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08/25/09
08/25/09
Am I the only one that feels slightly creeped out by this statement? Sounds like something your neighbors would say if you live in a over perfect town where everyone has a smile all the time.
"You don't have to come to the X-mas party if you don't want to. But I just think you'll regret it.... You'll be missing out on lots of good food and X-mas singing. I also will be making eggnog, you don't want to miss my eggnog. :) "
08/25/09
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08/24/09
I'll be giving this a miss.
08/24/09
08/24/09
I don't play online since I'm an antisocial bastard that hates getting his ass handed to him by some snotty nosed kid.
what did you mean?
08/24/09
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08/24/09
Chill out dooders, There can has lots of fun on the internets. Stop hating on the tubes, they needs u to live.
08/24/09
The idea is that if you have a bunch of friends over for a LanParty, you don't want to have internet for all of them.
08/24/09
08/24/09
Because I'm playing on a laptop where i can't get wi-fi you idiot.
08/24/09
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08/24/09
I for one am still pissed about that one.
08/24/09
[www.joystiq.com]
"Blizzard tells Shacknews it's working on a "pseudo-LAN" solution to the problem, that might allow play very similar to a regular LAN party, with Battle.net only being pinged once or periodically for authentication purposes."
08/24/09
(Which, coincidentally is AFTER the end of the world according to the Mayans, so this could possibly be some huge government plot to keep placated and docile until then instead of complaining about how they aren't building huge underground vaults for all of us to hide in.)
08/24/09
08/24/09
And a few months before Abstergo get their hands on subject 17.
08/24/09
08/24/09
Original Kerrigan VA not being chosen to come back for SC2? Really not a lot coming to mind right now since BlizzCon is over. Haven't heard anything from Activision or Valve in awhile. No random pretentious indie dev saying anything. Madden already came out, and Luke took care of the sports games in his post...
08/24/09
08/24/09
(disclosure: Deanbmmv is the deputy-CEO of Vault-tec)
08/24/09
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08/24/09
So you are punishing customers by turning off stuff just because the aren't logged in? Am I reading that right or just infering it?
The only 'feature' that should be off by playing offline is online-multiplayer.
08/24/09
A better solution than DRM...
08/24/09
08/24/09
Or, you know, if you want to take the game on a trip where you won't have access to the internet? I mean, are you serious? This is 2009. Wireless internet is still hard to find when you're on the go.
Not having to log in would also be great of LAN parties where you don't have the means to get everyone on the internet at the same time.
Seriously man.... think a bit.
08/24/09
Some of my favorite gaming memories go back to Counter-Strike and Worms Lan parties... fun funny shit. its a bit lame, but whatever. Not much a fan of RTS, they are all a bit of a resource hog when you consider what you end up looking at. I always hated how they all render the entire map, every unit, every tree, every everything- it just kills your system and you gotta have a completely high end system to do those games any justice. I mean, i can play TF2 and other valve games on all medium to high settings just fine and looks great, but Dawn of War 2 chugs very badly and looks like block art. Sure, "apples to oranges", but you sorta "get more" in a FPS, graphically, and I prefer that genre already.
08/23/09
Welcome to Australia.
08/23/09
08/23/09
Source: [www.shacknews.com]
08/23/09
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08/23/09
Bravo, fuktards! As always, the dipshits in the group ruin it for everyone.
08/23/09
I'm still not quite sure why people are in such a tight uproar over this. It's blizzard, I'm sure they're more than aware of how big Starcraft was at LAN parties and I'm sure their new Battle.net will have features that will emulate or replicate a LAN.
Why am I sure? Because this is the company that made starcraft.
08/23/09
Oh wait...
08/23/09
So its ok to shoplift TV's from them just cause they didn't go under like Circuit City, right?
Justify your piracy all you want....whatever eases your conscience and helps u sleep at night.
08/23/09
And, you know... I don't recall justifying piracy. But, I will admit I have pirated quite a few games. Personally, I use it as a demoing service. I like the game, I buy it. I don't like the game, I don't buy it, and I don't finish playing the pirated copy. Oh, and I also use it to get games you can't buy anymore or the devs wouldn't see the cash for it anyway. For instance, Xenogears. I'd rather own a personal copy, but I don't feel like giving cash to some guy on ebay when I could be spending that on new games. But pirating just for the sake of getting free games? Not my kind of thing. I do work in the industry, after all.