They've fucked up EverQuest, then relaunched as EQ2, and are fucking up that as well so they're now working on EQ Next...
Someone needs to explain to them that an MMO needs to be kept up to date, just churning out bad "me too" content without any regard to the technical side (EverQuest 2 must have about the worst graphical engine I've ever experienced) ignoring long standing bugs (really, bugs that hit every player sooner or later and have been open since launch?) and just plain ignoring user feedback (certain classes are just mostly unwanted in the endgame and have been for years).
Sony should just do the world a favour and sell their MMO division to some competent company, though a lot of the games they own are probably beyond fixing by now.
No, American. I don't care much for either major US political party.
"Rational Libertarian" or "Pragmatic Libertarian" might describe my views best.
why is your answer to EVERYTHING give the rich people more money?
That's because it's not "my answer to everything". I simply don't care whether one is rich or poor, government should only be confiscating by threat of force the minimum needed to fulfill only those things it is mandated by the Constitution to do, and no more.
Wealth redistribution under threat of force is not, and has never been, in all the many times it's been tried throughout history, a successful social engineering tool or financial vehicle for running a country.
No, but once the inequality reaches a tipping point shit hits the fan and things get reset (usually quite bloodily) and the entire dance starts over again. We've seen it before and it will happen again, just pray you're not there when it happens, because it won't be pretty.
Ya know what? We've TRIED THAT for going on 30 fricking years now?
No, it's not been tried since the '30s. There's only been Progressive policies to a greater or lesser extent since the New Deal, and doubled-down on with the Great Society.
If anything taxes on the top 5% should be HIGHER not lower!
Class warfare is what you're buying into. It's a favorite way for Socialist/Communist revolutionary factions to stir up rage & violence in preparation for a coup or government overthrow. No country or society that has engaged in class warfare and wealth redistribution has enjoyed a vibrant, growing economy nor a society where personal freedom has any real meaning.
Yeah, I dunno, Hitler (oops, Godwin's) used this very same tactic to stir up revolution and he definately wasn't a socialist or a commie. Your irrational fear of helping other people is gonna kill you. Socialism has worked well in big parts of Europe for longer than your country has been around.
What we have now is more than half the population pays no Federal income tax at all, while voting to raise taxes on the productive minority to pay for the non-tax-paying, non-producing majority's wants and desires. It's economic slavery.
Of course, but having people work for a buck a day in countries like India and China is not economic slavery? Wake up.
At some point, however, that strategy runs out of "rich" to confiscate wealth from. Then what?
Unfortunately for the redistributors, wealth & capital is portable and goes where economic conditions are best. That's why all the jobs and investment capital are leaving.
Then everybody will be equal...equally poor, miserable, and starving. Welcome to hairyfeet's world.
You're just afraid of equality because it's the antithesis of wealth. There's nothing wrong with earning your keep and getting paid according to your job, but once you no longer have to work you're about as productive and useful to society as the poor slob begging in the streets.
I don't know how long you've been playing for, but the same thing was said about the dailies of the Argent Tournament when they were released, but we'll see, I reactivated my subscription for a bit.
As for epic questchains, there's quite a few. The AQ access chain, the Onyxia one (that went the way of the dodo, alas) was also neat as was the Nagrand one etc. But this isn't what I meant, the point is that there's no real reason to do them, there's no rewards (except achievements maybe and gold) for people that have done them once already. But on the other hand even with all the "zomg gay" comments about being able to decorate your house etc in the likes of EQ2 and the use of appearance gear most people in those games still make extensive use of it (some places get farmed extensively just because a cool looking weapon drops there). It's not like anyone can see your achievements, but hopping around in your shiny tier gear from a previous expansion set that took a ton of effort to get is quite clearly visible (and would probably get people to redo older content just because some item looks cool). There'd also be a lot less whining about the design of new gear as peeps could just wear what they want, don't like the look of the new tier? Fine, just stick with the old look.
