I am normally the first person to put down these conspiracy theories. But being that all laptops that are good enough for gaming come with Vista as the default OS, and the increasing difficultly of getting a legit copy of XP.
Sez you. The best place I know of to get a decent gaming rig, Vigor Computing, is still very willing to ship with XP. I just ordered a gaming laptop from them with XP; I'll be getting it in a few days.
I think there was one re-release as "Final Fantasy Origins" for the PS2 or something, but that's even harder to find.
For the PS1, actually. Of course, it can be played on a PS2. I have a copy:-), but it's not hard to find. It got a Greatest Hits rerelease and you can get it fairly cheap on Amazon. They did it again for the GBA and called it Dawn of Souls; that one I don't have, but it's still not all that hard to find.
Oh, I remember the other reason why I'm not going to do this the pirate way besides my unbridled fanboyism. I have an impressionable child in my house that still thinks music and movies come on disks, and not from Bittorrent, and I'd like to keep it that way for as long as possible.
"Because it's desperately important to me that my child believe it's still the 1990s for as long as possible. Please don't tell him Bill Clinton isn't president any more."
You can be subject to perjury charges if you submit a claim and you do not have authority to represent the party you name as claimant. You are *not* subject to perjury charges if you submit a claim and it turns out that the claimant does not have a valid copyright claim against the content. The law was very carefully worded that way.
This Web site is only for VAIO VGN-TZ computer customers that live in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Brazil.
To get started, please select the country in which you currently reside:...and so on. Following the US link takes me to a page that asks me for the serial number and other particulars of my defect laptop (which I couldn't test, seeing as I don't have one). Seems to be working fine to me.
Approximately, it is, if your approximation is vague enough. Since it's that difference that makes nuclear fusion *and* nuclear fission both possible, it has to count as a pretty significant difference, though.
I have never played FFXI but am interested in how this Goblin Bounty Hunter system works.
I think I gave you an over-inflated idea of what they do. There's nothing overly special about them and they don't try to detect bots as such. They're just Goblin mobs put in that patrol the water's edge. Like any other Goblin mob, they aggro; thus they tend to kill low-level unarmed fish bots. They're generally low enough level that they aren't a major problem for exp parties in the area (although they are usually high enough level to aggro said parties). The only unusual feature about them is that they run full speed on patrol instead of the usual leisurely walk.
Almost impossible to do since the MPK updates were put in.
- "Hypercamp" areas (gold farmer bots/groups usually sit in known spawn spots for days at time, preventing real players from enjoying the area)
Square-Enix has been very aggressively prosecuting gil farming for about the past year. Gilseller camping still exists, but it's way down. They've also put in other methods, like creating "Goblin Bounty Hunters" that patrol many bodies of water to stop fish bots.
- Message-spam people (either people they think they can get a sale from, or people they are trying to drive out of a region; and before you say "but you have an ignore option", try to/ignore over 500 accounts while still trying to play a game and tell me it doesn't impact your play experience).
I've played FFXI for over four years and I don't ever recall getting gilseller message spam.
FFXI is plagued with those three to the point of nonplayability,
I never had much experience with any of these problems, but on the other hand I will admit that I have levelled slowly and am only now getting to the upper levels of the game. The reports of these problems I've heard from other players has dropped off sharply since SE started large-scale purges of the gilsellers.
or at least it was before I (and the vast majority of its former player base) got the hell out.
The "vast majority" of the player base never went anywhere. FFXI has remained more or less steady at 500,000 players for the past few years, only slightly off its peak.
you can buy potions which let you level faster (if I remember, something like 2x as fast). These are all for very small charges, they don't alter the balance of the game all that much
Levelling twice as fast doesn't alter the balance of the game?
I don't know what you're smoking, but you need to cut back.
eventually it gets to be like Final Fantasy XI or every Turbine game in existence, where there's nothing left but griefers and chinese money farmers because they drove everyone else off.
ily Um, you are very, very mistaken about FFXI. I'm curious, though. How do you figure you have griefers in a game with no PvP whatsoever outside of a heavily controlled (and seldom used) pair of arena-type contests?
