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[quote who="Annatar11" reply="7" id="1988676"]How would not having Impulse make this any different though? If she has to go there to download a patch with Impulse, she'd have to go there to download a patch without it, too.[/quote] [quote who="Kruppe" reply="8" id="1988678"]again, how would this be diffrent if the patches was hosted by filefront or the like? and it does not have to be an IE caffe, she has atleast 1 friend with internet acces ... you ... or work or school or...

Reply to DRM problem with used copy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I know he's the owner of Stardock, it's just that with Digital Distribution you don't really get a "manual" persay ;). I know you have to look i the game directory but not everyone knows. :p "Persectued" can mean many things, in this case I'm using it as a cause for being unjust based on previous history. Don't worry I'm not angry, I'm just curious about the reasonings and all, and also that my friend is a lil peeved... >_> [quote who="Kruppe" reply="3" id="1988569"]<br

Reply to DRM problem with used copy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="24" id="1988424"]Just as a point of reference, Impulse is mentioned by name in the original Sins of a Solar Empire documentation.[/quote] Are you sure? From what I remember Impulse wasn't out for another 4-6 months after SOASE was released. While you're still mentioning about second hand games though, you still fail to acknowledge those that bought the game legitimately and have been persecuted since the induction of Impulse. It's highly unfair, especially

Reply to DRM problem with used copy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="AdonMalik" reply="16" id="1988079"]I sympathize with your friend's plight in this and I think you do have a valid concern; however I can also see this from Stardock's point of view. If they allowed what you're asking for then your friend could potentially take that file and post it up to a torrent site for all the pirates. I'm not saying that your friend would do that, and without an net connetion it would be pretty difficult for them to anyways , but I think you under

Reply to DRM problem with used copy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Mori" reply="12" id="1987984"]Example : Patches aren't some fucking "reward," and outside these cult-like forums you're pretty unlikely to find a single person who's outraged that a publisher is providing patches for free : Page 5 Reply 102 Is it neccicary to use language like that to bring your point across. Does it make your point more correct or more incorrect by trying to bulldoze your way through other people. As long as that person gets their way, they dont care h

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Collector's Edition vs. Standard in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

If you bought the digital version of SOASE then you can ask for a boxed copy at $5 + P&P, of course if you live outside the States then the P&P is £18...

Reply to DRM problem with used copy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="josephc1989" reply="16" id="1985608"]im pretty sure valve's own games require steam to be patched. Personally i like the updating service of steam and impulse. Theyre both fast and automatic. Lots of games have ridiculous numbers of patches (im looking at you dawn of war), and i just hate downloading 8 different exes just to patch up to the rite version. Then theres problems of regional patch variations etc etc. Now the op here hates digital distribution and using accounts

Reply to DRM problem with used copy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="josephc1989" reply="13" id="1985540"]Let's do an analogy here. You ignorantly buy the keys to a car but the ownership and insurance papers are still in the name of the original owner. Sure you can still drive around and shit, but when a cop pulls you over and asks for your papers youre fucked.[/quote] That's why you get the papers transfered by the DVLA and the insurance registered beforehand. ;) Anyway the only thing I don't like is that you have to be

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[quote who="epiclulz" reply="25" id="1984030"]Is it really so impossibly difficult to understand that free, unrestricted patches are the industry norm?[/quote] I agree with you on this point, well I pretty much said why already. My friend having bought the game cannot update her game simply because she has no net access, having an unrestricted patch will solve this, or at least have a separate download linked to your account, that way she can go into the downloads section and download

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If you can then that's fair enough. Oh I replied to your "why" btw. ;)

Reply to Mines are overpowered in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

That's a thing though, we shouldn't have to spend money for suicides.

Reply to DRM problem with used copy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Read it again, I said that when the reseller sells the game, they contact SD and they have to pay them a fee for reselling the game to the new owner. [quote]why?[/quote] Not everyone has internet access, my friend currently has no internet access as she isn't at home enough to warrant one, but she has no way of updating the game herself. A legitimate user being hampered for having no net connection. It's just little things like this that can become frustrating for consumers.</

Reply to DRM problem with used copy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I honestly don't see what the problem is. I've always supported games that have literally no DRM whatsoever, I do however also support the fact that the online services should be behind lock and key, the reason for this is if people pirate the game then they need a genuine serial to play the game online. The only aspect I don't like is that you're forced to have an account with Stardock to update the game, that's the only thing I don't like, but as it's a centralised service (like Ste

Reply to Mines are overpowered in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I also think that the amount of mines laid makes it terribly frustrating, especially when entering another system with mines surounding you. I think some sort of mine clearing ship or a type of fighter is needed to clear the mines for safe passage.

Reply to [Entrenchment launch] Game won't start - black screen? in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

[quote who="Aaron Moore" reply="10" id="1982239"]My nephew had simular issues and what we ended up doing was unistalling everything and deleting all the directories associated with sins, stardock including impulse, ironclad, and the stardock, ironclad folders in the local settings folder as well. Then re-install Impulse, SINS and everything worked just fine.[/quote] That's a little OTT, all I did was uninstall SOASE and reinstall it and Entrentchment, then it ran. I never had any

Reply to Impulse Arrives: Next Generation PC platform in Sins News Sins Forums

[quote]Nevermind. It looks like you have to go register your other games to add them to Impulse. I think I'll hold off since I don't see any real reason to do this just yet. (I can get patches for UT3 on my own and UT-GOTY isn't going to be patched any further.) What would be neat would be if--assuming Epic ever makes a UT4 or a UT 3.5, they offered a discount via Impulse for people who'd bought (the very disappointing) UT3.[/quote] Tried adding my Unreal games and it seems that you can

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Collector's Edition vs. Standard in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

It's sorted now. It was a really weird thing I did, I basically thought that I'd try signing up with my Paypal address and just input the CD Key and get the CE content, it didn't work so I thought "great, just my luck". Logged back into this account and the content shows up! How bizarre but at least I've finally got the content I've paid for. I'll be sure to purchase everything through Impulse this time! Loving the soundtrack and artwork guys! Can't wait for your next game. :)