3 Cheers for Microsoft and Gaming!
3 Cheers for Microsoft and Gaming!
NOT!
A short article about how epic and MS managed to give PC players of Gears or War(1)PC the shaft. In short, for legit players, their game (as in all copies) quit working Jan 28th 09.
You will need a No-CD crack to continue playing or wait until a patch comes out. ... or rather \"if\".
It's a great time to be a gamer.
All sarcasm and disdain aside, I find this a bit perplexing. It's hard for me to believe that it was done intentionally and/or that this would have been missing in development. .. dunno..
A short article about how epic and MS managed to give PC players of Gears or War(1)PC the shaft. In short, for legit players, their game (as in all copies) quit working Jan 28th 09.
You will need a No-CD crack to continue playing or wait until a patch comes out. ... or rather \"if\".
It's a great time to be a gamer.
All sarcasm and disdain aside, I find this a bit perplexing. It's hard for me to believe that it was done intentionally and/or that this would have been missing in development. .. dunno..
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Yes, nowadays, I've missed out on a few good gaming experiences because I looked on the back of the box and read, \"Due to some copy protection software, you can only install the game a limited amount of times, requires internet to unlock game, and will install some extra additional protection software without your consent.\"
I think its all so stupid. I've passed on so many games because of this bull★■◆●.
I think its all so stupid. I've passed on so many games because of this bull★■◆●.
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ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Krom wrote:There should be some sort of monthly prize for screwups like this.
Now announcing the Software Epic Fail Award! Any nominations (other than Gears of War and Windows Vista?)
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Duper wrote:Flight Sim 10?? o_0
no they killed MSFS all together.... now they need to find another developer to make a FS11
Here's a Living Legends article that's rather intereting. Nothing particularly NEW, but there is plenty of info about it's development along with their dealings with MS.
It's 4 pages long and easy to read.
Think I just found a new gaming site to watch.
It's 4 pages long and easy to read.
Think I just found a new gaming site to watch.
DH, the MW community is much larger still than the Descent community and the battle Tech community if far greater still.
TK'ing killed Mech warrior and XP. The game didn't play well on the internet well on XP and MS never released a patched that really fixed it.
So, if it's \"dead\", it wasn't FASA's fault. MS bought FASA before shutting it down.
...which has nothing to do with the topic.
TK'ing killed Mech warrior and XP. The game didn't play well on the internet well on XP and MS never released a patched that really fixed it.
So, if it's \"dead\", it wasn't FASA's fault. MS bought FASA before shutting it down.
...which has nothing to do with the topic.
The Descent community isn't a good yardstick, given that it was smaller to begin with, the last release is older, and there are zero competitive leagues left compared to Mechwarrior's (barely) two.
I'm not even sure you're talking about Mechwarrior 4, since neither TKing nor XP were significant problems at all in my experience. The big exodus of players happened in around 04-05 because the game was old and dated.
The reason why that series is dead is a combination of poor business decisions on both MS and FASA's part. MS doesn't see any profit in further versions of Mechwarrior, or at best they're waiting to see how MWLL does. FASA was simply in a bad place as no-one is buying Battletech board games anymore. Wizkids tried to resurrect the franchise, but tabletop has a cult audience these days and they were pitching at the kinds of people who'd rather be playing video games. Last year they went under as well.
I'm not even sure you're talking about Mechwarrior 4, since neither TKing nor XP were significant problems at all in my experience. The big exodus of players happened in around 04-05 because the game was old and dated.
The reason why that series is dead is a combination of poor business decisions on both MS and FASA's part. MS doesn't see any profit in further versions of Mechwarrior, or at best they're waiting to see how MWLL does. FASA was simply in a bad place as no-one is buying Battletech board games anymore. Wizkids tried to resurrect the franchise, but tabletop has a cult audience these days and they were pitching at the kinds of people who'd rather be playing video games. Last year they went under as well.