Maybe I just fail to explain the entire concept, or maybe you need to have experienced it to "get it". I dunno. But gold and experience aren't really big motivators for questing and achievements only "work" for a few "achievement whores" (how many people care about them on their alts?). Quest gear very quickly is obsoleted by the first and best dungeon drop as well.
I know, it'll just postpone the problem though. If they increase XP gain again to make people level faster after each expansion (which they've done with each expansion so far) we'll be back to where we came from in 2 expansion.
Raiders don't tend to group much outside of raids, also since I was new to the guild most groups had already formed so the new guy was left seeking PUGs most of the time.
I agree that for leveling it's a nice thing to have, but also it makes groups boring. There's no such thing anymore as someone's "reputation" on a realm (except when you're the local Trade chat clown I guess) which is a bit of a shame. There's no chatting anymore in dungeon groups (besides "hi" and "bye" if you're lucky, no silly shit going on anymore) which is a real shame.
The trouble in getting groups for old dungeons is related to a couple of factors, firstly they made it faster each expansion to get through the previous one, making dungeons uninteresting as there are faster ways to quickly accumulate experience. Secondly: the gear was horribly out of date. That's two important motivations for people to do dungeons right out of the window. I think fixing those two would have been better than the LFG system.
So yeah, guess we gotta take the bad with the good but I dunno if it's really worth it.
I just resubbed for a bit and I'll try and level a character from 1 on a totally new realm (and new faction, so everything will be shiny and new, except for the game mechanics) and see how it goes. I somehow expect it to be a pretty lonely experience (which is a rather sad thing for a multiplayer game), but I'd be very glad to be proven wrong.
The only way to make it better is to drop the LFG system, so people actually know who the hell is on their realm and know who to group with and who not to group with (because of skill or just because they're omgwipequitters or just plain rude bastards). I had a full friends list in TBC, in Cata after changing realms and being on the new realm for an entire year the only people I knew were my guildmates (who transferred with me) and the realm clowns in trade chat (who I avoided) and it's not like I didn't try (joining WG/TB, pugging the PvP raids etc)
Finding a competent PUG in Cata was hell (I had just changed realms/guilds), I totally gave up on heroics because of it as tanks would ragequit after one wipe (usually caused by them being idiots and not listening to the healer or just going on with the Wrath mentality of "healer will heal through this") resulting in another 30-40min dungeon queue, only to have the story repeat. I think there are far less tanks now that tanknig actually requires some skill again (I leveled/geared a paladin tank in TBC, I guarantee you, it was hard, pallies weren't always faceroll like they were since Wrath)
Also Cata wasn't necessarily hard, hell, most normal raid zones were "yawn" for experienced raiders. The problem is players were no longer used to having to put any effort or skill into instances.
I think I vocalize the sentiment of a lot of players when I say: give me back my TBC, they took some steps in the right direction but not enough.
Wish they'd extend this (well, I wished when I was still playing). This was about the only thing I'd be willing to pay extra for (as in, one time extra to buy an additional character slot)
About time they started to steal player housing and appearance gear from EverQuest 2 then. Gimme EQ2 with WoW's raids and I'd be sold. As it is now questing in WoW is tedious and arguably pointless once you hit max level. EverQuest keeps you motivated to quest just to get more shiny stuff (eg, cool looking gear or trophies/furniture to put in your house/guild hall). Raiding in EQ2 otoh is just boring and tedious for most classes, which probably is more to do with SOE not giving a shit anymore than with any inherent problem with the game.
Also EQ2 (and I assume EQ1) has no GCD (in fact only straight WoW clones seem to have a gcd, like Rift), but all actions have some form of casttime (or a, usually very long, cooldown, in very rare cases).
Before I quit playing the only thing I still did in WoW was raid, the rest of the game was just stale, there's no reason to quest, except to grind reputation (or get achievements). Dungeon queues for dps were 30-45minutes and chances you got a decent group (aka one where the tank/healer didn't bail before getting to the end) were around 0. Imho the LFG system killed the game, as when I found out I didn't really know anyone on my new realm since grouping etc went almost entirely through the LFG interface (which is cross server, for those who have no experience with it) I quit. In TBC I had a crammed friendlist of people I knew I liked grouping with, this all went to hell with the introduction of the LFG system. Sure it made finding groups easy, but it also ruined the social aspect and it made grouping unrewarding (no more yay, I got a good group and managed to get through Magister's Terrace without deaths!).
