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  5. Posted

    Oh don't get me wrong I like Inquisition, and I thought it was definitely a good step in the right direction after DA2. But I honestly detest DA2 idk... I think it was just expectations and excitement for that game were just so high for me and then I played it and the disappointment literally crushed me and all hope of me ever liking the damn game xD But I can understand what's good about the game and how some people would still enjoy it regardless of its shortcomings.

     

     

    Yeah, I guess the difference is that I was (as usual) very late to the game. I started Origins a few months before Inquisition came out, so I basically played all 3 games in a row, and I knew that DA2 was considered... controversial when I started it. So I didn't really have high expectations when I began and I found it to be not as bad as I feared from all the bashing going on. XD

     

     

    And holy crap, for the "Formal attire", why didn't they design a formal dress for female characters? It felt really weird to be wearing something resembling a king/prince's military attire.

     

    I must have been the only person in the world who appreciated that. My Inquisitor was a warrior, not a Disney princess, so I was happy they didn't force her into some frilly dress. :lol: (Well, eventually she ended up in a dress anyway for the wedding scene in Trespasser.)

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  6. Posted

    Here's another one of my all time favorites from last generation;

     

    Dragon Age: Origins

     

    probably the single greatest western RPG of the last decade, with only a few others able to come close to what I consider perfection. It's such a shame that Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition wasn't able to live up to Origins... I had such high hopes for both as well.

     

    Origins was just good in everything it did and was almost like a perfect combination of micromanaging party combat system, superb and interesting characters, really strong world building and lore, and RPG stat/class and equipment building.

     

     

    Dragon Age: Origins is great, but I guess I'm one of the rare kind that always liked the other two parts a lot as well. (As my sig probably shows.)

     

    I will admit that the 2nd part was definetely the weakest, it felt very rushed, the writing wasn't nearly as good as in Origins and the story was all over the place, especially in the first half of the game. I still had a lot of fun playing it, and the gameplay felt a lot smoother than the clunky combat of Origins. I also really, really liked Inquisition (played it like 3 times already...) My only critcism would be that they tried a bit too hard to be skyrim-ish. They could have scrapped some of the open-world-regions in favor for more story content. Or heck, just more stuff with your companions, because that was probably the strongest part of the game.

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    Yay! I need their crappy oldschool goodness in my life. :D

     

     

    I haven't been following them since they changed their name and had like 3 50 person live dist. that made me gave up on their music, but I love how awfully bad airo's voice is that it makes it soooooo good. Sucks whenever something rare by them gets put it, it immediately sells out.

     

     

    I did buy a bunch of them. I'm sure I'm missing some of them and I don't know which have been uploaded already, but once I have some time I can upload what I got.

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    VK does do the laundry for me and occasionally my hair.

     

     

    Seriously though, is it this time of year again to have another "Is VK dying" discussion? :lol:

     

     

    Okay, seriously serious now, it's just music like any other, there's good and there's bad, it's always been like that and I'm pretty confident it will always be like that. I don't listen to genres, I listen to bands.

     

     

    And as someone who is most likely the oldest person in this thread let me tell you: you never get too old for any music. XD

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    To my understanding, and maybe I'm getting the wrong impression but it sounds like they are going to force anyone who is a YouTube partner into subscription and anyone who wants to watch that content will also have to now get a subscription.

     

     

    Not quite. Yes, anyone who is a YT partner has to make their content availible for Youtube Red. That does NOT mean that this very content will no longer be availible for free. You can still watch the free ad-supported version of that content if you don't want to subscribe. It's essentially like Spotify: you can listen to it for free, but with ads, or you can get a subscription to get rid of the ads and have some additional features like an offline modus. 

     

    There WILL be some additional content, specifically produced for Youtube Red that will only be availible via subscription, but that is ultimately in the discretion of the content creators.

     

    At the moment it doesn't seem that anything that is currently availible for free will be made pay-only with the new system.

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  17. Posted

    What would be "relevant value"? Most people go to Youtube to do... what? Watch videos I suppose. I would say the "relevant value" of Youtube is to provide a central place for content creators to post their content and reach a huge audience. If Youtube wouldn't exist, content creators would have to post their videos on their own sites, pay for their own servers and bandwidth - and probably would struggle to even get close to the same amount of views. (And let's not get started with "move to Dailymotion" etc - Dailymotion isn't making a profit either, so that would only delay the problem.)

     

     

    So if they would actually start to charge money for the central core of their service, they would have to turn into a full subscription service. As I understand it, so far they only charge money for some side-features, that we didn't had to begin with.

     

     

    I mean seriously... that's like a car maker providing you with free cars for years, and then offering to add some fancy wheel caps for a charge and people start screaming: Oh no! This is the end! I want my free car, how dare they charge money for it! And even if the free car suddenly came without a stereo - it's still a free car.

     

    Personally I'm not interested in the fancy wheel caps, so to speak, but I'm happy to have my free car.

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  18. Posted

    I don't think this has anything to do with stopping people from comitting copyright infringements. Copyright holders can already use the current content ID system to get their share of the ad revenue. 

     

    But like I said: Youtube so far hasn't been making any profit whatsoever. How long do you think Google will continue to operate a site that is only causing them losses, or at best a break-even.

     

    Whether Youtube Red is the best way to go about it remains to be seen, but I think it should be obvious to anyone: Youtube is not a charity. They offer a service, they have expenses, they need to make money. So far they don't.

     

    I know these days many people expect to get everything free in the internet. But when it's free but ad-supported, they complain about the ads. When it's ad-free, but costs money, they complain it costs money. But servers and technicians/programmers don't run on magical unicorn poo, you know. They cost money.

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  19. Posted

    I also think that last.fm is allergic to earning money or something. I used to have a subscription because.... well, it was cheap and added some minor benefits, so why not. But now I can't subscribe anymore. It says I have an active subscription even though I haven't paid for months. I'm  not even sure if it's a bug or if I actually get any subscriber benefits (or what they are now anyway).

     

     

    You'd think this is a thing they made sure worked before getting the new site launched...

  20. Posted

    Actually, Youtube isn't "making millions" and never has. They barely broke even last year, and until then they pretty much only produced losses. So I guess it's no surprise they look for other income.

     

     

    That being said, at the moment Youtube Red doesn't really seem that interesting to me, not for that price. I don't mind watching a 30-second ad if it helps to support my favourite Youtubers. And if I don't want to watch ads, you can usually skip them after a few seconda (or use an adblocker for that matter).

    The one thing I like is being able to only have the audio play (good for mobile internet), but again, not worth the price.

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