because politicians and privacy groups upset about cookie tracking went way overboard and fucked the web for everyone.

game except shoot, shoot, and more shooting....I'll stick with games like Skyrim, and Mass Effect.

So your complaint is that's it's an FPS and cite you'll be going back to RPGs? Seems like a perfectly valid complaint to me.. ugh..

I have mixed feelings about this because my experience of this went so well. I went from picking a character to kicking ass in less then 2 minutes.

It's not Sony. It's Sony Online Entertainment. It's a completely different company from the one that made the rootkit.

That is the problem I have with micro transactions in games, there is NOTHING micro about it. You can play for free... you just will die a lot unable to kill others because your gun does half the damage. If your lucky.

BS, play the game, the paid weapons do not offer a distinct advantage over the free ones except the rocket launcher for the flying vehicles in which case you have to give up extra after burner to fit them. This game is very balanced to the point where even though I have money i'm not going to bother buying weapons because they don't offer an advantage.

If you look at some of the weapons it's hard the argue that they're actually better anyway compared to the free weapons.

Yes, how dare they attempt to make money to keep the game everyone likes playing running. The assholes should be giving everything away for free!

The game is a true first-person shooter, using its MMO nature to bring a persistent world into play

uh what about planetside 1?

Um, actually wouldn't that make it 840 years away assuming voyager speeds?

The 5750 is almost 4 years old. If it doesn't work fine by this point then it's a total failure of a product.

So one incident created due to the fact that no one is allowed to use lead anymore for environmental reasons. People keep milking this and sure it WAS a problem but compared to the amount of issues with AMD cards in terms of both hardware and software it's nothing.

This doesn't really fit with what i've read in this thread so far.

So a few of them get together and make a copy of your game. It's got the same gameplay elements that they liked in your game, but uses different art and a new engine.

So then it's not "my" game then. If you've made a knockoff that's still a completely different game because you've put a lot of effort into making it. If you look at the efforts of something like OpenMW in which they're trying to make an open sourced version of Morrowind with the same art assets, it's taken them years to complete and they're no where near done yet. This is the exact opposite of copying a game and pirating it which takes minutes without DRM or a few days with it.

I can think of a couple ways it can deprive a game developer directly and these are all well documented:

- If a pirated version is released that crashes, the game can get terrible reviews for crashing all the time
- Pirates that phone, email and tweet for support wasting developers time with non-paying "customers"

> If you just released Mario Party 7, would you want Mario Party 4, Mario Party 5, and Mario Party 6 to be on shelves?

One look at any EA sports franchise would prove to you this point rarely stands against time.

If the submitter did that then in typical slashdot fashion we'd all be sitting here arguing minor details about the company rather then answer his question.