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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=24768 |  Enkidu98 (90) Apr 04, 2012 - 12:44 pm
| To be fair though to Bioware.. How much of the issue is them and how much of it is their overlords at EA?
ME3 was a great game up until the end. I do think that there was unnecessary dumbing down at each stage from ME1 to ME3 but I understand the market forces that enforced those changes.
Nothing excuses the utter decline from DA to DA2. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=24599 | Enkidu98 (90) Jan 24, 2012 - 10:32 am
| Any idea if they fixed bugged out Radiant Quests?
I stopped playing this game out of frustration when several radiant quests were deadended and unable to be fixed via the console.
For example. Companions Quest 'Escaped Criminal' where the criminal somehow met an untimely end before I reached them and so now the quest is uncompletable. I can't resurrect and re-kill the criminal. I can't complete the quest with console commands (Well I can, but the quest giver then no longer ever provides quests and since this has happened on more than one companion quest giver it kills the entire line) and I can't advance the quest for the same reason, etc.
Its very frustrating and there are a lot of folks with the same issue and it almost always is related to Radiant Quests. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=24068 | Enkidu98 (90) Aug 25, 2011 - 11:23 am
| Where apple is making its money is in its restrictive App store and iTunes. They take a sizable chunk of every purchase.
Their hardware is not that much better than anyone else's and the only real cachet it has is their name and the idiocy of people who herd along and buy the products because they believe it confers some status.
Inevitably a competitor will come along and destroy their current business model and the cult of jobs will don their track suits, drink their kool-aid and welcome the transition into a new experience. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=24057 | Enkidu98 (90) Aug 23, 2011 - 10:38 am
| I hope publishers will begin to recognise that punishing your legitimate buyers in order to try to stem the illegal players is not the method to use. The illegal copies are still traded and often have, because of the lack of copy protection, a better user experience.
Find other, better, ways to ensure people are playing legit copies. I have no problem with additional content unlocked by a key so that the original purchase assures a better game and to try to stem the lost revenue of the secondary market.
I don't have the answers for other methods of better policing of their products and preventing piracy but that is also not my job.
all I can say that as a user always on DRM, Rootkits, etc are not preferrable as they tend to make me not want the products at all and thuse they lose me as a customer completely (I won't pirate games etc, so if a company turns me off with their policies, I'm gone) Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23904 | Enkidu98 (90) Jul 22, 2011 - 04:41 pm » Edited on Jul 22, 2011 - 04:43 pm
| Yer mom is shitty!
j/k
Depends on your tastes. A huge Bioware RPG which can be played in a mixture of single player and multi player looks intriguing to me. I am certain the single player portion of the game will be worth the purchase price and the multiplayer portions will likely justify the monthly expense. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23860 | Enkidu98 (90) Jul 12, 2011 - 09:16 am
| Yeah, I can understand wanting to pay the publisher to ensure they keep publishing good games, but I am not going to spend that much for intangiables.
Maybe $60 for that and $80 for a version where you actually get books etc... but even then you are pushing it on the pricing model.
If you can't hold on to the 'collectors' bits they really aren;t worth crap. Especially in the age of digital piracy.
Not impressed EA. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4686 | Enkidu98 (90) Jun 20, 2011 - 01:34 pm
| Or laws do not apply to them but international laws do, and China continues to flout these as well.
China wants full and unfettered access to the worlds markets but refuses to play by the rules.
I don't care what their peoples standard of living is. Their standard of living is irrelevant to the conversation. Their culture IS relevant. If it is a culture of thieves and pirates there is every good reason NOT to do business with them, not to allow them access to our products and technology.
Unfortunately there is still too much money to be made by the capitalist class here so they will continue doing business with China even though its only a short term gain turned into a complete bit of Chinese thievery.
We go even further and we can look at Chinese economic policy, their unwillingness to value their currency realistically because it will hurt their domestic markets.
This is what happens when we deal with a culture/nation like the Han Chinese. Its our own fault for listening to our corporate/capitalist class who saw the billion chinese as a potential market for their goods and they did not consider or do not care about the long term relationship as they were involved only in their short term/objectivist selfish goals. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4686 | Enkidu98 (90) Jun 17, 2011 - 09:29 am
| I'm not quite sure, outside of the greed of the capitalist class, why we do any sort of business or trade with China.
Personally I think we should give them their great internet wall and treat them the way they want to be treated by keeping their thoughts and ideas pure of western influence.
Let them join North Korea in the roll of great nations.
They have very little respect for international law and copyrights. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23621 | Enkidu98 (90) May 27, 2011 - 01:59 pm
| Maybe since China wants a great internet wall, we should give it to them. Cut china off from the internet.
Sure our corporate execs and those that have put the west in this perilous economic position would balk but let them squawk. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23588 | Enkidu98 (90) May 22, 2011 - 06:25 am
| Yeah, Dragon Age II was quite disappointing. Just because framed Narrative has worked for ME2 doesn't mean it was the best solution to go for in an RPG and what it did was make your entire experience meaningless. No matter what you did, things ended the same.
Also, I was SORELY disappointed by the consolisation of the game. Please, if you do a DA3 read the various reviews and community commentary and go back to having a real RPG. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23527 | Enkidu98 (90) May 06, 2011 - 10:36 am
| Please.. Everyone.. Stop the consolification of games.
Don't make me break out a box of crayons and my non-pointy scissors to send you a message about my discontent of making games too easy and removing all the complexity. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23520 | Enkidu98 (90) May 05, 2011 - 10:42 am
| These figures include chipset graphics etc as well correct (Integrated). It seems you mention this a few times.
This can make a huge dent in the overall figures. I'd think you are better focusing on the relative performance of the companies, their operating margins and profit figures etc.
I haven;t researched this, but I do have an innate dislike of the way information is presented in the media.
OH NO! Company lost 28% of its market share!
Seems innocuous enough, and it is 'accurate' but its also irresponsible and sensationalist infotainment reporting.
This should be even more frowned upon when you understand that much trading etc is being done by computer algorithms and based off of data being trolled from the internet via spiders and can thus seriously affect a share price for no good reason.
Additional market volatility which results in an overall market valuation that is distorted isn't good for anyone.. well except the Wall Street traders. And personally *&%^ them! Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23486 | Enkidu98 (90) Apr 28, 2011 - 01:56 pm
| Incorrect. A Car can be a source of entertainment just as a peice of software can. Not all cars are used as solely as a method of transport between points.
Additionally you are off on your analysis of the difference of ownership of software vs physical property but its fairly evident that attempting to discuss this with you would be futile. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23486 | Enkidu98 (90) Apr 27, 2011 - 01:32 pm
| What it does though is validates the concerns of people who have opposed this method of DRM etc since its inception.
When I buy a game, I should be able to play it, in its entirety and without handicap, whenever I please.
To be limited because it can not 'authenticate' etc indicates I am being denied something I purchased.
Would you be happy if your automobile would not start because it couldn't link to Ford's servers? Flag this | Edit this post |
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