Keep sinking your money, retard. Maybe if you stopped playing, XEmacs wouldn't have fallen so far behind GNU. I doubt it though, since there's like 12 people using xemacs.
Ah, nothing like fan mail. Email me your address and I'll send an autographed copy of the GPL either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
That's what I would have thought, however, the Goblin sequence in the trailer looked suspiciously like Booty Bay getting trashed and the hordie Goblins were fleeing from there.
On top of that, China in my opinion has a terrible reputation for allowing these things to happen and turning a blind eye.
Hey, when per capita yearly income is in the US$100s, how much demand do think there is for Microsoft Windows (or anything else) at a substantial percentage of that?
Sentencing these people to a few years jail time signals to others that they can't be quite so blatant about their piracy anymore, as China is changing their stance on it.
It's a slap on the wrist and probably the result of some kind of deal.
When I worked for Turbolinux in the early 2000s we sold to 3 markets - Japan, China and the US. In Japan we were #1 for awhile due to all the proprietary goodies we could attach to the system. China was #2 and US was #3. I don't think Turbo ever turned a profit in the US.
I spent a week in 2001 in Beijing with the Chinese office as we were working on getting the price point below US$10 per retail sale. That's still rather expensive.
Yes. It's a shame. My heart really goes out to Microsoft on this one.
Nice post and you deserve the +5 funny I see on it.
When I worked at Turbolinux in 2000/2001 the hardest problem we had to solve in 6.5 was getting the retail price below the equivalent of US$10 in China (our secondary market).
Vast wealth is accumulating in China but it's not spread out very much. Vast population doesn't mean much market if most of the population doesn't have much yuan to spend.
Mate, can I vote with my account? I'm not subscribed anymore but the account is valid.
They are not going to delete the account or the characters.
It appears they are counting the kinds of systems that are in use (not surprising now that the mmo-champion report has been confirmed). I've gotten messages at login saying that they have started collecting "non-personal" system data when you login, ie. a census.
I figure they are counting two things. 1) They are counting system type MSW, Mac OS X, other; 2) Machine configuration (as in graphics card & core memory).
The only way you can "vote" in something like that is to login.
You're a Linux guy who has already given up, so you have already voted...:-(
So...is blizzard going to keep the theme those two already have, and have 2 new player races that aren't associated with a faction? Seems like it be hard to do the group thing at that point...
I'm wondering about that too. I have Ambassador of the Alliance on two toons. I also have Goblin rep to honored with all of my toons leveled far enough to get to STV.
The expansion mostly sounds cool, but I will be seriously bummed if they take away Booty Bay from Alliance.
Butters, go to the store, buy the online sensation, and install it on your computer before we all murder you. (Unless you really like playing Hello Kitty! Island Adventure better).
Due to the way the game was originally written, flying mounts are not allowed in the original content.
Strictly speaking, that's not correct. Flying is just an on & off switch that was apparently misset at one point in a TBC beta (there is video on youtube). The problem is with the graphic models. They were not designed to be seen from all angles and so in the places where it was "impossible" to see them, they didn't implement anything.
Given how *big* the old world is and how much time it took them to get Outlands correct, I'm not surprised that the developers have been kind of quiet. They are working their asses off.
Oh and for you "PvP" griefers who like to gank n00bs, expect the starting zones to be no fly areas like Wintergrasp. My prediction.
Newsflash: lag is not just network latency. It's a catch-all term
I would agree, but hey, I play (and like) WoW so that makes me a moron.
The WoW graphics engine makes it very difficult to distinguish between the two. The engine appears to be getting "smarter" with regards to Newton's laws of motion. I've been noticing recently that in times of extreme network latency (I'm in San Jose, a decidedly 3rd world city now) that I can punch the keystrokes to kill something, have nothing happen, see the monster contine to move across the screen and then warp back to the place it should have been had my keystrokes been processed in something closer to realtime and die.
