Comments on: Steam region ripoff

By: Sick of Australian distributors « Restore, Restart, Quit?

Sick of Australian distributors « Restore, Restart, Quit? — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:24:20 +0000

[...] look, I’m still not over the Steam ripoff thing. (Although, with a cousin in London, I found a way around it for long enough to buy L4D2.) In [...]

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 11 May 2010 03:49:16 +0000

Yes well, that`s the gaming world we live in. Failure is everywhere, decent games are as rare as a purple drop, and the corporations OWN our gaming asses for what its worth.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 11 May 2010 02:32:50 +0000

I’m getting sick of being gouged by MS – eg on the Valve games, free add-ons suddenly cost $10 on 360.

By: Kinsley

Kinsley — Tue, 11 May 2010 02:31:49 +0000

Well, I’ve still got a ton of PC games, and I still play them from time to time. I think Civ IV is the newest. But an old Pentium IV only gets you so far these days.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 11 May 2010 02:05:53 +0000

Do you still game on PC Kinsley? I mean, with the few no DRM games out there?

By: Kinsley

Kinsley — Tue, 11 May 2010 01:51:01 +0000

“Unfortunately I can`t be as true to the “cause” as Kinsley because I need Steam to play my hard copy of Dawn of War.”

Heh. I really can’t take any credit there, because in the end I just gave up. Instead of upgrading my computer to the latest and greatest, I bought a PS3.

Mind you, I’m not getting into the habit of paying full price for PS3 games. I wait for sales. I don’t mind if that means waiting three or four years to pick up a title.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 10 May 2010 23:01:35 +0000

Well that sucks major balls that you have to resort to pirate websites. i play most of my games on consoles, so I dont have the same problems as a PC gamer does. But the one thing that really pisses me off about what the PC market does is that they`ve limited the number of installations for a game to one.
I was talking to my friend about this a while ago, and she did make a valid point about it prevent piracy, but could you please at least make the limit 2 or 3 at the very least. I man, what happens when your computer`s motherboard goes ca-put? You`re screwed because in order to play, say Half Life2, again you need to go and buy the damn game again. I mean who the hell is making up all these ridicules ideas and policies. I mean dear god its only a matter of time until we have something like with the Armored Core games, where the corporations rule the world and we`re fucked either way.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:45:21 +0000

Under the thumb. The corporations have the money and the organisation to get what they want.

My laptop doesn’t have a DVD drive. It is ludicrous that I cannot install games I own to the thing without using a no-DVD crack sourced from a dodgy pirate site. Making your customers use a crack to get their game to work? NOT a strong encouragement for them to avoid piracy.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:40:00 +0000

I can agree with that. I have an Ubisoft game from the Heroes of Might and Magic series, and its old enough to not be connected to Ubisoft`s idiotic severs. So when the system is inevitable stopped, my copy won`t be affected.
On the steam oppression note, do you think that they`ll implement legal action to prevent fascism in the DRM operations and pricing, or are we doomed to be under the thumb of the corporations?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:27:35 +0000

I almost went and bought the Civ4 bundle on Steam last weekend, with the idea that I’d sell my Civ4 Complete and Colonization DVDs. But no store will buy them – and I’m glad, in retrospect, that I’ll keep a copy that isn’t subject to the whims of whoever ends up running Steam oppressively in the future.