Nitpicking your nitpick: Icecrown is still coming, and 3.0 raiding starts at ilvl 200. We're already at a 58 ilvl gap, and that ignores the hard mode, no wipe chest rewards from Trial of the Grand Crusader. Assuming those are an outlier, if we use Ulduar -> ToC as a guide for ToC -> Icecrown, we're still going to see 26 more ilvls (at least) for 84 total. Even if we say 3.0 raiding starts at ilvl 213, that's still 71 ilvls for this expansion vs. 49 last time.
It's moot anyway, because like I said, they can just arbitrarily set the 4.0 max level tier wherever they feel it needs to be.
Yet there's still a massive single player component to the game, for which many will buy it alone, and people in rural areas on dial up are now such a severe minority that your dollars will likely not be missed.
- Good gear: Your T8-grade gear, which many seem to have access to now, will make great leveling gear. I'd be surprised if you couldn't do l85 dungeons in a lot of them. (except as a tank, I imagine)
You mean like how I was still wearing T6 when I started raiding Naxx25? You mean like how people in T2.5/T3 were still wearing it when they started raiding Karazahn?
Not to mention that if the Trial of the Grand Crusader gear is any indication, we're already in the middle of the most ridiculous gear inflation in the history of WoW. "Valorous" T8 to "Heroic" T9 gear is a bigger gap than even T4 -> Sunwell gear.
In other words, high end raiding gear was already "great leveling gear", so your statement is pretty meaningless to begin with, and secondly, gear scales however they want it to scale because they can just do massive item level jumps whenever they feel like it. The first item you get from the first quest in Cataclysm could be 10x as good as the best item from Arthas' 25 man Heroic mode loot table, if they wanted, just through simple item level inflation, because item levels are not at all tied to player level.
"Only 5 levels" is literally meaningless for "how useful your current gear is for leveling". It's however useful they decide to make it (which historically tends to be pretty good if you're doing the very high end stuff). Period.
The way I wish the classes were built is the way pokemon balance is built. Water - Fire - Grass - Electric - Water..and so on. I don't know how well balanced those games are nor do I know the full details of the "classes" but the type of balance the devs tried to achieve is much more fun than that of WoW.
The reason this works for pokemon and not for WoW, is that in pokemon you are a single player with multiple characters are your disposal which you can swap at will (for a slight cost). In WoW, it'd be as if you were playing *as* one of those pokemon, with no ability to swap to another type. When playing by yourself, you would ALWAYS lose to your counter no matter how good you were or how good your gear was. That's the "pokemon balance", and while it might work well on paper, the fact is it is not *fun*.
If WoW was about one player controlling a five man team of varied classes, then your idea might have merit.
The only thing they have specifically said they don't balance for in PvP is 1v1. Just look at the patch notes for the past 2 years and you'll see plenty of balance changes that were obviously aimed at 2v2 and/or 3v3, and had little effect on 5v5. In fact, since most cash tournaments are 3v3, it's more likely they target 3v3 for the majority of balance effort than 5v5. It was only very recently (as in, a month or two) that Blizzard have started to purposefully diminish 2v2 by removing a lot of the absolute high-end incentives and rewards that 95% of people who play 2v2 won't ever get anyway, simply because they felt they *were* spending too much time working on balance issues for 2v2.
I've been playing WoW since 2004 and know basically everything there is to know about the game, and I have no fucking clue what a "dudu" is. Do you play on European servers or something?
Although there is some overlap, not all RTS players play WoW and vice versa. And it's not like most WoW players are suddenly going to stop playing it after 5 years just because Starcraft 2 was released. They'll play both, if anything.
Battle.net is not an "external requirement". It's a core part of the gameplay for a LOT of Blizzard's customers. There is a not-insignificant portion of Blizzard's customer base that will be online doing ranked matches the day the game is released without even playing the single player first. And an even greater portion that will want to at least try going online within the first couple days of purchase. If Battle.net is not up because it's not ready or unable to handle the load, it'll be an even bigger customer relations disaster than simply delaying the game could ever be.
