Bait.

But yeah, probably. The thing is, I run into jerks like that all the time so my natural compulsion is to take it at face value. 

Surely you've seen enough of my posts to take _nothing_ I say seriously?

Don't make me posts the photo of my GoW case held up in front of a screen with func on again (I would do one with the GoW2 case, but I completed it co-op at a friends and holding up someone else's copy wouldn't really prove the 'I buy games' point).


But yeh, it was a mixture of showing inertia how to bait, a throw back to previous piracy conversations (including the hissy-quit one that led to the afore mentioned photo) and a minor commentary on one of the main reasons for delayed PC releases. This isn't just flame bait, it's Marks & Spencer's Organic Meta-textual Flame Bait. (reference lost on all non-UK residents deprived of M&Ss food pr0n) 

Altho part of me is tempted to get a list of every game Willem's ever worked on and pirate them all on principle (the principle of humour, but still ;) 

It would not have any more impact to anything in this world than if you clapped your hands and shouted "harrharrharr!". That's what many don't get about some individuals personal reasons to pirate stuff. 

i can't believe you played through gow2 at a friends without buying it. 

megaman

That's fine, it's a co-op game. You're supposed to play with your friends. 

I can't believe you played gow2.



Nah, I'm kidding, to each his own. 

Interesting point.

If he lends me the game so I can complete it on my own is that as bad as d/l-ing it? (Not that I will, one of the best bits of GoW1/2 imo is the co-op, gotta love the madcap american football esque gameplay the res adds) 

(that was a response to megaman, I just forgot to hit post for 2 hours) 

i can't believe you played through gow2 at a friends without buying it.

I know, I was all "nonentity has friends?!"

ZING! OH NO SHE DIDN'T 

is a girl (!?) 

i was joking, again.

iirc from a legal pov it's fine to lend the game away. In Germany, anyways. 

If there was no copy protection we would even be allowed to copy it for close friends and family members. But breaking copy protection is illegal, so... 

Elder Scrolls 3, 4 and Call of Cthulhu on Steam for pretty affordable prices.

Must... resist...

Fuck it I'm buying them. 

Is a buggy port.

If you can't get away from the Shoggoth then you need to lower your screen resolution = higher running speed. 

hexen mod
http://hamsterrepublic.com/dl/starship.zip
Pretty cool if you can get over the idea of a medieval themed spaceship. Our HHexen GL is busted though %< 

medieval themed spaceship
This would be an awesome idea for a Quake map too! 

I still have a copy of Half-Life 2 on steam that I can give away for free to anyone with a steam account.

Let me know if you want it! 

http://www.incgamers.com/Interviews/190/StarCraftIIDevelopersInterviewed 

but added value services like starting a custom tournament, league, or the like would cost a small amount of money.

They've actually gone insane after WoW.

mentioned WoW as an example, where "value added services" like server transfers are paid for, but "you can get the full experience of Battle.net with all the features just from buying the box."

Well, that and the fucking subscription fee.

The WoW profit model is one of the most unethical things in gaming, the fact that they seem to be trying to work out how to convert it to more traditional genres scares the hell out of me...


And yeh, no LAN support. As far as I can tell if I want to host my own game with (local) friends I have to connect to battle.net, pay blizzard for the 'privilege' of creating a game then get the people sat in the same room to connect to me via blizzards own servers (yeh, I get it's not going to be stupid enough to proxy the entire game, but still, that's hassle).

Only other option is to steal a cracked, non-battle.net version of the game just to play on LAN. And forcing your customers to turn to crime is ofc an excellent business model... 

I kinda agree all this sucks... But damn I can't wait to play the hell out of this game. =\ 

it looks exactly like SC1 gameplay with new graphics?

I never really did get on with Blizzards strategy games, I much preferred Relic's offerings over theirs any day, company of heroes is still my favourite RTS game, though I have not tried DoW2 yet as my pc is crap!

Blizzards strategy games upto and including warcraft3 seem to be more about what order to build units in and then just swarming your enemy, and that just has never been fun for me at all. 

I must say StarCraft is pretty damn addictive. It was the first RTS I ever played, and the one I played the most. AoE2 however felt the best. If I could get an RTS that combined the economy of AoE2 with the micro/macro of StarCraft on a DoW battlefield, I think I just might be in heaven. 

But damn I can't wait to play the hell out of this game.

aannd, that's why they can get away with it. 

aannd, that's why they can get away with it.

But that doesn't justify it in the slightest, if anything it makes it worse