Posted 06/16/2009 at 11:47:05am

Did those execs even visit a MySpace page before buying it? I know it is "your space" but I feel like I am walking into a teenager's messy bedroom complete with loud crappy music everytime I visit a MySpace page. Take everything that made webpages bad in the 90's and you can still find it action. I'm actually surprised they haven't resurected some old tags for the homepage. <blink>Join Now!</blink>

Posted 06/16/2009 at 11:39:29am

But until people can get a cheap unlimited download service to a place with content from more than a couple labels we won't see the widespread adoption these labels are praying for. $24/mo is probably too much for most people. The day of the album is long dead. People don't want to pay $18 for 12 tracks when only a handful are worth listening to. When will someone provide a service with more than one media? iTunes offers video and audio. I'd like to see a subscription type media store that provided games, music, and tv/movies. If cable companies would start talking to the Onlive people and that tech pans out they could have a winning combination if they packaged it correct.

Posted 06/05/2009 at 11:06:48am

I can't believe so many people are pissed over a short develpment cycle that is actually going to result in a good game. We usually want stuff NOW! I can't help but think if Valve had released one or two more maps and made this announcement at E3 2010 for a fall 2010 release everyone would be overjoyed. It sounds like this really is going to be LFD 2.0 so there is no reason not to get paid for it. If you disagree don't buy it. The SDK is out so there will be more LFD1 content soon. Just wait 6 months for Valve to have a weekend sale and grab it at the 20-50% off. If Modern Warfare 2 was released ever 12 months and maintained the high quality of COD4 people would love it.

Posted 04/16/2009 at 01:44:58am

I pre-ordered my copy from Amazon and I am glad I'm not missing out on the online mess but the wait for the game is driving me nuts! Stardock is doing everything right here and so many people just can't figure it out. If a game is good enough to steal it is good enough to pay for. I see no problem with adding a multi-player key in the future while staying far away from all other DRM. All the servers and support they are going to have to put into solving this problem is going to cost a lot of money and if they are ever forced to include tight drm with futre games it will be the fault of the same people who give poor reviews online and claim they download games because of DRM. If you enjoy this game buy it. If you are stealing time on Stardocks servers and backstabbing consumer friendly companies who release high quality drm free games "you're a world-class jackoff" to quote Thomas Mcdonald from page 10 of the April 09 Max PC issue. Buy the issue. Read the sidebar. Support your hobby.

Posted 02/25/2009 at 11:09:21am

I adjust my sensitivity all the time in TF2. I also adjust it when launching different games. I know that most gaming mice have profiles I could set to remember my sensitivity setting for each game but because I can modify it on the fly I have never had to bother with setting that up or messing with the in game options. My mouse has three different settings and two buttons to switch between them on the fly. I miss it when I play on systems other than my own and it will factor into my future mouse purchases.

Posted 02/24/2009 at 10:46:21am

I know the devs don't feel this way but they basically shipped an unfinished game. The first 20 levels were great! After that I felt I was penalized for playing. You can't give players a great experience and then strip it from them for the remaining 99% of the game. NOTHING seemed fresh to the genre after the first area. After hours of play the "new" combat felt exactly like WoWs and every other mmo. The game wasn't stable. The voice overs disappeared. It just got harder and harder to get a group or a guild. And why would you require people to invest so much time in a game just to begin crafting? Especially when the crafting system offered very little reward for the individual and was really only meant to contribute to a guild. Anyone who installs the game now will have a full day of patching just to start and I hope you have 25-30 gigs of hard drive space for this monster. Sorry Funcom. I wanted you to give you my $15/mo.

Posted 02/20/2009 at 10:22:19am

This would probably have the opposite effect. You would need to appeal to peoples sense of altruism rather than reward them. I am sure that the designer would limit how often you would be rewarded with in game gold or items similar to the way WoW will limit certain holiday buffs or how often spells can be activated. If not you have people turning lights on and off just to get gold. So lets say you can only get gold once every hour for turning off the lights. /turnofflights /turnonlights wait 1 hour repeat. Bottom line is that WoW or anything else we can type into an mmo isn't going to save the planet. Incorporating the real world into the game would probably make the RP servers blow up lol. It would be nice to be able to /pee or /poo and know I am good for another couple hours of play time though.

Posted 02/11/2009 at 11:48:13am

I could see this selling if it were delivered by scantily clad atractive people. Otherwise this is just for students who are obviously not going to read the book and are too lazy to put in a couple hours watching the movie. You could probably pay another student $10 to wirte the paper for you.

If anything I would buy a kindle 2.0 and have it read the book to me. At least you get the entire edition that way. Being an avid reader of actual physical books I'm probably not in HaperCollin's target demographic so what do I know?

Posted 01/27/2009 at 01:13:53pm

I know that more PC Games on retail store shelves is generally a good thing but some of these stores don't even stock PC Games but will offer to order them for you if when you inquire about one. Sometimes they only sell presale pc games and one of my local gamestops really only stocks PC Games that are guaranteed movers like the Sims and WoW. There isn't much of a used PC Games market so they don't bother.

Posted 01/27/2009 at 01:02:32pm

My Circuit city was still selling most of the PC games for $50 long after others marked them down to $30. The Orange Box was $50 in December when it was $30 or cheaper everywhere else. If it isn't in thier weekly add it isn't going to be worth going in. I went in last year when they had WoW time cards for $20 vs the normal $30 and the clerk(teenager with a nametag) told me "Uh I don't know I guess they are all gone. That's wierd we usually have a couple right here." I don't think he was aware of the sale or how to offer a rain check. Unless I have to visit other shops in the area I won't be making a special trip to CC. I am sorry for all the people at the bottom of the pyramid who are losing thier jobs because a few greedies at the top couldn't do thier job right. The worst part is they are the ones who can afford to take time off before they are offered 6 figure jobs running other corps into the ground.