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http://www.1up.com/news/driver-san-francisco-online-pass-free-printing-gaffe And another reason why it's all shit. Ubisoft will single-handedly bring the whole thing down with the amount of cock ups they carry on having with their various DRM and anti-used sales schemes.

Yeah we don't have any control over the iPhone App. Your best bet may be to hit up the developer (dunno if iOS app store works that way though)

The iPhone app?

So I saw KearneyBobs post a tweet. At first I thought nothing of it. Until DukeofPwn posted the exact same tweet a couple hours later. https://twitter.com/search/%23spacemarinePS3 I like how it's "I might read kotaku" Though bravo on crafting a fairly conspicuous looking competition tweet. Most competition tweets tend to be "follow @kotaku and retweet for a chance to win item X" sort of things. Though as you can see not everyone is posting the required tweet. Quite a few "I'll never read shitty @kotaku even if I win Space Marine PS3" I've never really understood why they have their competitions accessible only to people not reading Kotaku. Like it's either from subscribing to an email easily filtered to junk, tweeting something on liking them on Facebook.

So in places like the US, Western Europe and East Asia, having a stable internet connection isn't a major thing, but in markets like parts of Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa, poor infrastructure causes an unstable environment for internet, and power as a whole, since many older homes don't have backup generators. Sure, internet is fairly constant in first world countries like the US and the UK, so the issue may not be as prevalent there, but why should I support a company that's fucking over a huge amount of people with little to no justification? I'd say the justification is that those markets are next to non-existent. Sure India and China total 1/3 of the worlds populations, but they're probably 0% of most games publishers markets. For example (though my source is '05) India has an estimated games market value of $50million. Compared to the $10billion of US. I can't really see countries where homes require back up power generators, never mind the financial resources or internet infrastructure, to be buying these kinds of modern games. I can't see places like Africa getting 6th gen consoles, never mind modern consoles and PCs. They might have something in the local school that'll run Diablo 2.

Reading Mini-wheats first post. Was a bit Not sure what made me feel that way though. Anyway to serious business: I think you massively overestimate the number of people without access to broadband. Here in the UK wiki tells me 18M have broadband, out of 23M homes. That's a large percentage. The only person I physically know without internet is my gran (she doesn't have a PC either. One day though, one day). Not to say that broadband can be really quirky (my new router hasn't emitted wi-fi for a good 3 weeks now, so my netbook is fucked in that regard) but I don't think requiring internet is a deterrent on sales in a technical sense. Unless Blizzard counts my gran as a possible customer. I visit reddit a fair bit and they are very very quick to want to boycott things. And I've frequently pointed out how it's a very lazy form of protest. Boycotting is essentially not buying the game. You sit on the day of release and do nothing. Just last week I "boycotted" Driver. As you and others have pointed out there's no way to tell if a product has been boycotted unless it's en masse in a huge way. i.e millions of people. People who boycott games are probably of less consequence to publishers than people who pirate games. At least pirate numbers can be tracked. I have being working on something along these lines for PXOD, essentially why boycotting is a shitty method of protest, and more viable methods of protest. I'm still working on it but essentially if you are upset about a certain element of a game: 1. Email the publisher/developer in question and express, in a clear and non-ragey childish way, what you are displeased with. Potentially offer suggestions and alternatives. Don't go "I dislike this, change it now". 2. Get in contact with game sites about this issue. They can have some clout, and at least a very public face, with which to bring up these issues. Not to say boycotts are useless, but most are just randomly thrown out without any backing to them. And doing something through say a games site would have more chances of sticking than just some comments on a forum somewhere. As MasterDex's example with MW2 showed. While the boycott at the time may have seemed pointless all games since have had dedicated servers. If it was just tied to the steam group then it would have gotten nowhere, but it was picked up by gaming sites and it got discussion going and became bigger n bigger. I think another reason why "boycotts" fail is because the issue at hand is annoying, but insignificant to the overall game. For example Deus Ex n Civ V have really really fucking annoying boot up screens/movies. But the games are really good so I don't mind. It's probably the same for many other games. The publisher has a real problem though if the issue is small and annoying, but the rest of the game hasn't got enough going for it. e.g Diablo 3 requires an always on internet connections, which I personally find objectionable, unnecessary and the devs reaction to it rather crappy. But it's fucking Diablo 3 so it's bound to get people just on that alone. From Dust requires always on internet too. The game itself is from ubisoft, a crappy port and short game. The scales aren't tipping in it's favour other than "it could be like B&W"

