I'm getting really tired of this myth being repeated all the time. Unless your vision is TERRIBLE, you can totally perceive FPS higher than 30. Just because people don't realize why something looks "weird" or "different" doesn't mean they're not perceiving the higher frames. Just look at all the reviews and posts complaining about the high frame rate version of The Hobbit. If people couldn't perceive those extra frames, they wouldn't be complaining that it "looked too real" or "like a soap opera."
The reason companies aren't going to go for 60 FPS on new hardware is because high frame rates don't make for fancy screenshots, and their mentality is still that pretty screen shots sell games (and they're probably right). When they can spend that pixel bandwidth doubling the textures or whatever to make pretty screenshots, and still hit 30 FPS, that's what they're going to do.
Seems likely they'd be working from some kind of technical manual/specs (either fan made or licensed extended universe stuff) rather than just going by visible movie props.
Because Nintendo Power was an integral part of a lot of people's childhoods. Before the internet became a thing, it was one of the few ways to get maps, guides, cheats, and codes for Nintendo games. It's not about the magazine being relevant, or even very good; it's about nostalgia.
The Blizzard forums use the exact same authentication method as the game. I guess you can argue that people don't realize that logging into the forums on a public computer (like at a library or school computer lab) is dangerous, but I think Blizzard's time would be better spent educating users of that danger than making the user's life more difficult by having to manage two separate logins for the forums and for their account access, and setting up all the required software and hardware on their end to handle that change.
Security wouldn't be an issue for Diablo 3 if you could play the fucking game offline.
False. If you could play Diablo 3 offline and on LAN, there would still be a significant portion of the population that would want to play it on the battle.net servers. Just like Diablo 2. And those people would still need to have these security concerns addressed.
It's more like they have free wifi on the bus, but you have to pay for your own laptop or smart phone to access the free wifi, and they also offer to sell you a laptop that only browses the internet on their bus wifi for $50. But it's still a fucking laptop that cost the bus company like $400 or more.
It doesn't create revenue for Blizzard, but it does greatly reduce their support ticket volume (by directly reducing the number of compromised accounts) which allows them to hire less support staff to handle it which reduces their support overhead. There is no doubt in my mind, that despite the fact that they probably LOSE tons of money on authenticators, they "make it back" in spades saving on support costs. But this is a GOOD THING. Players who get their accounts compromised often just use it as an excuse to quit, and for those who don't quit, no matter how helpful customer support is, it's still a really shitty experience and it still takes time out of your game playing.
In the end, it's a net positive for both Blizzard and the consumer.
Almost no one is going to get their battle.net account compromised due to lack of case sensitivity in passwords. It's because they do things like make their password "password1", or (primarily) because their forum account on a completely different gaming related website got compromised and they use the same email and password for WoW that they do for that forum, or their email account got compromised, or they fell for a phishing scam. If someone is lifting your password from another site or from a phishing scam, it literally does not matter what your password is because the attacker is going to have it, mixed case and all.
I would wager almost no one loses their account to brute force attacks. It's almost entirely social engineering or compromised external sites where they use the same passwords or trojans/keyloggers. Guild forums especially often run on very old and/or insecure forum software that's often compromised for years with no one realizing it.
I think it'll be harder next time. They'll look at the Wii in their closet and maybe think it was a more expensive investment than they should have made for the entertainment they got out of it, and not want to fork over the $300 for a new Wii U or Xbox 3 (if it has built-in Kinect type controls) on top of whatever the new fad game is. We'll see, though.
There are two types of Wii purchasers. Regular gamers who probably would have bought whatever Nintendo console had come out (as long as it wasn't total garbage) and the rest of the public, whom I've labeled as casual gamers, who under normal circumstances would not have bought any kind of game console at all. The second group are the ones who bought it as a fad. They're not going to buy what I would consider the good games on Wii. They played the party game and mini game collections and maybe the exercise or dancing games and that's it. They didn't play anything you would consider a "traditional" game like Zelda. Nintendo makes some great games. The people who bought the Wii as a fad played none of them.