This might be false, but it appears to me the LFG system also promotes juvenile behavior even more since before the LFG system people had to at least show some respect for each other, because an asshole got a bad reputation on the entire server and would be shunned, people that constantly dropped group halfway through an instance would get a bad reputation as well, etc etc. This is all gone and loads of people just behave like total assholes because they can get away with it, the self regulation of the game has literally vanished.
Yes but it annoys longtime players, traditionally starter zones didn't have access to anything (there wasn't even a mailbox, I dunno if this has changed, I quit playing early into Cataclysm) and most of them just wanted to get their character leveled as soon as possible (the fact that the first 60 levels were outdated and that most of them had gone through them dozens of times already over the years didn't help). The way to do this was to buy BoA (Bind on Account) gear on one of your max level characters and mail that to your alt, these made your low level toon considerably more powerful and provide an experience boost to boot. Of course this required making trek to the nearest mailbox...
Granted, I haven't tried the new starter areas (all my character slots were already filled on the realm I played on), but I imagine that after leveling a few characters you'd get tired of these as well. Something that also often happened was that people went to starter areas of other races (because they either gave better gear, required less pointless running around or they'd just not done them before and weren't interested in said raice), the Blood Elf start area was notorious for Horde players coming from all over Azeroth to quest there in TBC.
Then there's the banker characters, low level characters that get parked in major cities for the sole purpose of providing additional (bank) storage for other characters and/or to buy/sell goods on the Auction House.
I'm pretty sure if all of the above were made impossible there'd be quite a bit of rage going on (of course, longtime players might not care as they got their bank(ers) in place, though they'd probably be hit by the change when they move to another server
No fair use? Citation needed because I seriously believe you pulled that one out of your ass
Type "fair use" into Wikipedia (the English version).
And? We might not have it under that name, but we definately have those rights. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
over here at least schools are free to use published articles in their entirety as they see fit, for example
Perhaps, perhaps not. In many countries, schools pay for that, you just don't know it.
Maybe, but "many countries" still isn't "Europe". Europe is not the US and does not work in the same way, something you seem to either forget or not understand.
And yeah spreading hate and trying to retroactively alter history (eg. negationism) isn't allowed in most of Europe, which is bad how?
Translation: Europeans believe the version of history taught by the government because other versions are considered "alterations". It works so well you don't even notice it.
Yeah, cause my government lies about things that don't benefit them at all. Shall we start another discussion about the necessity of the war in Iraq and why that war was started? I thought not. Small hint: a lot of us still have or had relatives that were actually there during WW2.
There's limits to prevent LACK of competition (ask all of your fellow Americans that get the "choice" of having only 1 cable provider how well that works for them)
Yeah, because as we all know, every European is guaranteed a choice of three ISPs by law, right?
No, but we're guaranteed more than one ISP by law, I have the choice of at least 10.
No idea why you were modded informative, as a Troll you did a damn good job though
Obviously you have "no idea"; you have "no idea" of a lot of things.
It's funny you should say that as you are obviously the one without any idea what you're going on about. Is it so hard to defend your country based on its merits that you have to resort to baseless bashing of another nation of which you don't even understand the basic workings?
Europe is not a country, unlike the US and while we might be evolving in that direction we're not there yet by a very long shot. Different countries, different rules and different interpretations of rules that have been pushed down from the EU.
And yeah spreading hate and trying to retroactively alter history (eg. negationism) isn't allowed in most of Europe, which is bad how?
There is danger in giving any government the power to regulate expression. Governments change, and some will use this power for ill. Giving it to a government to prevent something you consider offensive is a poor reason to take that risk.
