Not to mention their pricing. Seriously... at this point, I am seeing an increase in my monthly statement every 3-4 months. Some new charge or other. In the last few months, they've removed several channels from the package that I have and INCREASED the price. This is why people hate them and being in the part of Boston I am in, I have no choice.
Have to agree here. I remember when I was young (I think) and looking at Saturn. I remember how cool it was to see the moons and rings with my own eyes.
Well, yeah, because we all know that all of the people canceling their contracts early are people who are simply doing it to do it. You know, there's no such thing as suddenly losing your job and having to cut costs or anything.
Sorry, but you are all wrong. The Earth is only 6,010 years old and the fact that dinosaurs lived with people is PROOF that there was simply no ice age or anything like it.
Any real evidence behind this assertion, or are you just basing this on, well, hearsay? I've played the game since launch, and ALL of the bans & suspensions that I have seen happen have all been more than merited by the players' conduct. So unless you have some sort of evidence or even an anecdote that might support this claim, this sounds like an angry, bitter rant from someone who got banned/suspended, or had a friend get banned/suspended for good reason. Given said angry rant, I would imagine that it was well deserved.:)
I was on the forums one day and saw a post about "sex toys." I clicked to view the post and it was rather nasty. I replied to the post, simply saying; "This will probably get you banned for sexual harassment and various other reasons." I then left for work. When I came home, I tried to log back into the forums (I used to post helpful information for people, true story) and a message saying - "You have been banned from the forums for the following reasons: Making threats, demeaning someone for their sexual preference or making inappropriate remarks concerning race, sexuality or ethnic background." - Naturally, I was thinking "WTF?!" So I checked my email and, sure enough, there was a letter in my inbox stating the same. I wrote to Customer Support, asking for a review and giving them solid proof of what I had actually said in the post. I showed them screenshots AND gave them direct links to my comments (mind you, the OP in the thread was still posting to it when I checked on my wife's account). A day later, they got back to me and said "after further review, we see that you have done nothing wrong, but the ban will remain in effect."
Good enough for you? Yes, I _am_ bitter for that. But then it goes on... my account received a suspension (I couldn't play the game for 72 hours) after someone told me that I had sex with my sister. *I* was BANNED for being insulted by someone.
If you're talking about the guild(s) that completed Naxxramas when WotLK launched, they completed it in TBC epics and greens that were better, in some cases, than said TBC epics, much like the greens in TBC were better than some vanilla WoW epics (just do the maths, it makes sense). And judging content 'nerfed' because the best of the best players can complete it in a few days isn't really fair, given that those players pounded said content on the PTR and beta enough to ensure that they would be able to plow right through it. Not to mention that this was Naxxramas 2.0, they already KNEW all of the basics of the encounters, and only had to figure out what had changed this go 'round.
No, not talking about those people. I am talking about the new guilds full of Blood Elves in which almost 90% of the guilds were totally new to the end game in WoW. People who were super casual before the remake of Naxx. THEY are now destroying that content (well, back before I quit) and having a much easier time than the established end-game population. Most of the content was nerfed really hard (this one has 1 million fewer hitpoints and his DoTs only do half the damage they did before). That is really like saying: "Here you go, raid this and get easy epics."
Even with all the PvP nerfs hurting PvE (and here is one area where I agree with you), if you were doing less DPS on a boss than the tank... then your spec was poor, or your gear was poor, or your rotation/ability use was poor. If you are talking about trash, however (particularly in Naxxramas), then of course tanks will do more--all they're going to do is AoE. Paladin, druid, and DK tanks can pour out a ton of AoE damage when tanking trash, so it's certainly possible that they out-DPSed a rogue on trash, as all rogues have is one ability that can't compete with other, more AoE-centric classes such as mages and warlocks.
Nah, my rotations were always good as was my build and gear. My point was that rogue DPS output was really affe
Oh, I know that, hehe. I may not play anymore, but the wife does and she plays a paladin. It was insane how much they got buffed. I won't cry, however. Paladins needed more damage output in the retribution tree, though they may have gotten too much. Druids, on the other hand... man, talk about easy mode. Every tree is a freaking walking disaster area. You so much as go NEAR a druid in PvP and you are dead almost instantly! And most people playing druids simply roll their faces on their keyboards to make death happen!
