How very sloppy of them.
I'll "buy" the BitTorrent version.
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Mortious probably says this to all the girls:
I always get hard copies. No, I have a better idea as a reward for their sloppiness.I'll "buy" the BitTorrent version.
Out of curiosity, why?
I understand the last-century need for a physical representation of your game you can always just pop into the drive and blast off with, but with the success of publishing platforms like Steam, and to a lesser extent the Xbox Live service, is it a matter of faith, or something more?
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Delphi Aegis said:
Out of curiosity, why?I understand the last-century need for a physical representation of your game you can always just pop into the drive and blast off with, but with the success of publishing platforms like Steam, and to a lesser extent the Xbox Live service, is it a matter of faith, or something more?
Because I might want to play it like 5 months or so after completing it, like I do with most 4X empire building games. In that case I don't want to have to sit twiddling my thumbs for an hour before I can play the fucker.
I've also had bad experiences with any direct download that's not Steam.
I'LL PASS THANKS.
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Mortious had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
I always get hard copies. No, I have a better idea as a reward for their sloppiness.
They're an indie developer who's been screwed over by developers pretty badly in the past. Stardock is pretty much second to Steam in terms of online publishing. And just so you know, the title isn't being published in Europe because no publisher will publish it.
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RPS: Firstly, being Europeans, a little selfish note. While its in the shops in the US, and available via Stardock online, we cant help but notice its not actually on the schedule to hit in the UK and Europe. Whats happening there? I heard no-ones picked it up? What on earth are publishers thinking?Brad: For the past year weve been trying to get major European distributors or publishers to pick up the game to no avail. In case after case we were told that Europeans just dont like futuristic games like this.
Blair: I have no idea and I find it hard to believe. We have an incredible number of people from various European countries already involved and Germany alone has more Sins fan sites than the rest of the world put together
So don't blame the developers here. By pirating it you're only furthering the publisher's point. Talonus fucked around with this message on 02-07-2008 at 10:29 PM.
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In case after case we were told that Europeans just dont like futuristic games like this.
Cause Dr Who just fell flat in europe am I rite
ALSO RED DWARF HOLY CHRIST Maradon! fucked around with this message on 02-07-2008 at 10:39 PM.
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Maradon! had this to say about Duck Tales:
Aren't stardock the guys who told the excessively virulent DRM company Starforce to stuff it up their ass and suffered immensely in the publishing community as a result?
They had been sort screwed by publishers in the past and decided to self-publish GalCiv2 with no copy protection. Some random poster mentioned on the Starforce boards and Starforce responded by posting a torrent link to GalCiv2 on the on the forums. They were basically trying to brag and say "look what happens to people who don't use copy protection!".
Starforce suffered a ton of backlash, both from the community and developers, and lost a couple of big contracts IIRC. On the other hand, GalCiv2 sold very well for an indie game and Stardock is doing pretty well for itself since deciding to self-publish. Talonus fucked around with this message on 02-07-2008 at 10:46 PM.
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Maradon! was listening to Cher while typing:
Cause Dr Who just fell flat in europe am I riteALSO RED DWARF HOLY CHRIST
Those aren´t really popular, or even known outside of the UK, you know.
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Tarquinning:
Those aren´t really popular, or even known outside of the UK, you know.
Yes they are. I'm outside the UK and I know them.
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Ozimander attempted to be funny by writing:
You've taught THEM a lesson in Industry, by Jove!
I let forth a hearty, crumb-spraying laughter at this
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Tarquinn had this to say about Knight Rider:
So a single US-nerd is representative for Europe... how again?
Everyone knows who Dr. Who is you spastic, ha ha.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Tarquinn said:
The lack of any single player campaign = instant turn-off
Space Empires V and Sword of the Stars both had no single player campaign whatsoever.
They were still addictive and fun as hell.
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There was much rejoicing when Stalwart Steve said this:
Everyone knows who Dr. Who is you spastic, ha ha.
i thought spastic was an adjective
spas or spaz or something. my mom used to call me that because i was a hyper kid
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Mortious's account was hax0red to write:
Space Empires V and Sword of the Stars both had no single player campaign whatsoever.
Nor does Civilization IV.
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Mortious who doth quote:
Space Empires V and Sword of the Stars both had no single player campaign whatsoever.They were still addictive and fun as hell.
Were they RTS's though?
Since this is apparently only a wannabe 4x I can only imagine that individual skirmishes would be pretty short and the actual amount of development possible pretty limited, making skirmishes pretty pointless.
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Maradon! said:
Were they RTS's though?
Nope, both were fully-fledged 4X games.
Limited graphically but fun as all hell. Especially Space Empires V, which is awesome considering the entire development team for the Space Empires franchise is one guy.
It's horrible.
Absolutely horrible.
Avoid with a passion.
It most certainly isn't a 4x but it definitely scratches that master-of-orion itch.
The lack of an SP "campaign" really doesn't amount to much. Single player is divided into scenarios of different sizes, and even the smallest map can take a dozen hours or more. You can play any one at any time, but they have a definite logical progression to them. There's no real dialogued plot, but you can fill in the blanks.
There's a lot of strategy in setting up planetary defenses, the tech tree is satisfyingly broad, and there's even a decent amount of strategy to combat.
what else is new?
When it comes to spaceships, EVE has spoiled me. 
money back prz
oh wait that's what gains is saying, so yeah Maradon! fucked around with this message on 02-12-2008 at 11:03 PM.
.. and I meant EVE as in they're both spaceship games, but the models mainly. I'm spoiled with good graphics is what I meant.
all i see is algebra. four times a game is not a game
it's like a civ game rather than a traditional game like starcraft or something
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Mr. Gainsborough had this to say about Captain Planet:
eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminateit's like a civ game rather than a traditional game like starcraft or something
why dont they just say turn based strategy then
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Everyone wondered WTF when Gadani wrote:
why dont they just say turn based strategy then
idk i dont play those games
