kryo

Your first thread on the forums (within minutes of your first reply), and it was an ad. Even your avatar is an ad.

[quote who="Jafo" reply="34" id="3029892"]"mixture of software"?[/quote] I am not a robot. I am a unicorn.

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="19" id="3029680"]I've got hundreds of dollars in games in the garage wasting away in 100-degree heat that maybe I played once. Sometimes you buy a game and it's a dud. I spent $130 on a video card just so I could play Supreme Commander and ended up not even liking the game.[/quote] Most games these days are lucky to make it past the 1:1 dollars-to-hours of entertainment threshold for me. For console games, it's usually a lot less since they st

[quote]So really there is no further need for uproar over it, it's a non issue at this point. No other mods are effected that I know of.[/quote] It's only a "non-issue" because it's Steam DRM rather than any other DRM system. Anyone else patching in additional DRM would have been crucified. Executable encryption does mean that any sort of scripting engine extension (as has been done for past TES games) is impossible until/unless they explicitly provide a libr

[quote]The update to the game's .exe was to keep compliance with Valve's requirement for games that use Steamworks - namely, that they require the Steam Store Client. Failing to comply with Valve's requirements would have led to the game being removed from Steam - this would have prevented new customers from even installing their game thanks to the way Steamworks functions. Bethesda did what they were told.[/quote] I'm a bit curious where you found that sinc

[quote] They're not hard to find. [removed by moderator][/quote] Linking cracks or pirated software is not acceptable. Period.

It's just plain silly. They patched in additional DRM, as if that's going to impact pirates who aren't using the game via Steam in the first place and won't even receive the update. It does absolutely zero but inconvenience paying users.

Fantastic, apparently they made an update today that forces the game to run the launcher and wait for Steam, so you can't just run the game directly any more.

[quote]Say what you will of console titles, they run and they don't crash.[/quote] ...in theory. Batman hard froze my PS3 twice a few weeks ago.

[quote who="Hawawaa" reply="83" id="3026057"]Ok one nice thing I really like about Skyrim is some of the armors look fucking incredible...[/quote] Some. I was a bit disappointed when I got the glass armor and found that it's basically "jeweled elvish armor" rather than "neon ninja armor" like in Morrowind. :p

[quote] I think you are overlooking the fact that people upgrade their computers, reinstall the OS, have hard drive failures/fires/floods. I myself have lost many save games because when I reinstalled Windows I forgot to backup the old games which save in their program files folder instead of the my documents folder.[/quote] Games that are long enough to need saves and that have enough replay value for that to come up as an issue are sadly few and far between these d

That's not likely to change. Localization availability is based on the international publishing deals and doesn't really have anything to do with the store.

[quote who="Rebell44" reply="25" id="3025802"]those features are very usefull - for example Steam Cloud.[/quote] Most people don't have multiple gaming machines, so cloud saves aren't nearly as useful as you might think.

Your netbook is probably running 1024x600 as most netbooks do. GalCiv1 was fixed at 1024x768 resolution, so you'll probably need to set your desktop to that to get it to run (which means panning to see the whole screen). Unfortunately since GC1 didn't have a scalable UI, you can't force it to run lower and just live with a few overlaps as you can with GC2.

[quote who="Thoumsin" reply="17" id="3025545"]a russian friend have inform me about a russian distributor : - http://games.1c.ru/sins_of_solar_empire/?type=info - http://www.snowball.ru/sins/ Is it a LEGAL distributor for your game?[/quote] Yes. Snowball/1C was the Russian publisher of the game. IIRC they did GalCiv2 as well.

[quote who="Kantok" reply="53" id="3024329"]so we can safely assume that it has sold at least 300,000 (likely quite a bit more) on Steam. That means a lowball estimate for Skyrim opening weekend PC sales is 750,000 with 1,000,000 [/quote] It's a Steamworks game, so *all* PC sales are "on Steam". No need to inflate the numbers; whatever number Steam says are playing are it. Also, the skill perk interface is a complete and utter abomination of unusability. But

I must have missed the part where mobile Flash actually got out of beta...

[quote]took the responsibility by working his/her ass off[/quote] And (assuming it was consensual, as noted earlier) put him/herself in a position of needing outside assistance as well. That came about through a consequence of personal action, not by accident . At least trying to handle the result under one's own power is good (and more than many do these days), but that doesn't make the original cause more responsible. They still put themselve

[quote]By stepping outside of your house, you may be hit with a meteor[/quote] [quote]so that is a bit of a strawman there[/quote]

In the meanwhile, please contact Gamestop's support directly if you're having issues with Impulse.

[quote]In my mind... many people delude themselves... humans are decidedly illogical[/quote] Just as with law, ignorance--willful or otherwise--is no excuse. If you cannot or will not deal with the potential result of an action (by whatever means) without pushing responsibility onto uninvolved parties, the solution is simple: don't do it. Finish school, get a better job, etc., then have at it to your heart's content. Plans may not always pan out (disasters, dea

[quote]Life happens man, sometimes things do happen unexpectedly.[/quote] My point is that the phrase "unexpected child" is self-contradictory. Is a fire unexpected when you strike a flint over tinder? You can't choose to do something then be surprised by the natural, well-known, and expected result. I'm a big believer in self-responsibility, and that sort of talk really gets on my nerves. Even with protection, you're taking a calculated risk that your personal gra

[quote]having an unexpected child[/quote] There's no such thing as an "unexpected" child from a consensual relationship. Having even one kid without a plan to provide for them is irresponsible, at best. It's not like babies make themselves.

[quote]But now its saying my registrations expiration dates are invalid.[/quote] Let them know and they should be able to get it sorted out. This used to happen occasionally in odd situations. That message only really applied to things like Object Desktop.

[quote who="seanw3" reply="22" id="3020612"]A business need to have the products available at the store.[/quote] They do. Bear in mind that they're a dealer of used games who just happen to have a small selection new games on hand as well. Stocking the bare minimum of new product (which has a very small retail margin) just makes it easier to point people at used product, which is usually available in plentiful supply shortly after releases. The used PC game market