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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22775 |  Enkidu98 (90) May 19, 2010 - 03:26 pm
| | Which means they are out of touch with their customer base. I was looking forward to Assassins Creed until I realised if my internet connection was severed for any reason, I would be unable to save my game, etc. Initially I wouldn;t have been able to even continue playing until the connection was restored. That is onerous and excessive. It also indicates that in a few years when they get tired of running the server that is used to allow me to play, and they turn it off, I can't play a game license I legitimately purchased. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22754 | Enkidu98 (90) May 13, 2010 - 01:05 pm
| | That's pretty much how I see it. You can pay the publisher a small fee and have full access to all the content. In this way they have a revenue stream for a product they produced and the secondary market doesn't cannibalise as much as it does presently from sales. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22754 | Enkidu98 (90) May 12, 2010 - 04:07 pm » Edited on May 12, 2010 - 04:08 pm
| I have 0 problems with this.
The secondary market for games is responsible for diminishing sales figures for developers/publishers. Without cash, they are less willing to try non-proven genres/franchises. Sometimes they don't greenlight the sequals we want because of it as well.
You don't have a god given right to transfer a softwarelicense unimpeded to another individuals and the Game Stop business plan is BS.
This is FAR better than uber restrictive Ubisoft DRM etc.
PS - First.
PPS - Doesn't affect the initial consumer at all. Maybe EA should offer up a goodwill gimmee here now too and charge $5 less for the game at retail. So the original owner gets a nice perk and more people are willing to buy new. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22709 | Enkidu98 (90) Apr 20, 2010 - 10:07 am
| Not me. You're casting too broad a net. Maybe if you are looking at the internet gaming community... e.g. people who are frequent posters etc, you may find a few more pirates, but the larger market includes many many games who are not stealing software.
DRM that is onerous, intrusive, requires 'always on internet' etc is a bad idea. Just ask my Soldier friends who are completely unable to play some of their games because of stupid DRM requirements.
What these forms of DRM do is frustrate the paying customer and FORCE them into finding ways around the DRM, and thus creates more pirates than it prevents.
A one time phone/internet connection to verify your product, should be enough. I actually like the Free DLC to the original purchaser deals too.
But DRM doesn;t really stop piracy but it does frustrate your paying customers. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22598 | Enkidu98 (90) Mar 04, 2010 - 01:30 pm
| This sort of DRM is misguided. A person's internet connection is beyond their control, they can not assure its up/down time and basing your ability to play a product you legitimately purchased on a constant internet connection is just cause not to buy the product nor any other product from the producer until said time that they remove such a restrictive and customer unfriendly DRM scheme.
What is most annoying is that the only people hurt by this are the people who buy the product legitimately. The Hackers/Crackers/Warez Kiddies get around the DRM anyway. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20843 | Enkidu98 (90) Sep 12, 2008 - 03:34 pm
| I have to agree. This is needlessly crippling. One user playing the game 8 hours a day will generate as much (or more) content for their servers as would 2 users playing 4 hours a day each (such as a shared home PC being used by two different people 4 hours each)
I can understand their commentary about how savegames etc work, but this is something that could have been accomodated and was not. Which either indicates poorly thought out design OR intent from the beginning to needlessly cripple play.
I am curtious if anyone has done any testing of multiple installs on the same machine? Does this even work well? And did they think of their users situation? At over 4GB for initial install requiring every peson in the house who plays to have their own install could result to huge space requirements.
I have enjoyed Spore so far, but I am finding myself influenced to refuse to purchase any further EA products on ANY of the gamesystems I use. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19282 | Enkidu98 (90) Jan 28, 2008 - 12:50 pm
| There is no news. What remains is 'Infotainment'.
This is what happens when you (as American Citizens) have sat idly by and allowed two administrations to dismantle the media ownership rules at the FCC level and cater to corporate interests over the citizens because corporate interents can make lager political donations. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Shout Box Link » /matrix/user.asp/3103 | Enkidu98 (90) Jan 11, 2008 - 06:58 am
| I received an email as well. So I would wager within a week or so per normal ground shipping rates/times we should see our prizes.