You would be wrong, what is disallowed, for example negationism in my country (Belgium), is clearly defined by law. Whether you are guilty of spreading hate, negationism or racism is decided by court, and unlike in the US you are not guilty until proven guilty (and you won't go bancrupt defending yourself either, also unlike in the US) and as the court case aroud Mark Wilders in the Netherlands proves you have to push really hard before you'll get convicted for spreading hate or racism.
Also limits on competition?
Competition is the very essence of innovation, where innovation is defined as improving the human condition. Regulating competition limits standard of living on a macro scale. There's a certain Luddite tinge to limiting competition*. "Life is good enough now, we don't need it to get better"
The "more, better" society has its down side, but without it, nearly all of the progress since the Industrial Revolution wouldn't have happened. We'd have lifespans in the 30s overall and no antibiotics.
* I see the same Luddite theology amongst the environmental movement as generally defined. I use the word theology purposefully.
As I stated, there are no limits on competition, there are only limits to make sure there is no lack of competition. Repeating what you said in your first post without actually providing any evidence to back up your claims doesn't suddenly make it true.
No fair use? Citation needed because I seriously believe you pulled that one out of your ass. Afaik copyright law is also still in the hands of individual countries anyway, over here at least schools are free to use published articles in their entirety as they see fit, for example.
And yeah spreading hate and trying to retroactively alter history (eg. negationism) isn't allowed in most of Europe, which is bad how? Also limits on competition? There's limits to prevent LACK of competition (ask all of your fellow Americans that get the "choice" of having only 1 cable provider how well that works for them)
No idea why you were modded informative, as a Troll you did a damn good job though
Gentoo was the only distro I got to work on my Sparc and it worked wonderfully. Also if Gentoo won't work on it what makes you think some other distro will? The chance of another distro with most likely older software working better than Gentoo on badly supported hardware is pretty small.
Gmail isn't even showing up on the first page in the non-advertised search results when searching for "email" on the Belgian Google site and it's 2nd when searching for "e-mail" (as in the correct spelling, at least in Dutch, though most people nowadays seem to be, incorrectly, dropping the hyphen) after a university's site. And when searching for just "mail" gmail shows up twice (2nd and 3rd spots, followed by Yahoo mail and Windows Live Mail 2011, the top spot seems to be for some local e-mail provider.
These results lead me to believe it's just Google's algorithms at work combined with Gmail's relative popularity. Also not that I was logged in and that Google tailors search results to individual users (at least I seem to remember they do) which makes it extra odd that Gmail isn't higher up as I'm a Gmail user and also frequently search through google groups.
It's also not generally accepted for women to play games. I know my sister gets serieus omgwtfbbq reactions when she mentions she's off to a lan party with some friends to play (among other things) Unreal Tournament. While a lot of guys are (once they've recovered from the shock) like "MARRY ME!" usually girls respond like "You stay where you are while I walk backwards to the door. Slowly. Don't make any sudden moves." Seems to me like it's a bit like coming out of the closet, everybody knows it exists, but you'll get shunned over it anyway.
Now I'm willing to accept that she's an exception (and/or I live in a pathetically retarded country in this respect) for playing shooters but if the forums about RPGs/Action adventures are any indication there's quite a few women playing those and there's not usually complaints about the game being "designed for men" (there is, sometimes about lack of romance options for women, but this is something that's improving itself, if there's an audience then there will be (changes to the) product.
Blizzard has been using Bittorrent to distribute patches since forever (for World of Warcraft at least and it can be turned off). So yeah, I would guess they could be sued, but Blizzard also has lots of $$ so suing them might not be the best of ideas.
You forget the fact that the majority of the PC games is created with console hardware in mind and as such uses only a fraction of what a modern GPU is capable of.
That said, the "good enough" argument does fly for desktop users. I expect graphics boards to become like sound cards, they will be useful for specific applications (musicians come to mind for sound cards) and the people that need them will buy them.
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They've fucked up EverQuest, then relaunched as EQ2, and are fucking up that as well so they're now working on EQ Next...
