It remains to be seen whether that move will allow SC2 the same popularity as SC. Given how many Lan parties that were out there where Starcraft was THE big feature, forcing everybody to route over the internet is going to kill it's popularity for that group pretty damn quick. Especially since the game was already guaranteed that unless they majorly fucked up it would make a major profit. Now they've bollixed a core game function in the name of stopping piracy, but that will probably have a more depressing effect than piracy ever would.
Go stand downwind from your local coal plant with a Geiger counter. The ndo the same thing with your local nuclear reactor. Tell me how that turns out.
*blinks* The Soviet reactors were built because they were relatively cheap and they worked. They were even safe,unless some government official deliberately configures the systems to overload and not cut out.
? Many cultures attempt to control what one thinks and feels, or do you think that kid in Chicago was killed because he agreed with the mindset of the people that killed him?
Um, no? Sure, Bush explored the Czar idea, but that was actually from the drug war, and the deficit, american spending habits, and the entire mentality of the housing crisis pretty much originated in the 70's and was radically increased in the 90's. I won't argue on the bailouts, but that's because bush wasn't conservative in the fiscal sense, just in the social.
Chasing all the jews out of his country/slaughtering them certainly wasn't in the interests of his country. After all, if he hadn't, Germany probably would have had the atom bomb first. For that matter, attacking Russia was a pretty dunce move as well.
40 hours minimum, assuming pretty fast playthrough and virtually no sidequests. You could get that down to 25-30 hours if you knew the dialogue and response choices ahead of time. Most playthroughs are said to end between 50-80 hours, with a truly complete playthrough possibly going to 120+. That's per origin of course, as well as certain companions. Change those and you change the game significantly, not to mention the choices you actually make in game.
Or you could not buy WK. Or you could buy the ONLINE collectors edition, forgo nifty real world items, and get WK instead. Or you could even buy the CE, wait for the pirated version of WK to come out, and download that. In a game with 100+ hours per thorough playthrough, as well as significant differences between companions chosen and origin started with, a single quest-line will not much be missed.
Except if you were paying any attention at all, you would know that the toolset the dev's themselves used will be available to the PC buyers. So mods will be an entirely separate issue.
Nickle and diming implies less value than cost, however a 3-7 hour in-depth quest line with a few items scattered throughout is well worth $7. It's certainly not flipping horse armor.
Harder? *sighs* The missing character is a tank character, of which there are 4 others. Whereas they're only two rogues and two mages. He's not any more powerful than they are, and you can only have three companions at a time. As for the story options, they're all directly related to the character in question, so you're not actually missing any of the game's storyline. As for the increased vulnerability, while the Blood Dragon armor will be nice, it is by no means the best armor in the game.
You mean like the Collector's edition which comes with a Steel/Wooden case(depends on locale), a cloth map of the play area, a soundtrack with the core orchestral pieces in the game, a making of documentary, various bits of flotsam, and three more minor but nifty in-game items?
And you'd be an idiot for doing so. The reason the WK DLC is coming out the same day as the game is because the game was delayed from May of 2009 to now to produce the console versions. Thus, the team they had working on the WK DLC finished it. So they had three choices: Release with the game for no charge, which would have been a complete waste of development. Delay the WK release for several months, in which case you wouldn't be whining like a little bitch because you wouldn't even know about it. Or do what they are, which is releasing with the digital CE to make up for the lack of nifty goods and charging a measly $7 to everyone else. That's less than the cost of a decent lunch.
Ah, but that means the study is measuring the wrong thing doesn't it? If the child eats candy, but also eats a well-balanced diet, then does he belong in this group? If the answer is no, then the metric they're using is flawed.
Nope, it's a cheap plot point, if only because no self respecting Objectivist would never design his utopian paradise in an inherently closed system Sealab. Space, I could believe, underwater, with all it's inherent expansion and material limitations, no fucking way. That being said, since an Objectivist society would never work without upwards of 95% rational actors, it's a moot point.
UNIQUELY? UNIQUELY? Pfffft. Yeah fucking right. The entire state of New Jersey, and much of the northern half of Illinois are easily more corrupt than Atlanta. Let's not even go into various bits of L.A. or New Orleans.
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It remains to be seen whether that move will allow SC2 the same popularity as SC. Given how many Lan parties that were out there where Starcraft was THE big feature, forcing everybody to route over the internet is going to kill it's popularity for that group pretty damn quick. Especially since the game was already guaranteed that unless they majorly fucked up it would make a major profit. Now they've bollixed a core game function in the name of stopping piracy, but that will probably have a more depressing effect than piracy ever would.
