I don't think I've seen a good app, and really I'm sick of not logging in for a couple days and seeing like 40 requests for various apps. They also make people's profiles look like crap once you get more than one or two. They really need to include a feature "ignore all app requests".
Unfortunately it was only the first couple that took 6 months. As with any copy protection the first time takes you awhile, but after that it becomes a walk in the park to work around it. Once the aptly named "Starforce Fucker" program was released that was it for like 90% of games using Starforce at the time. Even prior to this games were playable as long as you had a clone and were willing to unplug any CD drives you had to play it.
The summary failed to cover the moderator who declared martial law banning so many people and locking so many threads that for once EA actually stepped in and publicly turfed them. With diplomatic language but for anyone paying attention it was quite obvious. Essentially anyone who dared post information based on fact that contradicted their opinion of the glorious cosmic orgy that was securom was due for a banning.
Some might say "The system works". However this moderator had been displaying this behaviour for longer than most people can remember yet EA looked the other way even with user complaints until she finally went off the deep end and banned too many 12 year olds who could dial the customer service line.
we covered it yesterday but we'll cover it again now. The Sims is not in good shape right now. They might be pumping out an expansion or stuff pack every other week, but that doesn't mean its quality or that people are happy with it. Most of the original development team is gone from what I've gathered (will took most of them to spore). The Sims is basically life support for the rest of the company and EA is doing their darndest to screw that up. Have a look at the community response to the switch from safedisc to securom, or the fact that they've reintroduced already fixed bugs in a subsequent EP because they weren't working with patched code. That screams amateur outsourcing.
The sims will be sustained on sheer name alone as long as there are 12 year old girls and bored housewives who don't feel like sleeping with the milkman. Its not foresight or skill on the part of EA. A retarded cross-eyed hobbit couldn't kill this.
its a mystery why the logo is still on that site when its been sanitized from everything The Sims (maybe that has something to do with it). EA is possibly hoping to cash in on the name one last time. You can bet if Spore doesn't turn in to the instant geek orgasm they're expecting, you'll never see the name again.
Yes, but that doesn't mean they're doing a good job of managing it. The bugs have been ridiculous, the community is a mess, and they make one boneheaded decision after another with them.
And the reason for that is because there has been a habit of filling articles with all kinds of garbage from random blogs. "Little John said in his blog that subject X is full of crap", lets put it in the article!!!1111
Great who is Little John and seriously why do we care? I can whip up a blog with 100 entries on all kinds of subjects in a day, there is no reason that it should be used to base article content on.
There has been a certain movement by some people which seem to think that any removal of even a word is destructive and improvement only comes from expansion and not from changing what's already there or removing stuff that's unhelpful.
EA is doing everything they can to kill of The Sims.
They've absorbed Maxis entirely at this point, you won't find the Maxis name on anything anymore. They recently just changed from Safedisc to securom on the series which has caused uncountable problems, and to sweeten it they've got a moderator on a rampage banning and screaming at anyone who dares defile the securom name, or even claim they're having a problem because of it. That despite the fact that they set up a forum specifically to talk about securom.
and who says in 6 months it will still be free? I can't count the amount of companies which have offered "free" calls only to turn around and start charging a few months later when they realize it costs too much.
I have a friend who works for a large ISP here in town and they do something like that but the thresholds are much higher. He told me a story about a woman who had been blocked multiple times but refused to clean the viruses off her computer but would call and bitch that she couldn't send any e-mail. I guess each time you trip the system and get blocked its a longer block. The last time she had called in he said it looked like she'd been blocked at least a dozen times based on the length of that block.
"This is a role playing game."
No its really not.
Its a hack and slash grind fest where people pump up their e-penis.
For the 4 or 5 people who want to roleplay (fairly impossible in a static world, you might as well play in a forum) they can have their mom/sister/aunt/grandmother/neighbour show up for 4 minutes.
unfortunately they don't let you sit there and watch them while they spend days and weeks coming through the contents of your hard drive and other media.
does it create a read only image that can never be tampered with? Given the fact that anyone can do just about anything, most digital evidence always leaves me lacking.
pandering isn't the same as knowing how to build a community. Much like knowing how to grab your ankles doesn't make your prison stay that much more pleasant.
Suing people would go a long way towards giving the sims fans a long needed kick in the teeth. They're the whiniest bunch of crybabies I've ever seen assembled in a single place. You might say "Well that's because there are so many kids there", while true the adults aren't any better. They are the only community I know of where there is such rampant commercialism among the fans. Which has led every 12 year old and stay at home mom who joins the community to think they can retire next week off the crap they just whipped up in paint. And then behave like the RIAA the moment someone else uses it, or thinks about using it, or makes something that remotely looks like if you apply half a dozen photoshop filters and squint.
Places like the sims resource require artists to sign exclusivity contracts and make various legal threats. in fact they really are the *AA of the sims world.
But hey if that's what you're looking for in a community, yeah, EA does a fantastic job.
considering a lot of those nerds will find their job outsourced to india....
not to mention regardless of what americans think they don't live in a bubble and what happens in other countries, even outside of terrorism, has ramifications inside the country.
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I don't think I've seen a good app, and really I'm sick of not logging in for a couple days and seeing like 40 requests for various apps. They also make people's profiles look like crap once you get more than one or two. They really need to include a feature "ignore all app requests".
