TheMightyEthan

That's actually a good point that I hadn't considered: when publishers/devs talk about how many people pirated their game, I doubt they're taking into account how many of those people are in territories where it's just not feasible to acquire it legally.

Actually I knew about that page, but there's no demo link on it, so I wasn't sure if it was just cause the demo wasn't up or because that was only the "info" page and not actually a download page. I don't know if it's accurate, but the first comment on the RPS article (which I'd actually checked after I commented, but before you did ) says 9 AM PST, which is in about 2 hours.

So the demo's supposed to be live today, but I can't figure out where to download the PC version. Already downloading the 360 version.

lol, FLD, all that shows is that excel gave Chew a positive rep on that post, which actually means that 2 people must have given him negative rep.

Man, Telltale's just exploding. Like half the stories on the first page of Joystiq are about Telltale, and each is about a different game.

So I just read the EULA, and here's where I imagine they get you: Section 4(E) of the Subscriber Agreement says "Subscriptions" are game purchases. I bet the Russian sites aren't authorized resellers. They also reserve the right to cancel you Subscriptions (remove games from your account) whenever they want, without a refund, but I'd like to see them try to enforce that in court without a good reason for doing so (like you bought an unauthorized copy, or something).

Maybe Activision sold/licensed the rights to the game?

Even in the US, just cause it's in the EULA doesn't mean that it's actually enforceable. I will be sure to carefully read the EULA first though if I ever decide to buy a game from those Russian sites, since I don't want to have to go to court over it even if I could win.

My ABCs. Please don't hold it against me that I'm a terrible, terrible singer.

Yeah, it's been only been unified for like 140 years.

Okay, here's a recording of me saying this:

As I tweeted earlier, my theory is that EA's plan to bring down Call of Duty doesn't involve actually making a game that sells better, it's just to so completely saturate the modern shooter market that no one wants to buy any game like that, Call of Duty included.

In our history classes it's basically we talk about Europe from the ancient Greeks up through the American Revolution, and then it's like Europe stops existing except in as much as they're dealing with the US. And here's my attempt at Europe: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9518980/European%20Map.png

So were people who got their accounts deactivated because of the MW2 thing able to do anything about it? Cause if not that sounds like class action lawsuit to me. That's a separate issue, though. That's Valve treating it as if $ = €, which they've done for a while too.

I was actually planning on recording "roof", "hoof", "too", "took" and "tuck" when I get home this afternoon. Because here "too", "took", and "tuck" are 3 distinct sounds, but it sounds like to you "took" and "tuck" sound the same.

Is it a violation of the Steam ToS to use activation keys from other regions, or something?

What do you mean, "knocking your account off"?

Well I pronounce "hoof" like "took", but it still sounds different than "huff". "Huff" is pronounced like "tuck", not like "took".

The other demo is for Shogun 2: Total War

That brings up another question: how do you pronounce "hoof"? Is the "oo" like "too" or "took"? Around here people pronounce it like took.

But I've already played all of those into the ground.

I'm waiting to decide until after the demo, but I'm very extremely skeptical.

Around here it's more like "took", though that isn't uniform throughout America.

I thought they were coming from making the combat more action-y. Well, hearing that the combat may have retained the tactical-ness bumped my interest up from "almost certainly not buying" down to "probably not buying". This news about the NPC armor has knocked it back down to "almost certainly not buying."

The real question is, is the "oo" in roof pronounced like "too" or "took"?