The time he's referring to is nearly 10 years ago, when it was still called GamesNet, and when AOL was still a relevant ISP. For a while it was the defacto IRC server for Counter-Strike players back when Counter-Strike was pretty much the biggest thing on the internet and IRC was the primary way for organized clans to communicate with each other.
RTFA. This game isn't an FPS it's a sandbox game like GTA3. Everyone who modded this insightful instead of off topic is an idiot and should go back to reddit.
Except when you're signifying an explicit string that will need to be readable by a computer. I would tend to err on the side of caution lest someone mistake my correct English punctuation for some sort of design intent.
I haven't gotten mod points in like 2 years, either, and I don't post NEARLY as much as you. It's really disappointing. I've even tried things like meta-moderating and re-enabling ads. I wish there was some explanation of how it worked.
And to keep this on topic, Slashdot definitely suffers from groupthink on a lot of issues. While eventually insightful, but dissenting comments may rise up to a 3 or 4 score, they often start off being dropped to 0 with moderations like "overrated" when they don't even have any other moderations yet. They have to climb back up from that which usually takes several hours or sometimes a day or two, and if it's not a particularly popular topic, that might never happen, and very often it doesn't happen until the story is pushed past the top of the front page.
By the time Slashdot's system corrects itself, it's "too late" for the majority of readers (and I guarantee the majority does not browse at 0 or -1 threshold).
It is definitely better than a site like Digg, where literally any political cartoon saying "Republicans are dumb!" is guaranteed to get like 1000 diggs and be on the front page, while any political cartoon saying "Democrats are dumb!" will stay at 0 indefinitely. But it's still far from perfect.
To be fair, research papers and bibliographies are totally fucking useless for 99% of careers. I really don't understand the purpose of requiring them for anything other than a purely academic career.
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You do realize that the 50k post thread he's referring to was protesting having people's real names displayed on the forums, and many (not all, but probably the majority) of the people were upset primarily about that factor and not as much about the in-game Real ID system.
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50k long thread in WoW forum was locked in 2 days and hundreds of people posted their cancellation status.
I feel the need to explain how the WoW forums work here. Threads are automatically locked every 50 pages. Moderators have to manually unlock the thread to allow them to extend longer. For a 50k post thread to exist, the moderators would have had to manually unlock it over 2000 times. They likely stopped extending the thread either for fear of breaking the forum in some way or because they had already formulated their response and didn't see any further posts as contributing to the discussion.
First, they don't ban people for that unless they're obvious bitch posts like the previous poster pointed out or if the person is purposefully spamming the forums with threads about it.
Second, they are DELETING threads about it (not banning) because there are already a lot of active threads about it and if there's already an active thread on the first couple pages it's just useless spam to create a ton of new threads about it.
Don't just make shit up about how Blizzard manages their forums. I could make a plainsrunning whine post right now and I would not get even an hour ban (unless there was coincidentally a concerted thread spam campaign going on at the same time and I just got caught in the crossfire). I could probably find a 20+ page thread about it and bump that with whatever complaint I had and my post wouldn't even get deleted. Blizzard's moderation is EXTREMELY lenient as long as you don't spam or post like a total douche.
It's getting really old for every story even mentioning a Blizzard game getting half filled with people complaining about battle.net 2.0. You don't like it. We get it. There's no reason to make 20 new posts in every story about how you've been buying every Blizzard game for the past 20 years but now you're never going to buy one again because you hate DRM or whatever. The majority of the time these posts are completely off-topic, too.
Seriously, what does this post have to do with the new custom maps discussed at Blizzcon, or anything else discussed at Blizzcon, other than tangentially that they're both related to SC2? What part of the content of this post hasn't been posted 1000 times before in every story even mentioning SC2 -- or WoW -- in the past year? Not to mention the fact that one of the things you specifically mentioned, chat channels, is a feature they've been promising to add for almost just as long.
I'm going to have to say off the bat, that if you're not a fan of PvP, you should not have bought Warhammer. Period. It's like buying Quake 3 Arena and not being a fan of deathmatch. Maybe it's your fault for being stupid, maybe its their marketing's fault for not making it clear that Warhammer was primarily a PvP game. Either way, that's not a fault of the game or its design (unless you want to contend that the number of players interested in a PvP MMO simply isn't large enough to sustain a subscriber base, but that's more of an economic problem than a game problem, so to speak).
Oh, and despite WoW's server issues, at the time it was still considered the most successful, stable, polished launch of an MMO in the history of MMO's.
WoW's problem was that it had server issues because too many people wanted to play it because it was great. FF14's issue is that no one wants to play it because it is awful. I hope you can recognize the difference.
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I forgot to clarify that it's called Gamesurge.net now, #11 on the top 100 list you linked.
The time he's referring to is nearly 10 years ago, when it was still called GamesNet, and when AOL was still a relevant ISP. For a while it was the defacto IRC server for Counter-Strike players back when Counter-Strike was pretty much the biggest thing on the internet and IRC was the primary way for organized clans to communicate with each other.