Blizzard has 2500+ people working POORLY in customer support related jobs. They make decisions based on hearsay and ban without even doing a thorough investigation into the matters at hand. It's beginning to cost them in playerbase (I know, they still have a lot of players) just as it did with SOE and EverQuest when WoW was initially released.
Now take that above and toss nerfs into the mix. Not just item nerfs or class nerfs, but CONTENT nerfs. Making "epic" raid encounters so trivial that almost any casual guild with all green gear and ventrilo can take out most of the upper-tier content. Then mix that all together with a healthy dose of balancing classes mostly around PvP, thereby hurting PvE and you have nothing but a foul tasting mix of crap left.
I played WoW from early betas until about 7 months ago (I quit to wait for Aion) and, honestly, the game was much more fun in the early days... until PvP balance became much of the designer's and developer's main focus. I mostly did PvP with my rogue and not to float my own boat, but I was good at it. Then some warlock made a video that showed his poor class playing ability and how rogues were somehow so uber they needed to be nerfed to Hell and back. It got to the point where every PvP nerf they gave me hurt me in PvE high-end raiding content. Even with tier 7+ gear it was hard to do what a rogue SHOULD do - damage things better than the tank at least.
Yes, I am bitter toward WoW and Blizzard. In fact, I hope WoW dies a horribly, slow burning death. I hope it falls from grace FASTER than EQ did when WoW took the throne. Hopefully the players who want a challenge in PvP and PvE (combined, mind you) will make the switch to Aion and find what I found during beta: fun in an environment that isn't so easy to conquer as WoW has become.
Sorry for the rant, but Blizzard took over 4 years of money from me, only to turn their game into a mess. I will go now. Oh... and sorry to the WoW fanboys who will be hurt by the truth above.
Being from Massachusetts myself, I can tell you that Tom "Mumbles" Menino likes to run a tight ship. When someone who works in his office is found to have voted against him, they are fired. It's happened to people who've been working in the Mayor's Office for as long as 20 years. He's a scumbag and needs to seriously get out of the job of ru(in)ning the city.
Thing that gets me is... every re-election, all of Boston's firefighters would throw their weight behind him in support of his bid to run again (despite his promise to only hold office for 4 years when he first ran) and always help him get elected again. Then he does the same thing to them; breaks the promise of newer and better contracts for those brave men and women who fight fires. This year, however, they've apparently woken up and are supporting challengers.
"The star Wasp-18 is believed to be about a billion years old, and since stars and the planets around them are thought to form at the same time, Wasp-18b should have been reduced to cinders ages ago."
That's the beauty of science. Things can be hypothesized about and theories can be made, but as we go deeper into those ideas and actually take a closer look, we discover they can and do change (the way things work, in our eyes). So I guess that either the Wasp-18 star is not a billion years or maybe planets simply do not necessarily form at the same time as the star does. We can't know everything right away, but it is definitely fun to find out as we move on!
"Note that PCPer greedily spans this review over 12 pages."
Guru3D is also guilty of this. They review at least 500 GTX 295 cards by different makers over the course of a month and the shortest review is always in the neighborhood of 14 pages. Usually they span 16-18 pages, though. I wouldn't mind that if it was mostly new information, but they always throw in the same filler over and over like how to calibrate your monitor. Seriously... if you need to throw that into every review just take up 18 pages for something that is no different from BFG than it is from XFX, then you need to rethink how you compose your reviews.
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Not to mention their pricing. Seriously... at this point, I am seeing an increase in my monthly statement every 3-4 months. Some new charge or other. In the last few months, they've removed several channels from the package that I have and INCREASED the price. This is why people hate them and being in the part of Boston I am in, I have no choice.
Have to agree here. I remember when I was young (I think) and looking at Saturn. I remember how cool it was to see the moons and rings with my own eyes.
He can't lead in a Prius. Seriously... it can barely keep up with itself, let alone other traffic.
