Yakoob on 15/6/2011 at 18:16
Man Bullfrog. So many sleepless nights building the ultimate Theme Hospital. I had to delete the game off my HDD since it was interfering with my studies for final exams. And that was a few months ago :/
As for EA's origin, I hope it burns and dies. It's like Steam, except with EA's policies strapped on. Await draconian DRM and money-grubbing exclusives and DLCs. People bitch about Steam being evil, but the whole reason I love it is because it's not - true it had a rocky start, but it's now matured in a service that gives more than it limits and I genuinely love it. Super fast auto-updating, easy game purchases, superb indie-dev support, constant insanely cheap deals (oh how many games I bought for $1-5) plus community features (which I dont use, but I can see other people enjoying). And even the offline mode has been working surpringly well for me for the past few months.
Thank you Valve; thank you for not taking the easy way out of taking advantage of your monopoly status to capitalize and rape your users out of the last cent, but instead providing an actually good service that puts the end-user and the game developer, not publisher, first. I am not sure if EA is the kind of company that we could count on doing the same.
EDIT: * provided you are on broadband connection. I can understand why 56k users would hate it, but then again, you simply cannot have an online distribution service on a 56k; progress, unfortunately, always requires leaving some people behind...
Koki on 15/6/2011 at 18:54
Quote Posted by Yakoob
constant insanely cheap deals (oh how many games I bought for $1-5)
And how few you even played, much less finished
ka-ching
Yakoob on 15/6/2011 at 19:02
About 70% of them, and downloading the next 10% of them now to play.
Where's your argument now, Koki?
Pyrian on 15/6/2011 at 19:57
I really don't want to have to have a different Steam-like client for each game company. :mad: Plus, you just know each one is going to be terrible at first. :p And yeah, for the reason Digital Nightfall wrote about: it's like, I decide I want to play Such-And-Such, now I have to figure out which cloud I own it on? :rolleyes:
EDIT: Whoa, what are those terms, I wonder? Is Steam trying to set itself up as the monopoly, now?
Koki on 15/6/2011 at 19:59
It's all on the torrents, baby :cool:
I mean seriously, if you already bought it what do you care.
Pyrian on 15/6/2011 at 20:12
While I've never used torrents myself, I've had to clean up after friends and co-workers who have. :erg:
Yakoob on 15/6/2011 at 20:42
Well, don't lump me with people who have no self control and buy way more shit than they can consume. While Steam does enable consumerism, it does not generate it. Human nature does.
van HellSing on 15/6/2011 at 21:00
Quote Posted by Pyrian
Is Steam trying to set itself up as the monopoly, now?
Now you notice?
Pyrian on 15/6/2011 at 23:24
Should I have? Most of the complaints about Steam I've seen have been generic anti-DRM complaints.
