Sounds good in theory. Can't wait to see it in practice. FE sounds like it might just finally pry me away from civ IV, Went back to playing/modding it after Giving up on Ewom. (latest custom mod has forests = wood resource, its a pretty radical idea for civ but its pretty neat. and balances chop rushing nicely, chop for instant hammers or harvest wood for resource and +1 hammer for 30 turns
Yep looks like gog is the only DD service I have left to use thats steam free[e digicons]8C[/e] (saw this coming as soon as it was announced, so its no surprise. Although I am surprised they did it so fast) Wtf is the point of buying a game through impulse that forces you to download steam? May as well just buy everything on steam. Seriously.. gamestop execs have got to be smoking something strong. Sad day when impulse has joined the "support steam or q
[quote who="Tridus" reply="1" id="2920260"]No. Odds are that will never happen in WoM. Possibly in the expansion because the MP details aren't out yet, but I wouldn't get your hopes up because the statements have looked like they're married to this "MP has to be a different game" mistake. TBH Stardock doesn't seem to "get" MP.[/quote] Couldn't have said it any better myself.. so i'll just quote you [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
Great to see. My biggest complaint of EWOM was the tech system. Looks like you've been reading some of my old posts
[quote who="Campaigner" reply="38" id="2925771"]And what incentive would there be to actually BUY a game if pirating becomes so easy (if there's no achievements, multiplayer OR you want to help the developers) that most people can do it?[/quote] Not everyone steals if given the chance..the problem is that we are all treated like thieves with modern DRM. locking your doors(or DRMing your product) only keeps honest people honest.. if a thief wants to steal your stuff no lock (or DRM
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[quote who="kryo" reply="19" id="2923214"] Protection methods used by products are listed right on the product page so shoppers can make the decision for themselves. It's no secret.[/quote] True but many DRM schemes such as TAGES has variations. Some TAGES protected games add activations after X days, some don't. Some allow infinite activations some don't. I've touched on this before.. but simply putting the name of the DRM scheme really doesn't inform c
All B.S. aside.. tages is a horrid DRM system. Didn't plan on picking this game up but won't touch it for certain with Tages. For people not familiar with tages.. its a limited activations system. Meaning purchased with Tages the game is no longer valid after you install it X times. (Certain securom versions used with digital distribution do this as well, although with some games securom allows you to revoke an install so you don't run out of activations) &
Note its a stand alone expansion so you don't need EWOM to play it.
[quote quoting="post"] Hi I just bought Elemental on Impulse and installed it. But I won't start up . I see the screen with the dragon and the curser looks like a leaf, and then nothing happens. It doesn't freeze up, but still I can't even get back to windows using alt-tab or ctrl-alt-del. If I try that the curser changes to the windows curser when i move it over a square on the screen, and on the edge of that square it changes to a windows-resize-curser. So
All of them that don't offer a hard copy that can run without an internet check. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
It can be set to offline mode. However the steam client will still run. Just won't require an internet check. You'll have to ask someone who uses to steam exactly how to set to offline mode.
[quote who="Tridus" reply="93" id="2916419"] I don't know what you really expected there.[/quote] Not to be coerced into a contractual relationship with gamestop in order to maintain my already purchased games. Further more.. yes nothing in the general agreement has changed as of yet.. the difference is who will be calling the shots. Before it was stardock who up until now showed a great deal of caring for gamers in general. Now its gamestop.. who doesn't give 2 shits
Amen white elk. At least Firaxis was upfront about people being forced into a contractual relationship with Valve/steam. With elemental and gamestop we were given no warning.. and only after we have purchased and supported it do we get to find out we are stuck in a contractual relationship with gamestop, not only with elemental.. but with ALL Our impulse purchases. Only options we have been left is to give up our games.. or accept whatever terms/conditions gamestop decides to add to i
[quote who="Aractain" reply="64" id="2915740"]Im thinking of all those people that wont buy from Steam and chose Impulse instead...[/quote] Ya don't I look stupid... [e digicons]:annoyed:[/e] Personal feelings about this aside.. GME is selling for 22.80 a share today and looks to be going up.
[quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="69" id="2915779"] Quoting GoaFan77, reply 68As for the quality of the Impulse platform in the future, well that remains to be seen Actually, that is a really good point. The impulse platform will likely be developed at a more rapid pace as a result of this sale. That would logically include voice chat, etc. Perhaps GS would choose to neglect developing the impulse experience outside of being just a store/marketing tool, but it does make sens
[e digicons]:S[/e] So it will be a gradual change so people won't notice..and abandon ship so quickly. Will we be able to continue to run our games impulse client free? or are we looking at a steam clone in the near future? Do you actually know what gamestops going to do to impulse? Have you seen their plan for it? If not.. your speculation is as good as mine. Lets be honest here.. once gamestop takes control.. nothing you or any other stardock employee/ow
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[quote who="Island Dog" reply="52" id="2915667"]The access to your software and games, for the near future at least, will be the exact same way it has been. Downloads, updates, etc, will all be made via Impulse. [/quote] Define "near Future"... May? [e digicons]:annoyed:[/e] Not that it matters.. cause we all know gamestop is going to ruin impulse, and all the money we have spent on games will be wasted once they file for bankruptcy or require us to sign over our
[quote who="Gwenio1" reply="46" id="2915648"] Quoting Fistalis, reply 44Not to mention they now own stardocks half of the Subscriber agreement.. and can change it to whatever they want. and our options are either take it or quit using impulse to access our games. I chose impulse because it was ran by a company i trusted(a huge mistake in hindsight).. NOW im stuck dealing with a company I don't trust or giving up the games I purchased. Thanks alot.. See my comments about archivi
[quote who="1Tiberius1" reply="42" id="2915634"]Gamestop certainly isn't known for supporting the PC market... Their primary concern has been getting customers to flip their new purchases so that Gamestop can sell it a second time for $5 under MSRP. They've also been known for not stocking new games outright if they don't get enough pre-orders. It seems to me that the more control Gamestop gets over Impulse, the more the service will suffer downgrades in the eyes of cu
[quote who="troglyte" reply="2" id="2915567"]I have a bad feeling about this too. Data mining here we come. At least SD had ethics. Now impulse is going to turn into another steam-virus clone, complete with DRM and as much advertising as they can cram into it. Oh well, so long impulse.[/quote] This. Looks like I should just give up gaming. Pretty much lost all faith in brad and stardock.. . This is why I hate Digital distribution. I entered into a relationship with impulse.. b
Probably explains a large chunk of OOM issues as well. OOMs were always rare for me but i never use elementerra. Not sure why people would be surprised by this.. logical they would limit max map sizes actually supported in the default game according to what could be handled.
I thought this came up recently in a dev discussion. Rivers being added.. i just don't remember if it was talking about FE or 1.3. The more i think about it though the more i think it was discussing FE. But since i can't find the specific post/discussion maybe it was all a dream..