Re: SE5 bad reviews and problems.
 

I know that ads have been appearing in games for a long while. AT&T and AOL have it down to a science. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif I want subscription satellite TV that has all the shows I want to watch BUT NO GD COMMERICIALS. I would pay for that. Turn it on any time to watch whatever show I want with no worries about having to sit through 40 minutes of commericals just to watch a 20 minute show.

Re: SE5 bad reviews and problems.
 

1. The hostility to those of us who are not thrilled with Se5 is real. I have almost stopped posting here because of it.

2. Adware, spyware, pr0nware, whatever. Why argue over definitions when the boundaries have been blurring for years. It's all "malware", why not just leave it at that? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Possum your opinion and thoughts are always valued. Not being thrilled with the game is a perfectly valid POV and NO ONE has the right to down play your comments or belittle you or any one else for that matter, in any way because of it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Now I must go beat my head against my desk and try and figure out why I cannot get SE V to run.

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To be honest, I'm not thrilled either. But I'm actually working on making it better instead of just complaining.

In a month or two of patches, GGmod will probably be getting close to thrilling. If I can find someone to make an AI for it, it will definitely hit thrilling http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Not thrilled either; however, my mod is moving smoothly and strong. I have already started testing using the kids as AI (ha-ha-ha). I wish someone could do the AI for me also, alas I don’t see that kind of support on the horizon and will wind up having to learn how to. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Re: SE5 bad reviews and problems.
 

It take a look at those files PES and my eyes glaze over and I start to pass out. Man there is so much you can do that to even try to sort it all out takes a special kind of dedication that I just simply don't have. Hats off to anyone who makes a good mod for SE V.

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Someone else was fooling with the files. I want to say it was Kwok but I’m not sure how far he’s been for the KwokMod. I will get around to doing it; there is no doubt about that. I just taught myself how to do the component, vehicle, damage, and facility formulas so I know I can do the AI also.

Changing subject your one of the Beta testers’ right? Do me a favor and ask Aaron if he ever got an email from me, well my real name, about an error tracker other than the one that appears on start up. I asked him about something like that over a week ago and haven’t heard back.

Re: SE5 bad reviews and problems.
 

1. The hostility to those of us who are not thrilled with Se5 is real. I have almost stopped posting here because of it.

Again, I don't really see it... Who is being hostile? Where?

Jeku said:
Ads have been showing up in games for *years*.

So? It was despicable then, it is despicable now. Luckily, I have never had the misfortune of buying a game with ads in it... Don't even want to think about how hard it would be to return such tripe. :-\

It's not like you have to sit through a commercial-- it's non-obtrusive. You pay for your cable TV every month but you still have commercials--- what do you do about that?

I don't watch TV. If I did, I would set up a DVR that let me skip ads (probably have to be a HTPC). But that's not the same thing anyways; you don't pay for each show, just a general connection service. Channels that you actually pay for have no ads (eg: HBO, Cinemax), other than the short spot between shows/movies telling you what else is on the channel. Paid download for episodes of shows don't include ads either (at least, the ones I've read about).

Broadcast TV is free, so being ad-supported is one thing. But a video game is most certainly not free... Even the ability to connect to multi-player servers is not free, because you have to buy the game (and expansions in some cases) to be able to do so. If they want to provide the _entire_ thing for free (like broadcast TV), then maybe, just maybe, they can make it ad-supported. Charge for the service, AND put in ads? Despicable. It's reminiscent of AOHell...

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On another gaming forum I frequent, they have a saying: "Screenshots or it didn't happen."
I'm tempted to say something similar here: "Quotes or it didn't happen."
I've seen plenty of accusations of hostilty, yet not a single link or quote to back it up. I could come up with plenty of links and quotes of people being friendly and helpful, so if there's all this hostility out there, why can't anyone provide some hard evidence.

I'm aware that someone will probably claim this post is being hostile and that's not what I'm going for. I'm just frustrated that so many people are talking about something that I just don't see.

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Please read back, Sir. I appreciate the need for evidence, but lack of evidence does not mean there's no issue. I anticipated this issue a couple pages back.

Elsemeravin countered with the argument below.

Not being a huge forum-goer, I'm kinda naive as to the "typical" climate. I now can't decide one way or the other as to the climate of this forum because I have nothing to compare it to =/

Jury's still out for me =D

In the meantime I'll keep my chin up