Someone needs to explain to them that an MMO needs to be kept up to date, just churning out bad "me too" content without any regard to the technical side (EverQuest 2 must have about the worst graphical engine I've ever experienced) ignoring long standing bugs (really, bugs that hit every player sooner or later and have been open since launch?) and just plain ignoring user feedback (certain classes are just mostly unwanted in the endgame and have been for years).
Sony should just do the world a favour and sell their MMO division to some competent company, though a lot of the games they own are probably beyond fixing by now.
Ugh, republican, yes?
No, American. I don't care much for either major US political party.
"Rational Libertarian" or "Pragmatic Libertarian" might describe my views best.
why is your answer to EVERYTHING give the rich people more money?
That's because it's not "my answer to everything". I simply don't care whether one is rich or poor, government should only be confiscating by threat of force the minimum needed to fulfill only those things it is mandated by the Constitution to do, and no more.
Wealth redistribution under threat of force is not, and has never been, in all the many times it's been tried throughout history, a successful social engineering tool or financial vehicle for running a country.
No, but once the inequality reaches a tipping point shit hits the fan and things get reset (usually quite bloodily) and the entire dance starts over again. We've seen it before and it will happen again, just pray you're not there when it happens, because it won't be pretty.
Ya know what? We've TRIED THAT for going on 30 fricking years now?
No, it's not been tried since the '30s. There's only been Progressive policies to a greater or lesser extent since the New Deal, and doubled-down on with the Great Society.
If anything taxes on the top 5% should be HIGHER not lower!
Class warfare is what you're buying into. It's a favorite way for Socialist/Communist revolutionary factions to stir up rage & violence in preparation for a coup or government overthrow. No country or society that has engaged in class warfare and wealth redistribution has enjoyed a vibrant, growing economy nor a society where personal freedom has any real meaning.
Yeah, I dunno, Hitler (oops, Godwin's) used this very same tactic to stir up revolution and he definately wasn't a socialist or a commie. Your irrational fear of helping other people is gonna kill you. Socialism has worked well in big parts of Europe for longer than your country has been around.
What we have now is more than half the population pays no Federal income tax at all, while voting to raise taxes on the productive minority to pay for the non-tax-paying, non-producing majority's wants and desires. It's economic slavery.
Of course, but having people work for a buck a day in countries like India and China is not economic slavery? Wake up.
At some point, however, that strategy runs out of "rich" to confiscate wealth from. Then what?
Unfortunately for the redistributors, wealth & capital is portable and goes where economic conditions are best. That's why all the jobs and investment capital are leaving.
Then everybody will be equal...equally poor, miserable, and starving. Welcome to hairyfeet's world.
You're just afraid of equality because it's the antithesis of wealth. There's nothing wrong with earning your keep and getting paid according to your job, but once you no longer have to work you're about as productive and useful to society as the poor slob begging in the streets.
At least you can repost someone else's drivel without restrictions here...
I don't know how long you've been playing for, but the same thing was said about the dailies of the Argent Tournament when they were released, but we'll see, I reactivated my subscription for a bit.
As for epic questchains, there's quite a few. The AQ access chain, the Onyxia one (that went the way of the dodo, alas) was also neat as was the Nagrand one etc. But this isn't what I meant, the point is that there's no real reason to do them, there's no rewards (except achievements maybe and gold) for people that have done them once already. But on the other hand even with all the "zomg gay" comments about being able to decorate your house etc in the likes of EQ2 and the use of appearance gear most people in those games still make extensive use of it (some places get farmed extensively just because a cool looking weapon drops there). It's not like anyone can see your achievements, but hopping around in your shiny tier gear from a previous expansion set that took a ton of effort to get is quite clearly visible (and would probably get people to redo older content just because some item looks cool). There'd also be a lot less whining about the design of new gear as peeps could just wear what they want, don't like the look of the new tier? Fine, just stick with the old look.
