I'll spare the "have you played Game X" comments. But WoW is really not a good deal, month rate games never are. That's not what it's about the point being if you enjoy playing the game almost any cost is justifiable.
I was just trying to shead light on just HOW much WoW costs. If you're the rare gamer who plays nothing BUT wow, yes you're probably saving money. But I doubt this encompasses the vast majority of people who play. I for one also own an 360 and play a number of games on it in addition to my $15 soul-snatching-blizzard-fee. I do it because I love the game, and I (apparently like you) will justify it as a necessary cost.
Since the majority of the MMO flames were fired above...
I'm excited, and will be dishing out the extra cash for the rediculous little pet. Why you ask? Because because because... he's shiny.
WOTLK should bring some much needed change to the gear. Not being a beta tester, I'm looking forward to seeing how the new stat distributions will play, as well as how the new talent points help/hinder/change game play.
When I first started interviewing I had the same response. But as so many others have said, it's an easy way to quantitativly weed out the people who have 'snuck' through the crack in the system, be it through cheating or memorization or whatever.
What I'd like to add though, is that for the most part these people are better filtered with non-questions. As a J2EE developer I was appalled when an interviewer asked my how I'd assign a pointer in java during an interview... when I asked him if he was joking he told me 9/10 people who'd interviewed had tried to make up an answer. Afterwards we walked through some simple array stuff and were done. I think for something like a java developer it's quite easy to ask a simple coding question, and get an answer that you can tell is either correct or not. For some other positions I could see how it may be harder.
I stand by that testing helps weed out the trash, and since nobody wants to be surrounded by idiots I support it.
I don't so much agree with the "privacy list" idea, so much as the fact that there is 0 innovation here. I couldn't agree more that Mozilla had an "oh carp" moment, and is just rushing to catch up... they really should've taken the privacy idea and improved on it somehow. Innovation is always more impressive than a 'catchup' feature.
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I'll spare the "have you played Game X" comments. But WoW is really not a good deal, month rate games never are. That's not what it's about the point being if you enjoy playing the game almost any cost is justifiable.
I was just trying to shead light on just HOW much WoW costs. If you're the rare gamer who plays nothing BUT wow, yes you're probably saving money. But I doubt this encompasses the vast majority of people who play. I for one also own an 360 and play a number of games on it in addition to my $15 soul-snatching-blizzard-fee. I do it because I love the game, and I (apparently like you) will justify it as a necessary cost.
well...
19.99 + 29.99 + 29.99 = 79.97
so that gets you WoW, WoW:BC, WoW:WOTLK
November 23, 2004 - November 23, 2008
@14.99 per mon = 719.52 for 4 years
$799.49 grand total.
Yeah, I mean that's a totally reasonable price for 1 game and 2 expansions.... or not.
Since the majority of the MMO flames were fired above...
I'm excited, and will be dishing out the extra cash for the rediculous little pet. Why you ask? Because because because... he's shiny.
WOTLK should bring some much needed change to the gear. Not being a beta tester, I'm looking forward to seeing how the new stat distributions will play, as well as how the new talent points help/hinder/change game play.
70 prot pally - shandris tank wtf!
When I first started interviewing I had the same response. But as so many others have said, it's an easy way to quantitativly weed out the people who have 'snuck' through the crack in the system, be it through cheating or memorization or whatever.
What I'd like to add though, is that for the most part these people are better filtered with non-questions. As a J2EE developer I was appalled when an interviewer asked my how I'd assign a pointer in java during an interview... when I asked him if he was joking he told me 9/10 people who'd interviewed had tried to make up an answer. Afterwards we walked through some simple array stuff and were done. I think for something like a java developer it's quite easy to ask a simple coding question, and get an answer that you can tell is either correct or not. For some other positions I could see how it may be harder.
I stand by that testing helps weed out the trash, and since nobody wants to be surrounded by idiots I support it.
I don't so much agree with the "privacy list" idea, so much as the fact that there is 0 innovation here. I couldn't agree more that Mozilla had an "oh carp" moment, and is just rushing to catch up... they really should've taken the privacy idea and improved on it somehow. Innovation is always more impressive than a 'catchup' feature.
wait for sony to release it for xbox... that'll be the same day they remove the rootkit ;)
Think outside the box!
Take a wire rope that gets hooked when the ISS flies by....
... and get Chuck Norris to throw the supplies to the ISS as it passes by ;)
I had to use the direct link http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US to download FF3. Otherwise I got "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." and "The server at www.spreadfirefox.com is taking too long to respond." from Mozilla http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/?from=getfirefox and Spread Fire Fox respectively.