You're missing the point by a mile and then some. When you join those "random guilds", they're essentially same people you meet in general chats - they don't know each other, there's no real community spirit. You're still essentially one of the nameless mass that everyone despises.
No one says you have to "ignore everyone outside your guild" when you get in the good one and get to stay after they check you out and find out that you're a decent person and a player. On the contrary, it opens a LOT of doors for you. Suddenly that guild tag becomes your recommendation card, and people from other similar guilds treat you like a real person and not yet another random asshole from trade chat. I know I got everything from various invites to pug runs to raids with alts to just being able to sit on roof of orgrimmar bank along with 10 people from different guilds who were similar to mine and have an actual talk. Not trolling or assholery, but an actual talk.
This is something you never get to experience when you're just one of the masses in WoW. You need to prove yourself to get there. In this way, WoW is exactly like real life. Once you get proper social contacts, it becomes much easier and nicer then it would be if you never make any good friendships.
And frankly, if you were told that you're doing something wrong, chances are, you were at least if that's happening in a half decent guild or better. In WoW people expect you to respect them enough to not waste their time by teaching you how to play - taking a couple of hours on the forums to figure out the basics is considered polite. Not doing so is considered rude. Would you like people whom you invite to a house party, and they come in wearing dirty shoes, not take them off and mess up your apartment? This is exactly the same thing in WoW. A run anywhere consists of several people, and if you're a decent person you'll be courteous enough not to waste their time, and in return expect that they don't waste yours. This is flexible in pugs, but most definitely enforced in guilds. Especially good guilds. It's a litmus test #1 for your personality.
WoW is a mix of many communities. Pub community is mainly the people that don't fit anywhere else - the bottom of the pile.
I raided competitively for 3 years. During this time our guild had countless real-life meets, one couple that got married (in spite of originally living on opposite sides of EU), one guildie employed several others in his business and so on.
It all depends on what comminuty within WoW you get in. If you're terrible, you'll stay with the pubs (people you meet in public chat, like trade). If you're better, you'll get in a guild, which is a community in itself. If you're actually a good person with tolerable personality, you'll end up in one of the good guilds with good communities and have a time of your life. Not just gaming. But actually meeting different people, getting to know them, and beating bosses with people you enjoy playing with.
That is what the hook of the WoW is. Not raiding, PvP, polish, balance or any other things. It's the community that you get into, and that will keep you playing because you know and like the people in it and playing with them.
Personally I quit when our guild basically went each their own way after many years. Some people got out of school and had to quit, folks who got married started a family, business owner sold his business and moved to a different one and so on. But looking back, I definitely don't see the time I spent on WoW as a wasted time. It was fun, and definitely worth time and money spent.
And it's a good thing someone does. Anyone who is even remotely familiar with microsoft's track record on the issue wouldn't bet a broken dime on MS not abusing its monopoly whenever possible.
There is a far more obvious version of what this means:
West is demonizing China for its population into next cold war opponent, therefore any and all negative news about China in relation to West will be published with reasonably big headlines. Notably, it's not very different for Chinese either, same seems to be going on on their side as well.
No, he and many others here are just green with envy that he married a woman that actually understands him, and are projecting their experiences on him.
Not only that, but they're axing key chain as well, meaning all keys that won't get removed will have to be stored in bank and bags AGAIN.
This is essentially what people were afraid of when news of blizzard fusing with activision came, slowly coming to life. It started with little things like pet sales (which in turn started as charity), and is slowly creeping into the gameplay in spite of consistent claims of that never happening.
So you want "evidence in mainstream media largely controlled by Western propaganda machine of covert action by Western intelligence"....
Good luck finding any. CIA isn't the best intelligence agency in the world, but it certainly isn't so bad that it allows papers to post news about its covert action in a trustworthy format. Good riddance.
This is very much a matter of taste, imho nvidia forceware package is an abomination nowadays. I'm using hd4870 in my current machine with catalyst 10.5 and it is much better.
It's a long way from times when ATI was an abomination when it came to drivers and nvidia had very good driver packages.
You don't make famous people disappear - too obvious. Disappearing ones are the guys like that swedish imam that got a taste of extraordinary rendition and lived to tell the tale somehow - ones who are only known to few, but judged important enough to kill off or get information out of by medieval torture methods (see Egypt).
Important and famous ones you arrest, make a showy trial and then deal as you see fit. Or even better, discredit first, then arrest...
Seriously, this is about as basic intelligence stuff as it gets. You have to either truly not want to know, or live under a rock to be wondering about it.
