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[QUOTE="ocstew"] Lol. EA is a PUBLISHER. Steam needs games from publishers to turn a profit. Nothing can replace the huge hole left by the absence of EA games if they do decide to boycott.Baxhand

Right. A publisher. A being the key word. Even if EA were to take their ball and go home (to their second-rate service which would no-doubt be the target of boycotts and general scorn), Steam is so ludicrously profitable that they're not a big enough piece of the pie to cause any major damage.

Any given week/month there are 3-4 EA games in the top 10 sellers list on steam.

With the deals of summer on steam this would not reflect this now due to the deals going on. When there is no sales running EA is on that list alot.

If you do a steam "top 10 sellers" for the last couple of years EA will have 3-4 games out of the top ten on average of best sellers for any given month/week on steam.

Just saying.

And if EA didn't have their games on Steam then it would be another 3-4 games taking up those slots. The point is, EA profited far more than Steam in the equation and if they pull their games from Steam it will cost them far more money than it will cost Steam and Valve knows it, thus their unwillingness to compromise at this time.

A lot of people check out Steam every week for their deals. Far fewer people go out and check every other DD service. It'd be like Panasonic pulling all their HDTVs out of Best Buy. It doesn't matter that there are other, and better, places to buy Panasonic HDTV's, a ton of people seem to think Best Buy is the only worthwhile place to buy them at and they don't visit those other places. Those people will simply pick a different brand. A lot of people who love Steam have this same mentality.

EA just wants people to buy off Origin to increase their own profits, but I'm not sure this is the best way for them to go about things.

I feel like Nintendo is the only company that makes reliable hardware. I almost never hear any stories about Nintendo systems failing. EliteM0nk3y

Then you never had an NES. Everyone who owned one could tell you about having to make sure the cartridges were put in just far enough to get them to run, the blowing in the cartridges, etc. Any electronic item is susceptible to failure. Next gen Microsoft's console will probably be stable and another one of the consoles will get the rep for being shoddy.

I've actually thought a game like this would be cool as well. I wish I had the money and programming skills to make it myself.

Dead Space is a good example. It's scary, the character has to ration resources (with the exception of ammo) and it has action! JustlyHero3

I'm sorry, but I have to wonder what resources you're talking about, because I never had to ration anything in that game. I had so much equipment I found myself having to constantly drop or pass up stuff. I never once had the fear of running out of anything except for space in my inventory.

It's close between Fable 2 and Farcry 2, but I have to go with Farcry 2 because I couldn't even bring myself to play more than a few hours. Malaria will go down in history as one of, if not THE, worst idea to be foisted upon us this gen.

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I ordered a new motherboard and AMD X2 64 bit processor, but intended to keep my video card until the prices on new cards dropped a bit. I was so freaking excited when it arrived I set to work putting it together immediately. An hour later I had it all ready to go and went to put in my AGP video card only to realize that the new board was PCI only. Yeah....I felt dumb.

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My wife let me order a new video card, but the new tower sat in the corner taunting me all weekend.:cry:

I ordered a new motherboard and AMD X2 64 bit processor, but intended to keep my video card until the prices on new cards dropped a bit. I was so freaking excited when it arrived I set to work putting it together immediately. An hour later I had it all ready to go and went to put in my AGP video card only to realize that the new board was PCI only. Yeah....I felt dumb.

I hope he's actually a cool character. I personally didn't like Robin that much ever. Just thought he was kind of annoying. But I'll keep my hopes up! I'll have to preorder from Best Buy now!:D

SaintForHire

Well by the looks of it this Robin is Damian, who was trained by assasins. Even if it turns out to be Tim Drake it wouldn't matter. In the comics (which the game is obviously based on rather than the movies) Robin has been a much darker character for decades.

It's funny that you speak of taking out religion as a good thing because most people were dissapointed it was taken out. The ability to sway other civs without direct diplomacy or outright war was one of the better things about Civ IV.

I personally don't like Civ V because after six months it still crashes on me about halfway through a game. I've tried every fix I could find, playing smaller maps, turning down setting, even installing it on other rigs and it's still an unstable mess. Top it off with the fact that the AI denounces you at every turn for no reason whatsoever and I just got sick of it.

Yeah, the new combat system is neat, but it's not worth dealing with the mess that is the rest of the game.

A game is a game, they all count. Why would I care what format it's on?