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Reply to Hey, I actually like Civ V in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="25" id="3121458"]IMHO, the whole "you're a noob, so you're not qualified to speak to the game" is a cop-out, anyway. If someone said, "I have logged 600 hours on Steam playing Civ V, and I can say with authority that Civ V sucks," then what would people say? How much expertise do people tend to acquire in games they don't like? [/quote] It's not a cop out, go read the forums of experienced civ playe

Reply to Hey, I actually like Civ V in PC Gaming Sins Forums

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="5" id="3090840"]That's true. I'm still a noob, but I'm growing my empire in peace.[/quote] And this is why you're not really qualified to comment on the quality of civ. Civ 5 is not a bad game, but we're talking a game that is in it's fifth installment. For a game to remove major additions people loved from previous games is bad news. Not to mention the cheat like characteristics of city

Reply to My Views on Steam haven't changed in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Starclad went to Steam so they could use Steamworks to improve the online features in Rebellion ie. Cloud saving, integrated friends lists, etc. Originally I believe they were going to use Impulse Reactor, but that fell through. That's what they tell you, but the real issue is that they don't want to spend the resources. It's not that they don't have the money to spend, it's that it would eat into their profits. Look

Reply to My Views on Steam haven't changed in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Stardock / the dev team of sins sold out. I understand why because of the ease of use and momentum steam has. I'd feel a lot better if Frogboy/developers put pressure on steam to "unhook their game" from steam after a year. Developers are just as much to blame here as well for being chicken and not making demands for fairness for their customers. If you want to blame anyone, blame gamers for being like drug addicts. Steam didn't get to where it was wit

Reply to Mass Effect 3 - is it any good? in PC Gaming Sins Forums

ME3 is easily worse then ME2 by a mile, you can tell the team gave up and got lazy. There are tonnes of bad hollywood dialogue as well. The new character James vega is a total idiot. Way too many unskippable cut-scenes which will make replaying it a chore for those who tend to want to play through their games more then once. ME3 outside of the story and cut-scenes is fun to play but ME3 really feels like it's taking place in an alternate mass effect universe beca

Reply to My Views on Steam haven't changed in PC Gaming Sins Forums

There is an easy solution to the steam debate - just officially endorse the crack. All steam games get cracked anyway, so people complaining about steam should thank the pirates for being the only people protecting our consumer rights.

Reply to What Gives? Supreme Commander 2 Support Absurd Compared to Demigod in Demigod Stardock Forums

Except supcom 2 is still struggling comercially the game's price has already sunk to 23 bucks on steam only after a few months of being released. You guys shouldn't be complaining supcom 2 was another flame out by GPG. The management at GPG just sucks balls and they ruined a franchise that had so much potential. Supcom 2 is one of the greatest gaming fails of this generation, complaining that such a failure of a game is getting patched when it shipped completely unfini

Reply to Taking advantage of piracy, how DRM lunacy caused low multiplayer player turnout in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Sakhari" reply="52" id="2585241"] The fact that you support such practices disqualifies anything you could possibly say in the matter. Right. Just 'cause. Not much left to say, really. You're assuming quite a bit about what 'gamers rights' should entail with very little (beyond poor analogies to physical products) t

Reply to Gaming and The Cloud in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

We have 1.5 Terabyte hard drives for less then $100 we don't NEED the cloud for anything thanks. The only thing the cloud would be useful for would be consolidating patches and mods, but the "cloud" is no different then a fancy battle.net. I really hate the term "the cloud", the cloud is not something new that's for certain.

Reply to Taking advantage of piracy, how DRM lunacy caused low multiplayer player turnout in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Sakhari" reply="50" id="2585139"] Gamers deserve to own their games... You know, it's easy to make these sorts of bold statements about other peoples' work but I honestly don't see where you're drawing this sense of entitlement from. [/quote] There's no entitlement to it, I paid for the game if anything the developers have the entitlement complex here not the gamer. The fact that you support such practices disqualifies anything you co

Reply to Taking advantage of piracy, how DRM lunacy caused low multiplayer player turnout in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="47" id="2518330"] All because of copyright monopoly, if GPG is unwilling to fix demigod there would be other people in the community willing to do so but they are barred from doing so because of stupid ass laws like copyright and the corporate serfdom model of software ownership, that is - license, never own Is something stopping you from making your own game? No one is forced to copyright what they make. I look for

Reply to Taking advantage of piracy, how DRM lunacy caused low multiplayer player turnout in Demigod Demigod Forums

"So not sure what you were trying to point out......" McCauley: "I am so sensible, Sir, of the kindness with which the House has listened to me, that I will not detain you longer. I will only say this, that if the measure before us should pass, and should produce one-tenth part of the evil which it is calculated to produce, and which I fully expect it to produce, there will soon be a remedy, though of a very objectionable kind. Just as the absurd acts which prohi

