Until Apple decides that the app shouldn't be on the store and then we end up with a high quality, underrepresented, PISSED OFF programmer.
Not to mention the underrepresented programmer would have to buy an overpriced Mac to do the app development in the first place, so then you're left with a high quality, underrepresented, PISSED OFF, poor and demoralized programmer.
Joking aside, I'm hoping they (Apple) release/announce a Mac Mini refresh in January as the rumors are saying. I've been interested in messing around with app development for my iPod Touch I picked up a few weeks ago.
I agree. There has never, ever been any voter fraud and the sole purpose of actually proving you're who you say you are when you vote is a ploy to make sure minorities can't vote. Why should I need a photo Id when I vote, it's not like I need it for anything else like driving my car or buying cigarettes or alcohol.
Go ahead and keep living in your fantasy world where the sole act of saying nice things will get things done and the people who want to kill you will think more of you when you talk nice to them.
1. If it was already written in one language why did you rewrite it in the other? 2. If it wasn't written in both languages how would you know it was just as fast?
If you really did write it in both languages I'd be surprised if it really was the "large program" the grandparent was talking about.
Actually, the elitist jerk type attitude would be to say that removing the attunements for BT/Hyjal was going too far to appease the casuals because the first 8 loot pinata bosses in those (combined) instances were meant as rewards for progressing that far. There are guilds getting loot from BT/Hyjal that still can't kill Kael or Vashj.
First off, your entire post makes you seem like someone who hasn't even experienced most of the game you're trying to talk about.
My greatest concern is that rather than focusing on new content that everyone can enjoy as they did in the original, instead they have just ramped up the difficulty on mobs so much that only insanely well geared people will even SEE most of the end game content.
There was a gear reset at 70, everyone was on an even level. You have just as much of a chance at getting to the end-game as everyone else who's seen it has. How do you think they got that gear? It didn't just fall from the sky. There will be a gear reset at 80 as well. The entire point of an MMO is to entice people to want more and better stuff. If you got to a point where the gear was so easy to attain that you could do it playing a few hours a week you'd lose a lot of subscribers due to the lack of a reason to play.
Now I'm not sure if this was an attempt by Blizzard to introduce more of the 'teamwork' element that served them so well, but it seems to have come at the cost of alienating the casual gamer.
The game is more casual friendly than ever before which is why your "in the original it was better" makes absolutely no sense.
Tank classes in particular seem to have it the hardest since they are REQUIRED to have nothing but the best in order to survive, and often get replaced in favor of Druids and their 'I Win' tank form (Dire Bear). Now granted all classes are situational but it seems that in their haste to apply a multi-use class system, they have succeeded in seriously unbalancing key aspects. Needless to say this will come as no surprise to long term players, as Blizzards track record at 'balancing' classes is spotty.
To use your tank example, you wouldn't get very far if you tried to do the end game you're talking about with 3 feral druids.
Heroic Dungeons were also a poor idea, since by the time you are capable of doing them, your... well, sick of doing them.
I'd agree here up until the point they nerfed heroics by a ton some months after TBC came out.
A better idea would have been to create more Zul'Aman type instances for heroics so that once a player can run them he will have new content to explore, rather than repeating the cookie-cutter method of getting through the instance as fast as possible for the badges.
The point of heroics (and Kara) are to get gear so you can do more Zul'Aman type instances. That's why they call it progression. You move from Kara/Heroics on to ZA/TK/SSC on to BT/Hyjal on to Sunwell.
At the end of the day I believe this expansions success will have less to do about what new bells as whistles they add (after all everything gets old eventually), and more about how well they cater to the casual gamers. Please Blizzard remember that some of us want to have FUN, not farm gear endlessly.
In other words "Please Blizzard, hand me more gear!"
Yes! I'm really excited about this. I've been buying the games I can from Steam since the original release because I like the fact I don't have to keep track of CDs or DVDs when I reformat my PC (which tends to be every couple months). I've always wished there was a way that games could automatically store my progress online so I don't have to remember to back up my save games (or forget to as is usually the case). It sucks when I'm playing Bioshock and reformat only to realize that I forgot to save and lost all the time I already spent playing. It tends to kill games for me because I don't feel like playing through that part again. I never finished Quake IV, Prey, Bioshock, Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and a few other games because of this.
I was happy when I found out UT3 saved all my controls and single player stats between installs because it's always a hassle setting those up.
Now I can be as forgetful as I want and not have to worry!
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The problem that I have with all the new GUIs that are coming out it seems like it's all just change for the sake of change.
Uh, wrong company?
Now if only they hadn't killed off the one product I was actually looking forward to as a viable alternative to my iPad.
Wouldn't Slashdot technically be one of his blogs?
I've gotten sick of debating this bill and the process behind it so I'll let this comic I made last night do the talking for me:
http://dl.omgninja.net/images/comics/pelosi-healthcare.png
More than likely they'll vote that this whole LAN thing is being way overblown and they'll laugh at everyone who decided to not buy the game.
Either that or they'll laugh at you for buying the game anyway.
I think you may be interested in an item Blizzard created in WoW just for you!
