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Meiyang Lee
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Posted - 2009.07.19 07:46:00 -
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 Originally by: Zeba
EA is probably going to install some sort of background 'folding@home' type of proggy with the new cnc4 to do research on the sly and make even moar money using thier customers computers as distibuted computational nodes.
If that's all it does I think you'll have to be grateful. Creating this "MMO-type connection required" single player game allows them install quite a neat bit of Spyware, as well as provide a nice security leak for malware to use.
EA isn't exactly known for quick responses to bugs and issues, any security weakness in that addition to C&C is going to have months to be abused before (and if) it's finally fixed.
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Meiyang Lee
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Posted - 2009.07.19 15:59:00 -
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Originally by: Sokratesz
Someone should go talk with the EA CEO and tell them how the average gamer views them.
Actually, I'm more curious how their marketing department manages to spin all this negative response (which is bound to show up in their market-research) into something positive for the board. Those people must be really good to conceal the fact that most gamers hate the company's guts from the directors.
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Posted - 2009.07.20 08:39:00 -
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Originally by: Anyura
Was C&C 2 the last one to be DRM free?
Tiberium Sun wasn't DRM free, it used an early version of SecuROM.
Nowhere near as invasive as the recent version, it was just a disc-check, but still technically DRM.
Most games with disc-checks use some version of SecuROM or Tages, but generally not the version that covertly installs itself onto your system like a piece of Malware and can mess things up.
You had StarForce for that back in the day. 
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Meiyang Lee
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Posted - 2009.07.21 06:49:00 -
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Originally by: Kurfin
I rather like GTA4
To be fair to Rockstar they didn't just leave the game broken, they have now fixed a lot of the issues with the game which is more than some developers can be bothered to do. Of course it would have been nice if it was released onto the PC without a lot of the issues, but a game of GTA4's size and scope is never going to be completely bug free.
They could have bothered optimising the game a bit, rather than releasing a piece of software that looks like it was made 5 years ago, but demands hardware that barely exists to run at full settings.
Crysis at least gave you eye-candy if you possessed the hardware needed to turn things up, GTA4 doesn't. That is GTA's big glowing weak spot, it looks like **** but demands prodigious amounts of power to run even half decently.
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Posted - 2009.07.21 11:40:00 -
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Originally by: Kurfin
Originally by: Meiyang Lee
Originally by: Kurfin
I rather like GTA4
To be fair to Rockstar they didn't just leave the game broken, they have now fixed a lot of the issues with the game which is more than some developers can be bothered to do. Of course it would have been nice if it was released onto the PC without a lot of the issues, but a game of GTA4's size and scope is never going to be completely bug free.
They could have bothered optimising the game a bit, rather than releasing a piece of software that looks like it was made 5 years ago, but demands hardware that barely exists to run at full settings.
Crysis at least gave you eye-candy if you possessed the hardware needed to turn things up, GTA4 doesn't. That is GTA's big glowing weak spot, it looks like **** but demands prodigious amounts of power to run even half decently.
Whilst it could have been optimized better, because of the draw distances in GTA4 mean it would still take a lot of power to deliver average graphics anyway. Not to mention all the other things going on around you all the time to help give the impression of a living breathing city. A, by comparison sterile, FPS where you can't see for miles is always going to be able to give you better graphics on the same hardware as a GTA type game.
I suggest you compare shots of GTA4 running at 720p on an Xbox360 to GTA4 running on a mid-range gaming PC at a similar resolution. (say 1280x1024 or 1440x900)
The gaming PC has a ton more power than that xbox does, but it'll barely run the game at more than lowest settings while the xbox version looks a lot better despite being vastly inferior in terms of power.
That simply smells like extremely bad optimising (which should be easy, xbox and PC are practically the same as it is) or deliberate crippling of the game.
To be honest, my guess is the latter, since Rockstar Social Club and Windows Live (and Steam if applicable) all being required to run isn't exactly consumer friendly either.
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