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Reply to The internet is a scary place... But the ipad and iphone is here to save us! in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote who="TheDarkKnight2008" reply="5" id="2632291"]The problem with that sort of view, is that this 'elite' writer is obviously too stupid for her own good.[/quote] This sums up the general opinion I have of Mac users who like to say how smarter Mac, and it's customes, are than the "commoners". It's a business strategy by Mac to convince the lemmings that they're better than the other animals. It's sad when people don't just buy in to it, but actually believe it enough to

Reply to Forums go Boom every time I try to post! in Forum Issues Demigod Forums

I haven't had one for the last two days, so something seems to have worked. I usually received them around 5:30pm GMT+10. edit: It's 5:00pm GMT+10 and I just received one trying to post this.

Reply to I don't hate steam anymore in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

Hmm, that's odd. Most of my friends have the same situation that I do. Steam takes around a minute before you're able to double click on your game and play. It's less time if there are no pop-ups when you launch, maybe around 45 seconds? There's got to be a reason for this?

Reply to Need solid information on Piracy numbers. in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

Sorry, I'll try to explain more clearly. [quote who="XeronX" reply="16" id="2631014"]Are you implying that it is possible that registered users due to losing conection and failing when trying to reconnect might have been also counted as pirates?[/quote] No, I meant that users were being disconnected and rejected from the servers when they were overloaded. This meant that it wasn't a case of 18,000 user connection attemps VS 100,000 pirate connection attempts, the numbers

Reply to What are you listening to? in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote who="OMG_NinkiCZ" reply="20" id="2630760"]Think of an angel eloquently reciting the word baby over and over until you fall into a deep trance where you feel like everything in life is filled with joy. That is the real "Baby."[/quote] Now, see, I think this would have more appeal if that angel wasn't a 12 year old boy who looked like this: <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="http://socialbutterflies.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/justin-

Reply to I don't hate steam anymore in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

I don't mind the way the program operates, I do mind that it's simply slow. I recently upgradded my internet connection, and despite the rest of the internet loading at incredibly speeds, Steam still takes far too long to check for updates, log into my account, load the start-up spam and get the hell out of my way so I get to my game. Impulse takes, quite literally, all of about 3 seconds. Valve need to lift their game in that regard, otherwise Steam as a program isn't

Reply to Need solid information on Piracy numbers. in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote who="XeronX" reply="7" id="2630707"]... they would have had to by extension to do a DoS (Denial of Service) to 100000+ requests in the same instant that those 18000 users were in...[/quote] The 18,000 odd users on the first day (of which I was one) would've been experiencing connectivity problems due to Raknet melting in the real world situation and thus been re-trying their connections. In order to exceed the server limits, some 32,001 pirates would've neede

Reply to Epic President: “The Money’s On Console” in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

I just want to point out again that I'm not saying piracy isn't an issue. Crime is always an issue, and there is no logical argument against that. I'm a firm believer in 'An honests days pay for an honests days work' and I find the acts of pirates disgusting, and I personally take great delight in crushing their piss poor excuses for piracy into the dirt. There is no justification for piracy. Period. Today, however, companies - usually big companies - a

Reply to Need solid information on Piracy numbers. in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

Two journals Brad made about Demigod had some information, including the number of server access requests that were denied on launch. Here's one , I can't find the other. Check the Demigod Journals and you'll find it eventually.

Reply to Epic President: “The Money’s On Console” in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote who="TheDarkKnight2008" reply="67" id="2629846"]First of all, you mention the monitor and use it in an argument about the xbox 360. That's hardware, so where is the mentioning of a tv?[/quote] A TV is non-specific to a console; a monitor is specific to PC and thus included in the price. How many people would you imagine don't own a computer or an Xbox/PS3/Wii who also own a computer monitor? How many do you imagine might own a TV that doesn't ow

Reply to Forums go Boom every time I try to post! in Forum Issues Demigod Forums

... meanwhile, at Stardock:

What are you listening to? in Everything Else Demigod Forums

I recently grabbed the discography of 'The Butterfly Effect' off of Ebay, and I must say it's pretty impressive stuff! I've got them all loaded onto my iPod and its certainly making work more entertaining. I highly recommend the tracks 'Beautiful Mine' and 'Gone' for anyone who likes this kind of rock. What about everyone else? And, please, no Justin Beiber. <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="http://www.gossip