Well, yeah, because we all know that all of the people canceling their contracts early are people who are simply doing it to do it. You know, there's no such thing as suddenly losing your job and having to cut costs or anything.
Either way, in Soviet Russia, China discredits YOU!
I have absolutely no interest in this "new technology." I am going back to my vinyl LPs. I shall invent the portable record player.
Kinky.
Why? Do you think you need denser areolas?
Sorry, but you are all wrong. The Earth is only 6,010 years old and the fact that dinosaurs lived with people is PROOF that there was simply no ice age or anything like it.
So masturbation is a science now? How... interesting.
...but I prefer XFCE to KDE.
Someone get Al Gore on the phone, please. He can clear this all up and tell us the very SECOND the intertubes was born.
What 9000?!
I, for one, welcome our dead, picture viewing, active brain having Ichthyoid Overlords.
Any real evidence behind this assertion, or are you just basing this on, well, hearsay? I've played the game since launch, and ALL of the bans & suspensions that I have seen happen have all been more than merited by the players' conduct. So unless you have some sort of evidence or even an anecdote that might support this claim, this sounds like an angry, bitter rant from someone who got banned/suspended, or had a friend get banned/suspended for good reason. Given said angry rant, I would imagine that it was well deserved. :)
I was on the forums one day and saw a post about "sex toys." I clicked to view the post and it was rather nasty. I replied to the post, simply saying; "This will probably get you banned for sexual harassment and various other reasons." I then left for work. When I came home, I tried to log back into the forums (I used to post helpful information for people, true story) and a message saying - "You have been banned from the forums for the following reasons: Making threats, demeaning someone for their sexual preference or making inappropriate remarks concerning race, sexuality or ethnic background." - Naturally, I was thinking "WTF?!" So I checked my email and, sure enough, there was a letter in my inbox stating the same. I wrote to Customer Support, asking for a review and giving them solid proof of what I had actually said in the post. I showed them screenshots AND gave them direct links to my comments (mind you, the OP in the thread was still posting to it when I checked on my wife's account). A day later, they got back to me and said "after further review, we see that you have done nothing wrong, but the ban will remain in effect."
Good enough for you? Yes, I _am_ bitter for that. But then it goes on... my account received a suspension (I couldn't play the game for 72 hours) after someone told me that I had sex with my sister. *I* was BANNED for being insulted by someone.
If you're talking about the guild(s) that completed Naxxramas when WotLK launched, they completed it in TBC epics and greens that were better, in some cases, than said TBC epics, much like the greens in TBC were better than some vanilla WoW epics (just do the maths, it makes sense). And judging content 'nerfed' because the best of the best players can complete it in a few days isn't really fair, given that those players pounded said content on the PTR and beta enough to ensure that they would be able to plow right through it. Not to mention that this was Naxxramas 2.0, they already KNEW all of the basics of the encounters, and only had to figure out what had changed this go 'round.
No, not talking about those people. I am talking about the new guilds full of Blood Elves in which almost 90% of the guilds were totally new to the end game in WoW. People who were super casual before the remake of Naxx. THEY are now destroying that content (well, back before I quit) and having a much easier time than the established end-game population. Most of the content was nerfed really hard (this one has 1 million fewer hitpoints and his DoTs only do half the damage they did before). That is really like saying: "Here you go, raid this and get easy epics."
Even with all the PvP nerfs hurting PvE (and here is one area where I agree with you), if you were doing less DPS on a boss than the tank... then your spec was poor, or your gear was poor, or your rotation/ability use was poor. If you are talking about trash, however (particularly in Naxxramas), then of course tanks will do more--all they're going to do is AoE. Paladin, druid, and DK tanks can pour out a ton of AoE damage when tanking trash, so it's certainly possible that they out-DPSed a rogue on trash, as all rogues have is one ability that can't compete with other, more AoE-centric classes such as mages and warlocks.
