No, because if Microsoft had released the 360 at $599, Sony would be justified in their $599 price, and MS wouldn't want that.
In fact, the PS3 would look good in that light. The specs are technically superior to the 360 (though I honestly don't think I'll notice on cross-platform games), and yet the price on launch would be the same.
The way it is now however, Sony is selling for $200 more than Microsoft with quality that doesn't look all that much better. That looks really good for MS. A lot of people complained about the 360 being too expensive when it launched, saying "screw that, too expensive. I'll wait for the PS3." But now a lot of the same people are having another look at the 360's $399 price tag and considering it affordable.. compared to the PS3.
So I'd say MS chose right on $399 rather than $599. Sure they would have lost less money on each sale.. but already people are talking how this generation is going to be all about Nintendo and MS, and that's what MS really wants. Dethroning Sony is their goal, and now it looks reachable. It wouldn't have looked reachable with a $599 price tag on the 360.
And honestly, it seems Nintendo and MS agree that they're not competing with each other really. MS is going after the next gen, which is the current gen with better graphics, while Nintendo is trying for something completely different and going after non-gamers. Sony is going to have to do something pretty spiffy to keep themselves on top.
not really. MS has over $14 billion in operating income. They might not be making a profit, but they're far from going bankrupt.
MS makes a shit load of money off of windows and office. They actually do have money to throw around getting into other markets if they want without going broke.
Blazing Angles, Condemned, Crystal Quest, DOA4, Feeding Frenzy, Geometry Wars, Hexic, Jewel Quest, Kameo, MLB 2k6? (I have no idea..), Outpost Kaloki, PGR3, Ridge Racer, Top Spin 2 (not sure on this one), and Wik.
I'd also like to add in that Rumble Roses is an exclusive, and several others have been announced like Enchanted Arms (already released in Japan), Lost Odyssey, and Blue Dragon.. all Japanese RPGs.
Oh I don't know.. it has more subscribers than EverQuest or EverQuest II. In fact, the only MMORPG's that have more subscribers than FFXI are World of Warcraft, Lineage, and Lineage II. Source.
Also note that besides FFXI along with World of Warcraft and Runescape are the only games still without a downward trend. There numbers have only been going up since release. Not bad considering EverQuest II flopped shortly after release, D&D Online is doing the same, and most all other MMO's are going downhill.
I just logged on with my 360 copy for the first time in a year.. and man, there are just as many people if not more speaking english than Japanese (we coexist on the same servers). I have friends who have been playing for 3 years, and they certainly don't live in Japan. I think you underestimate the game's popularity. But that's alright, I'm sure you'll become more aware of things when you get older.
Only here can I read someone's insightful comment that successfully links the thought patterns of people such as Hitler, Stalin, and Bush to a comic book character. Sure does create an easier corrilation between the "real world" and the one we can all understand.
That second one doesn't refer to a PS3 version at all actually. It only talks of a new MMORPG for the 360 and Vista. It's near the bottom:
During E3 2005 we announced that the FINAL FANTASY XI development team had begun work on a next generation MMORPG for the Xbox 360 and Windows Vista. We can't talk too much about the next generation MMORPG, but we're sure you'll find it very exciting.
So I'm going to guess they'll do all 3, but I suppose we'll find out more info at E3.
During E3 2005 we announced that the FINAL FANTASY XI development team had begun work on a next generation MMORPG for the Xbox 360 and Windows Vista. We can't talk too much about the next generation MMORPG, but we're sure you'll find it very exciting.
Thank you for your Canadian perspective. I have only seen Canada while never visiting (go Niagra Falls), so I do not have the best insights on the region. It seems like Canada has some similar issues to deal with as the US, and in some cases such as heating, quite a bit worse.
I think most sane people in Canada are quite like the sane ones in the US. It's not that they want to be consuming such energy, but that it's required to live without going bankrupt and still have access to what one needs. I mean, who in their right mind would yell at a Canadian for using too much energy so he can keep his house livable in those -50 degree winter days?
Energy still costs money, for both people in the US and Canada. We do what we can to live, but most people don't just burn oil because it makes a pretty color.
I agree with you that the "do nothing, do gooder class" of people who believe "What's good for me aught to be good for you" is most likely ill-informed. Perhaps I did not present that area of my argument well. I am glad you pointed it out.
