Replies to puzzlemint, page 11
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@puzzlemint It's worth pointing out, I think, that the "Aggressively pushing used over new" thing is MUCH less prevalent in Europe, where we (me and @leonkfox) both are.
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@puzzlemint That isn't physical distributions' fault. I can see a preference for digital with that being the case, but you seem to have a "It should all be digital" vibe going on ,based on some previous posts. I don't believe it should all be physical if some people have issues with physical, but by the same token the people who insist "It's DA FUTARRE!!!" don't consider the fact that digital is far from perfect.
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@puzzlemint Heh, so we're opposites in that regard then. I live near a bunch of towns and I own my own car, so going and purchasing stuff is a nonissue for me. On the other hand, watching steam redownload the Source engine for the Nth time at 10kbps is.
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@puzzlemint Go to an actual store, where delivery times aren't an issue.
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@puzzlemint I'm not saying I won't buy digital. I don't have a blanket policy on the matter. I buy whatever is most attractive to me as a consumer at the time. If a physical copy has some godawful DRM on it, then I might well get a digital copy and wait a week for the download, but in general, "Being able to play a game as soon as I actually buy it" tends to trump even pricing concerns.
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@puzzlemint @leonkfox I favour physical distribution of games because in 10 years time, when the DRM servers have gone into the long night, I might still want to return to them. I still play PS1, N64 titles, and Old PC games today. I, however, only buy new from stores anyway. My internet speed isn't sufficient for digital to be a viable option (Unless you want to wait a week between paying for your game and playing it, anyway).
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@puzzlemint as my career choice is a video game developer I wholly support your message. I also have to agree with your statement on the way of games. Personally I have pirated, but that is only to check the first level, level and a half of the game if its good I go spend my money and I have played maybe two games completely through on pirated, but I have purchased a hard copy anyway to support the company behind the game
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@puzzlemint There's wanting to support developers, and then there's wanting them to have a monopoly, going all digital does the latter. Plus we'll see a lot of jobs lost and we already have a big enough problem with unemployment as it is. I'm sorry but to me, digital distrubution is a rip off that saves developers money and when sold at full price screws over the consumer, paying the amount of money that would cover the middle man, manufactuering costs etc for a non existant copy of the game. If the industry ever goes all digital I'll just focus on collecting older systems ,games etc and experieincing those, I refuse to buy into this.
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@puzzlemint I certanily feel like I have a lot more ownership of the game with a physical copy than just a download. Plus I like to collect games, let other family members play them on another version of the same system, lend them to friends....digital distrubution takes all of that freedom and totally obliterates it. Only I really own that game ,with digital people have to have an account of their own and buy the games themselves ,and the risk of losing your account ,being hacked etc and therefore losing all of your games. Digital distribution to me is an absolute joke, people blindly pay full price for the games just for the convenience, not considering the lack of a middle man or manufactuering costs, even Steam has been guilty of this before.
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@puzzlemint Wow that seems kind of early
Saturday, 03-Sep-11 00:02:31 UTC from web -
@puzzlemint cheers! see you friday.
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@puzzlemint Well I hope you can get a ride home then, I'm sure someone can help you out. Ponyfolk are friendly. Where you going to school at? I'm going back to U of C in Sept, even though I just finished my undergrad. Woohoo old >_<
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@puzzlemint i know where country hills is. i could give you a lift home. i have to take my brother out to airdrie so it will be on my way. i plan on leaving the bbq between 9:30 to 10 at the lateset. is that ok with you?
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@puzzlemint Where are you coming from in order to get to the BBQ? I don't drive but the best I could offer is that if you meet me in Dalhousie we could split a cab. But there are some generous driving bronies in the group so I'm sure you can get help either way!
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@puzzlemint hey what part of the city do you live in? i have the day off and i am offering rides to the bbq so i may be able to give you a lift. i am already giving yodelerty a ride.
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@puzzlemint Welcome to !calgary, where stuff breaks all the time. Sorry to hear about your stuff though. Hopefully you can get it fixed up without a terribly huge cost. As for why Sweetie Belle is related to Pinkie Pie? Hmm, I'm just gonna hafta go with "Because magic." for this one. @darcyblue Didn't know you worked that late, that does explain everything. I know you're not actually ignoring me, it was an attempt as an over-exaggeration joke, which apparently did not work. My jokes tend to fall flat fairly often. This is one of them.
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@puzzlemint Don't tell anyone, but I actually beat Riven befor I beat Myst. -P
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@puzzlemint cuz i never got around to doing it :P !calgarybronies
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@puzzlemint well I saw that when I did google image search. you don't want to know what I saw with the video search
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@puzzlemint Really? When I share location, it's right on top of my apartment.
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@puzzlemint do you play Terraria? when I googled your coordinates, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th images were Rainbow Dash, the 4th being from Terraria.
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@puzzlemint why you going to calgary?
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@johnmcdowell !calgarybronies @puzzlemint dont worry guys there are atleast three different youtube ponies that will post vids within a week of airing. i will also be getting the best quality vids of each episode that comes out and will be showing them at every meeting as soon as the show starts again.
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!calgarybronies @puzzlemint I'm putting my faith in the internet. Sombody is going to put it up. Also we do have treehouse and I think its on that channel too but idk if they would release it there at the same time anyways. (This !calgarybronies this is going to drive me crazy)
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@puzzlemint I'm putting my faith in the internet. Sombody is going to put it up. Also we do have treehouse and I think its on that channel too but idk if they would release it there at the same time anyways.
Monday, 22-Aug-11 02:59:32 UTC from web -
@puzzlemint Give it two days and it will be all over Youtube.
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@puzzlemint Valve... I only got like 10 games....
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@puzzlemint over 200 games? Jaw Drop
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@puzzlemint ooh whats your steam name?
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@puzzlemint That sucks. G4's pretty prolific where I am. Still, I had to search five stores to find Cheerilee, and there was no Lily Blossom anywhere.
