jmaster299

I've had a G502 since it first launched and have no issues with the feet coming up. Maybe it has something to do with using a hard surface mouse pad. Nothing for the edges to catch on.

Fairly sure reposting something that was deleted by a mod won't go over too well. Also, the fact that its Blizzard has nothing to do with the issue. Your claim that the program is bloatware is simply not true, but making nonsense claims like that spread like cancer. Hence the detailed definition I posted earlier. The term bloatware gets tossed around by people who don't actually know what bloatware is and base their claim on nothing but personal bias. Bloatware would be if they took the exact same original individual game launcher, made no improvements or additions to it, and released it with a significantly larger file size. But that's not the case with the Battle.net launcher. It took multiple programs, combined them into one, then added numerous additional features and graphical UI improvements. All while maintaining a very small and reasonable file size.

I question your definition of good. This fits exactly with the crazy stuff they've been doing ever since SR: The Third, and looks just as funny. It's obviously a filler title while they continue to work on the next full SR game. But they are going about it the right way by giving it a "less than full game" price point and making it so you don't have to own the previous version of the game.

While technically an expansion for Saints Row 4, Gat Out of Hell will be available as a standalone purchase for $20. No need to own SR4 in order to play it. I was a late adopter of the Saints Row franchise, for SR The Third in a Humble Bundle, but did bother to install it for like a year later. It has everything I've always wanted in the GTA franchise, with none of the tedious nonsense like having to change your clothes to keep your girl friend happy, or your appearance being affected by what you eat. If I want a life simulator, I'd play The SIMS. Yes the stories for the SR series are absurd, but all the more fun because of it. Nothing says "I'm in a video game doing impossible things to have fun like ". The announcement video for Gat Out of Hell makes it clear they will be sticking with all the absurd things that have made the series so successful in the past. Taking the two most popular characters, Kinzie and Gat, and making them the playable characters instead of "The Boss" is also a nice change.

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No, but you can increase your memory clock, which does improveme video memory related performance.

The comment about programming knowledge was a rhetorical statement, in that, it doesn't matter what we know or don't know. What matters is its obvious that he doesn't know what he's talking about because of the complete lack of proof to back up his claims and the fact that he completely dismisses any point that proves him wrong. He tries to compare the program to stupid things like Pidgin, when in fact the only programs it can be compared to are things like STEAM. Which I mentioned. The fact that his claims are baseless is reinforced when he tries to use his personal opinion and bias as justification for his claims. He doesn't like/prefer a graphically pleasing UI, so he labels any and all resources necessary for as bloatware. He also doesn't like the idea of launchers or centralized programs at all, so he again labels it as bloatware because its something he doesn't like. That's why I quoted that long description of what bloatware really is, because it specifically points out the fact that people like LAwLs are constantly labeling things as bloatware when they are simply ignorant of the facts, and/or are making the statement based on personal preference.

That M305 on its own is very light since its an undersized travel mouse. But the battery adds obvious weight to it. I can't directly compare it to a G502 since its a full sized gaming mouse with a ton of features. The basic weight of the G502 is considered heavy by some people, but I don't agree. More for balance than weight I did add one of the included weights in the front slot. Keeps the center of gravity towards the front of the mouse that way.

