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[quote who="kryo" reply="13" id="2721750"] I get the frustrating feeling Im going to have to wait until tuesday to get it straightened out as well. It is working as intended--the beta keys are temporarily disabled until we have the new build ready to go. The game will reappear when we get there and the keys are re-enabled later tonight.[/quote] The other point in the thread is pretty valid though - if you pre-order something then go back and look in a couple weeks, there's n

There's a lot of retailers pulling this stuff now. In one thread, he mentioned that Best Buy actually *paid* for said content. I mean, really? Good lord. It's a trend we're seeing from more and more games, and a lousy one. I really don't want to have to go through how ridiculous the Dragon Age one was again. Someone made a chart for that. A game called Hunted that I'm looking at has four different sets, depending on where you buy it from. Just encourages me to wait for the "ul

[quote who="Bodyless" reply="7" id="2721418"] Quoting Tridus, reply 4I don't know about in Europe, but in North America Starcraft 2 was priced as any standard 360/PS3 game. PC games had been running at a relative discount. thats because pc gamers do not have to play platform royalities, unlike PS/Xbox ect. games, where 8$ or so go to the platform owner. [/quote] And they get the benefit of reduced development costs due to only having one hardware

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="121" id="2721384"] Which software? The Game? The OS? Or the Video Driver that triggered it?[/quote] Probably all of them, at some point or another. But it doesn't matter a whole lot in the end, since you can only control one of them yourself and have to ask the other two to fix their stuff (and then work around it if they don't). Dealing with bugs caused by Microsoft is pretty much a routine part of the week for me, but at the end of

[quote who="Dave_Genesi" reply="152" id="2721403"] Quoting Stmorpheus, reply 148ha ha i love this thread, really gives you some insight to the nature of humans. i think some psychology researchers should do an experiment with this. make a website about a new and amazing game that everybody is dying to play and keep on delaying it, but at the same time keep people right on the edge like its about to release at any time. catalog all the different personalty types. <p

[quote who="Sethfc" reply="9" id="2721386"]There is no DRM but you Have to activate it the First time it runs. Its there way of protecting from retailers breaking their street date. Sorry guys.[/quote] There's no DRM except for the DRM? :P searchforwisdom - My advice is to uninstall it, wipe out everything in c:\programdata\Stardock (hidden folder), yank out your network cable so you're off the Internet, and try again. The retail version is *supposed* to work wi

[quote who="Archonsod" reply="117" id="2721352"] Quoting TheProgress, reply 113 You have no idea what you're talking about - so stop talking. How do you think SC2 manages to alt-tab perfectly well while older, less resource intensive applications cannot? A roll of the dice? Hmm, let me think ... could it be perhaps that different coders all use different code to do things? Nah, evidently there is only one true code, and SC2 is the one that does it. [/quote]</p

[quote who="BlindMindStudios" reply="111" id="2720782"]While you guys are waiting, Nate put up a video showing off some of the combat in Star Ruler. Figured y'all might be interested to see it. (Disclaimer: Angry Rock ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNzcX6l3S2w[/quote] That battleship at about 5 minutes in is a beast! [e digicons]:cylon:[/e] As a rule (with few exceptions) I don't tend to buy games without trying a demo, so I haven't ordered yet.

[quote who="Sareln" reply="42" id="2718295"] However, one thing I think that should be high in priority for Stardock is to make sure Reactor chatting can work with a program like Raptr. One fair criticism of GFWL is that once you close your game, you can't talk with anyone. I think integrating it with another chat program would serve Reactor's interests best. I would love that. Most every "in-game" chat system doesn't expose the chat API, so 3rd party chat software cannot interface

[quote who="Rincewind57" reply="48" id="2720784"]Main problem i have with steam/impulse etc. If, say, the US is destroyed by nukes tomorrow, i'll no longer be able to install my steam games.... Obviously i'd rather this didn't happen but much as I'd rather the US wasn't obliterated, if it was i'd still want to play the video-games i'd payed my hard-earned money for. I once considered joining Amazon's Audible service. I e-mailed and asked, if your offices are all obliterated by nuclear war, wi

I don't know about in Europe, but in North America Starcraft 2 was priced as any standard 360/PS3 game. PC games had been running at a relative discount. Arcania seems to just have screwy regional pricing, since it's $50 on Steam and Impulse.

