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Comment Re:Please just die (Score 1) 201

You math doesn't work because people don't play multiplayer for just a few hours. I don't play much and yet Steam shows me playing MW2 for something like 200 hours. Team Fortress 2, 500 hours. That's hell of a lot of game play you get for the price of a game. Eventually, I think, all games will move to be multiplayer or coop games because they just are much more fun.

Comment Re:Please just die (Score 1) 201

I honestly don't think many people are buying MW3 or BF3 for purely single player experience. Those are games you get for multiplayer experience, and on top of that you get a nice single player campaign. Those campaigns are really well done and feel cinematic, even if they are so linear.

Comment Re:The inevitable comparison, so let's get it over (Score 2) 201

So "great gamer" or "great mind" is one of those things you need to have now to enjoy games? While I can agree that deathmatch is quite mindless action, the other game modes are less so. Good team work can gain incredible results in MW3 (and the previous MW's), if you play the objective based game modes like Sabotage or Search&Destroy. They are far from mindless action. The perks, class designing and killstreak choices also add another strategist layout to MW3, is delivered from RPG games and is something I absolutely love, as you can refine your classes as close to your wanted playing style as you want to.

I bet you would also say that Team Fortress 2 is "purely mindless action game" based on it's graphics and sometimes fast game play. Yet, it's one of those games where good team work is absolutely essential and the different classes (and players weapon choices along those classes) affect the game a lot. Especially spies add another highly strategist aspect to game and even that you can play in highly different ways, depending on choice of your loadout.

But yes, do take the elitist "I only play real simulation games, who do otherwise suck", while we others enjoy good games regardless if they simulate real world 1:1. And I can tell you that ArmA doesn't either, so it's a bit silly thing to take into comparison.

Comment Re:Is this even a hack? Is this even a data leak? (Score 1) 129

I'm sure these people's full names, street addresses and social security numbers are public information by law, and you can already look it up online. And at least half the population have their phone numbers publicly listed in a phone book or its online equivalent ...

No they aren't. Social security numbers especially should be kept secret. While street addresses can be look up, everyone has the right to block such look ups. You don't need to give a reason and it's easy to do online. I have done so. It can make things a bit more difficult (for example if you forget your key inside and call someone to open the door, they can't check by calling that you actually live there), but anyone is free to choose. Since this leak comes from private databases, it would had bypassed that block and spread private addresses to anyone. That would be especially worrying for someone who has someone stalking him/her. Phone numbers are the same thing. People are free to decide if they want their number public or not.

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