Posts by e-freak

  • terror hits norway in 2 places

    insta - sorry to hear about your family's loss I hope the rest of your friends up there are ok!

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    ":3dx8rbng]Curious why the news always insists on showing every picture of the villain and a full bio yet the hundreds of innocent victims remain nameless and without any qualities. Reading the article it sounded more like the island was the victim rather than all those kids/people. Seems the media sucks the world over.

    See this comment on the webs, and I agree.

    Absolutely true, that we put too much emphasize on the murderer. On the other hand, we can't showcase the victims either. Society should remember them but not make them into cult-figures there every last bit of their facebook profiles is analyzed by tabloids.

  • Portland/Eugene/Seattle

    nah a change of walls is a good thing if you're stuck. defo go for the move. try to pick out one of your current skills and try to push it to the max over the next year. if 3d modelling is it, try to become a real master and focus your portfolio around that. in the industry you most likely need to have one or two very strong skills and everyone will take for granted that you have basic skills in all the other areas.

  • Battlefield 3

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    that forcing someone to use a competitors services for convenience sake is amoral,

    The community can't and won't force anyone.

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    These reasons posted against Origin should be used against steam.

    they are, but it's always a compromise between what you get and what you give. And so far steam has given a lot of value to the games I play (better matchmaking, no additional anti-cheat or registration software, updates automated, friend list and achievement tracking, special offers and cross services between games (like hats for indie games) and platforms (crossplay with ps3!)) while not doing the same mistakes orion does (purchasing in the EU is often not possible, only EAs catalogue (obviously)).

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    At this point steam is a lot more intrusive then Origin or any other DRM system.

    background? facts? did you ever try uninstalling starforce and getting your registry clean again?

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    There is no other system that forces you to start an app of this size and that takes so long as steam,

    never had any performence problems, but yes, that is a trouble. given the hazzle of non-steamworks games (i'm mixing stuff up here, i'm aware) patching manually and then logging into another online service (like gamespy) takes just as long though.

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    it's unbelievable people can even consider steam not to be a DRM system.

    it is a DRM service and people are aware of it. Difference being that Steam doesn't ask for anything but your log in and then provides the same service where ever and when ever you want it. No "only 5 installations", no "6 months download warranty", no "you have a virtual drive software and therefore fuck of".

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    Origin just requires you to install and verify the game once, which is a lot handier,

    i might not get your point, but any other installer installs the game once as well and registers it to your account once as well. what is the point?

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    and if it means that EA will get 30% more on every purchase, I'll use it over steam, and any like minded app from other publishers.

    i'd rather have each developer open it's own service for that reason. I don't see the point why EA needs another 30%. If it means that EA will more likely support inovative games, go for it. If it means the CEO of EA Sports gets to drive three new sportscars but the devs are still crunching for the yearly FIFA with no new ideas, fuck it.

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    Steam famboyims essential allows Gabe to jack up royalties as he can just point out how many people will not buy your game if it's not on his network.

    BS. The market for PC games is wide open and as soon as Valve would raise royalties the devs would go to another marketplace and the community would follow. If you read todays GameDev.biz you'll find one of the many Indie Devs who keeps saying that Valve's fair methods and ongoing support is one of the major reasons why they are still around and so successfully. (link http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2 ... ers-mode-7)

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    It's ridiculous and damaging to PC gaming. And even more so since a lot of you are dev's yourself, you are shooting yourself's in the foot.

    the exact same thing was mentioned by stardock's CEO a few weeks ago. massive backslash from the Indie Scene again: the reason why Valve is so succesfull with Steam is that they work with the Devs and the community.

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    Still I did suggest a compromise, you pay 30% extra on steam for what you pay on Origin, I think that would be fair, you want convenience, you should pay for it, like in every other aspect of the economy.

    If that means EA will cut 30% off the prizes first, because obviously they don't have to pay royalities to them selves, go for it.

