The way I see it, EVE is more like Linux. Small overall userbase compared to alternatives. Everything it does is done elsewhere already. User base thinks they're superior for using it.
Knocking Linux and EVE in one post? There goes my karma.
It's American Movie Classics, which has been expanding their definitions of 'movie' and 'classics' since they first started. They began with movies like Casablanca, now they're on Bride of Chucky.
I read elsewhere that the changes to old zones are likely to be done with their 'phasing' method used in some zones of the current expansion. It kind of splits the zone into parallel versions, and what a player sees (and what other players they see)will be different depending on what quests they've done. What they've done with it so far did a great job of giving the illusion that players were making a difference in their world.
It makes sense that they would do this with the old-world areas rather than just replace them; low-level characters still need places to hunt and quest.
I don't see what's so "frustrating" about the RROD. I had one of the first batch 360s, and didn't get the ring until 2 years later. Sent the console in for repair, had it back in under a week. Didn't cost me anything to fix, and haven't had problems since.
And this is with it getting plenty of use as a DVD player and media streaming box as well. It's not like I just have it sitting around unused.
That's entirely your opinion. Using your flow of logic though, it's a display of ignorance to discount the good stations of varied music types out there(jazz, classical, even some real metal ones) just because all you know about are pop stations.
Here's a generalization right back at you: Every band I've listened to that had a name like Necroplaguebabykillerdarkblood has sounded like they were trying too hard to be edgy or offensive rather than skilled. Chaotic mashes of notes with a growling, incomprehensible chant for vocals.
For those who weren't there, the game at launch was ok-ish, there were some issues but nothing really game-breaking.
Bull. For starters, the game's base stats didn't do anything. Str, dex, etc--they were just numbers and affected nothing. Now I'm no game programmer, but shouldn't the most fundamental stats be the first thing nailed down?
There were also MANY feats that were either broken or just not implemented, though the game would happily let you spend your feat points on them. I did 3 respecs with my ranger before giving up on it, because every time I found that I'd wasted 5-15 points on broken feats. That's pretty damn gamebreaking to me.
Aion will have a couple hundred thousand subscribers if it's lucky
I don't understand how 200k subscribers is a failure. There are several MMORPGs out there with playerbases in the 100-200k range; that's really more than you need to turn a profit and keep the game going.
Sure, it's not the millions that a couple other games have had, but so what? Please try not to apply the MMO troll mentality of "It's not the absolute best, so it must be total crap" to, well, anything.
You'd think SSNs would help with that...yet last time I pulled my credit report I found THREE other socials listed on my report under my name. They actually have a field for "Alternate SSN" for some reason. So I had 3 guys with my same first and last name, but different socials somehow affecting my credit score.
Touch spells still work. There are enchant removals that work like that. Some interrupts as well.
You're just plain wrong about PBAOEs. They -will- use them on single targets. Short range isn't an issue since the enemies will be on you at all times--it takes a few seconds to cast the buffs necessary to make Shadow Form last long enough to have no lapse. Plus you'll want to be in the middle of packs anyway when using the Silver Armor method of damaging enemies.
You say Touch skills will not cause death? Whaaa? Touch spells do whatever they do, whether that's damage, debuff, conditions, whatever. Conditions are the only effects that won't take the last hitpoint. If a touch spell strips enchants or just plain does damage, then it does that.
At least try it sometime before you start spreading misinformation.
Eh, that Shadow Form bit isn't quite on the mark. The setup only works in certain areas, because it -does- have weaknesses. Touch attacks and area spells still work against someone with Shadow Form active. Most PvE mob groups have at least one enemy that will still be a danger. Often that danger consists of a spell interrupt or enchantment removal, which prevents Shadow Form being recast.
You were making some good points, unfortunately you resorted to hyperbole and threw it off track.
Everything in Guild Wars has a counter. -Everything.-
It's funny that people in this thread keep talking about wanting the right to sell their non-physical copies of software, yet most other/. threads are full of people railing against all the "evil corporations" who dare to sell such things in the first place.
It's really just human nature. Microsoft vs Apple, Chevy vs Ford, Democrats vs Republicans, Christians vs Muslims...People tend to take sides against other sides, making up factions if they have to.
I saw a video a while back for Blade and Soul, another one being put out by NCSoft. It had more of an Eastern theme to the art and sound designs. Pretty entertaining video, too.
Yeah, the thing that impressed me most from the beta has been how smoothly the game runs, even with large numbers of players in a small area. When the first beta event opened, there were literally 8 or more players for every enemy in the starting area. The first town had over a dozen people standing at every class trainer and vendor. And I still didn't lag up.
The rest of the game didn't really grab me, but I was very impressed at the engine itself.