You get power from it because it's *very hot* salt, having been heated by the solar energy. Salt is simply a comparatively safe, non-toxic substance to pour all that thermal energy into.
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My toaster got told it'll go through the NAT router like everybody else and like it.
Sorry, "It'll be really ultra-cool" does not a business case make.
Mike broke the Hubble! Mike broke the Hubble!
Sez you. The best place I know of to get a decent gaming rig, Vigor Computing, is still very willing to ship with XP. I just ordered a gaming laptop from them with XP; I'll be getting it in a few days.
For the PS1, actually. Of course, it can be played on a PS2. I have a copy :-), but it's not hard to find. It got a Greatest Hits rerelease and you can get it fairly cheap on Amazon. They did it again for the GBA and called it Dawn of Souls; that one I don't have, but it's still not all that hard to find.
Blizzard rarely does (Diablo was Blizzard North). They just put in the time and expertise to do it better than anybody else has done it.
The Emperor demands that I deny any such heresy!
What is this fascination with red devices? Should I start painting my network gear red?
No, he's a scientist, he gets the crowbar. The ratchet is Marine issue.
"Because it's desperately important to me that my child believe it's still the 1990s for as long as possible. Please don't tell him Bill Clinton isn't president any more."
You can be subject to perjury charges if you submit a claim and you do not have authority to represent the party you name as claimant. You are *not* subject to perjury charges if you submit a claim and it turns out that the claimant does not have a valid copyright claim against the content. The law was very carefully worded that way.
Faith = money, right? At least, that's what the Scientologist leaders tell us. Can't have true faith if you don't give them lots of money.
They also reported that the colonists' Declaration included a statement about "Life, Liberty, and the Purfuit of Happineff."
Could you *please* feel your kit and pull it out in PRIVATE? Geez, man!
do... ...a deer, a female deer...
Takes me to a page that says:
Sony VAIO® VGN-TZ Notebook - Rework
This Web site is only for VAIO VGN-TZ computer customers that live in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Brazil.
To get started, please select the country in which you currently reside: ...and so on. Following the US link takes me to a page that asks me for the serial number and other particulars of my defect laptop (which I couldn't test, seeing as I don't have one). Seems to be working fine to me.
Approximately, it is, if your approximation is vague enough. Since it's that difference that makes nuclear fusion *and* nuclear fission both possible, it has to count as a pretty significant difference, though.
I think I gave you an over-inflated idea of what they do. There's nothing overly special about them and they don't try to detect bots as such. They're just Goblin mobs put in that patrol the water's edge. Like any other Goblin mob, they aggro; thus they tend to kill low-level unarmed fish bots. They're generally low enough level that they aren't a major problem for exp parties in the area (although they are usually high enough level to aggro said parties). The only unusual feature about them is that they run full speed on patrol instead of the usual leisurely walk.
Ow, my eyes.
Almost impossible to do since the MPK updates were put in.
Square-Enix has been very aggressively prosecuting gil farming for about the past year. Gilseller camping still exists, but it's way down. They've also put in other methods, like creating "Goblin Bounty Hunters" that patrol many bodies of water to stop fish bots.
I've played FFXI for over four years and I don't ever recall getting gilseller message spam.
I never had much experience with any of these problems, but on the other hand I will admit that I have levelled slowly and am only now getting to the upper levels of the game. The reports of these problems I've heard from other players has dropped off sharply since SE started large-scale purges of the gilsellers.
The "vast majority" of the player base never went anywhere. FFXI has remained more or less steady at 500,000 players for the past few years, only slightly off its peak.
Levelling twice as fast doesn't alter the balance of the game?
I don't know what you're smoking, but you need to cut back.
ily
Um, you are very, very mistaken about FFXI. I'm curious, though. How do you figure you have griefers in a game with no PvP whatsoever outside of a heavily controlled (and seldom used) pair of arena-type contests?
Or Final Fantasy XI. I coulda written that post with FFXI filling in the blank if I let my inner fanboi loose.
As a resident of Virginia, I can ask: there's a difference?
You get power from it because it's *very hot* salt, having been heated by the solar energy. Salt is simply a comparatively safe, non-toxic substance to pour all that thermal energy into.