Off-Topic Thread

This looks interesting, to say the least.

http://kotaku.com/steam-might-soon-let-you-share-your-games-with-your-fri-514219133

Not the first time junk code has ended up in a Steam build, but the timing (considering the Xbox One, etc.) is certainly interesting. I'd absolutely love to see this.

tl;dr - Friends sharing your games / visa versa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg

MadYaker wrote: »

Good ol' Scandanavian broadband. Gonna miss it when i get back to Ireland.

your upload speed is faster than 99% of irelands download speed. and where the **** where you pinging with that? my ping back in ireland was 100-500ms and yesterday my ping was 2400ms in the UK

so **** you and the scandanavian master race :pac:

glynf

MadYaker wrote: »

Good ol' Scandanavian broadband. Gonna miss it when i get back to Ireland.

More WRC wins than any other country, they have stupidly quick broadband as well-is there anything that isn't fast in Finland?:)

Headshot

NSFW

Quite funny

ShadowHearth

BATHSALTS!

Is This The Best Response To A Cease And Desist Letter Ever?

Headshot wrote: »

NSFW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg

Quite funny

isnt he wanted for murder?

nmop_apisdn

Tea_Bag

Lads where do we buy win 8 now that software for students is off the books?

Tea_Bag wrote: »

Lads where do we buy win 8 now that software for students is off the books?

assuming the upgrade trick still works here

Just got confirmation: UPC will start cabling my estate in the next couple of weeks.

Digitalism

Microsoft have done a complete 180 on their DRM and licence policy i.e. you can trade games in now etc.

Didnt expect that tbh.

Nolars

Digitalism wrote: »

Microsoft have done a complete 180 on their DRM and licence policy i.e. you can trade games in now etc.

Didnt expect that tbh.

I don't understand why they didn't say games will cheaper and stop ****ty game-stop from getting a large piece of the pie. They will be happy for another generation of consoles tho charging stupid prices for 2nd hand games.

Nolars wrote: »

I don't understand why they didn't say games will cheaper and stop ****ty game-stop from getting a large piece of the pie. They will be happy for another generation of consoles tho charging stupid prices for 2nd hand games.

because that is bs and they will be called out on it. how many companies compete with steam sales, 4-5? how many can compete with xbone? none

BobbyPropane

Serephucus wrote: »

Just got confirmation: UPC will start cabling my estate in the next couple of weeks.

Welcome to the broadband masterrace!

BobbyPropane wrote: »

Welcome to the broadband masterrace!

I was a member for years.

It's just since moving back to my parents that I've been relegated to peasant 4Mb.

Monotype

That's good news about the DRM on the xbox. I think it's better that it happened this way as it increased awareness of bad DRM policies and it mightn't have caused such ripples if they just sneaked it in gradually.
Plus I feel Microsoft need a wakeup call once in a while. I have no interest in buying the consoles, but the associated industries are interesting and I prefer to see DRM like that get shot down; I'm not even that fond of steam as it is.

I think that it would have really hurt Microsoft short and long term, handing over a lot of power to Sony. Their country restrictions were preposterous, even from a view where you want to protect the digital value of games. I hope their 'loan friends a game' sees some success as I thought it was a pretty good idea. Very interesting if it comes to steam as Serephucus linked earlier. I can't really see it working for many single player games (from a publisher's point of view). Sure you'd get most games finished in a week unless it's a long RPG. It could work with multiplayer - say if a friend played a few games of left 4 dead on your account and then they got into it, they might end up buying it as it's the kind of game that you're going to play with friends.

Monotype wrote: »

That's good news about the DRM on the xbox. I think it's better that it happened this way as it increased awareness of bad DRM policies and it mightn't have caused such ripples if they just sneaked it in gradually.
Plus I feel Microsoft need a wakeup call once in a while. I have no interest in buying the consoles, but the associated industries are interesting and I prefer to see DRM like that get shot down; I'm not even that fond of steam as it is.

