catbarf on 18/10/2008 at 20:45
Quote Posted by Undead Gamer
50 km2 seems quite big in terms of space
That's only 7km to a side, remember. Get in a jeep and you could get from one edge to the other in five to ten minutes, and that's rather conservative on speed.
Muzman on 18/10/2008 at 21:05
...presuming the edges are made of flat, straight blacktop highways.
catbarf on 19/10/2008 at 00:25
Quote Posted by Muzman
...presuming the edges are made of flat, straight blacktop highways.
...Which is why that's rather conservative on speed.
Aja on 19/10/2008 at 01:47
Why on earth would anyone need more than 5 activations across three PCs? Starforce sucks, but this version of SecureROM seems pretty fair to me, especially since it revokes an activation when you uninstall.
june gloom on 19/10/2008 at 04:34
Because the system isn't at all perfect and anything can make you lose an activation, never to see it again?
Go back to your consoles, Aja, and leave the talking to the adults.
Koki on 19/10/2008 at 07:11
I'm with Aja on this one. Limited installation is more of a retarded thing which shows what huge fucktards publishers are than something which is really annoying/inconvenient.
june gloom on 19/10/2008 at 07:30
Koki and Aja agreeing in stupidity! Stop the fucking presses!
Limited activations aren't just a minor inconvenience. Yes, they're an idea of idiotic publishers, but it doesn't take away the fact that Bad Things Happen- your PC needs a sudden reformat, or you add new hardware, or your PC explodes entirely and you need a new one- and that's an activation taken away, never to be seen again. If it happens a couple of times, your game is brix'd.
Worse, when the activation server is eventually turned off (as the game grows older and the publisher/developer stops supporting it), your game is brix'd unless the publisher comes up with a patch or something so you don't need activations- but why would they do that? There's no money in that and nobody plays these old games anyway!
And what if, through some insane chance, you don't have internet access on the PC you want to install the game on? You won't be able to play at all!
I know I'm pretty much repeating every argument against limited activations that's been going around since Bioshock, but clearly you need to hear this again because otherwise you wouldn't be saying stupid shit. Well, you would, but it'd be about different stupid shit.
Limited activations is an insidiously bad idea that should seriously be shot dead and buried in the woods.
Aja on 19/10/2008 at 10:11
if you have three computers that suddenly crash irrrecoverably five times in a row, I think the problem lies elsewhere
EvaUnit02 on 19/10/2008 at 10:21
Quote Posted by Aja
if you have three computers that suddenly crash irrrecoverably five times in a row, I think the problem lies elsewhere
So what if this hypothetical person can't competently maintain their PC? They should be punished by having the game that they paid good hard-earned money for be bricked? Meanwhile some pirate with a torrented version gets to enjoy his Single Player game no matter what happens.
Fuck, you're a prick.
Aja on 19/10/2008 at 10:24
and you're a humourless, useless, uncool jerk (god are you ever uncool)
that person you speak of should be punished, just like i should've been punished when i didn't read the manual before playing system shock two.
if you have three computers that crash five times in a row, you have other problems than copy protection. buying a game should not give you unlimited license to do whatever the hell you want with it. deal with that fact.
