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So in the past week i've seen one game with GamerSafe, one with MochiCoins....

What's the feel out there from the players about microtransactions? I know many people thinks it's ridiculous to pay for flash games, but think about this:

- The price for buying stuff is pretty low (or free for most GamerSafe stuff) around 50c
- The creators get a good part of the revenue, which entices them to make more games, which lets them make more money, which entices them to make more games......
- GamerSafe in particular lets you use your save file on any portal!

Judges?

At 2/23/09 03:08 AM, Hiroshimo wrote:

At 2/23/09 03:06 AM, Lost-Chances wrote:

At 2/23/09 03:04 AM, Hiroshimo wrote:

At 2/23/09 03:02 AM, Lost-Chances wrote:

At 2/23/09 03:00 AM, Hiroshimo wrote:

At 2/23/09 02:59 AM, HungarianSupermarket wrote:

At 2/23/09 02:57 AM, Hiroshimo wrote:

Quick, let's make it as long as we can!

Ok, this one's a biggy (at least to me)

Me and my drummer mate got into an argument where we basically saw Octavarium and ACoS as two different sides of the same song - He hates Octavarium but loves ACoS, and I... don't really like ACoS, but i love Octavarium.

Which of the two do you guys think is the better song?

At 1/23/09 09:05 AM, HungarianSupermarket wrote: Australia is an awesome country. Sure, I'd like to travel and see the world, but I'd never want to permanantly live anywhere else.

I agree with all my existence.

At 1/23/09 08:37 AM, Nev wrote:

At 1/23/09 08:32 AM, MaxerJ wrote: Heh heh heh... I'm gonna get the Dream Theater Crew over here to start a flamewar.

You have no power there.

For all you know I AM Portnoy...

At 1/23/09 08:31 AM, HungarianSupermarket wrote: Age/Gender: 16, Male
Location: BrizVegas, Australia

Oh, i see.

*looks down sadly , sighs*

Yeah... Well, i lived in Perth for a while...

Heh heh heh... I'm gonna get the Dream Theater Crew over here to start a flamewar.

And it will be epic.

Ehh... nahh. Herman's not that bad.

At 1/23/09 04:50 AM, Steelers wrote: Im going to the Australia day live concert here in canberra. should be good :D

...

Does anybody actually LIVE in Canberra?

At 1/23/09 07:02 AM, bridbrad wrote: Pete Wentz and Hermen Li u should all know why

Yerrrr!

But srsly, Eva Green.
The chick from Casino Royale...

How can you go from Denise Richards and Halle Berry to EVA GREEN?
Where does Bond get off on that?

At 1/17/09 06:21 AM, FurryDemon wrote: These two seem a bit like bastards to me.
I mean what were they thinking?
Either they are fucking stupid and don't know the logical consequences, or were really expecting to kill her or at the least do some permanent/extreme damage to her.

Way to ruin a thread.

At 1/17/09 06:18 AM, FurryDemon wrote: I can imagine it right now.
Are there any other Metal Barbershop styled bands around, or did they make it up themselves?

They made it up themselves from years of listening to Yes and DT epics.

At 1/17/09 06:13 AM, maverickR wrote: lol why would we know a NON gay name for a BARBERSHOP quartet??? i mean its pretty gay in my opinion, no offence intended its just what i think

Dude... WTF?It's just the name for the style of singing.

At 1/17/09 06:13 AM, Proottalfain wrote: Village People.

.....

Yes, there's probably a lot of wide eyes right now, but we need to focus people!

A workmate of mine has started a barbershop quartet that specifically transposes and learns metal songs. Think Apocalyptica with four-part harmonies. They can already sing Walk by Pantera, One (of course), and can do a pretty good Octavarium.

The only problem is, they don't have a good name. Anything they try ends up sounding really gay.
Do you guys have any suggestions?

Remember grammar and spelling children. A rushed post is a bad post!

Just for the record, DroopyA seems to be one of the few who actually understand what this is about. We're not talking about EA, or 20th Century Fox.
We're talking about Double Fine and Working Dog Productions.

We're not talking about Britney and Kanye.
We're talking about Deep West and, dare i say it, DREAM THEATER!

No, not really Dream Theater. I just love them.

YOU, LOVE DREAM THEATER!
NOW!

At 11/9/08 10:37 AM, sirbobsalot2 wrote: Age-rating system based on mentality: This is a dream for me, which one is more likely to be at risk, the 13 year old who wants to buy TF2 and can't because its a 15 OR the 9 year old who gets his mum to buy GTA IV for him.

Yeaaaaaaah. Not going to happen. I don't know how you measure 'age-mentaltity'

Each company has a reward point system, so for each game you buy you get an extra item or something in any game after that maybe?

Yes. Yes Yes Yes. I can see it now - "All alone while exploring Rapture? Finish Bioshock 2 with your life size fully robotic Big Daddy! Available at all electronic stores everywhere!"

At 11/9/08 12:15 AM, PaperBagMask wrote: Steam seems to have stopped piracy on Valve games fairly well. The only person I know who has illegally gotten a Valve game could only play it for a week before it no longer worked.