Im delighted that the DRM got **** on so much that EA distanced themselves from MS' stance.It's hopefully a turning point for all platforms and a sign to Manufacturers and publishers that this **** will not be tolerated

Monotype wrote: »

That's good news about the DRM on the xbox. I think it's better that it happened this way as it increased awareness of bad DRM policies and it mightn't have caused such ripples if they just sneaked it in gradually.
Plus I feel Microsoft need a wakeup call once in a while. I have no interest in buying the consoles, but the associated industries are interesting and I prefer to see DRM like that get shot down; I'm not even that fond of steam as it is.

I think that it would have really hurt Microsoft short and long term, handing over a lot of power to Sony. Their country restrictions were preposterous, even from a view where you want to protect the digital value of games. I hope their 'loan friends a game' sees some success as I thought it was a pretty good idea. Very interesting if it comes to steam as Serephucus linked earlier. I can't really see it working for many single player games (from a publisher's point of view). Sure you'd get most games finished in a week unless it's a long RPG. It could work with multiplayer - say if a friend played a few games of left 4 dead on your account and then they got into it, they might end up buying it as it's the kind of game that you're going to play with friends.

It bodes really badly that they turned around completely on such a huge design decision, though. I mean, sure, great, they're not implementing the DRM BS, but if they're willing to make such a huge design, it means they f*cked up bigtime. Bigtime. It makes you wonder where else they might have f*cked up , too...

Gumbi wrote: »

It makes you wonder where else they might have f*cked up , too...

Must not mention Win8, must not mention Win8...

Monotype wrote: »

That's good news about the DRM on the xbox. I think it's better that it happened this way as it increased awareness of bad DRM policies and it mightn't have caused such ripples if they just sneaked it in gradually.
Plus I feel Microsoft need a wakeup call once in a while. I have no interest in buying the consoles, but the associated industries are interesting and I prefer to see DRM like that get shot down; I'm not even that fond of steam as it is.

I think that it would have really hurt Microsoft short and long term, handing over a lot of power to Sony. Their country restrictions were preposterous, even from a view where you want to protect the digital value of games. I hope their 'loan friends a game' sees some success as I thought it was a pretty good idea. Very interesting if it comes to steam as Serephucus linked earlier. I can't really see it working for many single player games (from a publisher's point of view). Sure you'd get most games finished in a week unless it's a long RPG. It could work with multiplayer - say if a friend played a few games of left 4 dead on your account and then they got into it, they might end up buying it as it's the kind of game that you're going to play with friends.

Serephucus wrote: »

Must not mention Win8, must not mention Win8...

That's a given! :pac:

Im reading the fanboy tears on the xbox one reddit

HOLY **** they're dumb they actually believe that the DRM would bring them steam sales. They dont seem to grasp the idea of a closed system and a monopoly

Monotype

Seems the sharing thing on the xbox could be getting the bin for now. I'd say they could sneak half of their things back over the lifetime of the console, but at least there's more choice now.ap

The thing about steam is that it's actually really expensive to buy games from them. It astounds me that people will pay €50 because 1) they want to keep their games together and 2) the convenience of not bothering to get the retail versilon even when it is a steam activated game.

If there were no alternatives to steam, the prices would stay like that. Valve are very clever marketers and they know that their sales will drive people to them - heck they even have me buying quite a lot of stuff over the time and I don't even like them that much. The sales gain a lot of ground by being talked about so much internet-wide and it has pushed a lot of other sellers to follow in the example, so there's clearly a lot of sales made in this time. I remember seeing some statistics a few years back where they earned a good few million even from portal, a game that even been free for a period during that year!

Valve marketed Steam very well indeed. The overheads are nil compared to retail stores, it's a worldwide store. Even piracy of steam games is a bit tougher. This all adds up. This accessibility is amplified by the constant deals and stuff, which "allows" them to sell platinum games at 50 to 55 euro at release without being crucified.

Headshot

I can never understand why anyone pays for new released games from steam when you can get them for 30-35 euro or even cheaper else where like http://www.g2play.net/store/home.php

Headshot wrote: »

I can never understand why anyone pays for new released games from steam when you can get them for 30-35 euro or even cheaper else where like http://www.g2play.net/store/home.php

For the reasons above ^^

BloodBath

Hmm Sim City for €32. Very tempting.

http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/pc-q30/

CoHII for 29.99. That's a damn good deal.

Burgo

Lian li with another interesting mini itx design. No Train this time :P