Recent content by spasicle

Maybe it's just more cost effective for them this way. Their subscriptions probably wouldn't jump too much from going free to play compared to EQ2 and star trek online. Plus they would have to add a micromanagement store and a host of other features to make it the "true" free to play model. That...

The real tragedy of this patch is that bookshelves don't work anymore.

A skull like this pops up every few years in central/south America and people proclaim aliens. It's well known that the ancient civilizations like inca/aztec/mayan/olmec would distort the heads of infants to make them bigger and elongated. It's how their gods are depicted and they want the...

I like how maps and stat tracking, something every online game made in the past decade has for free, is now a unique subscription service for Call of Duty. What a joke.

NSS labs is the same company that said internet explorer 8 stopped 2 to 4 times as many viruses as other browsers back in 2009. I think this report needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt. Edit for clarification: The 2009 IE8 study was found to be grossly skewed in IE's favor and they...

For CCP, no. They been working on two other games while working on Eve online expansions every 6 months, they've wasted tons of money on frivolous features that they're not even implementing anymore. 3/4th of their company is now owned by Venture capitalists. They need to revenue from...

This point isn't about vanity items and micro-transactions. CCP lied right to the users face that they would not introduce game changing micro-transactions. Just look at their April fools joke from '08, it was about adding a service where you can pay cash for ammo, and everyone laughed at how...

But the thing is they've put ZERO effort into security. It's mind boggling to anyone who knows a shred of information on security that Sony is falling prey to these types of attacks. No one is calling Sony out because their system isn't impregnable, no system is impregnable. The problem is...

Storing user passwords in plaintext is beyond inept. Even the most basic forum software hashes passwords, Sony really is asking to be hacked. And a SQL injection? Ridiculous.

Used cars are ruining the automobile industry.

I hope one day you all realize that anonymous is just a blanket term for anyone on the internet not identifying themselves. It's not some secret new world organization with various cells hidden around the world waiting to strike. It's just bored teenagers and actual hackers using the term to be...

Needs more Lord of the Ponies or the P-Team

DirectX is not holding back PC gaming, it's consoles and the fact that PC games aren't developed for one specific set of hardware. DirectX is equal to OpenGl in terms of features and performance. As usual, AMD is wrong.

the base game is $10 on steam, so it's either free or less than $10.

Almost all music used in films, including theme songs for other properties, are paid for to be used in the film. I bet the beiber film wanted to use it for free and now they're trying to bad mouth Nintendo for expecting compensation to use property Nintendo owns.