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[quote who="Nenjin" reply="158" id="2980678"] Buying gold/items/accounts on a third party market is what causes that market to exist, which is what motivates account hackers. Access to private user data is what motivates them; credit cards and passwords to email accounts are just as valuable as login data to their favorite MMO. It reads like you're trying to use hackers as a complete explanation for the rise of the AH in D3 and I think it has less to do with it ultim

I'm generally very against the cash AH for many reasons. However when it comes to Chinese gold/item farmers I consider this to be very bad news for them rather then good. With everyone having the ability to sell items for cash, I anticipate that the influx of items is going to dramatically drive prices down to the point where they just are not worth the effort to sell professionally by even the poorest standards. Even as it stands now, The rate of return for gold selling in WoW is so low

I was initially quite skeptical about this game and the PC gamer review. However I've seen a lot of people praise the leaked build, including people who normally make it a point to hate evertyhing. So that's enough that I will probably give it a try. Deus Ex was one of my favorite games of all time. Deus Ex 2 I obviously was not so impressed by, it wasn't all bad but I especially hated the generic ammo part. I want to be able to fire a few shots with a rocket launcher

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="8" id="2963000"]Release date 27th july, price 15$ on PC. http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/2307/article/from-dust-gets-pc-exclusive-release-on-july-27/ Weird that it's so cheap, it's been in development for a long time and doesn't feel like a low-budget title. Makes me fear for lack of content. [/quote] Well it seems kind of like a niche game so I'm not so surprised by the low price tag. The video made it

My biggest complaint about the game is the interface, which is mind numbingly poor. Beyond that though the storyline does grab me and pull me in, perhaps not as well as the first game but still better then many games. Witcher 1 had plenty of issues as well which I was willing to overlook for the story.

[quote who="Tridus" reply="406" id="2933698"] You know what doesn't happen in any of those examples? Someone doesn't go "oops, my parking permit verification server went down, you're not allowed to park here today because I think you're a poacher, but that actual poacher still can." Of course, that DOES happen with games all the time. When the pirate version is superior in functionality to the commercial version because it works more often, you'

I always had mixed feelings about that because it made it hard to tell what was actually new and what was just something that had been bumped up for the 20th time after a minor update.

Wow, I had no idea. Ok that is definitely a little shady.

Well I've definitely seen Gamestop (and other stores as well) keep the CD outside the box for games. I suspect that they do it as an anti-theft deterrent. I've never had a problem with CD damage though. The idea that employees take them home and play with them though is something that I suspect is purely speculation on akerous' part. I mean you never know when someone will steal or break the rules so it could happen. But I'm pretty sure it's not something which is

[quote who="Kodiak888" reply="57" id="2926228"] If you like the game, good for you. You're not going to convince me to buy or support it. Repurposing 1 hat/dress/roll cage/whatever isn't worth the effort. Repurposing the entire team dedicated to making the large amount of hats could do some good. Let's say they spent $2000 on the salary of the artists who created everything. Now lets say the never did that, and have $2000 from t

[quote who="Kodiak888" reply="55" id="2926130"]My complaint is that the money that went into hats could have gone into more/better level design. Not the same people, not the same team, but instead of hiring X artists to make X hats, they could've instead repurposed those efforts. )[/quote] You already acknowledge the flaw in this argument though, which is that given the minimal effort required to make a few hats, there are unlikely to have been any extra resources dedicated to the

[quote who="Kodiak888" reply="52" id="2926109"]You skimmed over the problem there. We aren't saying that they took that stuff out to sell it, although that does happen frequently with DLC. We (and by we, I me I and everyone else in the world, but probably just me) are complaining that they took the time to add dress-up to the game at all. I wonder what kind of stuff we could have had in the game if all of the money and development that went into new hats was put int

