Hmm, I guess I should've specified that it does depend on the game. Mario Kart is an exception.
But from the wiki: "Also, as with Game Boy games, some games that require both players to have a Nintendo DS Game Card for multiplayer play will not work together if the games are from different regions (e.g. a Japanese Nintendo DS game may not work with a North American Nintendo DS game, though some titles, such as Mario Kart DS, are mutually compatible). With the addition of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, certain games can be played over the Internet with users of a different region game."
For example, I do know some of my import games do not say "connect worldwide" but only say "connect with people in Japan" with no other options.
The sites mentioned are severely lacking in doujin/Japanese PC games like the Touhou series and a lot of the Higurashi stuff (the original PC version only costs about $20 instead of $60-100 for the PS2 version). Similar situation with Fate/Stay Night.
http://www.himeyashop.com/ and http://www.paletweb.com/ fill that void quite well, especially for non-console gamers like me.
It actually is in quite a few places. The wiki entry on it discusses its legality in many countries. Heck, even the image being used for the entry gets a lot of heated discussion because some versions of it weren't legal for some Wikipedia users.
It's actually surprising to me that it took this long for such a law to be passed. It's pretty much the exact same reasoning people use against digital/drawn/fake child porn being banned, because it will supposedly turn people into evil pedophiles.
With their Simplified Chinese, which made sense back when people had to write them down to save the number of strokes required, but doesn't make sense now that people just type it on the computer in the same number of keystrokes.
That's because it's the official name on our passports (surprise surprise when you're doing visas!)
Ask any regular Taiwanese where they're from in any othe context, and they'll say Taiwan.
Perhaps it's time they learn to stop wasting all that money on graphics and console games?
Let's see, Tsukihime and Higurashi both sold over 100,000 copies. Granted, they sell for like $10 in Japan, but the development costs certainly don't reach the $8m average for PS2 games stated in that article. These two are visual/sound novels (think choose-your-own-adventure books in game form really, but with computer enhancements).
Meanwhile, the Touhou game series is so popular it has its own annual conventions in Japan where all the fans sell music arrangements and other stuff based on the game (there's something to be said for having a culture that's not so anal on copyright like the US). The third one just happened this month. Keep in mind, the actual games are made by a single guy! Engine, artwork, and music.And that's with the game being a danmaku shmup, which isn't a very popular genre either (compared to FPS, RPG, RTS, or [ick] sports games). Example gameplay vid (my own)
And the key phrase is "as long as the source stands"
Sources actually disappear quite frequently. Sources sometimes get overloaded if it's a hot topic (hence why we have mirrors). Sources don't like direct-linking in the case of images and big files because you waste their bandwidth.
Well, I did get the game legally, but I didn't exactly buy it because I got it for free when Drengin.net transitioned into Totalgaming.net. But I would've bought it anyway if I wasn't getting it for free.
So let me get this straight. In a game where teammates are important, you purposefully gimp yourself by going SOLO?
That's like one guy going against a raid in WoW and complaining he couldn't win and got corpse-camped.
But you apparently misunderstood my argument. I'm talking about YOU finding a few friends of your own and travelling in a gang so that when you DO get jumped, you actually have a fighting chance. Your friend scrambles and shuts down that lone decked out multi-billion ISK Tech II/Faction ship with full Tech II weaponry while you blow it up.
Ever heard of the phrase, don't fly what you can't afford to lose? That ship you lost should NOT affect you that greatly because of insurance. It's the equipment on it, and the improvement from equipment frankly does not scale with the price for it. Several hundred thousand isk per piece of ISK on your ship versus the the several hundred MILLION Tech II/Named equipment on their ships. What, you think Named equipment grows on trees?
There's only so much skills can actually help you in combat. Several million skill points will be dedicated to specific line's of race ships. If you're not flying that race's ships, those points aren't gonna help. If you're flying a missile boat, those gunnery skills aren't gonna really help. If you aren't using EW, most of those EW skills aren't gonna help, and so on.
Until your ship gets blown up due to a gank, then you lose those billions you spent on that one basket of eggs.
Equipment in Eve only really matters one on one, but if you're badly outnumbered, that little bit of improvement from the overpriced equipment isn't going to mean squat.
More fun. All fighting. More risk of course. Missions have the least risk, pirating the most risk (basically PVP), but the rewards can be much higher.
And mining in Empire space is of course going to be boring. Mine in 0.0 instead and I dare you to go AFK during your job.
Also, mining by yourself is inefficient (and naturally boring). That's why corps have mining operations. Miners, haulers, and escorts.
When did you subscribe? You should've received GC2 for free (and been in the beta) already if you were a subscriber before a certain date, around summer last year.
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Hmm, I guess I should've specified that it does depend on the game. Mario Kart is an exception.
But from the wiki: "Also, as with Game Boy games, some games that require both players to have a Nintendo DS Game Card for multiplayer play will not work together if the games are from different regions (e.g. a Japanese Nintendo DS game may not work with a North American Nintendo DS game, though some titles, such as Mario Kart DS, are mutually compatible). With the addition of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, certain games can be played over the Internet with users of a different region game."