Maybe I just fail to explain the entire concept, or maybe you need to have experienced it to "get it". I dunno. But gold and experience aren't really big motivators for questing and achievements only "work" for a few "achievement whores" (how many people care about them on their alts?). Quest gear very quickly is obsoleted by the first and best dungeon drop as well.
I know, it'll just postpone the problem though. If they increase XP gain again to make people level faster after each expansion (which they've done with each expansion so far) we'll be back to where we came from in 2 expansion.
Raiders don't tend to group much outside of raids, also since I was new to the guild most groups had already formed so the new guy was left seeking PUGs most of the time.
I agree that for leveling it's a nice thing to have, but also it makes groups boring. There's no such thing anymore as someone's "reputation" on a realm (except when you're the local Trade chat clown I guess) which is a bit of a shame. There's no chatting anymore in dungeon groups (besides "hi" and "bye" if you're lucky, no silly shit going on anymore) which is a real shame.
The trouble in getting groups for old dungeons is related to a couple of factors, firstly they made it faster each expansion to get through the previous one, making dungeons uninteresting as there are faster ways to quickly accumulate experience. Secondly: the gear was horribly out of date. That's two important motivations for people to do dungeons right out of the window. I think fixing those two would have been better than the LFG system.
So yeah, guess we gotta take the bad with the good but I dunno if it's really worth it.
I just resubbed for a bit and I'll try and level a character from 1 on a totally new realm (and new faction, so everything will be shiny and new, except for the game mechanics) and see how it goes. I somehow expect it to be a pretty lonely experience (which is a rather sad thing for a multiplayer game), but I'd be very glad to be proven wrong.
The only way to make it better is to drop the LFG system, so people actually know who the hell is on their realm and know who to group with and who not to group with (because of skill or just because they're omgwipequitters or just plain rude bastards). I had a full friends list in TBC, in Cata after changing realms and being on the new realm for an entire year the only people I knew were my guildmates (who transferred with me) and the realm clowns in trade chat (who I avoided) and it's not like I didn't try (joining WG/TB, pugging the PvP raids etc)
Finding a competent PUG in Cata was hell (I had just changed realms/guilds), I totally gave up on heroics because of it as tanks would ragequit after one wipe (usually caused by them being idiots and not listening to the healer or just going on with the Wrath mentality of "healer will heal through this") resulting in another 30-40min dungeon queue, only to have the story repeat. I think there are far less tanks now that tanknig actually requires some skill again (I leveled/geared a paladin tank in TBC, I guarantee you, it was hard, pallies weren't always faceroll like they were since Wrath)
Also Cata wasn't necessarily hard, hell, most normal raid zones were "yawn" for experienced raiders. The problem is players were no longer used to having to put any effort or skill into instances.
I think I vocalize the sentiment of a lot of players when I say: give me back my TBC, they took some steps in the right direction but not enough.
And I repeat: ditch the automated LFG.
Wish they'd extend this (well, I wished when I was still playing). This was about the only thing I'd be willing to pay extra for (as in, one time extra to buy an additional character slot)
It's been 20 since at least TBC, which for most people means it might as well always have been 20.
About time they started to steal player housing and appearance gear from EverQuest 2 then. Gimme EQ2 with WoW's raids and I'd be sold. As it is now questing in WoW is tedious and arguably pointless once you hit max level. EverQuest keeps you motivated to quest just to get more shiny stuff (eg, cool looking gear or trophies/furniture to put in your house/guild hall). Raiding in EQ2 otoh is just boring and tedious for most classes, which probably is more to do with SOE not giving a shit anymore than with any inherent problem with the game.
Also EQ2 (and I assume EQ1) has no GCD (in fact only straight WoW clones seem to have a gcd, like Rift), but all actions have some form of casttime (or a, usually very long, cooldown, in very rare cases).
