Comments on: Now That’s Why I Love A Best 2008 Ever! March

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By: Meat Circus

Meat Circus — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:22:06 +0000

@Malkav11:

Hur hur. You said “snatches”.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:28:49 +0000

Much more accurate would be a count of total “snatches”, i.e., how many times that torrent has been fully downloaded since its posting to the site. Of course, Pirate Bay and most other public trackers aren’t going to track that kind of info for obvious reasons.

By: Janto

Janto — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:47:08 +0000

Good show on these retrospectives, it’s nice to look back on the year and see things put into a wider context.

By: Dreamhacker

Dreamhacker — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:33:24 +0000

Aww… RIP Gary Gygax :(

By: Caiman

Caiman — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:22:46 +0000

Arnulf: “pored”, but most native English speakers can’t seem to get that one right either. The idea of “pouring” over a report always amuses me though.

By: Erlam

Erlam — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:42:38 +0000

“Dr Tanya Byron, the television psychologist whose study was commissioned by Gordon Brown, said allowing children to play on computers unsupervised is as dangerous as letting them play outside on their own.”

Wow, I can’t believe that was printed, and then read, and people believed it and AGREED with it. What the fuck? Letting people who are less than 12 outside to play? INSANITY!

By: DigitalSignalX

DigitalSignalX — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:16:12 +0000

“1d4 minutes of silence in his honour” rofl.

re: private trackers, indeed the best speeds will be with them, but I believe the majority of the people who use torrents still use public; the usage stats for Mininova, TPB, and BTI would top every private tracker site combined.

Counting seeds and leechers would be a very rough, but reasonably accurate way to judge a title’s demand among ppl pirating games in the face of no other firm statistical data.

By: Jochen Scheisse

Jochen Scheisse — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:18:28 +0000

On a side note, the much anticipated patch for Soulstorm recently came out, together with a hotfix half a week later to fix some patch related problems. Soulstorm is now actually playable in multiplayer. The “campaign” is still a skirmish metamap which is done in a somewhat loveless fashion though, but if you just want to buy the game to access Dark Eldar and Sororitas leetness, you have my go for that.

By: hydra9

hydra9 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:35:08 +0000

@Tei: I am a big fan of low-budget, kinda dodgy FPS games, the junk-food of the industry. I’ve played more than a healthy number of these titles, and I appreciate their charm. But I was surprised by how genuinely crap TP and Legendary were. There are plenty of unknown Russian shooters that put them to shame.

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:21:54 +0000

Re Soulstorm: I seem to recall seeing an enormo-patch in the Steam updates a while back which looked like it was plugging up most of the exploits. Anyone know how sucessful it was?

By: RichPowers

RichPowers — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:13:49 +0000

Brad Wardell should get an award for “Coolest PC Gaming Chap of 2008.” Equally important to Stardock’s success, I think, is its ability to produce excellent games for less than $1 million. Keep costs low and you have to sell fewer copies to make bank. For example, the Natural Selection 2 dev said they only need to sell 50,000 copies to be “in good shape.” They’ll easily sell several times that, I’m sure.

More PC gaming studios/publishers like Stardock, please. Not necessarily making epic space games, but treating their customers fairly and releasing quality products with lots of replay value.