I've had an easier time playing in Manila, remarkable as it may sound.
Which leads me to another gripe: Considering Goblins have been a neutral faction in the MMORG up to this point, making them Horde-only just because they are getting help from the Horde seems completely silly considering all the help they've received from Alliance players via quests over the years. Not to mention that the closing off of a significant market that going to war with Alliance would represent also seems out of character for the Ferengi-like Capitalists.
While I really hate QQing, I guess I'm going to do some myself.:-( I agree fully. I very much would like to play a Goblin, but not enough that I want to roll a Hordie.
Every toon that I've leveled has gotten to Honored with the Steamwheedle Cartel.
I've run drugs http://thottbot.com/q1116 killed your competitors (Venture Co.), killed your enemies (the Bloodsail pirates), and run countless other errands for you and you are going to abandon my faction for the Horde? Booty Bay is my favorite city in the game. I cannot believe that I'm going to become KOS there.
The reason most people quit isn't because it isn't pretty enough, but rather they've run out of "meaningful" things to do. This expansion appears to be an effort to address that, but I think it is probably too little too late for most jaded players.
If they've already quit, then this is a means to entice older players back. If they're still playing, maybe they are not quite as jaded as you think.
Almost seems like Blizzard is the only company that can beat Blizzard.
I think so too. I'm not about to jump to a different game because I enjoy playing WoW and have plenty of options in the game to keep me interested. Not to mention all the time I've invested to date getting oddball achievements and equipment.
If there is a WoW-killer, it will be Blizzard's mythic upcoming MMO and that, like Microsoft Windows Vists -vs- Microsoft Windows XP, will have only an alternate product by the same company as serious competition.
the 3D engine is getting old. It doesn't matter if you have a new PC, it will still lag when too much players are in the same zone.
The graphics look improved in the trailer. The basic feature that WoW has always had is that it doesn't require a constantly updated gaming box to play. The handful of wankers who do things like that like always jump to a new shinier game anyway, so I'm not sure there's too much point in trying to aim for that market.
This stuff was leaked on mmo-champions earlier in the week (to the usual cacophony of QQing). I was rather shocked by it at first, but the more I thought about it, the more it made sense.
The #1 thing people whined about when TBC came out was lag in the single zone that everyone jumped to when the expansion hit.
The #1 thing people whine about now is "Dalalag" as it called on my realm.
This expansion seems set to both update old areas (which are larger in size than Outlands and Northrend combined) and to spread players out. It seems to me that that can be a big win.
I, for one, will probably welcome my new Archaeologist Overlord and skill that up on my main before I level to 85.
I'd go back, but I need some new mind blowing sound and 3D experience
Play on a Mac. When I switched from Microsoft Windows to Mac for playing, I could hear the snow crunching beneath my hooves in Winterspring and could almost feel the cold (I play Draenei).
I'm not a WoW addict. I can quit any time I want, except that now is kind of a bad time - it's guild raid time. Got to go.
Plus redoing the old world allows the overcome one major problem people had with it, no flying.
Point taken, but I think there was *a lot* more whining about doing the same quests over and over again to raise up different toons. That's really what they're changing. Flying is just a bonus.
One thing I think would be very cool would be at level 85 or something, allow characters to train one extra profession.
That's an interesting idea, especially since I didn't read anything about raising the professional skill cap, which should come at level 80.
Probably the usual set of whiners would complain that it is forcing them to go back to low levels to skill up yet another profession. OK, not probably.
Back in my day you had to WALK over to a big sign and try to track down your flight information, or, even worse, you had to talk to the person standing behind the counter. And we all know that that ain't diet Dr Pepper they're drinking in that cup on their counter, no sir, that's 100% pureed baby souls. One time, I was taking a flight to Santa Barbara and I couldn't remember the airport code...well, that's not true. I could remember it, but I'd forgotten my tri-focals, so I couldn't read the blasted sign, and I had to go to that counter to find out about my flight. Well, after standing in line for close to 3 months, I finally get to the counter and the "lady" behind the counter shoots a 4 foot flame from her anus that burned my ticket to little cinders.
