It's not that British people are "stingy with their money", it's the price of things there is generally higher than everywhere else. Take the PS3 as an example, in the US it costs around $300 (for the 120gb Slim model), in the UK that same one would cost around £250, which translates to close to $390!!
@doshey, that could be possible soon enough you know. Tech companies have been developing a basic OS on a chip that will be on all motherboards. The OS is very basic, but will allow the system to boot up into a very limited environment ... one of the functions available would be internet access. With that access you'd be able to directly install your OS from M$, Apple or whichever OSs website you choose, onto your HD.
I liked Guild Wars 1, but have never been under the illusion that it was better than WoW. GW centered on PvP (something not everyone, myself included, like) and had a crazy low level cap or 20 (which I hit with 4 different characters in a very short amount of time).
Yes it looked better and had some cool features and had no monthly fees, but the detached instancing of everything but the towns and, low level cap and PvP orientation killed the game for me. And lets not talk abo...
I think physical media and DD can co-exist fine together. In fact I think that games should offer something similar to what movies are doing now, you buy the movie in a physical format (either BR or DVD)and you get a code that allows you to download it also. Since you already paid for it, then why not allow that? It'd be a good way to help bolster DD and (although I doubt they'd think of it this way) it'd help with the major concern with physical media in that if it gets damaged y...
*Edit: Oh and correctly applying the thermal paste. That's it.
Actually that is not a factor for most people (especially those new to custom building) who'd be using the stock HSF which comes with a thermal "pad" already applied to the HSF.
@Fulenscenca
I get what you are saying and understand. And in fact you are correct, the EU has less of these kind of problems than the US, that I cannot deny.
BUT the flaw is still the same unfortunately. The EU is a collection of countries going under one banner, the US is still just one country, not a collection of countries going under one banner. So in your example you are comparing 1 country against multiple countries.
Either way what you said is...
Further to that, and to prove you really do know the difference, you said (and I quote verbatim) -
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I mean, surely something like this can happen anywhere, but USA people seems to be particularly prone to certain violent behavior.
Every week we can read something similar or worst ( like murders and such for stupid reasons ), and almost all the times it happens in USA.
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You didn't replace USA with...
@Fulensenca
The UK comprises of England, Scotland and Wales ... all 3 have some differing laws, hell Wales even has it's own language. Thet's why they UK is called the UNITED KINGDOM!
Simple irrefutable fact, USA is a country and the UK is a country... nobody (but you) cares that USA has 50 states since they are all part of the SAME COUNTRY, just like England, Scotland and Wales make up the UK ... by definition they are COUNTRIES and as such can be compared wi...
SilentNegotiator is correct in his comparison, the USA is a country, the UK is a country, France is a country ... you get the picture.
Care to submit one of your own custom computer designs?
I know not all of those on the article are amazingly mind blowing, but at least someone put the time and the effort into making something unique. That IS the whole point of doing it, who cares about "design meets functionality" when you have a unique case YOU made, that you spent days/weeks/months designing and figuring out where everything would go, that maybe reflects your personality.
I didn...
I think it's good that "bitter employees" come out of the woodwork and spill the beans on why a game, released by the company they work for, fails. At least this way we get a more accurate view on what happened, instead of the widely accepted "Piracy ruined the game" rhetoric that the heads of the company constantly spew forth.
I like 3D for movies more than I like it for games (both of which I've experienced). Either way I still think it's more of a gimmick than anything else, whether that means it'll fail or not is another matter. For right now though, my TV is about a year old and I have no plans to replace it for a few years at the least, I have more important things to throw money at that I need more than what I see as a gimmick.
It's just the nature of the beast I'm afraid. WoW is very popular, which is an understatement, and is played a LOT by the millions who play it. And as it goes, when something becomes popular everyone loves it, but as it gets more and more popular people begin to hate it. It's the "little guy" mentality, they fear something that is as huge and successful as WoW and must attack it to try to bring it down to their level.
More on topic I will be buying Catac...
Yeah, it's getting pathetic, and further illustrates that DLC is simply a way they can screw gamers by taking out content that would otherwise be in the game and selling it.
We (or a lot of us) saw it coming when they said "DLC is a way to extend the life of games", we know it was BS back then. We knew they'd do what they are doing now,but idiots didn't believe us ... now they all bitch and complain about it, right after handing over the cash for the &q...
@superstrokey
"i gave both of my guest SC2 codes to friends, one with a 2 year old computer and one with a 4 year old one. Neither would play the game, even on low settings."
I'm with Kazu on his response to this fairytale. I recently built a new rig, not for a specific game, just because my old rig is 6 years old and I had some money to play with. Anyway, I bought SC2 and, until all my new parts arrived, I was playing it perfectly fine (and smooth) on H...
I've been playing Starcraft for the past few weeks (prior to purchasing Starcraft 2) on Windows 7 64 bit without a single issue.
This rhetoric happens every console generation. The newest generation of consoles come out and for a few years all we hear is PC gaming is dead. Slowly but surely the idiots begin to shut up as they realize their shiny "next gen" console is becoming obsolete and the newest "next gen" console is coming out soon ... whilst the PC is STILL there and is getting more attention again.
It's a cyclical thing that'll never end.
You have a good point, which sadly is always brought up when people talk about the cost of games these days. IMO the point is no longer valid, if it were I'd respond by saying, back in the day I could pick up a game for my Commodore 64 for $5 on the day of release ... so why not now? LOL Kind of silly I know, but you get the point. The only reason games were that expensive back then was the cost of using a cartridge medium, which was way more expensive than any other medium used.
It sounds like a fairly good idea for the more casual gamers, but even then there's the huge problem of ownership. You purchase a game on OnLive, it costs the same as a physical copy yet you don't get a physical copy ... in fact you don't even get a digital copy. Once you have purchased a game you can ONLY play it as long as you maintain a subscription to OnLive!! So if you ever decide to stop paying for OnLive you can say goodbye to all those games you paid top dollar for, you wo...
The article is flawed when it compares the cost of WoW against buying yearly updated sports games. Simply put, you can't compare an MMO with a sports title, it's like comparing apples to oranges, or a Ferrari to a Ford.
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An annual subscription plus an expansion every other year amounts to about $350 to play Warcraft over two years. For that you could buy three different sports titles each year in the same span. They just come on discs. Given th...