Wait, doesn't Bleach let you damage cancel out of an infinite? It's only one bar too so it's much cheaper than, say, megacrashing out of a combo in Tatsunoko vs Capcom. Or is there something in the infinite that prevents you from using the damage cancel?
That depends on what the cheat does. Cheating in Diablo to alter your stats would of course have a massive impact but if you use server-side characters like in D2 cheating is limited to enhancing the interface and I don't think interface boosts are that useful in D2. Cheating in an RTS that uses P2P synced playing can't do more than maphack and possibly add interface improvements because the default one is shit (looking at Starcraft here). Strangely I haven't seen any maphacks in Spring RTS despite its opensource nature so you could trivially modify it to maphack, I have seen much more complicated exploits being used (like hijacking somebody else's position on the server by pretending to be him before he connects).
Well, some cheaters try to make it as subtle as possible. Others... not so much. I bet there were tons of cheaters in MW2 that I didn't notice but there was one who was so damn blatant I just had to stand next to him to tell he was using an aimbot.
Only works in game modes with friendly fire which unfortunately doesn't cover my favourite mode (domination). The limited playlists are annoying though they're probably still a better solution than the crap that's in some console games (The Conduit's voting is just... terrible along with everything else in that POS game that IGN overhyped).
I believe they actually stated the game will pause but if you keep the DDOS up for long enough people will lose patience and just quit the game without saving (the game is saved to the remote servers IIRC).
I think it's more security theater to placate the investors than actual anti-piracy measures. Saying that there's a huge number of interested people who could be convinced to buy it with some technical measures sounds like much more of a growth possibility than trying to figure out how to make your product actually appeal to more people.
A small number of boycotters were seen playing the game, remember that it sorts the users by their status and those playing the game will show up first. I think most people didn't care prior to buying MW2 (and they couldn't return it afterwards), if they ended up hating it they'll more likely show it by not buying the next CoD. I stopped bothering with the game some time ago when it became too overrun with cheaters and of course having no server admins you can't get rid of those (in addition to all the annoyances the shitty matchmaking has caused).
Dongles are too expensive for cheap consumer software anyway, throwing a shitty DRM on the disc is fairly cheap compared to adding a piece of hardware to every box. That'd hurt their profits more than the piracy. Considering how much they're already trimming the manuals down I think they're too cheap to add a dongle, cheap physical crap is reserved for the super expensive "collector's" edition.
Didn't Settlers hit the gutter after 2? All I heard about 3 and 4 was that people were disappointed and while they may have improved it in 4 somewhat it was still inferior to 2, hence the recent remake of 2 with modern graphics.
Here's an easy fix. STOP STEALING SHIT! If people would stop stealing shit like a serial rapist, they wouldn't feel the need to lock things down as if it were their daughter's chastity.
If people weren't pirating the shit the companies would still pretend they did because pirates are an easy way to claim that your product is appealing and you only need some technical measures to increase your revenue instead of admitting that the appeal of your product is limited and you need to branch out to see any further increase in revenue.
It does, the planet only has a certain amount of water on it and the part that is trapped in land ice is removed from the sea and thus lowers the sea level. If it melts it goes back into the sea and the levels rise.
Maybe the ITC will really bring more rain but the passat wind areas will still be dry as fuck, just hotter. The globe has several climate zones and each is affected differently. More snow in the temperate zone won't stop desertification in the tropics.
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I figure the Ayn Rand reference means he's trolling objectivists.
Wait, doesn't Bleach let you damage cancel out of an infinite? It's only one bar too so it's much cheaper than, say, megacrashing out of a combo in Tatsunoko vs Capcom. Or is there something in the infinite that prevents you from using the damage cancel?
