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Monday, 04-Apr-11 23:23:56 UTC from web-
@ponydude Steam is breakable. I play Skyrim unsteamed.
Monday, 23-Jan-12 21:43:26 UTC from web -
@ponydude The reason it's rarely broken is that people look at the alternatives and think "ya know, Steam is pretty cool in comparison. I can live with this. As opposed to THAT (coughUBISOFTcough)
Monday, 23-Jan-12 21:45:36 UTC from web -
@ponydude Unbreakable? Man, I wouldn't even be a gamer if I were forced to use Steam. I play games unsteamed since Half Life 2.
Monday, 23-Jan-12 21:49:35 UTC from web -
@ponydude It could be better in terms of consumer rights. It could be GOG. Is that too much to hope for?
Monday, 23-Jan-12 21:54:18 UTC from web -
@ponydude You have to download them every time you want to reinstall, if you lose your account for any reason the money is wasted, it consumes more resources than playing without it... I could go all day long. Causes problems when modyifing games, and they try to know what you're doing with stuff you bought. I only installed it because cerulean gave me a game through it and it wasn't polite to make him throw his money away.
Monday, 23-Jan-12 21:54:37 UTC from web -
@ponydude Great Old Games, it's a legal pay-and-download site by the company that makes the Witcher games. Some of the areas it outshines Steam is that you can make offline copies that are not connected to your account, and they don't snoop. On the other hand, it doesn't have even a tiny percentage of the games Steam have.
Monday, 23-Jan-12 22:02:35 UTC from web -
@ponydude See that whole "bought a license" thing...that is infringing on my rights right there. I want the same rights to a video game as I have with a board game or RPG.
Monday, 23-Jan-12 22:05:46 UTC from web-
@lilytheamazingfaintingpony Not all publishers enforce the "license-over-ownership" portion of the EULA of games; some do, however, and that's typically because they're heavy on the multiplayer interaction, and they rely on a standing status quo between all players.
Monday, 23-Jan-12 22:08:56 UTC from web-
@chiefanchor There's gotta be a better way to solve that, isn't there?
Monday, 23-Jan-12 22:13:24 UTC from web
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@ponydude That's another problem. I'm not going to open a bank account. I use cash, you can't track cash without spending so much money in it that becomes more of a problem than the original one. License or not, if i pay for something I do whatever I want with it. Like WoW and the server I have on my HDD.
Monday, 23-Jan-12 22:06:02 UTC from web -
@ponydude I'm willing to concede some consumer rights if I et something back. The big one is how long it takes before something is public domain. Laws should be updated to reflect that we consume things faster, all intellectual properties should land in the public domain within twenty years of creation. If I got that, I would be okay with this. Make it ten, and I 'd be willing to roll over and bark like a dog at the yearly RIAA conference.
Monday, 23-Jan-12 22:17:01 UTC from web -
@ponydude Only in USA. You actually had some pretty decent copyright laws to begin with, shame they've been so diluted.
Monday, 23-Jan-12 22:21:51 UTC from web -
@ponydude Okay, that one is new to me. Auto-copyright?
Monday, 23-Jan-12 22:22:59 UTC from web -
@ponydude Yeah, I don't upload stuff, only seed what I already downloaded. also, about the resources, when you have a top tier PC it doesn't matter, but when you're tyring to play in a slightly outdated PC, you waçnt to close everyting that isn't useful. And that's one of those programs.
Monday, 23-Jan-12 23:39:27 UTC from web
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