Not to nitpick, B in "kB/sec" and "mB/sec" should be lower case since these are bit measurements, not bytes. So the 300 Kbps would translate to 37 KBps and the 24(!) Mbps would translate to 3 MBps.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="22" id="2125033"] My personal preference is to have it based on speed. You want a 1MB connection, it's $X. You want 5MB? It's $4X, 10MB? and so on.[/quote] This would also be my preference, I would gladly step down to a 3mbps connection as long as the latency doesn't change (meaning as long as I could still play games with minimal lag).
Currently I have Time Warner cable internet and am paying around $35 a month for (optimally) 8mpbs connection though it rarely goes over around 7mbps. I don't really know how much bandwidth I use but if I had to guess I would say it's well over a hundred gigs per month. I have 3 computers (2 of them power users) and 1 Xbox 360 streaming hd tv shows from netflix fairly regularly in my house, so we burn through bandwidth quite fast. Also, Annatar11 is correct, in my area this
[quote who="Solam" reply="17" id="2124420"]I pay 30$ a month for 20 gig. I can get unlimited but it's like 60$ a month. [/quote] That's way better than Time Warner customers get, the 40 gig per month deal is close to $60 and there is no uncapped option. So you've still got it better than Time Warner customers. By the way, if those values are Canadian dollars that means you get an even BETTER deal.
[quote who="Xlyger74" reply="2" id="2124363"]Grats on top 10, But all i'm sayin is my friends and I are gonna roll you guys when the real version comes out and we cut away from DOTA.[/quote] Sounds like a turf war brewing.
[quote who="arstal" reply="14" id="2124236"] they're losing my business. [/quote] That's the best way to get rid of this, vote with your wallet. If they do this in my area I'll go back to dial up if I have to (though that will suck big time). Edit: About their initial experiment with this, those stats probably aren't representative of actual usage, those people were probably told what was happening and curbed their downloading so as to avoid the charges.&
Figures, I just switched over to Time Warner a month ago. And I don't have any other options in my area (aside from satelite, and I'd rather not have to resort to that, it's my understanding that satelite sucks for gaming.) So I guess they have an iron grip on me. Hope this falls through before they implement it in my area (if they ARE going to implement it in my area, it's kind of rural, so hopefully they'll overlook me until last and by then maybe we'll have other options)
[quote who="clownkill" reply="4" id="2122367"] Well I preordered where is my beta. I now feel that I got robed as I have paid for something that I don't know if i still want it any more. Very dissapointed that i didn't get into the beta. THQ would never of treated its customers this bad.[/quote] You didn't get robbed, you don't get anything early if you preorder anywhere else (Gamestop for instance). Buyer's remorse. I don't know from how THQ treats people, but you aren't
I assume you mean FROM this year, in that case... 1.) Starcraft 2 (I hope it's this year.) 2.) Demigod 3.) Not sure, I have heard some good things about Dragon Age: Origins, but if it's published by EA then I'm not going to buy it (unless they use something more sensible like GOO for their DRM). Maybe I'll go with CoD:MW2.
[quote who="ZerofaithX263" reply="9" id="2122281"]I'm guessing I can't start dling the beta until after I get charged?[/quote] Unfortunately the Beta is over now, so you can't play until release which is 2 weeks from now. They apply pre-orders in waves, for beta1, beta2, and so on. There are no more waves before launch now, so you won't get charged until April 14th, and you also won't get to play until then. Sorry.
[quote who="pyalot" reply="18" id="2121027"] There aren't that many DRM vendors around, I think it's important that this is discussed, that users see that their favorite Game/Company falls into the DRM encumbered corner and that these vendors see that their behavior is controversial at best.[/quote] Firstly, I would like to thank you for answering my question somewhat satisfactorily, though I would've liked the broader view, where you would take this after you managed to dissuade
[quote who="pyalot" reply="16" id="2121000"] You think the law will in time be changed automagically if you just call me a shithead long enough [FAIL] [/quote] I would like you to see my last post and answer the question I put to you please. Thanks.
[quote who="Hack78" reply="3" id="2120952"] As for the launching of nuclear missiles etc... Don't they require a security turn key to enable the launch circuits? I wasn't aware a virus could do that....[/quote] If that isn't some Hollywood fabrication then no, a virus couldn't do that. Due to this topic, I have decided to boot into Fedora 10 and not use Windows for a few days, just incase the worm gets more infections after it is activated. Also I have filled my bat
[quote who="Emperor_Seth" reply="22" id="2120788"] If it comes from Eastern Europe than that means the people responsible for Conficker are possibly Neo-Soviet Terrorist. So if Conficker C will make infected computers under the control of the people controlling it, than that means that if Conficker infects out missle launch control systems the people controlling it will have control of out Nuclear Weapons. Just saying this is how serious this is.[/quote] I seriously doubt that ou
Same thing happened to me when I pre-ordered Sins, except my bank went ahead and held TWICE what Stardock was charging. Don't know why, but they said it was standard procedure. They didn't charge twice when the transaction went through, but they held twice, as collateral or something I think. I went without my Wendy's cheeseburger that day.
[quote who="7hyrael" reply="7" id="2120432"] actually steam got some realy good points. the greatest is that it was the first[/quote] I can't believe no one has mentioned this yet, but Totalgaming.net and Stardock Central was a digital distributor way before Steam was. To my knowledge all Steam did was take the digital distribution and the lobby system and combine them first. (Yes, I use Steam for Valve things and Audiosurf, but I FAR prefer Impulse.) But an
[quote who="pyalot" reply="24" id="2120479"] If you want to have an ethical relationship between the public and the authors, the change has to start here and now, with you and me and stardock and Brad. Change is not something you magick in by writing letters to your congressman and praying/waiting for better laws.[/quote] So, I'm confused. What exactly is it that you want to happen here? Why are you arguing? Why is it better to start here with Stardock and Brad then anywher
It's not that laptops can't run games, it's that the ones that can cost an arm and a leg more than just buying/building a desktop. And you can't upgrade them when you need to (or else upgrades cost more).
[quote quoting="post"] This week Demigod goes into private Gamma testing. [/quote] I'm guessing private means in-company only.
Frankly, I would rather have Stardock remain Stardock than be "the next" whatever. Maybe they can get bigger, but they should still be Stardock. As for Ironclad, I very much enjoy Sins and I very much enjoyed Starcraft and Diablo II (never was much of a Warcraft fan in any iteration). Both Ironclad and Blizzard are on my trust list until proven otherwise.
In your example, where you buy Demigod from Steam, I think the GOO wrapper would ask for account info (email and serial) and deliver that direct to the publisher via Impulse Reactor. The publisher then delivers this info to all other digital distributors that carry Demigod, and that game is added to any account you may have there (perhaps based on the email address that you have given to those accounts). I don't know what would happen if you didn't have an account... I have
ASUS P5N-E SLI 2 gigs RAM Win XP last upgraded about 8 months ago, probably around a thousand bucks total. I ran the longest test. PassMark(TM) PerformanceTest 7.0 Evaluation Version (http://www.passmark.com) Results generated on: Monday, March 30, 2009 Benchmark Results Test Name: This Computer CPU - Integer Math: 260.2 CPU - Floating Point Math: 728.3 CPU - Find Prime Numbers: 605.2 CPU - Multimedia I
Plus shipping and handling, of course.