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Posted August 20, 2010
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Navagon: I'd take that as a compliment. As the rest of us they clearly regard as mugs.

I never did get a reply to my question about that from D2D. For some reason if I try and buy an Ubisoft game from the UK store it says I need to buy it from the EU store but if I go there Ireland is not a part of the EU apparently. This was a good Ubisoft game sans the UbiDRM. I wouldn't buy any of that muck.
Posted August 20, 2010
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Delixe: I never did get a reply to my question about that from D2D. For some reason if I try and buy an Ubisoft game from the UK store it says I need to buy it from the EU store but if I go there Ireland is not a part of the EU apparently. This was a good Ubisoft game sans the UbiDRM. I wouldn't buy any of that muck.

That's hardly unique. D2D don't like the idea of anyone buying games through them and will thwart any such attempt at every turn.
Posted August 20, 2010
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Navagon: That's hardly unique. D2D don't like the idea of anyone buying games through them and will thwart any such attempt at every turn.

TBH thats the first trouble I have ever had with D2D so either it's an oversight on their part or it's Ubisoft being stupid. I favour the latter guess. Just bought the Doctor Who games from there in fact.
Posted August 20, 2010
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Delixe: TBH thats the first trouble I have ever had with D2D so either it's an oversight on their part or it's Ubisoft being stupid. I favour the latter guess. Just bought the Doctor Who games from there in fact.

Either that or D2D cottoned on to your game buying antics and put a stop to it. But yes, Ubisoft being stupid is such an obvious and well founded explanation it's hard to believe that the alternatives are at all likely.
Posted August 21, 2010
Bloody 2K/Valve have regionally restricted Mafia 2 in Japan. So guess I won't be buying it after all.

Ah yes, good old Japan. The region that has the LEAST amount of games available on Steam =(
And people wonder why I fucking hate SteamWorks games.
Posted August 22, 2010
I hardly resist to buy the two L4D games and Killing Floor.
Posted August 22, 2010
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lackoo1111: I hardly resist to buy the two L4D games and Killing Floor.

Don't bother with L4D 1, it's been basically rendered redundant with L4D 2, and I hear that the L4D 1's DLC pack will appear on L4D 2, with a copy of one of the campaigns from L4D 1 thrown in.
Posted August 22, 2010
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lackoo1111: I hardly resist to buy the two L4D games and Killing Floor.
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DelusionsBeta: Don't bother with L4D 1, it's been basically rendered redundant with L4D 2, and I hear that the L4D 1's DLC pack will appear on L4D 2, with a copy of one of the campaigns from L4D 1 thrown in.

L4D > L4D2.
Get both. :)
Posted August 23, 2010
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KavazovAngel: L4D > L4D2.
Get both. :)

Agreed... the tone and mood of the original is better and the character MUCH better. On top of that I find melee weapons and the new special infected to be more annoying than good additions.
I much prefer the original game.
Posted August 23, 2010
fuck the hungarian currency
Posted August 23, 2010
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lackoo1111: fuck the hungarian currency

Damn that's low! Only 89 Vietnamese dong for 1 forint.
Posted August 23, 2010
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Miaghstir: Damn that's low! Only 89 Vietnamese dong for 1 forint.
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Posted August 28, 2010
bashing Impulse again
"wide selection"
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Posted September 02, 2010
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StingingVelvet: Yeah. Kane & Lynch 2, Civ5, Mafia 2 and Fallout: New Vegas all announced Steam being forced as a DRM like they were doing everyone a favor. It's getting to be that every game is Steamworks now.
Someday every PC game will be a Steam game, like it is its own platform, and then where will we be? A single company controls the platform, just like the consoles. And people eat it up... it's no surprise, they eat up the consoles too for the same reasons. Convenience, ease of use, simplicity, cheap... that is what people want. It's why DVD audio failed and MP3 is taking over, it's why consoles won and PC lost, it's why eventually movie download services and streaming will win and blu-ray will taper off.
It sucks, but I guess we just have to get used to it. Not sure what else there is to do... I'm not skipping Mafia 2 and New Vegas, those are the two games I am most looking forward to for the next year or more. Steam works, it is functional... what can I do?
Keep speaking up, I guess.

Well, I hate Steam, but not because of the concept of anti-piracy. I'm pretty sure that one of the reasons the PC game market went soft is because of rampant piracy. Who is to blame? The thieves, or an industry finally being defensive?
It's the vibe I hate. Steam is both arrogant and paranoid. Unfriendly is putting it mildly when it comes to that company.
I got Mafia One from Gamers Gate in August of 2010, DRM free.
But, yeah. Soon, very soon, the Wild West days will be gone forever. Everything will be monitored and controlled, and the products are going to really suck. Eat your Soylent Green and be happy you're not starving
I have to disagree about the person who said consoles and console games
succeeded because of cheapness.....at my local Best Buy, Xbox discs sell for something like FIFTY bucks. All the consoles are wildly overpriced, too. At least Wii gives you those interactive wands, something innovative.
Posted September 02, 2010
A surprising amount of anti-GOG users have emerged on these forums. While it's a refreshing change from the STEAM IS PURE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL (and Stardock is too) threads and posts (like the one above), it's concerning that a backlash that's not based on the abandonware sites is forming.
It's all about quality of service, I guess. It seems that all of the digital distribution services have some degree of backlash, but Steam's backlash is insignificant compared to the people who approves of it, hence their lead. GfWL is an example where the backlash is arguably larger than its support base, hence why its withering on the vine. Impulse's backlash is generally the anti-Stardock brigade, while Gamersgate has complaints over DRM and Direct2drive has a reputation of not working.
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