Recent content by Vulpis

True--but one of the key factors in the success of Steam that MS is rather flamingly obviously missing here is that while they don't have 'used game sales' as such, they *do* have deep-discount sales (75%-80% in some cases) that fill the niche splendidly (*and* solve that pesky 'Original...

Hats. Vintage items. Anything else tradable in TF2, just off the top of my head. Though wasn't there an article a while back that pointed out that the authenticator setup had already been cracked? And as for the whole 'It's *always* the client's fault!'--all the client-side security in the...

Soooooo....MAD, then?

That's unlikely, to be honest, if only for the Hall of Monuments. I do wonder how much control ArenaNet has over each game, compared to NCSoft.

Mmmph. I definitely feel sorry for the girl in this. I do wish she *had* made a scene or at least screamed, though--I have just enough faith in the con-going gamer community to believe that the guy would have wound up being the center of attention of some rather hostile Minecraft fans, and...

Now this is an article I found very interested in...and agree witha great deal. Dastardly made a good point about tabletop RPGs not having this problem--this is due to them having the singular advantage of the players and GM as a group choosing what sort of 'victory condition' they want, and...

I'm....kinda amused that he singled out Tomba for attention myself. I own a copy of the game from my PS1 days. I was always *very* annoyed that it was one of the 'American List of 15' for the PS2... (for the youngsters who don't know what I'm talking about: When the PS2 was released in Japan...

You don't have to be a jerk about it, but I'm thinking that that acually *might* be part of the point here..it's less 'a collection of games to actually play' as it is 'Pretty boxed set'. Being able to actually play the things is a 'bonus' (and the fact that making actual working Nintendo...

Indeed--but keep in mind that that refers only to Valve's *own* games--this is why they have a service that sells a couple of thousand other games, many of them single-player.

Heh. Keep in mind folks, that a) This doesn't mean no SP games at all, it means no SP-*only* games, and b) they're using the much broader definition of 'multiplayer' that means *any* interaction with other players, not just the 'team with/against while actually playing the game' meaning we...

Presuming that the torches and pitchforks folks even got the right victim here (and I do agree with the posters saying that that kind of stalking should be bannable), am I the only one amused that the person who presented a rational, thought out examination of the post is called...

Not really. Try 'Put the disc into the console. Wait for it to install to the hard drive. Wait for it to call home, see if there are patches, and install *those*, while staring at ads for Facebook and social networking sites since for some reason the console won't let you do too much else while...

Well it *is* stated pretty early on in the story that there's malfunctioning matter replicators involved (and I seem to recall a 'Can't have too many coffee tables!' line, as well). Why the complex locks and switches are needed just to get around the house--now *there's* a valid question, which...

Bleh--way wrong. I got Creator and Social Manager for mine, when I generally can't stand social situations and would rather work on my own. No sign of Organized, when I know I end up just short of OCD in situations. And as for being an ad, I got one for an online university, which is probably...

The 'Joy' of being the 'majority'. As a educated white male who lives in the Southern US, I get beaten over the head with that sort of thing multiple times over. :-/