Cyber Rat

Sure, I'm up.

In normal countries, yes, it's possible. Consider yourself lucky you live in one. Just because some are doesn't mean every pirated copy is a lost sale. And as we have proven in this thread a few times, successful games will not be stopped from being successful because of piracy.

Damn modern consoles being made of glass! Back in my day, I had a SEGA MASTER SYSTEM and 20 years later IT STILL WORKS! *waves walking stick*

Well, if people buy a piece of technology and want to modify it, why shouldn't they? Yes, he didn't have to modify the console, but neither do Sony have to screw over all costumers because of that.

I don't know about other industries, but I honestly hope gaming is the only one where publishers manipulate the masses to this extent.

My real problem with the argument I mentioned is that, assuming you don't have money for whatever reason (you're not well off, you have no job or a very crappy one, you're a college student) and you listen to the people who said that, then there is nothing coming out of it. It seems the main idea is "you buy a game to support the developer", not "you play the game to experience something great". I mean, seriously, if someone were to come to me and tell me they've never played Portal because they have no Internet connection to buy it over Steam and they can't afford it retail, I'd personally burn the game for them in a heartbeat and have them enjoy it. Because it's a great game and people should enjoy it. It already sold like... an ungodly amount and was even given away at one point. Yes, the developers and their families have to eat, but we've already established that 1 pirated copy is not the same as one lost sale and that the highest selling games were the most pirated ones as well. It's like most gamers who are in a position to buy a lot of games or who live somewhere where it's actually humanly possible to save money for a month and buy a day 1 release think that because they pay for all their games, no one should enjoy them without doing the same. Why the fuck not? Is he destroying your joy by playing the game? Do we really want people to comment on games only if they can afford them? That's how shovelware is born. Note, I am talking only about people who can't actually afford games, which I am very sure exist. Not everyone who says they can't afford them is telling the truth, but the Internet seems to assume they are always talking to Americans or Western Europe. If you can afford games, but still pirate everything just cause you can, then you are a cheap bastard. (sorry for some ramblings, woke up recently)

I don't believe games warrant a $60 price tag. And the argument that it's gotten cheaper than it was doesn't make me think I should be grateful. Technology always becomes cheaper over time and games used to be plastic bricks, so that increased the cost as well.

Did Uwe Boll give them an offer?

I'm really tired of the "Gaming is a luxury, not a right. If you can't pay it, don't play it." argument. I don't know, do developers (not publishers) really like to hear that 200 people bought their game more than a 1000 people enjoyed their game? Gaming is needlessly expensive as it is, I don't really think it should be reserved to some business elite or, well, anyone.

This is in relation to deanb's banning? The jumping on Steam on was because of a lot of people getting banned because they called out Kotaku on banning Dean. The "telling everyone how to do their jobs" thing was the usual response whenever talking about Dean. I actually read some of it. Ban of Dean was a bit extreme. But some of the people did resort to name-calling and whatnot. So, after that fiasco, dean wasn't welcome anymore? He got banned all of the time or what? From what I've gathered, every time Crecente would notice him, he got banned.

"Maybe the people in Poland don't have a fucking heart?" That guy is an asshole.

This is in relation to deanb's banning? The jumping on Steam on was because of a lot of people getting banned because they called out Kotaku on banning Dean. The "telling everyone how to do their jobs" thing was the usual response whenever talking about Dean.

Shining Force 3 (all the episodes, not just the first).

Sorry for the slight offtopic, but since we mentioned disabling Steam accounts? How exactly does that work? I honestly wish someone would write an article or thread with "This is how you get banned on Steam and this is what being banned on Steam disables for you".

I personally love the trailer for how it's done. My reaction would have been the same if the kid was a girlfriend or whatever. I dunno, it really didn't strike me as a "here's a kid turning into a zombie" because I've seen that god knows how many times in zombie movies. I mean, seriously, Night of the Living Dead had it.

I think Epic is still butthurt everyone said UT3 was shit and is now getting back at PC gaming.

No demo, not available in my region and a $60 price tag. I'm sorry Bulletstorm, I trusted you, I wanted us to be friends. I'm gonna go play your sea dog sister without a hint of remorse. And thank you spoiled gamers for the $60 dollar and constant DLC ripoffs. You bastards don't how many Chaos Emeralds are in the first Sonic game. *waves walking stick*