If you get your games from P2P, you could be in for a nasty surprise. An in-depth look at the effects of filesharing on PC gaming, after the Dream Pinball 3D legal case. Includes interview with technology lawyer Struan Robertson.
PCGamer : One of the great strengths of PC gaming is a back catalogue that spans decades. Companies like Nintendo emulate older games on their modern consoles, but that can't compare to the thousands and thousands of games you can track down from the history of the PC. But not every banger that's ever dropped on DOS or Windows is so easy to find. Some of the all-time greats still aren't available digitally even now, and your only legal way to play them is to hunt for a boxed copy on Ebay and hope it plays well with modern Windows.
Like the article said, No One Lives Forever has no known owner. This mean you can't buy it, but you can (for now) download it for free without repercussions. Just go to nolfrevival(dot)tk to get the whole series for free. Lol
Rumor on the street is it's coming to the Epic store, maybe the free mystery game today (which will be revealed in little over an hour)?
Black & White was decent, back then my most played would be Worms 2 for the online multiplayer tho.
NOLF i didn't really get into.. I was busy enjoying Soldier of Fortune 2 online multiplayer in 2002 until the next big thing came in 2004: Half Life 2 and then the free online DM mode which came slightly after.
I have a copy of Black & White lying around somewhere. Haven't played it in 15 years. Wonder if it's worth anything. Interesting game...like Populous or something, but I could terrorize the people with my 300ft demon cow. It never quite got the balance between people management and creature training right though. Always felt disjointed.
You missed out if you never played the NOLF games... they were fantastic and hilarious, and still to this day, not a game has come close to replicating the magic of those games. I've read many articles over the years about how Night Dive Studios has tried desperately to corral the rights on multiple occasions, but alas... the source code is seemingly missing/gone and no one truly knows who owns it. Unbelievable, really... So, if we ever hope to see the NOLF games live on, someone would have to build it from scratch. :/
I did love me some Soldier of Fortune 1 & 2, as well... they were janky at times, but so much fun.
Takes a bunch of random games that were not available digitally and complains or makes a obvious point? that you cant get them anymore. Yeah, the gen x game list probably will do that.
And then there us the matter most of these can still be obtained (digitally) even some legally for free. Was this just a random thought? Oh gee I miss these games (or maybe I heard of), let me me pull something out of my butt for an article.
From Xfire: "With the next game being a return to the classic XX42 formula, now is as good a time as any to make an utterly definitive and in no possible way controversial ranking of the Battlefield games we've enjoyed over the years, with which undoubtedly nobody will take issue in the comment section. Right? Okay then - here we go, from least good to best."
Bad company 2 was still my favorite, sure it was a bit gimped compared to the rest if the series but more fun and far more satisfying weapon unlocks.
Battlefield 1942 + both expansions are my all time favorite, it can still be played online to this day. Vietnam would be my 2nd, 3rd Battlefield 2, last BF2142 the rest I didn't care for. They really need to remake from the ground up in the new engine BF1942. Next year it will be 20 yrs since it was released. If they don't at least to me would be a disservice. ☹
"erasing that simply reinforces toxic male privilege." I see the writer is one of those types of people...
AusGamers was curious at the lack of a new Battlefield or even Bad Company at this year's E3 and posited questions around the series' future through one of their expert Battlefield players. The end result is a deep-dive on how EA and DICE should look at the modern landscape in games and potentially reposition their development and support priorities.
Yeah and even if they did make a new Bad Company, I'm not so sure they could make a good Bad Company. The last good BF game came out in 2013. After that it has got progressively worse. BF1 and BFV are just bad, I can't stand the gameplay.
The rumors of Bad Company 3 launching alongside PS5 n Nxtbox in 2020 need to be true. EA could use some good PR. A highly requested game minus loot boxes minus interviews from dumbass Dice employees might do the trick. Well at least 2 outta 3 aint bad. Probably a better chance seeing pigs fly than an EA game w/o loot boxes
I wish they'd added a full-featured offline bots mode to BC2 & DLC - I'd still be playing it!
I’ve always wanted Battlefield to have bots like cod black ops giving the player a lot of creative options.
The funny thing is Battlefield games did used to have an offline bots mode. In Battlefield 2 you could play single player and it was just like playing a normal MP match except the enemies were AI.
