Henny

What is this Star Wars prequels you guys are talking about? First time I hear of this.

It's After Action Report. Meaning you report what transpired in your playthrough; usually in a myriad of ways. Your method is more narrative based.

Creative crowd sourcing is a dumb and bad idea.

Really depends on if you are talking about the original trilogy lightsabers or prequel ones. If prequel ones then the contention is easy to resolve. They don't exist.

Boy, if you have thought that investors breathing down your neck for the game to come out in order to make big Bobby bucks is daunting, think again. Diablo community forums are engulfed in infernal flames and drenched in blood over the pullback of the release date. I get a good chuckle over what a Blizzard employee would say at the earnings call on this...haha.

To me, the fact that Blizzard finally gotten round to contending the rights of the Dota name bothers me less than the actual timing of it. Why only now rather than ages ago when Dota2 got announced? All this seems somewhat unsavoury to me.

I don't mind it either way.

Borderlands GOTY please.

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@Henny said:

@ZeForgotten: A bit too quick to assume he is definitely going to be a pirate, don't you think? Maybe he will just borrow the games he wants to play from friends?

*cough*

That's my favourite part when I see people running around screaming bloody murder whenever someone mentions they pirated something. If they had of said they borrowed the game from a friend and played it no one would give a shit, but because he obtained the game by clicking a few buttons on pirate bay it magically becomes this crime against humanity and makes him the scum of the earth. There's no difference in the two other then how he got the games in his hands.

The borrowed copy was paid for by the friend at one point, though. .

Oh, so as long as the guy that uploads his copy to pirate buys it first it's ok? The only difference between the two is how many people they share it with.

So you don't know the difference between me lending you a copy of a game and you making a copy? That's fine, carry on living that way. Good luck, not in the mood to argue with someone like you about this stuff since it would be like talking to a wall.

You know what, I am with you in spirit. I think it's wrong to download games without paying for them. Really, the only thing I think would justify such a thing is idiotic DRM procedures which make the product worse if you buy it rather than download it. Such as Ubisoft's dial-home stuff (which made Heroes VI a bloody hassle for me since my internet was being shifty at the time) and, apparently, Origin. In Heroes VI I'd lose 40 minutes of progress because my internet connection would go down randomly for a couple of minutes at a time, preventing the game from phoning home so it would dump me back to the main menu without so much as a quicksave before doing so. WTF Ubisoft, I'm a paying customer.

Why should I pay money to get a product that is worse than the one I could get for free? That is not a sensible business model, is it?

Now take Steam, instead. It's a DRM system, but it feels more like a service. You can play your games offline if you want and the DRM generally isn't intrusive. Good old games is an even better example, where there is no DRM at all. Putting something you downloaded from GOG on Piratebay would be wrong without question.

So yes. Shitty DRM is the one and only reason I would consider downloading a game rather than buying it. I never do though, I just don't buy the game. Like Battlefield 3, a game I had been looking forward to since Battlefield 2. And I won't touch another Ubisoft game until they remove that stupid DRM which by itself managed to stop me from enjoying Heroes VI. I refuse to pay for a product only to be treated like I'm a criminal, when I could download it for free and just play the game and enjoy it for what it is.

I've never had a problem with Ubisofts DRM (or Origin for that matter) since the Ubisoft one is usually "Just stay online" and since I get what I pay for I have a connection all the time (why would I pay for something that I can't use, right?) But that doesn't mean I don't find whatever DRM Ubi puts on their game totally nuts. Anno 2070 had some weird thing in it that took away one of your activations of the game just because you changed your GFX Card! Stuff like that I find fucking weird.

I think the issue with some people justifying themselves pirating certain products such as ones with extremely intrusive DRM policies is that we as consumers lack a just and effective channel to voice our grievances with regards to the exploitation of legitimate paying customers. As long as there is a continued overly aggressive and ill advised method of DRM, this segment of potentially legitimate and loyal customers will be lost and more on the way as well as perceived good will amongst us continues to erode.

Smart and fair digital distribution platform is the battlefield (pardon the pun) in which forward looking enterprises should be looking to compete in. Case in point, compare Steam and Origins.

@ZeForgotten: A bit too quick to assume he is definitely going to be a pirate, don't you think? Maybe he will just borrow the games he wants to play from friends?

*cough*

Liam fucking Neeson - he fights almost everything and everyone - Dark Jedis, robots, evil traders, wolves, kidnappers, thieves, terrorists, Batman, the English, various animals and the White Queen as Aslan and the list goes on.

Fallout New Vegas please although LN was only in its predecessor.