Ok, just out of curiosity, I'm going to post a list of ways a company can make money off of used games. I've listed them in order of what I see as least to most severe. I would like people in favor of this to show me where they think the line should be drawn. Just quote me and add a line, or if that doesn't work, bold the ones you think aren't kosher or something.
A. Free DLC for new copies; something frivolous like armor or a custom skin
B. Free DLC for new copies; new areas/quests
C. Free DLC for new copies; new characters
D. Main game ends on cliffhanger, "Real Ending" of a game in DLC; which comes free if you buy it new (imagine Dead Rising's Overtime being day 1 DLC under this system)
E. Free DLC for new copies; things usable in multiplayer (like if you could only use an M16 in the next CoD game if you buy it new or pay for the DLC)
F. Multiplayer mode locked by default, free unlock code in new copies, or pay to download it.
G. License required to play game at all, license comes with all new copies or can be purchased online for used copies.
Bonus round: Where do you think the video game company execs would draw the line?
I will always draw the line at D. Anything below that, I don't care about.
Someone needs to start a D&D thread so we can discuss this without sending the steam thread madly off topic. Someone who isn't me because I suck at making D&D threads.
Is there any way to find out who has the most accumulated playtime for a given Steam game? I just noticed that I've hit the 500-hour mark for Terran Conflict, and I wonder just how badly I compare to all the other users and especially mod developers out there.
Is there any way to find out who has the most accumulated playtime for a given Steam game? I just noticed that I've hit the 500-hour mark for Terran Conflict, and I wonder just how badly I compare to all the other users and especially mod developers out there.
just start the game and alt tab, and the playtime will accumulate.
so answer to your question is prolly no.
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I've had Majesty 2 sitting in my backlog for a long while now. I started it up last night, just to have a look, and it seems like a lovely little game. Exactly the sort of thing I will lose hours and hours to. Hours that I don't have, of course, but still.
Edit: You know, I take that back. I just tried to start it up again and the fucking thing wont run. It goes straight into a minimized state and there's no way of accessing it, other than killing the process. Appearantly, the game doesn't appreciate being installed on anything else than the main drive, where the OS is. At least that what the forums tell me.
I've had Majesty 2 sitting in my backlog for a long while now. I started it up last night, just to have a look, and it seems like a lovely little game. Exactly the sort of thing I will lose hours and hours to. Hours that I don't have, of course, but still.
Edit: You know, I take that back. I just tried to start it up again and the fucking thing wont run. It goes straight into a minimized state and there's no way of accessing it, other than killing the process. Appearantly, the game doesn't appreciate being installed on anything else than the main drive, where the OS is. At least that what the forums tell me.
That is very handy to know prior to purchase. Thank you.
I've had Majesty 2 sitting in my backlog for a long while now. I started it up last night, just to have a look, and it seems like a lovely little game. Exactly the sort of thing I will lose hours and hours to. Hours that I don't have, of course, but still.
Edit: You know, I take that back. I just tried to start it up again and the fucking thing wont run. It goes straight into a minimized state and there's no way of accessing it, other than killing the process. Appearantly, the game doesn't appreciate being installed on anything else than the main drive, where the OS is. At least that what the forums tell me.
Ok, just out of curiosity, I'm going to post a list of ways a company can make money off of used games. I've listed them in order of what I see as least to most severe. I would like people in favor of this to show me where they think the line should be drawn. Just quote me and add a line, or if that doesn't work, bold the ones you think aren't kosher or something.
A. Free DLC for new copies; something frivolous like armor or a custom skin
B. Free DLC for new copies; new areas/quests
C. Free DLC for new copies; new characters
D. Main game ends on cliffhanger, "Real Ending" of a game in DLC; which comes free if you buy it new (imagine Dead Rising's Overtime being day 1 DLC under this system)
E. Free DLC for new copies; things usable in multiplayer (like if you could only use an M16 in the next CoD game if you buy it new or pay for the DLC)
F. Multiplayer mode locked by default, free unlock code in new copies, or pay to download it.
G. License required to play game at all, license comes with all new copies or can be purchased online for used copies.
Bonus round: Where do you think the video game company execs would draw the line?
I will always draw the line at D. Anything below that, I don't care about.
Then I take it you never play computer games. F has been standard for probably decades, and it would be G if there was any way to actually verify it.
anyone know of a way to access your installed games without going online at all? The internet isn't getting installed till saturday (next week's saturday) and the pregnant lady is getting bored. I can get into X-Com, but not much else.
I've had Majesty 2 sitting in my backlog for a long while now. I started it up last night, just to have a look, and it seems like a lovely little game. Exactly the sort of thing I will lose hours and hours to. Hours that I don't have, of course, but still.