You grossly underestimate the addiction cycle of heroin. The body builds a tolerance to the drug, so effects are dulled and wear off sooner over time. Eventually the addict feels the NEED (as opposed to want) for a hit mere hours after the previous dose. I know of law enforcement agencies that pick up heroin addicts as paid informants: They get paid to rat out a supplier, then use that money to buy more heroin. Couple hours later they rat out that supplier to buy more, etc.
You think making it a prescription drug would fix this? What, a prescription recreational drug? Not to mention there are plenty of prescription drugs being abused already.
Here's a similar situation for you; The cyclist is a parent walking with their child. To pass them, you need to pass to close to the child, as the father is walking on the inside. He's being an idiot, but hey, that's life. Do you put the childs' life in danger because of a) the impatience of the idiot drivers behind you, or b) the idiocy of the parent?
Your example doesn't make sense. Are you saying the parent and child are walking in the street? If so, that's illegal. Nobody here is saying that they -should- get hit for doing that, and I'm sure most people will slow down to carefully pass, because most people aren't so keen on taking lives. But if someone did accidentally clip them YES, it would be the parent's fault. Reckless endangerment.
Trouble is...most of those people will still buy TV's first, and then complain they can't feel their kids.
As a guy working in (and currently sitting in) child support nonpayment court, this is absolutely true. There are guys in here who are in their 30's and have never held jobs. Wouldn't know it by how they're dressed, though.
You should have been able to get out by hitting "escape." If you didn't think to use "esc" you obviously haven't been using computers long enough to know that button's universally understood and respected function.
Escape generally is used to cancel or exit something. I wouldn't have thought to use it as a method of progression either. Same boat as this other guy--I'd be thinking that I had to enter the right command to run or search for servers or something in order to play the game, not exit out of what it was giving me.
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EVE? More like UO. And before that, MUDs.
The way I see it, EVE is more like Linux. Small overall userbase compared to alternatives. Everything it does is done elsewhere already. User base thinks they're superior for using it.
Knocking Linux and EVE in one post? There goes my karma.
It's American Movie Classics, which has been expanding their definitions of 'movie' and 'classics' since they first started. They began with movies like Casablanca, now they're on Bride of Chucky.
Seriously, Bride of Chucky. 11pm EST today.
I'd have to say my favorite Sci-Fi corridor is always going to be MST3K's during the transitions between sketch and movie.
"Oh no we've got MOVIE SIIIIIIIIGN!"
I have truly been informed by your post sir.
Dude, if you want to see other dimensions, just use less tobacco. :)
...Tobacco? Seriously? I mean, I see what you were trying to do there. But tobacco??
I read elsewhere that the changes to old zones are likely to be done with their 'phasing' method used in some zones of the current expansion. It kind of splits the zone into parallel versions, and what a player sees (and what other players they see)will be different depending on what quests they've done. What they've done with it so far did a great job of giving the illusion that players were making a difference in their world.
It makes sense that they would do this with the old-world areas rather than just replace them; low-level characters still need places to hunt and quest.
I lost the use of it for less than a week. I can deal with that.
It wasn't a replacement, it was the same one repaired. And you don't send in your hard drive, so all your DLC is still there.
You heard wrong about the fixes. Heard wrong or just decided to make something up.
In your last line you speak of a problem, then in parentheses admit that you know this is not really a problem since they extended the warranty?
I think this is really the issue with all the "frustration" of the RROD--pure fud posts like yours.
I don't see what's so "frustrating" about the RROD. I had one of the first batch 360s, and didn't get the ring until 2 years later. Sent the console in for repair, had it back in under a week. Didn't cost me anything to fix, and haven't had problems since.
And this is with it getting plenty of use as a DVD player and media streaming box as well. It's not like I just have it sitting around unused.
That's entirely your opinion. Using your flow of logic though, it's a display of ignorance to discount the good stations of varied music types out there(jazz, classical, even some real metal ones) just because all you know about are pop stations.
Here's a generalization right back at you: Every band I've listened to that had a name like Necroplaguebabykillerdarkblood has sounded like they were trying too hard to be edgy or offensive rather than skilled. Chaotic mashes of notes with a growling, incomprehensible chant for vocals.
I admittedly don't listen to the radio often, but what I do hear is mindless, watered down, simple crap...
To all those that don't like it, that is fine, but the only excuse for disrespecting it is ignorance.
Hypocrisy much? You just generalized an entire outlet of media, then mouthed off about the ignorance of disrespecting something one doesn't like.
For those who weren't there, the game at launch was ok-ish, there were some issues but nothing really game-breaking.
Bull. For starters, the game's base stats didn't do anything. Str, dex, etc--they were just numbers and affected nothing. Now I'm no game programmer, but shouldn't the most fundamental stats be the first thing nailed down?
There were also MANY feats that were either broken or just not implemented, though the game would happily let you spend your feat points on them. I did 3 respecs with my ranger before giving up on it, because every time I found that I'd wasted 5-15 points on broken feats. That's pretty damn gamebreaking to me.
