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wazzup everyone
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 18:38:16 UTC from web-
@blues4th listening to music, how about you?
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 18:40:13 UTC from web-
@archon using my bran new laptop
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 18:43:25 UTC from web-
@blues4th What is in a laptop ? How do you plan to use your newly aquired piece of hardware ? Gaming on the road one like me would hope :D
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 18:44:07 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker umm... yeah i got it for school, gaming, and my artwork
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 18:45:26 UTC from web-
@blues4th Yay, honourable stuff :)
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 18:46:32 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker yup, one of the things i worked on is my icon
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 18:48:53 UTC from web
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@blues4th I am pretty much contemplating my life as a computer gamer. It looks... Fun, yet I do not think all of it is good in a sense
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 18:43:35 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker what do you mean by not all of it is good in a sense?
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 18:52:44 UTC from web-
@archon Fracturization of the PC gaming market. We are "used" in a sense to buy digital properties as it comes to games, and no doubt almost everyone has Steam installed with a couple of games on it. But You can not get any of the Valve games outside of Steam nowadays, And neither can you get any EA games outside of Origin. Although there is a possibility that you can get EA games on Uplay in the near future... Meanwhile EA is looking to make Simcity and Command&Conquer more like service platforms than actual games. Having your assets ( as in, things that cost money ) spread out over multiple instances of online digital content subscribers... I can see that as a bad thing.
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 18:56:34 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker ah, yes I certainly agree. But that isn't really just on pc, one could argue that this is the same as play station exclusive games, and game companies "selling out" in a sense to whatever company pays them more fore there exclusives. I still think that it would be amazing if companies like ea made their games steam compatible so that steam could become like an xbox live in a sense
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 19:01:46 UTC from web-
@archon lots of typos that I feel the need to correct.... for* their* and remove the an before "xbox live"
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 19:03:01 UTC from web -
@archon Now I know the reason why I like PC gaming more than console gaming, you pretty much have way more ground to cover with a PC, What do you mean you played all the games there are on Steam ? Well you can always go to GoG or Origin or Uplay. Whereas with a console, once you are out of specific brand wearing silvery disks you could shove into your machine you are pretty much out of luck, But at least you can play DVD's/Blue-rays on the machine as it looks fancy underneath your TV. Oh wait computers can do that too (he said in a Yahtzee like inner monologue mocking voice).You see I really do not dislike Consoles all that much, but the mere idea that I can no longer play my PS2 games on a newly bought PS3, or my PS3 games on my newly bought PS4 because it no longer has the cell-processor integrated with the device kinda churns (sure you can probably cloudgamestream it to you but that is besides the point right now). Point is, I really dislike to loze my games one daddy gets a new toy
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 19:09:40 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker Yup, that's the exact reason I switched to pc. I had spent ny entire gaming life switching from NES to snes to N64 to etc
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 19:12:24 UTC from web-
@archon man, I suck at using this site on my phone, I didn't mean to send that yet. You can get almost every game that's on the newest consoles on a pc, and when a new console comes out, you'll still be able to get all the non-exclusive games that comeout on it on a pc. And the fact thay you can emulate games from older consoles makes it kind of pointless to go with a console unless you really love the exclusives
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 19:16:41 UTC from web -
@archon NES, N64, and a PS2 somewhere along the road, and argueably the Commadore 64, but you could do your whole financing system on a 2 colour commadore screen if you were really that big of a nerd so I do not really count that one as a console. Now the point I was trying to get at but blatantly forgot as I went on an all out ranting spree about having to buy your games again. We were promised by Valve that if they ever go belly-up we keep the games. How they intent to do that would be anyones guess, and my guess is that Gaben does not even know this as of yet because the man is surely somewhere on the road to become equal Bill Gate's size and posture if they would all go stand on their enormous pile of cash in a Scrooge McDuck kinda fashion. But how do you think EA is going to handle this ? What when EA goes belly-up we lose all our games because we did not own them as materialistic property ? Oh and by the way we also lost the IP to our screenname because someone bought it up ?
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 19:17:51 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker well, alot of games on steam come with cd keys. you're essentially buying the cd key to unlock the program, so if they make a way to allow you to send in your cd key and you get a permanent copy of the game. And I'm not sure about EA, I'm not a big fan of them and I'm sure they'd screw over their customers some how when they go belly up in an effort to grab as much money as they can
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 19:22:41 UTC from web-
@archon This would be the exact reason why I am probably going to have a deep inner struggle as soon as Battlefield 4 comes out. Or worse yet some SciFi kinda Battlefield like 2142 which I loved so much there was a time in history where I went to bed before the weekend, and pretty much played that game for 48 hours straight, only to have 2 hours before work on a monday. Guess what, after work I went at it almost immediatly again. Yet nowadays I strongly oppose giving EA any money for any game. Seen as how horribly they butchered the franchise with BF3. "What do you mean the mortar is killing you ? Well we'll just have to remove the killingness of the mortar then won't we ? Oh smoke mortars are also bad ? lets just remove them then while we are at it". And that would be just the tip of the iceberg as to why I do not think I can buy another Battlefield. It is a matter of priciple versus what I knew was once a very good title indeed.
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 19:30:36 UTC from web
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@widget I agree, but it seems like something ea would do, something like charging people fees to use origin, or selling people used cd keys that don't work
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 19:30:35 UTC from web -
@widget Also it's a good way to get nailed with a lawsuit of some kind.
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 19:31:22 UTC from web -
@widget I didn't mean after they filed bankruptcy, I meant as they were reaching the point of bankruptcy that I think theyd most likely screw.over their customers in an effort to not go bankrupt.
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 19:35:52 UTC from web -
@widget True, but sometimes that doesn't stop some companies.
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 19:38:24 UTC from web-
@archon The fear of lawsuits that is
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 19:39:00 UTC from web
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@widget Yeah, but I still wouldn't put it past ea to try something shady.
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 19:40:48 UTC from web -
@widget And I don't mean that it has to be something illegal, just something that screws over their customers like charging a monthly fee for origin, or a fee to access their servers etc.
Sunday, 24-Mar-13 19:43:46 UTC from web
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