RootBeerGuy

RootBeerGuy, 3 months ago

Uh no, this was annoying but none of the companies involved deny care for sick people which increases their chance to die.

RootBeerGuy, 3 months ago

I think this is a very important point. Why would you talk to a registrar of the domain to get a specific page offline. This doesn’t make sense.

RootBeerGuy, 3 months ago

Daaang, blast of the past, totally forgot about this one!

RootBeerGuy, 3 months ago

Excuse me, what? And have good games actually survive over decades if people are interested in them? Surely not!

RootBeerGuy, 3 months ago

I will not pay 15-ish bucks for decade old games that I already purchased long time ago at release. Also not with another buck discount off. Definitely not since they are Blizzard games and these days that studio is not worth supporting anymore.

Good initiative from GOG, but this feels like wasted money to me. Warcraft 1 is definitely a hard sell because of how terrible playing it will feel. Or did they change that in the Remaster? You used to be able to only control one unit at a time. In Warcraft 2 they upped it to 9 units? Or am I off and it was 9 units in 1 and already more in 2?

RootBeerGuy, 3 months ago

Yeah, I said I will not. I didn’t say no one should. I think it is great that GOG preserves them but the price is still to high for something from a scumbag company.

How does it work with the money GOG is charging, does Blizzard see anything of that? If not, then nice, makes it more worth to me to pay so GOG gets more funding.

If Blizzard does get a cut then GOG should give a rather hefty discount as a final “fuck you” to Blizzard. Because that’s all they deserve.

RootBeerGuy, 5 months ago

This has been posted a million times already, but I am still going to repeat it. Yes you are right, in their own legal docs they also only talk about licenses.

Difference for the consumer however is that you get the installation files which are supposed to work offline. Meaning if you take care to store that, it will not be gone ever, no matter if GOG goes down. With Steam this gets more complicated and may only work for some games.

RootBeerGuy, 5 months ago

You didn’t fuck up. You can always still pirate. Wait it out and see what happens, the moment it goes to shit put on your pirate hat and don’t give a fuck.

RootBeerGuy, 5 months ago

… but for some reason I liked it.

I am guessing there were two reasons.

RootBeerGuy, 7 months ago

Especially NOT League of Legends.

RootBeerGuy, 7 months ago

Yeah, however before Warcraft there was Dune II. But I am not sure which one was more popular at the time and I think Dune II came way before Warcraft.

I think why Dune II is more notable though is that the first Dune game was more of an adventure style came, not a strategy game. Then they changed the game with its successor and introduced the asymmetrical factions that each had a few unique units with differing strategies.

Warcraft took that concept further of course. But even there its rather Warcraft II that really had a big breakthrough.

RootBeerGuy, 7 months ago

Absolutely, we didn’t even have any special graphics cards at the time for 3D, I believe? I remember that started some time around Quake 2 but I am not sure, I might remember wrong.

RootBeerGuy, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Third person view in an FPS (first person shooter) type of game was first seen in the first Lara Croft game, I think?

RootBeerGuy, 7 months ago

Then you will need to extend that to the OP of this comment chain as they didn’t specify either what Gears of War is. I am going to edit my comment to clarify but I do feel you are too pendantic for asking this.

RootBeerGuy, 7 months ago

Warcraft came a year before Command & Conquer and improved on many concepts that Dune II introduced.

RootBeerGuy, 8 months ago

Because other articles cite about 350 (heh, inb4 three-fiddy) for the whole of Valve. This is just Steam.

RootBeerGuy, 11 months ago

Was 3 any good? Last one I played was 2 and that was pretty awesome.

RootBeerGuy, 11 months ago

You deserve better, Steve.

RootBeerGuy, 1 year ago

In what world is that an answer for a reasonable person?

RootBeerGuy, 1 year ago

Just looking at those screenshots made me nostalgic. I forgot how good the graphics were for that time and the fantastic 1st person mode, really cool.

For me it would awesome if they could achieve porting it to Android, I am not playing that much on PC anymore. But thats my problem obviously.

RootBeerGuy, 1 year ago

www.darkpattern.games

I have not extensively used this site but it seems to have some good pointers

So maybe check with them there first, then install

RootBeerGuy, 1 year ago

As much as I like that game, the learning curve is steep af! Unless the little one handles frustration well, it will be a hard sell.

RootBeerGuy, 1 year ago

I don’t think this is about removing copy protection to sell it.

It is more about that the crack they are now selling officially has been seen as illegal by the publisher/game developer itself. People have worked on this for no monetary compensation and therefore provided free labour to remove DRM. Now the publisher is banking on this free work, pretty much legitimising the crack. But none of the money actually goes to anyone who cracked the game, since that was still illegal.

If the publisher had just removed DRM themselves and sold those copies, no one would be outraged. But they exploit the work of people they keep condeming for cracking their games.

RootBeerGuy, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Seriously… a car analogy. Wow. And a pretty bad one at that.

But I will help you fix that analogy for free, since I feel nice today. A crack for DRM isn’t like adding artwork to a car to make it worth more.

If anything this is about a car that has certain defects that make it work less well than it should. E.g. you cannot switch into gear 5. It runs slower than it could. So people go and fix that, for free. Now the automobile maker takes that free fix and sells all new cars with it. Is that ok? There, still a crap analogy but arguably better than yours.

You ask if the cracks are released with permission to freely distribute? Actually no, they are not. Because they are marked illegal by the law. They should not be distributed since thats against the law. But its of course convenient for the publisher to use that work and distribute themselves. They are technically breaking the law themselves since they are applying illegal cracks to their own software. So thats ok then?

RootBeerGuy, 1 year ago

Plus the downfall of the lemmy.fmhy.ml server, which had a pretty big and active piracy community too.