Posts by kleinluka

Happy late birthday

Just out of interest, how many hours do you all think you played Left 4 Dead up to this point?

Because I really think that some people here are overreacting. "this game should have been 10-20$ at most" .... I don't know about that... I played it for probably well over 200 hours. A movie costs 20-30$ and lasts 2 hours on average. Other games last 10 hours and you pay a 60$.... so I think the pricing was justified. I also think making a sequel was justified by Valve, but I do agree that the timing of this is really poor because they haven't yet exhausted all the potential the first L4D still has to offer.

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Sentura doesn't speak german as far as i know

It's time for all the german modders to make use of their EU passport and move to Austria (or the netherlands )

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I was going to open a thread about this and then I remembered for how long this topic is being brought up by politicians and nothing actually happens. Take the paintball ban for example (to non-germans reading this: yes german politicians actually decided to ban paintball for the same reasons as they want to ban violent videogames) - big agenda setting by the press, huge uproar in the paintball community (for obvious reasons) and the result? They silently scrapped the ban under the table again.

yeah but it never got to the point were all 16 ministers agreed on the ban and were this close to making it a law. it might actually become a reality this time around [Blocked Image: https://migrationtest.mapcore.org/public/style_emoticons/default/mapcore_smilies/emot_shakehead.gif]

This will surely prevent one or the other school shooting in the future :roll: :roll: :roll:

retards... so glad i'm no longer living there!!!

i dont really understand why you people are getting pissed off about this... you'll still be able to play L4D online anyway...

First link doesnt work, 2nd link confuses me. What is this about?

it looks fun but im not digging the daylight too much

What Grin really needs to do is stop jumping publishers and develop some original IPs.

Congrats HP :] Enjoy Germany

http://kotaku.com/5271215/unknown-world ... election-2

Damnnnnnnnnn

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germans dub their porn

I never thought about it until now but YOU ARE RIGHT!!!!

how sad is that?

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I never really understood why The French didnt want to learn English.Then one day, 50 exchange students from france came to our school and everyone of them was lame and just sat around smoking weed all day.

Then I understood.

I don't think it's necessarily that they don't WANT to learn (ok maybe!) but I think the main reason is that foreign language education -not just english- in France is really really crappy and there are very few qualified teachers.

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Sorry but you had way too high expectations for Terminator then. It's a movie tie-in licensed to make a few bucks, to a very recently created studio with a barely decent game under their belt. Of course it would end up that way, that was the writing on the wall...

So what? If they want my $60 then I want a real Terminator! I don't think the average customer gives a shit when the studio was opened.

I gotta be honest but this doesn't feel like Terminator... The art direction/style looks just like Bionic Commando with its saturated colors and lighting. When I think of Terminator I think of cold blueish steel...I think of darkness and creepy atmosphere. This just doesn't draw me in at all, it looks very generic. The gameplay as well doesn't seem to bring anything really new to the table. Then the under 4 hours of gameplay for $60.... *slowly backs away*

Barrakid, you make an excellent point about games potentially being turned into goods and into owned property rather than licensed services. I didn't think about that.

Scary! But I'm sure while drafting a law like this they wouldn't forget about something as huge as this.. (I hope!!)

I wish

I love it ))))))) great work you guys!

Oh Europe, when will you learn....

Source: http://gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=23647

May 15, 2009

Report: EU Proposal Would Pressure Devs To Make 'Near-Perfect' Games

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A new European Union proposal aimed at providing quality guarantees to consumers could unfairly constrain the creative work of game developers, the BBC reports.

EU legislation's Sales and Guarantees Directive provides a two-year guarantee on consumer goods, but video game software has historically been exempt. The concern for the video game industry is that allowing games' inclusion under the directive may create gray-area opportunities for abuse -- consumers could seek to reject products based on subjective flaws rather than actual quality failures.

"On the one hand there is the risk of abuse, but on the other it's not a good enough reason to say basic consumer protection should not apply," insists a spokesperson for the commission.

Beyond that, though, Richard Wilson of trade body Tiga is concerned that the pressure on developers to keep pace with new tech is already a challenge to the game industry, and that an obligation under law for games to be "near-perfect" could massively reduce creative risk-taking.

"They have to be careful not to stifle new ideas," Wilson told the BBC. "Consumers need good quality products - that is only reasonable - but if the legislation is too heavy-handed it could make publishers and developers very cautious."

The Business Software Alliance, which represents a wide variety of software companies, also disapproves of the proposal. "Digital content is not a tangible good and should not be subject to the same liability rules as toasters," said a spokesperson.