There are people that I know that do indeed require the use of an SUV. I know of a family who the father is severely handicapped and along with several children, a smaller car would be quite inconvienient and probably cause more problems than it is worth. Similarly, I grew up in a very rural area. I've known many people who have large trucks because well, they haul a lot of shit around. Wood for winter, hunting, supplies from Home Depot to help someone build a shed. Those people I have no grudges with. They use larger vehicles because they need them. And they use them appropriately.
I also know an unmarried single girl who works at Bed, Bath & Beyond who drives a giant gas-guzzling pick-up truck that gets about 20MPG. She just likes trucks from what I hear. Now I'm not going to condem her to an every burning firey eternity due to her use of petrolium in an oversized vehicle, but I do believe she is being a bit wasteful.
The Bus comment. That is a very important one to make. For those areas where it's practicle for the city to operate a bus, stopping it because its full capacity isn't being used would not solve the problem. Public transport needs to be reliable. And while forcing people to walk instead may save a bit of pollution by not running that bus on the slow day, the days when it would be more busy people would end up not using the bus because they know it has limited availability and is flakey on when it may or may not arrive. That would lead to a decline in public transport use, so I'd say such an action would be silly.
However, if you have a bus that runs and has at most 1 occupant at a time, all the time.. well I may rethink. If you never are transporting more than a tiny amount of people, the bus may be a waste. The thing does take gas (or electric or other fuel in some cases) to run, and the amount it uses is going to be more than a car. If 1 bus only removes 1 car from the road, it's probably better for the environment to have that car on the road then the bus. I don't know where the cutoff point is, I'm sure there's numbers written down somewhere to tell what the bus/car ratio is in emissions.
Insurance is another excellent point that I believe another poster along with yourself brought up. I am unsure as to how that one can be answered. I believe a revision of the insurance laws needs to happen anyway; it seems the insurance companies get a lot and provide little in many cases. I cannot comment on a solution, but I recognize your arguement as a valid one.
I have to assume you don't live in the US, or if you do, perhaps it's in a major metropolitan area. You're probably one of those people from Europe, I'll guess the UK for my example, who feels the need to look down his nose at the vast majority of americans who don't use public transport or their own two good legs.
You see the thing is, the US is actually a rather large country. Depending on who you ask, it's between the 3rd and 4th largest country. Larger countries include Russia and possibly Canada and China (depending on if we're including in-land water or not). Now if you'll note, large portions of China is unpopulated. Most of the population occures along the coast. Canada has a very large portion of the country that is not populated as well. I have limited knowledge of Russia, so I just will not comment on it.
In the US, people are very spread out. Our rail system pales to other countries, especially ones with advanced modern rail systems such as Japan. Rail in the US is used mainly for freight shipping between distant parts of the country and not as much for passenger. I know for myself a round-trip train ticket from Albany, NY to NYC would cost around $150. The same trip would be equivilant to about $60 in gas. I'm all for the environment, but the cost of rail is not the way to solve it.
So the train is expensive; let's try one of your other suggestions. Walking is free, so there goes that difficulty. I mean I won't be walking to NYC, but let's think more local. Due to increased housing costs, I'm forced to live in a more remote area. I currently have a 30 minute drive to work each day; which is very unfortunate. A 30 minute drive equates to approx. 20 miles. The average human can walk at about 4 miles per hour. So, if I start walking at about 3am, I could make it to work on time to be at my desk at 8. Granted when I leave at 5 I won't be home until 10, but that does give me 5 hours of sleep before I have to put the hiking boots back on. Hmm, still not very effective.
Ok, last option: "drive there is something that gets double digit miles per gallon." So, the goal with this statement is to drive something that gets 10MPG. Well alright. This one seems the most feasable, but most likely the one with the biggest tongue in cheek if you will. 10MPG.. hmm. I'm not sure if I can recall the last vehicle that got less than 10. I think my uncle had a really large RV camper thing that got 8.. it was like driving a house, but when you're paying about 50 cents per mile, he ended up just leaving it at home. I actually don't know of a single car/truck/SUV that gets less than 10. The lowest I can remember seeing is about 17, and that's a guzzler.
Let's modify it to maybe cars that get 30. That's pretty basic for a regular gas-powered car. My car currently gets about 26MPG since it's 11 years old. So I'll conceed I have room for improvement there. However, I'm also not generating 2 tons of waste through buying a new car every 2 years.. I hear such things are popular in Europe.
The point is, public transport just isn't available in a very large portion of the US. I don't have the option for a bus or train. There isn't one anywhere near my house that would take me to work. A lot of Americans have the same issue. We would use it, if it was around, but it's not. The reason it isn't available is because the geographical distance is just too large to cover with an effective public transport. It's unfortunate, but how it currently is.
