It might go a long way to help offset famine and food shortages around the world. On the face of it, how could it not be more efficient than raising cattle or pigs.
You and your fellow record labels are dying dinosaurs. Someday, people will dig up your bones and declare that you used to rule the world. And then it all came to a sudden, catastrophic end. All caused by a comet called the Internet.
You did realize you were beta-testing a game, not playing it, right?
I was a closed beta tester. Funcom was making massive changes to all aspects of the game right up until the Early Access launch. Some of what I saw WAS frustrating, but Jeebus, it was a BETA!
AoC isn't going to be a WoW-killer, and I don't think Funcom expects it to be. I think it will be a successful MMORPG, it will carve out a strong niche of players who are interested in the setting and the gameplay it offers. Much as LOTRO did.
I got Bellsouth DSL in April, a self-install with the PCI modem. The self-install went basically flawlessly, and on day 1, I was getting 1400/256.
Day two, the network crashed during some kind of maintenance or upgrade. Many of us in Atlanta and elsewhere were out for 5+ days.
Since that time, I've had numerous outages and problems. Tech support is at times very good, but for the most part it sucks. The techs are surly and often know less than I do. Bellsouth contracts out for all of its tech support, and only supports Win95/98 and Macs... no linux, no WinME or Win2000. I've documented 31 calls to tech support since April. Most of the time they tell me there is no problem with their network and that the problem is on my end. Then after the problem clears up, someone posts to the bellsouth adsl support newsgroup about a network problem.
When there is a problem that the tier 1 tech support/help desk people can't solve by making you reboot your computer, the open a ticket and tell you someone will call you back within 24 hours. In the 18 times I've been told that, I've never EVER gotten a call back within 24 hours... most of the time I never get a call back.
Since April, I've had 5 field visits from the Tier III techs... also contracted and making a bundle per hour. Most of these visits were an attempt to do a "home run", wire from the NID outside to the modem inside. The end result of five visits totalling about ten hours was that I would up with a NIC and a much better Speedtouch Home modem running PPPOE. I'm still lucky to get a third the speed I had when I first got the service, but unless you fall below a 256k threshold, they don't care.
Billing is also problematic, and generally wrong. You have to call and tell them that, yes, you did have the special rate when you signed up and you'd like not to have to pay for the wrong rate. I supposedly had a deal where I got the modem for free, but they billed me for it anyway.
I realize that some people have had great service. My downstairs neighbor got hooked up six weeks before I did. They had to rewire for him, and ran a wire from his phone to the street, something they won't do for me. He gets 1400/256 all the time and has had only limited connection/synch problems.
Obviously, some of these problems are with bellsouth the phone company, and some of them are with bellsouth the internet service provider. The phone company problems are going to happen no matter what company provides your DSL service. But I would suggest people explore alternatives to the Bellsouth FastAccess service.
Michael W. Bay
Chiba City MUSH (saturn.planetmud.com/~ccmush)
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It might go a long way to help offset famine and food shortages around the world. On the face of it, how could it not be more efficient than raising cattle or pigs.
But I'll stick with steak and bacon, thanks.
You and your fellow record labels are dying dinosaurs. Someday, people will dig up your bones and declare that you used to rule the world. And then it all came to a sudden, catastrophic end. All caused by a comet called the Internet.
Goodbye, so long, and thanks for all the fish.
You did realize you were beta-testing a game, not playing it, right?
I was a closed beta tester. Funcom was making massive changes to all aspects of the game right up until the Early Access launch. Some of what I saw WAS frustrating, but Jeebus, it was a BETA!
AoC isn't going to be a WoW-killer, and I don't think Funcom expects it to be. I think it will be a successful MMORPG, it will carve out a strong niche of players who are interested in the setting and the gameplay it offers. Much as LOTRO did.
It's called Twilight 2013
http://www.twilight2013.com/
I got Bellsouth DSL in April, a self-install with the PCI modem. The self-install went basically flawlessly, and on day 1, I was getting 1400/256.
Day two, the network crashed during some kind of maintenance or upgrade. Many of us in Atlanta and elsewhere were out for 5+ days.
Since that time, I've had numerous outages and problems. Tech support is at times very good, but for the most part it sucks. The techs are surly and often know less than I do. Bellsouth contracts out for all of its tech support, and only supports Win95/98 and Macs... no linux, no WinME or Win2000. I've documented 31 calls to tech support since April. Most of the time they tell me there is no problem with their network and that the problem is on my end. Then after the problem clears up, someone posts to the bellsouth adsl support newsgroup about a network problem.
When there is a problem that the tier 1 tech support/help desk people can't solve by making you reboot your computer, the open a ticket and tell you someone will call you back within 24 hours. In the 18 times I've been told that, I've never EVER gotten a call back within 24 hours... most of the time I never get a call back.
Since April, I've had 5 field visits from the Tier III techs... also contracted and making a bundle per hour. Most of these visits were an attempt to do a "home run", wire from the NID outside to the modem inside. The end result of five visits totalling about ten hours was that I would up with a NIC and a much better Speedtouch Home modem running PPPOE. I'm still lucky to get a third the speed I had when I first got the service, but unless you fall below a 256k threshold, they don't care.
Billing is also problematic, and generally wrong. You have to call and tell them that, yes, you did have the special rate when you signed up and you'd like not to have to pay for the wrong rate. I supposedly had a deal where I got the modem for free, but they billed me for it anyway.
I realize that some people have had great service. My downstairs neighbor got hooked up six weeks before I did. They had to rewire for him, and ran a wire from his phone to the street, something they won't do for me. He gets 1400/256 all the time and has had only limited connection/synch problems.
Obviously, some of these problems are with bellsouth the phone company, and some of them are with bellsouth the internet service provider. The phone company problems are going to happen no matter what company provides your DSL service. But I would suggest people explore alternatives to the Bellsouth FastAccess service.
Michael W. Bay
Chiba City MUSH (saturn.planetmud.com/~ccmush)