That sounds like a *great* idea for a game. Add in airport security with automatic weapons and service personnel with concealed weapons and I think you have yourself a winner. If you make it alive past the smiling boarding stewardess (who has concealed knives or something like that) you win!
Most delays are NOT ATC based delays. The airlines simply tell you they are so you dont complain as much.
I'm not so sure about that. The only time I was told a plane was being held as an ATC delay, we were sitting on the tarmac with everything sealed. We *were* flying into a major tropical storm in the US southeast.
There have been two occasions I've been scheduled on canceled flights. The first time I wasn't informed until I reached the check in area (SFO). The second time I wasn't informed until about the time of scheduled departure. Both of those times were due to the plane failing maintenance checks (fair enough - flying across the Pacific is something I want to be fairly safe).
There's so much built in "slop" into airline schedules, mostly so that airlines can advertise high "on-time" rates, that I had one flight NAIA to SFO delayed on the ground for over an hour while they were removing baggage of a person who did not board the aircraft and still arrive a bit "early".
Given all the recent administrative crap thrown at air travelers, I'd be surprised if they really came up with a useful figure. A single knuckle dragging "official" can hold up a flight. How can you predict that?
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Keep sinking your money, retard. Maybe if you stopped playing, XEmacs wouldn't have fallen so far behind GNU. I doubt it though, since there's like 12 people using xemacs.
Ah, nothing like fan mail. Email me your address and I'll send an autographed copy of the GPL either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
That's what I would have thought, however, the Goblin sequence in the trailer looked suspiciously like Booty Bay getting trashed and the hordie Goblins were fleeing from there.
On top of that, China in my opinion has a terrible reputation for allowing these things to happen and turning a blind eye.
Hey, when per capita yearly income is in the US$100s, how much demand do think there is for Microsoft Windows (or anything else) at a substantial percentage of that?
Sentencing these people to a few years jail time signals to others that they can't be quite so blatant about their piracy anymore, as China is changing their stance on it.
It's a slap on the wrist and probably the result of some kind of deal.
When I worked for Turbolinux in the early 2000s we sold to 3 markets - Japan, China and the US. In Japan we were #1 for awhile due to all the proprietary goodies we could attach to the system. China was #2 and US was #3. I don't think Turbo ever turned a profit in the US.
I spent a week in 2001 in Beijing with the Chinese office as we were working on getting the price point below US$10 per retail sale. That's still rather expensive.
Yes. It's a shame. My heart really goes out to Microsoft on this one.
Nice post and you deserve the +5 funny I see on it.
When I worked at Turbolinux in 2000/2001 the hardest problem we had to solve in 6.5 was getting the retail price below the equivalent of US$10 in China (our secondary market).
Vast wealth is accumulating in China but it's not spread out very much. Vast population doesn't mean much market if most of the population doesn't have much yuan to spend.
W00t! Throw away the key while you're at it, too.
I am willing to bet that everyone who mods me down has pirated Microsoft Windows. So many of the fan bois here claim to do it ...
Mate, can I vote with my account? I'm not subscribed anymore but the account is valid.
They are not going to delete the account or the characters.
It appears they are counting the kinds of systems that are in use (not surprising now that the mmo-champion report has been confirmed). I've gotten messages at login saying that they have started collecting "non-personal" system data when you login, ie. a census.
I figure they are counting two things. 1) They are counting system type MSW, Mac OS X, other; 2) Machine configuration (as in graphics card & core memory).
The only way you can "vote" in something like that is to login.
You're a Linux guy who has already given up, so you have already voted ... :-(
So...is blizzard going to keep the theme those two already have, and have 2 new player races that aren't associated with a faction? Seems like it be hard to do the group thing at that point...
I'm wondering about that too. I have Ambassador of the Alliance on two toons. I also have Goblin rep to honored with all of my toons leveled far enough to get to STV.
The expansion mostly sounds cool, but I will be seriously bummed if they take away Booty Bay from Alliance.
My wife likes Britney Spears. I am not going to hold that against her.
If you enjoy your mother's basement, fine, but maybe you should get outside more often.
The only classes I never played much were rogue and warrior.
Yeah, I'm not one for melee either, but ...
Rogue is pretty cool. Who can resist running around almost invisible, coming up behind someone then robbing and killing them?
When I apply for a job as an IRS agent next month, I'm going to put in my job qualifications section Level 80 Rogue in World of Warcraft.
So what do I do? Do I return to WoW
Butters, go to the store, buy the online sensation, and install it on your computer before we all murder you. (Unless you really like playing Hello Kitty! Island Adventure better).
Is it crazier to have Tauren Paladin and Human Hunters
Human Hunters are already in the game! I saw it on TV!
I like playing Spacegoats, you insensitive clod!
Due to the way the game was originally written, flying mounts are not allowed in the original content.
Strictly speaking, that's not correct. Flying is just an on & off switch that was apparently misset at one point in a TBC beta (there is video on youtube). The problem is with the graphic models. They were not designed to be seen from all angles and so in the places where it was "impossible" to see them, they didn't implement anything.
Given how *big* the old world is and how much time it took them to get Outlands correct, I'm not surprised that the developers have been kind of quiet. They are working their asses off.
Oh and for you "PvP" griefers who like to gank n00bs, expect the starting zones to be no fly areas like Wintergrasp. My prediction.
Ah good point. You're both right. A tailor should be able to repair her own gear, but has to pay for the thread.
Engineering got a metric butt ton of TLC in the 3.2 patch.
Newsflash: lag is not just network latency. It's a catch-all term
I would agree, but hey, I play (and like) WoW so that makes me a moron.
The WoW graphics engine makes it very difficult to distinguish between the two. The engine appears to be getting "smarter" with regards to Newton's laws of motion. I've been noticing recently that in times of extreme network latency (I'm in San Jose, a decidedly 3rd world city now) that I can punch the keystrokes to kill something, have nothing happen, see the monster contine to move across the screen and then warp back to the place it should have been had my keystrokes been processed in something closer to realtime and die.
I've had an easier time playing in Manila, remarkable as it may sound.
Which leads me to another gripe: Considering Goblins have been a neutral faction in the MMORG up to this point, making them Horde-only just because they are getting help from the Horde seems completely silly considering all the help they've received from Alliance players via quests over the years. Not to mention that the closing off of a significant market that going to war with Alliance would represent also seems out of character for the Ferengi-like Capitalists.
While I really hate QQing, I guess I'm going to do some myself. :-( I agree fully. I very much would like to play a Goblin, but not enough that I want to roll a Hordie.
Every toon that I've leveled has gotten to Honored with the Steamwheedle Cartel.
I've run drugs http://thottbot.com/q1116 killed your competitors (Venture Co.), killed your enemies (the Bloodsail pirates), and run countless other errands for you and you are going to abandon my faction for the Horde? Booty Bay is my favorite city in the game. I cannot believe that I'm going to become KOS there.
The reason most people quit isn't because it isn't pretty enough, but rather they've run out of "meaningful" things to do. This expansion appears to be an effort to address that, but I think it is probably too little too late for most jaded players.
If they've already quit, then this is a means to entice older players back. If they're still playing, maybe they are not quite as jaded as you think.
Almost seems like Blizzard is the only company that can beat Blizzard.
I think so too. I'm not about to jump to a different game because I enjoy playing WoW and have plenty of options in the game to keep me interested. Not to mention all the time I've invested to date getting oddball achievements and equipment.
