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Reply to Time Warner to punish gamers, other internet users. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="22" id="2125033"]In the long-run, you'll have plenty of options because you'll have 3G (and soon 4G) options, your cable company of course, and others will come in if there's a market. Right now, the problem is that the cable companies business model has fallen apart. For years, they sold $50 cable modem connections knowing that 90% of their users were using trivial amounts of bandwidth per month (some surfing, email). But not anymore. &

Reply to Time Warner to punish gamers, other internet users. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="psychoak" reply="3" id="2124818"]The problem is the pro consumer regulation, not a pro business government. As with any regulation, unintended side effects are numerous. When, you require a company to sell their network to others at cost, you discourage further advancement of that network. The investment costs cannot be profited from in such a situation. You're unable to compete with your own network, the scenario demands minimal marg

Reply to They should change the name of "DRM" in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="alway" reply="25" id="2117408"] Quoting MarvinKosh, reply 23 None of this is rocket science Well of course its not, its economics! And it is not a moral issue. It is an economic issue. Bad company decisions = lower profits. The problem is, they do not understand the basic economics involved. What they are doing is essentially increasing the price (by adding the grief which comes with DRM) and expecting the demand to inc

Reply to No SecuROM or online authentication for Sims 3 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="1" id="2121727"] Actually, it will have DRM. My apologies, I make the distinction between copy protection (physical, disk-based like Sims 3) and DRM (online activation, etc). Most usually take them to be the same thing, but it's not really. Red Alert 3 had DRM with activations and such (but no disk check, if I remember correctly). Fallout 3 didn't have DRM, but had copy protection (disk check). [/quote] I suppose the

Reply to No SecuROM or online authentication for Sims 3 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="2" id="2121851"] Try again. If people are unhappy with the DRM, then its not the percentage of the players/buyers of spore that matter but those who didn't buy it. And as usual, the most vocal is usually the minority, including you. Not even close. I'm in the biggest majority of all, those who didn't buy the game due to a complete lack of interest in it. That's the vast majority of the human race. [/quote] Touchy.</p

Reply to No SecuROM or online authentication for Sims 3 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="24" id="2121693"]I think it's too early to draw any sort of conclusion about what this means or why they're doing it. If it becomes a trend with EA-published games, then we can analyze which game types don't have it as opposed to which do, and all the other goodies of that nature. Until then, it's just one title that doesn't have DRM. My personal opinion on why? Money. Even though EA has games that sell very well, EA is not known

Reply to No SecuROM or online authentication for Sims 3 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="22" id="2121122"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 21 Quoting NickJames, reply 20 I would expect something as friendly for BioWare's Dragon Age I highly doubt this will happen. One of the recent post`s in Etrius`s thread made mention of the demographic diffrence`s between game`s. The Sim`s series are always high on PC sale`s chart`s. This is a blan

Reply to No SecuROM or online authentication for Sims 3 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="NickJames" reply="20" id="2120946"] I would expect something as friendly for BioWare's Dragon Age I highly doubt this will happen. One of the recent post`s in Etrius`s thread made mention of the demographic diffrence`s between game`s. The Sim`s series are always high on PC sale`s chart`s. This is a blanket statement I`m about to make. The Sim`s is a far more "casual" series then Bioware product`s. I don`t

Reply to No SecuROM or online authentication for Sims 3 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Savyg" reply="15" id="2120797"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 12 Stuff packs have been a way to release games and expansion packs with less content and allow EA to charge a fairly steep price for "stuff" instead. So what? It's not like they're being forced down your throat. I am a hardcore gamer, and I plan to buy Sims 3. 2 was unexpectedly charming. I wish it had even more random

Reply to Impulse DRM in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="15" id="2117205"] There are plenty of people who won't be satisfied with anything other than the honor system of IP protection and those are people I hope never buy anything form us because I don't want them as customers. There have been enough posts and discussions on the specifics for anyone who actually wants to learn about it. [/quote] I am not convinced. I understand that DRM, or whatever else th

Reply to No SecuROM or online authentication for Sims 3 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Savyg" reply="7" id="2119995"]What's so bad about the stuff packs? It seems pretty simple to me. I don't want any of them, so I don't buy any of them. Hallelujah. EA having half a brain is good to know...I'm not all anti SecuROM or anything but the whole DRM thing is a big mess. [/quote] Stuff packs have been a way to release games and expansion packs with less content and allow EA to charge a fairly steep

Reply to No SecuROM or online authentication for Sims 3 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="DethAdder" reply="8" id="2120025"]Kinda funny EA decides to do this on a game that mostly appeals to casual gaming masses, soccer moms, etc. People that aren't as likley to pirate it to begin with. Until EA shows this is the norm for all their new games, I would call it a publicity stunt. [/quote] I think you are off point here. It doesn't appeal mostly to casual gamers that you label as soccer moms, it ALSO appeals to casual games. I consider myself a hardcore gamer,

Reply to No SecuROM or online authentication for Sims 3 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Looks like a completely different forum to me. On that note, there are tons of forums talking about this but I won't list them all.