I'm just happy to have won, and I hadn't made any plans yet just because I am dreading the breakdown and re-building of the big 'monstrosity' as my wife calls it. Hopefully it works better, then I'll do another mass RMA on the old equipment and see about ebay or something for the old stuff.
Enk Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18434 | Enkidu98 (90) Jan 10, 2008 - 07:20 am
| | I've not been sending anything to the FS folks as once I found out someone else was sending them them emails etc I figured I didn't want to be a pest and add to their workload. In a way I am glad it wont arrive until this new year as if I had gotten it in 2007 I would have had to claim it on taxes and eat up some of my refund. :) Flag this | Edit this post |
| Shout Box Link » /matrix/user.asp/3103 | Enkidu98 (90) Jan 02, 2008 - 10:44 am
| » Prize Redemption
Ging9,
I haven't heard anything myself. All I received was a phone call a few weeks ago asking if I was a business. It was weird because they addressed me by name and then acted like they didn't need to talk to me, and I was confused.
I called back and was told that the reason they called was because of my membership on the SLIZone and I said.. ah yeah.. I just signed up.
I didn't learn until quite a bit later I had actually won something.
I've not heard anything since, was contemplating sending emails myself but was holding out a short while as I figured maybe the year end holidays had folks tied up.
Sorry I don;t have any more info for you.
Enk Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18434 | Enkidu98 (90) Dec 06, 2007 - 12:12 pm
| I don't know if the original contest page has changed. When I initially entered I was under the impression that people who could join the SLI zone only needed to add their name to the contest group, and that those who were unable to join the SLI Zone were supposed to submit a 25 words or less post. I posted just because I wanted to put a message out there not because I thought it was required.
I do not know if anyone who is reading this message chain is the FiringSquad/nVidia crew but if they feel this was unfair I am willing to forego the prize if I am allowed to edit my message and hope for my name being considered again.
Thanks, Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/56 | Enkidu98 (90) Nov 29, 2007 - 02:55 pm » Edited on Dec 06, 2007 - 12:19 pm
| » My Club SLI Username!
SLI-23209 Enkidu98
Please save me from my current monster. I've had to RMA parts and I just can't find whats wrong with my early adopter machine. It works but only in XP and then it crashes a lot and my new wife says no more PC expenditures!
Argh!
Edited to 25 Words:
I built an early adopter beast but several rma's of multiple parts later it is still unstable. My new wife says NO MORE PC Expenditures! Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17938 | Enkidu98 (90) Oct 19, 2007 - 12:14 pm
| | I'd already decided not to buy this game because of their business model with the subscription fee and players getting what should be considered standard abilities etc being tied to having a different sort of account. The addition of advertising in game really pushes it over the edge to a I'll not even bother to revisit my decision to not buy Hellgate. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4345 | Enkidu98 (90) Aug 17, 2007 - 02:21 pm
| » Ironic Punishment
I think Michael Vick should be made to fight someone like LaVar Arrington with nothing but what he was born with for weapons.
Throw the two of them in a pit, and if Vick doesn't impress us with his 'gameness' then we shuold electrocute, hang, pick up and throw to the ground until dead, pop a cap in him.. etc as befits our whim at that moment in time. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12184 | Enkidu98 (90) Sep 11, 2006 - 03:01 pm
| What you do not realise is that this was not computer email, nor a company phone. This was hiring a private detective firm who somehow obtained the social security information for each of the directors and at least 9 reporters and fraudulently misrepresented themselves as the person and contacted their phone companies to illegally obtain private phone records and email them to various accounts that were on the surface not at all related to the person supposedly requesting the data.
Its an illegal practice in the state of California and also violates HP's own 'Standards of Business Conduct'. An employee who did the same would have been fired. A reporter doing the same to HP would have been sued. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=2997 | Enkidu98 (90) Jun 29, 2006 - 12:11 pm
| » Reading Comprehension is your friend...
Syx, Might suggest you may want to read not only the chain of posts you're responding to, but the original article.
The first sentence of the original article should make things crystal clear for you. Flag this | Edit this post |
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