Yes. This is an exception to the rule. I think Steam is one of the best, if not the best, gaming community/software ever to come out - the games are cheaper, they don't need the protection problems the CD versions have, and they have Steam extras, like being able to vent and chat while playing any game.

At 11/9/08 12:20 AM, Bl00dRedKnife wrote:

It's like killing people for fun, and later finding out that what you did was wrong, then proceeded to think of a solution about it. It doesn't help you retaliate your actions.

Are you sure? Because, not to be a massive maddox rip-off, but isn't what what people like Christopher Reeves are doing? I'm not saying he did fund raising and everything for the wrong reason, but he still did it because he had fallen off his horse. No one else.

At 11/9/08 12:20 AM, Bl00dRedKnife wrote:

Making a topic about it won't earn you any karma.

What, no Karma cookies? Damn.

At 11/9/08 12:36 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

:The only solution to internet piracy is to treat pirates as potential buyers, not buyers as potential pirates.

It's true. I got nothin'.

At 11/9/08 12:42 AM, wedgeman wrote:

:I buy the game if the company is not a bunch of gits that charge us $80, when they could easily charge us $50.

Is Tim Schafer and Double Fine a bunch of gits? No, they charge $80 because the game (Psychonauts) is worth $80! Obese companies like EA who spout out 'Games of the Movie' don't deserve to let the game be $80, but they normally are just $50, because the devs know that they're a piece of crap.

At 11/9/08 12:48 AM, Jaketheclonetrooper wrote:

I mean honestly, if you earn less than $100 a month, how high is a $60 video game on your priorities?

At 11/9/08 09:06 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

If you earn $100 a month, dont you have better things to do than play video games?

Or more specifically, shouldn't you figure out what not to spend that $100 on, like video games, and INTERNET to post on random threads LIKE THIS?

At 11/9/08 09:30 AM, McPaper wrote:

You torrented a crack for Oblivion and Bethesda told you off? I don't think they have any right to do that as long as you bought the game.

Heh heh.... oops. I didn't buy it, i rented it out...
But yeah, the rest was true.

At 11/9/08 10:25 AM, zooos wrote:

its hard to explain, learned it in sociology, but really in order for there to be a life, crime has to exist. There will never be a time without crime, theres always going to be people who have the stronger urges or impulses to do so.

Still not totally with you - are you trying to say that society is defined by how it treats its criminals? Cause otherwises it's a bit fatalistic. Just because we haven't lived in a time with the minimum crime rate, doesn't mean it's never happened. Look as recently as the post-war boom in the 50's in America.

All in all, i think I'll go with PaperBagMask. Steam does work really well to prevent piracy, since even when i found the file that was CS on my computer, i just sat there going, "What kind of F%#&ing file type is that?"

I'm kinda annoyed. I wanted some good ideas, but all this is is a bunch of guys trying to justify their actions.

And that includes the Escapist article.

At 11/8/08 09:51 AM, elementell wrote:

Which you can get for free at the library, yet people still write books...hmmmmmmmm. HMMMMMMMMMM.

Yes, but where does the library get them from? And do you keep library books for the rest of your life? HMMMMM?

At 11/8/08 06:49 AM, LightandDark wrote:

Wait, oversueing people for a 60$ game? That's like the effing RIAA lawsuits, about 300$ worth of songs, yet they sue for thousands of dollars.

I know it's a too much for someone who's just downloaded the game, but what about making the original guy who cracked it and put it on the net pay up?

At 11/8/08 06:57 AM, Uchiharr wrote:

There is only one: Make all games free. Unfortunately that is not viable.

Of course not. That's communism.
Or something like that.

Make games free? What do you do for a living? Let's say you're an accountant: Would you like someone to come into your office, you do your... accountant-y stuff with them, and then they walk out without paying, or even saying thanks?

At 11/8/08 10:07 AM, zooos wrote:

Piracy is just like any other crime, without it, society would be chaotic and therefore not exist.

Whaaaat? So you are saying that crimes stop people committing crimes?
It's nice to say that everything in society pulls society together as a whole, but if people stopped murdering their cheating husbands and wives, i don't think that social order would collapse around our ears.

At 11/8/08 12:01 PM, TheMaster wrote:

The best way is to not treat customers as criminals.
...DRM does more harm than good.

That's kinda what I'm trying to get at here. I know that one of the main reasons for piracy is that it's soo much easier than working through the traps set by companies trying to look after their own product.

At 11/8/08 12:36 PM, LTmatt wrote:

the reason kung-fu panda and turning point: fall of liberty didn't sell well on pc is because people knew in advance that they were shit games.

Well i know i can speak for kung-fu panda when i say that it was designed for kids who would have no idea what a good or bad game was anyway.
These games not selling well shouldn't have anything to do with piracy. If you know they're bad games, why would you get illegal copies of them?

:who the fuck i am hurting by not making the all ready extravagantly rich richer?

The artists whose songs you are downloading that are 'the extravagantly rich'.
Most bands get so screwed over by their record contracts that they have to go on tour for the rest of their life. You want to add to that?
You think the Beatles would be as big as they are if they were out now? No, they wouldn't be anywhere, because people would have just downloaded their songs and the music stores would have sold none of their CD's.