People keep conflating casual gamers with actual gamers. Casual gamers bought the Wii as a fad. They had their little Wii parties. They bought Wii Fit and no other games. After about 6 months when the fad died down they put the Wii in the closet and forgot about it. This is the same demographic whose only other games are Angry Birds, Farmville, and Words With Friends. They might have owned an NES when they were 10 years old, or maybe their older sibling's hand-me-down PlayStation 1, but they never bought their own games, they have no retail PC games, they don't have Steam installed, they don't own a full sized PC, and they certain don't own a PS3 or Xbox 360. If they are parents, they might have bought a console for their kid, but they only use it for NetFlix.
This casual gamer demographic caused a massive spike in sales from the Wii fad, and a tiny spike from the smaller follow-up Kinect fad, but it's unlikely they'll buy any consoles in the upcoming generation, and that's fine. If the console manufacturers were relying on them for their own projections, then that's their mistake from not understanding their audience. It doesn't mean consoles are dead. The core gamer demographic is still going to buy consoles, and still going to grow slowly and steadily. Maybe some other fad will come along and give them a similar spike, but they would be fools to rely on it in their business model.
I realize it's difficult to record a phone call, but I literally can't understand anything the telemarketer is saying in the video due to the audio quality.
This isn't a review. It's a summary of the game and a list of PC issues fixed (or not fixed) from the first one. Only the very last paragraph constitutes anything resembling a review, and it boils down to "if you liked the first one, you'll probably like this one" without expanding on why that is.
Also, I'm not sure how being on the UT3 engine justifies having a bad inventory/quest UI as you imply. I've played plenty of UT3 engine games that had good quest/inventory or similar screens. It has a bad inventory/quest UI because they were designed for a controller and a TV screen resolution, and not properly modified/replaced for PC. UT3 has nothing to do with it.
Why would it be secret information? What could it possibly be used for? Just because you mistakenly thought it was some kind of secret information doesn't mean it actually was.
They were originally TGA, and you can still create TGA screenshots. They changed them to JPG by default for user convenience. Most WoW users are not computer savvy enough to convert their own screenshots.
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I'm getting really tired of this myth being repeated all the time. Unless your vision is TERRIBLE, you can totally perceive FPS higher than 30. Just because people don't realize why something looks "weird" or "different" doesn't mean they're not perceiving the higher frames. Just look at all the reviews and posts complaining about the high frame rate version of The Hobbit. If people couldn't perceive those extra frames, they wouldn't be complaining that it "looked too real" or "like a soap opera."
The reason companies aren't going to go for 60 FPS on new hardware is because high frame rates don't make for fancy screenshots, and their mentality is still that pretty screen shots sell games (and they're probably right). When they can spend that pixel bandwidth doubling the textures or whatever to make pretty screenshots, and still hit 30 FPS, that's what they're going to do.
We can't shoot it down or destroy it without risking an international incident.
Have you played since 1.06? All the work has basically been done. It's pretty awesome right now.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Seems likely they'd be working from some kind of technical manual/specs (either fan made or licensed extended universe stuff) rather than just going by visible movie props.
So they can get 0.1% of the share of Gamespot, IGN, GameTrailers, GameFAQs, etc.'s pie? What would be the point?
Because Nintendo Power was an integral part of a lot of people's childhoods. Before the internet became a thing, it was one of the few ways to get maps, guides, cheats, and codes for Nintendo games. It's not about the magazine being relevant, or even very good; it's about nostalgia.
Sorry, no one in the state government has stock in that company, so it'll never get traction.
The Blizzard forums use the exact same authentication method as the game. I guess you can argue that people don't realize that logging into the forums on a public computer (like at a library or school computer lab) is dangerous, but I think Blizzard's time would be better spent educating users of that danger than making the user's life more difficult by having to manage two separate logins for the forums and for their account access, and setting up all the required software and hardware on their end to handle that change.
Every time I see someone refer to Assassin's Creed 3 as "AC3" I read "Asheron's Call 3" in my head.
False. If you could play Diablo 3 offline and on LAN, there would still be a significant portion of the population that would want to play it on the battle.net servers. Just like Diablo 2. And those people would still need to have these security concerns addressed.
It's more like they have free wifi on the bus, but you have to pay for your own laptop or smart phone to access the free wifi, and they also offer to sell you a laptop that only browses the internet on their bus wifi for $50. But it's still a fucking laptop that cost the bus company like $400 or more.