Aion will have a couple hundred thousand subscribers if it's lucky
I don't understand how 200k subscribers is a failure. There are several MMORPGs out there with playerbases in the 100-200k range; that's really more than you need to turn a profit and keep the game going.
Sure, it's not the millions that a couple other games have had, but so what? Please try not to apply the MMO troll mentality of "It's not the absolute best, so it must be total crap" to, well, anything.
You'd think SSNs would help with that...yet last time I pulled my credit report I found THREE other socials listed on my report under my name. They actually have a field for "Alternate SSN" for some reason. So I had 3 guys with my same first and last name, but different socials somehow affecting my credit score.
Have you even played Guild Wars?
Touch spells still work. There are enchant removals that work like that. Some interrupts as well.
You're just plain wrong about PBAOEs. They -will- use them on single targets. Short range isn't an issue since the enemies will be on you at all times--it takes a few seconds to cast the buffs necessary to make Shadow Form last long enough to have no lapse. Plus you'll want to be in the middle of packs anyway when using the Silver Armor method of damaging enemies.
You say Touch skills will not cause death? Whaaa? Touch spells do whatever they do, whether that's damage, debuff, conditions, whatever. Conditions are the only effects that won't take the last hitpoint. If a touch spell strips enchants or just plain does damage, then it does that.
At least try it sometime before you start spreading misinformation.
Eh, that Shadow Form bit isn't quite on the mark. The setup only works in certain areas, because it -does- have weaknesses. Touch attacks and area spells still work against someone with Shadow Form active. Most PvE mob groups have at least one enemy that will still be a danger. Often that danger consists of a spell interrupt or enchantment removal, which prevents Shadow Form being recast.
You were making some good points, unfortunately you resorted to hyperbole and threw it off track.
Everything in Guild Wars has a counter. -Everything.-
It's funny that people in this thread keep talking about wanting the right to sell their non-physical copies of software, yet most other /. threads are full of people railing against all the "evil corporations" who dare to sell such things in the first place.
'Troll' would be appropriate. Even on a pvp server the newbie zones are safe territory.
-1 Trolling and terrible at it.
It's really just human nature. Microsoft vs Apple, Chevy vs Ford, Democrats vs Republicans, Christians vs Muslims...People tend to take sides against other sides, making up factions if they have to.
For every fanboy there is an equal and opposite fanboy. Some come out to hate Apple, some to hate Microsoft.
I saw a video a while back for Blade and Soul, another one being put out by NCSoft. It had more of an Eastern theme to the art and sound designs. Pretty entertaining video, too.
Yeah, the thing that impressed me most from the beta has been how smoothly the game runs, even with large numbers of players in a small area. When the first beta event opened, there were literally 8 or more players for every enemy in the starting area. The first town had over a dozen people standing at every class trainer and vendor. And I still didn't lag up.
The rest of the game didn't really grab me, but I was very impressed at the engine itself.
And it was very purty too.
You grossly underestimate the addiction cycle of heroin. The body builds a tolerance to the drug, so effects are dulled and wear off sooner over time. Eventually the addict feels the NEED (as opposed to want) for a hit mere hours after the previous dose. I know of law enforcement agencies that pick up heroin addicts as paid informants: They get paid to rat out a supplier, then use that money to buy more heroin. Couple hours later they rat out that supplier to buy more, etc.
You think making it a prescription drug would fix this? What, a prescription recreational drug? Not to mention there are plenty of prescription drugs being abused already.
Here's a similar situation for you; The cyclist is a parent walking with their child. To pass them, you need to pass to close to the child, as the father is walking on the inside. He's being an idiot, but hey, that's life. Do you put the childs' life in danger because of a) the impatience of the idiot drivers behind you, or b) the idiocy of the parent?
Your example doesn't make sense. Are you saying the parent and child are walking in the street? If so, that's illegal. Nobody here is saying that they -should- get hit for doing that, and I'm sure most people will slow down to carefully pass, because most people aren't so keen on taking lives. But if someone did accidentally clip them YES, it would be the parent's fault. Reckless endangerment.
Trouble is...most of those people will still buy TV's first, and then complain they can't feel their kids.
As a guy working in (and currently sitting in) child support nonpayment court, this is absolutely true. There are guys in here who are in their 30's and have never held jobs. Wouldn't know it by how they're dressed, though.
You should have been able to get out by hitting "escape." If you didn't think to use "esc" you obviously haven't been using computers long enough to know that button's universally understood and respected function.
Escape generally is used to cancel or exit something. I wouldn't have thought to use it as a method of progression either. Same boat as this other guy--I'd be thinking that I had to enter the right command to run or search for servers or something in order to play the game, not exit out of what it was giving me.