He's confusing CD key checks with checking that your disc is in the drive. The removal of the latter is actually only a somewhat recent occurrence, coinciding with allowing people to download games they already own from the Blizzard Store (now part of the new Battle.net) by entering their CD key online.
He could have been arrested for jay walking with a 10 year maximum prison sentence and arresting him would still not be morally equivalent to putting someone on a train Auschwitz.
He will have a fair trial, likely with a jury of his peers if he chooses to fight it, and, if it really is "some kid tinkering with his console" either get acquitted or, at worst, some probation, a fine, or community service. If only the Jews in Poland had received that much "moral wrongness"...
Being rewritten for clarity in GPLv3 just reinforces the intent of the clause in GPLv2. As stated by others, the web in general is a customary medium for software exchange.
The "spirit" of the GPL is being able to see how something was coded and tinker with it. That's it. There is no "spirit of getting everything you want for free (as in beer) just because you went through the hassle of downloading and compiling the source" in the GPL.
The fact that another iphone dev. could use part or all of his source to create a new GPL iphone app/game, and the fact that any user could look at the source and potentially submit patches/fixes/enhancements that the primary maintainer could add to the official version, are enough to qualify the game as being completely within the spirit (and letter) of the GPL.
Just because end users have to pay to play it on their iphone does not make it non-GPL, and is more a statement about the Apple Store system than it is about the developers of the app. or the GPL in general.
They are bad. But they don't lead to the destruction of our civilization or even our culture, definitely not our species, and most of them would likely happen anyway for some other arbitrary reason, just like all our other wars.
but the point is that it wouldn't be great for human civilization.
Bullshit. Sure there'd be some period of adjustment (meaning, deaths, wars, starvation), but after that, I don't see why humans can't thrive in a 25C planet.
Yeah but when you haven't written in cursive for the past 8 years of your life (other than your own signature) you forget things. Like how to draw a cursive capital "G".
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Nitpicking your nitpick: Icecrown is still coming, and 3.0 raiding starts at ilvl 200. We're already at a 58 ilvl gap, and that ignores the hard mode, no wipe chest rewards from Trial of the Grand Crusader. Assuming those are an outlier, if we use Ulduar -> ToC as a guide for ToC -> Icecrown, we're still going to see 26 more ilvls (at least) for 84 total. Even if we say 3.0 raiding starts at ilvl 213, that's still 71 ilvls for this expansion vs. 49 last time.
It's moot anyway, because like I said, they can just arbitrarily set the 4.0 max level tier wherever they feel it needs to be.
To help reinforce his point: Diablo - The originator of Battle.net. 13 years old and still supported by Blizzard.
Yet there's still a massive single player component to the game, for which many will buy it alone, and people in rural areas on dial up are now such a severe minority that your dollars will likely not be missed.
You mean like how I was still wearing T6 when I started raiding Naxx25? You mean like how people in T2.5/T3 were still wearing it when they started raiding Karazahn?
Not to mention that if the Trial of the Grand Crusader gear is any indication, we're already in the middle of the most ridiculous gear inflation in the history of WoW. "Valorous" T8 to "Heroic" T9 gear is a bigger gap than even T4 -> Sunwell gear.
In other words, high end raiding gear was already "great leveling gear", so your statement is pretty meaningless to begin with, and secondly, gear scales however they want it to scale because they can just do massive item level jumps whenever they feel like it. The first item you get from the first quest in Cataclysm could be 10x as good as the best item from Arthas' 25 man Heroic mode loot table, if they wanted, just through simple item level inflation, because item levels are not at all tied to player level.
"Only 5 levels" is literally meaningless for "how useful your current gear is for leveling". It's however useful they decide to make it (which historically tends to be pretty good if you're doing the very high end stuff). Period.
Oops, accidentally posted AC.
The reason this works for pokemon and not for WoW, is that in pokemon you are a single player with multiple characters are your disposal which you can swap at will (for a slight cost). In WoW, it'd be as if you were playing *as* one of those pokemon, with no ability to swap to another type. When playing by yourself, you would ALWAYS lose to your counter no matter how good you were or how good your gear was. That's the "pokemon balance", and while it might work well on paper, the fact is it is not *fun*.