No, we don't know about programming, but @LAwLz doesn't either, and that's the point I am trying to make. When something is as small as a whopping 222MB, and does the two dozen different things that the Battle.net launcher does, and does it looking as good as the launcher does, and does it without bugs or other errors, NO ONE, not one single person the face of the Earth, can call that program bloatware unless they have the technical knowledge to prove other wise. We are beating a dead horse at this point, but my only hope is people are smart enough to ignore the nonsense that is being spewed by the haters in this thread that are complaining with no actually knowledge to justify those complaints and no proof to back up those claims. People have a right to say they don't like something, but they don't have a right to incorrectly label the launcher as something that its not. It not bloatware, and does not even come close to meeting the proper definition of bloatware. "Software bloat is a process whereby successive versions of a computer program become perceptibly slower, use more memory/diskspace or processing power, or have higher hardware requirements than the previous version whilst making only dubious user-perceptible improvements. The term is not applied consistently; it is often used as a pejorative by end users to describe undesired user interface changes even if those changes had little or no effect on the hardware requirements. In long-lived software, perceived bloat can occur from the software servicing a large, diverse marketplace with many differing requirements. Most end users will feel they only need some limited subset of the available functions and will regard the others as unnecessary bloat, even if people with different requirements do use them. Actual (measurable) bloat can occur due to de-emphasising software efficiency in favour of other concerns like developer productivity, or possibly through the introduction of new layers of abstraction like a virtual machine or other scripting engine for the purposes of convenience when developer constraints are reduced. The perception of improved developer productivity, in the case of practising development within virtual machine environments, comes from the developers no longer taking resource constraints and usage into consideration during design and development; this allows the product to be completed faster but it results in increases to the end user's hardware requirements to compensate."The Battle.net launcher took multiple programs and combined them into a single program, with a single and much more graphically pleasing UI, while at the same time adding tons of extra useful features along with much better and much easier to use security. And they did it all while using a whopping 0.00% of my CPU, 70MB of system RAM and 222MB of HDD space. Which is less than what any similar desktop program uses and less than most of the apps on my phone use, all of which are forced by necessity to be extremely efficient for use on my underpowered iPhone 4S. The Battle.net desktop launcher/app can NOT be compaired to crap like Pidgin, or any other non-game related programs. UPlay, Origin, STEAM, those are the only programs the it can be compared to, as they are the only programs that provide the same functions and features, and it uses a lot fewer resources than any one of those programs.

Its not price gouging when the products deliver as advertised, or when the direct competitor's product is so horrible in comparison that their only option is to price their product low enough to give any justification for using it.

Not a mystery at all. More than 2GB? Absolutely. More than 3GB? Technically possible but extremely limited to mostly things like heavily modded Skyrim or unoptimized games like Watch Dogs. Star Citizen may push that limit, and while it may not look like it from the early videos, indications are that Evolve will be very VRAM hungry at higher detail levels.

That's actually a really good deal.

I'm just glad I'm not the only person that sees this for what it is, complete and utter nonsense with no basis in reality or fact. The OP posted a rant for no other purpose than to rant. He was just upset that a change was being made and nothing else. Like flies to honey, his nonsensical complaints attracted the attention of the "Professional products/programs are evil, Open Source forever!" crowd. They would have all of us using nothing but Linux and other open source programs that are dumbed down enough in features to be able to fit onto a floppy disc and be run by a 40 year old rotten potato. If a program doesn't meet those absurd requirements, it makes that program "bloat ware" whatever other nonsense they want to label it. Blizzard is not taking anything away from their customers, or making things more difficult for their customers, or negatively impacting their customers in any way with the Battle.net desktop app. Which is the official name for it since its more than just a launcher now. For a whopping 222MB you have a system that is both easier and faster to use, as well as more secure and offers more features than the old individual launchers for each different game. The fact that people like the OP are saying the old individual launchers were good proves they don't know what they are talking about since its a double standard. From day one, all Blizzard games have been capable of being run without the use of the launchers. It wasn't possible to install the games without the launchers also being installed, but they were never a requirement to play the game. You could always run the .exe file for the game directly, and you can STILL run the .exe game file directly with the new launcher/app. All Blizzard did was take the launchers for multiple games, and combine them into a central program. While at the same time that integration allowed them to make their security features less obtrusive for their customers. I can log in once with both my password and authenticator to the desktop app, and if I launch any of my multiple Blizzard games, it will automatically log me in with in the game. While under the old system you would have to run the game and log in each time you wanted to play. The new desktop app can also recognize if I am logging in from a different computer, something the old system couldn't do. I could tell if your IP was different, but not if the actual computer was different. But this has gone on long enough. None of the claims or complaints about the launcher are actually ture.

I hope he sues the shit out of the cops.

Nothing new really. Malicious ads have been around since ads were first used on the internet. Its reason number one that I give when a site or content owner/creator complains about things like AdBlock. Until they can 100% guarantee that all ads on their site are safe, and will always be safe, I will continue to block them. Google ads are not safe, not even close to being safe. There is nothing that stops people from running malicious ads via Google Ads. Hell, Google can't even secure their own Google Play store.....