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Hey, to hell with cookies! Please give me karma! [e digicons]:blush:[/e]

I'm looking for good team oriented people to play with if anyone is interested. [e digicons]:andrew:[/e]

A couple weeks ago I asked people to nominate Frogboy for the third annual Edge Game Industry Heroes Award (EGIHA). It is given to 25 people in the industry worldwide that engender respect for the profession and demonstrated superior ability in achieving lasting tangible positive results throughout the yea

Voted. [e digicons]\o/[/e] Sins is winning the Strat category and FO3 is winning the platform GoTY. Moreover Sins is up for a special achivement award for Best Competitive Multiplayer here Come on people vote. SD should send an email to its subscriber list and inform everyone of these things damn it. [e digicons]:banhammer:[/e] Also Galactic Civili

The game websites seem to be of low importance once established outside of auto news updates. I do hope that will change however.

[quote who="NickJames" reply="4" id="1987263"]The western world runs on this fondation. Thank you for your reply, I respect your opion.[/quote] I do yours as well and will defend it despite the fact I emphatically disagree with it, but that is what is so gosh darn awesome about liberalism. We can agree to disagree and still tolerate each other for the collective good of the community. [e digicons]B)[/e] [quote who="CobraA1" reply="5" id="1987304"]Love those blank

Love those blanket statements and one sided value system comments. Nonetheless many people do resort to infringement when they cant get the product legally or even reasonably. In my opinion conservatism especially the fundamentalist religious version of it represents the bane of society and abject naked greed fostered by a false sense of entitlement and pompous righteousness are the foundation of its ills.

The music & movie industries have the same problem. It comes down to the original owners selling out for short term gains. Those industries have been around for many, many years longer than video games and they have not resolved the issue yet. Moreover with the current direction of IPR and M&A activity on the part of media companies chances are small anything will change in general for them. Accordingly it is highly unlikely that the video game industry will as well.

Rod will get control of everything if I remember correctly. Lets hope he has matured a little this past decade. RIP

For me the short answers are: Killer AI Action Wicked Customization Options Extreme Immersion Factor [e digicons]:fuzzy:[/e]

[quote who="elias001" reply="14" id="1985045"] Now there are Creatures Parts for Spore for $19.99. I wonder what they are going to try to get people to buy next with Spore.[/quote] Skin and eye packs of course. [e digicons]8(|[/e]

I have suggested to BW staff to consider Impulse as well. So we shall see...

[quote who="Sa8aN" reply="7" id="1984122"]DRM like locks and alarms keep honest people honest, IMHO.[/quote] That expression is nonsensical - I have never liked it. One is either honest or they are not. To think honesty is a situational variable is pure bullshit and shows a lack of understanding of basic human nature despite what many would have you believe.

[quote who="MindTooth" reply="13" id="1983610"]If you are a norwegian, the price is just stupid. It is cheaper to purchase game from retail, rather then on Steam. Birger [/quote]Often that is the intent so they dont undercut the retailers. Otherwise the retailers will simply not buy the box versions.

There is still some time left people - et those emails sent!! It is good for gamers and you as well as the great Frogboy! [e digicons]:frogboy:[/e]

Well there are many threads that have stalled out due to lack of developer input to date, so I hope he gets back soon and starts to post up a storm so the community momentum can stay at its current tempo.

[quote who="arstal" reply="5" id="1982867"]Impulse is a lot better as a service then Steam. It just needs to catch up on the games end, which is the hard part.[/quote] Which is why allowing transfers for a nominal fee as well as adding supported disk based software purchases to accounts and transfers from other DD services would inherently serve SD interests since Steam does not allow any of that stuff. You would get more support, more options and better value all working togeth

[quote who="DerSenf" reply="9" id="1982697"]When intelligence and health should be prerequirements for reproduction, what's your problem with Adolf Hitler in the first place? [/quote] Let's not read more into it then intended. I did not mention ethnic, religious, educational or economic background. Basic intelligence, health and parenting skills with the majority of the emphases going towards parenting skills. Bringing children into the world is likely the most important

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="1" id="1982387"]China requires a license to have children, and the results are absolutely awful.[/quote] The license is for different reasons. As I understand it in China it is for population control and there is a heavy fee associated with additional children after the first one. The type of license I'm talking about would be for general intelligence, health and parenting skills.

@Lord - Steam does not allow transfer of titles except those purchased exclusively as gifts. I also suggested for SD to consider doing "ownership" transfers for a nominal fee before. Say $3 -$5 per transaction from Impulse accounts as well as adding titles to Impulse that people purchased the real world media for with a valid registration of course. That way it would get a "cut" so to speak and develop its customer base and if enough people do it, especially for add title to the accou

Defining market demographics based on reasonable reach with regards to product expectations is fine. However I doubt Joe's Pizza will tell a visitor at a local hotel or even one staying at a friend's house that they won't sell them a pizza since they are not local residents proper. Also refining ones business model to accommodate local market dynamics is fine and it is not inherently exclusive to ONLY local residents. Moreover your last paragraph makes my point. It is ridiculous for companie

OK. If you thought your childhood was bad because of your name then be grateful you were not born in this family. Oddly enough the little tyke looks a lot like Damien - Seriously! I can see all the playground "fun" this poor sod will have especially if he grows up in any metropolitan area. [e digicons]8O[/e] A follow up story is <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/12/16/cake_request_for_3_year_old_hitler_namesake_denied/?p1=Well_MostPop_Ema

I just read a very good article about the attempt to establish a business selling used digital products and the way in which the company is going about doing it. The article is a very good source of information regarding IPR and the modern market. I think it is something that everyone on these forums should read given the implications for game and for companies like SD &IC that sale stuff in the pure digital form via Impulse and arguably on disk. Would you like to know more? Then follow t

@GW Swicord - We are of similar mind in regards to the issues and desires you addressed in your last post. @Stowe - yes several of us and I like the EU:R system very much despite it short comings. There is a thread about EU on the forums. You should check it out.

[quote who="CobraA1" reply="1" id="1981951"]Great to see Sins winning so many awards - but some of the comments in IGN's comment section are kinda disheartening.[/quote] That is why we must speak up and post comments of our own. I did how about you? [e digicons]:cylon:[/e]