>Combat is a bit stale, but that will improve. The Dev's have shown that they are making daily progress and things are getting fixed quick.
You do realize that this was in Beta for like a jillion years, right? Why are you paying them $15 a month to fix things that that should have worked out of the box?
If you think space will come, be prepared for a disappointment. I'm betting that what you get is the latest version of the X-Wing engine (if Lucasarts think it's worth selling to SOE) with complete disjoints between planetside and space, played on different servers, with endless synchronization issues.
Oh, and rollerblades and rocket skateboards that hover 1" off the ground. You mark my words.
> when you pay to take a shuttle from one city to another on the planet you get a lame loading screen. Technically it should have been trivial for them to do a terrain flyby from the point of view of someone sitting in the shuttle
Uh oh. Those poor bastards at SOE. How they are going to shoehorn vehicles, let alone starcraft, into SWG within 6 and 18 months beats me. They'll be lucky to implement rollerblades in that time.
If you think I'm joking, you just wait. After six months, when they've pulled a 72 hour straight shift and still can't figure out how to integrate landspeeders, and they need to produce something to move people around faster, then rollerblading wookies aren't going to sound quote so silly any more.
Hint: "release [sometime] in 2004" is industry shorthand for "We have absolutely no idea how or when we're going to do this, and when we asked our lead developer if it was technically feasible to integrate it with the current engine, he coughed up wookie dropping and left to fill one of the vacant slots at Blizzard."
On that last one, keep an eye open for wanted ads at SOE. There'll be a lot of guys there who'll just have stuck it out until launch, but instead of getting the buzz of releasing a stormer, they've launched a turkey that will require months of long, thankless hours to fix. Poor bastards.
Dude, everyone has done your girlfriend in the poop chute. We're all going to jail together, where, ironically enough, we'll be done up the poop chute by actual criminals.
Imperial Star Destroyers are closing in on the Millenium Falcon. We join our heroes as the hyperdrive has once again failed.
Leia: Well, flyboy? Han: It's not my fault! Chewie: Neuuurgl C-3PO: Sirs! R2 says that there is a malfunction in the alluvial dampers and... oh dear... Han: Spit it out, goldenrod. C-3PO: And... the telephone is... unsanitary. Chewie: Rrroaaargh! C-3PO: We're doomed! f4t_c0k69: I SATNIZE FHONE! I MASTR PHONE SANTISER!!!!!!!! Leia: Uh... hello. OK. Can you, uh, sanitize our phone? f4t_c0k69: 2 WOMPRAT SKINZ!!! TR4DE 4 2 WOMRAT SKINZ!!!! Han: What the...? Chewie, do we have any womp rat skins? Chewie: Nuhhhrr! f4t_c0k69: U GAYS = TEH LAMERZ!!!! N E 1 WANTTRADE 4 WAMPRAT SKINZ??!!! Han: Chewie? What's that pus in your ear? Did you use an unsanitized phone? Chewie, old buddy, what's wrong? Speak to me! Chewie: ASL? ASL? ASL? ASL? f4t_c0k69: 15/m/NY!! Chewie: NO WAY, I = 15/m/NY 2!!! f4t_c0k69: NO WAY!!!! Chewie: NO WAY!!!! Han: Right, that's it, I'm aiming for that Star Destroyer. C-3PO: Sir, the odds of surviving a frontal assault on an Imperial Star Destroyer are... Han: I'm not planning to survive. Leia: Um, you do realize we're just sitting in a bar and pretending to be in a spaceship? They haven't been implemented yet. Han: Who wants to play UT2003? C-3PO: Yeah, this place blows.
My childhood dreams are about to come true! Oh, how I have waited.
You can play any character you like based on the movies (the proper ones), but you just can't do anything - anything - that you saw those characters do? Dark Tailor of the Sith doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it?
You know the Alliance grunts that got toasted at the start of Episode IV? Sounds to me like after paying this for a couple of weeks, you'll be wishing you could play one of them. Heck, you'll probably be wishing you could play the guy who maintains their blasters, rather than just making weapons for people to eradicate wildlife with.
"Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided" looks to me like it borders on deceptive advertising. It's not Star Wars, there are no Galaxies, and no Empire to be divided.
I'll suggest that the "chance" here isn't the chance to become a Jedi, but the chance that they might get around to implementing it at some point. Don't hold your breath.
Well, quite. Early reports indicate that robot clients for SWG have been raising an EInsultToIntelligence error and executing sleep(10000) after half an hour of "play". Might be simpler just to port some of the names to Progress Quest and save having to buy a GeForce 4 Ti card to play SWG.