If WoW was about one player controlling a five man team of varied classes, then your idea might have merit.
The only thing they have specifically said they don't balance for in PvP is 1v1. Just look at the patch notes for the past 2 years and you'll see plenty of balance changes that were obviously aimed at 2v2 and/or 3v3, and had little effect on 5v5. In fact, since most cash tournaments are 3v3, it's more likely they target 3v3 for the majority of balance effort than 5v5. It was only very recently (as in, a month or two) that Blizzard have started to purposefully diminish 2v2 by removing a lot of the absolute high-end incentives and rewards that 95% of people who play 2v2 won't ever get anyway, simply because they felt they *were* spending too much time working on balance issues for 2v2.
How'd that work out for Lineage 2? Oh wait.
This guy is right. Too bad I haven't gotten mod points in like 3 months. :(
I've been playing WoW since 2004 and know basically everything there is to know about the game, and I have no fucking clue what a "dudu" is. Do you play on European servers or something?
So how is this different than WC3? Doesn't that mean your complaint is now 8 years old, and has nothing to do with SC2's lack of LAN capability?
Then why did you buy SC1 or WC3? Those were $50 on release, too. You did pay for every copy in your house, right?
Although there is some overlap, not all RTS players play WoW and vice versa. And it's not like most WoW players are suddenly going to stop playing it after 5 years just because Starcraft 2 was released. They'll play both, if anything.
Battle.net is not an "external requirement". It's a core part of the gameplay for a LOT of Blizzard's customers. There is a not-insignificant portion of Blizzard's customer base that will be online doing ranked matches the day the game is released without even playing the single player first. And an even greater portion that will want to at least try going online within the first couple days of purchase. If Battle.net is not up because it's not ready or unable to handle the load, it'll be an even bigger customer relations disaster than simply delaying the game could ever be.
He's confusing CD key checks with checking that your disc is in the drive. The removal of the latter is actually only a somewhat recent occurrence, coinciding with allowing people to download games they already own from the Blizzard Store (now part of the new Battle.net) by entering their CD key online.
Still not as bad as the holocaust. You still lose.
He could have been arrested for jay walking with a 10 year maximum prison sentence and arresting him would still not be morally equivalent to putting someone on a train Auschwitz.
He will have a fair trial, likely with a jury of his peers if he chooses to fight it, and, if it really is "some kid tinkering with his console" either get acquitted or, at worst, some probation, a fine, or community service. If only the Jews in Poland had received that much "moral wrongness"...
Being rewritten for clarity in GPLv3 just reinforces the intent of the clause in GPLv2. As stated by others, the web in general is a customary medium for software exchange.
The "spirit" of the GPL is being able to see how something was coded and tinker with it. That's it. There is no "spirit of getting everything you want for free (as in beer) just because you went through the hassle of downloading and compiling the source" in the GPL.
The fact that another iphone dev. could use part or all of his source to create a new GPL iphone app/game, and the fact that any user could look at the source and potentially submit patches/fixes/enhancements that the primary maintainer could add to the official version, are enough to qualify the game as being completely within the spirit (and letter) of the GPL.
Just because end users have to pay to play it on their iphone does not make it non-GPL, and is more a statement about the Apple Store system than it is about the developers of the app. or the GPL in general.
Do scales count?
This is the most groan-worthy joke I've read on slashdot in a long time. And that's saying a lot considering the readership.
They are bad. But they don't lead to the destruction of our civilization or even our culture, definitely not our species, and most of them would likely happen anyway for some other arbitrary reason, just like all our other wars.
Bullshit. Sure there'd be some period of adjustment (meaning, deaths, wars, starvation), but after that, I don't see why humans can't thrive in a 25C planet.
You're not even replying to him. You're just pasting text from somewhere else that you think is related. This is such a horrible troll account.
Yeah but when you haven't written in cursive for the past 8 years of your life (other than your own signature) you forget things. Like how to draw a cursive capital "G".