EA to implement Ubi style DRM system

[Sailor Steve]

Someday...

Hotas is overkill, i bought a wireless joystick from some company i've never heard of (Medion, they sponsor f1 but otherwise i dont know anything) on ebay for 15 dollars, i still have it all these years later. I dont have a desk anymore (i use my HDTV with wireless keyboard so i can play silent hunter from my couch ) so i dont flightsim, but i miss it.

Yaaay for sims that only require the mouse

[Ducimus]

Since im waxing nostalgia....

How many of ya knew Epson used to make PC's?

This was my first home PC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_Equity

My dad worked on electrical systems for some kind of weapons on attack airplanes (the non-fighter planes that the FA/18 replaced... A3D i think) on the CVN's USS Enterprise and USS Independence in the late 70's. He claims that if he told everything he knew they would have to shoot him, all joking aside im pretty sure he did something related to plane-mounted nuke missiles. All i remember about this mythical "A3D" airplane is it stood for "All three dead", as if an engine failure on takeoff happened it would eject the three occupants straight down.... into the water. Anyone know what i'm talking about? Carrier mounted nuke capable plane with 3 occupants that ejected below? I've been curious for years.

So i was practically born with a computer in front of me practically, and military sims followed as soon as the computer had the color display to make it worthwhile.

Janes USNF, the entire maxis "Aces" series, good times.

[Exakt]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Since im waxing nostalgia....

How many of ya knew Epson used to make PC's?

This was my first home PC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_Equity

Now, that's bringing some old memories... Had schools here who had a bunch of them... I somewhat miss the good old days of DOS back then too...

[Conrad von Kaiser]

Originally Posted by MattDizzle

This game set my career path in life from way back in 1992. Gimme a break man i'm only 24 PC gaming from way back trust me, however i dont fear the change to consoles. I dont need to drop 2 grand into a badass rig every 3 years and if it breaks, someone else has to deal with it.

Lazy youth? perhaps. But i trust steam to always let me have my game, and there is even a built in "Burn to disc" feature complete with PDF manuals. Why fear change? The next generation of consoles reportidly might not even have an optical drive of ANY kind, all games will be pulled from the internet onto an inbuilt hard drive. PC games will be the last bastion of hardcopy games.

Started my online gaming addiction. Heck played that game for 5+ years online and even went on trips to the Rhinebeck Aerodrome to meet the people I gamed with

holy **** i forgot about that game, i remember you could customize your airplane and if you crashed it would show a little story "you were injured and spent 6 months in a hospital" or "You were captured by the enemy".

Little stuff like that in games i miss, imagination goes a long way, and silent hunter could be improved with little picture and text screens like that.

Modifiers, get to work!

[LiveGoat]

Good old Red Baron 3d! Have been thinking of getting Over Flanders Field. but I wonder if it can catch the RB feel.

[Méo]

Originally Posted by RSColonel_131st

Thanks all who supported UBI in this hard decision.

I knew someone would come up with this.

Let me get this straight, freedom works both ways.

They are free to release a product with whatever they want.

You and I are free to buy it or to boycott it.

You don't want it, FINE !!, it's your choice, it's your freedom.

But you got a serious problem if you don't respect other people's decisions.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by MattDizzle

...if you crashed it would show a little story "you were injured and spent 6 months in a hospital" or "You were captured by the enemy".

Little stuff like that in games i miss, imagination goes a long way, and silent hunter could be improved with little picture and text screens like that.

Modifiers, get to work!

That is one of the reasons that Aces Of The Deep is so fondly remembered. It was part of that same series, and you didn't have films showing you recieving medals, escaping from the enemy or being hospitalized, but you did get newspaper clippings: "Hometown Hero Gets Iron Cross - Kptl Bruno Asche"; or "Kptl Bruno Asche lost at sea - family mourns lost hero."

It was awesome in its dated way.

[Arclight]

Good gameplay never gets old.

Graphics may get dated, but that's only the sugary coat that usually wears of eventually anyway.

[janh]

Originally Posted by Arclight

Good gameplay never gets old.

Graphics may get dated, but that's only the sugary coat that usually wears of eventually anyway.

Oh so true, the good old times. Actually, was AOTD ever modded? Would are the chances that someone could ever get the source for such a little old baby?

[[ISI]tshock9325]

EA just went from worst to... erm?

[Arclight]

Originally Posted by [ISI]tshock9325

EA just went from worst to... erm?

Activision?

Originally Posted by janh

Oh so true, the good old times. Actually, was AOTD ever modded? Would are the chances that someone could ever get the source for such a little old baby?

Don't know, pretty rare for a developer to release the source for anything, even a 15 year old game.

[Yak]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Walk into your local games or electronics shop lately? especially Gamestop or EB Games? I don't even bother anymore. Its all console, and a few token PC gams now.

Most brick and mortar stores are 80% console games now. The PC games are always on some back rack. It's feels like your walking into the XXX section in a video store.

If whats on the self is any indicator, PC games are indeed on their way out, and have been for some time.

INtersting thought is PC games is what has driven the technology in computing. If PC gaming draws down to an irrelevant level as to not be a driving force anymore, i wonder how this will effect other technology areas. From GPU',s to CPU's.

While I agree certain doom merchants have been banging that drum for a long time now, the difference, if finally they are right: PC gaming has become a niche market.
Perhaps you haven't noticed, but the vast bulk of games released on PC these days are nothing but shoddy ports of console versions.
Heck, Ubisoft has an openly admitted policy of not releasing PC versions until months after the console release.

Originally Posted by Cavell

I'm not so sure I wouldn't attribute a lot of the brick-and-mortar inventory losses to digital distribution, though. I haven't bought a physical copy of a game in...oh, probably four years? Direct2Drive and Steam get all my business.

Digital distribution is only around 10-15% of sales, and 90%+ of that is concentrated in the US and Western Europe.

The reality is games sell massively better on console than PC: Just look at games like Bioshock where the difference was ten to one.

Originally Posted by Cavell

That's kind of an odd statement to make, given that Direct2Drive offers unlimited downloads of any game you've ever purchased, as does Steam.

I've gone through three different systems, wiped my hard drives countless times, uninstalled them all, etc. They'll be there as long as IGN and Valve are in existence. Same probably couldn't be said of DVDs, which I have a tendency to lose/scratch/set on fire.

But then again not everyone has unlimited downloads and a connection to download a 6gb+ file as many times as they want.

Oh, and first sim: