Actually, I cancelled my WoW subscription five minutes after my first keep battle in WAR, it's that much fun:)
My roomate and I did as well. The change to gear requirements for pvp gear was the final straw, forcing me to play arenas was just not going to be done.
We both cancelled and got WAR last night, and I gotta say, there are smal bugs, graphic bugs, some silly lag things that happen here or there, but they are NOTHING compared to the launch of any mmo before, WOW had game crushing bugs for months, and their changes to fix em broke tons of other things when it came out.
WAR is the game for me, I can pvp, I can do quests solo or with a group, and i can have FUN. Thats the most important thing to me.
On the other side of the issue he was just a guy writing software and selling it. I could throw him in with the likes of spammers and botnet masters but it was just a legitimate client program running on a paying user's machine.
This argument is baseless and I hear it all the time in regards to Glider, so I have to address this.
This program, if you think about it, specifically targets world of warcraft. This program would have no use without world of warcraft.
Since it requires world of warcraft to be useful, it becomes less a program that does automation of tasks and becomes a modification of world of warcraft.
Let me ask you this:
When was the last time you saw a mod author sell his mods without a license from the main company and not get sued?
To put that into perspective, let me make a mod using Unreal3, and then sell it, let's see how far I get.
I hope that finally people can see the broken argument of 'this was just a programmer making a program and trying to sell it'.
I find it funny that people say 'if a game can be botted it must be a bad game'. People that say this have a very short memory. What about quake, counterstrike, and unreal tournament? These games are all FPS and all have had people botting.
Botting has been a scourge to online games for over a decade, wow is just running into the same thing as any other online game, if people think they can get an advantage they will cheat, it's just human nature.
Walmart is shutting down their DRM servers for their online MP3 service. If someone doesn't read their email (maybe they don't use the account anymore) and doesn't know about this, next month all of their music bought before Feb 2008 will be unable to be moved to any other devices.
I will preface this by stating I do like star wars, but I'm not a fanatic.
I have to say that I downloaded this game kind of worried it was going to be a let down. It wasn't. The pacing is good, the graphics are amazing, the controls feel natural, and the story is pretty interesting.
There are a lot of people bashing the gameplay but I haven't heard a real good description for those of you that maybe don't have a 360 or ps3 or haven't had a chance to try the demo.
So here is the gameplay in a nutshell:
Take God of War, mix in a little Devil May Cry, add a dash of Jedi Knight 2 and you've got it.
I have completed the demo on all three hardness settings, the Sith Lord setting is rather tough, but once you get used to the controls it is possible and it makes the game a whole lot more fun. You begin to see why your force powers are useful at this difficulty level, you NEED to use the force to be able to complete the missions, if you attempt to just force push guys and slash them, they will cut you down with their laser guns. At Sith Lord level, the games depth becomes apparent, the choices and tricks you use determine your fate. Here's an example; on one part of the level tie fighters fly past you quickly and blast you as you are trying to fight the men on the ground. Using the force, you can actually bend beams out into the area the fighters are flying which causes them to crash. I did manage to get past this part without doing this, however using the technique maximized my health and allowed me to get through the level much easier. It's this environmental manipulation that has taken the 3rd person fighting game to a whole new level.
This game really does deliver, don't listen to the naysayers, try it for yourselves.
Honestly, I have a set of disks at my house for halflife 2 I cannot play thanks to Steam. You see, I moved, and my old email address doesn't exist anymore.
I contacted Valve, and they won't do anything without a pic of the original receipt. Now I bought the game on release, how am I supposed to provide that? I did mail them the stupid pics of the disks with the code and all that crap.
Anyways, it doesn't matter, suffice it to say, steam can blow as well.
With this kind of speed, I would be concerned with a random piece of dust hitting the ship and possibly tearing a hole in it. I know that orbital debris is a real concern due to the speed at which the shuttle orbits the earth.
We can see from this website that orbital debris can be an issue:
What about other forms of space debris? If a ship is moving at such speed to be able to reach mars in 60 days, (that's 1440 hours) and the shortest distance between earth and mars is on average 36,000,000 miles, that would equate to around 25000 miles an hour.
36000000 / 1440 = 25000 --- (unless my math is that off)
So at the slowest, the ship is going to be in real danger from things like space dust and even small meteors we may not know the trajectory of.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's awesome they are working on new engines, I just wonder at how they are going to protect the travelers.
I welcome any free opportunity to learn a new language.
I might mess with this a bit and see if I can pick up some new phrases. I hope there are more things like this developed in the future. Games can really bring people together, and language is a huge barrier that could be broken down if things such as this are successfull.
I am aware of Spores ability to download content, but it should not be crippled and unplayable if it cannot reach the server for ten days.
The same with Mass Effect, the game is a single player game, if it cannot access the internet it should still be playable.
These are not multiplayer games, they are geared towards a single player. This means EA is forcing customers to phone home with an intrusive DRM scheme for the sole purpose of 'reactivating' the copy of the game.
If you think this is fine, so be it, just wait until you can't activate it anymore ten years down the road when you get that itch to play mass effect again.
