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There's probably marketing reasons why producers wouldn't want obscenely large numbers next to their sequel titles.

so who's excited about the FTL update that's coming sometime this year

There's probably marketing reasons why producers wouldn't want obscenely large numbers next to their sequel titles.

It's a bit late to start, I think.

Besides, they could have gone with, like, a subtitle or something if it qualifies as a spinoff.

so who's excited about the FTL update that's coming sometime this year

When are they going to settle on a release date gosh darn it

WHOS READY FOR FINAL FANTASY TEN THREE

I really wish I could say that I'm surprised by this...

On another subject, I've been enjoying Saints Row IV. I was a bit surprised at how much fun the mobility superpowers are, but even after a whole bunch of time sunk into that game, leaping from building to building is still a blast.

you doing the free weekend thing?

i figure i'll just wait for them to make the discounted "well we're done trying to milk this expansion pack to saints row 3" version before i become attached to it

Yeah, I'm doing the free weekend thing. Figure there's not much of a reason not to.

I have a sinking suspicion that all kinds of companies are ready to jump on that train, with or without legal permission. It's a logical extension of project placement, especially with the current internet's advertising=profit business model.
And there I was, at least hoping for android replacement bodies and vibro-katanas by the time the cyberpunk dystopia arrived :U

Is anyone else here in the Hearthstone beta/Following it/Whatever
I'm currently in the middle of an arena run thats 7/1 with...
a very silly Warrior deck
very VERY silly
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Cruel Taskmaster x2
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Big Game Hunter
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Razorfen Hunter
Warsong Commander
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and FIVE KOR'KRON ELITES
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somebody tell me how to do that starbound thing in phish's sig

I believe it's just a standard thing on websites that track game servers.

it looks like it's designed for the sponsored servers though

Yeah, that ones an official thingy that you get given
There are plenty of sites where you can make your own though (mostly minecraft ones though)

ah
it was not what I thought it was

Did anyone mention how King, owners of Candy Crush Saga, successfully trademarked the word Candy yet?
Or how they are also pursuing legal action against indie games that have the word "Saga" in their titles? Even ones with a more faithful use of the meaning of the word Saga than the one used by King themselves, as the game in question actually is a medieval prose narrative with Old Norse or Old Icelandic themes
(These studios they are targetting you may note, lack adequate funds to mount a strong legal defence)

what a wonderful system, I'm glad the Old Norse themed game I'm employed to write went with a one word title, we easily could have fallen into the Saga trap ourselves...

anyway, it's one thing to smush other rats scrabbling in the mobile dust, but once you start hitting legitimate games, it's over for your reputation

I took a class on basically this subject, and the thing is that US trademark law basically requires you to file frivolous lawsuits against anyone using a similar mark, because if you don't you lose the trademark. Fucked up but true.
Assuming they did somehow get a trademark on the word "Saga", anyone who wanted to challenge King could use the fact that they didn't sue over The Banner Saga as evidence that they should lose the trademark, and that actually might hold up in court. It's happened before.

(Of course it's still totally stupid and very against the letter of the law for the trademark office to award a trademark on an entire word, but that's another issue.)

Did you mention that merely to play devil's advocate? Like... you even mentioned yourself that it's not really relevant.
Yeah they have to battle everyone who infringes on it to retain their trademark but when their trademarks are separate singular common english words they deserve to lose it anyway.

If literally anyone battled them in court they should lose regardless of if they defended their ridiculous trademark or not.

I was just trying to elucidate their motivation for suing the Banner Saga developers. I didn't make that clear, sorry.
My point was, they're not just doing this because they're an evil corporate empire, they want ridiculous trademarks so they can sue and shut down their /actual/ competitors in the mobile casual game business, but to /get/ ridiculous trademarks you need to bring lawsuits against people that you don't actually care about.

e: Oh, and my other point is that, if King's just going through the motions and not out for blood, it will probably be ok.

but despite this, they are actually still doing it because they're an evil corporate empire because it's still evil to shut down your competitors by making it illegal for them to use the word "candy"

At last

I've done it

The perfect Mii

Jac either disapproves of him or is still upset about the whole Saga thing, it would seem

He is smiling.

Jac either disapproves of him or is still upset about the whole Saga thing, it would seem

clearly he just forgot to center the frame on the right one before labelling it "perfect"

my mii has longer hair than I do

Getting further into Ghost Trick. I definitely see now why people complained that the game can be very trial-and-errory. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's definitely bad in this game because of how Shu Takumi's games are made. Dialog and cutscenes are unskippable, so if you fuck up you're going to have to sit through them over and over.

Wait, couldn't you fast-forward through it on a second run by holding down B, like I think you could in Ace Attorney?

Although I wish Lynn would stop being such a failure at not dying and being grateful.

If she dies again Shu Takumi's making it onto my shit list.

Hahaha uhhhhhhhhhhhhh