It's a race simulation. Not Need For Speed.
I hated Ubisoft's decision to use always-online DRM for all their PC titles. So I joined the global boycott and didn't buy any Ubisoft games since 2010. Not really sure whether my effort have an effect but Ubisoft is now ditching the system.
Then Blizzard came and introduced Diablo 3 with a similar DRM. I didn't buy it and told a friend not to. Unfortunately what happened to Ubisoft is not effective against Diablo 3.
I've read the reviews and aware of its shortcomings. I usually buy games like these (interesting games but so much is against them like the DRM and controls to warrant a fully-priced, first day purchase) when they're dirt cheap just to try them out. Just want to see what's all the fuss is about without sacrificing too much money.
Are the Ubisoft games any worth the discount? I really wanted From Dust but Ubisoft's DRM debacle scarred me from getting it. Are they still plagued by the old draconian DRM or are the Steam versions are better?
So you chose to use the genocide part of history in my analogy to make my arguement useless...I chose to use that particular bit of history from a technical perspective. Do you really think the Russians won't be spying on the Nazi tank program that is being developed on their own soil? Same as thinking MS won't be stealing ideas from the independent PC researchers using Kinect. I could use Apple and China as an analogy but then I would be accused of being a racist.
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"But they can do more to integrate Xbox and PC gaming and doing more could help them in the long run."
It looks like they are cannibalizing PC features to be put into the X Box LIVE platform instead of integrating those two things together. The only reason they still maintain a presence in the PC is to prevent newcomers/competitors from filling up the void. While MS shift its focus to mobile devices and strengthening the X Box LIVE platform, they couldn't afford...
Strangely enough the consoles are copying everything that PC is doing now(they already copied constant patching and content updates, add-on Hard disks, installing game files on to the hard disks). Microsoft is integrating everything together in its LIVE platform. Even Internet Explorer is coming to X Box Live. Free-to-play games, MMOs, fully digital distribution, cloud gaming are being spouted off from the mouths of console makers and developers for next gen.
Not to mention ...
I find the flying things in Battlefield 3 are the most annoying things in gaming. The Stingers and AA guns are futile against them while the auto heal for vehicles made them virtually immortal.
Wimoweh....so that's how it actually spelled and sound.
I used to be a supporter of EA...then they said all their games will be 100% digital and use free-to-play. Shit that.
So it's finally out in the open.
Almost zero support for the PC ever since the X Box went online. Tearing apart some of PC gaming's major studios. The empty promises in every E3 to support the PC but were never fulfilled-except for 2012's E3 where MS doesn't say anything about the PC, now we know why. The integration of GFWL and X Box LIVE into the Windows 8 platform. Releasing Kinect with pretty good voice chat and then buying Skype. The emphasis of mobile a...
I'm a PC gamer and even I feel the article is too weak to hold its own claims. Using Diablo 3 as the sole indicator as the PC's "resurgence"?
No, we don't need to update "game cards" and drivers that often anymore. I haven't updated my graphic driver in months even though there are newer ones available.
The only problem that I can see is that female bodies tend be smaller/slimmer and might provide tactical advantages for being harder to be detected visually. Then we'll see a whole server filled with female characters played by males who are taking advantage of that smaller profile. Who wouldn't want to use a female heavy soldier that can carry the same amount of armour and deliver the same damage as male heavy only she has the visual profile of a male scout?
I also d...
I've PC gaming since 2001 and what you said about PC patches is partly true. Constant hardware updates in order to play the latest games were almost the norm a decade ago. Were.
Nowadays patches are convenient and fast thanks to Steam and other clients. Most games that don't use Steam have auto update features or their own. No more looking around the web looking for patches. Hardware patches are almost unnecessary unless you have multiple graphic cards in SLI or CF. ...
I don't know. I'm not a Premium player yet and I do find the new Styer a bit too OP. I felt it's a the new Famas.
I don't know...
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There's so much F2P games or games that focus on online or social aspects lately and in the works. Crytek's and EA's announcement about going 100 % digital is the tip of the iceberg, right after Blizzard's success in enforcing the always online DRM. Micrososft is rounding up everything (Windows 8, X Box LIVE, GFWL. tablets and smartphones) under one unified platform. Sony is catching up with its Gaikai purchase. These are all signs of a totally digital and a gaming world full ...
So...Sony released the PS3, MS released the X Box 360.
Sony released the PSP, Nintendo released the DS and its variants.
Apple released the iDevices, Google released the Android devices.
Seem natural and balanced counter to each other. Giants against giants.
Some upstart releasing OUYA against one of those giants....? Saying it's not a fair fight is just being polite. Might as well pick a fight with the runt of the pack, ...