Heh. I've been using alert and codec for the past 6 years; I'm so used to them that I can't imagine changing.

It sure would be nice to convince Nintendo to give up region locks, at least on the 3DS. I'd kill for a physical copy of AA/GS5, but apparently America just isn't deserving.

I think you forget how terrible the first two months of both the original eq and wow were. Both games were by turns unplayable with up to MINUTES of input lag, or alternately enormous login queues.

It's like half way there in less than a day. This was a sure thing from the moment it was announced.

This is awesome, and I'm enormously happy that they're already 25% of the way to their goal in just a few hours.

Just ignore the overly cynical people. This is awesome, we should support it, and it's already 25% of the way to it's goal in less than a day. It's 100% guaranteed to succeed in the most epic way possible.

You sure are going to pretty extreme lengths to anthropomorphize a company. When I say "screwed over", I mean from our perspective. From their perspective, these practices would have maximized their profits. It isn't that they hate their customers, but rather that they'll do anything they can get away with to make…

There are so many problems with it that it's hard to be comprehensive, but off the top of my head:

If any parent runs off with a child when custody isn't legally settled, it's abduction. Gender shouldn't have anything to do with it.

Man, divorces can be so nasty. My youngest brother recently got one, and the outright lies told by his ex to try to prevent him from getting custody of their son boggle my mind.

Stay away from the horribly buggy, messy, and problematic FFVII PC version on Steam. It's better just to play it on a good PS1 emulator; it looks better, sounds better, and is less buggy.

IMHO, Drop KHII, add either P3 FES/Portable or Xenoblade. Both are worthier candidates. Which isn't to say that KHII is bad or anything, just that both of those games blow it out of the water. I'd probably drop Illusion of Gaia too; although it is a very enjoyable game, it has enough flaws to drag it below many…

I believe you are correct, actually. Had this discussion with a friend a few years back.

Demandin' Gods!

No, just... no. Bethesda-style open world games are primarily about unfettered exploration, while Zelda games are about puzzles and gating. These are fundamentally irreconcilable design philosophies that could never properly work together.

When most people make the "pirated copy can't be equated with a lost sale" argument, we're not encouraging piracy, we're telling you to ignore it, or at least not draw broad conclusions based on it.

I have a pretty simple policy with f2p games. If the game ever allows you to buy power, it's out, period. If it allows you to merely buy convenience (a slippery slope to be sure) or cosmetics without pushing hard for your money, I'll generally feed the developer 10-15 dollars, maybe more commensurate with how much…

That's the right attitude to have. Wait and see if they truly mean to change their ways, rather than instantly re-embracing them with open arms.

They still need to fix the "one account per console" issues so that playing games from other regions isn't such an epic pita. Other than this one (enormous) hassle, I really do like the system.

If you want to instantly forgive people who slight you or appear to be out to screw you over, that's your prerogative. Having a degree of skepticism about an organization after they tried to screw you in an epic fashion seems quite reasonable to me.