Edit: You know, I take that back. I just tried to start it up again and the fucking thing wont run. It goes straight into a minimized state and there's no way of accessing it, other than killing the process. Appearantly, the game doesn't appreciate being installed on anything else than the main drive, where the OS is. At least that what the forums tell me.
Well, you can put a symbolic link for majesty 2 to your main drive. Try steammover if you don't know what that is
anyone know of a way to access your installed games without going online at all? The internet isn't getting installed till saturday (next week's saturday) and the pregnant lady is getting bored. I can get into X-Com, but not much else.
Try running the exe files directly from the steamapps folder, it works for a few things.
I've had Majesty 2 sitting in my backlog for a long while now. I started it up last night, just to have a look, and it seems like a lovely little game. Exactly the sort of thing I will lose hours and hours to. Hours that I don't have, of course, but still.
Edit: You know, I take that back. I just tried to start it up again and the fucking thing wont run. It goes straight into a minimized state and there's no way of accessing it, other than killing the process. Appearantly, the game doesn't appreciate being installed on anything else than the main drive, where the OS is. At least that what the forums tell me.
That is very handy to know prior to purchase. Thank you.
Yeah, Majesty 2 is in my Steam directory on my J: drive and works fine, so I don't think that's a guarantee of potential problems.
In fact, the only problem I've run into on Majesty 2 is this one mission where an evil wizard casts this spell that fucks up all your shit near your keep every couple minutes unless you've got a Wizard tower. The one time I managed to get a wizard tower up and running *and* a couple other guilds *and* get my economy started a level 10 werewolf showed up and killed everything.
So, I put that mission to the side for a moment, and have been playing others.
Ok, just out of curiosity, I'm going to post a list of ways a company can make money off of used games. I've listed them in order of what I see as least to most severe. I would like people in favor of this to show me where they think the line should be drawn. Just quote me and add a line, or if that doesn't work, bold the ones you think aren't kosher or something.
A. Free DLC for new copies; something frivolous like armor or a custom skin
B. Free DLC for new copies; new areas/quests
C. Free DLC for new copies; new characters
D. Main game ends on cliffhanger, "Real Ending" of a game in DLC; which comes free if you buy it new (imagine Dead Rising's Overtime being day 1 DLC under this system)
E. Free DLC for new copies; things usable in multiplayer (like if you could only use an M16 in the next CoD game if you buy it new or pay for the DLC)
F. Multiplayer mode locked by default, free unlock code in new copies, or pay to download it.
G. License required to play game at all, license comes with all new copies or can be purchased online for used copies.
Bonus round: Where do you think the video game company execs would draw the line?
I will always draw the line at D. Anything below that, I don't care about.
Then I take it you never play computer games. F has been standard for probably decades, and it would be G if there was any way to actually verify it.
Decades? As in, more than one?
How old are you?
It's called a "CD key" and decades is close to the truth.
I've had Majesty 2 sitting in my backlog for a long while now. I started it up last night, just to have a look, and it seems like a lovely little game. Exactly the sort of thing I will lose hours and hours to. Hours that I don't have, of course, but still.
Edit: You know, I take that back. I just tried to start it up again and the fucking thing wont run. It goes straight into a minimized state and there's no way of accessing it, other than killing the process. Appearantly, the game doesn't appreciate being installed on anything else than the main drive, where the OS is. At least that what the forums tell me.
That is very handy to know prior to purchase. Thank you.
Yeah, Majesty 2 is in my Steam directory on my J: drive and works fine, so I don't think that's a guarantee of potential problems.
In fact, the only problem I've run into on Majesty 2 is this one mission where an evil wizard casts this spell that fucks up all your shit near your keep every couple minutes unless you've got a Wizard tower. The one time I managed to get a wizard tower up and running *and* a couple other guilds *and* get my economy started a level 10 werewolf showed up and killed everything.
So, I put that mission to the side for a moment, and have been playing others.
I have found some news on this, though. The problem seems to be related to the recently released expansions. Battles of Ardania, at least. I don't know about Monster Kingdom. I'll just quote from the thread on the Steam forums.
I just bought the game plus Kingmaker and Battles of Ardania and have the same problem.
I've discovered that if i disable either of the expansions (by renaming the resource.expansion_1 or 2 folders) the game will run.
There appears to be no launcher selection in place for BoA and/or combinations of other expansion. There is certainly no bmp files for selecting BoA inside the localization folder. Running BoA via this method shows a blank button rather than the name of the expansion. Running Kingmaker shows a named button.
Not a solution but a potential work around for the time being...
