Rebell44

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[quote who="Krynus" reply="59" id="2644963"]I'd get a lawer, one of those small civil-suit ones. You paid for the game, you should be able to play it. Period. Anyway I'm adding Paradox to my blacklist, right under Blizzard, EA, and Activision, because of what I read on this forum. And so the list grows... yay. At least you accomplished something with this vent. Damn man, at this rate the only developers I'll still be doing business with will be S

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Update: [QUOTE]Originally Posted by jssap Hi, this is Rebel44. My second account was also banned without any reason (I didnt even have any posts anywhere). I also still cant access Metaserver. What the hell is going on? If I cant play multiplayer, access tech support etc. just because someone banned me I would like to request to get my 80€ which I spent on Paradox games in past 12 months back (HoI3, SF and AOD). Regards Rebel44 [/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Q

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I was told via PM to my new account that I will get final decision on wednesday. I was also told that my thread was seen as "inflamatory" by person who banned me - well posting about game still not working as it should (bugs, features not working correctly) and entire naval combat system being junk might be "inflamatory" but its not my fault those problems in game still exist. I paid 60€ (72$) for game + expansion and 10 months after release it still have majo

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[quote who="LuthienStarshine" reply="21" id="2641427"]Paradox's moderators might have honestly banned you because of your mention of casualty stats. Or it might have been just a excuse. I don't know. What I know is that it is foolish to critizice someone in their own home while giving them a very good excuse to kick you out. If you have to do it be ultrapolite, fully know the local rules and leave no openings for them other than enduring it or kicking you in a shameful w

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[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="18" id="2641406"] Quoting SpardaSon21 , reply 16 Did you continue to discuss them? [/quote] no. We continued our discussion via Skype.

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[quote who="celicakydd" reply="15" id="2641302"]I figured there were two sides to the story, which is why I refrained from posting until now. After following your example I also did a Google search and I see he posted the exact same topic on at least 3 other gaming forums as well. Seems like he's trolling a bit. [/quote] I am angry at Paradox so I posted it at 5 forums - I dont see anything wrong with that. Games tied to that

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[quote who="MetaNerd3ooo" reply="14" id="2641292"]Sorry to interrupt the bash-fest, but someone has to play the Devil's Advocate here. I've done a lot of digging in Google's cache, and I've found multiple points where you broke their rules. The threads were often locked and you were told exactly why, and then you said the same thing in another thread. Here's an example: Rebel44: "I am also disapointed by fact that HoI3 is still b

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[quote who="Tormy-" reply="5" id="2641035"] quoting post Problem with being banned is that to access MP server you have to use your forum login which is tied to you CD key so without it you are screwed... You should call them of phone or something....this is an outrage. [/quote] No phone number available (and I doubt that they would help me over phone). Also several more users dissapeared (and the

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[quote who="Orvidos" reply="1" id="2640966"]Forum access being tied into game access is something I've heard a lot about lately. Odd. As for Paradox, I've never had a major problem with them. (Aside from them allowing Majesty 2 to be made the way it was. Goddamn abomination) But surely there's someone higher-up you can contact about this? Or if not, some silly law somewhere you could chuck at them? *Shrugs*

Developer acting like 5 year old... in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Long story short: Some time ago I bought Hearts of Iron 3 (WW2 strategy) from Paradox - game was horribly broken at release and was never patched to the state where it wouldnt contain gamebreaking bugs. Today they released expansion called Semper Fi (it cost 20 bucks) which promised to fix most problems. Many of HoI3 problems are still present in Semper Fi. For example submarine warfare is still broken, Japan is always defeated by china etc. When

Reply to Question to Brad regarding DD marketshare in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Savyg" reply="52" id="2630017"] If they can find a way to stop advertising Mac services to Windows users, sure. They could grow from this. As it is they're just annoying people (me at the very least, I assume I'm not the only one.) [/quote] Will you be also annoyed when they relese their Linux client? I expect those Mac release adds to slowly dissapear after they finish releasing their current games for Mac platform. I do

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[quote who="bonscott" reply="7" id="2626022"] I do have to wonder if GPG has a bad taste in their mouth from the Demigod issues and thus went with Steam. Sad. [/quote] I wouldnt be surprised. The fact that Steam have 70+% of DD market also help spread Steamworks.

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[quote who="aeortar" reply="46" id="2625465"]The best guide IMO isn't the number of users, but the total sales value from those users. I'd rather have 1m users spending an average of $100 a year than 10m users spending an average of $8 a year. [/quote] I agree. Thats why total sales/revenue per year would be very usefull for comparison of DD services.

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="29" id="2622872"] Definition of acitive account at Steam is (IIRC): User logged in in last 30 days Account have at least 1 full game (free games dont count AFAIK) Do you have a URL to an official source for this? [/quote] Sure: QUOTE=MikeBlaszczak;13289641 "Active accounts" are accounts that were online in the last 30 days. I'd have to double-check to be sure, bu

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Definition of acitive account at Steam is (IIRC): User logged in in last 30 days Account have at least 1 full game (free games dont count AFAIK) On another note: Yes I agree that there need to be competition in order for us (gamers) to get better services, lower prices etc. Problem is that in order to get higher marketshare Impulse and others need to try harder. For example when last year Paradox released HoI3 many customers who bought from Gamer

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[quote]surpassed 25 million active accounts, up 25% from the prior year. Of the 25 million accounts, over 10 million of those have profiles in the Steam Community.[/quote] Wrong. ....... surpassed 25 million active accounts , up 25% from the prior year. Of the 25 million accounts, over 10 million of those have profiles in the Steam Community. ........ 10 million is not number of active accounts, but number of active accounts which also have communi

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="8" id="2622495"] Most of us already have Steam accounts so I dont think it would hurt your future sales if you sold MW2, Civ5, ETW etc. This way I have to buy them from Steam (I hate buying from retail). Steam claims to have 25 million accounts, of which 10 million are in use. If you think "most" PC gamers have Steam accounts and that 10 million people is enough people to be "most" then we might as well pack it in and move to consoles now beca

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="4" id="2622069"] Every publisher requires that all sales of its software be kept confidential. Even the "official" NPD figures are purely conjecture. It's based on polling and other surveys and that polling only targets things they know about. We talk to publishers all the time who are very up front with who does what (I would go as far as to say they are very... "candid" with us). Basically, on the PC, there are 3 major platf

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[quote who="aeortar" reply="1" id="2621985"]I can vaguely recall Brad referencing some figures wrt whether it was impulse or D2D that was 2nd behind steam - maybe if you can dig up that post in these forums it might have something in it? (I don't think it had an actual document, but it was based on something I seem to recall). It was quite a while ago though (maybe 1-2 years) so the situation will likely have changed a bit since then. [/quote] I saw that article at Gamasutra. Onl

Question to Brad regarding DD marketshare in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Hi, I would like to ask (if you can answer) why Impulse (and other DD services) dont publish their revenue, profit, sales numbers etc. Is it because of NDAs from publishers? Some other reason? Such info would make current situation on DD market much clearer. All current info about DD marketshare is just bunch of rumors, estimates etc. (for example Steams marketshare is estimated from 40% to 85% ). Few months ago I wrote article about DD services for loca