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Diablo 4 announced

Except there's nothing ad hominem about it, claiming you don't know what you're talking about is reasonable. That's what ignorant means. Here's an article claiming "victory" over stealing games from the public. "Making piracy and pre-owned games problems of the past 10 Years Ago This Month...
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- Post #14
- Nov 4, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Diablo 4 announced

Uhh you're too ignorant to participate in this discussion. This has been going on since 1997 with Ultima online, the reason we have DRM and steam to begin with is because the battle was won 20 years ago by fools who told the game industry they were incapable of perceiving the agenda. The long...
- zink77
- Post #12
- Nov 4, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Diablo 4 announced

Technically only if you are counting RTS, otherwise Warcraft "never ended" because world of warcraft is still going strong to this day. Last expansion was 2018. Either way games spying on everyone and being forced online when you're paying for the game is redacted. They are just stealing...
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- Post #10
- Nov 4, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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The anti-DRM thread

We said the same about people buying mmo and steam infected half-life 2 in 2004 20 years ago. The war on game ownership began very early in 1997 with ultima online, that was the the first shot in the long war to remove software from customers PC's. Here's the game industry declaring victory...
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- Post #140
- Sep 19, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Star Citizen Development Discussion (Is Derek Smart Right?)

You're just making excuses for corporate theft of software. Note that we are paying money, if they were giving the game away for free that would be different. But if we are buying a game we get the thing we are paying for. Note that everyone arguing against can only do so because the...
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- Post #1,573
- Sep 10, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Star Citizen Development Discussion (Is Derek Smart Right?)

It is, when steam dropped in 2004 no one wanted it, it was forced into the software. Steam is a piece of corporate malware. The internet has undermined the market, before the internet existed companies were forced to give us complete software. Operating systems and games. So yes selling...
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- Post #1,568
- Sep 6, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Star Citizen Development Discussion (Is Derek Smart Right?)

It is, the internet allowed game companies to steal games and the masses fell all over themselves to buy fraudulently coded games. There's no reason for any piece of software to require a second computer. Having part of the game you are paying for missing and held hostage on a remote computer...
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- Post #1,563
- Aug 29, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Star Citizen Development Discussion (Is Derek Smart Right?)

Not my fault gamers are stupid, games are literally being destroyed. Enjoy it when diablo 3 or overwatch is nuked and taken "offline" an absurdity.
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- Post #1,561
- Aug 29, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Star Citizen Development Discussion (Is Derek Smart Right?)

Man you haven't been paying attention to the last 20 years of gaming. 1997 - Electronic arts as a part of the greater silicon valley company war on software ownership rebrands PC RPG's as mmo's, takes the next ultima and simply calls it "ultima online" and then ultima rpg's you own on the pc...
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- Post #1,558
- Aug 29, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Discussion MechWarrior 5 developer leaves Steam for the Epic Games Store

There is you're basically allowing companies to undermine your basic rights to own the redacted you pay for, and literally helping these companies defraud the world. There is no reason for any piece of software to be split between two machines. To think anandtech of 20 years ago is now filled...
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- Post #50
- Aug 17, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Discussion MechWarrior 5 developer leaves Steam for the Epic Games Store

It would help both of you actually had any valid arguments at all which none of you do, aka many of our favourite franchises and modern abuses like p2w, micro-transactions and lootboxes are direct results of your behaviors. So yeah anyone who cares about the hobby has seen the internet blow up...
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- Post #47
- Aug 12, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Discussion MechWarrior 5 developer leaves Steam for the Epic Games Store

Stealing the files for the game so it doesn't function, very simple. AKA many games not including the server and mulitplayer functionality within the game executables. Anyone with a brain would call that stealing basic game functions and trapping them on the other side of the internet. Notice...
- zink77
- Post #43
- Aug 11, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Discussion MechWarrior 5 developer leaves Steam for the Epic Games Store

That doesn't justify stealing peoples software by abusing their technological illiteracy, selling them incomplete games by removing functionality like LAN, or inserting stupid matchmaking on a remote server somewhere that you control and removing their privacy. The way games are coded are...
- zink77
- Post #41
- Aug 11, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Discussion MechWarrior 5 developer leaves Steam for the Epic Games Store