Reply to Epic President: “The Money’s On Console” in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote who="-RAISTLIN-" reply="65" id="2629796"] i just typed out a response and got the 'forums go boom' and im not going to bother again. needless to say i think you're wrong on your trivialisation of piracy, and have virtually every PC developer as evidence. whereas you have...your gut feeling.[/quote] Damn, if you use the Back command on your browser the forum usually saves your post, at least for me. Anyway, I have the visible shift from a PC Gaming focused Game

Reply to Tactical Combat discussion continuation in Elemental Dev Journals Demigod Forums

The forums seems to have gobbled up my post (it posted, now its not here?). I apologise if this somehow double posts. WINNER. TAKE. ALL. This is the part where we want to hear your opinions. We do ask that you keep an open mind on what we ultimately go with. My opinion is that the attacking player has the onus to finish the battle in N turns. After N turns, the attacker morale starts to go lower and lower at which point the defender can come out and make mince meat

Reply to Tactical Combat discussion continuation in Elemental Dev Journals Demigod Forums

[quote quoting="post"] WINNER. TAKE. ALL. This is the part where we want to hear your opinions. We do ask that you keep an open mind on what we ultimately go with. My opinion is that the attacking player has the onus to finish the battle in N turns. After N turns, the attacker morale starts to go lower and lower at which point the defender can come out and make mince meat out of them. The question is, what should determine what N is? Or should we allow retrea

Reply to Epic President: “The Money’s On Console” in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote who="-RAISTLIN-" reply="63" id="2629678"]I’m confused. How would you judge the size of an audience other than by how many computing units are sold?[/quote] You judge the size of the platform by the number of Computing Units sold. You can't use that to judge the audience. I'll use my Baseball reference again, but I'll make it clearer. How many people do you think like Baseball? A few? Ok, now, Major League Baseball is very different to game

Reply to Epic President: “The Money’s On Console” in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote who="-RAISTLIN-" reply="57" id="2629157"]that's a ludicrous comparison; unless its your position that there's significantly less than 40 million (number of 360s sold as at jan 2010) PCs available to play games?[/quote] Actually, it has very little to do with the amount of consoles or PCs and all to do with audience or size of the audience. Sorry, that's my fault for being unclear. How many people have state of the art PCs, game exclusively on them,&nbs

Reply to Forums go Boom every time I try to post! in Forum Issues Demigod Forums

Same here. I bet Bara fogot to feed the sever-powering 'Mice on running wheels' again.

Reply to Epic President: “The Money’s On Console” in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

Firstly, lets get this back on track since I feel we're getting off the issue at hand. The President of Epic Games says that the big money in the games industry is on the consoles, and infers that the impact of piracy is responsible for this. Secondly, I'm not defending piracy. I find what they do disgusting. I don't pirate games. I don't condone piracy, and I actively go out of my way to call people out on it. With that in mind, get comfortable; thi

Reply to What Did You Play this Weekend? in Personal Computing Demigod Forums

Conker's Bad Fur Day on the original Xbox. Still awesome. I also attempted to play Knights of the Old Republic, purchased off of Steam. Forgot how Steam gimped the game from being modded, so I can't play the game in Widescreen. Not so awesome.

Reply to Epic President: “The Money’s On Console” in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote who="TheDarkKnight2008" reply="50" id="2629063"]...You have some of the best names in pc gaming leaving for consoles because people steal and you sad bunch of fools bash them relentlessly...[/quote] I always find these types of comments hilarious. Unreal Tournament 2k4 was, as I said, brilliant. I still play it. UT3, which I also own, was terrible, plain and simple. However, ask Epic why UT3 failed and I bet piracy ranks either the first or second excu

Reply to Demigod v1.3 is in testing in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote who="gkrit" reply="83" id="2628118"]...I just heard from someone about this post and all i said was "BOUT TIME!". You say small patches in short bursts but its alrdy been ages since any form of patching has taken place.[/quote] I understand, however if it was to be one big patch just imagine how long it would've been before we saw anything? Hence my comment. :)

Reply to Synn forever growing in Everything Else Demigod Forums

Excellent work there Synn. Those turrents are pretty badass.

Reply to Fangorodrim in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

I'll download and play this evening when I get home. Looks intersting, and I never pass up the oppurtunity to try out an indie game!

Reply to Epic President: “The Money’s On Console” in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote who="-RAISTLIN-" reply="22" id="2622185"]Based on the amount of horrible, watered-down multi-platform games these days released on PC, piracy has already killed PC gaming...[/quote] You've got the general idea :) Piracy didn't kill PC Gaming, Game Developers killed PC Gaming. Instead of making titles that take advantage of the platforms specific strengths and target audiences, they're making one game, aiming for the dumbest sons of bitches on the earth an