I do think that people in the US should start purchasing less SUV's and monster trucks and perhaps more compacts and hybrids. Pointless SUVs carrying around just 1 person most of the time pisses me off when I see them on the road. It will probably happen sooner or later, considering gas prices keep rising, but it takes time for things to get replaced.
In the meantime, consider that perhaps people in the US are not as lucky as you to be living in such a tiny country where public transport is readily available. Being tolerant of other people's cultures and having empathy for their situation may not be as satisfying as assuming they're wrong and placing yourself on a holy pedistool above them, but it really does help make you look like less of an ass.
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The only other game worth a lick of salt that I noticed was Kingdom Hearts II for the PS2. As for other games off the top of my head:
Daxter (PSP) GRAW (Xbox 360) Burnout Revenge (Xbox 360) - just a remake to be pretty on the 360. Oblivion (PC and 360) Kingdom Hearts II (PS2)
Naturally there were others, but nothing else that really interested me. I think the PSP version of Katamari Damacy came out in march, but it could have been early April. I bought the japanese version in Feb so I didn't keep track of that one.
For post-xmas game release months however, I'd say March was actually pretty decent.
3 days. The Xbox came out the 15th and the Cube came out the 18th. I only remember because I got an xbox release day and my friend got a GC release day from the same store 3 days later.
There is indeed a jump key (I think it's 'v'), it however does not really do anything.
I have RF-Online as well, mainly because I played the game over in Japan and it looked interested... interesting enough to want to know what all that text actually said. I've been playing it for about a week now, and one thing to note is it really is a Korean MMO. Let me explain.
The game has two primary components, PvP and grind. The grind is a bit different than your usual fare, as it's not all based on experience and levels. In fact if you level too fast you can gimp yourself, as you have to train individual skills like your magic or weapons by using them. You can level to the point that if you didn't train those skills while leveling, you'll get to the point where you can't train them any more because they are too weak to hit an exp mob and yeild you PT (PT is the name for weapon/shield/force/etc experience). You are giving approx. 1 quest per level, and basically all quests are "Kill x number of y mob." I haven't found any deviation from that pattern yet.
The game also seems to be meant to never be logged out of. You can sit in the game with a shield in a field of hostile mobs and leave your comp afk over night to train shield. It's allowable by the TOS. Also a large part of the game pretty much requires afk mining, where you sit your character at a spot with a mining tool and some batteries and leave your comp on while you're at work or sleeping to gain ore you can later sell for money or process for weapon/armor upgrades. The main part of the PvP aspect of the game is purely to gain control of a mine where you can gain resources faster while afk mining (and be protected while doing it).
In PvP, individuals don't really matter much. It's a game of potions, where everyone can get 2k HP potions and slam them down every 3 seconds, so a 1v1 battle comes down to who ports first or who runs out of potions. The real tactic in PvP is focused fire and teamwork. Teamwork on a racial scale is so important that even the overall economy of the race is dependant on how much the individuals sacrifice for the whole, a concept that works better in eastern countries than western usually. Westerners mostly want individual rewards "What will this do for me?" RF-Online is more about helping the race on a whole "What will this do for my people?" There's a lot of politics behind the game, and a lot of trying to unite people for a common, rather than individual, good.
Note: This was a general reply to the parent but I assume you know a lot of that info so it's now more of just a general reply to anyone wondering about the game. I find it interesting in an economical and political standpoint on how the PvP works on a racial level (alliances and such). As a "game", it's kinda bland and pretty sub-par.
anyone notice how horrid Microsoft seems to be with photoshop? The screen isn't even on the device! Or maybe that's a new feature... able to move the screen around off of the device.
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No, because if Microsoft had released the 360 at $599, Sony would be justified in their $599 price, and MS wouldn't want that.
In fact, the PS3 would look good in that light. The specs are technically superior to the 360 (though I honestly don't think I'll notice on cross-platform games), and yet the price on launch would be the same.
The way it is now however, Sony is selling for $200 more than Microsoft with quality that doesn't look all that much better. That looks really good for MS. A lot of people complained about the 360 being too expensive when it launched, saying "screw that, too expensive. I'll wait for the PS3." But now a lot of the same people are having another look at the 360's $399 price tag and considering it affordable.. compared to the PS3.