[quote who="Tridus" reply="50" id="2926097"]The differences between a permanent shop ingame and a one time preorder bonus are obvious enough, I'd had hoped. Yep, the collectors editions are usually a lot more expensive then anything in the store. [/quote] Yeah pretty much. Granted you sometimes get cool physical things like a map with a collector's edition, but ultimately it just boils down to more cosmetic fluff. Previously you might pay an extra $20 for box w

[quote who="Kodiak888" reply="35" id="2925788"] Quoting Tridus, reply 34 The "day 1 DLC" is cosmetic. It's for if you want a pink robot wearing a funny hat in co-op. That's it. There is zero content DLC. That is my exact complaint. It's a sad money grab and not respectable, in any form, from any business. You can get X achievement to get the XX special item, or pay $1.99 and get it now, but for just $1.99 more you could get

While I have no interest in buying games to speed up the release of Portal, I can say that one of the games on the list (Wonderful End of the World) is pretty amazing, kind of like Katamari Damarci but much much cooler. If other indie games on the list are of equally high quality then some of those games might be worth checking out regardless of their tie to portals release.

The amiga is a defunct line of computers, and is different then the pc or the mac. It certainly would not run on a pc on it's own, but you might be able to download an emulator or something like that. I was inspired to look up perehelion myself which seemed interesting. Never played it back in the day. I saw it compared to Black Crypt which I did play. I seem to vaguely remember some very fond memories about that game, but I can't remember much beyond that.

[quote who="Melamine" reply="355" id="2920010"] Quoting Tridus, reply 354 At the risk of going wildly off topic, more gun deaths are caused by people who buy guns legitimately and then go nuts then criminals who ignore gun laws. Eh? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Firearmsources.svg [/quote] That graph would seem to support what Tridus said, doesn't it?

Like Tidus said, I'm not sure that the percentage of people who hated Steam is enough of a market share to go worry about, especially given that many of them hate any form of DRM or digital download service and will reject Impulse no matter what form it takes. And I agree that it would have been far worse if Impulse had been sold to Steam to cement their monopoly. I used to like Gamestop back in the day, but like many people I don't really like going there any more if I can po

You can click on your enemy in the middle of combat to choose a move to perform. It's more then a little clunky though.

I kind of like that Impulse doesn't autopatch too. I like to know when there's a major update for one of my games that I haven't played in awhile. If it gets autopatched I may never realize that it has been changed.

[quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="176" id="2917612"] Quoting Savyg, reply 169 don't know if Digital River gave them a reason to offer the option or what but that completely useless 'spend money to redownload the product' thing was all Digital River from what I've seen. Everything I've ever bought from digital river has asked me if I want to purchase extended download capability. Anyway, I doubt that will happen with impulse... but a

[quote who="kenata" reply="9" id="2917300"] Quoting FadedC, reply 8 Arcanum and Bloodline are much less "safe", they both have horrible combat mechanics and no concept of game balance. But you may not care. Both have great worlds with lots of freedom to do stuff, and they stand out with their creativity. If you liked the fallout series there's a good chance that you will like these games. A good RPG should not be super concerned with balance, t

I think Gothic 2 is the most all around solid of the games mentioned so far, though it's also a bit of a "safe" pick with nothing that exceptionally stands out about it. But it's a good game with a solid story and mechanics. Arcanum and Bloodline are much less "safe", they both have horrible combat mechanics and no concept of game balance. But you may not care. Both have great worlds with lots of freedom to do stuff, and they stand out with their creativity. If you l

Turning off show promotions on the tray menu settings worked, thanks. For some reason there was no option for that in the settings menu on impulse itself.

I've always marginally prefered Impulse myself, not by any significant amount but enough to buy games from it over Steam. But Steam doesn't bother me either and I'm happy to buy from them as well. So this news doesn't really bother me too much, in the worst case scenario the competition will spur Steam to be better and I'll just buy from them intead. Best case scenario Impulse will get better and I'll keep buying from them. Speaking of annoying though, since I&