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[af3]

Beh, SkullCandy and Sennheiser?! Creative makes some good sounding gaming headsets with built-in mics.

[derek_jones_36]

Yeah that's what I want for now. Something I can play co-op play with and will be effective for receiving really good audio feedback when playing so I can actually hear people instead of having to say "What.....what...all the time. I think I'll check out Future shop this week...then usually have pretty good stuff there and sales all the time. Thanks. I know that there's the premium music store in Toronto for the entire country pretty much called Bay Bloor Radio. They actually have headphones for...get this....$1000.00 if you can believe it. They have Grado's from NY and all the fmaous brands.

Here we go down below.


http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...0109976&catid=


http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...090908&catid=#

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...049849&catid=#

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...0107881&catid=

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...0110161&catid=


http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...0111936&catid=

I think I may got for the 5.1 surround set of perhaps the $99 Sennheisers

[Indoril Nerevar]

Okay guys, let's keep to the topic. If you want to discuss headphones, make a new thread.

[Mcninjaguy]

I killed some zombies today in L4D. I'm addicted. I've played with pharoah a lot but not with too many other people.

I've been adding a lot of my games to steam and its well worth it since I can join in another game I have that someone else is playing

[Tiber Septim]

I've noticed an interesting trend in games lately. It seems a lot of new AAA titles are using Steam to activate, even retail copies. For example:
Unreal Tournament 3 (Just recently added to Steam)
Dawn of War 2
Empire: Total War
I'm sure there's other but I can't think of them.

It's good to see developers using a decent form of copy protection that does more to help its' customers than hinder them *cough* securom *cough*. Go Steamworks!

[pharoah]

Originally Posted by Tiber Septim

I've noticed an interesting trend in games lately. It seems a lot of new AAA titles are using Steam to activate, even retail copies. For example:
Unreal Tournament 3 (Just recently added to Steam)
Dawn of War 2
Empire: Total War
I'm sure there's other but I can't think of them.

It's good to see developers using a decent form of copy protection that does more to help its' customers than hinder them *cough* securom *cough*. Go Steamworks!

yeah i got to agree with that myself.my copy of mass effect is currently worthless because that securom crap.

[Mcninjaguy]

I was an rational hater of Steam before

just because I am still worried about steam suddenly going out of business and I wouldn't be able to play my games.

Now I even add my non steam games to the list so that I know when friends are playing certain games

and not having securom or starforce but still having a decent protection system is a win for me. ALso Steam is picking up momentum of the amount of people buying games off of it, Not only for the built in community for steam but the ability to not have install games but just re-download them. Only thing is you kinda need a dedicated DSL or Cable ISP and not some dial up.

I'm not sure about Australia and rural internet but I know here in Canada some towns are vewry far apart and the rural areas have yet to get high speed internet.

[pharoah]

i can say most small towns in the usa have good net.

[Mcninjaguy]

Yea I think all towns in Canada hae good net but I was referring to rural as more like outskirts and scattered communities

[Origin]

Originally Posted by Mcninjaguy

I was an rational hater of Steam before

just because I am still worried about steam suddenly going out of business and I wouldn't be able to play my games.

Steam have said that games will be patched to run without it if they go out of business. Can't seem to find the post about it now though.

[af3]

Originally Posted by pharoah

yeah i got to agree with that myself.my copy of mass effect is currently worthless because that securom crap.

Steam is not very secure.

Originally Posted by Origin

Steam have said that games will be patched to run without it if they go out of business. Can't seem to find the post about it now though.

If VALVE goes out of business, I bet another large game company *COUGH* EA would 'acquire' them and merge. I can't foresee any reason to worry.

I bet the Steam content servers are expensive to run. If they closed up shop, no one could download their previously purchased games.

They could implement a peer to peer game content protocol in Steam for distribution between customers of game content and keep an authentication/account server online... Even that would cost them a bit.

[Aus_Karlos]

Originally Posted by af3

Steam is not very secure.

Steam isn't the issue. Its probably by far the best way to buy games online and run the games without a hitch. However recently Steapowered was forced to use "Game title" protection like SecuRom by the Authors of the game. To limit the possibility of someone cracking their game. But this has proven pointless and has hindered many legitimate customers to actually run the game.

[af3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecuROM
I see what you mean.

[Mcninjaguy]

stupid securom

punish the end user and spore was still pirated a couple million times

[af3]

Laserlock looks modest. I'm reading up on various optical copy protection schemes lol.

EDIT: Anyway, I will join the group as soon as I install Steam again. I will be playing Unreal until I beat it, then I will move on to Unreal 2.

[Tiber Septim]

Gabe Newell made some interesting points in the latest DICE keynote speech.
He said people aren't pirating because they are cheapskates (though undoubtedly some are), they're pirating because it's a better service.
One example was:

TV shows not available in certain parts of the world. Pirates have TV shows up on the Web minutes after they have aired.

Steam isn't trying to stop pirates, it's trying to catch up with them. By using features such as portability of content and files, anti-cheating, auto-updating & version control, new games, old games, indie games, 24/7 availability, and community tools, Steam is trying to improve customer relationships and provide something that the pirates can't compete with.

Also, some interesting figures:

Last weekend, Valve decided to do an experiment with Left 4 Dead. Last weekend's sale resulted in a 3000% increase over relatively flat numbers. It sold more last weekend than when it launched the game. WOW. That is unheard of in this industry. Valve beat its launch sales. Also, it snagged a 1600% increase in new customers to Steam over the baseline.

During the Holiday sales:

* 10% sale = 35% increase in sales (real dollars, not units shipped)
* 25% sale = 245% increase in sales
* 50% sale = 320% increase in sales
* 75% sale = 1470% increase in sales

At 75% off, they are making 15% more money than they were at full price.

[Mcninjaguy]

interesting stats to say the least.

Steam has me hooked, I can say that without a doubt.

quantity over high costs eh. makes sense and thats smart business.

Securom is in the business to not care what people just to make some CEO's happy and they don't even play the games. Probably too busy being on a boat or lounging in caviar .......lol

[eaglehound]

I joined :P, shame only steam game i play atm is left4dead. I bought dow2 but need to get a better graphics card (bought, just needs to b delivered). Hey how do you decrease OS paged pool memory coz it keeps on crashing...

[csc2000e]

I just joined last night. I'm still getting used to understanding how all the Steam stuff works right now. I'm pretty new to it all. But perhaps I will see some of you blasting zombies in Left 4 Dead!

[dxj]

I have joined, my name on Steam is the_d_boy

I play CS: S on there. although haven't in a long while really.