[quote who="Campaigner" reply="72" id="2854375"] There's a certain dragon that doesn't agree with you [/quote] Well no actually. The discussion I was replying to is about why things can't be sold digitally for less then retail store price when a game first comes out. And cataclysm costs the same online as in the retail store.
[quote who="tetleytea" reply="66" id="2854099"]These are new times. If you've got a good game, pay the game sites to advertise it and tell the retail outlets to kiss your behind. [/quote] We aren't quite at the point where that's an option for any major title yet but hopefully it's not too far off.
[quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="64" id="2853915"]Well... a few things to consider with digital distribution. It is obviously cheaper for a company to sell digitally than through a store. No retail packaging, no shelf space, no media to create, etc. Additionally, unless its the companies digital distribution platform, there is no cost to them outside of what they pay the digital distributer. For instance, if bf2 retails for $40, the question becomes what does ea charge st
[quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="34" id="2853068"] oh and I agree. Puzzle quest 1 = addictive for a bit. Puzzle quest 2 = i played it for 6 hours and haven't been back. My example only, ofc. [/quote] Puzzle Quest 2 has quite a few problems, but the worst is that the it's not even remotely challenging for most of the game. This is largely due to the fact that the AI is completey incompetent and just does things at random. There were a few challengin
If you haven't played it, I would strongly recomend the original puzzle quest over puzzle quest 2. Puzzle quest 2 is nowhere close to being as good.
[quote who="mentalinstra" reply="17" id="2849730"].Ya think!? Funny reading people on the Elemental forum wondering how things slipped past testers, talking about how a patch wont make much difference and that AI issues may never be solved. Thanks for the laugh guys. Patience. Is. Virtue. [/quote] In all fairness, many of the people on the elemental forums are just as critical about elemental.
Last I checked the civ fanatics boards there were some good things being said about the gameplay changes in the new patch but the general opinion seemed to be that the AI was still poor. Unfortunately AI is the thing that needed the most help by far. A step in the right direction I suppose, but at the rate it's going Civ5 may never solve it's AI issues. You really need to design a game with how the AI will handle it in mind, which Civ 5 clearly did not do. I guess many of the s
Having played through WoW since the beginning I do understand many of ZehDon complains about BC. I don't agree that it was worse then vanilla upon release. But the whole attunement system didn't work very well, and there were definitely significant issues they didn't think through with their initial raid progression setups. Of course vanilla WoW had tons of issues too. The state of BC on release is irrelevent though because all the raiding things ZehDon complains about were
[quote who="Tridus" reply="27" id="2837917"] The words you're looking for are "invasion" and "conquest". Far, far more people were killed in those actions then have ever been killed by terrorists, largely because the millitary has much bigger guns. [/quote] No the word I'm looking for is war, although there was an invasion as part of the war. And yes wars kill more people then terrorists but I'm not sure how that's relevent. Wars kill more people then murderer
Having played both EVE and WoW, I thought I'd mention that they are EXTREMELY different games. I wouldn't necesarily assume that because you like one that you will like the other. EVE (at least when I played it which was a long time ago) is more similar to a simulation style game, by which I mean you are given more freedom to do whatever you want in the universe and face the consequences. To some extent players make their own gameplay by forming corporations and pirating each other and the fo
[quote who="coreimpulse" reply="24" id="2837807"] States too engage in terrorist acts, like uhmm, illegally invading a nation bypassing all international treates. That ring a bell? [/quote] Well no. That's an act of war, and depending on your perspective it may be viewed as immoral (I certainly did not support it). But it is not an act of terrorism.
[quote who="Campaigner" reply="18" id="2837709"] The problem is that he admitted to having unprotected sex with several of these women. Which, under Sweden's laws, could very well constitute rape, even if it was consensual. I'm Swedish and I've NEVER heard of that. It would be news to me if that was true. It would also mean that me and a chick I met two years ago are rapists [/quote] There seems to be a lot of
[quote who="Campaigner" reply="17" id="2837705"] U.S hypocrizy at its finest! Freedom of Speech is encouraged BUT, when it goes against the government....oooh no. [/quote] Hehe are you saying that US citizens aren't allowed to say bad things about the government? Have you ever watched our tv? Revealing illegally obtained classified documents is something that I don't believe would be covered by free speech in any country.