From what I heard (warning: hearsay), patch will not install on DVD version installation until it has been activated. So when installing 1.1, you have to:
1. Install the game from DVD 2. Activate the game 3. Patch 4. Play
Did you willingly expose yourself to botnetting this week by visiting any site whose advertising network may have delivered same kind of malware through a zero-day exploit in your browser?
The risk is there no matter what you do on the internet, but I trust well-known crack groups that have been releasing stuff for years far more then random advertisement networks.
"Godawful TAGES crap" stayed in the game up to version 1.4, at which point they got tired of paying for tech support having to keep answering people about problems with it.
Witcher 2 DRM was pure marketing. GoG got "exclusive DRM free" game which is sold for more then many other retailers, and everyone else got screwed by broken securom, which apparently caused vast majority of technical issues with the game. Just like original.
This time, folks at CD Project decided they didn't want to pay too much for tech support until 1.4, and axed securom in 1.1 (long after securom was cracked anyway). It's a purely financial decision, and is pretty unlikely to have anything to do with gamers (other then positive publicity). Fact remains that if you wanted to run DVD version of witcher2 properly before 1.1, you had to crack securom.
GoG was still massively overpriced. Play.com offered DVD version for about 10€ cheaper including delivery anywhere in EU (and of course you got all the boxed game goodies with it).
1. Version that was pirated first was DVD version. 2. Game included two layers of protection: a. You must activate the game online b. Securom protection
There was a crack for both in the DVD version that was online the day after release. Funnily many of people who bought DVD version like myself, ended up getting the crack to strip securom because it caused so many problems.
P.S. As far as I know, online activation part of DRM is still in the game, even after this patch.
The thing is, they saved money with this move. Vast majority of issues with the game that strained their tech support was DRM problems. They either had to massively up the tech support costs or drop DRM.
And with the fact that cracked game ran much better because it stripped DRM, they were left with very little realistic choices.
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Yes, that WoW. To other MMO's, 600k is majority of their subscriber base.
To WoW, it's about 5%. Seasonal fluctuation.
You're missing the point by a mile and then some. When you join those "random guilds", they're essentially same people you meet in general chats - they don't know each other, there's no real community spirit. You're still essentially one of the nameless mass that everyone despises.
No one says you have to "ignore everyone outside your guild" when you get in the good one and get to stay after they check you out and find out that you're a decent person and a player. On the contrary, it opens a LOT of doors for you. Suddenly that guild tag becomes your recommendation card, and people from other similar guilds treat you like a real person and not yet another random asshole from trade chat. I know I got everything from various invites to pug runs to raids with alts to just being able to sit on roof of orgrimmar bank along with 10 people from different guilds who were similar to mine and have an actual talk. Not trolling or assholery, but an actual talk.
This is something you never get to experience when you're just one of the masses in WoW. You need to prove yourself to get there. In this way, WoW is exactly like real life. Once you get proper social contacts, it becomes much easier and nicer then it would be if you never make any good friendships.
And frankly, if you were told that you're doing something wrong, chances are, you were at least if that's happening in a half decent guild or better. In WoW people expect you to respect them enough to not waste their time by teaching you how to play - taking a couple of hours on the forums to figure out the basics is considered polite. Not doing so is considered rude. Would you like people whom you invite to a house party, and they come in wearing dirty shoes, not take them off and mess up your apartment?
This is exactly the same thing in WoW. A run anywhere consists of several people, and if you're a decent person you'll be courteous enough not to waste their time, and in return expect that they don't waste yours. This is flexible in pugs, but most definitely enforced in guilds. Especially good guilds. It's a litmus test #1 for your personality.
WoW is a mix of many communities. Pub community is mainly the people that don't fit anywhere else - the bottom of the pile.
I raided competitively for 3 years. During this time our guild had countless real-life meets, one couple that got married (in spite of originally living on opposite sides of EU), one guildie employed several others in his business and so on.
It all depends on what comminuty within WoW you get in. If you're terrible, you'll stay with the pubs (people you meet in public chat, like trade). If you're better, you'll get in a guild, which is a community in itself. If you're actually a good person with tolerable personality, you'll end up in one of the good guilds with good communities and have a time of your life.
Not just gaming. But actually meeting different people, getting to know them, and beating bosses with people you enjoy playing with.
That is what the hook of the WoW is. Not raiding, PvP, polish, balance or any other things. It's the community that you get into, and that will keep you playing because you know and like the people in it and playing with them.
Personally I quit when our guild basically went each their own way after many years. Some people got out of school and had to quit, folks who got married started a family, business owner sold his business and moved to a different one and so on. But looking back, I definitely don't see the time I spent on WoW as a wasted time. It was fun, and definitely worth time and money spent.
Unless it's a laser. In which case it gets pissed off!
