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    Poll: Dear EA, I hate you and I'm running off with a Techno Vampire.

    Another sale they lost here as well. My general point is while bf3 has sold heavily I think it's doing more to hurt future sales of their other games than anything. Speaking of origin though I keep getting spammed messages like this The only problem is I see this message nearly...
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    Poll: Dear EA, I hate you and I'm running off with a Techno Vampire.

    Looks like it's going to be steam, who I personally think should be suing everyone copying their model. They're too reasonable though, if the shoe was on the other foot and GFWL or Origin came first they'd be suing valve. Fortunately I was able to get alice madness returns without having to...
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    Poll: Dear EA, I hate you and I'm running off with a Techno Vampire.

    True, they got a purchase out of me for BF3. There's at least a dozen other games on origin now I will never play though. Mass effect 3 which I was looking forward to for a long time... I'll never play it now. Several new MMO's I wanted to try. I've drawn the line I would rather play...
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    Poll: Dear EA, I hate you and I'm running off with a Techno Vampire.

    It's really just general venting if I had meant to target you personally I would have done so clearly. Sorry if you felt that was the case.
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    Poll: Dear EA, I hate you and I'm running off with a Techno Vampire.

    Yes, but eventually you will disorient yourself so badly from your consumer that the plan will backfire. I mean I actually like BF3 granted it suffers the same hacker problem you get in every other fps game, you can just avoid those servers as always moderated ones are usually clean. That...
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    Poll: Dear EA, I hate you and I'm running off with a Techno Vampire.

    This is kind of a rant I made for lolz while talking to a friend about EA. I understand not all the information provided is completely accurate so you don't have to pick it apart. Though I do realize that on some level the only reason you are here is because the term techno vampire sounded cool...
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    Dirt 3

    Well I haven't posted in quite sometime and the few reviews I've written have met with mixed responses, but I couldn't help but put in some words for this title. Sorry if this seems to come a bit late but I wanted to play through the whole thing before doing this. Pros: Runs smooth even...
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    Zero Punctuation: Washington DC

    Well if your point was to show you could post basically anything and people would watch it, win. If this was supposed to actually mean or be about something, fail...
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    What I would do if I were a video game developer

    Yeah, I actually played that one for six months trying to see what all my friends were on about. Realized I was actually paying them to work a second job, quit and never have had even the slightest temptation to return to the game.
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    Anyone know how to wipe a hard drive clean?

    reformat with a fresh copy of windows. Then jump to the manufacturer's website for any special drivers you may need. The best thing about doing this is it gets rid of all the crap the original maker put on there that was completely not needed in the first place. Most laptops even have about...
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    What I would do if I were a video game developer

    I've always wanted to try several things. One being a mecha based mmo that requires actively participating in piloting and skill instead of just pushing a button to achieve whatever result like most mmo's do. I would also want to make a updated expansive version of ONI possibly using the...
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    games everyone love that you hate

    Halo games (all of them) World of Warcraft (I gave it 6 months to grow on me it never did) Bioshock - not that it was really a bad game, I just found it way over hyped. Just Cause- what really gets me about this one is they are apparently making a movie out of it. Gears of War - didn't see...
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    Poll: How many games have you played before?

    exactly what are we counting here? anything that could be in any way called a computer game? 1000 easy. If we limit it down to games I've really enjoyed were locally installed and on my pc probably in the 50-75 range. Then again I've been gaming since monochrome.
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    Advice to become a video game journalist

    I would start with those you have the most to say about, the ones that you have both positive and negative feedback for. That's really the best thing to do with a review otherwise it quickly becomes a rant.