So I'd say MS chose right on $399 rather than $599. Sure they would have lost less money on each sale.. but already people are talking how this generation is going to be all about Nintendo and MS, and that's what MS really wants. Dethroning Sony is their goal, and now it looks reachable. It wouldn't have looked reachable with a $599 price tag on the 360.
And honestly, it seems Nintendo and MS agree that they're not competing with each other really. MS is going after the next gen, which is the current gen with better graphics, while Nintendo is trying for something completely different and going after non-gamers. Sony is going to have to do something pretty spiffy to keep themselves on top.
I hear the respawn time sucks though.
not really. MS has over $14 billion in operating income. They might not be making a profit, but they're far from going bankrupt.
MS makes a shit load of money off of windows and office. They actually do have money to throw around getting into other markets if they want without going broke.
Now anyone know how to grind a really big dick?
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No, but I think I have a very helpful email in my inbox. Let me forward it to you
Blazing Angles, Condemned, Crystal Quest, DOA4, Feeding Frenzy, Geometry Wars, Hexic, Jewel Quest, Kameo, MLB 2k6? (I have no idea..), Outpost Kaloki, PGR3, Ridge Racer, Top Spin 2 (not sure on this one), and Wik.
I'd also like to add in that Rumble Roses is an exclusive, and several others have been announced like Enchanted Arms (already released in Japan), Lost Odyssey, and Blue Dragon.. all Japanese RPGs.
Or maybe Microsoft's stock has been flat for 5 years because they haven't released a major OS in... 5 years.
I dunno, do you see a pattern maybe? Just a bit? Core buisness? Yes.. hmm.. yes..
Oh I don't know.. it has more subscribers than EverQuest or EverQuest II. In fact, the only MMORPG's that have more subscribers than FFXI are World of Warcraft, Lineage, and Lineage II. Source.
Also note that besides FFXI along with World of Warcraft and Runescape are the only games still without a downward trend. There numbers have only been going up since release. Not bad considering EverQuest II flopped shortly after release, D&D Online is doing the same, and most all other MMO's are going downhill.
I just logged on with my 360 copy for the first time in a year.. and man, there are just as many people if not more speaking english than Japanese (we coexist on the same servers). I have friends who have been playing for 3 years, and they certainly don't live in Japan. I think you underestimate the game's popularity. But that's alright, I'm sure you'll become more aware of things when you get older.
And this is why I come to slashdot.
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Only here can I read someone's insightful comment that successfully links the thought patterns of people such as Hitler, Stalin, and Bush to a comic book character. Sure does create an easier corrilation between the "real world" and the one we can all understand.
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article link they're referring to is:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6147946.html
I'd also like to point out another article that SquareEnix themselves published:
http://www.ffxifestival.com/devpanel.html
That second one doesn't refer to a PS3 version at all actually. It only talks of a new MMORPG for the 360 and Vista. It's near the bottom:
During E3 2005 we announced that the FINAL FANTASY XI development team had begun work on a next generation MMORPG for the Xbox 360 and Windows Vista. We can't talk too much about the next generation MMORPG, but we're sure you'll find it very exciting.
So I'm going to guess they'll do all 3, but I suppose we'll find out more info at E3.
Actually they probably are:
http://www.ffxifestival.com/devpanel.html
During E3 2005 we announced that the FINAL FANTASY XI development team had begun work on a next generation MMORPG for the Xbox 360 and Windows Vista. We can't talk too much about the next generation MMORPG, but we're sure you'll find it very exciting.
Going on /. and trying to insult people for being uber-nerds is like going onto MySpace and insulting people for being drunken emos.
We already know who goes where; please move along.
Thank you for your Canadian perspective. I have only seen Canada while never visiting (go Niagra Falls), so I do not have the best insights on the region. It seems like Canada has some similar issues to deal with as the US, and in some cases such as heating, quite a bit worse.
I think most sane people in Canada are quite like the sane ones in the US. It's not that they want to be consuming such energy, but that it's required to live without going bankrupt and still have access to what one needs. I mean, who in their right mind would yell at a Canadian for using too much energy so he can keep his house livable in those -50 degree winter days?
Energy still costs money, for both people in the US and Canada. We do what we can to live, but most people don't just burn oil because it makes a pretty color.
I agree with you that the "do nothing, do gooder class" of people who believe "What's good for me aught to be good for you" is most likely ill-informed. Perhaps I did not present that area of my argument well. I am glad you pointed it out.
