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This only gave grief

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Grakelin is not stupid

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Are you happier now?

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------ Haiku, the encore -----

17 (34.7%)

Disagreeing, Fine

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Why you make a fuzz 'bout it?

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Lets just be happy

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Total Members Voted: 48

[Sean Mirrsen]

Is it just me, or does the word "Parthenocarpy" sound like something dwarves would REALLY want to avoid?

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

Is it just me, or does the word "Parthenocarpy" sound like something dwarves would REALLY want to avoid?

For more reasons than one.

[dragnar]

Ugh, I just read more about Assasin's Creed 2's DRM. Now I'm not sure whether to A. Buy it, then get a pirated copy. or B. Not play it at all because they don't deserve the support.

[Jreengus]

Or C) Buy it then return for a free refund stating the DRM as the reason for returning it. I saw a blog where a guy was trying to convince a lot of people to pretty much do C all at the same time.

[Soulwynd]

Do A, crack it, do C.

[Roundabout Lout]

Do A, crack it, do C.

This.

[Cthulhu]

That's despicable, even for me.  Have some self control.

[Micro102]

It is a war against the DRM which is ruining people lives and is a scam by corporations.

[Cthulhu]

DRM is ruining people's lives?  Something that's easily swept away by anyone who knows which end of a computer has the power button is ruining lives?

[Micro102]

Ok i am exaggerating that part but i firmly believe that some DRMs are scams.

[Sowelu]

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

And yeah.  Buying something, copying it, and returning it is pretty damn low.  That's also a big reason why retail stores don't accept opened products:  because people who do that are pricks.  Good luck returning something if it doesn't work on your computer or you don't like the DRM; once you open it, they are forced to assume that you copied it.

[Soulwynd]

I think it was sarcasm.

But something else I hate about modern games.

The new no-dedicated-server + match-making trend.
Ie. Most if not all games using games for windows live. There are others too, like what they tried to do with L4D at first, at least on the user side, taking away the server browser and using a match making crap (yes you can use the opengamebrowser or something command in the console, which is less bad). This really ruins MP for me. For example, I bought Guerrilla a while back mostly because what I saw in MP videos, but what they failed to mention was the stupid Windows Live matchmaking. Not only it's -impossible- to play a destruction game, which takes 18 people and believe me, they don't sit there and wait for the room to fill up, but you're usually stuck with retards and jerkoffs, as there's no real ban and it's not like you're in a server that will remember the ban. Modern Warfail 2 is another example of this crap. Bioshock 2 as well, I believe.

I bet a huge part of it is to 'fight' warez by not allowing people to mod dedicated servers to allow warez people.

Simply horrible, thus, no game with match making will ever get my money.

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

And yeah.  Buying something, copying it, and returning it is pretty damn low.  That's also a big reason why retail stores don't accept opened products:  because people who do that are pricks.  Good luck returning something if it doesn't work on your computer or you don't like the DRM; once you open it, they are forced to assume that you copied it.

Not something I would do, it was just a joke and a way to increase C's magnitude.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

I believe the point was more "buy the game at retail, don't open it, download a copy off of some RIGHTEOUS BASTION OF FREEDOM, and then return it unopened stating the DRM as the reason", in the hopes of getting the store to bitch out ubisoft over the issue, since they've already payed them for the games.



No dedicated servers means no custom maps, no custom gameplay modes, meaning the community will a) be more willing to shell out for new content that checks to make sure they actually bought it whenever they try to use it, and b) unable to survive once they stop supporting it and release a sequel, in the interest of forcing them to upgrade to the next identical iteration.

Left 4 Dead's matchmaking actually worked, because it did in fact use dedicated servers, it just organized games with lobbies. Which it pretty much had to do, because of the extremely small game sizes and nature of the game. It's not like CS:S where you'd get sixty people on a giant map playing some mod in ten minute rounds for an hour.

[Draco18s]

Just thought I'd toss out this radio article that I heard this morning
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/03/05/07

[fenrif]

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/07/ubisoft-drm-authentification-server-is-down-assassins-creed-2/

So the games been out liek a week or so, and the servers are allready down, making the game unplayable.

Way to make your customers hate you even more ubisoft.