Before I quit playing the only thing I still did in WoW was raid, the rest of the game was just stale, there's no reason to quest, except to grind reputation (or get achievements). Dungeon queues for dps were 30-45minutes and chances you got a decent group (aka one where the tank/healer didn't bail before getting to the end) were around 0. Imho the LFG system killed the game, as when I found out I didn't really know anyone on my new realm since grouping etc went almost entirely through the LFG interface (which is cross server, for those who have no experience with it) I quit. In TBC I had a crammed friendlist of people I knew I liked grouping with, this all went to hell with the introduction of the LFG system. Sure it made finding groups easy, but it also ruined the social aspect and it made grouping unrewarding (no more yay, I got a good group and managed to get through Magister's Terrace without deaths!).
This might be false, but it appears to me the LFG system also promotes juvenile behavior even more since before the LFG system people had to at least show some respect for each other, because an asshole got a bad reputation on the entire server and would be shunned, people that constantly dropped group halfway through an instance would get a bad reputation as well, etc etc. This is all gone and loads of people just behave like total assholes because they can get away with it, the self regulation of the game has literally vanished.
Yes but it annoys longtime players, traditionally starter zones didn't have access to anything (there wasn't even a mailbox, I dunno if this has changed, I quit playing early into Cataclysm) and most of them just wanted to get their character leveled as soon as possible (the fact that the first 60 levels were outdated and that most of them had gone through them dozens of times already over the years didn't help). The way to do this was to buy BoA (Bind on Account) gear on one of your max level characters and mail that to your alt, these made your low level toon considerably more powerful and provide an experience boost to boot. Of course this required making trek to the nearest mailbox...
Granted, I haven't tried the new starter areas (all my character slots were already filled on the realm I played on), but I imagine that after leveling a few characters you'd get tired of these as well. Something that also often happened was that people went to starter areas of other races (because they either gave better gear, required less pointless running around or they'd just not done them before and weren't interested in said raice), the Blood Elf start area was notorious for Horde players coming from all over Azeroth to quest there in TBC.
Then there's the banker characters, low level characters that get parked in major cities for the sole purpose of providing additional (bank) storage for other characters and/or to buy/sell goods on the Auction House.
I'm pretty sure if all of the above were made impossible there'd be quite a bit of rage going on (of course, longtime players might not care as they got their bank(ers) in place, though they'd probably be hit by the change when they move to another server
Type "fair use" into Wikipedia (the English version).
And? We might not have it under that name, but we definately have those rights. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
Perhaps, perhaps not. In many countries, schools pay for that, you just don't know it.
Maybe, but "many countries" still isn't "Europe". Europe is not the US and does not work in the same way, something you seem to either forget or not understand.
Translation: Europeans believe the version of history taught by the government because other versions are considered "alterations". It works so well you don't even notice it.
Yeah, cause my government lies about things that don't benefit them at all. Shall we start another discussion about the necessity of the war in Iraq and why that war was started? I thought not. Small hint: a lot of us still have or had relatives that were actually there during WW2.
Yeah, because as we all know, every European is guaranteed a choice of three ISPs by law, right?
No, but we're guaranteed more than one ISP by law, I have the choice of at least 10.
Obviously you have "no idea"; you have "no idea" of a lot of things.
It's funny you should say that as you are obviously the one without any idea what you're going on about. Is it so hard to defend your country based on its merits that you have to resort to baseless bashing of another nation of which you don't even understand the basic workings?
Europe is not a country, unlike the US and while we might be evolving in that direction we're not there yet by a very long shot. Different countries, different rules and different interpretations of rules that have been pushed down from the EU.
And yeah spreading hate and trying to retroactively alter history (eg. negationism) isn't allowed in most of Europe, which is bad how?
There is danger in giving any government the power to regulate expression. Governments change, and some will use this power for ill. Giving it to a government to prevent something you consider offensive is a poor reason to take that risk.
You would be wrong, what is disallowed, for example negationism in my country (Belgium), is clearly defined by law. Whether you are guilty of spreading hate, negationism or racism is decided by court, and unlike in the US you are not guilty until proven guilty (and you won't go bancrupt defending yourself either, also unlike in the US) and as the court case aroud Mark Wilders in the Netherlands proves you have to push really hard before you'll get convicted for spreading hate or racism.
