I'd still say if you thought the space stage might be your cup of tea if it wasn't so broken do it properly and go out and buy Sins of a Solar Empire (nothing says good game play like orbital bombardment from massive capital ships that can deploy stand alone siege turrets) off of stardock
the software company for cool people
They don't do DRM and even have their own steam a like called "impulse" which is pretty good.
Submitted by Evilmatt on Tue, 2009-02-03 14:34
But can you create weird five legged creatures with a massive arse on their head, beam them down to the planet of races you don't like then giganticise them?
Because every game needs this...
In other news if my PC meets minimum specs for Sins of a Solar Empire I shall purchase it over this expansion.
Submitted by Skunty on Wed, 2009-02-04 12:48
Sins will run on almost anything I was running it on a work laptop which had nowt in the way of 3d hardware. It is very scalable in it's design.
Submitted by Evilmatt on Wed, 2009-02-04 12:55
Have you shares in Stardock? I think you should write a "Why uoi should play sins" blog post. Crying out for one.
Submitted by brainwipe on Wed, 2009-02-04 13:25
I like stardock as a company they seem to have their heads on the right way round they engage with their customers in a way that most publishers won't. They are not like EA or some of the others out to screw you at every turn saddling you with DRM laden software that either doesn't work full stop, breaks your machine with some horrendous rootkit, or will mysteriously breakdown some point down the line (see the recent gears of war fiasco). They make a descent product, charge a reasonable price for it, and don't take the piss with draconian and invasive copy protection, limited installs, or constant dial home authentication.
Rather than treating all their customers as pirates they think the best way of selling their wares is to give customers added value for their money making it worth paying for. Some time back this whole issue came up when the rootkit people starforce accused stardock of wanting people to pirate their game and then providing a torrent to their software and this was what stardock said http://forums.galciv2.com/106741 . I think more companies should take that attitude so a bit of support recommending their products to others when I find them worth having doesn't seem too much to ask.
Their previous game Gal Civ 2 is pretty good too turn based ... it has terrastars in it.
Submitted by Evilmatt on Wed, 2009-02-04 13:48
I'm with Matt 100% on this. I've got a lot of time for Stardock; they make great games (I loved GalCiv2, and SoaSE was easily my fave game of 2008,) and they make sense on the subject of DRM. Brad Wardell, their CEO, wrote a blog post about a year ago that really impressed me. It covers pretty much everything that's wrong with the PC gaming industry, while explaining why DRM is not the answer. None of it is really news to us, but the CEO of a games company getting it is worth taking note of.
Submitted by AggroBoy on Wed, 2009-02-04 14:46
Are you two sharing a bed at the moment?
I agree that it's great that someone with a successful game is meeting DRM head on, rather than bowling over to what seems reasonable to investors. I shall look into Sins Of A Solar Empire. I might like it.
Submitted by brainwipe on Wed, 2009-02-04 14:57
off topic, what recent gears thing?
Submitted by Skunty on Thu, 2009-02-05 14:05
they fucked up the drm some sort of time stamp in there that expired this year so all copies just wouldn't run
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I'd still say if you thought the space stage might be your cup of tea if it wasn't so broken do it properly and go out and buy Sins of a Solar Empire (nothing says good game play like orbital bombardment from massive capital ships that can deploy stand alone siege turrets) off of stardock
the software company for cool people
They don't do DRM and even have their own steam a like called "impulse" which is pretty good.
But can you create weird five legged creatures with a massive arse on their head, beam them down to the planet of races you don't like then giganticise them?
Because every game needs this...
In other news if my PC meets minimum specs for Sins of a Solar Empire I shall purchase it over this expansion.
Sins will run on almost anything I was running it on a work laptop which had nowt in the way of 3d hardware. It is very scalable in it's design.
Have you shares in Stardock? I think you should write a "Why uoi should play sins" blog post. Crying out for one.
I like stardock as a company they seem to have their heads on the right way round they engage with their customers in a way that most publishers won't. They are not like EA or some of the others out to screw you at every turn saddling you with DRM laden software that either doesn't work full stop, breaks your machine with some horrendous rootkit, or will mysteriously breakdown some point down the line (see the recent gears of war fiasco). They make a descent product, charge a reasonable price for it, and don't take the piss with draconian and invasive copy protection, limited installs, or constant dial home authentication.
Rather than treating all their customers as pirates they think the best way of selling their wares is to give customers added value for their money making it worth paying for. Some time back this whole issue came up when the rootkit people starforce accused stardock of wanting people to pirate their game and then providing a torrent to their software and this was what stardock said http://forums.galciv2.com/106741 . I think more companies should take that attitude so a bit of support recommending their products to others when I find them worth having doesn't seem too much to ask.
Their previous game Gal Civ 2 is pretty good too turn based ... it has terrastars in it.
I'm with Matt 100% on this. I've got a lot of time for Stardock; they make great games (I loved GalCiv2, and SoaSE was easily my fave game of 2008,) and they make sense on the subject of DRM. Brad Wardell, their CEO, wrote a blog post about a year ago that really impressed me. It covers pretty much everything that's wrong with the PC gaming industry, while explaining why DRM is not the answer. None of it is really news to us, but the CEO of a games company getting it is worth taking note of.
Are you two sharing a bed at the moment?
I agree that it's great that someone with a successful game is meeting DRM head on, rather than bowling over to what seems reasonable to investors. I shall look into Sins Of A Solar Empire. I might like it.
off topic, what recent gears thing?
they fucked up the drm some sort of time stamp in there that expired this year so all copies just wouldn't run