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VW

Member Since 30 Sep 2004
OFFLINE Last Active May 25 2012 4:21 PM

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In Topic: Two PS3 slim units...dead in two days...ugh

Wed May 23, 2012 3:06 PM

I haven't seen or heard of any problems with the slims but the original models were awful. Myself and three other people I know all had blu ray drives die within 2 years and Sony wanted to charge $150 to fix them. My brother even paid the $150 and had the same problem a year later. Sony's Quality Control has really gone to hell this gen.

In Topic: 5 Reasons 'Diablo III' Represents Gaming's Annoying Future

Wed May 23, 2012 2:59 PM

View Postmister_pal, on Mon May 21, 2012 8:12 PM, said:

Also I have found it odd given that Starcraft 2 has the same not-so-great DRM but the number of DRM complaints this game is getting is exponentially greater compared to the relatively mild reaction Starcraft 2 got.

I have not bought Starcraft 2 and am not buying Diablo III or ME3 due to DRM issues and high price. I don't pay over $20 for any PC game that has DRM/one time use code crap on it, and most of the time I pay just $5 - $10 with Steam sales. Vote with your pocketbook everyone, if they are going to take away your ownership rights and sell you a service instead of ownership of a game, the price should be much lower.

In Topic: EA shutting down more servers

Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:55 AM

View Postonlysublime, on Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:10 PM, said:

View PostVW, on Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:30 AM, said:

Ran into yet another reason to hate EA this weekend. I was at a friend's house and he had just got SSX and wanted to show it to me. EA thoughtfully left out local multiplayer in the game and to play head to head you have to play online (with each person buying their own copy of course). Then when EA shuts down the servers in a couple of years you can't play multiplayer with your game at all!

Are you talking about system link? Yeah, EA does not support system link (LAN play) as they believe it promotes piracy. System link is the reason we can still play Xbox1 titles over the Internet via XBConnect or Xlink Kai. I downloaded every single copy of SSX for Xbox1 (softmodded), praying that it had system link and none had it. Then I read online that EA games don't have system link because of the piracy issue.

I meant something as simple as split screen multiplayer that many games have. I have seen LAN play in a few ps3 titles like GT5 but not very often. That piracy argument is garbage of course, they just want you to have to buy the newest version of their game. Even on PC nobody supports LAN anymore because of the alleged piracy issue. It's really all about control and having an off switch for their game.

In Topic: EA shutting down more servers

Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:30 AM

Ran into yet another reason to hate EA this weekend. I was at a friend's house and he had just got SSX and wanted to show it to me. EA thoughtfully left out local multiplayer in the game and to play head to head you have to play online (with each person buying their own copy of course). Then when EA shuts down the servers in a couple of years you can't play multiplayer with your game at all!

In Topic: Anyone use these trigger extenders?

Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:28 AM

Thanks for the links, now I can get rid of the triggers again!

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