Who exactly is dumping on the classness nature? I've only seen it praised. The reported suckage comes in the form of the total lack of content, the PvP snafus (mass covert muggings), and the tedious nature of combat with blasters that are about as powerful as an LED keyring. Care to elucidate on those?
Movable placards advertising Charlie's Angels 2 have been placed just in front of every poster advertising The Hulk. Hey, they're just an overlay. If you want to see the other poster, you just have to move them out of the way, right?
A day when we celebrate victory in a civil war that began as a protest about taxation without representation.
Say, how much representation do your taxes buy you? Wouldn't it be neat if we could all choose to pay "campaign contributions" to buy laws and fat federal contracts, instead of paying taxes to whoever we decided was probably the least bad of two candidates?
I'm in agreement with George W that the only way to deal with oppressive unelected regimes is to replace them forcibly. I just think we should clean house at home before building any more aircraft carriers.
The majority of Americans believe that Saddam Hussien was behind the WTC attacks, that there are WMDs in Iraq, and 80% of Americans questioned said they are actively proud of America's military, i.e. capacity to kill people.
Given all that, I'm frequently surprised that movies make even a token attempt at dialogue, wit, acting or plot. I guess we can blame a few die hard script writers and directors for that. When digital effects become so cheap that it's not financially necessary to insert talky bits as filler, we can look forward to movies that are just 90 minute chase sequences.
Meanwhile, we're spending a quarter of a million bucks a minute to keep American troops and Iraqis killing each other, Osama bin Laden is sniggering in his cave, opium is flooding out of Afghanistan, we are building death chambers in Guantanemo Bay in preparation for executing political prisoners on the basis of confessions tortured out of them, and we sit here discussing whether there might be too much action and not enough plot in Terminator 3.
It hits a sweet spot on the fourth refill, but I agree that it's pretty unpalatable up to then. In my defence, it has slightly more caffeine than fat Coke, and Diet Coke makes you grow a tail.
>are you trying to awe us all with your keen sense of sarcasm?
Shock and awe. Don't get all prissy now that you've been rumbled. You know as well as I do that most people here don't read the article before posting, reading comments or rating, so you're definitely in the majority. Ignore the voice of sanity behind the curtain.
I know nothing about this, but I'm already planning to spend hundreds of dollars on merchandising! Oh my god! Animation! Computers! Horny Japanese pre-teens!
Ahem. Thanks for the thought, but how about we get excited about this after it appears, not before. Don't make me remind you about Phantom Menace and Lone Gunmen. Let's focus on reviews, not promotional material.
Well, today my telco, which is also my cable ISP, sent spam to my primary email account (where postmaster@my.domain forwards to) advertising their services.
You only leased that XBox. It still belongs to us, in principle, if not (yet) legally in fact because we chose to sell it at a loss. You're not allowed to do anything to it that we don't want you to, nor to tell anyone how to do anything to such things. Ever. Running Linux on it is stealing from us. You owe us more money in games sales, you thief.
Next week: Gilette to sue people who buy one of their razors and then figure out or tell anyone how to remove and resharpen the blades rather than buying more.
Next month: Coca Cola Enterprises Ltd to sue people who buy a bottle of Dr Pepper, drink it, then use it to fetch water from the office water cooler. Damn, that's me busted.
Let's face it, we're only valued customers as long as we're meeting our implicit obligation to continue consuming. The instant we try and (ab/re)use a product without paying more money to the manufacturer, we bcome heartless thieves, possibly communists, maybe even terrorists.
+lots insightful to post after post sneering that the heat rise will be too much, that the sound drop will be inperceptible, that these tiles require an air gap, or that putting a tile behind the box will help.
All of which are either refuted with figures, or already mentioned in the article.
Tell me, in the stampede to post and rate, has it become anathema to actually read the linked to articles any more? Please let me know, I'd hate to think that I wasn't doing what all the cool kids do.
Wow, that's astonishingly insightful! I guess we should believe your off-the-cuff opinion rather the 1.4C temperature rise and 6.8dBa noise dop actually quoted in the article, right? I am so turned on right now.
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>Combat is a bit stale, but that will improve. The Dev's have shown that they are making daily progress and things are getting fixed quick.
You do realize that this was in Beta for like a jillion years, right? Why are you paying them $15 a month to fix things that that should have worked out of the box?
If you think space will come, be prepared for a disappointment. I'm betting that what you get is the latest version of the X-Wing engine (if Lucasarts think it's worth selling to SOE) with complete disjoints between planetside and space, played on different servers, with endless synchronization issues.
Oh, and rollerblades and rocket skateboards that hover 1" off the ground. You mark my words.
