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12/24/08
i didn't even enter, etc, lol
12/24/08
my only post on my for-a-day kotaku editorship will be six hours' worth of youtube videos of me sitting in my office playing space invaders on DS and squeezing hand grips
12/23/08
"We randomly picked out five finalists from the list for you, the rest of the readers, to check out."
The selections had some good reading to it, but with readers questioning the method of picking on page 1, I'm left to wonder if there were potentially better choices available.
Just saying...
12/23/08
12/23/08
From Eran:
@Jandlecack: I was going to buy.
It was released broken.
I pirated.
LET IT BE KNOWN. Release a broken game, face the consequences.
Just like it happened to Spore (yes, I call DRM a game-breaker).
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And then the patch goes out, promising to fix many of the problems. Does it do that? No. It breaks it even more.
Fallout 3 was, and still is laden with bugs, but it's a good purchase because it's playable. Not only that, but the DRM is a version of SecuROM that does not more than checking the disk.
Whereas the DRM shipping with Spore actually limits the number of installs you can have with the game. As someone who suffered hard drive failure about twice over the last year, before getting a new PC this year (which, if I bought Spore would mean four installs), you can see how I'd consider Spore's DRM to be game-breaking to the level that I'd have no option but to pirate it. BTW, I don't have Spore, nor have I pirated it.
I buy games regularly and the majority of games on my PC I own. The others are Assassin's Creed (which I already own on another system), Crysis (which I use predominantly as a benchmarking program for my computer's preformace based on frames per second as opposed to a game) and some old games like Worms Armageddon and Enter The Matrix which I no longer have working disks for, but had in the past.
Hope that clears things up.
12/23/08
That sound you hear is the legitimacy leaving your argument.
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Oh yeah ... that makes perfect sense.
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Without passing any judgment on the current finalists, I hope that one day Kotaku will sort through the responses and select the five they felt were the best written. I for one didn't submit my thoughts for the swag, but rather the chance to express an opinion.
12/23/08
12/23/08
If I'd known it was a lottery, I would not have spent as much time as I did, seeing as it put me in no better stead than anyone else.
This post is the end of my bitterness over it, but very poorly played, Kotaku.
12/23/08
But next time be more clear my dears!!!
Or angry mobs will gather at the entrance of the virtual Tower and demand blood :P
Lets just wish everyone a great Xmas and be done with griefing over something trivial :)
12/23/08
Wasn't the whole idea about who writes best? Whose picks were the most interesting?
The post introducing rules of contest said:
"We'll sort through them a select a batch of finalists who will then need to submit a writing sample for the whole class to read, so that your future readership for a day can have the final vote."
Select = drawn at random?
Seriously, no more Kotaku contests for me. I spent couple hours to select posts, to justify why I like them and to put it down in decent writing (I'm not a native speaker, so I was double careful about that part). I also had the idea to chose more general types of posts and explain it, giving particular posts as examples. I thought it would be cool.
Effort wasted. Should have done something useful with my life in the meantime. Serious disappointment here.
12/23/08
Likewise. No more Kotaku contests for me.
No. Freakin'. Point.
Knowing they were random, I'm surprised we didn't get more fanboy entries. (i.e. "This post sucked because it wasn't about the PS3")
No finalist selection should ever be random.
12/23/08
12/23/08
A little over 100, actually.
Still, if they were going to make it random, they should of said so from the beginning, instead of implying it would be based on skill.
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12/24/08
Implying that all entries will be pre-screened before second round and then drawing at random is rather disappointing.
@kauza: Thanks, I appreciate it a lot.
All in all, let's move along. Also,let me make this abundantly clear - I have no hard feelings whatsoever to our finalists, not their fault this turned out to be so (although I am a little envious, obviously).
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Awesome, indeed.
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12/23/08
Randomly?
You picked out the finalists randomly???
Does that mean what I think it does, or are there more finalists on "the list"?
12/23/08
5 people, at random
sure it sucks cause I thought the idea was to screen them based upon their ability to write and analyse (no disrespect comment dudes who got in)
I spent a good while trawling through Kotaku looking for my picks then a good hr writing about them for nowt, well, at least I enjoyed writing them!!!
Not really bitter, just disappointed im not in it lol!
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12/23/08
Yeah I literally dug through most of Kotaku's posts for the year. Like you said, I'm not bitter, it just stinks to put that much into it to find out it was random. I totally would have just done it off the cuff had I known that.
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12/23/08
wasnt even read lol
12/23/08
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Don't judge me :( That's how it works in real life :( It's not like I enjoy being a tool ;_;
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:D