Great game series just bought bf1/titanfall 2 double pack on origin the player count is awful I know there a couple of years old but it's not worth it. This is one reason your better sticking to consoles
Titanfa 2's player count has been pretty bad for a long time, even on consoles. That game deserved so much more because it's great. But EA screwed them over by having it release between Battlefield and COD's releases that year. They also had next to no advertising for it. Not to mention it was the first time TF was going to be on anything other than Xbox, so it could have really used a better release with some actual advertising.
As for BF1? It's just not a very good game. If it was then player could would not he a problem at all on PC. When Battlefield was still good the player count was never a problem whatsoever on PC. Even years later. Hell, people still play Battlefield 2 on PC...
The real problem with Battlefield isn't the platform it's being played on. It's that the franchise has been dumbed down so much. BF1 was the beginning of that. It was the first truly disappointing BF game. If it had been good there would still be countless people paying for servers and running their BF games for years to come just like all the previous BF releases.
Well titanfall 2 Multiplayer all I can ever find is attrition but only after waiting a long time its massively underrated. But I'm slowly playing single player instead it's a top tier AAA game imo
For sure! Titanfall 2 is fantastic game with a really great single player campaign, even if it is a bit short. It hit me in the feels, for sure.
But again, TF2 was the first time TF was multiplatform, so a lot of people had no experience with it outside of Xbox One users. And on top of that they released it in between the releases of Battlefield 1 and CoD with no advertising, which is just suicide for a FPS franchise that is trying to make name for itself.
It's a shame because TF2 was better than both BF1 and COD that year.
Good, I hope the eradicate all you cheap ass bathturds. As I made a post the other day saying the same thing "Gamers are cheap" They are the cheapest people on the planet and if they're not stealing something, they're getting it used or at discounted cost.
The reason why games are now 60 bucks is because of cheap ass gamers buying their games from used game stores and off e-bay and Amazon from individual sellers. Don't fool yourselves about this disc costing more crap! It cost more cause you all stole more.
I hate cheap people and even more when I see cheap people stealing movies, music and games. this isn't like stealing food to survive. This is stealing non necessities and trying to justify it. Gamers squeeze their quarter so tight the eagle screams. All I can say.
I only have Gears of War and Crysis for PC now.
PC gaming is not even interesting to me...I don't like mous+keyboard anyway.
Oh look, another wanna-be Napster case. I get so sick of companies blaming P2P when they don't make millions. Everyone knows its companies that spend a whole $15 to make a garbage game, and complain because no one cares for it. First it was the music industry, now its gaming, whats next, porno industry?
Stories like this make me glad I'm a console gamer where I can choose to buy/trade games as I want, not keep an expensive drink coaster if I don't like the game.
That much government control reeks of communism and takes out capitalism and a free market society. The reason games are $60 is because that is what the market can bear - and that is with people buying used games. If the rules were the way you want them to be then games would be well over a $100. That is what is great about a free market society is that we can buy used games, and we can determine what or what not the market will bear. There is a big difference between being "cheap" and financially responsible.
As far as people getting games for free on the internet then I agree - it is stealing and wrong. It is destroying PC gaming and Console gaming suffers as well with chips and what not. Competition between all platforms is best for all.
Firstly, the assumption that cracking down on software piracy will somehow increase software sales significantly is erroneous.The majority of people who are pirating software will NOT go out and buy it, and never will.There are many reasons for this, far too many to discuss in a few lines.
Okay the important stuff,then.A question to all you budding lawyers out there. Who owns your transmitted data while it crosses boundaries on it's way to it's destination? What legal right does any government have to 'own 'parts of the internet or view it's traffic,whatever the pretence for doing so? Why do ISP's not provide encryption for all internet traffic - yours and mine,by default? I would be very interested in your comments.There are surely issues here, that go far beyond an individuals uploading of software! Why is it that recent legislation allows RECORD COMPANIES to monitor internet traffic for 'illegal' music downloads? Why should record companies that have failed to secure their material effectively be allowed to compensate, by arbitrarily monitoring internet traffic in the hope of finding copyright infringers? Personally, given a choice, i will be boycotting all ISP's that sign up to this absolute invasion of my privacy,full stop. Including,Virgin media,BT and others.