Nesrie

Gamespot Dubious Honors in War of Magic Stardock Forums

What surprises me is that Elemental was even widely known enough to receive a nomination for most disappointing game of the year on a site like Gamespot. Since I won't pay a company to beta their game, and I won't purchased broken buggy products that are missing advertised features, I couldn't vote for Elemental myself. It isn't going to "win" this dubious award though because the other titles on the list are huge and one of them trying so hard to recover from a terrible la

Reply to 2011 PC Gaming is dead in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Not to mention some very, very large MMO releases on PC coming. Crusakder Kings 2... I just hope, hope that they do a clean release with this one.

Reply to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="9" id="2843975"]Oblivion wasn't that good and was one of the most overrated games of its time. So I've got exactly zero excitement about this. Hopefully they fix the levelling system, at a minimum. [/quote] So you are not familiar with Black and White perhaps ? [e digicons]^_^[/e]

Reply to Elemental is junk in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="28" id="2839613"] Quoting Tridus, reply 20 Quoting kyogre12, reply 14 Yeah, but he tried to contact them over a holiday weekend. You can't expect a lightning quick response. And it was in the middle of said weekend, so there were already days worth of emails to go through. Normally I find SD's response time to be pretty good, but then, I try to avoid contacting them on weekends, holidays, etc. <br

Reply to Elemental is junk in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Rosco_P" reply="10" id="2838831"] There are a few things to keep in mind: 1) We're still taking care of the Thanksgiving backlog, so there may be some delay in our response. Please be patient, we will get back to you. 2) When you send us an email, it resets the "Last Activity" on the ticket, which is what our system uses to order the tickets. This means every time you send us an email, your ticket gets moved to the end of the queue. To

Reply to ...And that's why retailers ranting about Steam is a joke in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Guest83" reply="56" id="2838703"] Quoting Savyg, reply 55 Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit just now released on EA and Impulse but not Steam. http://twitter.com/NeedforSpeed/status/11851654034882560 [/quote] You could at least add some text with your link and point out that this was just announced.

Reply to It’s not the game’s problem, it’s a player problem in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

MMOs are a bit of a different animal in general. Some of them require a lot of research, mostly some of the aged ones, because the in-game support, information is bare and all of it is online. Some of the newer games are a lot better. Naturally, the manuals are pretty much useless due to the nature of the game. EQ 1 required a lot, a lot more research compared to EQ 2, for example. I spent hours just looking up things in EQ 1 while EQ 2 has things like built in recipe books. I don't pla

Reply to ...And that's why retailers ranting about Steam is a joke in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Savyg" reply="53" id="2836953"]Fortunately Steam can't have a monopoly when publishers are refusing to put their games on Steam. EA is. Mostly due to issues with their expansion packs and DLC, I gather. Also, thank you Steven. [/quote] Are you referring to the Sims series maybe? Because their other big ones, DA and ME, are on Steam. The Sims have a funky over-priced digital store thing going "for" it that probably wouldn't work well with Steam a

Reply to It’s not the game’s problem, it’s a player problem in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="marlowwe" reply="96" id="2836527"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 94 It is NOT a truism. You have no clue what other gamers think, what traits they have, nothing. You don't get to decide what is true and what is false simply because you say so. You cannot possibly have anything backing up your statement about a universal trait about gamers. You think you have some sort of "in" and you do not. I don't need to carefully read your blanket statement to know th

Reply to It’s not the game’s problem, it’s a player problem in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="marlowwe" reply="93" id="2836492"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 92 You should never make a blanket statement like this. People play games for different reasons, and you certainly don't have a direct line to all their thoughts. If you carefully reread what I wrote, you will see that I made no claims about reasons for playing. I will repeat what I wrote: Every gamer gets enjoyment out of getting better at a game. This is a universal trait

Reply to It’s not the game’s problem, it’s a player problem in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="marlowwe" reply="89" id="2836362"] I would argue that this is a universal trait shared by every gamer. [/quote] You should never make a blanket statement like this. People play games for different reasons, and you certainly don't have a direct line to all their thoughts.