[quote who="VR_IronMana" reply="107" id="2721225"] Quoting hamwise, reply 102 This is more like your boss calling you in on your day off because [something unexpected happened.] He asks you to fix it and you give a quick estimate which ends up being wrong. As with any impromptu response to an unexpected event, things are already not going according to plan, so estimates are frequently going to be wrong. *shrug* Doesn't that still

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="72" id="2720674"]Just to follow-up, let me say that I agree with most of Tom's facts. We DO, intentionally, multiply bonuses. If I could get away with it, I'd have bonuses provide exponential bonuses. The idea is for improvements and such to provide a bigger bang. The numbers, in the game do work fine, even in the gold version. The UI just needs to be much MUCH better about conveying how this stuff works for those who want to dig into th

[quote who="dragoaskani" reply="100" id="2720289"]You all seem to be overlooking another aspect of tactical battles if they were included in the online multiplayer suit. Griefing. Imagine this. You are forced to watch every battle someone has with the ai, or players. Well imagine the person who finds it funny to drag out EVERY tac battle for as long as humanly possible. (IE not fighting, running away in circles, etc) just to force you to watch their antics. It WOULD happen.[/quote] Th

Note that if you're playing multiplayer, there's no random maps.

[quote who="Wilson999" reply="15" id="2720502"]Also, I'm pretty sure the '+25%' thing would confuse me. Wouldn't it be more intuitive to actually have it say '*25%' instead of +? I don't know how it's done properly, but to someone without any advanced maths knowledge, I would assume that you add percentages together in something like this.[/quote] Yes. When you say +25%, you mean this: Y = X + X*0.25 That is, take 25% of X and add it. If you get another 25% bonus, you

[quote who="Raven X" reply="7" id="2720432"]Some of the comments on that page are...dissheartening. Here's an interesting quote...Don't shoot the messenger here guys, I'm just quoting what I'm seeing: "snits on August 22nd 2010 2:49am Whatever happened to we shall ship no game before it's time. Between this and their publishing of Demigod, they apparently have some serious QA team issues to resolve." That's not good, not good at all. Who was the wr

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="13" id="2720444"]Why are people reviewing a version of the game *before the game's actual release date*? Seems like an awful load of assumptions that are being made in that review, and the reviewer is not being upfront about them. So what about cumulative percentages rather than CivIV's way of doing things which is +20% + 20% equals +40%? If you want to be picky, then CivIV's way of doing percentages is non-standard, *not* Elemental's. <br

If you ordered a boxed copy from Stardock, your account should get credited with the digital copy on the 24th. So yes, you should be able to download and play using Impulse before your disk gets there. If you ordered from say Amazon, then no. You'll need to wait for the disk to arrive in order to register the serial number.

Technically, you can. But if your sovereign dies and you don't have a city, it's game over. So you probably want to have a city, even if your research and attention are focused on adventuring. :)

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="8" id="2717922"] Quoting BoogieBac, reply 5 Has anybody else noticed themselves enjoying the graphics/artwork of this game more and more over time? Yeah, a few tweaks that we've gotten in this last month have pushed me into the realm of 'pride' in the visual style. Somethign different is always a risk, but luckilly it paid off (IMHO). They let you out of the dungeon? [/quote] In one of the QtT threads Brad said he was kicking them out

Not sure how it would work even if it made it in. The progression of the game is in reviving and rebuilding the world. Once you do that... then what?

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="58" id="2718433"] Antagonizing what, Sir? That the whole game is bad because of the lack of a feature*? If Tactical Battles were off in SP I would say the same as for MP. So you seem to be very wrong. STFU? Suuuuure. Crystal clear or must I elaborate more? * for which I haven't positioned myself in this thread about if I agree about it's lack or not.[/quote] This is yo

[quote who="ddd888" reply="42" id="2718375"] i dont agree ALL THESE POINTS are the basis for multi in 2010 its not like we are asking to invent something new we asking what every other multi has coop deathmatch ffa user defined game its nothing new really[/quote] Are any of those missing? IIRC they've mentioned playing coop before at the office. If you

[quote who="ddd888" reply="52" id="2718422"] yeah but we cant really start discussing till we SEE what is actually in MP and how it actually works we can speculate but its useless lets see first how the game is(ofc the basic idea of having stuff NOT removed but let to users with options is always correct)[/quote] Well then there's no point in talking at all. :) We do know some things. We know more or less how the game