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Xbox360 will get a better processor and/or graphics card IIRC(according to Microsoft employer)
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Provided that anti-piracy system doesn't treat legal customers like criminals while the real criminals simply find ways around it.Originally posted by VJ The problem with this is that the potential customer gets exactly the same product with exactly the same effort but zero cost by warezing it thru p2p instead of translating some $$ by a credit card and then downloading the game from developer's website. What is needed to save PC gaming as we know it is a new kind of anti-piracy tool, and it needs to be invented quickly.
Even the supposedly piracy-proof starforce has been bypassed.There's no game in The Sims. It's not a game. It's like watching a tank of goldfishes and feed them occasionally. - Urban RangerComment
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And wtf does \/\/4|23% mean?Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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Yeah, I'd like to know that too.
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Bad leetspeak for warez?Comment
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I sort of have faith that there are enough PC owners willing to spend money on decent well made games, that the hit you will get from certain area's(eastern europe/asia?) will not mean total ruin for those developers.Originally posted by Qilue
Provided that anti-piracy system doesn't treat legal customers like criminals while the real criminals simply find ways around it.
Even the supposedly piracy-proof starforce has been bypassed.
I've never warezed a title, dont trust those sites that much.
I have used that site with no name for the odd difficult/ impossible to find old game though, often a game i've owned in the past on a different machine/old platform.
And reading the stuff Brad Wardell said about this and Gal Civ was a kind of confirmation of that. PC gamers just want to be able to buy decent games.
The more console ports we get the more warez i suspect will happen as you could probably come up with a formula that shows PC gamers want more to their games than just flashy graphics and a small finite amount of gaming hours. We are more demanding than that - we want decent games, and will pay for them for the most part.
The thing is i'm not even really seeing that much of a choice for my gaming purchases these days, the console effect has pretty much killed my interest in 98% of what the industry turns out. It wasn't like this 10 years ago, or even 5.
The trick will be for PC developers to be brave and go back to what is really important in game design, leave the expensive graphics to the console, and just produce cheaper, clever games again....please we beg you!
I still think its the end for the good old bargin bins though.Comment
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Go to Target and Wal Mart. They both sell older games. I was in Best Buy at the Fairfield Mall, Ca., yesterday and they still had some old games. Software Etc at the mall had's a small area for PC. The rest of the store is console. Same at Hilltop Mall in Richmond, Ca., for Electronic B.
I think that maybe, computer games should go strait DVD digital. I know I would have upgrade my computer, but then we would be on the same playing field as consoles.Comment
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1. PC games vs multiple consoles wrt shelfspace.
An interesting one. My sense is it varies from store to store, at least around here. Even varies at different EBs. At more PC oriented retailers, the PC games section is similar in size to those for specific console families (ie as many PC games as PS games - i would break down PS vs PS Two games, say, as the not all Windows PC games will play on the same machine, either) In more console oriented stores the PC section is a poor fourth behind the three console platforms
2. Does physical presence matter - i continue to think it does, esp at non-specialty stores like Walmart or Target, as a way of introducing new people to the hobby of PC gaming.
3. However, as long as there are sections of new games, its not necessary to have physical sections for old and used games. OTOH, Im still not sure that the internet is a true replacement for the bargain bin. At the lowest prices, if youre buying only one game at a time, the postage and handling is significant. And its not always easy to put together a package, depending on the site. Way back when I bought Zoombinis from an etailer, i tried to find a game I wanted to include in the package, to dilute the handling cost. Couldnt find ANYTHING i was interested in from that particular etailer."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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Yeah, I think VJ missed the memo on the XBox and XBox 360, and the PS3?Originally posted by DrSpike
No hard drives in consoles?
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I guess so.
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And the fact that burnt cds can work on consoles.I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).Comment
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Yeah, starforce protections get cracked within hours of their releases, which makes the program counter-productive: it only serves as a nuisance (=punishment) for folks who legally buy the game.Provided that anti-piracy system doesn't treat legal customers like criminals while the real criminals simply find ways around it.
Even the supposedly piracy-proof starforce has been bypassed.
It is? So I guess those games I played on a console a few years ago (on a friends console) was just in my imagination? Those games sure wasn't bought anywhereGuys, did you read the whole sentence? The last console I played was a hand-held PS1, so if it is possible to warez games thru p2p from the net and store them into your HD with any of the new consoles, please quote me and answer "yes".No HD's in consoles?
Yeah, I think VJ missed the memo on the XBox and XBox 360, and the PS3?
The way I'm figuring it out, PC gaming is dying because publishers don't have the balls to start a crackdown on ppl who support piracy instead of buying stuff.Comment
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Yes.Originally posted by VJ
Guys, did you read the whole sentence? The last console I played was a hand-held PS1, so if it is possible to warez games thru p2p from the net and store them into your HD with any of the new consoles, please quote me and answer "yes".
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PC gaming isn't dyingLet us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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Please tell the mainstream industry thisOriginally posted by nostromo
PC gaming isn't dying
They certainly seem to want to kill it off, and you can see the advantage for them in having a console captive gaming audience? Still it doesn't help when PC gamers get tepid console ports inherent with all the restrictions that implies....
Maybe not dying, but it sure feels like its unloved? Its possible to die of a broken heart mind - just takes some time
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