Gamestop online store and Amazon have a massive selection of brand new PC games. I don't PC game anymore, but if you want a physical copy and can wait 3 days Gamsetop has the likes of COH2 for a tenner cheaper and because it requires Steam anyway you get a digital copy as well.Chaos Marine said:
I find your post interesting. A quick google search does show that some people were concerned about some features of origins. For example the scanning your whole computer thing (not just my documents). However the only thing close to "debunked" I could find is a statement of EA that sais that origins doesn't contain spyware.J Tyran said:
You have to check out some enthusiast and overclocking forums for the details, those guys know their stuff and pull software to pieces to see whats what. Most report innocent ProcMon searches and noone found any evidence of data packets of private information leaving the computer. I have not got the links at hand atm, this was just over a year ago so I am not sure where they are.Aldain said:
And the only evidence of it being spyware is some random people on the Internet saying it is. Yet that seems to you to be more likely somehow.Aldain said:
First off, you correctly used the word "rumored" in your point. Debating with "rumors" is a lot like taking a lie at face value in the given category of the discusion. Both console CPUs are custom made and so the rumor isn't necessarily likely to be true. This is one of the last bits of information that hasn't been confirmed or denied.Ultratwinkie said:
These are fair points. However, please note that as the generation goes along, developers will learn to optimize their software in a way that only benefits the consoles, getting more out of the hardware than you'd get out of a comparable pc. This is, again, why Skyrim was playable on a console that had stupidly divided 512MBs of Ram and a 5/6 year-old processor that required developers split up all the assets into specific categories that would crash if one ever got too big. The minimum pc requirements were significantly higher and playing it on a 512MB pc would have quickly resulted in a broke system if it worked at all.Tanakh said:
CrossLOPER said:
Humm, almost, but not quite. As the gen goes along developers will focus on optimizing the programs for consoles, benefiting everyone but mostly the consoles and getting good looking games running on them with less raw processing power; i still remember the old days when devs optimized for PC. Not quite sure skyrim is the poster child for this tough, as it was unplayable in one console and even in the other the experience was totally different from the PC game.Lightknight said:
It was initially unplayable on the ps3. Believe me, I know because this was the final straw that got me to build my own all-powerful pc. But the issue wasn't the resources of the machine so much as it was the asset category division. Bethesda games have a major problem with asset bloating and on the ps3 that means the system crashes. I did extensive QAing of the game on day one when I got the title and quickly discovered that this was the problem. It only took them 4 months to finally admit it. To start, the dungeons weren't even resetting. None of the assets were being dumped at all. People thought it was the save file size but that wasn't the problem. The save file size was just indicative of the problem.Tanakh said:
The past few years has been amazing for Indie developers in general (aka, pc exclusives). Thankfully it looks like the consoles are aware of this and have made their consoles indie friendly platforms even if Microsoft is basically a dick to indie devs.
Yeah, I never understood why the PS3 had such pitiful RAM, it wasn't that expensive even back when designed and forced devs to do workarounds; guess they threw all their money to the CPU development only to discover that it was totally not worth doing it (even if it was a nice geeky project). For the PC, I think after the first day the least i played with was 5 mods and eventually got to around 50, and I enjoyed each mod greatly; it was not so much about the better graphics and way better textures, but the possibility of making everything in the game feel just right, do silly stuff here and there or engage in massive/epic battles that just weren't there for consoles, and let's not forget the bugs that you can either patch due community patches or bypass due the console.Lightknight said:
Exactly, that's something a lot of people overlook.Fluffles said:
I've heard that they've had good deals, like 50% or the occasional 75%. They haven't in my region (Germany) whenever I've looked it up. But you'll hear about them from sites like Savy Gamer and or Reddit's /r/gamedeaals and the like. Amazon also sells Origin codes.J Tyran said:
This is really a non-issue. I've never even heard of someone getting a game that turned out to somehow be incompatible with their pc, nevermind experienced it, and I've bought hundreds of games and have a large number of friends and family who've bought as much if not more than I have. And if you mean in terms of hitting minimum specs, you'd have to be quite ridiculously out of touch in order for you to have no idea whether your hardware is recent enough to be compatible.Machine Man 1992 said:
Oh well EXCUUUUUSE me, Mister Moneybags! But I don't have access to the vast stores of wealth you clearly have to afford all this stuff! I had to make do with my dad's hand-me-downs, a 500 Mhz rig that chugged on Internet Explorer. Hell it chugged on Half-Life 1. It was barely compatible with stuff from 2004, let alone today. We got rid of it when the whole family switched to Mac's.uro vii said:
My pc is currently 5 years old and could certainly bought for the fraction of the price of a new console. Perhaps you should try finding out what's going on before you get snarky.Machine Man 1992 said:
Sorry.uro vii said:
jmarquiso said:
You know that is fine and well but that not exactly what I meant. What I meant is that a game may require a certain type of DRM and that I have no choice in the matter what kind of DRM it is.DoPo said:
