Is overly expensive in the US, they should fight that rather than milke the rest of us.
large real-time databases with multiple levels of redundancy, GM and billing support,
They do that for their sake not ours.
ongoing content development
Again for their sake not mine, what do I care they are working on something now that they'll finish six months after i have left.
, etc, all cost money too.
So what - its not like they are sacrificing themselves to save the world, they are trying to make money by milking us.
What Blizzard gets from you and what Blizzard clears in profit are two different things. Oh, and they had some up front costs too, you know: building a MMORPG isn't cheap and it isn't easy.
And isn't done by a saint for saintly reasons, but from people who want money. And I paid them when I bought the disks (which I don't even own, but just "rent") - when you produce something tangible you can sell it once - because of copyright they can sell this over and over and over and over and over and over. Stop pitying them.
3. Game performance isn't just down to Blizzard. I can run around Ironforge between the bank and the auction house (arguably the busiest area of the game) with no lag but friends I have who play on their laptops but similar speed connections find it very laggy. It's a common misconception that all lag is down to the poor performance of Blizzard's servers: the servers aren't always the weakest link in the chain, far from it.
No, the weakeast link is the program. When I go into the AH I don't give a shit about the other players in there, but I still have to wait for all their graphics to load. Totally lame programming. (And we don't believe you when you say you have no lag, unless you only run around there at times when there are only 100 people)
"Stuffing their pockets"? Hardly. If one company can claim to treat gamers right then it's Blizzard. If they were just concerned about money then there wouldn't have been free servers for Blizzard's previous games, would there? Diablo, Diablo II, Starcraft, Warcraft II BNE and Warcraft III are all free to play online via Battle.net, using servers that Blizzard still provides for free, years after the games were launched. Hardly sounds like the actions of a company that's made up of people only interested in "stuffing their pockets".
And don't try to counter with the BnetD stuff: it's called protecting your investment. Blizzard has every right to do that, just like you or anyone else.
You can't have it both ways, either they let people host their own games or they do it for us - in which case it stuffing their pockets.
Personally, I'm a big fan of EVE Online. It's the type of MMO that people either love or hate,
I hate it - because it has a totally unreadable interface, lots of small fonts and you couldn't scale the size - I told them in beta - they didn't care. Well, so long then.
What are you talking about? Did you follow the link?
That something can be done doesn't mean it has been done. Any grown adult with any kind of technical education who thinks the moon landings were hoaxed has mental problems. Period. End of argument.
Then it looks in the windows folder, finds nothing and assumes its a new install. Unless you mean if one creates the profile IN the firefox directory, I didn't try that.
It still looks in my documents to find where the new profile is. And I prefer a program that checks the current directory before it looks anywhere else.
I guess I should have rephrased my earlier statement from "I'd like" to "I'd be willing" to switch over if the program supported my needs, and it doesn't currently (there is also some javascript incompatiblity, and I don't think it does mouse gestures)
I'd like to use Firefox if it could default to storing the config in its current directory (instead of 'my documents').
(I'm using MYIE which does just that, so that I'm free to run with the same set up wether i invoke it from one machine or another, regardless of which windows is current)
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They were blowing up London in the 90ies, 80ies, 70ies - they are used to it.
fox doesn't like firefly - well known problem!
... its one step closer to Titors predictions...
Somebody said that World of Warcraft was the Britney Spears of MMORPGs - in which case Guild Wars is Paris Hilton!
(Oh and everybody on one server in the US? That may explain the lag!)
1. Bandwidth,
Is overly expensive in the US, they should fight that rather than milke the rest of us.
large real-time databases with multiple levels of redundancy, GM and billing support,
They do that for their sake not ours.
ongoing content development
Again for their sake not mine, what do I care they are working on something now that they'll finish six months after i have left.
, etc, all cost money too.
So what - its not like they are sacrificing themselves to save the world, they are trying to make money by milking us.
What Blizzard gets from you and what Blizzard clears in profit are two different things. Oh, and they had some up front costs too, you know: building a MMORPG isn't cheap and it isn't easy.
