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Originally Posted By: VentOriginally Posted By: Tyranicus
...EA is doing their best of late to end Steam's monopoly. Battlefield 3 will not be going on Steam but will be on Origin, their own digital distribution service...
Do you want bet that this won't last much? Sure EA has a huge catalog but EA alone... Anyway it's clear that Origin isn't the right way to do it.
The only thing I can see would be an Open Source meta digital gaming desktop. Something encapsulating many digital shops. Not only that could temper a little Steam extreme domination but also that could also offer a real game desktop instead of the crap all offer including Steam one.
Technically impossible, perhaps, but when all but Steam will want find a solution, who know. Also at the rate it goes, possibly in 10 years or a bit later Steam will have big problem with USA anti trust laws and possibly problem too with EU anti trust laws if there's any.Originally Posted By: Earth Empiresother digital ds's have 1 big problem and its that steam has existed a while and has got big userbase who might not want to change dds or start using 2nd dds.
Lol see where it already goes, you can't even imagine consumers using more than one digital shop.
I don't know perhaps you are right, myself I use few more, for example last GamersGate sales was interesting with games like:- Thief: the Dark Project 5€
- Culpa Innata 5.39€
- Precursors 8.99€
- Twin Sector 2.5€
- Red Faction 1.24€
- Samurai II: Vengeance 3.5€
- Alien Hallway 3.98€
- Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony 4.48€
Yeah GamersGate is just an ant in comparison with Steam, But that's the point, there's only a limited number of days per year and Steam not only can't cover all. The situation is leading to Steam only and few ant markets beside, not sane.
Quote that I'm writing that, but I'm also buying most digital games in Steam.
I wasn't saying Origin was the right option. I was just commenting that it exists and EA is pushing it.
Direct2Drive, which has been around as long as Steam, and Good Old Games also have great deals from time to time. Steam's big advantage, and the reason I prefer to buy my games there, is the centralized location for all my games. Install Steam on an computer with a reasonably fast internet connection, and I immediately have access to nearly 200 games on my Steam account. Many people have even more. If you buy from different vendors, you then have to download from all those different vendors should you need to reinstall. I understand that monopolies are bad, but in this case, a monopoly really does make things more convenient for the consumer. -
Originally Posted By: VentBut the monopole Steam situation is becoming more and more a problem. It's just not sane and can only end on crap. The situation is too unbalanced and nothing seems be able to stop that. I like Steam but it's a big threatening on gaming.
EA is doing their best of late to end Steam's monopoly. Battlefield 3 will not be going on Steam but will be on Origin, their own digital distribution service. -
Originally Posted By: SternoIt's really not uncommon for people to buy a game on Steam when it's cheaply priced (such as the current $9 for Avadon) and then not getting around to playing it for a few weeks, since they're currently playing something else. And maybe they'll never get around to playing it at all. Don't underestimate the power of low-price impulse purchases.
This. I have nearly 200 games on Steam. I have never touched many of them. -
Originally Posted By: RandomizerOriginally Posted By: Self-Deletion Fan Fiction—Alorael, who wouldn't count on getting an update to Avadon 1. Jeff has never changed game content after release.
Except Avernum 4 where Jeff kept going back to keep players from exploring and breaking the main quest line.
I seem to recall that he changed the chitrach graphic post-release in A4 as well.
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I can't help but notice that the people who are having problems with OpenGL are using AMD cards. Perhaps there is some flaw in the way the AMD drivers handle OpenGL.
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Originally Posted By: KexinWhole Window? Why not call it full screen LOL.
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I was bullied and beaten up many times in middle school and high school. As someone with Asperger Syndrome, I did not fit in socially at all. Couple that with the fact that I was very intelligent and arrogant, and you have a recipe for someone whom everyone likes to pick on and for whom no one cares to intervene.
I don't really have a good choice to pick on that poll though. I'm 25 now and have developed many social skills since then. Also, adults do bully each other, but it is less common.
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I nearly always name my characters after members of this forum. In the Avernum 6 game that I am playing, I have Tyranicus, Nicothodes, Ephesos, and Arancaytar.
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SheepShaver is better than Basilisk II. It can be a little annoying to setup, (and to find an OS 9 disc and an old Mac ROM file) but once you have it running, it works pretty well. Also, as a PPC emulator, instead of a 680x0 emulator like Basilisk II, it will actually run most classic Mac apps.
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This North American watches Top Gear and thus got the joke. I'm not implying it was a good joke by any stretch of the imagination, but I did understand it.
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Originally Posted By: @DelphiWhere do the Knights of Solamnia turn undead? Original modules? AD&D sourcebooks?
