explicit purpose of arranging the road trip. You are using their service for the purposes of doing so. That's not the same thing.
What about the message boards at colleges where drivers and passengers arrange for long trips back home? Sue the college?
The message boards (a) are provided by the schools for postings by students, students take the responsibility for the contents of their posts; and (b) are provided at no charge (in every case I am aware of).
Between the driver and passenger, which is a private transaction that has nothing to do with PickupPal. It is not a transaction between the driver, passenger, and 'arranging' entity (taxicab company). Now, if you want to go after a driver because he is accepting money for a ride without having a taxi license, then go ahead. But going after PickupPal is just absurd.
Except that PickupPal is, like a dispatcher, acting as an agent to connect the driver to the passenger and charging both for the service. That is the complaint. If two people meet by chance, either online or in person, and decide to carpool then yes, it's nobody's business. That is not the case here.
I think (and I could be wrong) that the moderators are being paid to weed out the meaningful questions and comments and present them to the upper echelon, and return to the players with meaningful replys.
The demands from the players to interact directly with the developers comes more from the castrated responces from the moderators and their own admitted uninvolvement in any decision process than a real desire to speak with the people who make the game.
Having read the discription of how the last Priest review was conducted (providing it was accurate) makes me wonder why anyone would want to do that job.
Perhaps putting a little more detail into the coming soon page, maybe answering at least 1 question from each of the forums each month (not all at once), or provide some sort of progress indicator would (I was going to say reduce the number of complaints, but that would be naieve) reduce the amount of animosity and alienation your players feel.
So here comes my question:
What are the challenges from the developers point of view with keeping lines communication open with the representatives in the field?
I'd like to hear your side of this.