And isn't done by a saint for saintly reasons, but from people who want money. And I paid them when I bought the disks (which I don't even own, but just "rent") - when you produce something tangible you can sell it once - because of copyright they can sell this over and over and over and over and over and over. Stop pitying them.
3. Game performance isn't just down to Blizzard. I can run around Ironforge between the bank and the auction house (arguably the busiest area of the game) with no lag but friends I have who play on their laptops but similar speed connections find it very laggy. It's a common misconception that all lag is down to the poor performance of Blizzard's servers: the servers aren't always the weakest link in the chain, far from it.
No, the weakeast link is the program. When I go into the AH I don't give a shit about the other players in there, but I still have to wait for all their graphics to load. Totally lame programming. (And we don't believe you when you say you have no lag, unless you only run around there at times when there are only 100 people)
"Stuffing their pockets"? Hardly. If one company can claim to treat gamers right then it's Blizzard. If they were just concerned about money then there wouldn't have been free servers for Blizzard's previous games, would there? Diablo, Diablo II, Starcraft, Warcraft II BNE and Warcraft III are all free to play online via Battle.net, using servers that Blizzard still provides for free, years after the games were launched. Hardly sounds like the actions of a company that's made up of people only interested in "stuffing their pockets".
And don't try to counter with the BnetD stuff: it's called protecting your investment. Blizzard has every right to do that, just like you or anyone else.
You can't have it both ways, either they let people host their own games or they do it for us - in which case it stuffing their pockets.
You've done one dungeon you've done them all.
Personally, I'm a big fan of EVE Online. It's the type of MMO that people either love or hate,
I hate it - because it has a totally unreadable interface, lots of small fonts and you couldn't scale the size - I told them in beta - they didn't care. Well, so long then.
Damn you live a cheap place - 15$ would be what it costs going to the cinema once!
What are you talking about? Did you follow the link?
That something can be done doesn't mean it has been done.
Any grown adult with any kind of technical education who thinks the moon landings were hoaxed has mental problems. Period. End of argument.
Fanatics are usually wrong.
Aha, so when you can't prove it, you start with verbal abuse - very clever.
Do you have the plus version? Because people who do say they don't get the mars database, nor is it listed on the google website.
Then it looks in the windows folder, finds nothing and assumes its a new install. Unless you mean if one creates the profile IN the firefox directory, I didn't try that.
Impossible to connect at the moment..
It still looks in my documents to find where the new profile is.
And I prefer a program that checks the current directory before it looks anywhere else.
I guess I should have rephrased my earlier statement from "I'd like" to "I'd be willing" to switch over if the program supported my needs, and it doesn't currently (there is also some javascript incompatiblity, and I don't think it does mouse gestures)
I know that's not a default, but I'm not sure what you mean by, "could default."
As in "Will look in current directory before looking anywhere else - including registry settings and commandline switches)
A quick flame is flamebait regardless of what it says. And the best way to get anything fixed is to post it on the front page.
"1. I'm an adult. My serious computer game playing days should be behind me."
Why? Do you stop having fun once you reach a given age?
No you get responsiblities - of course they are not tied to age, some people can get quite without having grown up.
I'd like to use Firefox if it could default to storing the config in its current directory (instead of 'my documents').
(I'm using MYIE which does just that, so that I'm free to run with the same set up wether i invoke it from one machine or another, regardless of which windows is current)
Or even better: Well designed webpages where a link is a link - with a description.
Then they should link better.
I also wish people would stop abusing stylesheets to lock fonts at a tiny unreadable size (which you can't scale in MSIE)
Is it just me or have long, elaborate, thought out first posts become more prevalent on slashdot lately
;)
Yeah all the idiot kids are on vacation
I've that she will be somewhat absent for the first 5 episodes because of the RL pregnancy, yes.
Sure its not just more of the same?
RDA always seemed to prevent it from being more than light fluffy entertainment, and he's still producer isn't he?
Oops.
;)
Well, at least people will be ready