What happens when you bounce that thing off a Michigan pothole at 55mph? I'm guessing damned expensive repair job.
Go stand downwind from your local coal plant with a Geiger counter. The ndo the same thing with your local nuclear reactor. Tell me how that turns out.
*blinks* The Soviet reactors were built because they were relatively cheap and they worked. They were even safe,unless some government official deliberately configures the systems to overload and not cut out.
? Many cultures attempt to control what one thinks and feels, or do you think that kid in Chicago was killed because he agreed with the mindset of the people that killed him?
Um, no? Sure, Bush explored the Czar idea, but that was actually from the drug war, and the deficit, american spending habits, and the entire mentality of the housing crisis pretty much originated in the 70's and was radically increased in the 90's. I won't argue on the bailouts, but that's because bush wasn't conservative in the fiscal sense, just in the social.
Chasing all the jews out of his country/slaughtering them certainly wasn't in the interests of his country. After all, if he hadn't, Germany probably would have had the atom bomb first. For that matter, attacking Russia was a pretty dunce move as well.
Has Barack threatened to stone any women? No? Well then, still less evil than Ahmadinnerjacket.
40 hours minimum, assuming pretty fast playthrough and virtually no sidequests. You could get that down to 25-30 hours if you knew the dialogue and response choices ahead of time. Most playthroughs are said to end between 50-80 hours, with a truly complete playthrough possibly going to 120+. That's per origin of course, as well as certain companions. Change those and you change the game significantly, not to mention the choices you actually make in game.
Or you could not buy WK. Or you could buy the ONLINE collectors edition, forgo nifty real world items, and get WK instead. Or you could even buy the CE, wait for the pirated version of WK to come out, and download that. In a game with 100+ hours per thorough playthrough, as well as significant differences between companions chosen and origin started with, a single quest-line will not much be missed.
Except if you were paying any attention at all, you would know that the toolset the dev's themselves used will be available to the PC buyers. So mods will be an entirely separate issue.
They did add about 65 side-quests to the main game between then and now as well, but nothing that required truly major content creation like WK.
Nickle and diming implies less value than cost, however a 3-7 hour in-depth quest line with a few items scattered throughout is well worth $7. It's certainly not flipping horse armor.
It is if you buy the Digital Collector Edition, but that's because you don't get any nifty real world items with that one.
Harder? *sighs* The missing character is a tank character, of which there are 4 others. Whereas they're only two rogues and two mages. He's not any more powerful than they are, and you can only have three companions at a time. As for the story options, they're all directly related to the character in question, so you're not actually missing any of the game's storyline. As for the increased vulnerability, while the Blood Dragon armor will be nice, it is by no means the best armor in the game.
You mean like the Collector's edition which comes with a Steel/Wooden case(depends on locale), a cloth map of the play area, a soundtrack with the core orchestral pieces in the game, a making of documentary, various bits of flotsam, and three more minor but nifty in-game items?
And you'd be an idiot for doing so. The reason the WK DLC is coming out the same day as the game is because the game was delayed from May of 2009 to now to produce the console versions. Thus, the team they had working on the WK DLC finished it. So they had three choices: Release with the game for no charge, which would have been a complete waste of development. Delay the WK release for several months, in which case you wouldn't be whining like a little bitch because you wouldn't even know about it. Or do what they are, which is releasing with the digital CE to make up for the lack of nifty goods and charging a measly $7 to everyone else. That's less than the cost of a decent lunch.
Ah, but that means the study is measuring the wrong thing doesn't it? If the child eats candy, but also eats a well-balanced diet, then does he belong in this group? If the answer is no, then the metric they're using is flawed.
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Before? Any proof of that?
Make that ever.
Nope, it's a cheap plot point, if only because no self respecting Objectivist would never design his utopian paradise in an inherently closed system Sealab. Space, I could believe, underwater, with all it's inherent expansion and material limitations, no fucking way. That being said, since an Objectivist society would never work without upwards of 95% rational actors, it's a moot point.
UNIQUELY? UNIQUELY? Pfffft. Yeah fucking right. The entire state of New Jersey, and much of the northern half of Illinois are easily more corrupt than Atlanta. Let's not even go into various bits of L.A. or New Orleans.
Considering this is the sort of shit that .gov money should be used for and not ACORN funding, I fail to see the problem.
The over 280 million guns in private hands along with a volunteer military says if it happens it will fail pretty damned quickly.