So you chose a Bard-type support class, and your complaint is it's not a front-line damage-dealer? Maybe you should have picked a Guardian or Champion instead?
This is exactly why I refuse to ever make a MySpace page. And now it looks like I won't want to be using Facebook anymore either. The type of pages on MySpace look more hideous than personal homepages from 1996. What made Facebook usable and respectable, was that it was devoid of most of the garbage that MySpace had. Oh well.
Isn't this kinda equivilent to the guy who received a DMCA notice for holding down the shift key while inserting a CD in order to not load the DRM installed on it?
I have to agree. While I don't play any FPS games in a Ladder or Clan setting, I still appreciate playing games for the above-mentioned skills. Something you didn't mention was using sound to your advantage, and more recent FPS games dumbing down the accuracy of guns incredibly to further rob the skill of good players.
This can be seen in the difference between playing Day of Defeat, and DOD: Source. The Source version was so heavily decried for lack of skill involved, that it wasn't used in CAL League competition for 1-2 years.
Another big problem I see is that players no longer want to be respected and take first place through superior skill, but through the most abuse of game mechanics. Map and engine exploits are abused widely and proclaimed to be "skill" or excused because "everyone does them" or "if it wasn't possible, it wouldn't be in the game" -- like no program ever has bugs.
Blizzard telling us that they are announcing a new game in *South Korea* next month almost guarantees that it is Starcraft-related IMHO. Starcraft is/was absolutely huge in Korea, so I can't see them choosing that spot for an announcement for anything else.
A Starcraft MMO also makes good market sense right now, even if I would also love to see a new Starcraft RTS. There has been a distinct lack of quality mainstream Scifi MMOs so far. Starcraft could fit into that area quite nicely -- and by the time the game was ready for release, WoW would also be around its 5th anniversary.
Oh god... that would be an interesting life experience. But I wonder what kind of vehicle or supplies you would want to take. Probably something like a Landrover with cushy seats. And armor plating/bulletproof windows just in case;)
I was under the impression that Cingular still uses SIMM chips though, correct? You could always import one of the nifty Japanese handsets then and use your SIMM chip in it. Assuming the handset can use the type of network Cingular has. (I know Japan uses CDMA2000, but I think some handsets are compliant with US networks)
One has to boggle at the thought of whoever is in charge of calling the shots on when these MMOs are released. Just how many MMOs in a row do they have to rush to market and have fail miserably, before they learn that the short-term money savings just does not at all justify pushing out a beta product?
SWG suffered from bad bug-testing methods, incomplete content, and being pushed to market months too early. It's death spiral took longer than usual because of the extreme power of the Starwars name, but any beta tester could tell you it was inevitable from that early week in June when the game was announced "Gold."
I can't comment on if EQ2 was rushed to market or not, however from a graphics standpoint it should have also had them learn the lesson that extreme eyecandy in MMOs just doesn't work. It looks nice for screenshots, but having a game that only runs for a small fraction of high-end PCs, and even then only at low-end settings, doesn't make for a subscription base.
So now we have Vanguard from SOE -- again released far too soon, and with graphics well above what even high-end machines can handle. (I believe the full install is around 20GB+) SOE isn't just taking a pistol and shooting themselves in the foot -- they've graduated to taking an RPG and firing it straight down...
If anything, the recent scandal was the stimulus for the current major warfare that just started in EVE. Goonswarm and Red Alliance got into a war with their neighbor Lotka Volterra. This led to Band of Brothers coming to the aid of LV. Dusk and Dawn then attacked BoB territory from the north, thereby drawing off their support of LV which is now in the process of losing the war, having lost 2 major systems and their Capital Shipyards being destroyed which had a Titan building at the time.
So basically now you have BoB vs. the rest of EVE going on, with the scandal being the major impetus to finally move against BoB whom has been disliked for a long time now.
Fry: Married? Jenny can't get married!
Leela: Why not? It's clever, it's unexpected.
Fry: But that's not why people watch TV. Clever things make people feel stupid, and unexpected things make them feel scared.
[Lrrr crackles onto the screen.]
Lrrr [on TV]: Attention, McNeal. Your unexpected marriage plan scares us. You stole our hearts as a single female lawyer, and so shall you remain -- or else!
Fry: You see? TV audiences don't want anything original. They wanna see the same thing they've seen a thousand times before.
http://www.futurama-madhouse.com.ar/scripts/1acv12 .shtml
Last word I heard about the new Smash Bros game, was that it will be coming out in February. I heard that back in Sept or Oct though, so it may have changed since then.
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So you chose a Bard-type support class, and your complaint is it's not a front-line damage-dealer? Maybe you should have picked a Guardian or Champion instead?