That depends on what the cheat does. Cheating in Diablo to alter your stats would of course have a massive impact but if you use server-side characters like in D2 cheating is limited to enhancing the interface and I don't think interface boosts are that useful in D2. Cheating in an RTS that uses P2P synced playing can't do more than maphack and possibly add interface improvements because the default one is shit (looking at Starcraft here). Strangely I haven't seen any maphacks in Spring RTS despite its opensource nature so you could trivially modify it to maphack, I have seen much more complicated exploits being used (like hijacking somebody else's position on the server by pretending to be him before he connects).
Well, some cheaters try to make it as subtle as possible. Others... not so much. I bet there were tons of cheaters in MW2 that I didn't notice but there was one who was so damn blatant I just had to stand next to him to tell he was using an aimbot.
When MW2 was coming out I was faced with the choice of coughing up the cash to upgrade my PC
MW2 ran fine on my 5 year old PC, it's really not demanding. Was your system much older than that?
Only works in game modes with friendly fire which unfortunately doesn't cover my favourite mode (domination). The limited playlists are annoying though they're probably still a better solution than the crap that's in some console games (The Conduit's voting is just... terrible along with everything else in that POS game that IGN overhyped).
I think a keyboard actually comes pretty close to an arcade stick for precision because you operate each button with a different finger on it too.
Well, the iPhone has already demonstrated how that would work (answer:not very well).
I believe they actually stated the game will pause but if you keep the DDOS up for long enough people will lose patience and just quit the game without saving (the game is saved to the remote servers IIRC).
I fed the DRM to my donkey and it died. Thank you very much, Anonymous Coward!
I think it's more security theater to placate the investors than actual anti-piracy measures. Saying that there's a huge number of interested people who could be convinced to buy it with some technical measures sounds like much more of a growth possibility than trying to figure out how to make your product actually appeal to more people.
A small number of boycotters were seen playing the game, remember that it sorts the users by their status and those playing the game will show up first. I think most people didn't care prior to buying MW2 (and they couldn't return it afterwards), if they ended up hating it they'll more likely show it by not buying the next CoD. I stopped bothering with the game some time ago when it became too overrun with cheaters and of course having no server admins you can't get rid of those (in addition to all the annoyances the shitty matchmaking has caused).
Dongles are too expensive for cheap consumer software anyway, throwing a shitty DRM on the disc is fairly cheap compared to adding a piece of hardware to every box. That'd hurt their profits more than the piracy. Considering how much they're already trimming the manuals down I think they're too cheap to add a dongle, cheap physical crap is reserved for the super expensive "collector's" edition.
Didn't Settlers hit the gutter after 2? All I heard about 3 and 4 was that people were disappointed and while they may have improved it in 4 somewhat it was still inferior to 2, hence the recent remake of 2 with modern graphics.
I'm not buying games to crack them, if I have to break the law anyway I can just as well download the whole thing.
They don't make that many guns.
Here's an easy fix. STOP STEALING SHIT! If people would stop stealing shit like a serial rapist, they wouldn't feel the need to lock things down as if it were their daughter's chastity.
If people weren't pirating the shit the companies would still pretend they did because pirates are an easy way to claim that your product is appealing and you only need some technical measures to increase your revenue instead of admitting that the appeal of your product is limited and you need to branch out to see any further increase in revenue.
They want to label it all counterfeiting because it is much harder to take a reasonable stance against counterfeiting.
Why not call it child porn then?
It does, the planet only has a certain amount of water on it and the part that is trapped in land ice is removed from the sea and thus lowers the sea level. If it melts it goes back into the sea and the levels rise.
Maybe the ITC will really bring more rain but the passat wind areas will still be dry as fuck, just hotter. The globe has several climate zones and each is affected differently. More snow in the temperate zone won't stop desertification in the tropics.
Also those ships aren't in anyone's back yard (well, maybe the back yard of somebody the US doesn't like anyway) which makes this a whole lot easier.
Only if you take the dud bombs and whatnot back.
Concrete decays from the radiation and the cracks allow the liquid waste to leak out and reach the aquifer.
That stuff's toxic even if you ignore the radiation so I wouldn't advise eating it.
Mostly on the seas, sometimes below them.