Mirror's Edge is impressive.

[greenmedic88]

ZenfoldorVGI said:

greenmedic88 said:
Legally, it's still piracy. If I bought fifty copies of a game or movie and then went back and stole a 51st copy, that would still be illegal.

Frankly, stealing a game that currently retails for about $30 is not even worth the effort IMO.

I'll make one call to customer service and if it takes longer than ten minutes, for future purchases, I'll either buy EA published games through Steam or on console, or I just won't bother buying them at all.

That's one of the big problems with PC gaming; no rental system beyond demos due to the infinite number of configurations and related compatibility problems, not that I ever rent games anyway. But with this limited install trend (I received 2 for Warhead), that is exactly what you are getting for your retail priced game.

I'm not at "fault" for anything. I've bought hundreds of new games over the years. If all gaming consumers were like me, the size of the industry would be larger by factors of ten.

About the closest thing I've done to stealing games, is buying used copies of out of print or hard to find games.

 

Yeah man, I couldn't live with my gamefly account. Had Dead Space for a month, but I don't really care about getting my money's worth out of it, it's just really nice to have games sent to my house, at my whim, lol.

Mirror's Edge, for instance. I'll be renting that.

BTW, Dead Space 10/10 must play. It's like if RE4 met Bioshock and they had a child in space.

You know, that's exactly the vibe I was getting from Dead Space. It seemed a LOT like Bioshock in terms of being a heavily story based FPS game with very noire stylistic art direction.

I was following the digital comics they were publishing on PSN, but I lost interest in the back story by the third episode. Finally watched the last three episodes and was ready to buy the game along with Far Cry and Fallout when it dawned on me that there were PC versions of all three games to consider, which I would have bought if I hadn't just dismantled my PC in prepping for the new mobo.

Then I saw the dreaded DRM specs and thought better of it. Dead Space is no different than Spore or Warhead. And though I'm not planning on doing hardware reconfigs every six months, I will be building another system with a core i7/x58 chipset anywhere between 6 and 12 months and it would be nice to be able to play all the PC games I've bought on it without thinking about "burning up" my installs. 

So, console, Steam, or none of the above unless this retail priced rental business is kicked in the head. It has effectively killed my willingness to spontaneously buy PC games at stores including Mirror's Edge.

Well done, EA. Well done.