You get the chance to be exploited by a faceless corporate entity, duh!
This is exactly why I refuse to ever make a MySpace page. And now it looks like I won't want to be using Facebook anymore either. The type of pages on MySpace look more hideous than personal homepages from 1996. What made Facebook usable and respectable, was that it was devoid of most of the garbage that MySpace had. Oh well.
Isn't this kinda equivilent to the guy who received a DMCA notice for holding down the shift key while inserting a CD in order to not load the DRM installed on it?
I have to agree. While I don't play any FPS games in a Ladder or Clan setting, I still appreciate playing games for the above-mentioned skills. Something you didn't mention was using sound to your advantage, and more recent FPS games dumbing down the accuracy of guns incredibly to further rob the skill of good players. This can be seen in the difference between playing Day of Defeat, and DOD: Source. The Source version was so heavily decried for lack of skill involved, that it wasn't used in CAL League competition for 1-2 years. Another big problem I see is that players no longer want to be respected and take first place through superior skill, but through the most abuse of game mechanics. Map and engine exploits are abused widely and proclaimed to be "skill" or excused because "everyone does them" or "if it wasn't possible, it wouldn't be in the game" -- like no program ever has bugs.
Blizzard telling us that they are announcing a new game in *South Korea* next month almost guarantees that it is Starcraft-related IMHO. Starcraft is/was absolutely huge in Korea, so I can't see them choosing that spot for an announcement for anything else. A Starcraft MMO also makes good market sense right now, even if I would also love to see a new Starcraft RTS. There has been a distinct lack of quality mainstream Scifi MMOs so far. Starcraft could fit into that area quite nicely -- and by the time the game was ready for release, WoW would also be around its 5th anniversary.
Oh god ... that would be an interesting life experience. But I wonder what kind of vehicle or supplies you would want to take. Probably something like a Landrover with cushy seats. And armor plating/bulletproof windows just in case ;)
Now we just need them to invent transparisteel and tritanium... ;)
If Tencent went bust, then the users would really have a reason to QQ then :)
I was under the impression that Cingular still uses SIMM chips though, correct? You could always import one of the nifty Japanese handsets then and use your SIMM chip in it. Assuming the handset can use the type of network Cingular has. (I know Japan uses CDMA2000, but I think some handsets are compliant with US networks)
One has to boggle at the thought of whoever is in charge of calling the shots on when these MMOs are released. Just how many MMOs in a row do they have to rush to market and have fail miserably, before they learn that the short-term money savings just does not at all justify pushing out a beta product? SWG suffered from bad bug-testing methods, incomplete content, and being pushed to market months too early. It's death spiral took longer than usual because of the extreme power of the Starwars name, but any beta tester could tell you it was inevitable from that early week in June when the game was announced "Gold." I can't comment on if EQ2 was rushed to market or not, however from a graphics standpoint it should have also had them learn the lesson that extreme eyecandy in MMOs just doesn't work. It looks nice for screenshots, but having a game that only runs for a small fraction of high-end PCs, and even then only at low-end settings, doesn't make for a subscription base. So now we have Vanguard from SOE -- again released far too soon, and with graphics well above what even high-end machines can handle. (I believe the full install is around 20GB+) SOE isn't just taking a pistol and shooting themselves in the foot -- they've graduated to taking an RPG and firing it straight down...
If anything, the recent scandal was the stimulus for the current major warfare that just started in EVE. Goonswarm and Red Alliance got into a war with their neighbor Lotka Volterra. This led to Band of Brothers coming to the aid of LV. Dusk and Dawn then attacked BoB territory from the north, thereby drawing off their support of LV which is now in the process of losing the war, having lost 2 major systems and their Capital Shipyards being destroyed which had a Titan building at the time. So basically now you have BoB vs. the rest of EVE going on, with the scandal being the major impetus to finally move against BoB whom has been disliked for a long time now.
Fry: Married? Jenny can't get married! Leela: Why not? It's clever, it's unexpected. Fry: But that's not why people watch TV. Clever things make people feel stupid, and unexpected things make them feel scared. [Lrrr crackles onto the screen.] Lrrr [on TV]: Attention, McNeal. Your unexpected marriage plan scares us. You stole our hearts as a single female lawyer, and so shall you remain -- or else! Fry: You see? TV audiences don't want anything original. They wanna see the same thing they've seen a thousand times before. http://www.futurama-madhouse.com.ar/scripts/1acv12 .shtml
But it just won't have the same feel when watching the red line travel across the globe if he's in a 727 instead of a creeky old DC3 ;)
Last word I heard about the new Smash Bros game, was that it will be coming out in February. I heard that back in Sept or Oct though, so it may have changed since then.