Reply to ...And that's why retailers ranting about Steam is a joke in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Rebell44" reply="37" id="2836182"] Every company want to dominate its marketplace (StarDock, D2D etc. are no exception) - its just easier to get into such position when when your competition start later and/or dont offer as many features as you. In 2001 Valve wanted someone else to provide them such service - nobody was willing to do it, so they created Steam - they invested lots of money and took risk and their current marketshare is their reward for p

Reply to ...And that's why retailers ranting about Steam is a joke in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Rebell44" reply="34" id="2835841"] So you think that it would be better to buy directly from each developer / publisher? Not only I hate idea of creating 150 accounts on all those websites, I also trust many of those companies much much less compared to Steam and Impulse (just look at how "reliable" is Ubisofts own digital distribution.....) I dont care if by buying from from my favourite comapny I help in creating its monopoly - developers and publishers sel

Reply to It’s not the game’s problem, it’s a player problem in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="scratchthepitch" reply="84" id="2835824"]PSourice "If these narcissists end up running the country in 20 years we are doomed." People like them already do run the country and have been for a very long time. [/quote] What's funny and sad is this is such a tired tit for tat between generation now and generation coming up. It's not even original.

Reply to Promoting piracy in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

They've got an intersting way of handling a problem with their servers. Captain's Club vs. Premium Accounts Posted by Misha | 11/29/2010 | Maintenance Notice</sp

Reply to Impulse Now Specials in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I had impulse on startup for the better part of a year, and these sales were few, small and far in between last time around.

Reply to ...And that's why retailers ranting about Steam is a joke in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Savyg" reply="19" id="2833933"]Eventually publishers (as EA is doing already) are all going to move to hosting their own services, which will make Steamworks integration far less likely to happen. Some publishers will undoubtedly stick with it for a long time, but I don't expect the biggest ones to touch it. [/quote] EA's current store and offering is pretty bad. I mean initially they had some ridiculous thing where you could only download for a handful of days

Reply to It’s not the game’s problem, it’s a player problem in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Aractain" reply="50" id="2832938"] Also losing dosn't really effect the game for me if the game is FUN. Just the other day I was pushing into a town in arma 2, out numbered and running out of ammo I lost too many men and had to retreat, this was a 2 hour battle that (thanks to dispersion mods) felt like a news video from some Eastern European war. So fun! [/quote] I am thinking the maybe one of the reasons I never really felt that winni

Reply to It’s not the game’s problem, it’s a player problem in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="marlowwe" reply="41" id="2832655"] If it is possible for a gamer to derive fun from the game itself and not from winning then I would argue that the game is poorly designed. In fact, I would question whether the player is even playing a game and not simply toying with a map editor. A well designed game motivates the player and makes them want to win in a meaningful way. [/quote] I think you are one of those win/lose players then. I l

Reply to Diablo III in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="128" id="2832660"] Quoting Whindog, reply 127 ...There expos.....so theyll be rrp $40 to start out but nobody will pay that and find it for cheaper somewhere... Diablo III will feature Regional Restrictions; importing your game prevents you from playing with your friends, interacting with your local community and voids you from any and all offical promotions. Australian's will pay significantly more, as will Europeans. <br

Reply to It’s not the game’s problem, it’s a player problem in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I pretty much only play games with friends and family these days for some of the reasons you speak of. Our group isn't so die hard that we try to "ruin" the fun for people. The goal is, after all, to enjoy the game not just destroy each other. If it's a people problem, fix it. Ignore silly things like rankings and play with people you enjoy playing with.

Reply to Retail pain accelerates in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="MOIISKA" reply="67" id="2831803"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 41 Quoting MOIISKA, reply 40Things change. With the power of hand heald devices constantly growing, the table top PC market is dying and the laptop market has to keep up or die as well. In what world are the games for notebooks different than desktops? I mean sure you can scale down some games to get them to run on weak mobile gpus... but they're the same games. But hey, I know you

Reply to Dungeons - Dungeon Keeper clone in development in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Nenjin" reply="56" id="2830983"]http://forum.kalypsomedia.com/showthread.php?tid=5836 Shameless bump for my own Q&A thread on their forums. I asked a lot of questions and got a lot of answers, so if you want to know more about the game (and find links to other reviews) read through there. I have pretty high hopes for this game as being original and fun. But I've also quit thinking of it as a DKII successor. [/quote] Bummer on m

Reply to Retail pain accelerates in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="50" id="2830146"] So todays kids are just too damn stupid or lazy to be able to use computers.... [/quote] Whenever I see a statement like this, I want to go find a cane for someone or give them a number that says they can get a scooter for all those medicare folks. Seriously though, if you can't make a point without trying to categorize a bunch of people, most of whom are not actually kids, check the average

Reply to Diablo III in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="uga-bugga" reply="123" id="2830125"]idk how to quote yet. Yeah! To the person that said StarCraft II is a scam becaue they are release it 3 times for $60 each and THEN not letting you play multiplayer unless you use their service that eventually they want to make you pay for in the future. Wayyyyyyy to creepy. This is what politicians do. They argue 1,005% of the point and if they get 5% then then win, and you think you are nice for giving t