For Staysick (and anyone else on hacking 101) If you're finding yourself Hacking a lot then spending early points on reducing the chances you'll be noticed. Can knock it down to 15%. Hacking Stealth Add-on. Where possible, if you reckon you can do it safely and 80% of the time you can, get the datastore nodes as these contain Stop and Nuke viruses. Nuke means you can take over nodes without triggering the alarm, and Stop! does what it says on the tin and temporarily stops the system scan from reaching you. What you should be doing too, though be aware this can trigger the alarm, is to fortify your captured nodes. This means when the system scan starts it'll take longer to reach you giving you up to a minute of breathing room (most time you get 15 seconds). Because this has a high chance to trigger the alarm you shouldn't start doing this until you get at least half way across. If you trip the alarm on your first node you're kinda fucked. Since you can net 75-several hundred XP a pop I'd suggest you hack everything you can, even things you have the code for. Getting the hacking augments early on has pretty high return of investment if you're able to hack everything you see. 4000XP per praxis, you can easily hack 100 items per mission/chapter. Oh and I'd get the Turret and Robot hacks early on too. It's really damn fun.

I have way too large and random a music collection. Still I like the "radio-like" quality of having random things to listen to.

http://pressxordie.com/2011/09/05/pixelogic-talks-deus-ex/

Wow, Four Lions on TV? I'm amazed they got away with that. It aired on Channel 4, who own Film 4, the company that helped fund the film. As for X-min first Class, yeah it's pretty damn awesome. I'm unsure if I'd say it's on-par with Nolans batman, but I do agree it has the feeling of being more "real" which would be why I think the Nolan batmans stand out. They feel like proper films, as opposed to comic book, and all the baggage that comes with that, being turned into a film. It aired on Channel 4. They run Film4, one of the companies that funded the film.

Yes. Turns out there's an achievement. I assumed it was one of those RPG cliches of an impossible fight. But turns out those many retries I did were just me sucking.

Well authentication servers can be around for as long as the company is. (whether they are is another matter) Multiplayer servers aren't exactly in a static state, so they can be around for just as long too. Once again doesn't mean they always are. Cerberus network provided some DLC as well as odds n sods for ME2 players. It was turned off last year. It's not really an unrelated case since it was part of EA's Project $10, along with EA Sports online pass n other "buy new" incentives.

Yeah there's quite a few tales out there on Kinect helping disabled kids, and old people getting active with the Wii. It's just a case of not having blinders on. There is more of the "GTA kills people" stuff, but it's not all there is.

Tell the game that. Anywho for PC players: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=121245 I'm not gonna grab it until my next playthrough, and also on the hope that it doesn't require updating each time a patch hits.

Nope. EA is the only company that runs their own servers(on console). And even then the online-pass tracking servers will not be the ones running the multiplayer. And not all of these pass things are tied to multiplayer games, for example Cerberus Network on Mass Effect 2. btw anyone know the bit where we discussed used sales not costing any extra for multiplayer?

I'm on my second playthrough. I now realise that the remote mines are a pre-order incentive tossed in with the pirated version. (fingers crossed for Witcher 2 style updates where pre-order incentives get patched in) So I apologise to Hot heart on that aspect. Still even without those I found it a piece of piss with an assault rifle just firing on him as he comes down through the pillars and running away when he gets close. I am missing the pre-order silent sniper rifle. Didn't realise the normal one doesn't allow mufflers. (Why they're called mufflers and not silencers I dunno. IRL they're called mufflers/suppressors cos that's what they do. In-game/in-movie ones are silencers cos that's what they do. Deus Ex mufflers silence, not muffle)

I'm probably going to hold out. The first CG trailer was fun n all, but I'm kinda put off by the fact the game is nothing like the trailer that got the game noticed in the first place. It's not looking too great tbh. And as Duke put it so gracefully: this is the studio that made Call of Juarez.

I'm sure I've mentioned my younger selfs "love" for Event Horizon somewhere on this forum.

I'll be honest, Xbox World magazine aren't exactly the best source on shit like this since they're the guys who last month had front page title of "Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer" and the article itself was jsut "internet rumours have suggested ME3 will have multiplayer". Of course most sites took the front page as confirmation and ran with it, thus feeding the vicious circle. I'd much rather get my VG news from my mum.

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