—Alorael, who found the original trilogy quite clear on the lack of any supernatural powers among Solamnics. They were knights in the European sense: aristocracy with arms and armor and a code of honor.Click to reveal..You have to remember that the gods had only just returned in the original trilogy. Krynn had no cleric powers for a very long time, so the knights you see in that trilogy do not have that power. The order of old had that power, and they do have it later after the gods return, well, until the gods leave again at the end of Dragons of Summer Flame. Presumably, they have cleric powers again post War of Souls. -
Yeah, I must be masochistic because I was involved in that as well.
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Um what? Darkness is the absence of light. It's not a thing. There is nothing to convert.Originally Posted By: madriganThe various underworld creatures can perform reverse photosynthesis and convert the dark into energy.
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I am aware of this. I mentioned Dragons of Despair, which is the first Dragonlance campaign module and was later adapted into the first half of the novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight.Originally Posted By: Lilithincidentally before it existed in the form of either modules or novels Dragonlance started out as a dude's D&D campaign, and all the other stuff is ultimately based on that. true fact.The Knights of Solamnia are very clearly the Dragonlance equivalent of paladins. At higher levels, they are able to turn undead. On a related note, the Knights of Takhisis would equate to Blackguards.Originally Posted By: Liliththe Dragonlance setting does not in fact have Paladins as a class, at all.
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Icewind Dale is 3.0, not 3.5. Granted there aren't really that many differences between the two. I started out on second edition, but at this point, I'm much more familiar with 3.5. It's what the group I'm in plays. I tried to play 4E once, and I really couldn't get into it.
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Originally Posted By: In the company of the average
The third edition barbarian fits culturally but not mechanically, but ranger and paladin are out because the magic isn't setting-appropriate. Fourth edition ranger works, and the profusion of classes means you could probably break everyone up into different types of guys with weapons anyway. Who wants to be the warlord?
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Originally Posted By: RandomizerThe first Dragonlance books were written based upon 1st edition AD&D rules. Unearthed Arcana was out when the books started and they tried to follow the rules for mages and clerics down to spells and number of spells cast per day for those low level characters. Raistlan finding a spellbook so he could learn his next level spells was one thing.
By the third book in the original trilogy the authors were starting to ignore the rules to make the story more interesting.
The reason the third book started to diverge from straight representation of AD&D rules that the authors had caught up with and passed the campaign module production. About halfway through the second book, the modules started being based on the books and not the other way around. -
Originally Posted By: HOUSE of SI think Sturm would have been a Paladin and Tanis a Ranger even in 1st edition rules. Or was Dragonlance pre-Unearthed Arcana?
All I know is, the original Dragons of Despair module, which I have lying around somewhere with a bunch of other old D&D stuff, lists them as warriors.
I've never actually played the original AD&D. I have some modules that I've picked up here and there, but by the time I started playing D&D, everyone was doing 2E.
I tried to play a fan-made Neverwinter Nights module of Dragons of Despair once, but the person who created it did such a horrible job with the dialogue that I just couldn't keep playing. -
That comic is a very old tradition that predates me as well. If you look at the URL for the image, Dantius is actually posting it from my site. Years ago, Archmage Alex drew a series of comics about the boards. They may or may not still be around somewhere. When he was an active member, he would post that particular comic whenever someone made a postcount celebration thread. Other people started doing it, and the rest is history. A few years ago, I put a copy on my site, so that I would have easy access to it for posting in this type of thread.
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There is a cleric too! Also, in the original AD&D campaign, there were a bunch of warriors, but if it were made to 3rd edition rules, (possibly 4th too. I'm really not familiar with 4E) Sturm is clearly a paladin, Riverwind is obviously a barbarian, and Tanis is most likely a ranger.
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Originally Posted By: Darth Ernieactually there are eight characters which gradually get whittled downClick to reveal..What? Only two of the original party die by the end of the original trilogy. Sure, they are pretty much all dead by the end of the War of the Souls, but that is many many years later.
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Quote:15. And finally, how many members can you name who created a topic to announce their permanent departure from the forums, only to return years, months, or days later?
Nikki can officially be added to this list now. -
Originally Posted By: NiemandCongratulations!
Thanks Niemand. It seems congratulations are in order for you as well, since you used your 2000th post to congratulate me on my 3000th.Originally Posted By: SlartuckerI didn't even think about that. Looking at your Recent Posts, that must be, what, 600 or 700 posts?
I honestly didn't count, but it was a great many.
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I think all the scenario reviews I ported have more or less made up for the posts made with the other two accounts.
Who Felt the Earthquake?
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A 5.8-magnitude earthquake happened in northern Virginia today. Here in central Pennsylvania, it just felt like a small lurch.