For example, I do know some of my import games do not say "connect worldwide" but only say "connect with people in Japan" with no other options.
Not quite the world. DS wi-fi are region-limited oddly enough. So if you bought it in the US you could only play wi-fi with other US players.
The sites mentioned are severely lacking in doujin/Japanese PC games like the Touhou series and a lot of the Higurashi stuff (the original PC version only costs about $20 instead of $60-100 for the PS2 version). Similar situation with Fate/Stay Night. http://www.himeyashop.com/ and http://www.paletweb.com/ fill that void quite well, especially for non-console gamers like me.
They're called micropayments and premium modules.
It actually is in quite a few places. The wiki entry on it discusses its legality in many countries. Heck, even the image being used for the entry gets a lot of heated discussion because some versions of it weren't legal for some Wikipedia users.
It's actually surprising to me that it took this long for such a law to be passed. It's pretty much the exact same reasoning people use against digital/drawn/fake child porn being banned, because it will supposedly turn people into evil pedophiles.
by using cheatsheets like the one at http://gethuman.com/
I heard a few of those lasted over 24 hours.
With their Simplified Chinese, which made sense back when people had to write them down to save the number of strokes required, but doesn't make sense now that people just type it on the computer in the same number of keystrokes.
No... they'd be dead from the poison.
On the other hand, you'll have a pile of formerly starving dead people.
How about the actual video sequence? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YG8Sg6Dx0k
That's because it's the official name on our passports (surprise surprise when you're doing visas!) Ask any regular Taiwanese where they're from in any othe context, and they'll say Taiwan.
Would owning one give people the wrong (or right?) signal?
Perhaps it's time they learn to stop wasting all that money on graphics and console games?
Let's see, Tsukihime and Higurashi both sold over 100,000 copies. Granted, they sell for like $10 in Japan, but the development costs certainly don't reach the $8m average for PS2 games stated in that article. These two are visual/sound novels (think choose-your-own-adventure books in game form really, but with computer enhancements).
Meanwhile, the Touhou game series is so popular it has its own annual conventions in Japan where all the fans sell music arrangements and other stuff based on the game (there's something to be said for having a culture that's not so anal on copyright like the US). The third one just happened this month. Keep in mind, the actual games are made by a single guy! Engine, artwork, and music.And that's with the game being a danmaku shmup, which isn't a very popular genre either (compared to FPS, RPG, RTS, or [ick] sports games). Example gameplay vid (my own)
And the key phrase is "as long as the source stands" Sources actually disappear quite frequently. Sources sometimes get overloaded if it's a hot topic (hence why we have mirrors). Sources don't like direct-linking in the case of images and big files because you waste their bandwidth.
Like the family members in the season with the wedding, or that senator's son who was interrogated, and so on.
Considering that curiousity killed the cat.
Well, I did get the game legally, but I didn't exactly buy it because I got it for free when Drengin.net transitioned into Totalgaming.net. But I would've bought it anyway if I wasn't getting it for free.
Methinks you missed the joke.
And then you put that thing next to your face?!
So let me get this straight. In a game where teammates are important, you purposefully gimp yourself by going SOLO?
That's like one guy going against a raid in WoW and complaining he couldn't win and got corpse-camped.
But you apparently misunderstood my argument. I'm talking about YOU finding a few friends of your own and travelling in a gang so that when you DO get jumped, you actually have a fighting chance. Your friend scrambles and shuts down that lone decked out multi-billion ISK Tech II/Faction ship with full Tech II weaponry while you blow it up.
Ever heard of the phrase, don't fly what you can't afford to lose? That ship you lost should NOT affect you that greatly because of insurance. It's the equipment on it, and the improvement from equipment frankly does not scale with the price for it. Several hundred thousand isk per piece of ISK on your ship versus the the several hundred MILLION Tech II/Named equipment on their ships. What, you think Named equipment grows on trees?
Not necessarily.
There's only so much skills can actually help you in combat. Several million skill points will be dedicated to specific line's of race ships. If you're not flying that race's ships, those points aren't gonna help. If you're flying a missile boat, those gunnery skills aren't gonna really help. If you aren't using EW, most of those EW skills aren't gonna help, and so on.
Until your ship gets blown up due to a gank, then you lose those billions you spent on that one basket of eggs.
Equipment in Eve only really matters one on one, but if you're badly outnumbered, that little bit of improvement from the overpriced equipment isn't going to mean squat.
More fun. All fighting. More risk of course. Missions have the least risk, pirating the most risk (basically PVP), but the rewards can be much higher. And mining in Empire space is of course going to be boring. Mine in 0.0 instead and I dare you to go AFK during your job. Also, mining by yourself is inefficient (and naturally boring). That's why corps have mining operations. Miners, haulers, and escorts.
When did you subscribe? You should've received GC2 for free (and been in the beta) already if you were a subscriber before a certain date, around summer last year.