> when you pay to take a shuttle from one city to another on the planet you get a lame loading screen. Technically it should have been trivial for them to do a terrain flyby from the point of view of someone sitting in the shuttle
Uh oh. Those poor bastards at SOE. How they are going to shoehorn vehicles, let alone starcraft, into SWG within 6 and 18 months beats me. They'll be lucky to implement rollerblades in that time.
If you think I'm joking, you just wait. After six months, when they've pulled a 72 hour straight shift and still can't figure out how to integrate landspeeders, and they need to produce something to move people around faster, then rollerblading wookies aren't going to sound quote so silly any more.
Hint: "release [sometime] in 2004" is industry shorthand for "We have absolutely no idea how or when we're going to do this, and when we asked our lead developer if it was technically feasible to integrate it with the current engine, he coughed up wookie dropping and left to fill one of the vacant slots at Blizzard."
On that last one, keep an eye open for wanted ads at SOE. There'll be a lot of guys there who'll just have stuck it out until launch, but instead of getting the buzz of releasing a stormer, they've launched a turkey that will require months of long, thankless hours to fix. Poor bastards.
What the hell is wrong with you? This is Slashdot! You're thinking of one of those huggy hippy sites like Kuro5hin.
Dude, everyone has done your girlfriend in the poop chute. We're all going to jail together, where, ironically enough, we'll be done up the poop chute by actual criminals.
Imperial Star Destroyers are closing in on the Millenium Falcon. We join our heroes as the hyperdrive has once again failed.
Leia: Well, flyboy?
Han: It's not my fault!
Chewie: Neuuurgl
C-3PO: Sirs! R2 says that there is a malfunction in the alluvial dampers and... oh dear...
Han: Spit it out, goldenrod.
C-3PO: And... the telephone is... unsanitary.
Chewie: Rrroaaargh!
C-3PO: We're doomed!
f4t_c0k69: I SATNIZE FHONE! I MASTR PHONE SANTISER!!!!!!!!
Leia: Uh... hello. OK. Can you, uh, sanitize our phone?
f4t_c0k69: 2 WOMPRAT SKINZ!!! TR4DE 4 2 WOMRAT SKINZ!!!!
Han: What the...? Chewie, do we have any womp rat skins?
Chewie: Nuhhhrr!
f4t_c0k69: U GAYS = TEH LAMERZ!!!! N E 1 WANTTRADE 4 WAMPRAT SKINZ??!!!
Han: Chewie? What's that pus in your ear? Did you use an unsanitized phone? Chewie, old buddy, what's wrong? Speak to me!
Chewie: ASL? ASL? ASL? ASL?
f4t_c0k69: 15/m/NY!!
Chewie: NO WAY, I = 15/m/NY 2!!!
f4t_c0k69: NO WAY!!!!
Chewie: NO WAY!!!!
Han: Right, that's it, I'm aiming for that Star Destroyer.
C-3PO: Sir, the odds of surviving a frontal assault on an Imperial Star Destroyer are...
Han: I'm not planning to survive.
Leia: Um, you do realize we're just sitting in a bar and pretending to be in a spaceship? They haven't been implemented yet.
Han: Who wants to play UT2003?
C-3PO: Yeah, this place blows.
My childhood dreams are about to come true! Oh, how I have waited.
You can play any character you like based on the movies (the proper ones), but you just can't do anything - anything - that you saw those characters do? Dark Tailor of the Sith doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it?
You know the Alliance grunts that got toasted at the start of Episode IV? Sounds to me like after paying this for a couple of weeks, you'll be wishing you could play one of them. Heck, you'll probably be wishing you could play the guy who maintains their blasters, rather than just making weapons for people to eradicate wildlife with.
"Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided" looks to me like it borders on deceptive advertising. It's not Star Wars, there are no Galaxies, and no Empire to be divided.
I note with interest the very careful wording of this advertising: "The chance to unlock the mysterious Force Sensitive character slot and attempt to master the most exhilarating and dangerous role in the galaxy...the Jedi"
I'll suggest that the "chance" here isn't the chance to become a Jedi, but the chance that they might get around to implementing it at some point. Don't hold your breath.
Well, quite. Early reports indicate that robot clients for SWG have been raising an EInsultToIntelligence error and executing sleep(10000) after half an hour of "play". Might be simpler just to port some of the names to Progress Quest and save having to buy a GeForce 4 Ti card to play SWG.
So, you're saying that we should buy the game based on.... how good the cover art is? If we're drunk that day? What, exactly?
Who exactly is dumping on the classness nature? I've only seen it praised. The reported suckage comes in the form of the total lack of content, the PvP snafus (mass covert muggings), and the tedious nature of combat with blasters that are about as powerful as an LED keyring. Care to elucidate on those?
