But why would Iran want to spy on the world, what is worth spying on say The Philippians, Cuba, countries that are not on Iran's shit list basically.

Iran was (and is) spying on its citizens, just like most countries in various ways.

Those news made it sound like it is some kind of extra secret 007 super spying technology that was sold to Iran (which Iran then used "against" its own citizens), while it was just common mobile technology that is used by all the other modern mobile networks all over the world as well. And yep, the purpose of that technology is indeed to help tracking mobile network users, for various purposes.

Another interesting read here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=61470097&postcount=2641

Also, lol: http://i.imgur.com/ihxkwpa.png

Not that it helps much. I remember a case - though not what it was about and where it was, but that's irrelevant - where a guy commited a crime, and even though he used a prepaid phone, they could still track him down: Look up at which shop and time the phone was sold, and then simply check the security tapes for the guy.

That just means he was being sloppy when he bought the phone (or then he hadn't even planned to buy it in order to commit a crime). He could have bought a second-hand phone, or used funny fake moustache when buying the phone from the shop with cash, etc.

The police here is already complaining that prepaid SIMs make it pretty much impossible to catch the criminals by tracking their call records and whatnot.

It is the retarded and full of crap 12-year-old statements like this one the reason that many developers don't take you seriously. When you, as in, the entitled gaming community of today, decide to grow up, perhaps then developers will consider your suggestions. Until then, you're free to rage as much as you want, and consoles / DRM / whatever will keep on selling. :)
Don't worry, gamers are like this all the time. :) After some time, they will "cave-in" as they like to call it, and literally beg (as we have seen, related to Steam, with Half Life EP3 / 3) to give the sellers money to play their games.

I don't understand how fanboy can be thrown around, yet as soon as the word elitist gets mentioned, people get pissed.
PC Gamers still realize they're still a minority, right?

How do you figure? 77 million Xbox 360's were sold. How do you know how many PC gamers there are? As I said above, Steam has shown over 4 million logged in at one time. That doesn't even remotely tell how many actual users they have. Then add on GG, Desura, Origin, GOG, Humble Bundle, Amazon, and many others... Don't forget gamers that buy direct.

If you have some solid numbers that aren't theory, opinion, hearsay, or people you know... I'd love to see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyT8cwwUomA

Oh, come on.

One, that's ignoring the fact that many gamers use both a PC and consoles, so millions of Steam users or WoW suscribers are also, and often primarily, console gamers.
Two, you can easily get an estimate of the number of PC versus console gamers by looking at sales estimates for popular multiplatform games. Considering the fact that sales figures are always much higher for consoles on those games, and the fact that many publishers have repeatedly said they didn't care about the PC market, it's reasonable to assume the console market is much bigger.


The fact is that consoles have always been a much bigger market than the PC, and they still are today unless you count all those people who play an occasional game on Facebook as PC gamers.
Saying otherwise is either naive or irrational. And that's coming from someone whose main gaming platform has always been a PC (well, an Atari early on), and has pretty much given up on console gaming this gen.


As for what DRM the next gen consoles come with, I won't care in the least until those consoles actually have quite a few games I'm interested in that I can't buy on the PC. This never happened when it comes to either the Xbox 360 or the PS 3, let alone the Wii, so I doubt it'll happen for next gen ones either.

Simply put, the reason I don't buy consoles any more (except for portable ones) is that the jRPGs, survival horror and a few other genres that made me buy consoles have pretty much disappeared on the western market.

Until the big Japanese publishers and devs get their heads out of their asses and start making good console games again, I won't be interested in consoles, whatever DRM they may have. It's as simple as that.

Yet console sales for games are typically higher, why?

I saw these links on NeoGaf today talking about the Xbox One compared to Steam. Sometime in the last few months Valve "fixed" offline mode so it expires after two weeks.

http://forums.steamgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3129570
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/828937979095845728/

For now it seems if you are willing to mess with the clientregistry.blob file and keep rolling back the date on your PC when steam loads you can trick it into not erasing your login info and forcing a reconnect.

The worst is clearly Call of Doodie.

Well that's sneaky of them. Not at all happy to hear that.

One of the fun things about Steam is everyone says it's okay based on how it functions today, but they can change stuff at any time. Once the XBONE comes out and is accepted (which is likely) Steam could do the same 24 hour thing, or they could start requiring internet to launch a game, or any other number of things.

They have full power to change the DRM, cancel your account and fuck your wife. It's all in the EULA. Well maybe no the wife fucking bit.

On the PC you still have the option to easily download a crack for most games, and then Steam and any unreasonable DRM they choose to use can go fuck themselves.
You can't do that on a console, or at least nowhere near as easily.