lost_soul on 8/10/2011 at 17:08
My point is that I still want to support them.
This is in comparison to a company like EA, who I will pay more for their games used than the new ones cost just due to past experience with them.
june gloom on 8/10/2011 at 19:09
Quote Posted by lost_soul
and @Dethtoll: I've answered your question before. By purchasing used, I deprive the developers of revenue. That is my goal and I still get to play their game. By releasing a game to the public, I have a right to play it regardless of where I buy it.
You do
NOT have a "right" to anything. And as I've said before, one asspie not giving his money to id isn't going to hurt them in any way, shape, fashion or form. So it doesn't fucking matter. If you had ANY balls AT ALL, you would
NOT. BUY. THE GAME. AT ALL. Show some god damned
conviction.
I just found out Stalker 2's going to have permanent online DRM. I fucking love Stalker and I am absolutely enraged about this. Am I going to buy the game when it's $5? Nope. I wouldn't buy the console version used, either.
Why?
Because I'm willing to actually fucking stand up for something. Are you?
Seriously, are you? I want an answer.
Jason Moyer on 9/10/2011 at 01:44
Quote Posted by lost_soul
Don't worry, an "on-line pass system" for the PS3 is coming soon. From there, they will eventually require game activations too. I bet we'll see always-on connections mandatory in a decade.
The only way that will happen is if fiber-based broadband is as common as electricity. Most of the people who are currently feeding the videogame bubble treat consoles like any other appliance; if publishers make their console systems/games inconvenient to use, no one will buy them.
Jason Moyer on 9/10/2011 at 02:26
Shit, just noticed the patch came out today. I can crank everything up and the game is super fast and super stable now, even on this minimum system, and the texture streaming is only noticeable if I intentionally provoke it (maybe a tenth of a second doing a 180 in a large area while staring at the textures).. Only thing that seems to slow it down for me now is the GPU transcoding, and since the purpose of that is to increase performance on newer video cards it's not a big deal.
lost_soul on 9/10/2011 at 02:32
@Dethtoll: If the game is $5, I may be willing to purchase it even if it does require constant net access due to the following.
A, I'm a poor guy and my lunch costed more than that.
B. The developers couldn't possibly be making any money by selling a game for $5 and then having to run the servers to let you access it.
I write this as I set up Linux on an SSD which I got for a bargain.
june gloom on 9/10/2011 at 03:08
God you're fucking stupid. Are you reading anything I'm saying at all? Do you have any concept of personal integrity? Can you even UNDERSTAND? Blink twice.
Let me put this to you in VERY simple terms.
Don't buy.
Don't buy used.
Don't pirate.
Don't play.
At all.
AT ALL. Don't even THINK about the game. Why? Because if you actually believe in ANY of the shit that you're CONSTANTLY vomiting out of your diseased little brain DAY IN DAY OUT, you'd not play the game. I'm sick to fucking death of people who say, "WELL I DON'T AGREE WITH THIS OR THAT SCHEME" then they go and pirate the game. When I pirate or buy used a game I want to play, it's because I'm poor. When I don't pirate or buy used a game I want to play, it's because I don't agree with whatever DRM or other scheme they've got running, and I have the PERSONAL FUCKING INTEGRITY to stand up to my own fucking statement. You're undermining your own years-long crusade when you pull this shit, and every time someone calls you on it, you completely miss the point, like you've done MULTIPLE times in this very thread.
How many times do I have to explain this to you? You can't POSSIBLY be this fucking stupid, can you?
lost_soul on 9/10/2011 at 03:42
Integrity only goes so far. If you boycott every developer who uses unethical tactics, you will have almost no entertainment to enjoy.
Now excuse me while I strap this 2.5 in SSD to an unused 2 GB desktop hard drive which I salvaged from a PC headed for the dumpster. This way, I don't have to buy a bracket. Rubber bands are a beautiful thing.
Jason Moyer on 9/10/2011 at 03:44
Or it could be that the reason many companies use unethical tactics is because most consumers are idiots who lack the conviction to stand up for anything they believe in.
There are few things more annoying than people who spout off about shit they don't like without taking any corresponding action to make things better. Especially when taking action, in this case, involves almost no effort whatsoever.
Vernon on 9/10/2011 at 03:48
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ssd
You should work out a decent automatic backup scheme for that thing. They can fail catastrophically and out of the blue. If you have enough space a compressed drive image works well since you can ghost it onto another drive if the ssd goes down
Volitions Advocate on 9/10/2011 at 17:27
Patch released. Game works flawlessly now.