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/items/tinfoilhat.xml
So, you want people in the government who throw morals out the window and do things that are questionably legal at the first sign of a dollar?
I thought that's what the definition of a politician was?
Was that you in the van down by the river?
In that case, I submit "Obama".
OVER 9000?!
Please spend government money (my tax dollars) on filling my inbox with even more inane crap. We could even make it part of the "stimulus package".
Why not spend that money getting some of the real spam-killing ideas implemented?
Until Apple decides that the app shouldn't be on the store and then we end up with a high quality, underrepresented, PISSED OFF programmer.
Not to mention the underrepresented programmer would have to buy an overpriced Mac to do the app development in the first place, so then you're left with a high quality, underrepresented, PISSED OFF, poor and demoralized programmer.
Joking aside, I'm hoping they (Apple) release/announce a Mac Mini refresh in January as the rumors are saying. I've been interested in messing around with app development for my iPod Touch I picked up a few weeks ago.
Parent was me, somehow the post lost my user info during previewing?
I agree. There has never, ever been any voter fraud and the sole purpose of actually proving you're who you say you are when you vote is a ploy to make sure minorities can't vote. Why should I need a photo Id when I vote, it's not like I need it for anything else like driving my car or buying cigarettes or alcohol.
Go ahead and keep living in your fantasy world where the sole act of saying nice things will get things done and the people who want to kill you will think more of you when you talk nice to them.
Don't forget ageist!
Which is interesting considering the "smart people" should realize he's all talk and no walk.
I've yet to see an argument that would prove you right.
Post on a real account and you won't have to worry about it.
A couple questions for you then:
1. If it was already written in one language why did you rewrite it in the other?
2. If it wasn't written in both languages how would you know it was just as fast?
If you really did write it in both languages I'd be surprised if it really was the "large program" the grandparent was talking about.
It's a lie.
Actually, the elitist jerk type attitude would be to say that removing the attunements for BT/Hyjal was going too far to appease the casuals because the first 8 loot pinata bosses in those (combined) instances were meant as rewards for progressing that far. There are guilds getting loot from BT/Hyjal that still can't kill Kael or Vashj.
First off, your entire post makes you seem like someone who hasn't even experienced most of the game you're trying to talk about.
My greatest concern is that rather than focusing on new content that everyone can enjoy as they did in the original, instead they have just ramped up the difficulty on mobs so much that only insanely well geared people will even SEE most of the end game content.
There was a gear reset at 70, everyone was on an even level. You have just as much of a chance at getting to the end-game as everyone else who's seen it has. How do you think they got that gear? It didn't just fall from the sky. There will be a gear reset at 80 as well. The entire point of an MMO is to entice people to want more and better stuff. If you got to a point where the gear was so easy to attain that you could do it playing a few hours a week you'd lose a lot of subscribers due to the lack of a reason to play.
Now I'm not sure if this was an attempt by Blizzard to introduce more of the 'teamwork' element that served them so well, but it seems to have come at the cost of alienating the casual gamer.
The game is more casual friendly than ever before which is why your "in the original it was better" makes absolutely no sense.
Tank classes in particular seem to have it the hardest since they are REQUIRED to have nothing but the best in order to survive, and often get replaced in favor of Druids and their 'I Win' tank form (Dire Bear). Now granted all classes are situational but it seems that in their haste to apply a multi-use class system, they have succeeded in seriously unbalancing key aspects. Needless to say this will come as no surprise to long term players, as Blizzards track record at 'balancing' classes is spotty.
To use your tank example, you wouldn't get very far if you tried to do the end game you're talking about with 3 feral druids.
Heroic Dungeons were also a poor idea, since by the time you are capable of doing them, your... well, sick of doing them.
I'd agree here up until the point they nerfed heroics by a ton some months after TBC came out.
A better idea would have been to create more Zul'Aman type instances for heroics so that once a player can run them he will have new content to explore, rather than repeating the cookie-cutter method of getting through the instance as fast as possible for the badges.
The point of heroics (and Kara) are to get gear so you can do more Zul'Aman type instances. That's why they call it progression. You move from Kara/Heroics on to ZA/TK/SSC on to BT/Hyjal on to Sunwell.
At the end of the day I believe this expansions success will have less to do about what new bells as whistles they add (after all everything gets old eventually), and more about how well they cater to the casual gamers. Please Blizzard remember that some of us want to have FUN, not farm gear endlessly.
In other words "Please Blizzard, hand me more gear!"
Fortunately Google created a public video archive of the proceedings for us to view!
Yes! I'm really excited about this. I've been buying the games I can from Steam since the original release because I like the fact I don't have to keep track of CDs or DVDs when I reformat my PC (which tends to be every couple months). I've always wished there was a way that games could automatically store my progress online so I don't have to remember to back up my save games (or forget to as is usually the case). It sucks when I'm playing Bioshock and reformat only to realize that I forgot to save and lost all the time I already spent playing. It tends to kill games for me because I don't feel like playing through that part again. I never finished Quake IV, Prey, Bioshock, Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and a few other games because of this.
I was happy when I found out UT3 saved all my controls and single player stats between installs because it's always a hassle setting those up.
Now I can be as forgetful as I want and not have to worry!