If there is a WoW-killer, it will be Blizzard's mythic upcoming MMO and that, like Microsoft Windows Vists -vs- Microsoft Windows XP, will have only an alternate product by the same company as serious competition.
the 3D engine is getting old. It doesn't matter if you have a new PC, it will still lag when too much players are in the same zone.
The graphics look improved in the trailer. The basic feature that WoW has always had is that it doesn't require a constantly updated gaming box to play. The handful of wankers who do things like that like always jump to a new shinier game anyway, so I'm not sure there's too much point in trying to aim for that market.
This stuff was leaked on mmo-champions earlier in the week (to the usual cacophony of QQing). I was rather shocked by it at first, but the more I thought about it, the more it made sense.
The #1 thing people whined about when TBC came out was lag in the single zone that everyone jumped to when the expansion hit.
The #1 thing people whine about now is "Dalalag" as it called on my realm.
This expansion seems set to both update old areas (which are larger in size than Outlands and Northrend combined) and to spread players out. It seems to me that that can be a big win.
I, for one, will probably welcome my new Archaeologist Overlord and skill that up on my main before I level to 85.
I'd go back, but I need some new mind blowing sound and 3D experience
Play on a Mac. When I switched from Microsoft Windows to Mac for playing, I could hear the snow crunching beneath my hooves in Winterspring and could almost feel the cold (I play Draenei).
I'm not a WoW addict. I can quit any time I want, except that now is kind of a bad time - it's guild raid time. Got to go.
I am going to take a stab in the dark and say that level 99 will be the max eventually
Miss and you are likely to be eaten by a grue. The maximum level is apparently 255.
Plus redoing the old world allows the overcome one major problem people had with it, no flying.
Point taken, but I think there was *a lot* more whining about doing the same quests over and over again to raise up different toons. That's really what they're changing. Flying is just a bonus.
One thing I think would be very cool would be at level 85 or something, allow characters to train one extra profession.
That's an interesting idea, especially since I didn't read anything about raising the professional skill cap, which should come at level 80.
Probably the usual set of whiners would complain that it is forcing them to go back to low levels to skill up yet another profession. OK, not probably.
Back in my day you had to WALK over to a big sign and try to track down your flight information, or, even worse, you had to talk to the person standing behind the counter. And we all know that that ain't diet Dr Pepper they're drinking in that cup on their counter, no sir, that's 100% pureed baby souls. One time, I was taking a flight to Santa Barbara and I couldn't remember the airport code...well, that's not true. I could remember it, but I'd forgotten my tri-focals, so I couldn't read the blasted sign, and I had to go to that counter to find out about my flight. Well, after standing in line for close to 3 months, I finally get to the counter and the "lady" behind the counter shoots a 4 foot flame from her anus that burned my ticket to little cinders.
That sounds like a *great* idea for a game. Add in airport security with automatic weapons and service personnel with concealed weapons and I think you have yourself a winner. If you make it alive past the smiling boarding stewardess (who has concealed knives or something like that) you win!
Most delays are NOT ATC based delays. The airlines simply tell you they are so you dont complain as much.
I'm not so sure about that. The only time I was told a plane was being held as an ATC delay, we were sitting on the tarmac with everything sealed. We *were* flying into a major tropical storm in the US southeast.
There have been two occasions I've been scheduled on canceled flights. The first time I wasn't informed until I reached the check in area (SFO). The second time I wasn't informed until about the time of scheduled departure. Both of those times were due to the plane failing maintenance checks (fair enough - flying across the Pacific is something I want to be fairly safe).
There's so much built in "slop" into airline schedules, mostly so that airlines can advertise high "on-time" rates, that I had one flight NAIA to SFO delayed on the ground for over an hour while they were removing baggage of a person who did not board the aircraft and still arrive a bit "early".
Given all the recent administrative crap thrown at air travelers, I'd be surprised if they really came up with a useful figure. A single knuckle dragging "official" can hold up a flight. How can you predict that?