This does indeed work. When I ran the game last night, I only had the Kingmaker expansion (resource.expansion_1) installed and that worked fine. Earlier today I bought the Battles of Ardania expansion (resource.expansion_2) and then attempted to run the game again, which failed.
I tried renaming the folder for Battles of Ardania now and it works. Hopefully, we'll get an official fix soon.
Ok, just out of curiosity, I'm going to post a list of ways a company can make money off of used games. I've listed them in order of what I see as least to most severe. I would like people in favor of this to show me where they think the line should be drawn. Just quote me and add a line, or if that doesn't work, bold the ones you think aren't kosher or something.
A. Free DLC for new copies; something frivolous like armor or a custom skin
B. Free DLC for new copies; new areas/quests
C. Free DLC for new copies; new characters
D. Main game ends on cliffhanger, "Real Ending" of a game in DLC; which comes free if you buy it new (imagine Dead Rising's Overtime being day 1 DLC under this system)
E. Free DLC for new copies; things usable in multiplayer (like if you could only use an M16 in the next CoD game if you buy it new or pay for the DLC)
F. Multiplayer mode locked by default, free unlock code in new copies, or pay to download it.
G. License required to play game at all, license comes with all new copies or can be purchased online for used copies.
Bonus round: Where do you think the video game company execs would draw the line?
I will always draw the line at D. Anything below that, I don't care about.
Then I take it you never play computer games. F has been standard for probably decades, and it would be G if there was any way to actually verify it.
Decades? As in, more than one?
How old are you?
It's called a "CD key" and decades is close to the truth.
I think specifically locking out multiplayer is a recent thing. Barring public workstation-based oddities like Netrek, effective multiplayer over TCP/IP wasn't even around until Quakeworld in 1996, and then in retail probably around Jedi Knight or Half Life in 97/98. But I don't think I've personally played anything on the PC (having mostly quit PC multiplayer around when Half Life 2 came out) that lets you tool around in singleplayer while locking out the multiplayer.
Old games frequently had shit like this. There was a Zelda like game called Star Tropics that came with a letter from a mentor character or something. Anyway you had to save the letter (it did say on the letter not to throw it away). Near the very end of the game you have to dip the letter in water to reveal a secret message, a code. You have to enter the code to proceed.
In other words if you bought this game at Funcoland you were screwed, you couldn't beat it.
The code was 747 btw. I'll never forget that. Took me hours of guesses.
Plenty of games had the 'single player but no multiplayer' thing - you could install the game with any old CD key, but when you went to multiplayer it would check if anyone else was using that key and lock you out if they were. Battlefield 1942 springs to mind first, although it didn't really have singleplayer.
Plenty of games had the 'single player but no multiplayer' thing - you could install the game with any old CD key, but when you went to multiplayer it would check if anyone else was using that key and lock you out if they were. Battlefield 1942 springs to mind first, although it didn't really have singleplayer.
I liked practicing bombing runs on the bots.
However, that probably didn't help so much taking in to account latency with dial-up.
Old games frequently had shit like this. There was a Zelda like game called Star Tropics that came with a letter from a mentor character or something. Anyway you had to save the letter (it did say on the letter not to throw it away). Near the very end of the game you have to dip the letter in water to reveal a secret message, a code. You have to enter the code to proceed.
In other words if you bought this game at Funcoland you were screwed, you couldn't beat it.
The code was 747 btw. I'll never forget that. Took me hours of guesses.
To this day I've never beaten Star Tropics because of that.
anyone know of a way to access your installed games without going online at all? The internet isn't getting installed till saturday (next week's saturday) and the pregnant lady is getting bored. I can get into X-Com, but not much else.
I'm going to do thing to give away some games now. I call it:
Funday Friday ArmA2 Contest! Start your weekend off with a bang!
"But it isn't Friday," you ask.
A. Shut up.
B. It's so you can have the game on friday/there are more people here today than on real friday.
Ok, during the Christmas sale I bought two copies of ArmA 2 for some deadbeats who have no intention of ever redeeming their copies. Their loss is your gain!
The sales pitch! Armed Assault 2 is the latest game from Bohemia Interactive, famed developers of Operation Flashpoint. It's slightly more realistic than other shooters. It's tons more fun than other shooters. You can get it for free if you win one of two contests! Featuring Marines! The Army! The Royal Flying Corps!
The contest! This contest will be in two parts, because I have two copies and I'm unimaginative.
Part the first! Do the work for me. The first contest is to come up with the best idea for a contest. The winner will be whatever I find to be the funniest or most interesting hoop to jump through.