I got burned on Half Life 2. I bought the game on release, and was unable to play the game for 2 days because steam was down. I made a decision at that time to never buy another product that requires online activation.
I have not played bioshock, or the orange box due to this.
I will not play spore or mass effect due to this either.
In a game where one can kill prostitutes, police, and run over civilians with abandon all the while stealing cars and causing increasing levels of mayhem, MADD is worried about drunk driving?
'Drunk driving is not a game, and it is not a joke. Drunk driving is a choice, a violent crime and it is also 100 percent preventable.' is a laughable statement about a game so hellbent on being the end all be all of sandbox gangster games.
I wonder if MADD felt the same way about John Travolta's glorification of driving while doped on heroin in Pulp Fiction.
I wonder if MADD finds it funny that you can get drunk in WOW and ride your mount and you weave all over the place.
Maybe MADD needs to pull the sand out of their crack and chill the fuck out.
I see lots of folks saying 'such and such is an obvious way to fix this or that'. however, wouldn't it be nice to know what software blind folks use so a person can test their site?
I know about dragon, and I know microsoft and macs have some built in functionality, but what software should I get to make sure the blind are having a good user experience?
The article states:
"Screen readers cost between $500 and $1,000, although there are also freeware screen readers, she noted. (Windows XP and Vista come with a screen reader called Narrator, but even Microsoft Corp. says it's not powerful enough for serious use.)"
This may be the big hurdle. How am I, as a normal Joe, going to spend 500 - 1000 dollars to make my page blind friendly? I'd love to be able to test it to verify its integrity, but the cost is prohibitive.
There are some Best Practices I can use that are listed on the site which I will mirror here:
"A text equivalent for every nontext element shall be provided.
Equivalent alternatives for any multimedia presentation shall be synchronized with the presentation.
Web pages shall be designed so that all information conveyed with color is also available without color, for example from context or markup.
Documents shall be organized so they are readable without requiring an associated style sheet. "
That's a good start but it doesn't help to know what the experience is like for someone who is blind. Maybe the companies that offer screen reading software can offer some sort of stripped down version for web developers to test with?
It seems to me, with all the technology on the battlefield, someones going to try this stuff out. If our soldiers relied on machinery to get the job done and be successful, we might find ourselves at a very real tactical disadvantage.
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I gotta admit, Warhammer is pretty damn amazing. I look at it to only mature and get better.
What I saw of AOC, it was nice on the surface but there was a lot of murky issues that I could tell would bubble to the surface and drive me insane.
Don't you mean
Throwing the baby out with the babywater...
My roomate and I did as well. The change to gear requirements for pvp gear was the final straw, forcing me to play arenas was just not going to be done.
We both cancelled and got WAR last night, and I gotta say, there are smal bugs, graphic bugs, some silly lag things that happen here or there, but they are NOTHING compared to the launch of any mmo before, WOW had game crushing bugs for months, and their changes to fix em broke tons of other things when it came out.
WAR is the game for me, I can pvp, I can do quests solo or with a group, and i can have FUN. Thats the most important thing to me.
This argument is baseless and I hear it all the time in regards to Glider, so I have to address this.
This program, if you think about it, specifically targets world of warcraft. This program would have no use without world of warcraft.
Since it requires world of warcraft to be useful, it becomes less a program that does automation of tasks and becomes a modification of world of warcraft.
Let me ask you this:
When was the last time you saw a mod author sell his mods without a license from the main company and not get sued?
To put that into perspective, let me make a mod using Unreal3, and then sell it, let's see how far I get.
I hope that finally people can see the broken argument of 'this was just a programmer making a program and trying to sell it'.
I find it funny that people say 'if a game can be botted it must be a bad game'.
People that say this have a very short memory.
What about quake, counterstrike, and unreal tournament?
These games are all FPS and all have had people botting.
Botting has been a scourge to online games for over a decade, wow is just running into the same thing as any other online game, if people think they can get an advantage they will cheat, it's just human nature.
Walmart is shutting down their DRM servers for their online MP3 service. If someone doesn't read their email (maybe they don't use the account anymore) and doesn't know about this, next month all of their music bought before Feb 2008 will be unable to be moved to any other devices.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2661
So any proponents of DRM want to argue this is acceptable?
well, another drm loaded nightmare from EA, looks like I'll have to wait for Starcraft 2 to get my RTS fix on . . . .
I will preface this by stating I do like star wars, but I'm not a fanatic.
I have to say that I downloaded this game kind of worried it was going to be a let down. It wasn't.
The pacing is good, the graphics are amazing, the controls feel natural, and the story is pretty interesting.
There are a lot of people bashing the gameplay but I haven't heard a real good description for those of you that maybe don't have a 360 or ps3 or haven't had a chance to try the demo.
So here is the gameplay in a nutshell:
Take God of War, mix in a little Devil May Cry, add a dash of Jedi Knight 2 and you've got it.