And we'll only have to pay another $50 to get it, then wait another six months for them to fix the bugs and add some content. I can't wait!
Movable placards advertising Charlie's Angels 2 have been placed just in front of every poster advertising The Hulk. Hey, they're just an overlay. If you want to see the other poster, you just have to move them out of the way, right?
Which sounds like a pretty fair summary of the SWG login process.
In other news, air guitar found to eliminate smog.
A day when we celebrate victory in a civil war that began as a protest about taxation without representation.
Say, how much representation do your taxes buy you? Wouldn't it be neat if we could all choose to pay "campaign contributions" to buy laws and fat federal contracts, instead of paying taxes to whoever we decided was probably the least bad of two candidates?
I'm in agreement with George W that the only way to deal with oppressive unelected regimes is to replace them forcibly. I just think we should clean house at home before building any more aircraft carriers.
The majority of Americans believe that Saddam Hussien was behind the WTC attacks, that there are WMDs in Iraq, and 80% of Americans questioned said they are actively proud of America's military, i.e. capacity to kill people.
Given all that, I'm frequently surprised that movies make even a token attempt at dialogue, wit, acting or plot. I guess we can blame a few die hard script writers and directors for that. When digital effects become so cheap that it's not financially necessary to insert talky bits as filler, we can look forward to movies that are just 90 minute chase sequences.
Meanwhile, we're spending a quarter of a million bucks a minute to keep American troops and Iraqis killing each other, Osama bin Laden is sniggering in his cave, opium is flooding out of Afghanistan, we are building death chambers in Guantanemo Bay in preparation for executing political prisoners on the basis of confessions tortured out of them, and we sit here discussing whether there might be too much action and not enough plot in Terminator 3.
It must be summer.
>Dr. Pepper Water? That's just yuck.
It hits a sweet spot on the fourth refill, but I agree that it's pretty unpalatable up to then. In my defence, it has slightly more caffeine than fat Coke, and Diet Coke makes you grow a tail.
>are you trying to awe us all with your keen sense of sarcasm?
Shock and awe. Don't get all prissy now that you've been rumbled. You know as well as I do that most people here don't read the article before posting, reading comments or rating, so you're definitely in the majority. Ignore the voice of sanity behind the curtain.
I know nothing about this, but I'm already planning to spend hundreds of dollars on merchandising! Oh my god! Animation! Computers! Horny Japanese pre-teens!
Ahem. Thanks for the thought, but how about we get excited about this after it appears, not before. Don't make me remind you about Phantom Menace and Lone Gunmen. Let's focus on reviews, not promotional material.
Well, today my telco, which is also my cable ISP, sent spam to my primary email account (where postmaster@my.domain forwards to) advertising their services.
Pride (and smugness) comes before a fall. :(
You only leased that XBox. It still belongs to us, in principle, if not (yet) legally in fact because we chose to sell it at a loss. You're not allowed to do anything to it that we don't want you to, nor to tell anyone how to do anything to such things. Ever. Running Linux on it is stealing from us. You owe us more money in games sales, you thief.
Next week: Gilette to sue people who buy one of their razors and then figure out or tell anyone how to remove and resharpen the blades rather than buying more.
Next month: Coca Cola Enterprises Ltd to sue people who buy a bottle of Dr Pepper, drink it, then use it to fetch water from the office water cooler. Damn, that's me busted.
Let's face it, we're only valued customers as long as we're meeting our implicit obligation to continue consuming. The instant we try and (ab/re)use a product without paying more money to the manufacturer, we bcome heartless thieves, possibly communists, maybe even terrorists.
Linux user, why do you hate America so much?
>The ability to completely hiijack a competitors hardware technology.
Funny, I don't recall leasing an XBox from Microsoft. When I put that money down, as far as I'm aware, I bought it. It became my property.
I wonder, what goods or services am I stealing from Microsoft by running lunix on my XBox?
Their attitude seems to be that after you buy an XBox, you owe them more money in games sales.
+lots insightful to post after post sneering that the heat rise will be too much, that the sound drop will be inperceptible, that these tiles require an air gap, or that putting a tile behind the box will help.
All of which are either refuted with figures, or already mentioned in the article.
Tell me, in the stampede to post and rate, has it become anathema to actually read the linked to articles any more? Please let me know, I'd hate to think that I wasn't doing what all the cool kids do.
Wow, that's astonishingly insightful! I guess we should believe your off-the-cuff opinion rather the 1.4C temperature rise and 6.8dBa noise dop actually quoted in the article, right? I am so turned on right now.
>the wall behind the computer.
Wow, just like it says in the article! That's amazing, you can read what it says, and then type it in here. May I carry your children?