There are people that I know that do indeed require the use of an SUV. I know of a family who the father is severely handicapped and along with several children, a smaller car would be quite inconvienient and probably cause more problems than it is worth. Similarly, I grew up in a very rural area. I've known many people who have large trucks because well, they haul a lot of shit around. Wood for winter, hunting, supplies from Home Depot to help someone build a shed. Those people I have no grudges with. They use larger vehicles because they need them. And they use them appropriately.
I also know an unmarried single girl who works at Bed, Bath & Beyond who drives a giant gas-guzzling pick-up truck that gets about 20MPG. She just likes trucks from what I hear. Now I'm not going to condem her to an every burning firey eternity due to her use of petrolium in an oversized vehicle, but I do believe she is being a bit wasteful.
The Bus comment. That is a very important one to make. For those areas where it's practicle for the city to operate a bus, stopping it because its full capacity isn't being used would not solve the problem. Public transport needs to be reliable. And while forcing people to walk instead may save a bit of pollution by not running that bus on the slow day, the days when it would be more busy people would end up not using the bus because they know it has limited availability and is flakey on when it may or may not arrive. That would lead to a decline in public transport use, so I'd say such an action would be silly.
However, if you have a bus that runs and has at most 1 occupant at a time, all the time.. well I may rethink. If you never are transporting more than a tiny amount of people, the bus may be a waste. The thing does take gas (or electric or other fuel in some cases) to run, and the amount it uses is going to be more than a car. If 1 bus only removes 1 car from the road, it's probably better for the environment to have that car on the road then the bus. I don't know where the cutoff point is, I'm sure there's numbers written down somewhere to tell what the bus/car ratio is in emissions.
Insurance is another excellent point that I believe another poster along with yourself brought up. I am unsure as to how that one can be answered. I believe a revision of the insurance laws needs to happen anyway; it seems the insurance companies get a lot and provide little in many cases. I cannot comment on a solution, but I recognize your arguement as a valid one.
Actually they're 64MB, which is the max size of an N64 game anyway.
I have to assume you don't live in the US, or if you do, perhaps it's in a major metropolitan area. You're probably one of those people from Europe, I'll guess the UK for my example, who feels the need to look down his nose at the vast majority of americans who don't use public transport or their own two good legs.
You see the thing is, the US is actually a rather large country. Depending on who you ask, it's between the 3rd and 4th largest country. Larger countries include Russia and possibly Canada and China (depending on if we're including in-land water or not). Now if you'll note, large portions of China is unpopulated. Most of the population occures along the coast. Canada has a very large portion of the country that is not populated as well. I have limited knowledge of Russia, so I just will not comment on it.
In the US, people are very spread out. Our rail system pales to other countries, especially ones with advanced modern rail systems such as Japan. Rail in the US is used mainly for freight shipping between distant parts of the country and not as much for passenger. I know for myself a round-trip train ticket from Albany, NY to NYC would cost around $150. The same trip would be equivilant to about $60 in gas. I'm all for the environment, but the cost of rail is not the way to solve it.
So the train is expensive; let's try one of your other suggestions. Walking is free, so there goes that difficulty. I mean I won't be walking to NYC, but let's think more local. Due to increased housing costs, I'm forced to live in a more remote area. I currently have a 30 minute drive to work each day; which is very unfortunate. A 30 minute drive equates to approx. 20 miles. The average human can walk at about 4 miles per hour. So, if I start walking at about 3am, I could make it to work on time to be at my desk at 8. Granted when I leave at 5 I won't be home until 10, but that does give me 5 hours of sleep before I have to put the hiking boots back on. Hmm, still not very effective.
Ok, last option: "drive there is something that gets double digit miles per gallon." So, the goal with this statement is to drive something that gets 10MPG. Well alright. This one seems the most feasable, but most likely the one with the biggest tongue in cheek if you will. 10MPG.. hmm. I'm not sure if I can recall the last vehicle that got less than 10. I think my uncle had a really large RV camper thing that got 8.. it was like driving a house, but when you're paying about 50 cents per mile, he ended up just leaving it at home. I actually don't know of a single car/truck/SUV that gets less than 10. The lowest I can remember seeing is about 17, and that's a guzzler.
Let's modify it to maybe cars that get 30. That's pretty basic for a regular gas-powered car. My car currently gets about 26MPG since it's 11 years old. So I'll conceed I have room for improvement there. However, I'm also not generating 2 tons of waste through buying a new car every 2 years.. I hear such things are popular in Europe.