Give it time. Windows stuff didn't start with intelligent rootkits either, but it sure got there eventually.
"Fixed it".
"Transparently".
Wow, market speak drones being quoted as THE TRUTH. C'mon, even the biggest and most annoying apple fanboys aren't this stupid.
And it's a good thing someone does. Anyone who is even remotely familiar with microsoft's track record on the issue wouldn't bet a broken dime on MS not abusing its monopoly whenever possible.
MSE as a download seems to be an anti-piracy measure as well. You need a legit key to get it.
There is a far more obvious version of what this means:
West is demonizing China for its population into next cold war opponent, therefore any and all negative news about China in relation to West will be published with reasonably big headlines.
Notably, it's not very different for Chinese either, same seems to be going on on their side as well.
No, he and many others here are just green with envy that he married a woman that actually understands him, and are projecting their experiences on him.
Pedophile 2 Pedophile?
Backronym doesn't work as well with terrorists though :(
Not only that, but they're axing key chain as well, meaning all keys that won't get removed will have to be stored in bank and bags AGAIN.
This is essentially what people were afraid of when news of blizzard fusing with activision came, slowly coming to life. It started with little things like pet sales (which in turn started as charity), and is slowly creeping into the gameplay in spite of consistent claims of that never happening.
So you want "evidence in mainstream media largely controlled by Western propaganda machine of covert action by Western intelligence". ...
Good luck finding any. CIA isn't the best intelligence agency in the world, but it certainly isn't so bad that it allows papers to post news about its covert action in a trustworthy format. Good riddance.
This is very much a matter of taste, imho nvidia forceware package is an abomination nowadays. I'm using hd4870 in my current machine with catalyst 10.5 and it is much better.
It's a long way from times when ATI was an abomination when it came to drivers and nvidia had very good driver packages.
This is offset by the fact that ATI generally costs about 10-15% less for the same speed.
Not on XP, not on linux (at least properly working one), and I'm not sure about macOS.
Gonna be a small market in this realm for a while.
You don't make famous people disappear - too obvious. Disappearing ones are the guys like that swedish imam that got a taste of extraordinary rendition and lived to tell the tale somehow - ones who are only known to few, but judged important enough to kill off or get information out of by medieval torture methods (see Egypt).
Important and famous ones you arrest, make a showy trial and then deal as you see fit. Or even better, discredit first, then arrest...
Seriously, this is about as basic intelligence stuff as it gets. You have to either truly not want to know, or live under a rock to be wondering about it.
Whoever buys their IP can sue you just as well. IP generally doesn't vanish if company goes under, it just gets bought up by someone else.
From what I heard (warning: hearsay), patch will not install on DVD version installation until it has been activated. So when installing 1.1, you have to:
1. Install the game from DVD
2. Activate the game
3. Patch
4. Play
You cannot reverse 2 and 3.
Except that there is a law for treason, for which maximum penalty is death. You may want to read up on US laws.
Did you willingly expose yourself to botnetting this week by visiting any site whose advertising network may have delivered same kind of malware through a zero-day exploit in your browser?
The risk is there no matter what you do on the internet, but I trust well-known crack groups that have been releasing stuff for years far more then random advertisement networks.
"Godawful TAGES crap" stayed in the game up to version 1.4, at which point they got tired of paying for tech support having to keep answering people about problems with it.
Witcher 2 DRM was pure marketing. GoG got "exclusive DRM free" game which is sold for more then many other retailers, and everyone else got screwed by broken securom, which apparently caused vast majority of technical issues with the game. Just like original.
This time, folks at CD Project decided they didn't want to pay too much for tech support until 1.4, and axed securom in 1.1 (long after securom was cracked anyway). It's a purely financial decision, and is pretty unlikely to have anything to do with gamers (other then positive publicity). Fact remains that if you wanted to run DVD version of witcher2 properly before 1.1, you had to crack securom.
GoG was still massively overpriced. Play.com offered DVD version for about 10€ cheaper including delivery anywhere in EU (and of course you got all the boxed game goodies with it).
1. Version that was pirated first was DVD version.
2. Game included two layers of protection:
a. You must activate the game online
b. Securom protection
There was a crack for both in the DVD version that was online the day after release. Funnily many of people who bought DVD version like myself, ended up getting the crack to strip securom because it caused so many problems.
P.S. As far as I know, online activation part of DRM is still in the game, even after this patch.
The thing is, they saved money with this move. Vast majority of issues with the game that strained their tech support was DRM problems. They either had to massively up the tech support costs or drop DRM.
And with the fact that cracked game ran much better because it stripped DRM, they were left with very little realistic choices.