You don't seem to grasp that there is no market in gaming, the average person on our planet is too computer illiterate to make any kind of rational free market decision, not only that you as a consumer do not have any market power when the computer illiterate masses keep shovelling money to...
- zink77
- Post #35
- Aug 10, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Discussion MechWarrior 5 developer leaves Steam for the Epic Games Store

You don't seem to understand son anything about privacy or owning your own personal computer. MMO's were the battering ram to undermine software ownership on the personal computer. When clueless people like you appeared and started mindlessly giving money to these companies stealing computer...
- zink77
- Post #33
- Aug 10, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Discussion MechWarrior 5 developer leaves Steam for the Epic Games Store

Yes but it did have login authentication and that made it essentially a "service" based game, aka it requires the service of a remote computer in order to function. Arena net owns the server that allows GW to function, and can shut down the game. So "Service based game" = game you do not own...
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- Post #31
- Aug 10, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Discussion MechWarrior 5 developer leaves Steam for the Epic Games Store

Clients wouldn't exist if the gaming masses were not such sheep, everyone fell all over themselves 20 years ago to buy Ultima online, everquest, Guild wars and world of warcraft, after they saw how stupid gamers were to pay for role playing games without ownership and a subscription... then came...
- zink77
- Post #29
- Aug 9, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Discussion MechWarrior 5 developer leaves Steam for the Epic Games Store

LOL just like how gamers wouldn't buy mmo's (Stole rpg's) or half-life 2 with drm, if anything gamers bent over to get robbed and raped starting with ultima online in 1997. IF there's a popular game gamers will and have bent over for origin drm, uplay drm, steam drm, world of warcraft - rpg's...
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- Post #24
- Aug 6, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Microsoft announces Game Pass for PC

Mass effect 3 had multiplayer, and you could make single player missions for doom, quake, descent and duke 3d. So once again you seem to lack any kind of insight of what happened in the 90's which makes me think you didn't grow up in the 90's playing games.
- zink77
- Post #14
- Jul 29, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Microsoft announces Game Pass for PC

Dude almost every game coming out in the 90's had level editing tooks, descent, duke 3d, quake, doom, freespace with fred. The doom mod community is still going strong after 20 years on the net because devs released mod tools to the community. We now have stuff like Brutal doom. You clearly...
- zink77
- Post #10
- Jul 28, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Microsoft announces Game Pass for PC

To be honest I really can't stand where gaming ended up on the PC, we had mods, level editors and sdk's in the 90's, to go from that to the modern wasteland of locked down f2p/mmo bs and free2play scam games on pc and mobile. I'm a bit horrified, have anyone of you played the latest and...
- zink77
- Post #8
- Jul 27, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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The anti-DRM thread

The reality is all the big AAA games want their own store/drm launcher... basically the blizzard launcher is the future of AAA games. Notice how Diablo 3, Starcraft 2 and Destiny are all now "online games"... they want all games eventually always online/streamed to have in game stores. So...
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- Post #132
- May 18, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Question Haven't done any PC gaming in 10 years , need some advice on graphics settings for older games

It really doesn't matter, for a system as old as yours most in game settings in games haven't mattered since the early to mid 2000's. Most AAA games are ports so the only thing you need to really do is run at the lowest resolution, downgrade texture quality and disable vsync for highest fps...
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- Post #2
- May 8, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Moderator discussions forum not found??

Ok well your links are broken in the sticky FYI.
- zink77
- Post #3
- Apr 30, 2019
- Forum: Forum Issues and Feedback
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Moderator discussions forum not found??

I read the sticky and clicked the link but it has an error, I take it you no longer have one?
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- Apr 30, 2019
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Forum Issues and Feedback
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The anti-DRM thread

You once again missed the point... THERE IS NO REASON FOR CORPORATIONS TO CONTROL THE SOFTWARE. This has already been proven by private servers, so no, mmo is a marketing scam. You've been confused by language, you haven't provided one shred of evidence that you can't run mmo's locally because...
- zink77
- Post #115
- Apr 23, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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The anti-DRM thread

And all you said was a bunch of gobbleydy beloved patriot.... There is no difference betwene guild wars, diablo3 and an "MMO" they are both just videogame software that is server locked. AKA you can run wow, guild wars, diablo 3 and UO without corporate controlled servers as a stand alone game as...
- zink77
- Post #112
- Apr 23, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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The anti-DRM thread

