Comment: Betteridge's law of headlines (Score 2, Interesting) 268
No.
Comment: Probably misspoke or is incompetent (Score 1) 1
He probably misspoke or is incompetent, at least outside his specific job role. That said, I'd like to see them try and monitor encrypted communications. As far as I know, even the FBI hasn't cracked some of the more popular encryption algorithms.
Comment: Re:life-long updates (Score 2) 687
Reminds me of the copy protection on Spyro: Year of the Dragon. It was a layered system, where the first layer was easy to crack, but each time you cracked a layer, another layer cropped up that introduced bugs at some arbitrary point in the game. Fix one bug, you end up introducing another. It was eventually cracked in a rather ingenious way, but it took much longer than any other game at the time.
Comment: Re:Not a huge surprise... (Score 1) 303
And yet SimCity hasn't been cracked yet. Who are they going to blame this time?
Comment: Re:How I feel about this (Score 1) 118
You're really surprised by that? There's a reason the entertainment industry is booming while groups like Doctors Without Borders have to fight as hard as ever to get the funding they need.
That said, I don't think it's an inherently bad thing. Humanity isn't made of saints, so what? What matters is that a successor to one of the only games I've ever played with worthwhile writing is getting a sequel. People were never going to spend their entertainment money on anything else, so it may as well go to something worthy of it instead of a dumbed-down, DRM-encrusted version of SimCity or some other garbage.
That said, I don't think it's an inherently bad thing. Humanity isn't made of saints, so what? What matters is that a successor to one of the only games I've ever played with worthwhile writing is getting a sequel. People were never going to spend their entertainment money on anything else, so it may as well go to something worthy of it instead of a dumbed-down, DRM-encrusted version of SimCity or some other garbage.
Comment: I don't think so (Score 3, Funny) 185
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Comment: It's just a simulation (Score 1) 235
They're coming soon. Maybe you should think twice about opening the door.
Comment: Fantastic article, and from Kotaku? Impressive. (Score 2) 399
I normally hate most of the garbage that comes out of Kotaku, but this is a really good article. That said, it reminds me a lot of Yossi Kreinin's C++ FQA. A good chunk of the article is spent talking about how Doom 3's source is good code despite being bad C++. What kind of language is best written in a way frowned on by the C++ community? Absurd!
Comment: This summary is stupid. (Score 2) 333
I'm biased against EA, Bioware, and SWTOR. KotOR 2 is my favorite game ever (especially with TSLRCM), and I think SWTOR ruined the franchise beyond repair, like George did with the new trilogy. There's no going back, they already retconned like half the stuff form KotOR 2 and just labelled Kreia (a fantastic character with a lot of depth) a "crazy old woman." I doubt we'll ever get another KotOR game; this is probably the end, and for what? Yet another MMO moneygrab, and a buggy one at that. I think what EA did with this is absolutely shameful and I refuse to buy EA products now because of it.
That said, this summary is absolutely ridiculous. How is adding content that people requested (if only in a small chunk at first) "anti-gay?" The summary makes it sound like anyone who ever wanted same-sex options are forced to stay on one planet, which isn't the case at all; the content just hasn't been added to the other places yet. I don't know who wrote this summary, but they ought to be ashamed, too. There are plenty of bad things to say about SWTOR, EA, and Bioware that are actually true that nobody should need to make shit up.
That said, this summary is absolutely ridiculous. How is adding content that people requested (if only in a small chunk at first) "anti-gay?" The summary makes it sound like anyone who ever wanted same-sex options are forced to stay on one planet, which isn't the case at all; the content just hasn't been added to the other places yet. I don't know who wrote this summary, but they ought to be ashamed, too. There are plenty of bad things to say about SWTOR, EA, and Bioware that are actually true that nobody should need to make shit up.
Comment: Re:A couple things that kept me from upgrading... (Score 1) 791
I never thought I'd see the day where I pirated Minesweeper.
Comment: Think of where the innovation's coming from (Score 4, Insightful) 514
I'd say Russian, Japanese, or German; those three countries seem to have a pretty big focus on technology.
Comment: Re:When is it ok to discuss gun proliferation? (Score 1) 2987
Mod parent up. This says it far better than I could have, and I agree 100%.
Comment: Re:These belong in a museum! (Score 1) 199
That's absolutely fantastic. I was about to say that I think there's no problem as long as all the stuff's archived.
Also, your emulator is really great; I love it. Far better than the alternatives for SNES, and with one or two exceptions, it's the best emulator for every system it supports (at least that I've tried).
Also, your emulator is really great; I love it. Far better than the alternatives for SNES, and with one or two exceptions, it's the best emulator for every system it supports (at least that I've tried).
Comment: Re:Microsoft's Biggest Mistake (Score 1) 298
To Microsoft's OS division. It would be more like a large kick in the nuts to their Xbox division if it takes off, since that's what it's actually competing with. And like tibman said above me, the metric you should be using is percentage of gamers, not percentage of PC users. You seem to be implying that gaming is something other than a multi-billion dollar industry and I'm not sure why.
Comment: Re:This is ridiculous (Score 1) 217
Except they're not. People in Diablo 3, at least, were getting hacked because session data in public games was being hijacked or something, allowing people to authenticate as someone else using that information (I believe there's a /. article about it, in fact). And as for WoW, I came back after 3 years of not playing and my account had been hijacked a year prior (God knows why, I had a single level 30 character). My password was not something easily breakable and was unique to my battle.net account, and I hadn't had any communication with Blizzard in that three year time period. The only explanation I can come up with is that they had a break-in that they failed to notify their users about or some other security flaw. Both of those are problems on their end.
Blizzard's security is absolute crap. Selling a car with a shitty lock and then handing out dongles to fix it is not an acceptable practice. I wouldn't care if they were free; that's simply not how a professional corporation should do business. They need to fix their shit or I won't buy from them; it's that simple. The customer shouldn't have to deal with that crap.
Blizzard's security is absolute crap. Selling a car with a shitty lock and then handing out dongles to fix it is not an acceptable practice. I wouldn't care if they were free; that's simply not how a professional corporation should do business. They need to fix their shit or I won't buy from them; it's that simple. The customer shouldn't have to deal with that crap.