RTFA. This game isn't an FPS it's a sandbox game like GTA3. Everyone who modded this insightful instead of off topic is an idiot and should go back to reddit.
That's because it's not version 1. It's version 7. :P
In all seriousness, they had 3 years to copy the good parts of iPhone and see which pitfalls to avoid.
Except when you're signifying an explicit string that will need to be readable by a computer. I would tend to err on the side of caution lest someone mistake my correct English punctuation for some sort of design intent.
I haven't gotten mod points in like 2 years, either, and I don't post NEARLY as much as you. It's really disappointing. I've even tried things like meta-moderating and re-enabling ads. I wish there was some explanation of how it worked.
And to keep this on topic, Slashdot definitely suffers from groupthink on a lot of issues. While eventually insightful, but dissenting comments may rise up to a 3 or 4 score, they often start off being dropped to 0 with moderations like "overrated" when they don't even have any other moderations yet. They have to climb back up from that which usually takes several hours or sometimes a day or two, and if it's not a particularly popular topic, that might never happen, and very often it doesn't happen until the story is pushed past the top of the front page.
By the time Slashdot's system corrects itself, it's "too late" for the majority of readers (and I guarantee the majority does not browse at 0 or -1 threshold).
It is definitely better than a site like Digg, where literally any political cartoon saying "Republicans are dumb!" is guaranteed to get like 1000 diggs and be on the front page, while any political cartoon saying "Democrats are dumb!" will stay at 0 indefinitely. But it's still far from perfect.
Hey man, how dare you ruin a good troll with a helpful/informative answer?
The book doesn't have Jeff Goldblum!
To be fair, research papers and bibliographies are totally fucking useless for 99% of careers. I really don't understand the purpose of requiring them for anything other than a purely academic career.
The majority of the compromises in the healthcare bill were to get moderate DEMOCRATS to vote on it, not republicans.
The Clerks version was funnier, too.
You do realize that the 50k post thread he's referring to was protesting having people's real names displayed on the forums, and many (not all, but probably the majority) of the people were upset primarily about that factor and not as much about the in-game Real ID system.
I feel the need to explain how the WoW forums work here. Threads are automatically locked every 50 pages. Moderators have to manually unlock the thread to allow them to extend longer. For a 50k post thread to exist, the moderators would have had to manually unlock it over 2000 times. They likely stopped extending the thread either for fear of breaking the forum in some way or because they had already formulated their response and didn't see any further posts as contributing to the discussion.
"Sign of the times"? The only reason my friends and I even bought Diablo 2 was because it had multiplayer, and that was TEN years ago.
First, they don't ban people for that unless they're obvious bitch posts like the previous poster pointed out or if the person is purposefully spamming the forums with threads about it.
Second, they are DELETING threads about it (not banning) because there are already a lot of active threads about it and if there's already an active thread on the first couple pages it's just useless spam to create a ton of new threads about it.
Don't just make shit up about how Blizzard manages their forums. I could make a plainsrunning whine post right now and I would not get even an hour ban (unless there was coincidentally a concerted thread spam campaign going on at the same time and I just got caught in the crossfire). I could probably find a 20+ page thread about it and bump that with whatever complaint I had and my post wouldn't even get deleted. Blizzard's moderation is EXTREMELY lenient as long as you don't spam or post like a total douche.
I'll just leave this here.
It's getting really old for every story even mentioning a Blizzard game getting half filled with people complaining about battle.net 2.0. You don't like it. We get it. There's no reason to make 20 new posts in every story about how you've been buying every Blizzard game for the past 20 years but now you're never going to buy one again because you hate DRM or whatever. The majority of the time these posts are completely off-topic, too.
Seriously, what does this post have to do with the new custom maps discussed at Blizzcon, or anything else discussed at Blizzcon, other than tangentially that they're both related to SC2? What part of the content of this post hasn't been posted 1000 times before in every story even mentioning SC2 -- or WoW -- in the past year? Not to mention the fact that one of the things you specifically mentioned, chat channels, is a feature they've been promising to add for almost just as long.
Get over it.
That only proves the viewers are stupider, not that the news itself is any more or less false/slanted than the other stations.
I'm going to have to say off the bat, that if you're not a fan of PvP, you should not have bought Warhammer. Period. It's like buying Quake 3 Arena and not being a fan of deathmatch. Maybe it's your fault for being stupid, maybe its their marketing's fault for not making it clear that Warhammer was primarily a PvP game. Either way, that's not a fault of the game or its design (unless you want to contend that the number of players interested in a PvP MMO simply isn't large enough to sustain a subscriber base, but that's more of an economic problem than a game problem, so to speak).
I take it your password isn't "Bosco".
I purposefully used relative terms rather than absolute.
So your super power is destroying ideas/concepts?
Oh, and despite WoW's server issues, at the time it was still considered the most successful, stable, polished launch of an MMO in the history of MMO's.
WoW's problem was that it had server issues because too many people wanted to play it because it was great. FF14's issue is that no one wants to play it because it is awful. I hope you can recognize the difference.