Part the second! Jump through whatever hoop the fuckers in part one came up with. Assuming anyone here even wants a copy of the game.
Here's a picture to whet your appetite. Hopefully.
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edited March 2011
God, ArmA. Sometimes, me and my bud thinks we'd like to play some coop again, but we never do because it turns out we've forgotten all the controls on how to play the thing.
Because Shogun 2 has inflated regional pricing, but the Total War collection does not, you can buy every single Total War game from Rome onwards for $10 more than just Shogun 2. And this pack includes Shogun 2.
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Doesn't G apply for everything owned on steam?
Makes no difference at all. There's a little dialog change but its hardly noticeable.
just start the game and alt tab, and the playtime will accumulate.
so answer to your question is prolly no.
Edit: You know, I take that back. I just tried to start it up again and the fucking thing wont run. It goes straight into a minimized state and there's no way of accessing it, other than killing the process. Appearantly, the game doesn't appreciate being installed on anything else than the main drive, where the OS is. At least that what the forums tell me.
That is very handy to know prior to purchase. Thank you.
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Think I'm gonna hold off on Mafia 2 till either all the DLC are included in a sale, or preferably some kind of package deal is released.
What is this, 1997?
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Decades? As in, more than one?
How old are you?
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Well, you can put a symbolic link for majesty 2 to your main drive. Try steammover if you don't know what that is
Try running the exe files directly from the steamapps folder, it works for a few things.
Yeah, Majesty 2 is in my Steam directory on my J: drive and works fine, so I don't think that's a guarantee of potential problems.
In fact, the only problem I've run into on Majesty 2 is this one mission where an evil wizard casts this spell that fucks up all your shit near your keep every couple minutes unless you've got a Wizard tower. The one time I managed to get a wizard tower up and running *and* a couple other guilds *and* get my economy started a level 10 werewolf showed up and killed everything.
So, I put that mission to the side for a moment, and have been playing others.
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Now they work for Valve, so win/win.
I have found some news on this, though. The problem seems to be related to the recently released expansions. Battles of Ardania, at least. I don't know about Monster Kingdom. I'll just quote from the thread on the Steam forums.
This does indeed work. When I ran the game last night, I only had the Kingmaker expansion (resource.expansion_1) installed and that worked fine. Earlier today I bought the Battles of Ardania expansion (resource.expansion_2) and then attempted to run the game again, which failed.
I tried renaming the folder for Battles of Ardania now and it works. Hopefully, we'll get an official fix soon.
In other words if you bought this game at Funcoland you were screwed, you couldn't beat it.
The code was 747 btw. I'll never forget that. Took me hours of guesses.
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I liked practicing bombing runs on the bots.
However, that probably didn't help so much taking in to account latency with dial-up.
To this day I've never beaten Star Tropics because of that.
Or ST2.
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So offline mode isn't working?
Funday Friday ArmA2 Contest! Start your weekend off with a bang!
"But it isn't Friday," you ask.
A. Shut up.
B. It's so you can have the game on friday/there are more people here today than on real friday.
Ok, during the Christmas sale I bought two copies of ArmA 2 for some deadbeats who have no intention of ever redeeming their copies. Their loss is your gain!
The sales pitch! Armed Assault 2 is the latest game from Bohemia Interactive, famed developers of Operation Flashpoint. It's slightly more realistic than other shooters. It's tons more fun than other shooters. You can get it for free if you win one of two contests! Featuring Marines! The Army! The Royal Flying Corps!
The contest! This contest will be in two parts, because I have two copies and I'm unimaginative.
Part the first! Do the work for me. The first contest is to come up with the best idea for a contest. The winner will be whatever I find to be the funniest or most interesting hoop to jump through.
Part the second! Jump through whatever hoop the fuckers in part one came up with. Assuming anyone here even wants a copy of the game.
Here's a picture to whet your appetite. Hopefully.
If someone wants to use my entry idea for the create a contest though feel free-
"Create the most unimaginative first person shooter"
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Because Shogun 2 has inflated regional pricing, but the Total War collection does not, you can buy every single Total War game from Rome onwards for $10 more than just Shogun 2. And this pack includes Shogun 2.
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Contest idea: Film a non game / non tech savvy family member or acquaintance playing the ARMA II demo.
find a screen shot or take a picture of what is in your opinion the best looking ARMS...
example:
look at those arms!
Cough. Now I propose a photoshop/paint.net/gimp contest to move those soldiers and that chinook into a much more colorful environment.
Are you giving away ArmA 2 or Operation Arrowhead? Or Combined Arms?
Unless that screenshot is from a campaign where the US Army invades a terraformed Mars, they apparently forgot what color the sky is supposed to be.