[quote who="psychoak" reply="37" id="3096586"]I figured his job was to piss people off on the forum. [/quote] Are you suggesting that Brad should study Jafo? [e digicons]8(|[/e]
[quote who="Jafo" reply="34" id="3096575"] Quoting Fistalis, reply 29If steam went off line you couldn't install and activate steam games. OK, so now it's online activation, not 'just' online distribution. [/quote] Always was. Many digital distribution services have their own method of activation for their particular copies of games. Its no different from buying an impulse game, a steam game or any other Game digitally. Were not
[quote who="Cruxador" reply="31" id="3096566"] Fistalis' situation is screwed up, but Jafo's correct in that you can't expect a service to last forever when the company that provides it might not. Of course, this isn't as simple as a bankruptcy, and it seems like Gamefly may well not be actually doing their best the way they say they are.[/quote] Thats the cherry on top. IGN owned direct 2 drive, IGN didn't go under they simply sold the unit to gamefly.<
[quote who="Jafo" reply="30" id="3096564"] Quoting Fistalis, reply 27How is that possible when the activation is reliant on the Service. Such as with impulse or steam? If those activation servers are taken down then what? Or If your old keys are no longer valid? Let's go back to 'the car'... WHEN petrol runs out you won't be 'entitled' to a refund on your car....you'll just need to find a second one.... ...so you have matching
[quote who="Jafo" reply="28" id="3096560"] Quoting Lord Xia, reply 24 But then again, I am probably a troll of some kind.... Probably of the genus rakish-good-looks-with-an-eyepatch .... But in reality...what possesses someone of the presumption that what is obtained online will ALWAYS be obtainable online? It's utterly ridiculous. Really it is.[/quote] Your still ignoring the fact that the installers are reliant on t
[quote who="Jafo" reply="26" id="3096554"] Quoting Fistalis, reply 23Your stating that any digital purchase should be expected to be a loss? Why in the world would I purchase a game from a digital distribution service if I can assume its going to be eventually lost? No. Only that IF you rely on always being able to re-access or redownload a purchase 'sometime' in the future you NEED to expect you will not be able to. Life is finite. Things end. <b
[quote who="Jafo" reply="22" id="3096534"] Quoting Fistalis, reply 21Come on jafo I thought you kept up with the crazy stuff that happens in gaming. I don't play online games...however I do 'quite a lot' of game purchases/addons via online access - digital distribution. Yesterday it was yet another 3 gig of 'addon' for FSX {Flight Sim Ten] ... being obtained 'digitally' I have not just installed it but backed it up to a secondary drive ...as a
[quote who="Jafo" reply="20" id="3096511"] Quoting Fistalis, reply 18because I paid for 19 games, 16 which I cannot access. In fear of opening up a tome - sized saga of man's inhumanity to man .... what transpired that you cannot 'access' those 16?[/quote] Gamefly bought out Direct 2 drive. Leaving direct 2 drive customers without access to 90% of their games back in January. With the Assertion they were "working hard to transfer over the games to the new c
[quote who="Jafo" reply="16" id="3096498"] Quoting Fistalis, reply 15Wait I'm an entitled gamer for expecting to be able to access and play games I pay for? Really Jafo. So paying for a product or service and expecting to be able to access and or use that product or service is entitlement? Really....where things 'go wrong' is the take-up selectively....responding to a 'part' of a comment while seemingly oblivious to the rest of the comment. Entit
[quote who="Jafo" reply="13" id="3096474"]Fistalis...I think you have just exemplified 'entitled'. Remember...you can always buy a car...but its purchase does not also buy you the right to drive it. Digital Distribution/sale is no different to any other purchase 'contract'. It has inherent limitations...be they warranty and/or copyright/trademark restrictions. Government Legislation provides for Consumer protection on behalf of the consumer.&nb
[quote who="the_Monk" reply="10" id="3096458"] Quoting mbar8, reply 8Who is the entitled gamer? I've seen the term thrown around but I've not seen the definition. What do they feel they are entitled to? Often the 'entitled gamer' is just someone who wants things their way or no way. Of course if you call an 'entitled gamer' on that, they very often simply say "well I paid for something so I'm owed.....etc. etc. etc.". <b
[quote who="mbar8" reply="8" id="3096436"]Who is the entitled gamer? I've seen the term thrown around but I've not seen the definition. What do they feel they are entitled to?[/quote] That was my point but I wanted to vent about the gamefly situation. People wonder why I refuse to agree to contracts which allow them to no longer give you access to your purchased products at any time, this is why. I used to be wary of DD, now Digital distribution in general is dead to m
Yes those "entitled gamers" are the worst. Like me with gamefly. I bought games through Direct 2 drive and Gamefly bought them out. Now I cannot access 16 of the 19 games I purchased that I for some reason feel entitled to. [e digicons]>_>[/e] Of course Customer service gives me the run around.. probably complaining to each other about that entitled gamer who keeps bugging them about accessing his games. Why on earth would anyone be entitled to access what they purchas
Edit: guess that was an older preview. bleh..
There is an natural time limit based on the game speed you set it on. You can still continue playing after that time limit but your score no longer goes up.(similar to a time victory in Civ IV) I think on the standard speed its 1000 turns. [quote]+ The game now ends at 1000 turns (modified by the game pace). Players have the option to continue playing but their score wont be recorded after this point.[/quote] p.s. Fancy seeing you here
[quote who="Thoumsin" reply="6" id="3094707"]xp : good vista : failure Win7 : good Win8 : a failure to come Win9 : ... well, if we follow the pattern, it will be good... Like Vista was somehow the beta of Win7, maybe Win8 is like a beta of a upcoming better OS... [/quote] Don't worry.. after windows 8 flops they'll stop supporting windows 7 with the newest version of direct X forcing ever
Unfortunately the BETA requires internet to start up. This requirement will be removed from the release version.
That nVidia chip is a hybrid - it works in tandem with the Intel GPU on the processor. Which explains the slow down after some time.. The Multithreading of the game is using more of your processor making less of it available to help the GPU. It probably handles other games okay.. but most games don't utilize much processing power. High CPU usage is going to have a direct effect on your graphic performance with that card. (something benchmarks usually ignore when testin
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Piracy.. the discussion that keeps on giving.
If you have changed your password recently you need to hit CTRL+TAB to open the menu and change the login info. (changed my password the other day and had to do it) Should be the same info you use to long onto the elemental forums.
[quote who="Tasunke" reply="203" id="3089273"] Lets say each 'quiver' holds 10 arrows. 1 quiver on each hip, 1 double-quiver across your back, or 1 quiver on each side below the armpit[/quote] [e digicons]:rofl:[/e] That would make movement a near impossibility.. arrows aren't pliable leather.. None of it matters though since they just gave all bows -6 initiative rather than a system with options. So its just li
[quote who="Beric01" reply="199" id="3089237"] Quoting Fistalis, reply 197 Quoting Beric01, reply 193-snip- Did you just go on about realism and then at the end suggest that archers can carry an unlimited amount of arrows? No, simply that setting an artificially low limit is unrealistic. 50 arrows to battle is reasonable, is it not? Arrow capacity could be limited by strength and storage requirements, and perhaps