The point is, public transport just isn't available in a very large portion of the US. I don't have the option for a bus or train. There isn't one anywhere near my house that would take me to work. A lot of Americans have the same issue. We would use it, if it was around, but it's not. The reason it isn't available is because the geographical distance is just too large to cover with an effective public transport. It's unfortunate, but how it currently is.
I do think that people in the US should start purchasing less SUV's and monster trucks and perhaps more compacts and hybrids. Pointless SUVs carrying around just 1 person most of the time pisses me off when I see them on the road. It will probably happen sooner or later, considering gas prices keep rising, but it takes time for things to get replaced.
In the meantime, consider that perhaps people in the US are not as lucky as you to be living in such a tiny country where public transport is readily available. Being tolerant of other people's cultures and having empathy for their situation may not be as satisfying as assuming they're wrong and placing yourself on a holy pedistool above them, but it really does help make you look like less of an ass.
May I present to you Google Romance and Google Video.
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The only other game worth a lick of salt that I noticed was Kingdom Hearts II for the PS2. As for other games off the top of my head:
Daxter (PSP)
GRAW (Xbox 360)
Burnout Revenge (Xbox 360) - just a remake to be pretty on the 360.
Oblivion (PC and 360)
Kingdom Hearts II (PS2)
Naturally there were others, but nothing else that really interested me. I think the PSP version of Katamari Damacy came out in march, but it could have been early April. I bought the japanese version in Feb so I didn't keep track of that one.
For post-xmas game release months however, I'd say March was actually pretty decent.
Sure! Here you go.
and the PSP...
so that leaves what exactly? Those are the two best and most popular portables for playing video.
I have an iPod and I don't use iTunes.
You're not proving anything.
says the AC posting on /. ;)
3 days. The Xbox came out the 15th and the Cube came out the 18th. I only remember because I got an xbox release day and my friend got a GC release day from the same store 3 days later.
"My guess is that Sweden is one of the worst places in the world when it comes to illegal sharing," said Martensson.
worst? or best? =D
There is indeed a jump key (I think it's 'v'), it however does not really do anything.
I have RF-Online as well, mainly because I played the game over in Japan and it looked interested... interesting enough to want to know what all that text actually said. I've been playing it for about a week now, and one thing to note is it really is a Korean MMO. Let me explain.
The game has two primary components, PvP and grind. The grind is a bit different than your usual fare, as it's not all based on experience and levels. In fact if you level too fast you can gimp yourself, as you have to train individual skills like your magic or weapons by using them. You can level to the point that if you didn't train those skills while leveling, you'll get to the point where you can't train them any more because they are too weak to hit an exp mob and yeild you PT (PT is the name for weapon/shield/force/etc experience). You are giving approx. 1 quest per level, and basically all quests are "Kill x number of y mob." I haven't found any deviation from that pattern yet.
The game also seems to be meant to never be logged out of. You can sit in the game with a shield in a field of hostile mobs and leave your comp afk over night to train shield. It's allowable by the TOS. Also a large part of the game pretty much requires afk mining, where you sit your character at a spot with a mining tool and some batteries and leave your comp on while you're at work or sleeping to gain ore you can later sell for money or process for weapon/armor upgrades. The main part of the PvP aspect of the game is purely to gain control of a mine where you can gain resources faster while afk mining (and be protected while doing it).
In PvP, individuals don't really matter much. It's a game of potions, where everyone can get 2k HP potions and slam them down every 3 seconds, so a 1v1 battle comes down to who ports first or who runs out of potions. The real tactic in PvP is focused fire and teamwork. Teamwork on a racial scale is so important that even the overall economy of the race is dependant on how much the individuals sacrifice for the whole, a concept that works better in eastern countries than western usually. Westerners mostly want individual rewards "What will this do for me?" RF-Online is more about helping the race on a whole "What will this do for my people?" There's a lot of politics behind the game, and a lot of trying to unite people for a common, rather than individual, good.
Note: This was a general reply to the parent but I assume you know a lot of that info so it's now more of just a general reply to anyone wondering about the game. I find it interesting in an economical and political standpoint on how the PvP works on a racial level (alliances and such). As a "game", it's kinda bland and pretty sub-par.
speaking of pictures..
m spx
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/umpc/howtobuy.
anyone notice how horrid Microsoft seems to be with photoshop? The screen isn't even on the device! Or maybe that's a new feature... able to move the screen around off of the device.
Someone's gonna get in trouble over that