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Best part is that they take money at three separate places:
a) First there's a listing fee - you have to pay money for your item to be listed, regardless whether it sells or not
b) Then there's the transaction fee, which you incur upon a successful sale of an item
c) An additional transaction fee if you want to get real money you made from your auctions
Not to mention that 3rd party companies you're transferring the money to may also take another cut...
Plus, there are much easier, more efficient ways of money laundering electronically. The poker site avenue might be closed to the US market, but there's always BitCoin for the technically illiterate. (For the technically literate, set up a pay site. It'll blend into the millions of other porn sites, and won't raise eyebrows if it makes a good chunk of money.) You might cause some serious market distortions if you're trying to move big money amounts through the BitCoin exchanges in a short time span, but it can't be worse than suddenly trying to run several grand through Diablo 3. :| Plus, BitCoin's anonymous and not necessarily connected to your IP like a DRM-infested game would be.
GTA San Andreas has been ported over to the RAGE engine :up:
warning, this is not the ID Tech 5 engine that the game Rage is being programmed on.
Just picked up as a bargain and started The Witcher: Extended Edition. Enjoying it so far though still very early, love the idea of trying to out-drink an NPC to be the first under the table. Not sure if there's meant to be any skill involved in that mini-game.
Minecraft still.
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Still playing Guildwars, character is ~20 months old now, and I only recently discovered I can give myself a leg up by praying at the temples outside of the outposts :haha:
But this... this is going to be 2012's game of the year. WITHOUT. A. DOUBT.
Getting an embed error?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0QYPpC_Na4
The Witcher keeps crashing. Looked online and it seems a lot of people saying it regularly crashed.
Got Enhanced Edition and it appears there's no further patches for it.
I believe Enhanced Edition shipped with the 1.4 mega patch. Man you should have tried to play it before that massive patch :haha:
There is a 1.5 patch.
http://www.thewitcher.com/the-witcher/1/
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Played a few hours yesterday.
It's rather ... peculiar. :bulb:
Amusing enough to keep me going for now. Don't think there's much in the way of longevity, given from what I can see of the number of levels available.
What system you playing on? I've heard nothing but horror stories from the PC guys. Its so bad Steam is offering refunds, which is extremely rare for them.
Bad in what way? :confused:
My system is old - Q6600 Quad thingy, GTX8800, Win vista, 4GB RAM
It crashed to desktop when I very first ran it. Not a single problem since.
And I've just finished it. Much too short. Took me about 5-6 hours total. :sour:
Nice idea - but now that they have the engine, they need to create another hundred or so maps. 10 or 12 really doesn't cut it.
That its a terrible console port, no display options beyond resolution, no control over music volume, and the bait and switch on the DRM stance between when pre-orders went live and the game became available.
No one seems to having problems with the concept, just that Ubisoft once again screwed over the PC crowd.
In my dreams, this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5wBIPF8bGA
Just finished Portal 2.
Genius. Laughed throughout. :up:
Use of Stephen Merchant's voice was fabulous. It seems so weird having a Bristolian West-Country accent on a slightly-deranged and ultimately megalomaniacal AI mind.
Many, many, many /10
Just started playing Mafia II and I love the look and atmosphere of the game, its purdy and appears to capture the era nicely... haven't played enough yet to judge anything else about it though...
If you plan on picking up Deus Ex, I would suggest not doing so at Gamestop. They are opening every PC copy and removing the inserts because they include a free game coupon to OnLive. :down:
I've always been more of a RTS gamer myself, so at the moment Darkest Hour: A hearts of Iron game. I'd say it's the best grand strategy game I've seen. There's no tactical aspect but it's really great for what it is.
HoI, nice... one of the better Paradox franchises. But man, talk about a learning curve... I always have to have the manual or a cheat sheet up on my 2nd monitor while playing.
Gamestop is bragging about this now on their Facebook page, and its the top story on Reddit. Can't help but question which gave Onlive more publicity, the coupons, or telling 2.7+ million facebook fans what they are doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
If you plan on picking up any video game, I would suggest not doing so at Gamestop. Because the entire corporation is run by shady douchebags.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
So where else do we go to buy really old used DS and Gameboy games?
