I could get along with this guy. I am a huge Diablo fan as well. It was my first online experience - I still remember those dial-up days where the only reason the internet seemed to exist was so I could hunt monsters under Tristram with my school friends. Now Diablo 3 is on the horizon and it is the most excited I have been for a game since I was a kid.
I wish they would go with the Mojang model. Sell us a 'pre-release' that will automatically 'upgrade' to 'retail version' on their targeted release date. Just give me the full game now and patch in whatever it is you're doing when that Q2 rolls around.
Steam still hasn't announced their direct deposit functionality yet whereby your paycheck is automatically deposited into your steam account. C'mon, Valve, quit slacking!
To those who doubted the protest *sticks tongue out*
Yes, congratulations. They've managed to make everyone pretend to pull back temporarily so they can find other insipid ways to push through the same legislation. This same furor was raised during DMCA legislation and it eventually found its way into law. So will this. There may be slight changes, but the meat of the infringement will still exist. All that has been accomplished is that they have realized that they need to be more discreet about this, next time (they figured that only a few engineering nerds would catch on to this and the rest of the population wouldn't bother).
Those people who think anything meaningful and long term has been accomplished are probably too young to understand how these patterns play out. They're the same kids who voted for Obama this past election under the premise that he was finally a non-regular politician. Why, after more than two-hundred years, THAT was going to be the time they finally had someone who wasn't "business as usual". And then they discovered that he was. The same thing will happen this next election (and no matter who wins, they will be the same business as usual figure as every other has been).
It's great that there is enough outcry that it has at least inconvenienced legislators a little bit. But in the end, it's just an inconvenience. And . . . where have these people who suddenly give a damn been the last fifteen years?
You're right. Protests never work. We should never attempt to protest and should just roll over without question. Good post.
If you don't fight, you have no right to complain when rights goes away. Cynicism is a terrible disease.
I don't know if you're responding to me or the guy I was responding to, Branthog, but I think I should clarify that I was be sarcastic in response to him. I think that Branthog, and people like him, grossly underestimate the value of raising awareness. He talks about how this will be a short-term victory and that this is little more than an annoyance but that is kind of the point. It is meant to be annoying and a proof-of-concept of how the internet could evolve if such legislation passes. I think this campaign is doing exactly what it intends to do: Raise awareness and get discussion flowing with some public discourse. Case in point - Branthog's diatribe. Sure, I may not agree with it, but fact is he is here discussing the issue, even if he is just rambling on about the ineffectual qualities of protesting like this. He is, in a sense, exacerbating the issue for his own standpoint - not quelling it.
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