I haven't seen any MMOG's recently that have hourly billing, they used to be common but the companies migrated away from that model as players complained that the costs were far too high ($2+ an hour ten years ago was common).
WoW is the most casual play friendly of the lot, very easy to have an hour or two session in it - things like EQ you wouldn't achieve a single thing during the time.
It was the same game with a wierd forced isometric view and different maps. They put in all the Basic Game maps, Kesmai, Oakvael, Leng and Axe and left out the Advanced Game maps.
Friend of mine soloed +mama in her lair but that was pretty hardcore.
The guild I joined back then is still kicking around, most of us reminisce about Kesmai but we never settle on a game to replace it. You can find us at www.fttguild.com
Back on topic of WoW, its a cracking game - the first one since UO or Kesmai that we are all willing to play.
They don't ask you all that stuff because NCSoft and the gamer aren't in any kind of financial contract with each other. It's the Internet cafe that actually has the deal with NCSoft, the players just have it bundled into their pc usage charge when they go into the cafe.
The sub numbers in the study are derived from numbers NCSoft have released about how many active accounts they have.
No they dont, i just lied about my address on the form and got in. I also had a fake fileplanet address / account for the stress test and that was fine also.
The declaration of independence sorta sets the stage. It is a legal document that declares our freedom from Britain. Personally, I'd like to see the Brits point out how we've failed to meet our promises in said Declaration, and that means ownership of the country reverts back to them. Wouldn't that be fun?
We dont want your land or your damn Aerosol Cheese.
Sometimes I wish there were an edit button, but I imagine the containers used for ferrying fissionable material up to orbit are nowhere near the standards of stuff dumped on earth, given the amount of gamma radiation that exists outside of the atmosphere, i'd assume the difference between 99% block and 99.8% block would be marginal.
I'm no expert, but I would imagine the problem set of making something that can survive high temperatures and a 200mph impact on the ground is quite different to making something that shields against radioactive particles for 20 or 100 or 1000 years.
It's for propulsion in Space not for getting into orbit. You can put the powersource in containers that survive being blown up, and fit them to the engines in orbit.
My father has a 9800, all sorts of random peripherals like steering wheels, a surround sound rig, buys a *lot* of games and plays first person shooters.
The UK doesnt get that cold, why on earth do you need to keep the heating running? Get some proper insulation, seriously I put the heating on for a couple of hours a day in January if it's particularly cold.
I have an nvidia card, I run Linux exclusively, It displays my desktop fine and I can play Doom3/UT/NWN just fine with it.
It cost me very little and works fine.
I seriously doubt their are enough people that *really* care that much to fork out a premium to get something that doesnt work as well as existing products.
If you had read the article you would have noticed it prominently linked to a partner article on the Nvidia nForce 4 chipset, in fact they went as far as using an nForce 4 benchmark system:
Socket-939 Athlon 64 CPUs 2 x 512MB OCZ PC3200 EL Dual Channel DIMMs 2-2-2-10 NVIDIA nForce4 Reference Motherboard ATI Radeon X800 XT PCI Express
But in the UK, retailers have to provide a refund if a product is found to be of unmerchantable quality, I beleive it is a statutatory 30 day requirement.
I feel you could argue quite strongly that a product that you purchase with no indication of legal constraints on usage turns out to have an EULA that you dont agree to, and there was no indication of the existance of such conditions at time of sale was in fact of unmerchantable quality.
If enough people bought game x, then took it back and demanded a refund stating unmerchantable quality and the EULA in particular, you can be sure the retailers would take notice and exert pressure on the publishers to remove them (or place them somewhere more readily viewable).
Given that the retailers absolutely have the publishers over a barrel, i'm certain this would be an effective form of boycott.
You can also go into a store, and ask the manager whether something has a EULA attached to it. If they say no and it does then they misrepresented the product to you and can get a refund, get it in writing tho. If they say yes, then inform them that you are unwilling to purchase software with unknown conditions attached and ask them to feedback it to head office.
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I haven't seen any MMOG's recently that have hourly billing, they used to be common but the companies migrated away from that model as players complained that the costs were far too high ($2+ an hour ten years ago was common).
WoW is the most casual play friendly of the lot, very easy to have an hour or two session in it - things like EQ you wouldn't achieve a single thing during the time.
It was the same game with a wierd forced isometric view and different maps. They put in all the Basic Game maps, Kesmai, Oakvael, Leng and Axe and left out the Advanced Game maps.
