BlazeHedgehog

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#1 Posted by BlazeHedgehog (1002 posts) - 4 days, 23 hours ago
@wjb said:

@darji said:

@hailinel said:

@darji said:

@hailinel said:

@darji: If their jobs revolve around exploiting copyrighted material without consent, they're asking for trouble.

Where are these common sense people you are talking about?^^

Also again most publishers are totally fine. As for example Indies have huge sales increases because of this. Square Enix gave 100 LP and streamer early copies of FFXIII-2 without any regulations. They just had to play this game and then tell what they think about it. Capcom does the same. Hell they even do their own LP's from time to time. Yes Nintendo has all the right to do it but they are stupid if they do it because they are losing a ton of coverage and free Pr and instead gaining a lot of negative PR. Not even EA and Co do this stuff. So yeah Nintendo is worst than EA XD

People like @blazehedgehog. Read this thread.

And who is this guy? Is he important? Famous? Does he have any influence?

He has 1000 posts. He's kind of a big deal.

Also: "YouTube celebrity," lolololololol.

What is this even supposed to mean?

#2 Posted by BlazeHedgehog (1002 posts) - 7 days, 11 minutes ago

Did you expect any better?

You always hope.

#3 Posted by BlazeHedgehog (1002 posts) - 28 days, 1 hour ago

Dave. :( It won't be the same without you, man.

#4 Edited by BlazeHedgehog (1002 posts) - 1 month, 16 days ago

@blazehedgehog said:

@professoress said:

It is what it is.

C'mon, don't do that.

Sorry, don't do what? You mean don't wait until all the details are out, weigh the pros and cons against the price and make a decision then?

I'm confised, why do have I have to decide between "buying day one" or "wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole" based purely on whether it's always online or not?

"It is what it is" is like the worst phrase ever, though. You aren't saying anything when you say that.

#5 Edited by BlazeHedgehog (1002 posts) - 1 month, 16 days ago

So you're telling me that Microsoft, the company that has been able to keep such a tight lid on anything related to the durango even this close to the launch of their biggest competitor, somehow just let some dude tweet that....

I'll just wait until there is some concrete information from the source.

He didn't really confirm anything out loud, he simply said he doesn't know what the big deal would be. "Always On" internet DRM has been a hot button issue as of late - it's not like Microsoft are the only ones guilty, and if anything, previous experiences with this tech is what's leading the charge against such a feature.

It is what it is.

C'mon, don't do that.

#6 Edited by BlazeHedgehog (1002 posts) - 1 month, 16 days ago

The "always connected world" thing only exists in the fantasies of those that have dependable fast internet connections and corporations who think that "always connected" means "I can advertise to you whenever I want and you've gotta see it no matter what". Most of the people in this world aren't always online with all of their devices. My Xbox, when I was still playing it, wasn't always online, sometimes because I just didn't feel like seeing all of the advertisements thrown at me.

I often wonder how many gigabytes of bandwidth I've thrown in to the garbage by just letting my Xbox idle on the dashboard while it constantly streams in looping video advertisements. I can't imagine what that's like with strict bandwidth caps.

#7 Edited by BlazeHedgehog (1002 posts) - 1 month, 16 days ago

@blazehedgehog said:

@jimmyfenix said:

deal with it

Why don't YOU deal with it? Why am I the one who is dealing with it?

i dont have electricity so i can use my vacuum cleaner

Stupid new-fangled wifi powered vaccums ruining my videogames.

#8 Posted by BlazeHedgehog (1002 posts) - 1 month, 16 days ago

deal with it

Why don't YOU deal with it? Why am I the one who is dealing with it?

#9 Edited by BlazeHedgehog (1002 posts) - 1 month, 16 days ago

@jdh5153 said:

I agree with this guy. The internet is pretty much like electricity, it's always on, it's supposed to be that way. If your internet goes out you can go the fuck outside for 10 minutes.

My internet has been on 24/7 for over a year without a single outage, and I'm not even in a big city....People just always find something to cry and bitch about and the world goes on.

The world is an always connected world. The people who bitch about this are the people who still don't own smartphones and want to be all like "um fuck the internet, I'm too cool for the internet"

But not everybody has internet that's always available, or always stable. You're making a LOT of boneheaded assumptions about people you don't actually know because you've obviously never been in that situation yourself.

Like the bold text says: "Always connected is not excuse for not planning around what happens when there is no connection."

I should not be locked out of playing a singleplayer game just because it can't connect to a leaderboard database. There are decades of games before this where leaderboard databases didn't even matter, it was about the games themselves. Yes, having ubiquitous internet connectivity in a game is a great idea, but it's not always critical to the operation of a game, and pretending that it is critical is where this argument falls apart. Couching it in "This is the waaaave of the future" is just an easy way to get people to swallow a bitter pill. Because, well, gosh, I want to be part of the future, too! The future's cool! Or at least, it should be.

We are not at a point where I can say, "Diablo III is unplayable without an internet connection, and I can't imagine the game if it wasn't online". But Blizzard sure wants to force that ideal upon us. And if they want people to be more receptive to this concept, they CAN'T be forcing it on us, because that's how people end up hating things even if they are beneficial down the road.

This is a hamfisted way to solve a problem that to a lot of consumers doesn't even exist.

#10 Posted by BlazeHedgehog (1002 posts) - 1 month, 16 days ago

@the_laughing_man: I'm guessing it doesn't identify in the forums when something is posted as a blog, then? Thanks for the link, though.

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