Tridus

I'm in on this one. Defense Grid was great. Hopefully they get enough for the sequel, because multiplayer Defense Grid would be wild.

[quote who="Savyg" reply="38" id="3188762"] Quoting Tridus, reply 37EA's stock is going down because The Old Republic cost a ton of money and isn't holding a large enough subscriber base to make it back. I don't think there's a lot more to read into it then that. According to the conference call it's still holding at about 1.3 million subscribers. Considering people are still throwing numbers like 500k about I'd think there's a lot of misinfor

EA's stock is going down because The Old Republic cost a ton of money and isn't holding a large enough subscriber base to make it back. I don't think there's a lot more to read into it then that.

[quote who="enoeraew37" reply="52" id="3168238"]My problem with Steam is its effect on the marketplace. They provide a good service to the majority of gamers. But always online discriminates against poor kids whos parents cant afford an internet connection. Its already hard enough to find a good selection of videos games in a store. Sooner or later games in stores wont exist at all..and that will unfairly box out a section of gamers. Steam is an irresponsible choice for the future

[quote who="dctrjons" reply="71" id="3158082"]...it's why how PC's are different better than consoles... Man, I know on thing this poll taught me. I have to throw in my XP towel soon. Sniper Elite V2??? I think it is, wouldn't let me install. I thought, meh. Well according to this poll, the vast majority have moved on. Dare I ask...being this is somewhat off-topic, any recommendations on how / which OS to get?

[quote who="Thoumsin" reply="47" id="3156891"] There is no reason for upgrade to win7 unless you like the Win7 GUI... What is called 32 bit was in fact 36 bit since 1995 ( previous century !!! )... with PAE, limit of ram was around 64/128 gb ram... more that enough for any game... devs have never support it because desktop version of windows was limited to 4gb due to licensing and that only with server version of windows OS, it was possible to use the full power...[/quote]

Does this mean there's a 64 bit version of the game? I don't see how you can add 64 bit DLC to a 32 bit version of the game, and I *really* don't see how DLC could be used to make the game 64 bit given just how significant a change that actually is. If the 64 bit version is already planned, then by all means use the extra power to do crazy awesome things in DLC.

[quote who="mastroego" reply="142" id="3154615"]It's not about how much we would pay. It's about what else could be done with the resources and time. It's been close two years already. The game isn't here yet. When it finally IS, hopefully I will be craving for more, "more" meaning FLYING units, SHIPS, races, spells, content. I mean, things people were expecting from the very start.[/quote] umm, multiplayer is one of the things people were expecting from the

[quote who="Kalin" reply="113" id="3153039"]I'm a little more concerned about the NUMBER of votes since friday... even if it's only people who are in the beta voting, it still seems a bit on the low side?[/quote] Number of people in the beta, who read the forums, and felt like commenting. The number of people playing the beta is a subset of the people with access to it. The number of people reading the forums is a subset of that. The number of people who will then go a

[quote who="Hawawaa" reply="69" id="3151825"]If not multiplayer then coop against the ai please! DO A POLL! Funny the polls have gone up but its still around 43% for multi to 57% against.[/quote] Coop IS multiplayer.

[quote who="rouher" reply="54" id="3151589"]https://www.stardock.com/media/stardockcustomerreport-2008.pdf (page 13) The fantasy strategy game Stardock has also been developing a new fantasy strategy game franchise. It has been described on the Internet as “Not-MOM” (as in, Not Master of Magic). It’s a turn-based strategy game that supports random map generation, integrated modding, city building, unit design, tactical combat, multiplayer, incredibly powerful mag

[quote who="hedetet" reply="45" id="3151551"]Someone at SD is now saying: "See? I told you most of them wouldn't even pay a lousy buck for MP!" I get the feeling that the poll was meant to demonstrate that, anyway. Who makes $1 DLCs for anything but superficial stuff?[/quote] It's probably more a question of how many people are still around who are interested in it. WoM was originally going to be a MP game, but the MP was delayed well af

After the mess that was the Demigod launch, I was looking forward to playing some multiplayer WoM, figuring they can't possibly screw that up again. So my best friend and I bought, downloaded, and were looking forward to playing together... Oops. There's not a lot to be said that hasn't already been said. I was around here not long after the website opened looking forward to the game, and we know what happened. I hear FE is finally rounding into shape, but it's

Still a slow way of doing it. It's really hard to finish the class story and not hit 50 unless you ignore everything else on Corellia... and I was 50 on Voss. :P Space missions also give tons of XP. Trying to farm Flashpoints is probably one of the slowest ways you can do it. If you've got them unlocked, the Ilum/Belsavis dailies are good too (at least for Republic characters, don't know what the Imperial equivalent of Belsavis is). Not sure you can unlock Belsavis

If it's got mod slots, you can mod it. In my experience you only get Synthweaving patterns from REing items if it's something you know how to make. Could be unlucky in terms of prototypes, don't know. But I don't think thats how it works anymore.

I hear there's some Warcraft something or other that charges for a subscription and somehow the games market has survived.

It's a lot more then $0. The question should simply be a matter of if you're getting value for that subscription, and I'm quite happy with what I'm getting right now. Content is expensive, and what you see in F2P MMOs is a significantly lower quality of content as a result (and in the case of LotRO, a change in how it's designed since they switched).

Also, the Republic is under represented in this thread.

Swiss Knight, what hat is that and do you remember where you got it? I have a friend who is looking for that style of hat.

Pretty much same as Heavenfall. It's still there, but I haven't bought anything using it in quite a while and most of my existing stuff I was able to transfer off one way or another (the remaining stuff being a couple indie things I can't move without rebuying and Stardock stuff which presumably will appear in the new SDC). Actually I haven't even run it in a couple months. Steam gets my business now, when I'm not playing SW:TOR.

[quote who="Astax" reply="28" id="3050574"]Yes EA ruins worlds, that is not in dispute. I heard some things about SWTOR, but I am not intrigued by it. To me it seems like a cookie-cutter MMORPG, with less features than WoW. And being that WoW has 7 years of additional development past release behind it's belt, I very much doubt they would catch up to it in any short amount of time. I would not play another MMORPG that resembles one that I hav

I really enjoyed Alderaan, but that might be due to the Consular class storyline more then anything else. Those can vary wildly in quality between classes and planets.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="444" id="3042258"] For example, we have Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion in development. We (Stardock and Ironclad) want the multiplayer to be compelling (lots of stats, match making, leaderboards, achievements, in game chat, voice over IP) basic stuff these days. If we choose Steamworks, you'll see a riot. But what would those users demand we use instead? I see a lot of angst but I don't see a lot of viable solutions. [/quote]</

[quote who="Martok" reply="433" id="3039561"] Quoting Rebell44, reply 432 Most PC gamers dont have a problem with Steam. You have an interesting definition of "most". [/quote] Since Steam is by far the largest DD market for PC games and according to some reports has an absolute majority (ie: > 50%) of all DD sales, it seems like his definition of "most" is consistent with the dictionary one.

[quote who="wbino" reply="11" id="3049159"]I will NEVER support any MMO, $ 59. dollars to start, then $ 15 monthly. Remember when TV was free? Buy a set and plug it in? Support MMO's and companies will see this and you will forever start to pay a monthly fee for your gaming pleasure. Frogboy of course you love it...you own a video game company...the thought of charging your player base not once but monthly would be a win win for you.[/quote] Consid