Reply With QuoteRaccoon City Confuses me. It looks good in pictures, but i get it home on my 360 andd it looks like a ps2 game. ****ty, ****ty game. took it back an hour after renting it.
Don't you need a credit card for that first?Originally Posted by Silent Reader
Here you can just use Paypal or Click&Buy - without a card reader.. even easier
Raccoon City Confuses me. It looks good in pictures, but i get it home on my 360 andd it looks like a ps2 game. ****ty, ****ty game. took it back an hour after renting it.
Nope, just your bank account details.
They pay immediatelly and withdraw the money one or two days later from your bank account.
(after you have verified your bank account once when setting up your paypal or click&buy account)
After that Steam can also remember the stuff.. and you just have to click on the "buy" button more or less.. which makes it quite comfortable.
Its the same with iTunes etc..
Only Google and Microsoft for whatever stupid reason only except credit cards... which is annoying. With Microsoft you at least can buy some Xbox points online via Paypal etc and use those... but still..
Some more stabby stabby, burny burny and slashy slashy.
In NL you can pay with IDeal on Steam, which is a online banking module for online stores. It's coupled to your bank account(s) so you just login, select the account you want to pay with(if you have more than one checking account) and authenticate with a security code. Instantly debited from your account. I've not used paypal on Steam since they've offered it. I seriously hope Amazon will come to its senses and allow paypal for payments, since I don't have a CC(don't really need one in NL, generally speaking) and can't use my debit card there...
Same thing here - usually you do not need a credit card. I just have a pre-paid credit card which is a safe solution.
You just transfer some money to the card from your bank account and you can only use this money with the card.
Currently I think I only have 15 € on the credit card to buy some apps for my Android phone as Google does not support Paypal or similar services.
I have a Wirecard, coincidentally a German company, but their service really went down the drain. I've been having issues since i've had it because my bank has my name spelled normally, and Wirecard has, for some reason, it stored in all capitals, which means that everytime I try to credit the Wirecard account, the transaction gets flagged as coming from someone that isn't me and I have to contact customer service about it. It adds about 2 days to the already 2-3 day long transaction period. Not to mention that they seem to be using this as a precedent for forcing their 'premium' accounts on people, which can receive money from any bank account, not just yours. This would be cool and all if I didn't have to mail a lot of personal data to Germany and get someone to vouch for me first...
I first also looked at Wirecard and others.. but many banks here offer these pre-paid cards besides your debit card.
This way I do not have to mess with another company and the pre-paid card is basically just a regular MasterCard with the pre-paid limitation.
So we can conclude, in two first world European countries you can buy stuff on Steam?
Yes, and easily as well, unlike the archaic banking methods on that filthy island of yours.
I give Steam my debit/credit card details, just like I do with Amazon. They take money from my account and I get the game. What's not easy about that?Yes, and easily as well, unlike the archaic banking methods on that filthy island of yours.
Scammers stealing your **** and having to block the CC. BUT OH WAIT, BANKING HOLIDAY.
That's what I usually do but I have a lot of credits in my Gamestop account that were worthless until the Steam cards came out.
First screenshots of the Unreal 4 engine (tech demo):
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/05/ff_unreal4/
Its said that the demo where the screenshots are from runs on just a single GTX 680.When Alan Willard walks the audience through the demo—complete with armored demon, dancing sparks, and rolling balls of light—the room falls still. Then the twist: Willard reveals that both the cinematic scene and the following tech demo haven’t been running off a game file but in real time from within UE4′s game editor. It’s like finding out that the actors on TV are actually tiny people living inside your set. It also helps him show that changes can be made to the game’s design and code, recompiled and executed nearly instantly—a technical feat that has been simply unheard-of in game development. And just like that, the silence in the room becomes reverent. The videogame industry has changed.
In June, UE4 will be revealed to the gaming public. The reactions will likely be as spontaneous as staged lighting effects used to be. It’s all pre-scripted at this point: Fanboys will wet their pants, contrarian analysts will wring their hands, message boards will explode in either fury or collective orgasm. In all of the clamor and fanfare, though, the simple truth will be lost. Epic has redefined gaming before, and with Unreal 4 the company is doing it again.
But here at GDC, the engineers and executives don’t gasp or cheer—these are hardware guys, after all. They came to see the future, and having seen it, they walk out of the room with disbelieving smiles on their faces. They have a lot of work to do.
Looks great I think
Hopefully is will be way better than that god awful U3 engine. I hate that engine with a passion.
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