It doesn't create revenue for Blizzard, but it does greatly reduce their support ticket volume (by directly reducing the number of compromised accounts) which allows them to hire less support staff to handle it which reduces their support overhead. There is no doubt in my mind, that despite the fact that they probably LOSE tons of money on authenticators, they "make it back" in spades saving on support costs. But this is a GOOD THING. Players who get their accounts compromised often just use it as an excuse to quit, and for those who don't quit, no matter how helpful customer support is, it's still a really shitty experience and it still takes time out of your game playing.
In the end, it's a net positive for both Blizzard and the consumer.
Almost no one is going to get their battle.net account compromised due to lack of case sensitivity in passwords. It's because they do things like make their password "password1", or (primarily) because their forum account on a completely different gaming related website got compromised and they use the same email and password for WoW that they do for that forum, or their email account got compromised, or they fell for a phishing scam. If someone is lifting your password from another site or from a phishing scam, it literally does not matter what your password is because the attacker is going to have it, mixed case and all.
I would wager almost no one loses their account to brute force attacks. It's almost entirely social engineering or compromised external sites where they use the same passwords or trojans/keyloggers. Guild forums especially often run on very old and/or insecure forum software that's often compromised for years with no one realizing it.
How is this term at all antiquated or even at all inaccurate for this situation?
I think it'll be harder next time. They'll look at the Wii in their closet and maybe think it was a more expensive investment than they should have made for the entertainment they got out of it, and not want to fork over the $300 for a new Wii U or Xbox 3 (if it has built-in Kinect type controls) on top of whatever the new fad game is. We'll see, though.
That's basically the point I was trying to convey.
There are two types of Wii purchasers. Regular gamers who probably would have bought whatever Nintendo console had come out (as long as it wasn't total garbage) and the rest of the public, whom I've labeled as casual gamers, who under normal circumstances would not have bought any kind of game console at all. The second group are the ones who bought it as a fad. They're not going to buy what I would consider the good games on Wii. They played the party game and mini game collections and maybe the exercise or dancing games and that's it. They didn't play anything you would consider a "traditional" game like Zelda. Nintendo makes some great games. The people who bought the Wii as a fad played none of them.
People keep conflating casual gamers with actual gamers. Casual gamers bought the Wii as a fad. They had their little Wii parties. They bought Wii Fit and no other games. After about 6 months when the fad died down they put the Wii in the closet and forgot about it. This is the same demographic whose only other games are Angry Birds, Farmville, and Words With Friends. They might have owned an NES when they were 10 years old, or maybe their older sibling's hand-me-down PlayStation 1, but they never bought their own games, they have no retail PC games, they don't have Steam installed, they don't own a full sized PC, and they certain don't own a PS3 or Xbox 360. If they are parents, they might have bought a console for their kid, but they only use it for NetFlix.
This casual gamer demographic caused a massive spike in sales from the Wii fad, and a tiny spike from the smaller follow-up Kinect fad, but it's unlikely they'll buy any consoles in the upcoming generation, and that's fine. If the console manufacturers were relying on them for their own projections, then that's their mistake from not understanding their audience. It doesn't mean consoles are dead. The core gamer demographic is still going to buy consoles, and still going to grow slowly and steadily. Maybe some other fad will come along and give them a similar spike, but they would be fools to rely on it in their business model.
I realize it's difficult to record a phone call, but I literally can't understand anything the telemarketer is saying in the video due to the audio quality.
This isn't a review. It's a summary of the game and a list of PC issues fixed (or not fixed) from the first one. Only the very last paragraph constitutes anything resembling a review, and it boils down to "if you liked the first one, you'll probably like this one" without expanding on why that is.
Also, I'm not sure how being on the UT3 engine justifies having a bad inventory/quest UI as you imply. I've played plenty of UT3 engine games that had good quest/inventory or similar screens. It has a bad inventory/quest UI because they were designed for a controller and a TV screen resolution, and not properly modified/replaced for PC. UT3 has nothing to do with it.
Nerdfest is talking about Canadian teachers, not Chicago teachers.
Why would it be secret information? What could it possibly be used for? Just because you mistakenly thought it was some kind of secret information doesn't mean it actually was.
Ah, that makes sense.
They were originally TGA, and you can still create TGA screenshots. They changed them to JPG by default for user convenience. Most WoW users are not computer savvy enough to convert their own screenshots.