Nah, my rotations were always good as was my build and gear. My point was that rogue DPS output was really affe
Oh, I know that, hehe. I may not play anymore, but the wife does and she plays a paladin. It was insane how much they got buffed. I won't cry, however. Paladins needed more damage output in the retribution tree, though they may have gotten too much. Druids, on the other hand... man, talk about easy mode. Every tree is a freaking walking disaster area. You so much as go NEAR a druid in PvP and you are dead almost instantly! And most people playing druids simply roll their faces on their keyboards to make death happen!
Blizzard has 2500+ people working POORLY in customer support related jobs. They make decisions based on hearsay and ban without even doing a thorough investigation into the matters at hand. It's beginning to cost them in playerbase (I know, they still have a lot of players) just as it did with SOE and EverQuest when WoW was initially released.
Now take that above and toss nerfs into the mix. Not just item nerfs or class nerfs, but CONTENT nerfs. Making "epic" raid encounters so trivial that almost any casual guild with all green gear and ventrilo can take out most of the upper-tier content. Then mix that all together with a healthy dose of balancing classes mostly around PvP, thereby hurting PvE and you have nothing but a foul tasting mix of crap left.
I played WoW from early betas until about 7 months ago (I quit to wait for Aion) and, honestly, the game was much more fun in the early days... until PvP balance became much of the designer's and developer's main focus. I mostly did PvP with my rogue and not to float my own boat, but I was good at it. Then some warlock made a video that showed his poor class playing ability and how rogues were somehow so uber they needed to be nerfed to Hell and back. It got to the point where every PvP nerf they gave me hurt me in PvE high-end raiding content. Even with tier 7+ gear it was hard to do what a rogue SHOULD do - damage things better than the tank at least.
Yes, I am bitter toward WoW and Blizzard. In fact, I hope WoW dies a horribly, slow burning death. I hope it falls from grace FASTER than EQ did when WoW took the throne. Hopefully the players who want a challenge in PvP and PvE (combined, mind you) will make the switch to Aion and find what I found during beta: fun in an environment that isn't so easy to conquer as WoW has become.
Sorry for the rant, but Blizzard took over 4 years of money from me, only to turn their game into a mess. I will go now. Oh... and sorry to the WoW fanboys who will be hurt by the truth above.
Being from Massachusetts myself, I can tell you that Tom "Mumbles" Menino likes to run a tight ship. When someone who works in his office is found to have voted against him, they are fired. It's happened to people who've been working in the Mayor's Office for as long as 20 years. He's a scumbag and needs to seriously get out of the job of ru(in)ning the city.
Thing that gets me is... every re-election, all of Boston's firefighters would throw their weight behind him in support of his bid to run again (despite his promise to only hold office for 4 years when he first ran) and always help him get elected again. Then he does the same thing to them; breaks the promise of newer and better contracts for those brave men and women who fight fires. This year, however, they've apparently woken up and are supporting challengers.
"The star Wasp-18 is believed to be about a billion years old, and since stars and the planets around them are thought to form at the same time, Wasp-18b should have been reduced to cinders ages ago."
That's the beauty of science. Things can be hypothesized about and theories can be made, but as we go deeper into those ideas and actually take a closer look, we discover they can and do change (the way things work, in our eyes). So I guess that either the Wasp-18 star is not a billion years or maybe planets simply do not necessarily form at the same time as the star does. We can't know everything right away, but it is definitely fun to find out as we move on!
I always thought real geeks got their mail on punch cards and decoded anything encrypted using a Little Orphan Annie Decoder Ring.
There's better pr0n than hard-core rat pr0n?
"Note that PCPer greedily spans this review over 12 pages." Guru3D is also guilty of this. They review at least 500 GTX 295 cards by different makers over the course of a month and the shortest review is always in the neighborhood of 14 pages. Usually they span 16-18 pages, though. I wouldn't mind that if it was mostly new information, but they always throw in the same filler over and over like how to calibrate your monitor. Seriously... if you need to throw that into every review just take up 18 pages for something that is no different from BFG than it is from XFX, then you need to rethink how you compose your reviews.
Mmm... jets that run on wine.
You mean you... can't? Dammit! She was right. I AM some sort of freak of nature!
How I wish I had mod points. You, sir, are funny.