  • Easiest map editor for a newbie

    the problem i see with UDK as a low-level beginner engine is that it doesn't ship with a game. for getting started it might be easier to work on a game with existing ai/mp servers and set gamerules you can discover and expand. learning how to use the editor and the pipeline and scripting an entire gameplay at the same time is a bit much of a learning curve.

  • Battlefield 3

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    i see your point and i can understand why you argue in favor of the game and hold that very high. BUT, the analogy here doesn't work: Amazon and Play deliver packaged good that I open in my doorway, brought to me by the same postal guy and put in the same flat. With orion I'm forced to open a second door, I didn't need because I had Steam installed already.

    i'll stop you right there, with amazon and play you need to launch separate browser windows. on the same pc.

    even with your quite odd analogy (it would be like focusing on the server setup origin and steam used to make an argument, you're looking at it from the wrong end) you are still in the same house, it's not like you have had to walk halfway across town to pick up your parcels.

    right, it's a broswer windows with no additional installs. if they want origin to be just a browser window where i have to type my key once, i'd be ok with it, but the way origin works is to permanently install an application i don't want to use on my machine. like getting a second postbox for a different deliverer service.

    for the record, i edited the last sentence in my post above to something more friendly.

  • Battlefield 3

    Quote from Rick_D

    like amazon.com and play.com?brave new world ladies, ride the wave.

    i see your point and i can understand why you argue in favor of the game and hold that very high. BUT, the analogy here doesn't work: Amazon and Play deliver packaged good that I open in my doorway, brought to me by the same postal guy and put in the same flat. With orion I'm forced to open a second door, I didn't need because I had Steam installed already.

    Also: Unlike the Postal guy leaving when he delivered his package, these Apps are there to stay. If the postal dude would ask to stay he'd need to gain trust. Steam gained that trust over years of delivering or trying what is best for the consumer. Orion as it looks right now has mainly EAs marketing Bullshitters in mind and from EAs history there's not much too expect when it comes to supporting the customer.

    What I think is the motivation here is (ab)using Battlefield 3 as the same puller that Half-Life 2 was for Steam. And as much as I want Battlefield 3 to be successfull for DICE and knowing how much hard work you will have put into it also for you, for my own, egoistic, lazy customer concerns I hope that EA fails terribly and the move will backlash. I understand EA seeks ways to maximize profit and that isn't wrong for a company, but it is wrong when it comes forced and doesn't fulfill the market's needs. Other companies (such as Epic with the Unreal Engine) go fine by utilizing middleware where own solutions rather block then advance the own growth.

    I'm offended by GameSpy and Games for Windows Live running on my machine, offended by the necessity of updating PunkBuster manually. I have a company that provides more than all these tools ever did for me (mainly stopping me from playing the game) at a reasonable price for the developers and publishers and with a great interface for me. As much as I expect a game developer to keep me as the gamer in mind when it comes to Gamedesign decisions and Hardware specifications, I expect them (or us, as I'm part of that evil biomass myself) to keep the players in mind when it comes to how to reach them on the open market.

    Change isn't bad and a good competitor is always great for the consumers, but Origin is not (in it's current state) a competitor, it's just a barrier. If anyone from EA reads this, I hope I was reasonable in my arguments, but please (edited here) allow me to purchase my game on steam and not install secondary DRM software.

  • City Block

    I think this looks mighty fine! The windows below the "Duplicating Office" look a bit too big in your 3D Model but apart from that I can't spot any proportion mistakes. Keep it coming

  • google+

    The reason why google puts such clauses in their eulas (and many other companies do so as well) is to protect themselves from being sued if the picture or media you submitted is displayed in another part of the website. the likeliness that google starts an art-print service where they sell "me on the beach with three tequillas and that crazy dog"-pictures is close to zero. i guess they wouldn't put that clause in the eula if it weren't for the rest of mankind sueing each other for the most random reasons...