Reply to What were some Demigod sales figures? in Demigod Demigod Forums

If demigod sold well, why is support so shitty? It doesn't compute. If demigod was really raking in the $ the patches should be a lot more frequent and updates should be a lot more frequent. But they are not, Demigod comes off as shovelware, a game that made perhaps a moderate profit or recovered it's development costs but not much else. Since after market support has been so awful (still critical game state errors and bugs, freezing and crashing to desktop once in a w

Reply to Taking advantage of piracy, how DRM lunacy caused low multiplayer player turnout in Demigod Demigod Forums

"Stealing someone's hard work is not something I can or will support, and any excuses put forth to justify the theft are still merely excuses." Your whole argument is invalid, information cannot be stolen merely copied. See Rivalrous goods: In economics , a good is considered either <

Reply to Taking advantage of piracy, how DRM lunacy caused low multiplayer player turnout in Demigod Demigod Forums

@ramw2 I could care less about what a bunch of greedy thugs thinks. We have billionaires and homeless people living side by side, captialism is not a just amoral system, and anyone who thinks so needs his head read, this world is filled with assholes, that is, us, and since too many people are assholes, I could care less what one of the most greedy individiualistic, selfish, people on the face of the earth think. It's the people that make the world a good or bad pl

Reply to Alternate strategies? in Demigod Demigod Forums

The real issue is that DG didn't spend enough time in development and was released too early. there was simply not enough playtesting, almost every issue in demigod stems from not having baked the game long enough. HP stacking isn't so bad, BECAUSE the item slots are limited, if you stack HP that means you're sacrificing that slot, people forget this, the reason why demigods slots are so limited is that it forces you to make choices. And believe it or not, some characte

Reply to Team balancing = no one learns how to play in Demigod Multiplayer Demigod Forums

"I think that focusing solely on top tier characters is a really bad idea, because it promotes single-dimensional gameplay." All the gameplay is based on the underlying mathematics, if the math is off statistically no matter what you do there will always be an objective trend towards loss rather then wins. You cannot defeat the laws of mathematics.

Reply to Stardock, that's a bit harsh in Demigod Demigod Forums

IMO if they should DLC maps not demigods, no one is going to play a game with new demigods if they are fairly powerful or top tier if everyone can't pick them, they'll be more whining. The truth is GPG made a game that was underfunded, understaffed and under QA'd released and unfinished game and are now trying to fund it after the fact - lesson learned - don't release unfinished games, period, if I were GPG I would have not advertised demigod at all, I would have looked at the state o

Reply to Stardock, that's a bit harsh in Demigod Demigod Forums

@kolenel_klink If they really are trying to milk what little community they have for $ then they are douchebags and demigod rightfully deserves its place as a gaming abortion that was underfunded by a group of inexperienced and incompetent developers who did not do their due diligence on product quality and qa and deserve all the criticisms their customers throw at them.

Reply to Stardock, that's a bit harsh in Demigod Demigod Forums

"The point was to see how many still play the game;" This is what server logs are for, or add an simple ping whateverstardockgpg.com server with info everytime someone starts demigod, it's not hard to track when demigod is run, especially if it was bought through impulse they could surreptitiously record times and dates everytime demigod is run the time played, their IP address, and transmit it back for statistical purposes.

Reply to Taking advantage of piracy, how DRM lunacy caused low multiplayer player turnout in Demigod Demigod Forums

@ramw2 Piracy is equivalent of renting the game, trying it out to see if you like it. In console land renting games has been since there since the beginning of time, piracy is the equivalent of try before you buy, if lots of people pirate your game it does not mean they like it enough to buy it. Notice there are other games more pirated but are financially successful, so blaming piracy is idiotic. Like I said before, the problem is with us as human beings, we need

Reply to Taking advantage of piracy, how DRM lunacy caused low multiplayer player turnout in Demigod Demigod Forums

Demigods low sales were due to lack of quality not pirates ram, sorry. Those who stuck around and supported DG even though it's probably a game that deserves to fail (because lets face it, it has serious issues in serving diverse gaming community beyond the multiplayer core). A little more time and wisdom is needed, game dev's are an ambitious bunch and development of a game does not always work out as planned, its hard and high risk, you don't blame your customers when your gam

Reply to Taking advantage of piracy, how DRM lunacy caused low multiplayer player turnout in Demigod Demigod Forums

@DalZK From Joystick.com " Demigod appears to have been a pirates' cove at launch, as Stardock CEO Brad Wardell explained on his blog a couple days ago: Out of the 120,000 connections on launch day, only 18,000 were legitimate customers (that'

Reply to [MOD] TORCH BEARER in Demigod Modding Demigod Forums

Except if you look at the # of games of my opponents many of them had over 300 games, hardly newbs you can check yourself.

Reply to Team balancing = no one learns how to play in Demigod Multiplayer Demigod Forums

@maff86 Demigod is mostly about HP stacking, and selecting the right demigod counters. I would force all newbies to pick erebus and play just erebus until they got good, then UB, then OAK, then ROOK. Rook is a counter to UB provided you have the right team-demigod mates, it always depends on what the matchup is demigod is mostly about picking the right demigods vs what your opponents team has chosen, you can predict the outcomes of games a good percent of the time by just