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Yeah, I bought the legacy pack. Damn, I've spent way too much money on STO.

I don't want to shit talk the Xbox, but sports or TV aren't really my things, and that press conference (or even the architecture talk) did nothing to convince me that was a system I really should get. Sony's press conference on the other hand was really effective in explaining the new system from a technical point of view and hype me up a bit for what that system could bring.

I'm primarily a PC guy too, but I'm pretty fond of the PS3 as well, and the PS4 seems to go for a lot of the stuff I'm interested in. I'm even considering buying it at or near launch, which I've never done with a console before. I didn't get the PS2 until around the time the PS3 launched.

Man, I've been trying to patch STO since yesterday now, the process is incredibly slow and after about 4-6 hours the Cryptic launcher crashes and starts from the beginning on next launch. I want to get into the Romulan expansion. :(

Edit: seems their servers are getting overloaded. I finally managed to patch the game, then it took 3 tries to get to the character selection screen (and another 6 minutes for it to load in the characters), and then 5 minutes at the next loading screen, and after that I just got in to see a message about the servers going down for maintenance in 1 minute.

Apparently they've added the option to change the perks you originally only got when you created a character, which is pretty neat.

Will give it another try tomorrow, maybe I'll even be able to create a Romulan character then.

I've got three federation characters in the fleet already, if you just want to add them to that list. Err, though since the character selection screen is down I can only recall two of them - Damur@fisk0 and Kaarra@fisk0.

You don't think that fee is to transfer the license for the game to another account, rather than allowing you to create another spawn (if anybody remembers Blizzard's old spawn system used for Diablo, StarCraft and Diablo II)? I'd imagine it disables the game on the original owner's account and activates it on the new one. allowing one disc to be used to install an infinite amount of digital copies, even if there's a fee attached, seems weird for a company like Microsoft.

Not quite, I had a PC about 10 years ago which didn't seem properly grounded, as sometimes you'd see sparks when connecting stuff to the USB ports. On rare occasions the system rebooted itself when you connected or disconnected USB devices too, but weirdly enough, neither the machine or any of the USB devices seemed to get damaged by it.

Wing Commander 6.

Sure, Chris Roberts is doing his own thing now which I hope will be awesome, but with the kickstarter budget we'll never get the FMV madness that was Wing Commander 3-5. EA could do it, maybe not well, but goddamnit, they could do it and I'd buy it instantly.

If I had that kind of money I'd invest in some used musical instruments.

I absolutely think more games should depict glass shards and fire as the hazards they actually are. As for graphical violence, that should probably remain on a game-by-game basis.

I wouldn't mind a new Soldier of Fortune (one made with an actual budget, not like that SOF: Payback from 2007), but the original SOF games were first and foremost great games, the gory violence was a bonus.

Could it be worth mentioning that whether or not you chose to join the Giant bomb corp, the Giantbombing chat channel that many GB users hang out on in EVE Online is also accessible from Dust 514? Just use the select button to enter the Neocom, then move the pointer to the leftmost column and move it all the way down to the + button, which will change to "Create/Join", there you just have to choose to join Giantbombing and you'll be talking to Giant bomb's Dust 514 and EVE Online players all across the world, though mostly EVE players, and the game will remember to reconnect to the chat every time you launch the game.

Yeah ... I finish like 2 games a year, and buy a hundred on sales and stuff. The amount of games in my Steam library that I've played "0.4 hours" or nothing at all of is pretty damn scary.