TheMightyEthan

By "this" do you mean the game itself or the exclusive demo/beta/whatever? If the PS3 can run it fine the 360 should be able to too, unless they just did a shitty-ass port job.

Ah yeah, see I play on a monitor on my desk whether I'm on PC or console (except Wii), I prefer it over the TV, but #2 makes sense to me.

Dunno whether it puts the DLC on your EA account or on your PSN account. If you've got a gaming PC though, why did you get Dead Space on PS3?

From Gamespot's forums:

Continuum Shift is only $15 at Walmart?

It's probably an out of court settlement, so the people who paid don't have any recourse. It's common in lawsuits to send what's called a "demand letter", which is basically "this is what I want, if you don't do this then I'm suing you." The article isn't horribly specific, but it sounds like that's what these letters were. So paying it isn't an admission of guilt necessarily, but it's still a binding agreement. Unless the law firm's conduct was so egregious as to invalidate the agreement (fraud, duress, etc), in which case the people who paid might have some recourse, but I don't have enough information to say if that's the case or not. *Edit* - That's also all assuming that settlements work the same way in the UK as they do here. I really have no idea if that's the case or not.

Well they might decide it's not worth it and drop suits over here too, or it could reveal evidence/documentation that would be useful in suits over here, but you're right that it's unlikely that any specific ruling in the UK would have a direct effect on suits here.

Gametrailers has their review up: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-hd-dead-space-2/709734 This highlights why I like Gametrailers' reviews: even though this is a positive one, they liked the game very much, it gives me enough information to see that I was likely correct in cancelling my preorder. I'll wait until it's on sale. Based on that review, though, I'm sure plenty of you will love it, and that's a good thing.

Maybe I just suck at the internet.

Oh, that's handy too. I googled the problem last night to see if there was a way to manually set the resolution like that, but all I found were threads with people asking, and no answers.

Well it's not in my dropbox, and the dropbox won't scroll. The only 16:9 option it gives me is 1280x720, though it does give me some 16:10 resolution options that are even higher than 1920x1080. *Edit* - Nevermind, I got it to scroll. I just thought it wouldn't scroll cause there's no bar on the side and every time I rolled the scroll wheel it closed the dropbox, but after I did that a couple times it somehow selected 1920x1080 anyway, so I'm okay with that.

WTF, they did away with 1920x1080 as a resolution option?

I haven't tried this on PC since early in the beta period. Is it any easier to actually get in a match?

And it was limited in the number of simultaneous threads? Apps had to wait to take turns getting processed?

Back when data was stored magnetically and transmitted/processed electrically, and you still had to physically connect components (monitor etc) to each other.

Fixed, maybe. The more I look at the original US one though, the worse it gets. Why the hell are Mal and Zoe apparently leading an army? The unification war is only briefly mentioned in the movie. And I'm not convinced that girl who's presumably River is even Summer Glau. I'm glad the bluray one is that cool grey cover.

lol, I didn't think the original cover was that bad But then I found the UK version, and yeah, it's pretty much the worst cover ever

Finally got my fiancee to watch Firefly with me, and she really likes it, so I got this so we can finish it up after we get through the series.

It's different than theft because with theft you're being deprived of something. Someone pirating the game who wasn't going to buy it anyway (again, assume for the sake of argument, I acknowledge the practical problems with this assumption) doesn't take anything away from anyone else. So I still don't see how the dev/publisher/whatever is actually hurt. And numbers don't matter. Even if it's 500,000,000 people pirating the game who weren't going to buy it anyway, NONE of those would have been sales (with this assumption which, again, I acknowledge is not an accurate description of the world, but I'm trying to argue the theory) then there haven't been any sales lost. Whether or not the pirates have a "right" to play the game (I agree that they don't) is a completely separate issue from this question.

You guys completely missed the point of my question: I'm trying to ask how it hurts you. If we assume, for the sake of argument (again, I would like to reiterate that I don't pirate games, I either buy them or don't play them), that I would not buy the game anyway, then how is it hurting the developer if I pirate it?

IMO something's only wrong if it hurts someone else. I have never had it satisfactorily explained to my why me pirating a game/song/movie/whatever that I wasn't going to buy anyway is hurting the developer/distributor/whomever. If I'm not going to buy it either way, then whether I pirate it or not the developer still doesn't get my money; they're in the same position either way. I'm not talking about people who pirate all their games just because they can, and who would normally buy it, because I do know people like that, I'm talking about the situation where I would in fact not buy it regardless.

I'm blind. In other news, I've decided to cancel my preorder. I've got plenty of other games to play, and as much as I loved Dead Space, I find I don't actually enjoy playing it all that much.

Well and I could definitely see pirating it to demo it, deciding it's not worth the money, but still finishing the game anyway. Maybe it's something I'd buy for $15 but they're charging $50. That's another thing I took issue with in the video: they listed a bunch of flaws with a game that might make someone not buy it, and then said "but if you pirate it and play it, obviously it's worth playing despite the flaws." Their logic their is flawed. For one thing, there's a cost consideration that enters into it: sure, it may be worth playing if it's free, that doesn't mean it's worth paying money for, or paying more than a couple dollars for. I pirate less than just about any PC gamer I know, so don't take this as justifying my own behavior, but I do subscribe to the philosophy that if I wasn't going to buy it anyway then I haven't hurt the developer by pirating it.

That's a weird thing to have an option for, seems like they'd just make it one way or the other. *Edit* - I just checked, and at least on the demo it's not an option. Did they announce a change for the final version or something?