Reply to No SecuROM or online authentication for Sims 3 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="alway" reply="1" id="2118836"]good, time-proven solution Time proven? Yes... But not by EA! Perhaps it is not to late to give up hope for EA... Maybe... [/quote] Companies like EA are the reason I don't ever pre-order games anymore. I am tired of hidden and/or just bad DRM schemes, buggy releases, features listed on the box that aren't actually in the game. It's ridiculous. I will say that if the Sims 3 doesn't have DRM and turns out to be entertaining lik

Reply to Throw GOO at that DRM! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

There is a validation server in there somewhere that your simple (though affecitve) visuals is leaving out. Even if its multiple servers that you have an option to choose from, the fact is there is still a company in control of whether or not you get your validation. In my opinion, that's still a problem. As long as I have to remotely ask some machine, regardless of which company owns it, for permission to use my legally purchased game, you're only shifting the control from one busi

Reply to Throw GOO at that DRM! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="DroopyTheDog" reply="15" id="2115400"]I'm just saying everything about the OP says GOO is primarily targeted at digital distribution of games so that isn't an issue they're aiming to solve. I just added some of the other issues to cover all the bases. [/quote] Well if i understand Stardock's intentions, with the gamers bill of rights and everything, it is to be an industry leader. If you are going to be al eader in the industry, I think yo

Reply to Throw GOO at that DRM! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="DroopyTheDog" reply="6" id="2115292"] It's an online activation that points to impulse instead of the publisher's server. That's fine but it doesn't really adress the "What if company X goes away?" question, it's just that company X becomes Stardock instead of the publisher. Of course there's still the "What if I don't have internet access?" group unsatisfied too, but since it's seems more geared for the digital distrubution age I'm willing to leave that as a moot

Reply to Throw GOO at that DRM! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Serik55" reply="1" id="2115055"]Blizzard still has the best download/account management service. Register your key on Battle.net and download a Mac or PC installer for your game. Easy as pie. I wish every publisher would let you register their games with a client-free download website. It also helps that Battle.net is sleek, efficient, and devoid of adverts and other bloat. [/quote] How is this so great. You loose blizzard, you loose your game. And real

Reply to Throw GOO at that DRM! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Well I read on FoxBusiness, I believe, that there was some mention about concerns being address: that if a company goes bust, any games bought from the company are now useless. So if they are still phoning home, needing to connect with a server to activate, then who cares how many places you can download the game from? If there is no server to connect to, having the software won't help you at all (talking legally of course). As for claims for companies' releasing patches to fix this rig

Reply to Throw GOO at that DRM! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

So the validation process still requires that the game phone home, but the intention is there will be multiple homes (companies) to phone home to and hopefully not all of them will go down at once?

Reply to Gamespot Interview with Brad on Elemental! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="2" id="1940396"]Awesome, thanks for explaining That's basically the impression I got about how it was going to work (well, other than being able to use non-sentient creatures in that manner). And you're right, I think most folks will like this approach. Pretty much everyone in this thread has been saying they don't want to see magical creatures cheapened [/quote] I think you are taking one opinion and down-grading it based on that opi

Reply to Gamespot Interview with Brad on Elemental! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="the Gorgon" reply="6" id="1937761"](On 99% humans) Yes I've played HMM5 (hardly strategy). AWSM is decent but already too old. D3 too ugly. MM old. There is no such game out, so whatever people prefer, it's not about avoiding boring repetition. [/quote] HMM5 is garbage compared to the games before it. I am disappointed that the magical races willl be so infrequent. This actually makes me more reserved about the game than I was before

Reply to Multiplayer in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="2" id="1930279"] Is the persistent multiplayer like the GalCiv2 metaverse, or actual "true" multiplayer? You'll actually play against other players in-game. Will there be support for simultaneous turns?Such is the plan. We hope for head to head games over impulse.Impulse will be the backbone of the multiplayer. [/quote] When you say impulse will be the backbone of multiplayer gam

Reply to No Sandbox Play? Only Campaign Play? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

How would a story in a sandbox mode even work. You have a randomly generated map, and though you could create a randomly generated story, sounds like a lot of work that would lead to some pretty meaningless, probably even weird, stories. I would think scenarios would be more of what you have in mind and maybe parts of those can have random elements.

Reply to Multiplayer in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Co-op play is extremely important to our group, it's generally the only type of game that shifts us from MMORPGs to stand-alone type games. Alliances are great. I would highly recommend going that route.