Mr. GOH!

I'm dealing with deep emotional scars, FLD! I'm still paying $250 a week for therapy and $300 for scotch help me try to get over Blizzard screwing me so badly! The asshole liars! *throws a desk lamp at the wall* FUCK THEM!

They are violating the terms of their license and terms of service agreements, Ethan. WORDS HAVE MEANING! And if not, so what? The same agreements give the publisher the right to unilaterally ban you for whatever reason it wants, so the publishers are just exercising their rights. If you criticize them, you are most likely some sort of communist. Edited to fix horrendous grammar.

Have they said if they plan to remove always-online requirement for PC? Hahahahah, why am I even asking? They're assholes, so, no, they haven't, right?

Meh. Rather have a FF XII HD remake.

In the United States, at least, telcos seek to exercise a lot of muscle over the services using their pipelines. Way more than the water company does over the pipes, as it were. Specifically, telcos may charge customers more just for service sufficiently stable and fast to support Ninty's or Sony's or MS's online platform. There are ways they could hold such uses hostage and either charge customers more or ask for payouts from the platform providers. Besides, offloading the risk onto consumers may not make sense; folks may rather have a stable gaming platform out of the box than deal with the risks offloaded onto them by a digital platform.

Looks neat. Will it be $600?

Just read about the specs. The takeaway is that my current PC will most likely easily handle games developed cross-platform for the PS4. I hope Sony offers genuinely good services.

The best solution would be to abandon motion gaming.

See ya on Steam, Thorgi/Duke! Also, Dean, games *totally* contain myriad messages. They are communication media.

I'd get a 3DS for this if I could pay about $100-$120 for both the 3DS and Fire Emblem. Nothing else on 3DS I want.

Going the service route doesn't eliminate hardware costs and risks, it offloads them onto other companies and the consumers. It also cedes a lot of power to the manufacturers of whatever devices run the software or, in the case of streaming services like OnLive and its progeny, to whoever controls the data infrastructure (telcos). Unless Sony or MS issue proprietary hardware, as they do now, they just become another publisher.

Aliens: Colonial Marines modders are just polishing a turd, though, aren't they? is there anything they can do to save what is essentially an unfinished clusterfuck, aside from constructing an entirely new game?

Okay, friendos, let's do a royally weird PXOD SimCity V city. I call I get to make the trash city!

My first and only Pokemon was a Tamagotchi.

I wonder if PC ports of AAA console games will drop off with the new console generation. I seem to recall a lot of console exclusives at the beginning of the last console cycle.

Having a Gruyere, Mutton and Tomato on weeknights sounds good to me, too.

Are their semi-private regions? We could do a PXOD metropolis!

Anyone up to help a total n00b learn to play DOTA 2 some weeknight next week?

I'd love to play with youse guys, but I can't dedicate 2 solid hours to gaming Friday, Saturday, or Sunday due to social engagements. My gaming nights are weeknights these days, sadly. But if anyone has time after 8:30pm or later New York City time on weeknights, I'm generally free to game.

Crusader Kings 2, bitchfaces. It rocks my socks. Currently working my way up from being a count in the Holy Roman Empire, to a Duke, and now King of Bavaria. Next is to be Emperor.

I plan to play a game of DOTA 2 later this week. I have no fucking clue about how this game works or what to do or, well, anything. So, question: how many death threats will I receive from irate players?

Late to this thread, but I just want clarification; if I want to play SC5 without dealing with multiplayer, must I turn on cheat mode (AKA sandbox mode)? Or can I just start working on a private region and never have to deal with the social aspects?