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[Haasth]

[Gazdakka Gizbang]

Mizu, on 26 December 2011 - 12:00 PM, said:

They then swiftly started milking the whole thing with Vietnam

Vietnam was good. Wasn't half as ugly, you could still put in your own number for Conquest tickets, you could still put in as many bots as you liked on the map, and they used all the vehicles!

BF2 was the disappointment to me. They completely overlooked the offline aspect of the game when Vietnam did it so well. Only 15 bots? No jets offline? No editable Conquest tickets? Only small maps?!? Unlocked online weapons are inaccessible offline?!?!?! It took Bad Company 2 for me to finally forgive them, because building destructibility is the best thing to have happened for first-person shooters for the last 7 years.

Edited by Gazdakka Gizbang, 08 January 2012 - 09:37 AM.

[Kakatios]

Online tech news The Register has this interesting article: http://www.theregist...silent_on_sopa/

Which explains I haven't seen anything on the news about it. Sadly it will probably pass because our Congress is, well, stupid. Or maybe ignorant. There is a difference. I want to be a lobbyist against SOPA and just ask for those supporting it to give me a list of all the movie studios, music studios, and game developers and publishers that have gone out of business.

Sure I can think of a few game developers that have gone under, but more likely because of bad business decisions or being bought out rather than piracy. But yeah, even if I'm correct with that thinking, it probably will pass. I am more than nervous of where the US is headed.

[Piglet]

Yeah so apperantly the date for the internet 'blackout'  is set for the 23rd. I hope it won't affect my new favorite game Star Wars The Old Republic

But that would be weird anyways..

[Haasth]

Piglet, on 09 January 2012 - 06:52 AM, said:

Yeah so apperantly the date for the internet 'blackout'  is set for the 23rd. I hope it won't affect my new favorite game Star Wars The Old Republic

But that would be weird anyways..

Isn't EA supportive of SOPA? So they'll keep running.
Just got to remember not to publish anything that day...

Edited by Haasth, 09 January 2012 - 03:58 PM.

[Eifoz]

Haasth, on 09 January 2012 - 12:11 PM, said:

Isn't EA supportive of SOPA? So they'll keep running.

Nobody really knows.
They're only listed as supporters because they're part of ESA. But other members of ESA are actually against SOPA.
Source.

[Haasth]

More awareness spreading. Riot (Developers behind League of Legends) are attempting to act against SOPA.

http://na.leagueofle...lp-us-stop-sopa
http://www.reddit.co..._directing_our/

[Erix]

http://kotaku.com/58...re-take-on-sopa

[Piglet]

i don't really get the fuz about it Erix. 9/10 times costumer support answers are automated answers by a reply bot. Only on the second or third go do you get a real person. this was just a standard response to a question that was not in it's database.

Besides that, who contacts costumer support for a question about something as SOPA? you should contact the company itself and there are ways to do that without going through costumer support.

[Haasth]

Clearly SEGA is telling us congress is a bad install and we should reset it.

[Piglet]

So, white house is against the bill. I guess we are somewhat safe now?

[HissingNewt]

Piglet, on 14 January 2012 - 05:50 PM, said:

So, white house is against the bill. I guess we are somewhat safe now?

Depends on how much the legislature wants it to pass. If Obama vetoed it (and I have no reason to expect that he would if public outcry died down) the legislature can override his veto with 2/3 of the votes in each house.

[Erix]

The White House was also concerned about that other law recently that allows people to be held without a trial. That went through anyway.

[Cheeseinator]

I would hope that SOPA becomes a major issue in the elections. The media covers the presidential race way too much, should SOPA come up as an issue more people would know about it and it could end up as a deciding factor in the elections depending on the candidates' stance towards it.

[Haasth]

Cheeseinator, on 15 January 2012 - 05:53 PM, said:

I would hope that SOPA becomes a major issue in the elections. The media covers the presidential race way too much, should SOPA come up as an issue more people would know about it and it could end up as a deciding factor in the elections depending on the candidates' stance towards it.

I think it will, or at least has, little example here:



"Representative Paul Ryan, Republican, pulled his support from SOPA after the freedom fighters over at Reddit raised over 15,000 dollars in less than 48 hours for his opposition who is an anti-SOPA supporter. So he completely changed and pulled his support from SOPA."

But thankfully some people do have some sense after so much opposition. Shame it had to go this far for them to start realizing this.

[Sean_Seanston]

VICTOLY!!!!!

[Haasth]

Now they just got to get rid of PIPA, and all will be well in the woooorld. Well.. well-er.

I assume the blackouts are still going to go through since PIPA is still around.

[Erix]

Haven't heard anything about the blackouts being aborted yet.

[Piglet]

Wikipedia is going dark tomorrow if I am correct.

atleast the English version of it.

[Erix]

Even if it's "just" the English version, it'll hit people outside the US/UK as well. I personally don't ever use the Danish version unless I absolutely have to.