What if there is a band, out there right now, who could change the course of popular music the way The Beatles did, but they went bankrupt because no one was buying their CDs?

:i think people be able to do whatever the hell they want if you can't catch them, lol.

FAG. The lol at the end makes you so much worse. So, so, so much worse.

At 11/8/08 05:35 AM, andhination wrote:

I don't know how they do that, but they should.

If you're caught you have to pay for all of the people who haven't yet been caught.

Yeah, that makes sense. I think another factor in it is the fact that internet companies can see that their clients are downloading, yet make no move to stop them. They should be required by law to do something about it. Would this be an invasion of privacy? I guess it would, but it shouldn't be, because the only thing people would have to hide is their porn stash, and that's not illegal in anyone's books, just stoopid.

tighten up the internet security anyway.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to have some sort of internet police force, that works with paid off hackers to catch... other hackers?

Be a good TV show.

Yeaaaaah GEARS 2!

I have to agree. One of the best shooters ever. It's the camera that makes it fantastic - everything is shown from such a movie-style angle.

Dammit, it's just too good!

C'mon, we all know it's completely wrong, and no matter what some free-thinking haxzor wants to tell the world, it DESTROYS the industries that it steals from. All because some kids don't want to spend $80.

I'm sick and tired of having jump through needle-sized hoops for SecureRom and others. They DON'T EVEN WORK. I just want a game i can run straight from install, but this WON'T HAPPEN unless we find a way to actually combat piracy on teh interwebs.

I've torrented one thing in my life - a crack for Oblivion. Two weeks later, i got an email from Bethesda. They'd caught me. Luckily, i only had to uninstall the game. But i know now that what i did was wrong. Those programmers had put in more work on one game than most of Newgrounds combined. And we were just stealing what they had done.

Don't even get me started on the music industry.

So, what do you think should be done about piracy?

At 10/29/08 06:53 AM, Mishypie wrote: No, you are stupid for pointing out that people may fall for this. DUH.

Umm, pretty sure that two of the 19 reviews realised that it was a joke and there was no sound.
Let's see, if we put that into a percentage - little under 10%
I know there isn't many reviews, but if this is a microcosm of Newgrounds society, ouch. We
are noobs.

Oh, and as another percentage, did you know that 67% of article responses, whether in the newspapers, blogs, or on forums, are biased by insulting article titles?
So really, you're just annoyed because i said people are idiots.
Live and learn.

I just wanted to say this because I'd already reviewed this game before reading other people's reviews.

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Are NewGrounders really so stupid that they fell for this???

This guy did an amazing job, in that he actually fooled people into believing this thing. He needs a better mark just for that. If you played the game and still don't have any idea what I'm talking about, LOOK AT THE REFERENCE AT THE END.

I'll post again if people are still confused.

Woooooo
Dream Theater!
SO I heard that all of Scenes from a Memory was going to be on either Rock Band 2 or the next GH...
but i doubt they're going to put a whole concept album onto it...

Also, i didn't read all these pages, but quite a lot of people were talking about Dance of Eternity. Fun Trivia Fact - It has 123 time signature changes!

At 10/22/08 10:45 AM, tehconcept wrote: Jonas Brothers are better onstage, biatch. Metallica doesn't even care about their fans, unlike the Jonas Brothers.

Please tell me you were joking

Yes, i was looking for this for ages... somehow, i'm going to make all NG a dream theater zone

At 10/21/08 05:17 PM, chaw wrote: "solitary shell" from the six degrees of inner turbulance album by dream theater.
from then, I was in love.

I love you.

Is there a Dream Theater thread on NG?

Oh, and Hysteria by Muse or Sick Sad Little World by Incubus

Hey awesome can't wait for them to come to Australia...
Did they do more of the new songs off DM or more old songs?

Doesn't really matter to me - I've started taking Death Magnetic intravenously through a tube in my arm.

At 10/20/08 01:55 AM, Dragoonwing wrote:

:Just because a game is childish doesn't mean you have to rant and rave on about it.

I remember a time.
No, no, i don't. i was four.
But i know of a time, when cartoons and animated movies were seen as a childish, pathetic waste of time.
Then a little studio called Pixar made a little movie called 'Toy Story'.
You can groan, and say it was bad, but the truth is, it wasn't. It was and is fantastic.
I think the real problem with 'hardcore' gamers is that they are very sensitive people. After all, don't we all get shut down every now and then by some jock who thinks we spend twelve hours a day playing SNES and haven't seen a woman other than our mother for three years?
'Hardcore' gamer don't want to be insulted by games that seem 'kiddish'. They want to bust some caps up some Covenant ass. So when Nintendo announces that they are making a console that will go on to become THE GREATEST SELLING NINTENDO CONSOLE SINCE SNES and everyone sees that its graphics are crap and the games are made too easy and simple for GAMERS, people refuse to acknowledge some beautiful experiences they could have had.

Go talk to your orc figurines. Nintendo has done the most amazing job in evolving games out of all the Big Three.
They aren't making games.
They're making fun.