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I will reiterate my point is that people in a world like that should commonly be ugly, just like in real life. Look at the blonde woman. She looks great. The created characters look as ugly as they were intended to look, hands down. That's what matters.

Locking out the entire game if you buy it used?

Firefox already has better memory performance than Chrome though. It's shitty add-ons that cause problems and unfortunately one of the biggest ones (ABP) is a culprit. Anyways, Chrome's "each tab is its own process" way of doing thing absolutely tears through RAM once you get a few tabs going. They word it as "turned into a huge memory hog" when it's always been a complaint with FF and something they've always worked on.

Nier for PS3 is in the mail.

Yeah that's what I used to use. Pretty unnecessary now.

We could have avoided all of this if people just never bought it in the first place. =\ I'm cool with DLC mini-expansions though as it all ends up costing as much as an expansion anyways (except for crap like adding up the prices of COD map-packs.) It's stuff that are truly micro-transactions (hats) that bug me and I don't get why people fall for it.

I know. This was exactly what I was describing on Firefox. I can't even remember the last time I had a search bar. Also, what's this extension you're using? It seems familiar with the ability to switch engines (though just typing in a "g" or whatever shortcut you want is super easy.)

America? America is ranked how low for internet again compared to Europe, Japan, and South Korea? I'd say that they're realistic. ISP options? Who cares about options? That's a bit irrelevant in this whole thing. Most European countries are very well connected. You're overlooking something though: Who says Blizzard wants to solve it? Battlenet 2.0 isn't even structured for LAN. If anything this would come post-release and only if it doesn't sell and even then I honestly doubt LAN would ever be added. People have the power to speak with their wallets and as SC2 has shown people will bitch about LAN support... and still buy the game. Hell, support of SC2 e-gaming is through the roof for SC2 in areas outside of Korea. Now, the single player issue is one I can actually see changing after a few months much like we see DRM dropped in some cases after some time. I'm in favor of it on a personal level. There's also this to consider: How many D2 players played on BNET vs single player? If it was a majority back then... can you even imagine how high it's going to be on the BNET side now even if there was a theoretical SP option? Either way, why not just play something else when you don't have internet access, like Torchlight 2? FYI: When you call someone a douchebag, you become one yourself.

Haha that was fast. How much?

And this just brings up my point about not appealing to every single possible market. The people they are appealing to are people who really do have always on connections who ironically are most of the people who bitch about stuff like this. Their sales lie in countries where this isn't going to be an actual physical problem but rather it's only a PR problem.

Well someone did recently get the Play to work with any PS1 ISOs... But what do you mean by "hardware?"

http://benfrost.bandcamp.com/releases Oh man I love this brand of electronic-tinged Modern Classical.

What are you looking for in a smart phone?

I wonder if some of your problems stem from google not always using HTTP? Also, you can search from your address bar in Firefox. Change your DNS settings, or just use "g" and then type your search. Hell, I have duckduckgo as my standard in my nav bar which is why I have to still use "g" to search google. I like duckduckgo for it's "!" commands like "!market *insert search term here " that make it search the Android market. You do this through about:config changes. You don't need an add-on. There's a lifehacker article on it.

If it's so easy then why aren't they doing it? Like I keep pointing out, they're not doing this simply because they feel like it. They didn't sit around at a meeting and go "Hey, how can we really piss off our fans? Let's take out offline and LAN!"

I disagree. I think most rioters follow a mob mentality. Basically, they see someone else doing it, and do it themselves. These people mostly wouldn't be criminals otherwise. Obviously though, it's still wrong. The same thing explains the kids doing it. I mean hell, if I was that age, and my parents weren't super strict I don't even know what kind of trouble I would get into. Kids are much more susceptible to this sort of things than others. Anyways, I have always felt like riots don't accomplish much besides a few exceptions. What will be the result of these riots? What will come of it? Will it be what these people wanted? I think not. I think this is too unfocused. Your last paragraph really digs into what is going on here and also makes me think of why black metal fans/musicians were burning churches in Norway in the early to mid-90s. People can get bored when life is easy. When you're young, you have to rebel against something.

As in, they only went faster with the XBL version to meet that deadline and thus pushed back the PC release?

I have two monitors and still don't bother. Then again my foobar looks great so I have no problem basically dedicating my entire second monitor to it.

Are you also drinking whiskey?

Or rather they see that they have the power to force such things onto a player and increase their brand name. When you have to go to a website for stat tracking, you get more involved in the series, and it's harder to get out of your head. You get more hooked, buy more DLC, then you buy the next game. That's the line of thinking I am seeing more and more. Gamers aren't boycotting. Gamers are still lapping it up and thus developers push stuff like this out while still bitching about it. Sales speak volumes.

I like the alcohol analogy more than the nerdy one. =p

They must have been high enough for them to keep releasing the titles on PC.

Because they always have. Why should have to reach every single market in the world when there's no precedent for it? There's 6-7 billion people in the world. Do you think they are trying to sell that many copies? No. Thus the term "target market."

I know you're being sarcastic, but doesn't shit like this just show how hard it is to label games these days? Games are very rarely one genre anymore. I mean fuck, just look at Mass Effect, it got slightly less RPG in the sequel and people went bat shit crazy and started labeling it a TPS. It was always a TPS. It was always a RPG.

So arguably, the AC2 DRM worked? What were sales like on PC?