So... half a year after our last discussion, I -still- cannot download my titles from you, and am forced to use gamestop? Please... please... please find some way to rectify this. The rest of dead horse has been beaten into the dirt re:steam, but just let me install my games through you.
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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="38" id="3035078"] We make games and software. You bought them through a service called Impulse that we owned at the time. We sold Impulse but nothing changed from your perspective other than a philosophical issue. However, despite that, we are still making sure users can directly download and install their Stardock purchases from us. It'll take time to get all of them on there but most (90%+) of our stuff is already on there. [/quote]
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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="31" id="3035053"]You can (or will be soon depending on the game) download the game directly from us.[/quote] I can't right now. I haven't been able to since March. And for how long? How long until you sell this one too? I don't mean to be ungrateful - I've enjoyed GalCiv 2 for many many hundreds of hours, it was a fantastic purchase and game from your company. I'm just saying, you told us you wanted out of the digital game distri
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[quote who="MarvinKosh" reply="27" id="3035040"] If there is that mentality, it's because people keep whining about how they've owned the game for years and suddenly feel entitled to own it in every possible outlet that distributes it. [/quote] I owned the game for years and it was downloadable directly from the people I bought it from. Now I have to go through an entirely different service owned by a different company which I have an exactly opposite amount of respe
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[quote who="Ascadia" reply="22" id="3034798"] I had a choice when I purchased games on Impulse to support Impulse as Valves competition. I had no choice when you sold my account and licenses to Gamestop, a company who have blatantly spat in the face of PC gamers over the past decade and now that you are migrating your own games to Steam you don't even have the common decency to allow those of us you sold out to do the same.[/quote] "I have altered the deal. Pra
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To be honest, I have zero desire to pay stardock again for a game I already own; and would much rather have it on Steam thanotherwise, so I suppose I'm one of those paying customers in a lurch still by the gamestop move, but can't please all of the people all of the time, and seeing it on steam at all is better than nothing. That said, allowing us to move our keys into Steam would go a long bloody way towards rebuilding some of the loyalty you lost from me perso
Then for the foreseeable future, I will not be purchasing Stardock titles. Really, now that they don't own Impulse, they should be releasing across the different storefronts; impulse, D2D, steam, etc. Or you know, themselves, like they do for their business customers. I haven't played a Stardock game since they sold Impulse to Gamestop, which is... really a shame.
Well, depends on if they're prepared to distrubute it through a channel other than impulse, like Steam, since Impulse is owned by gamestop now.
[quote who="Protocept00" reply="23" id="2227434"] Technically, Creative Assembly developed the game, although I am sure it is Segas fault for pushing the release date. However, Creative Assembly/Sega, did the same thing with the previous games in the series, released in kinda buggy and patched it up way later. I've got over 70 hours clocked into the game so far, but am holding off til more updates trickle in polishing the game.[/quote] No multiplayer beta on day of release, which
Ice's Shit List 1) Spore. I've been hyped up for this game since Will Wright began showing it off at various events years before the release. I didn't expect it to be nearly what the hype was, but wow, I wasn't expecting it to be THAT bad. BetterSpore, as a mod, almost makes it playable though. But there are no words for the level of dissapointment I had with the game. It has colored my purchasing of every single since. 2) Red Alert
You know, as hard as it is for me to defend piracy, a recent game has made me consider it. And I haven't in a long time. That game is Empire: Total War. I bought it for the promised multiplayer beta. The beta they held the game back for months developing. The beta that, as of two months after the games release, is non-existant. Not only is the beta non-existant, but the game itself is crippled to a nigh-unplayable extent, as the AI is una
I've always used trade routes as diplomatic tools, honestly. It takes a lot of investment for traders to become really lucerative even for the Korx.
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I've tried to nip "next weapon syndrome" in the butt by stating that it's time for warships when I reach the end of a tech "bite", as in Laser V, Stinger III, etc. This gives me a definant point to go "yes, this gun is big enough. Now, fire it."
I don't see why you have to be the chosen one at all. In WARhammer Online you're just a really awesome soldier. There's a lot of you out there, but you can also do pretty important stuff alone. Like putting enemies heads onto pikes.
It runs on the same system as TESIV, a file system the modding community understands. Worst case, Bethsoft doesn't release mod tools (I'm pretty sure they will, as it promotes a second sale when a console gamer gets it for his pc for mods, and further sales for those only interested in mods) and we build a community mod tool off the TES Construction Set.
Attaching the game to an impulse account also opens up the idea of proper demos - time limited demos, say a day installed and then Impulse won't let you play it anymore - enough time to get a feel of the game, but not enough time to complete it and no shafting of the customer with one mission out of 40 that is the only GOOD one. This would solve a lot of piracy problems. But so will companies earning our trust again - I don't need a demo from Left4Dead, it's
I think we've seen SD already try to put the policies to other developers - that's why they're being revised. Sure, nothing wrong with getting publicity for treating customers like people instead of pirates, but for every development studio they convince to sign on, we as consumers win too. Even if they only get one other good studio attached, we as consumers have come out better. What's not to like?
Fallout 3 only requires the disk - it's one of the games I moved my preorder money to.
Stalker? Please tell me you don't have Clear Sky. Clear Sky has Starforce, the only DRM worse than SecuRom, on it. " Everyone should know that any hardware changes prompt the game to re-activate and there is a limit per key for activations. Uninstalling does not revoke the key. OS changes will also trigger the need for a re-activation. So basically if you change hardware or reinstall ~5 times you will no
I wasn't sure I was going to be picking up this expansion, but the actions of certain companies have made my games budget very open and flexible suddenly >_>
Kryo, I respect you greatly for that opinion. And I think you're right. The copyright should be moved to 14 years for Software. But by no means is protecting your copyright a right for you to install stealth-software that damages my machine (not that you do, in this case I mean you as in "software publisher") I think that point's been well and made by you and us, so now it's mostly an argument better suited for the thread of your midddleground. There will
Lets see. SecuRom installs: without a warning or agreement with the user. It hides itself from the user. It makes itself exceedingly difficult to remove. It gains control over parts of a user's system. It disables the user's hardware and software. It has highly adverse implications for performance and security of a user's system. If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and tastes like a duck, it is a duck. SecuRom is a
The best part about the election being over is that it will be over.
Serial codes backed up by a login system ala Steam/Impulse is my best bet. Especially like the way SD does it, gating the updates, then making meaningful patches common. BTW - Brad, Securom is worse than you make it out to be. It 1) requires players to connect to the core server before playing, even singleplayer. This overloads the server on popular titles (FarCry, Spore) and results in paying customers not playing. It also installs its drivers onto Ring 0 (aka
Left 4 dead was already a buy, I was waiting till post release for the others.
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