Amazon & eBay are good places to start.
I've picked up used DS games from Amazon's Warehouse Deals page before. Half the price that Gamestop wanted (3 pokemon games) and they were flawless. Even had the nintendo club slips still. Knew they were used cause one of the games had a full pokedex.
Yeah, Darkest hour varies a bit from the general HOI games though. I like most the ability to play as essentially political nobodies like Argentina.Quote:
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The learning curve is killer indeed. I still haven't broken free from the yoke of cheat codes either.
I recently invested in Real Life. Anyone know any cheat codes?
Nope, just lackluster graphics and monotonous gameplay. Just so you know the college line of quests can take longer than 4 in game years.Quote:
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I've sold a few on Amazon, but never bought any.Quote:
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Quote of how they're bragging?
Deux Ex has the slowest loading screens in the world. Fuck man. I'll probably get through a copy of Atlas Shrugged by the time I finish the game.
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They gave up moderating the comments and wall posts a few hours into the whole thing. so if you check before morning I assume you will see the type of response they have gotten. Seen this spread to kotaku, cnn, ars, consumerist digg, reddit, etc. Gamestop has simply given up and is no longer stocking the game in store, but you can of course still download it from Impulse (which Gamestop bought a few months ago), and its a Steamworks protected game, so its still on Steam. Which makes Gamestop's decision to attack OnLive even more retarded.Quote:
Regarding the Deus Ex OnLive Codes: GameStop’s policy is that we do not promote competitive services without a formal partnership.
Square Enix packed a competitor’s coupon within the PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution without our prior knowledge and we did pull these coupons.
While the new products may be opened, we fully guarantee the condition of the discs to be new. If you find this to not be the case, please contact the store where the game was purchased and they will further assist.
<shrug>
They have a point about the game containing a promo for a competitor's service. Not that I'd be upset to see Gamestop die, or anything like that, but it's a valid point... I don't think Apple would keep something in their app store that came with a promotional discount for Win7, so I don't get the big fuss.
Its not Gamestop's position to decide what the publisher puts inside its packaging. If Gamestop doesn't like it they could very well send it all back or not accept it (ie Apple). Like they finally decided to do. Valve games use Steam, games with Steamworks use Steam, EA games now use Origin. The PS3 version of Portal came with a free PC Steam version. All competing services. I doubt Gamestop doesn't understand this. They took something out of the package that their customers were expecting to be there, even the employees seem to understand this since the coupons are popping up all over ebay. Guess thats why they are now offering full refunds, even though its a Steam activated game.
So.... you're outraged that it took Gamespot a day to figure out the right thing to do, and make things right (or better) with the customers they wronged? Oh, yeah, that really boils my blood too. :bored:
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Originally Posted by CitizenCain
You have a funny understanding of the world around you.
And you're a lying sack.
Snipping out your own post where you acknowledge that GS has already returned remaining copies to the publisher, and is offering refunds to customers who got shorted a coupon. Yeah, outrage!!
Kindly stop being a disengenuous shit to misrepresent my position, and do so at your earliest convenience, thanks.
Still not seeing this outrage you're screaming about. A provided a warning, then follow ups as the story progressed. You seem just a tad bit insane.
Alright, I get it. You're FOX News, providing us with fair and balanced coverage. Thank you for providing us that service.
:bulb: I'm not even sure what you're whining about this time. The idea that I passed on what Gamestop was doing? Or that I updated about how Gamestop is doing damage control in my first post of the morning? Or that I quoted directly from Gamestop PR?
Are the boards really so dead you have to reach for such straws, are we so light on content you have to get your daily fix of assholishness from attacking GameStop news? :bulb:
I think I'm almost done with Guild Wars Factions. My in game map looks almost like the map on my wall, so the quests should be wrapping up any second.
Direct2Drive is currently selling Dragon Age 2 for ~$12 US, use coupon RETAIL15 to bring it to $10 and some change. Great deal to help last until the winter sales.