UncleDrood

Oh will you people KNOCK IT OFF about DRM, jesus! For starters, Securom does NOTHING. The publishers are not stupid. They know it doesn't do anything, but they are forced to include protection due to idiot shareholders. It seems all I ever see on here anymore is DRM crap. Give it a rest. DRM does NOTHING. It's pointless. All it takes is one enterprising individual to crack it and VOILA! That's it, all over. That is why Spore was cracked and on the net before it was even releas

DRM is stupid for one very simple reason. Once it's broken, that's it. Game over. Genie can't be stuffed in the bottle. All it takes is one hacker and BOOM! The entire world can now rid themselves of the DRM. So why even bother investing all that money? Stardock clearly prove that not everyone is a pirate and their games have sold like hot cakes. Jinx: Nice to see SOMEONE realises the semantic games going on with calling copyright infringement "theft" and "stea

I consider my iPod Touch (16gb first gen) to be the single greatest thing I've EVER bought. I would go as far as to say I couldn't live without it. Not just the music and video, but the apps etc... I had MP3 players before, in fact I had a media player that played music, video, has a radio, camera etc... I was lusting after the iPod for a while. Finally justified it to myself when my media player had a mishap and fell literally 3 inches to a carpeted floor and the screen broke! Got th

[quote who="XX" reply="1" id="1910794"]I'm sure you can find files and convenient emulator somewhere. Technically illegal but it's not likely that someone would sue you or anything.[/quote] Well he clearly owned a C64 at some point, AND owned the games, so how the bloody hell would that be illegal?

[quote quoting="post"] This is a hot of the press passage published on www.gamepolitics.com about Kristen Salvatore, editor-in-chief of PC Gamer, calling the GBR a pubilicity stunt in its most recent edition. She is basically implying it is all talk and no substance. It is generating a lot of responses already on the site. Methinks it is time for Frogboy to leap into action! [/quote] Awesome. I have said all along it was little more than a publicity stunt.

The Gamers bill of rights is a PR stunt and nothing more, and will never be taken seriously by the BIG names in the industry, because they don't give a crap about anything but profit, and they're raking in big profits by violating all those supposed rights, so why the hell would they bother go change their business model? Yeah, it's a fine idea, but anyone who sees it ever happening in the mainstream is living in a dream world. And the marvelous irony is I bought Spore, then i

[quote who="kryo" reply="1" id="1892508"]It's kind of a grey area. We do explicitly allow dual simultaneous usage of Sins for LAN multiplayer games, however there's no such reason for GC2. We do allow the owner to install on multiple machines they own, though, and we can't really do anything to stop you from playing two at once aside from appealing to your honesty.[/quote] Honesty? I'm sorry, that's ridiculous. If someone wants to listen to the same album as me, I don't have to buy tw

Oh yeah, and whining about Steam is pathetic. I've used it for years and had not one single issue. Neither has anyone else I know. I'm sure there ARE some issues, but as a service, Steam is awesome. It just works. I'd rather use Steam than the atrocity that is Impulse.

[quote]who is going to be putting it on 3 computors anyway. its not like this game is going to be uncommon. what is the problem with a 3 comp limit?[/quote] My laptop, my desktop, my kids computer. BOOM! 3 activations used, on release day. There is no law that stops me installing it on as many machines as I want (my wife's machine would be four). There is no reason to limit this, particular when the game is so utterly reliant upon online content. I still really want to buy Sp

Do you come with subtitles?

I remember reading years ago someone bought a Microsoft product, didn't agree to the EULA, and took it back to the store to demand a refund. They wouldn't give it to him. Microsoft did clearly state you could return it for a FULL refund if you disagreed, and eventually the store capitulated. Thing is though, it shouldn't be like that. It's not legally enforceable to say to someone "Okay, now you've bought this TV, you can only watch channels 3, 5 and 16." I once got into a deb

Looking at the top of their page, I already OWN most of those games. Was just thinking of installed "Sacrifice" again yesterday. Curious about the legality of this. Codemasters don't strike me as the type to let DRM free copies of their games sell. (This is, after all, one of the last remaining companies to use Starforce.)

