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Post by pickleweries on Mar 12, 2012 22:17:11 GMT -7
Um, I don't know if people are still posting about the games they play, but I for one would like to. Here are the games I play, if I were to be playing any games at all: Sims 3 Computer CoD Black Ops on the Xbox Minecraft Computer and that's about it. In my spare time I like to pop myself on the computer and build stuff, besides shooting zombies with my friends - LOL. PS: I am new to this site as you may have noticed , and enjoy it very well! - Pi.
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Post by CoconutCurry on Mar 14, 2012 11:17:05 GMT -7
We come back to this thread every so often I need to get Sims 3 working again. >.< I micromanage my dudes, and corrupted my save. I've been too lazy to install the patch.
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Post by shadowscall on Mar 15, 2012 23:56:40 GMT -7
I have never played any of the Sims games, always wanted to just never got around to it. Lately, an asteroid hit my social life and killed it, that asteroid was called Mass Effect 3:) Beat it once already, working on my second play-through:).
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Post by Vega Sera on Mar 16, 2012 0:26:45 GMT -7
A large group of my friends are boycotting Mass effect 3 because of bad business practices... Such as the day one DLC that was actually developed prior to certification and was only changed to be DLC so they could monetize it. Not to mention that it's a Prothean, a race so central to the mass effect lore, and they just add it in as DLC... It's almost sickening really.
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Post by Victorian Rat on Mar 16, 2012 15:43:03 GMT -7
Personally i have never played any of the mass effects games, they never really appealed to me. Right now im playing Fallout 3 & new Vegas, i beat Fallout 3 the other day with a good rep now im going evil and i have all the expansions to it. I like the Sims 3 games, i have Ambitions and late night and i have about 95% of all the sims 2 games as well.
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Post by Vega Sera on Mar 17, 2012 10:57:08 GMT -7
Bioware generally does pretty well with their games, Bethesda too.
The greatest thing about bethesda games is that almost all of them come with modding tools. Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, All of the Fallout games, none of them would be as successful as they are now if they didn't ship with modding tools.
<3 Bethesda
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Post by CoconutCurry on Mar 18, 2012 13:57:07 GMT -7
Bioware got bought out by EA. The "DLC" just changes one value. You can do it in a text file. My bf pirated it because of the bad business practices and that whole brouhaha. He'd bought the previous two games, and put so many hours into them that he felt he needed to finish the story, but he cannot give money to a company that has ridiculous DRM (which is what Origin really is) and same-day DLC.
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Post by Vega Sera on Mar 20, 2012 1:36:49 GMT -7
Ehhh... I should be the last person to speak against piracy like this, I've pirated plenty of things in the past, but I think pirating the game is the wrong thing to do against bad business practices. It's essentially saying "I'm so appalled with your business practices that I will refuse to play this game, and I will suggest to others that they do not play it as well" vs "I'm so appalled with your business practices that I'm going to pirate the game, so I can have my cake and eat it too."
Boycotts hurt the company because it's income lost from the initial source and further lost from the word of mouth, people who also sign on to the boycott.
However pirates dont hurt the company as much, since in some situations they give free publicity for the game. I've personally pirated a game and spread the word about it to my friends, leading them to buy the game. (Which is all I can really do to feel good about myself in that case)
Although yeah, you can spread the word about how bad the ending is and you can spread the word about the day one DLC, etc, nothing really sends a more effective message to the publishers than a boycott. "I disagree with your practices so much that I will refuse to play your game at all"
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Post by shadowscall on Mar 20, 2012 2:11:35 GMT -7
Well to be honest, I don't know enough about EA and Bioware and all that stuff to judge the DLC hoopla, also I got the collector's edition which had it included so I didn't notice it. But I have to admit even if I had to buy it, I would have because I love the Mass Effect universe ALMOST as much as Star Wars, not quite though:) Since I practically throw my money at any thing Star Wars related, I do the same thing for Mass Effect. Also, I got the game for Xbox so I don't worry about Origin and all that crap. Yes, I do think the ending could have been better, but since I am an amateur writer, (working on publishing my first book), I will just write a new ending and then just shut the Xbox off when I beat the game and not watch the ending:) The last 5 minutes being kind of suckish should not ruin the game itself which is AWESOME!
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Post by Vega Sera on Mar 20, 2012 9:37:59 GMT -7
Really the only thing I could compare it to is if Bethesda released a DLC on day one for Elder Scrolls VI for $10 that was the return of the Dwemer. (which is you know anything about elder scrolls lore, they all simultaneously and mysteriously disappeared millenia ago. There's been several lore centric things based around them)
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Post by CoconutCurry on Mar 20, 2012 14:28:44 GMT -7
The problem is not so much what it is, but that it was finished before the game came out, and only changes one line of code from "false" to "true." The point of DLC is to ADD to a finished game, not to uncripple one that already has the code.
Reminds me of Burnout Paradise. It wasn't actually same-day dlc... but if you updated your game, it suddenly had a user-unfriendly menu that made you go through a bunch of ads, all the billbords around town had ads on them, and it downloaded all the dlc. You couldn't use any of it, but it was taking up hard drive space. You couldn't delete it either, without screwing up the game.
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Post by Vega Sera on Mar 21, 2012 1:23:05 GMT -7
Well, there are examples of day one DLC that are acceptable. During the end of development, the art team essentially has next to nothing to do. So they sometimes spend that time creating reskins and retextures of various models in game already, and release that as a cosmetic DLC.
THAT is perfectly acceptable in my opinion. But a prothean....
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Post by shadowscall on Mar 21, 2012 12:40:16 GMT -7
I do kind of agree that the DLC stuff could have been handled better and the ending could have been done better. However, speaking of the ending, based on what Bioware has said, they might make better endings and put it as free DLC. Now, that is just a rumor and it would take a lot of work to do that but I would support the move.
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Post by CoconutCurry on Mar 21, 2012 12:45:02 GMT -7
Yeah. Retextures are one thing. They change nothing about the game itself.
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Post by exelbirth on Apr 17, 2012 0:52:19 GMT -7
Hey everyone, I'm back! Been a long time since I've checked this mod out. How's everyone doing?
I know I'm a bit late on this conversation, but I want to put in my 2 cents. I don't have too many issues with day one DLC, unless it is already on the disk. That's data we already paid for. It'd be like buying a car with all the basic features in it, but the radio was locked in a steel box and you had to buy a special key separate to unlock it.
Also, if the content of the DLC is a critical to the game's lore, it shouldn't be secondary "doesn't matter" DLC.
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