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I can't find the origional post, but this seems very similar to it. Also, during a short period when Thottbot was under maintance (I recall it having an alliance/horde and realm selection area on the temporary homepage), it directed you to gold/item sales for that realm. Just because there aren't any ads doesn't mean no harm is being done. By putting the player base "to work", they can gain data on what mobs are the most effecient to farm for [insert epic item here], or which areas have the highest concentration of [insert resource here (Bastard arcanite farmers)]. Although it also assists the entire population of WoW, it certainly would serve the IGE's purpose as well. IANAKOTSOGF (I am not anyone knowlegable on the subject of gold farming), but this certainly makes sence from most perspectives that I see it from.

Have you read about the awards they got for their showing at E3? MMORPG's best in show. GamersInfo.net's Editor's Choice award. Not to mention great reviews by several other sites after seeing the game at E3. That stuff doesn't happen by accident and it doesn't happen if the game isn't any good. Maybe the best review that I've seen so far is at http://www.corpnews.com/node/36.

I'm guessing that you've had a bad experience with MMORPG's. Hey, it happens. There isn't a perfect game out there and there will be always someone that isn't satisfied. I doubt that there's a game out there that has 100% customer satisfaction. All I can say from my experience with Simtronics games that when someone has a problem they do listen. They obviously won't take care of every complaint because some you just can't take care of. You can't please everyone all of the time. If they change one thing to make one person happy then someone else will be upset. That's just the way that it is.

So while you may not like what you've seen about HJ, that doesn't mean that everyone else feels the same way. It's not just the fanboys that are excited about this, lot's of other people are excited as well, including plenty of people that were skeptical at first. Just based on what I've seen and read about this game, I feel like it's already better than most of the MMORPG's out there.

Why don't you tell us what you like and don't like about current MMORPG's and what you'd like to see in future games. What are you playing right now? You've been critical of HJ but I don't think I've heard you mention what you WOULD like to see.

December was over 300K uniques and over 40K a day as well.

For reference, Corp had over 300K unique visitors in January and about 45K uniques a day.

December was over 300K uniques and over 40K a day as well.

For reference, Corp had over 300K unique visitors in January and about 45K uniques a day.

But I couldn't think of anything that I wanted. You know that the game industry is in trouble when their new products aren't even worth stealing.

Then I remembered Republic Commando. According to Penny Arcade, it has bigger wookies than other Star Wars games, and the demo wasn't half-bad either. So I fired up the torrent and let the computer sit for the night.

Some people recognize the Corp web link on our press passes, but few have ever actually read the site enough to know what a monumentally thorough mistake it is to let us into anything official. Between our unquantifiable-but-legitimate press passes, and Mr. Poppinfresh's ability to ninja-speak our way into VIP demos, we drift through E3 in a strange grey no-mans-land, where we see all and are required to produce nothing of quality in return.

Raph: This is the character creation screen. As you can see, there are many well-known races already... Pop: MAKE A WOOKIE!

Looks like they just found out about the slashdotting.

... check this other comment in that site.

Ah, E3. Just about the only place where you (and when I say 'you,' I mean us) can see the most awesomest audio hardware ever on one day and witness geeks lining up in a restroom to shake piss-soaked hands with a famous Japanese game designer on the next day. Quite a motherfucking experience. Between avoiding 40 year old boothbabes trying to score a free lunch and running the slalom through stupid fucks that paid $250 a pop to attend, we saw some pretty cool stuff this year.

Make up your damn mind.

"...Electronic Arts has made the decision to close Earth & Beyond in order to focus resources on future games."

Surely they misspelled "...in order focus resources and talent on Ultima Online, the upcoming expansion, and an unannounced Ultima Online project"? Gee, this sure sounds familiar... not to even mention how sound strategy it sounds like!

EA will never see another penny from me.

Right on! Thanks to the many boneheaded zombieifications of puppet companies, continued brand necrophilia, and the remainder of releases just being mostly crap, it's only fair that they should be boycotted...