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Post by DC on Nov 14, 2008 15:38:07 GMT
Apparently, it's looking very good. However... Things they kept quiet. #1 in an occasional series....Context sensitive adverts on the pitch-side hoardings. Adds to the effect I suppose, but they get the context for these hoardings using your IP address and therefore your location on tinternet, which is transferred to a 3rd party online advert site. I forget the name of it. Sneaky, clever, and possibly scary. Yowsa...that's a bit disturbing actually.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 14, 2008 23:30:54 GMT
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Post by DC on Nov 14, 2008 23:39:10 GMT
Classic.
I don't mind Steam as a platform for making purchases - but on a gameday release, it's never going to handle the masses of people who all pre-ordered this game.
It'd probably be quicker for Miles to sit and tick a fucking box off when someone rings up with the code to a freefone line.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 14, 2008 23:45:52 GMT
If I'm reading it correctly, Steam isn't the problem. It's a two-layered DRM, so you have to activate the Steam DRM, (that bit appears to be working, if slowly), and then connect to the net, (or make a phonecall), to activate again after that (and that bit doesn't appear to be working at all).
Amusingly, the cracked version without any DRM is out already.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 14, 2008 23:46:12 GMT
Oh and the phonecall isn't free either - so you have to pay to unlock the game you paid for.
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Post by Sonic on Nov 15, 2008 0:56:47 GMT
Apparently they are also updating their servers because they can't cope with the demand and keep crashing. They've called that maintenance.
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Post by spanky on Nov 15, 2008 2:54:23 GMT
Thanks to my impeccable... it worked first time for me.
...timing.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 18, 2008 15:13:24 GMT
Amazingly, I've been called in for a second interview for the job I probably can't do. I'm sure it's just some elaborate joke to get me to come into the office twice in one week. From amazing to alarming as they've offered me the job, which just goes to show how far you can get in life by sounding like you have some clue what you're doing. Still, at least I have six days of blind panic to look forward to before I get into the role and the bullshit gene takes over. So then, I just handed in my notice at work and got sent home. Yeah. Funny story. I got my opportunity with the purveyors of Marmite, Cornettos and Helmann's Mayonnaise permanently because when I was there on contract I designed a wine label for a director, (ya rly), and he liked my brown nosing do-what-it-takes attitude and pulled strings to get me a full time gig in response. That gig was in his department, but it wasn't working for him as he'd already jetted off to bigger and better things as one of those dirty hardworking up-and-comers everyone hates, but he kept in touch and if he was in the same building as me at any point he'd go out of his way to say hello. So then I apply for this new job that I can't do and everyone else who applied for it was mentally deficient in at least a couple of ways because that's the only reason they would have offered it to me, I'm sure. I start last monday and on Wednesday I get a phone call from that other director saying "I hear you got Project Manager position?" I say yes and he comes back with one of the best backhanded compliments I've ever heard - "I didn't think you could handle that, but if someone else thinks you can do the job, then you may as well come and do it for me." He thens pulls strings to get the guy in that position in his department promoted to make a vacancy he can put me in and offers me a bit more cash as a sweetener for me because I have to go and tell my new boss that I'm leaving when I've only been in the job for six days. As taking the first job I couldn't do had come with a 48% pay raise and now I was going to get another (small) raise just a week later, I decided to push my luck and ask for an extra five days holiday, all the Ben and Jerry's ice cream I could eat and Doutzen Kroes as an assistant. I got the extra vacation and a voucher for a tub of Ben and Jerry's. I presume the Kroes thing is in negotiation. So after all of that, I get the official offer yesterday and hand in my notice today. The new-new job doesn't start until December 1, but the new job people are annoyed and so send me home to think about what I've done for almost two weeks. On full pay. Tune in next week when I get offered a position in Barack Obama's transition team as Minister for Cakes and Whores.
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Post by Boony on Nov 18, 2008 15:18:01 GMT
Fucking get it you lucky lucky bastard.
It'll all turn to shit, though, when they realise you really can't do the job :thumb:
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 18, 2008 15:21:44 GMT
This is my new plan though - only do any job for six days and then leave before you get found out.
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Post by floplexter on Nov 18, 2008 15:45:15 GMT
I got the extra vacation ... You see now, that's a dead giveaway. More time off indeed... If I were you, I would jump into the nearest river/harbour- at the moment, you're bound to come up again with pockets full of pirate gold. Or Darryl Hannah. Actually, don't jump. Sheesh.
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Post by coffers on Nov 18, 2008 16:41:25 GMT
That's excellent none-work Mr B. Project Management is piss easy, if some of the dorks I've seen in that sort of position are anything to go by. Just get the rest of the team to run it and you report on it. The problems occur when the shit hits the fan. The trick is to recognise when that is about t happen and move on quickly before it does. That's my theory anyway.
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Post by elth on Nov 19, 2008 10:37:11 GMT
That is downright sneaky.
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Post by Sonic on Nov 19, 2008 10:52:16 GMT
What they all said. No much more can be, except: have you thought about buying a lottery ticket?
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Post by Moo on Nov 19, 2008 10:54:53 GMT
Or the Detroit Lions?
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Post by coffers on Nov 19, 2008 11:03:46 GMT
That is downright sneaky. It might well be but it's what I have observed various PM's doing on a regular basis.
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Post by Sonic on Nov 19, 2008 11:20:06 GMT
Are you saying that Stu should become a PM? Why not, they don't know much about what they are doing half the time anyway. Isn't that why they have aids?
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Post by Moo on Nov 19, 2008 11:22:22 GMT
I know some of them like to sleep about a bit, Sonic, but I think you're being a bit harsh there.
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Post by Sonic on Nov 19, 2008 11:25:10 GMT
Harsh on who? S1ut?
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Post by Boony on Nov 19, 2008 11:28:31 GMT
For the love of god, Sonic, get some sleep. Moo was pointing out your libellous statement that all PMs have contracted nasty STDs.
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Post by Moo on Nov 19, 2008 11:28:45 GMT
Errr... yeah, why not.
I'm blaming him for a lot of things this week.
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Post by Sonic on Nov 19, 2008 11:36:58 GMT
For the love of god, Sonic, get some sleep. Moo was pointing out your libellous statement that all PMs have contracted nasty STDs. Actually, that's probably a slightly better image than the one I was thinking of, the one who was in court for his S&M. At least I think he was minister.
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Post by Moo on Nov 19, 2008 11:44:43 GMT
Nothing wrong with S&M. At least that is what my mistress tells me and I do as I'm told.
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Post by Sonic on Nov 19, 2008 11:46:40 GMT
Fair enough. It's good for discipline I hear.
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Post by elth on Nov 19, 2008 12:24:57 GMT
A friend of a friend of a friend of a friend got drunk at a party I heard about and confessed that when he and his wife were in the mood, she'd whack on the strap on and have at it, so to speak.
The wifely one was, apparently, nowhere near as drunk and, as a result, extremely mortified at his confession. And blamed it all on him. What that says about their relationship I'm not sure.
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