If companies were really interested in doing the online only properly, the easiest thing to do would be have the game ping a server say every 5 minutes. Just to check the key and make sure it's a legitimate copy.
What's the point of having a 2TB hard drive if you can't put saved games on it. I realize the whole point is to prevent hacking of offline games and then putting them into the online part of the game but like they just trying to piss people off.
I have HBO right now as a cable subscriber. I plan on dropping it after the third season is over and picking it back up next March when season four starts.
What I don't understand is this, if someone doesn't have cable or dish or direct tv, how would those providers even know that the person had an online on subscription to HBO?
I think an unregulated Congress is a dangerous thing. All the studies have shown that an unregulated Congress leads to overreaching laws with unintended consequences.
I have had the streaming option for NHL Center Ice ofr the past three years. Good service, as I live in GA and love me some Chicago Blackhawks. Only problem I've had is somehow the Nashville games are blacked out. Being 300 miles from Nashville seems a bit much. Funny thing is, I can find illegal streams of all the games but choose to pay because the product it good. Even found the stream of Nashville-Chicago that was a gamecenter stream.
Being from the great state of Georgia, it saddens me greatly when one of the two people representing me fails like this. Chambliss is another empty suit nodding his head and 'just following orders.'
This is why Nintendo is a distant third in the console wars. Oh, they'll sell a ton of WiiU's but just like the original Wii no one will be playing it in a year. As much as some people have a problem with MS, their Xbox Live service is exceptional. Everything is tied to your account not your system. Hard drive fails? Get another and redownload everything. Hard part is waiting.
I'll stop talking on my phone while driving, which I don't do every often, when the local police stop talking on their phones while driving. If anything I'm more alert while on the phone.
I tried the Windows 8 beta and I thought it was great for a tablet. The desktop version seems to just be Windows 7 with that hideous Metro UI slapped on top of it. I will be skipping the upgrade to Windows 8 and I bet a lot of other people will too.
I realize that HBO doesn't want to upset the cable companies. It seems to me that HBO could have a streaming service. If people don't have or don't want cable, having them being able to subscribe to HBO Go doesn't lose the cable companies anything. Cox, my cable company, sent me a coupon late in 2010 saying I could get HBO free for a year or a boost to my internet speed, or something else I could use. I chose HBO strictly for the Game of Thrones.
Crap like this is why I rarely play games on the PC anymore. I will end up playing Diablo 3 and yes it's online DRM but I plan on playing a lot online. Usually everything else I want to play will be on the XBox 360.
Here is an experiment I would love to see WB do. Have WB pick two movies coming out this year, The Dark Knight Rises and some other random release. Have the dvd ready to go outside the theater for sale but the only way you get it is to hand over you movie stub in exchange for being able to buy the dvd. The theaters don't get burned and I bet WB sells a ridiculous amount of dvds over that opening weekend.
First rule of business is 'Don't make it hard for people to give you money.' This move is utterly insane on Warner Brothers part. I don't understand why the big 4-5 or how ever many there are, don't get together and offer a streaming service themselves. That way they could cut Netflix out of the picture and maybe people would actually get what they want.
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Man, the only network I watch is CBS. IF they were to shut down, I would be sad but I would find other things to do.
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Guess those 97 books I've read on my Kindle app were free. Wish I could get my money back from Amazon.
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If companies were really interested in doing the online only properly, the easiest thing to do would be have the game ping a server say every 5 minutes. Just to check the key and make sure it's a legitimate copy.
What's the point of having a 2TB hard drive if you can't put saved games on it. I realize the whole point is to prevent hacking of offline games and then putting them into the online part of the game but like they just trying to piss people off.
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I have HBO right now as a cable subscriber. I plan on dropping it after the third season is over and picking it back up next March when season four starts.
What I don't understand is this, if someone doesn't have cable or dish or direct tv, how would those providers even know that the person had an online on subscription to HBO?
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Man, I thought Bob or OOtB might have been outted.
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All the more reason I will forever use Google Docs.
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I think an unregulated Congress is a dangerous thing. All the studies have shown that an unregulated Congress leads to overreaching laws with unintended consequences.
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I have had the streaming option for NHL Center Ice ofr the past three years. Good service, as I live in GA and love me some Chicago Blackhawks. Only problem I've had is somehow the Nashville games are blacked out. Being 300 miles from Nashville seems a bit much. Funny thing is, I can find illegal streams of all the games but choose to pay because the product it good. Even found the stream of Nashville-Chicago that was a gamecenter stream.
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Being from the great state of Georgia, it saddens me greatly when one of the two people representing me fails like this. Chambliss is another empty suit nodding his head and 'just following orders.'
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I've been playing video games since 1978 and playing shooters since ID Software invented it with Wolfenstien.
I also own two guns, a FN 5.7 and an AR-15. I love target shooting and have never even thought about trying to harm someone.
I don't know what the answer is but I can say that it's not taking away rights from many because of a few.
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This is why Nintendo is a distant third in the console wars. Oh, they'll sell a ton of WiiU's but just like the original Wii no one will be playing it in a year. As much as some people have a problem with MS, their Xbox Live service is exceptional. Everything is tied to your account not your system. Hard drive fails? Get another and redownload everything. Hard part is waiting.
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Guess I should delete the 81 books I've read over the past year and a half on my Xoom.
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I'll stop talking on my phone while driving, which I don't do every often, when the local police stop talking on their phones while driving. If anything I'm more alert while on the phone.
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I tried the Windows 8 beta and I thought it was great for a tablet. The desktop version seems to just be Windows 7 with that hideous Metro UI slapped on top of it. I will be skipping the upgrade to Windows 8 and I bet a lot of other people will too.
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I realize that HBO doesn't want to upset the cable companies. It seems to me that HBO could have a streaming service. If people don't have or don't want cable, having them being able to subscribe to HBO Go doesn't lose the cable companies anything. Cox, my cable company, sent me a coupon late in 2010 saying I could get HBO free for a year or a boost to my internet speed, or something else I could use. I chose HBO strictly for the Game of Thrones.
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The cynic in me says of course they did.
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Crap like this is why I rarely play games on the PC anymore. I will end up playing Diablo 3 and yes it's online DRM but I plan on playing a lot online. Usually everything else I want to play will be on the XBox 360.
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This is a rhetorical question right? I mean, of course, our government is meddling in other countries affairs.
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Here is an experiment I would love to see WB do. Have WB pick two movies coming out this year, The Dark Knight Rises and some other random release. Have the dvd ready to go outside the theater for sale but the only way you get it is to hand over you movie stub in exchange for being able to buy the dvd. The theaters don't get burned and I bet WB sells a ridiculous amount of dvds over that opening weekend.
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First rule of business is 'Don't make it hard for people to give you money.' This move is utterly insane on Warner Brothers part. I don't understand why the big 4-5 or how ever many there are, don't get together and offer a streaming service themselves. That way they could cut Netflix out of the picture and maybe people would actually get what they want.