[quote who="taltamir" reply="105" id="2837342"] pfft, about at level 30 you must go to contested areas if you want to continue playing. This is when the gankers get you. Unless you are playing a PvP server, then its level 1. [/quote] I think your confused. If your not playing on a pvp server, people can't gank you in contested areas. People can only attack you if you flag yourself as pvp. I'm not sure how that related to the point either way though. You d
[quote who="marlowwe" reply="103" id="2837081"] The first game where I scouted was WOW... with scouting I went from losing to 3 levels below to beating 3 levels above. (thats for both other players and mobs btw) as well is vastly improving in other aspects of the game (wealth generation, xp generation rate, etc). I looked back to a lot of games and found how much better I was with that application... but I wasn't playing the game anymore. I would spend much more time on forums scou
[quote who="myfist0" reply="5" id="2836032"] 4 people died in that attack and 18 wounded. Not something to make fun of. Freedom of Speech is one of the rights many people have fought and died for. Maybe you would like life better in North Korea. Uga, thanks for the laugh. [/quote] Ironically your trying to suppress Jubreau's speech as you defend free speech. Free speech has nothing to do with either issue however because there are no
Perhaps the biggest sign that the tipping point on direct download has been reached is that the newest WOW expansion is available for DD (and of course only from Blizzard). This is something that many retail stores were up in arms about because it will severely hurt their sales and at least a few threatened to boycott sales of their game (a tactic that has stopped titles in the past from being available for DD). Regarding the price of games, I'm pretty sure DD sites can't charge anyth
[quote who="taltamir" reply="31" id="2832396"]the solution seems simple enough, non ranked play. That is, have the ladder for competitive PvP players, and non ranked play for those who would like to finish a game rather then lose / "win" (via opponent quitting) in 5 minutes. [/quote] I would expect things to be even worse in non ranked play. People quitting when they have no chance of winning happens in every game, ranked or not. In ranked play there is at le
[quote who="Ravenstrike" reply="43" id="2832172"]I hated Oblivion at first. It had some disastrous design flaws, so I actually hope they rethink the formula quite a bit. But anyway, then I got the PC version and started to mod the shit (literally) out of it. We are talking about 20 gig's of mod's here including graphics and game play improvements. Daggerfall has been the best game from this developer and even that was really buggy, since daggerfall th
[quote who="OMG_blackmage" reply="27" id="2832348"] Quoting Yama-B, reply 25 I didn't mean to say that there's a problem with how the game works, just mentioning that, inside any given match, it's possible to cripple a player in a way that he cannot fight back, which is exactly what the all-in strategy aims for. You give yourself a chance to destroy your opponent and win, however, by doing that, you also guarantee that if your attack fails, you are the one th
[quote who="Civfreak" reply="10" id="2832036"]This is something I always discuss with my brother. There is something we always say about multiplayer/MMO's usually and that is that playing with other people is the beauty and at the same time the bane of those type of games. For example, Worlf Of Warcraft. Heres a game that is an example of how the player base can ruin it for everyone else just looking to enjoy the game. Everything has been taken to spread sheets and if you divert by a small am
[quote who="Ozzy38" reply="61" id="2831382"]Plus, while consoles developers tend not to be any smarter than "let's make a game where we shoot stuff!!!! Preferably foreigners!" and "let's not be sexist, put a woman partner with the hero. But give her as little clothing as possible.", the PC crowd seems to be "what ways can we stop our customers using our products this year?" and, of course: Person 1: "So, digital download, that means we don't have to pay to make physicals discs
[quote who="warcraft98" reply="53" id="2831021"] You don't need to leave your name like a tool, we can all see you by your name right beside the post. [/quote] Every day these forums remind me just a little bit more of the WoW forums.....
[quote who="Das123" reply="11" id="2828480"]Nice reviews RooksBailey. Another game worth looking at is Armada 2526. This has been patched recently and is miles better than the release version. A TBS game but what makes this game so interesting is that each race has different ways of winning. For some it is about how many of their race they can populate. Others are how many of any race they control. Others how many populations they can kill. And so on for each race. One race loses
It's also interesting to note that the latest expansion for World of Warcraft is now being sold online directly by Blizzard. Given that this is one of the very last titles that does get significant shelf space at retail stores, it's likely to have a shrinking effect on PC shelf space as well.