I have completed the demo on all three hardness settings, the Sith Lord setting is rather tough, but once you get used to the controls it is possible and it makes the game a whole lot more fun. You begin to see why your force powers are useful at this difficulty level, you NEED to use the force to be able to complete the missions, if you attempt to just force push guys and slash them, they will cut you down with their laser guns. At Sith Lord level, the games depth becomes apparent, the choices and tricks you use determine your fate. Here's an example; on one part of the level tie fighters fly past you quickly and blast you as you are trying to fight the men on the ground. Using the force, you can actually bend beams out into the area the fighters are flying which causes them to crash. I did manage to get past this part without doing this, however using the technique maximized my health and allowed me to get through the level much easier. It's this environmental manipulation that has taken the 3rd person fighting game to a whole new level.
This game really does deliver, don't listen to the naysayers, try it for yourselves.
Jack Szostak, a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School
So when is it discovered that Harvard is another front for The Umbrella Corporation?
Honestly, I have a set of disks at my house for halflife 2 I cannot play thanks to Steam. You see, I moved, and my old email address doesn't exist anymore.
I contacted Valve, and they won't do anything without a pic of the original receipt. Now I bought the game on release, how am I supposed to provide that? I did mail them the stupid pics of the disks with the code and all that crap.
Anyways, it doesn't matter, suffice it to say, steam can blow as well.
You are not alone bub.
I said it many times. I boycotted this game due to drm, same with orange box and the like. All that drm bullshits gotta go.
With this kind of speed, I would be concerned with a random piece of dust hitting the ship and possibly tearing a hole in it. I know that orbital debris is a real concern due to the speed at which the shuttle orbits the earth.
We can see from this website that orbital debris can be an issue:
http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/photogallery/photogallery.html
What about other forms of space debris? If a ship is moving at such speed to be able to reach mars in 60 days, (that's 1440 hours) and the shortest distance between earth and mars is on average 36,000,000 miles, that would equate to around 25000 miles an hour.
36000000 / 1440 = 25000 --- (unless my math is that off)
So at the slowest, the ship is going to be in real danger from things like space dust and even small meteors we may not know the trajectory of.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's awesome they are working on new engines, I just wonder at how they are going to protect the travelers.
you ever try bitpim?
http://www.bitpim.org/
I welcome any free opportunity to learn a new language.
I might mess with this a bit and see if I can pick up some new phrases.
I hope there are more things like this developed in the future. Games can really bring people together, and language is a huge barrier that could be broken down if things such as this are successfull.
I am just happy its going to be on PC.
Just think, we might be able to add our own characters and moves!
It's a Cookbook!
I am aware of Spores ability to download content, but it should not be crippled and unplayable if it cannot reach the server for ten days.
The same with Mass Effect, the game is a single player game, if it cannot access the internet it should still be playable.
These are not multiplayer games, they are geared towards a single player. This means EA is forcing customers to phone home with an intrusive DRM scheme for the sole purpose of 'reactivating' the copy of the game.
If you think this is fine, so be it, just wait until you can't activate it anymore ten years down the road when you get that itch to play mass effect again.
I agree wholeheartedly.
I got burned on Half Life 2. I bought the game on release, and was unable to play the game for 2 days because steam was down. I made a decision at that time to never buy another product that requires online activation.
I have not played bioshock, or the orange box due to this.
I will not play spore or mass effect due to this either.
The pirated exe will skyrocket in downloads because nobody wants the DRM, and they will blame piracy as to why their game doesn't sell . . .
World of Warcraft requires you to "phone home" to play! Damned anti-piracy measures! This just in!
World of Warcraft is NOT a single player game!
I was looking forward to playing spore and working on mods for Mass Effect. I guess I'll stick with UT3 and forget about these 2 games.
In a game where one can kill prostitutes, police, and run over civilians with abandon all the while stealing cars and causing increasing levels of mayhem, MADD is worried about drunk driving?
'Drunk driving is not a game, and it is not a joke. Drunk driving is a choice, a violent crime and it is also 100 percent preventable.' is a laughable statement about a game so hellbent on being the end all be all of sandbox gangster games.
I wonder if MADD felt the same way about John Travolta's glorification of driving while doped on heroin in Pulp Fiction.
I wonder if MADD finds it funny that you can get drunk in WOW and ride your mount and you weave all over the place.
Maybe MADD needs to pull the sand out of their crack and chill the fuck out.
Still no directX 10.
But at least I got some patches!
I know about dragon, and I know microsoft and macs have some built in functionality, but what software should I get to make sure the blind are having a good user experience?
The article states
This may be the big hurdle. How am I, as a normal Joe, going to spend 500 - 1000 dollars to make my page blind friendly? I'd love to be able to test it to verify its integrity, but the cost is prohibitive.
There are some Best Practices I can use that are listed on the site which I will mirror here:
That's a good start but it doesn't help to know what the experience is like for someone who is blind.
Maybe the companies that offer screen reading software can offer some sort of stripped down version for web developers to test with?
Could the military be significantly slowed down if the enemy were to employ electromagnetic pulse weapons?
It seems they are possible to be made without nuclear explosions these days.
It seems to me, with all the technology on the battlefield, someones going to try this stuff out. If our soldiers relied on machinery to get the job done and be successful, we might find ourselves at a very real tactical disadvantage.