The case has at least a bit of merit so it's wrong to just toss it out a priori. The legal system was unfortunately designed without a thought about the cost of a proper lawyer for a regular citizen so it's not a good thing that the lawsuit has to proceed but the way things are set up it mustn't be thrown out without looking at it thoroughly.
That's marketing. Apparently Americans don't like movies and games where the important people aren't American, I recall a story about a game that was supposed to be about rebels in some Soviet bloc state trying to get the SU out of their country getting a rewrite so it plays in a Soviet-occupied America for that reason.
The name still exists. Currently Infogrames is wearing the face of that particular corpse but at least they have been around for pretty long so they're somewhat deserving of holding the name.
There's a slight difference between having a public TV station that competes with the private ones and banning all media that are considered "unbalanced" by the leadership.
It's the explicit racism that usually gets a party labeled as right-extremist. I have no idea what e.g. the NPD's fiscal policies are and I'd wager neither do they.
How often do revolutions result in actual freedom instead of the revolutionary leaders deciding that they have all the power to implement their own military dictatorship now?
The pope is more of an ultra-conservative Christian than any form of Nazi (remember, the Nazis hated the Catholic church). Before being promoted to the papal office he was the head of what's left of the inquisition. He might cause a fall back into the middle ages for the people who follow him but he won't lead them to fascism.
RUSE doesn't use the same DRM. That just adds to my suspicion that Ubisoft is just doing this to convince shareholders that the PC is dead and console games shouldn't get PC ports by killing the sales of their PC ports (except RUSE because that's the main version of the game).
Yeah, they really managed to keep me away from their Steam deals with their DRM bullshit. My connection can be pretty wonky and I don't want the game to commit suicide over something that shouldn't have any impact on it!
So are we talking about 2D or 3D platformers? 2D work perfectly fine with the keyboard, 3D require mouselook if you want to use a keyboard or you can't run into the direction you want to go. Generally 3D platformers tend to be problematic on any system due to the perspective though. Some games manage to make the 3D aspect acceptable but it's never entirely great.
As for fighting games all it takes is practice, a keyboard isn't terribly different from an arcade stick and once you're used to it it's easier than a gamepad because you can use one finger per button.
Yeah, I had plenty of games where I got them cheap due to lacking interest but once I played them they were so awesome I would have paid full price. Brütal Legend wasn't among those for me though.
I got the GSB complete pack on a sale some time back, included all the DLC that was available back then. Overall I didn't like it much and there's no way I would have bought those race addons individually, $5 for a sprite swap? If we're talking about reasonable pricing try AI War Fleet Command, that game is gigantic, the DLC tends to be a major game-changer instead of just a sprite swap and the game gets constant and HUGE updates for free. They just did a complete engine replacement a few months back.
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Naah, the timeframe for the bet is orders of magnitude larger than the attention span of the media.
I bet the CCC already has a list of ways how that online card check could be tricked.
Or disclose it privately to the highest bidder looking for a way to create counterfeit games.
The case has at least a bit of merit so it's wrong to just toss it out a priori. The legal system was unfortunately designed without a thought about the cost of a proper lawyer for a regular citizen so it's not a good thing that the lawsuit has to proceed but the way things are set up it mustn't be thrown out without looking at it thoroughly.
By rights, there should have been an uprising against all this DRM crap and crappy laws. I wonder why it hasn't happened.
Because most people don't understand it. Everybody understands alcohol.
Call Tom Clancy, tell him you got a plot for him.
And as long as nothing has been derived from that GPLed code, of course...
That's marketing. Apparently Americans don't like movies and games where the important people aren't American, I recall a story about a game that was supposed to be about rebels in some Soviet bloc state trying to get the SU out of their country getting a rewrite so it plays in a Soviet-occupied America for that reason.
Sure. As long as they don't deny the player the winnings he already got.
From what I read playing that AITD remake alone is punishment enough, no need to rub it in with a lawsuit.
The name still exists. Currently Infogrames is wearing the face of that particular corpse but at least they have been around for pretty long so they're somewhat deserving of holding the name.
There are also building-sized LED screens but I believe they cost a bit more.
Says you, QWERTY supremacist!
There's a slight difference between having a public TV station that competes with the private ones and banning all media that are considered "unbalanced" by the leadership.
"Right" used to be pro-serfdom, pro-aristocracy, pro-imperialism. Their small government used to mean "one emperor, nobody else!"
It's the explicit racism that usually gets a party labeled as right-extremist. I have no idea what e.g. the NPD's fiscal policies are and I'd wager neither do they.
How often do revolutions result in actual freedom instead of the revolutionary leaders deciding that they have all the power to implement their own military dictatorship now?
The pope is more of an ultra-conservative Christian than any form of Nazi (remember, the Nazis hated the Catholic church). Before being promoted to the papal office he was the head of what's left of the inquisition. He might cause a fall back into the middle ages for the people who follow him but he won't lead them to fascism.
I guess Ubisoft is learning a lesson about the value of reputation the hard way.
RUSE doesn't use the same DRM. That just adds to my suspicion that Ubisoft is just doing this to convince shareholders that the PC is dead and console games shouldn't get PC ports by killing the sales of their PC ports (except RUSE because that's the main version of the game).
Yeah, they really managed to keep me away from their Steam deals with their DRM bullshit. My connection can be pretty wonky and I don't want the game to commit suicide over something that shouldn't have any impact on it!
HAWX is more comparable with After Burner than Falcon but that's not a bad thing.
So are we talking about 2D or 3D platformers? 2D work perfectly fine with the keyboard, 3D require mouselook if you want to use a keyboard or you can't run into the direction you want to go. Generally 3D platformers tend to be problematic on any system due to the perspective though. Some games manage to make the 3D aspect acceptable but it's never entirely great.
As for fighting games all it takes is practice, a keyboard isn't terribly different from an arcade stick and once you're used to it it's easier than a gamepad because you can use one finger per button.
Yeah, I had plenty of games where I got them cheap due to lacking interest but once I played them they were so awesome I would have paid full price. Brütal Legend wasn't among those for me though.
I got the GSB complete pack on a sale some time back, included all the DLC that was available back then. Overall I didn't like it much and there's no way I would have bought those race addons individually, $5 for a sprite swap? If we're talking about reasonable pricing try AI War Fleet Command, that game is gigantic, the DLC tends to be a major game-changer instead of just a sprite swap and the game gets constant and HUGE updates for free. They just did a complete engine replacement a few months back.