Also limits on competition?
Competition is the very essence of innovation, where innovation is defined as improving the human condition. Regulating competition limits standard of living on a macro scale. There's a certain Luddite tinge to limiting competition*. "Life is good enough now, we don't need it to get better"
The "more, better" society has its down side, but without it, nearly all of the progress since the Industrial Revolution wouldn't have happened. We'd have lifespans in the 30s overall and no antibiotics.
* I see the same Luddite theology amongst the environmental movement as generally defined. I use the word theology purposefully.
As I stated, there are no limits on competition, there are only limits to make sure there is no lack of competition. Repeating what you said in your first post without actually providing any evidence to back up your claims doesn't suddenly make it true.
No fair use? Citation needed because I seriously believe you pulled that one out of your ass. Afaik copyright law is also still in the hands of individual countries anyway, over here at least schools are free to use published articles in their entirety as they see fit, for example.
And yeah spreading hate and trying to retroactively alter history (eg. negationism) isn't allowed in most of Europe, which is bad how? Also limits on competition? There's limits to prevent LACK of competition (ask all of your fellow Americans that get the "choice" of having only 1 cable provider how well that works for them)
No idea why you were modded informative, as a Troll you did a damn good job though
Gentoo was the only distro I got to work on my Sparc and it worked wonderfully. Also if Gentoo won't work on it what makes you think some other distro will? The chance of another distro with most likely older software working better than Gentoo on badly supported hardware is pretty small.
Sure the investors get rich off of it, that doesn't mean they aren't running the company into the ground. See SCO for an extreme example.
With all due respect but Java > COBOL still holds. Ever tried writing a GUI or OO code in COBOL? No? Pray you can keep it that way.
I guess you're not as good at it as you thought you were then, eh? ;-)
I seem to recall some magazine testing this and being able to still access photos they deleted 3 years ago (by direct URL).
Gmail isn't even showing up on the first page in the non-advertised search results when searching for "email" on the Belgian Google site and it's 2nd when searching for "e-mail" (as in the correct spelling, at least in Dutch, though most people nowadays seem to be, incorrectly, dropping the hyphen) after a university's site. And when searching for just "mail" gmail shows up twice (2nd and 3rd spots, followed by Yahoo mail and Windows Live Mail 2011, the top spot seems to be for some local e-mail provider.
These results lead me to believe it's just Google's algorithms at work combined with Gmail's relative popularity. Also not that I was logged in and that Google tailors search results to individual users (at least I seem to remember they do) which makes it extra odd that Gmail isn't higher up as I'm a Gmail user and also frequently search through google groups.
Why so serious?
It's also not generally accepted for women to play games. I know my sister gets serieus omgwtfbbq reactions when she mentions she's off to a lan party with some friends to play (among other things) Unreal Tournament. While a lot of guys are (once they've recovered from the shock) like "MARRY ME!" usually girls respond like "You stay where you are while I walk backwards to the door. Slowly. Don't make any sudden moves." Seems to me like it's a bit like coming out of the closet, everybody knows it exists, but you'll get shunned over it anyway.
Now I'm willing to accept that she's an exception (and/or I live in a pathetically retarded country in this respect) for playing shooters but if the forums about RPGs/Action adventures are any indication there's quite a few women playing those and there's not usually complaints about the game being "designed for men" (there is, sometimes about lack of romance options for women, but this is something that's improving itself, if there's an audience then there will be (changes to the) product.
This reminds me of this Mass Effect 2 bit.
Blizzard has been using Bittorrent to distribute patches since forever (for World of Warcraft at least and it can be turned off). So yeah, I would guess they could be sued, but Blizzard also has lots of $$ so suing them might not be the best of ideas.
You forget the fact that the majority of the PC games is created with console hardware in mind and as such uses only a fraction of what a modern GPU is capable of.
That said, the "good enough" argument does fly for desktop users. I expect graphics boards to become like sound cards, they will be useful for specific applications (musicians come to mind for sound cards) and the people that need them will buy them.