Friend of mine soloed +mama in her lair but that was pretty hardcore.
The guild I joined back then is still kicking around, most of us reminisce about Kesmai but we never settle on a game to replace it. You can find us at www.fttguild.com
Back on topic of WoW, its a cracking game - the first one since UO or Kesmai that we are all willing to play.
I played the graphical version they put out after, LoK. Was my first MORPG and truly rocked. Soloed Kosh, the Leng dragon the day they shut it down.
They don't ask you all that stuff because NCSoft and the gamer aren't in any kind of financial contract with each other. It's the Internet cafe that actually has the deal with NCSoft, the players just have it bundled into their pc usage charge when they go into the cafe.
The sub numbers in the study are derived from numbers NCSoft have released about how many active accounts they have.
The story of spirited away didn't blow chunks, just a lot of it didn't translate all that well.
Mononoke was a better film.
No they dont, i just lied about my address on the form and got in. I also had a fake fileplanet address / account for the stress test and that was fine also.
We dont want your land or your damn Aerosol Cheese.
THE NIGHT OF THE LUPUS!
Sometimes I wish there were an edit button, but I imagine the containers used for ferrying fissionable material up to orbit are nowhere near the standards of stuff dumped on earth, given the amount of gamma radiation that exists outside of the atmosphere, i'd assume the difference between 99% block and 99.8% block would be marginal.
I'm no expert, but I would imagine the problem set of making something that can survive high temperatures and a 200mph impact on the ground is quite different to making something that shields against radioactive particles for 20 or 100 or 1000 years.
RTFA
It's for propulsion in Space not for getting into orbit. You can put the powersource in containers that survive being blown up, and fit them to the engines in orbit.
My father has a 9800, all sorts of random peripherals like steering wheels, a surround sound rig, buys a *lot* of games and plays first person shooters.
He doesn't have Internet access.
It was a fad when I was at University ten years ago also, would imagine it will be a fad in ten years time too.
We used to play shithead more, it's much more puerile.
A light shirt would probably be good enough to combat the harsh British winter.
The UK doesnt get that cold, why on earth do you need to keep the heating running? Get some proper insulation, seriously I put the heating on for a couple of hours a day in January if it's particularly cold.
The parent had asked specifically about nforce4 chipsets. The post pointed out that the article was a test of new Athlons on nforce4 chipsets.
I think if you were Jewish German you would probably have not been so keen on the Government.
parent needs to be modded up. huge swathes of the driver code isn't nvidias to opensource.
And the same deal in the UK. Every town has one at least. Bought my tv there 6 years ago.
I have an nvidia card, I run Linux exclusively, It displays my desktop fine and I can play Doom3/UT/NWN just fine with it.
It cost me very little and works fine.
I seriously doubt their are enough people that *really* care that much to fork out a premium to get something that doesnt work as well as existing products.
If you had read the article you would have noticed it prominently linked to a partner article on the Nvidia nForce 4 chipset, in fact they went as far as using an nForce 4 benchmark system:
Socket-939 Athlon 64 CPUs
2 x 512MB OCZ PC3200 EL Dual Channel DIMMs 2-2-2-10
NVIDIA nForce4 Reference Motherboard
ATI Radeon X800 XT PCI Express
Thousands of players online, okay thats the massively multiplayer part taken care of.
Develop a character by getting new and better equipment and exp from killing monsters. Well that sounds to me like a CRPG.
Half the other MMORPG's have instanced / solo content.
It's published by NCSoft. It's by Arena.net, a bunch of ex Blizzard folk.
Only once in a Blue Moon
But in the UK, retailers have to provide a refund if a product is found to be of unmerchantable quality, I beleive it is a statutatory 30 day requirement.
I feel you could argue quite strongly that a product that you purchase with no indication of legal constraints on usage turns out to have an EULA that you dont agree to, and there was no indication of the existance of such conditions at time of sale was in fact of unmerchantable quality.
If enough people bought game x, then took it back and demanded a refund stating unmerchantable quality and the EULA in particular, you can be sure the retailers would take notice and exert pressure on the publishers to remove them (or place them somewhere more readily viewable).
Given that the retailers absolutely have the publishers over a barrel, i'm certain this would be an effective form of boycott.
You can also go into a store, and ask the manager whether something has a EULA attached to it. If they say no and it does then they misrepresented the product to you and can get a refund, get it in writing tho. If they say yes, then inform them that you are unwilling to purchase software with unknown conditions attached and ask them to feedback it to head office.