How about a bill that bans whores from entering politics. As for piracy stats, they always equate 10 pirated copies as 10 lost sales. Unless you're the cretins at Starforce who said it meant MORE than 10 lost sales... Any study from RIAA, MPAA, BSA etc... Follow the money. Who do the stats benefit? The BSA is hardly going to release a study that says "Hey, we were wrong. The dent in our sales is minimal as 95% if those who pirated it wouldn't have bought it anyway!" are they.<

[quote] Oh, and I'm 15. I'm pretty sure child labour is illegal in the UK. Am I missing something?[/quote] Get a couple of paper rounds or something. I depise that fact that, as a 37 year old with two kids, I am about to use this phrase, but "when I was your age" I delivered two free local newspapers. Made about 20 quid a week. Six months of that, $80 a month, will score you a fair old rig. I have a six year old Dell here that only has a graphics card upgrade (GeForce 6) and half a

Bioshock is massively overrated. After all the hype I tried the demo and found the hype absurd. It's just another FPS. It neither stood out, nor offered anything interesting that hadn't been seen before. STALKER was better. And that pales in comparison to Half-Life 2 anyway. Just don't get why Bioshock is adored so much. Hope this Securom crap is sorted for Spore as right now, I'm seriously tempted to not buy it, simple because of this asinine treating customers like thieves. A

The whining about Securom is getting very tiresome. Yes, DRM is a pain, but the fact is so long as it's transparent, if the product is worth it, I will tolerate it. Starforce caused damage to my system. Caused me to burn disks that wouldn't verify and I wound up tossing about $20 worth of media before realising what was going on. Assuming the story of the demo of the creature creator containing Securom is correct, I can still burn DVDs without hassle. More than can ever be said about St

Quite proud of how this came out. Utterly impractical when it comes to eating, but me and my two year old came up with this one. The Wooble. [img]http://ll-415.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/000/415/500000415540_lrg.png[/img] This was the first we came up with. The Camosaur. [img]http://ll-407.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/000/407/500000407097_lrg.png[/img]

I can fully understand why people are upset. Since so much of Spore is going to rely on user created content, they're essentially trying to charge people TWICE for the same content. You get the editor for $10, then you pay AGAIN for the editor when you buy the game. I personally think folk who pre-order should get the full version to play with. Not only that, EA have hit on a brilliant money spinner. Charging folk $10 to create content for their upcoming game rather than paying people t

So Impulse, from my impression so far from using it, just seems to be a more unstable version of SDC with a nasty background, in an attempt to create a Steam-like service with games twice the price of Steam. I'm installing TOTA when it said it wasn't. Figure I'll see what happens. I agree about the zip or something. Impulse is nasty so far. (On my laptop it keeps getting stuck trying to update itself and I can't do anything.)

The demise of PC gaming... Stuff comes up about this every 18 months or so and has done for the last decade. Usually coincides with something big releases on the consoles. (Or the consoles themselves.)

I've gotten three new computers in the last year. I've nuked the bundled Vista off all 3 of them. What sucks is those three probably count as "sales" of the Vista OS.

[quote]There is only one LucasArts game I'm looking forward to and its only LucasArts cause it happens to be from their universe. the KOTOR MMO made by.......BIOWARE! Cause honestly people, Bioware knows RPG's, they know PC's, and they know their players. Why else would I still be playing KOTOR and enjoying it after knowing every little secret...seriously?[/quote] You're forgetting one small detail. Bioware are now owned by Electronic Arts. (I have a friend who works for th

"it was hard to develop a game that would satisfy both killer gaming rigs and outdated computers" Laziness. Blizzard have no trouble making games that do just that. I am consistently amazed at how scalable their games are. This is as pathetic as Crytek whining about piracy for poor sales of "Crysis". Yeah, sure it had nothing to do with the ridiculous system requirements locking out 90% of PC owners. (God knows I'd have bought it if I thought I had any hope at all of running it

[quote]Not directed at anyone except pirates: You are the reason we have to deal with this crap. [/quote] This is such utter misinformed horsecrap. Copy protection DOES NOT STOP PIRACY! Most games are online for download on or before release date. The software companies are not stupid. They know this. In fact someone I know who works for a well known software company has said that these days it's more and more about control (just what else will this Securom check be doing?) and also th

[quote]Before the current generation of l33t-speaking parasites became the norm on the net, we had a concept called shareware. Someone would make something cool and offer a version of it to try. [/quote] Actually Shareware, before the term was utterly bastardised, was software that was free to copy for other friends. Usually the program was feature complete, but the programmer asked for donations, but wanted it copied and spread. Hence the name "SHAREware". The term began being butchere