chances are there won't be... unless someone pirates a server...Is there a working crack already?
Scared of change? joodoneevinnomehomie...Because you're scared of change, and the idea of having to do any more setup than "insert CD and hit play" strikes fear into your heart?
Consoles get bad shit too, the answer is always to check out a game before you buy it.
I'm curious as to how consoles are inferior.because you'll accept inferiority for convenience?
/just answering the question honestly
Diablo III went online-saves-only partially to combat cheating (see this for some comparison info). Sim City, from what I understand, doesn't need anything like that, but is always-online anyways as a form of DRM.you didnt answered my question though, does the game still has single player or have they changed to a kind of "mmo", because thats what happened to diablo 3...
The problem is this isn't required. Most games you play do not have always-on DRM and would not run into this type of issue. This is caused purely by the DRM.Also, many other games had a rough start
The fact that it's here in the first place is wrong.but a week from now, this problem should cease to ever exist again.
Happened for Assassin's Creed IIRC. The server feeds critical resources to the game, so somebody just logged the resources in transmission, whipped up a little script for Apache to send the right responses, then bundled it so pirates could run their own local server.chances are there won't be... unless someone pirates a server...
But everyone knows that gaming would be better with only one publisher, one console maker, and one distributor. Right? Because that works for every other industry! Monopolies are good!
Yes, because PC gaming was so bad off with Steam as the most widely adopted digital game distribution service on the market, which in itself was a monopoly right?
And no, having one console is a bad idea, having multiple consoles that are all the exact same experience is a bad idea.
No two consoles have had the same experience.
And with Origin as competition, it means better experiences for customers. Steam introduces a new feature, Origin tries to match it. Origin puts a game's price cheaper, Steam tries to match it.
One of the basic principles of business is that competition is good for the customer.
I'd argue that at the core, the PS3 and 360 offer the exact same gaming experience, multiple titles are available on both platforms. When it comes to what matters, and that is games, the PS3 and 360 are almost identical in terms of offerings.
EA is hardly doing any competing. They don't have the indie scene support that Steam has, Valve has GreenLight which is allowing for a lot of new titles to constantly be published. If EA were actually trying to compete with Valve, most game prices would be lower on both platforms, or many of the games available on Steam would also be on Origin, but neither of those things are true.
But sure, go on and continue being scared and lazy. Was it you (before the name change) that was bitching that you needed to install a game from disc before you could play it?
- Far better graphics are possible.
- You can play tens of thousands of games that will never reach whatever console you have.
- You can play pre-release versions of games.
- If you want, you can even make your own for free, and give it to whoever wants it, for free.
- You can run whatever sort of additional software you want, PCs have been multi-tasking since far before the first console.
- You can mod the games. Some games have been played for years after their initial time only thanks to mods being made.
- Alternate and configurable control schemes. Use tons of different controllers (even console ones) in addition to mice, trackballs, etc.
- You can access all sorts of services (voice in game, messaging, etc.) without it being officially supported by the console first.
- You can record and edit your gameplay without additional hardware.
- You can stream your gameplay without additional hardware.
- Unless it requires a third-party server (MMO-style), online play is free (yes this is an easy-as-hell jab at Xbox Live).
- Cheats are possible without specific hardware needing to be developed and licensed, as it can be done in software.
- And for older games, the most powerful emulation you can get, without needing somebody to release a hack, and without compromising your ability to access the latest games.
hopefully EA do more micro transactions in their games and it makes them completely bankrupt, hurry up EA make another way to fuck over your customers! i want to see you dead as a company, they are the worst gaming company in history.
hopefully EA do more micro transactions in their games and it makes them completely bankrupt, hurry up EA make another way to fuck over your customers! i want to see you dead as a company, they are the worst gaming company in history.
I can't help but imagine a 13 year old with pale, pale skin and the ever so slight crusting of mucus around each nostril when I read posts like these...hopefully EA do more micro transactions in their games and it makes them completely bankrupt, hurry up EA make another way to fuck over your customers! i want to see you dead as a company, they are the worst gaming company in history.
Could apply to consoles too.So I'll preface my response to your bullet-points with "video games take up about 1.5% of my time"
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I wasn't talking about console users in general (ease of use for a more limited experience is still ease of use).The correlation between scared/lazy gamers and console gamers is not as tight as you seem to think... Some people really just don't care and game to escape for a short while.
lolno, nice try though. PC gaming is affordable to the average person (a Ferrari is specifically noted as not.)I suppose I'd be a scared and lazy driver for not owning a Ferrari too, right?
And my computer does what I need it to, while a console doesn't... and my computer does more that I enjoy as well, such as letting me mod games and multi-task, record gameplay and tweaks, etc.My Honda Civic gets me where I need to go, thanks.
The thread was about the PC, somebody was complaining that they needed to install a game from a disc on the PC and couldn't just run it immediately like on older consoles.As far as bitching about installing a game from disc before playing it? You'll have to link me to that one... I install all my games. The only time I've even commented with anything even remotely resembling negative was when some numbnut here was claiming Rage needed all 3 discs installed in order to play (which was bullshit) and I only had a 20GB harddrive at the time (each disc was 7GB).
If you play games casually (i.e. not a whole lot because, y'know, you have a life), a console is perfect. It's cheaper, it's streamlined, and it works well for multimedia too.
Like there's some PC games I'd like to play but I'd more so upgrade to a better PC for 1) video production and 2) to play with my friends.
I wouldn't say PCs are better than consoles since they all have their pros and cons.
So a few multiplats and they're the same gaming experience? Let's not count different features, different infrastructures (both hardware and online), and different games. Hell one's got the Move, one's got the Kinect. That's a big difference right here.
EA competes because their big titles come to Origin. Like Mass Effect 3, Battlefield 3 (and the upcoming Battlefield 4), etc.
Steam definitely is dominant in the market but providing some competition is healthy. Wanting Origin to die purely out of spite and some misguided notion that EA is worse than Hitler is both bad for the customer and just a severe misunderstanding of business.
So a few multiplats and they're the same gaming experience? Let's not count different features, different infrastructures (both hardware and online), and different games. Hell one's got the Move, one's got the Kinect. That's a big difference right here.
EA competes because their big titles come to Origin. Like Mass Effect 3, Battlefield 3 (and the upcoming Battlefield 4), etc.
Steam definitely is dominant in the market but providing some competition is healthy. Wanting Origin to die purely out of spite and some misguided notion that EA is worse than Hitler is both bad for the customer and just a severe misunderstanding of business.