Unfortunately it was only the first couple that took 6 months. As with any copy protection the first time takes you awhile, but after that it becomes a walk in the park to work around it. Once the aptly named "Starforce Fucker" program was released that was it for like 90% of games using Starforce at the time. Even prior to this games were playable as long as you had a clone and were willing to unplug any CD drives you had to play it.
The summary failed to cover the moderator who declared martial law banning so many people and locking so many threads that for once EA actually stepped in and publicly turfed them. With diplomatic language but for anyone paying attention it was quite obvious. Essentially anyone who dared post information based on fact that contradicted their opinion of the glorious cosmic orgy that was securom was due for a banning.
Some might say "The system works". However this moderator had been displaying this behaviour for longer than most people can remember yet EA looked the other way even with user complaints until she finally went off the deep end and banned too many 12 year olds who could dial the customer service line.
Splinter Cell chaos theory took months. Starforce was briefly successful on a couple of games. But didn't last in the long run.
The creative will be gone from those labs long before EA folds...
Did you just use EA and "break new ground" in the same sentence? without a negative? How do you sleep at night?
Atari didn't own bioware. You can also be sure that its unlikely that bioware will ever be involved in anything D&D again, not even in name.
we covered it yesterday but we'll cover it again now. The Sims is not in good shape right now. They might be pumping out an expansion or stuff pack every other week, but that doesn't mean its quality or that people are happy with it. Most of the original development team is gone from what I've gathered (will took most of them to spore). The Sims is basically life support for the rest of the company and EA is doing their darndest to screw that up. Have a look at the community response to the switch from safedisc to securom, or the fact that they've reintroduced already fixed bugs in a subsequent EP because they weren't working with patched code. That screams amateur outsourcing. The sims will be sustained on sheer name alone as long as there are 12 year old girls and bored housewives who don't feel like sleeping with the milkman. Its not foresight or skill on the part of EA. A retarded cross-eyed hobbit couldn't kill this.
its a mystery why the logo is still on that site when its been sanitized from everything The Sims (maybe that has something to do with it). EA is possibly hoping to cash in on the name one last time. You can bet if Spore doesn't turn in to the instant geek orgasm they're expecting, you'll never see the name again.
Yes, but that doesn't mean they're doing a good job of managing it. The bugs have been ridiculous, the community is a mess, and they make one boneheaded decision after another with them.
And the reason for that is because there has been a habit of filling articles with all kinds of garbage from random blogs. "Little John said in his blog that subject X is full of crap", lets put it in the article!!!1111 Great who is Little John and seriously why do we care? I can whip up a blog with 100 entries on all kinds of subjects in a day, there is no reason that it should be used to base article content on. There has been a certain movement by some people which seem to think that any removal of even a word is destructive and improvement only comes from expansion and not from changing what's already there or removing stuff that's unhelpful.
EA is doing everything they can to kill of The Sims. They've absorbed Maxis entirely at this point, you won't find the Maxis name on anything anymore. They recently just changed from Safedisc to securom on the series which has caused uncountable problems, and to sweeten it they've got a moderator on a rampage banning and screaming at anyone who dares defile the securom name, or even claim they're having a problem because of it. That despite the fact that they set up a forum specifically to talk about securom.
and who says in 6 months it will still be free? I can't count the amount of companies which have offered "free" calls only to turn around and start charging a few months later when they realize it costs too much.
I have a friend who works for a large ISP here in town and they do something like that but the thresholds are much higher. He told me a story about a woman who had been blocked multiple times but refused to clean the viruses off her computer but would call and bitch that she couldn't send any e-mail. I guess each time you trip the system and get blocked its a longer block. The last time she had called in he said it looked like she'd been blocked at least a dozen times based on the length of that block.
Obviously Lego hasn't been following the currency markets lately...
"This is a role playing game." No its really not. Its a hack and slash grind fest where people pump up their e-penis. For the 4 or 5 people who want to roleplay (fairly impossible in a static world, you might as well play in a forum) they can have their mom/sister/aunt/grandmother/neighbour show up for 4 minutes.
unfortunately they don't let you sit there and watch them while they spend days and weeks coming through the contents of your hard drive and other media.
does it create a read only image that can never be tampered with? Given the fact that anyone can do just about anything, most digital evidence always leaves me lacking.
obviously you've never woohoo'd...
pandering isn't the same as knowing how to build a community. Much like knowing how to grab your ankles doesn't make your prison stay that much more pleasant.
Suing people would go a long way towards giving the sims fans a long needed kick in the teeth.
They're the whiniest bunch of crybabies I've ever seen assembled in a single place. You might say "Well that's because there are so many kids there", while true the adults aren't any better. They are the only community I know of where there is such rampant commercialism among the fans. Which has led every 12 year old and stay at home mom who joins the community to think they can retire next week off the crap they just whipped up in paint. And then behave like the RIAA the moment someone else uses it, or thinks about using it, or makes something that remotely looks like if you apply half a dozen photoshop filters and squint.
Places like the sims resource require artists to sign exclusivity contracts and make various legal threats. in fact they really are the *AA of the sims world.
But hey if that's what you're looking for in a community, yeah, EA does a fantastic job.
considering a lot of those nerds will find their job outsourced to india....
not to mention regardless of what americans think they don't live in a bubble and what happens in other countries, even outside of terrorism, has ramifications inside the country.
That depends on the security settings in the group policy. 3 failed logins in the default. It can be many or none or that feature can be disabled.
view only still means a connection of some sort... unless you go with some kind of streaming 1 way technology.
and yet, in slashdot world that still counts as interesting, insightful, or just downright brilliant...
I believe the official industry term is "vise grips".