Yes please
Yes please
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
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When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Woohoo!purdy, thanks
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
There has been a lot of buzz online these last few days about Diablo III session spoofing. Seems to be a good bit of evidence of public games being used to hijack and/or clean out accounts. Its to the point that both Blizzard's and Diablo III's facebook pages put up warnings that they care about security, so now is a great time to send them more money for a D3 authenticator. Which were then flooded with comments about people having authenticators and still getting jacked.
So yeah, Ill be staying away from public games for a while.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Steam doing a Paradox sale it seems. They've got the King Arthur collection listed for 75% off - has anyone ever played that? It looks interesting, I'm tempted to get it but not sure.
Last edited by RandBlade; 06-07-2012 at 08:25 PM.
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Just started Batman Arkham Asylum. The fighting in it is fantastic.
How do you expect to run with the wolves at night when you spend all day sparring with the puppies?
- Omar Little
Finally tiring of SWToR, so on the lookout for something else ...
Anyone tried Tera? Hadn't heard of it before today. MMORPG. Getting good reviews. The combat is supposed to be its best element.
May take a look at it. Only problem: My current internet connection is only a measly 3 Mbit.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Taken the plunge and am downloading. 2 hours to go
Me as well. 20 hours to go
I miss my Gigabit connection
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Ouch 20 hours. Ah well, should be done by the time you get back from work tmw.
Neal Stephenson is trying to drum up support for a good sword fighting game. It looks like it could be quite the thing:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang
There's a man goin' 'round, takin' names
And he decides who to free and who to blame
Okay .. played a few levels of a few different classes.
It's looking really really good.
If a little different.
Combat is superb, the entire system just works so well, so intuitively.
Game world is wonderfully realised, a pleasure to behold.
You can tell it was Korean designed though. A couple of the races are ... well ...
Here's the Elin:
~
And here's the Popori ...
~
The rest of the races are a little more ... normal ... in a fantasy-world sense ...
you forgot the best example:
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
magickle armour, duh
Can't play Diablo this morning because Blizzard wants to do maintaince. The game of course doesn't tell me this, instead it tells me there is a patch, and the game tries to restart to install said patch, only to fall into a loop of "game already running".
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
Weird. I finally started playing Diablo over the weekend, and it told me all yesterday they would be doing maintenance this morning. And on the forums.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
I don't use their forums, and I only played once over the weekend. Launcher didn't tell me anything. Didn't figure out that the game was throwing up the wrong errors until I went digging around for a standalone patch (which blizzard no longer provides) and ended up on the forums with people bitching about the fake gold exploit and down time.
Last edited by Ominous Gamer; 06-12-2012 at 04:34 PM.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
My games log-on screen (in-game, not launcher) currently warns about down-time for 1 hour for an update tomorrow, although I highly doubt I'll be playing between 5-6am tomorrow.
I just don't understand why they can't let you play offline and just require a connection when you actually want to use the auction house.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Piracy.
Parts of D3 contain the same errors/bugs that WoW does, makes me wonder how much of the game's backbone is borrowed.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
No, auction house cheating. Unless no-one employed by Blizzard has heard of Assassin's Creed I suppose
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
What's so funny? I've not heard of people successfully pirating Diablo III, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
If Blizzard succeed in defeating piracy with this, then expect it to become the future of DRM.
He's laughing partly because Diablo 3 isn't exactly the first game to have a system like this and those previous games have fallen to piracy.
Trying to defeat piracy with this sort of scheme also seems to come at a cost
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Blizzard has made it clear several times that they aren't concerned with piracy at this point. They believe that their online services provide a large enough incentive that if someone was willing to buy the game, they would (cause piracy may not equal lost sales). SC2 still has an offline mode, even though that game is largely online at this point.
Diablo 3's online mode is there soley to give Blizzard as much control over the game as possible. Sure, being online may help stop piracy, but it also gives Blizzard 24/7 access to cancel exploits, bugs, and glitches (which they have done several times already). It stops people from being able to run 3rd party mods, which is very popular with D2. Every inch of security built into D3 is there to protect the RMAH, and that cash flow. Hell, they even did a question and answer session where they admitted in game drops are tied to the RMAH.
I highly doubt it, GuildWars is also online only, and that is largely played in SP mode.
That game is 7 years old.
There are simply some games that are built from the ground up to require an internet connection, thats hardly a form of DRM, thats a core concept of the game.
When an online connection is used solely as DRM its defeated easily enough, as we've seen most recently with Assassin's Creed.
Last edited by Ominous Gamer; 06-12-2012 at 07:33 PM.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
I don't understand or like it either. I much prefer it when games only connect online when you tell them too. Also when I don't need to run 3rd-party programs *like Steam* to access them.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
Say, did you actually hear of a company called "Ubisoft" and their experiences with this kind of stuff?
But, sure, whenever Blizzard does something, it's the first time ever that someone has done that. Sort of like Apple - introducing groundbreaking features which have been on the markt for several years (How long did it take them to add "Copy and Paste" to the iPhone?)
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
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