ValencY

The idea is to not get banned in the first place... Not to mention, it does NOT ban all of your multiplayer games, only the ones that you specifically violated, unless, of course, your motto is "All or nothing!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrOyrYl2kvQ My absolute favorite mix atm. Hour long.

Downloading now and going to try it out.

MSI GT780DXR-447US Laptop with the following specs: 17" Matte Finish 1920x1080 LED Backlit Intel i7 2670QM 2.2GHz Nvidia Geforce GTX 570m, 3GB 336Cuda cores 12GB DDR3 (1333MHz, I believe) 1TB (2 x 500GB RAID 0) @ 7200RPM DVD Super-Multi 7.1 Dynaudio speakers 35-color Steelseries Gaming backlit keyboard Bluetooth

Thanks, Zer0w. :mrgreen:

Let's sit back here and take a look at what's up in the post: You may "appear" to be a complete failure, but we all know you're not. That's a given. That's not kiss-assery, that's just the plain fact. You got shut down by something you couldn't stop. That's not failure, that's someone not like something that you did (and frankly, I think we can see why... and I am totally not opposed to it.) Did you honestly think they would not figure out that this was the most desired aspect of their game for free? Not to mention the fact that you did it better, I think it was a matter of time before they became angry with you. That doesn't mean you were a failure. Now that you have made an amazing project that tweaked the original developer's idea into a much better one, it's time to move on. That can be these new projects that you are working on, a new job, a new whatever, but it's time to start fresh. Why? To show your resilience of course. Why not offer your services to some other gamesites? Heck, have you thought about some of the indie-games on the market? Can you tweak those to no end and create a community based off of one of those? Developers in that area of the market tend to welcome tweaking a bit more than big corporations, focused on money and not the game itself. This thing about education... A) Education is everywhere, whether it's on the interwebs or in a physical place. I believe the particular one that you speak of is called "school." I think everyone will agree with you that we hate certain aspects of education. Take myself, for example. I'm not particularly fond of math subjects in any way. You might find a particular satisfaction in things that I hate, and I in the subjects you find unpleasing. Just as you said, though, it's required to obtain certain jobs. I'm making a general assumption that you like programming games. What else do you like programming? Heck, do you want to KEEP programming? Is that what you want to do? Then why not program your own or latch on to another "project" or actual game by FIRST developing an idea of how to improve it (which you are obviously good at) and then asking whether or not they will allow you to build a community around that. You can refer to the success of aIW saying something to the effect of, "AIW was a re-invented version of MW2's multiplayer, with a working anti-cheat system, support for mods, and dedicated servers. It worked much better than its original counterpart, MW2, and by far was better to play. If you need evidence, ask any member of my current community 4D1 or the other subcommunity of aIW, AlterGaming, what they thought of AIW vs MW2. Are you willing to allow me to tweak your game to a higher potential?" You are obviously good at realizing that games need content. New development is necessary to keep gamers interested, and I believe you realize that. Get involved. You've obviously got a community here. If you were a complete failure, you wouldn't. I'm truly sorry that you're struggling to make ends meet. That should give you the fuel, though, to explore some new avenues that you might not be familiar with. It's hard, but it's worth it. That's what real life (not overused in my vocab) is all about.

V2 here. Got em for free. Wonderful headset. Bass is very pronounced, sound is clear. I like the retractable mic. However, if you're looking cheaper, Gamecoms aren't that bad. Granted, sound isn't amazing because of the price, but they are extremely comfy as well. However, I love my V2's as well, so take your pick. If you want to put out $135 or so, you can get some Bose circumaural headphones. These are the most amazing ones that I've tried. Literally, I was in a Best Buy and they had a pair that you could try on. First: The place was super busy, tv's blaring as usual. However, when I put on the headphones, I actually felt like I was the only one in the store. All the white noise stopped, and I could only hear my friend who was right next to me. Granted, no mic. But if you want something that feels extremely comfortable (much more comfy than my Siberias) and sounds amazing, I wouldn't blame you if you ended up getting a pair. Cheers!

Not completely true. Steam sells the old Battlefields, besides BF3, and whole host of other EA produced games. Granted, the newest ones are not necessarily sold on Steam, but that's because Steam doesn't want to bend to EA's will (which I'm sure they're a bit furious about). That is 90% lately. What about 90% beforehand? When not only EA games are there, that usually means you can generally buy them someplace else. How is Steam any less annoying than Origin? Download speeds depend on where you're at. I usually have a 1.4mb/s download rate. I wouldn't say that's bad. Origin is about the same. Ingame web browser... have you EVER pressed shift + tab while playing ANY game through steam? Web's right there. And I can chat to my friends right in-game. And BF3's web-based setup sucks. Why not open the game? Oh, that's right, we don't want people pirating it so we made it all web-based... and it still got pirated. EA does nothing to convenience the customer anymore. I'm not surprised they were voted worst company in America. Origin is their brainchild that they force you to use. Steam is like a bonus to my games. I actually enjoy playing games that I like through steam because of the versatility that steam offers through the simple shortcut, shift + tab. Try again, mate. This goes to Steam, all the way.

Ah, but will that bump the topic or notify? I wasn't sure, so I went with the "new post" thing...

A vote for me is a vote for... video games! 4 days left if you count today!

4 days left to vote! If you need to vote for one, vote for the second one. I'd love to take back third place if I could. (sorry for excessive bumping of the topic! It will cease when April 9th rolls around. )

Love this game to death. First time playing it, but it reminds me of the speed and style of quake (minus skiing, of course). Extremely fun to play, except when people have much better weapons than yourself, or are amazing shots (I'm not...). Even so, still one of the better f2p's out there.