Uhh... you missed the point that that was all possible without the drm and subscription, once again proving that the gaming public is stupid beyond comprehension. Note that link to private wow servers, meaning you could have had 1000's of players running their own massively multiplayer shards...
- zink77
- Post #109
- Apr 17, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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The anti-DRM thread

Man you guys can't read between the lines... in the 90's, games were complete with both single player code and multiplayer code included inside the game, you got client and server inside the same exe. The fact that programs have been divided into two was the scam. Pre high speed internet...
- zink77
- Post #107
- Apr 17, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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The anti-DRM thread

Sigh... the fact that private servers exist for UO and WoW prove your thesis that they are "special class of games" incorrect. All that I needed to demonstrate was that you could run mmo's outside of corporate computers control and save yourself the monthly fee and I did that. Sorry to tell...
- zink77
- Post #105
- Apr 17, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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The anti-DRM thread

' Except that's where you're wrong... I was there when PC RPG's in development were rebranded mmo's, notice RPG's on the PC slowed to a trickle and guild wars was just rebranded mmo. DRM is any program that is run from a computer that isn't yours. Let's not forget wow's private servers as...
- zink77
- Post #103
- Apr 16, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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The anti-DRM thread

Complaining about drm is pointless since the battle was won 20 years ago when gamers accepted mmo's which were a total corporate propaganda operation to get people to buy the same PC rpg's with drm and a subscription, as soon as everquest, world of warcraft and guild wars 1 were things and...
- zink77
- Post #101
- Apr 12, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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The anti-DRM thread

Man anyone talking about omni launchers is already full redacted... the fact is if the market worked, mmo's, drm and steam wouldn't even exist. When Blizzard put single player drm in diablo 3 to stream part of the game logic from their servers, everyone fell for it and bought the redacted game...
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- Post #96
- Apr 10, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Are VR Headsets the next big thing?

Nope. Not anytime soon anyway. The reality is you need a killer app to drive it and the problem is it's competing with mobile phones, consoles and PC's that offer a better experience. I don't see VR becoming popular until there's advances in materials science that can shrink it to the size of...
- zink77
- Post #2
- Mar 31, 2019
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Are indie titles the best games?

Like with anything else most of everything is crap. The reality is indies don't have the funds to do AAA games... but AAA gaming has gone to shit with the rise of the internet with microtransactions, drm and gambling inside games. Gaming as a whole is a clusterfuck.
- zink77
- Post #14
- Mar 30, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Question Metro Exodus developer flips out, threatens PC gamers - Tweaktown

The reason devs have these attitudes is because gamers bent over 20 years ago and allowed game companies to steal games. First it was the rebranding of PC rpg's as mmo's to scam the dumb half of the PC gaming public. Then steam came out in 2004. The reality is the internet undermined peoples...
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- Post #33
- Feb 15, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Question Metro Exodus developer flips out, threatens PC gamers - Tweaktown

Valve was the original theif and walled garden purveyor let's remember, they basically forced drm into half-life cs to launch their billion dollar steam store off the back of a piece of stolen software. AKA up until that point we had dedicated server exe's and level editors and the game ran...
- zink77
- Post #6
- Feb 3, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Question What happened to Real Time Strategy Games?

You under-estimate how difficult it is to make an RTS game. Most RTS games were made by AAA devs. AKA supreme commander 1 + 2, Company of heroes. When planetary annihilation ran it's kickstarter it didn't really have the budget to do an RTS, a real AAA RTS takes around 10 million, experienced...
- zink77
- Post #14
- Feb 2, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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Question What happened to Real Time Strategy Games?

It's because of the development of high speed internet reaching the masses aroudn the mid 2000's. Around 2004 world of warcraft came out and that changed gaming in the PC forever, there rise of MMO's and F2P games made most game devs chase mmo money. Remember up until around 2000 we were...
- zink77
- Post #11
- Feb 1, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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The anti-DRM thread

It's almost like the average citizen gamer is a computer illiterate moron, giving rise to mmo's, steam and f2p games because well the gaming masses are irrationally stupid and couldn't see the corporate worlds evil plan's to steal peoples software and now we have "windows 10 as a service". The...
- zink77
- Post #77
- Jan 12, 2019
- Forum: PC Games

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