The problem with any current review of this game is that it's based on the beta period of the game. While the final game will probably be almost the same, I'm sure they were holding back content and other things waiting for the live release. As for the boards being removed, I don't really think that was some evil plot to hide negative reviews. The entire beta site was removed and replaced by the launch site yesterday.
I got to play the beta for about the last month and for the most part was enjoying myself. Sure there were bugs, patches, glitches, servers going down, and the one crash to desktop, but it was beta and I expected those sorts of things. I will say that I agree with the people who feel the game is not ready for live release, but that decision was probably not under the control of the developers anymore. Personally, I'd wait to praise of condem this game until it's been out for a month or so and the initial launch problems that come with any game this large are taken care of. I'm sure some people will say that all problems should be taken care of by launch, but then the game would probably never launch at all. Look at EQ, it's been around for several years now, and they still have to patch to fix bugs and game balance issues.
That said, I did find myself getting a little bored doing the UPS routine to earn money to be able to take a shuttle to another planet, and waiting on the shuttles to arrive sucked, but overall I enjoyed playing this game. Like any new large scale game, there are good and bad things to say about it, but I think the game will balance out shortly after launch, and no, I'm not talking about the Force when I say balance.
As one of DanteKy's former coworkers, I know how he feels. I started out in CS for mostly the same reasons and ended up getting burned out and finding other things I like better. Now I'm working on a degree in graphic design. Not entirely away from computers, but I actually enjoy this.
I still hate people though, tech support scars never heal completely.
Once upon a time it could be done with intel as well. I have a Slot 1 BX chipset based intel motherboard that I upgraded over the course of three years without changing anything but the cpu and the heatsink and adding some memory. It started with a Celeron 266 and 128 Megs of RAM.
-Upgraded to a Celeron 333 -Upgraded to a Celeron 433 -Added 384 MB RAM -Upgraded to a P3-800
I bought the board in 1998 and it's still in service now. Of course now it's not as easy to do that with anything intel makes, but one upon a time it could be done. And yes, it was plain old PC-133 SDRAM. Nothing wrong with AMD either, got a 1.3GHz Athlon sitting next to my P4 now.
Of course by adding to HTML they made developing things for the web a bit more of a pain when trying to get things working on both Netscape and IE at the same time.
At a college I attended for a while, one of the labs had a scheme of Star Wars and Star Trek character names. I remember there was a preiod of several weeks when the only two workstations that wouldn't behave and talk to each other were Darth Vader and Yoda.
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The problem with any current review of this game is that it's based on the beta period of the game. While the final game will probably be almost the same, I'm sure they were holding back content and other things waiting for the live release. As for the boards being removed, I don't really think that was some evil plot to hide negative reviews. The entire beta site was removed and replaced by the launch site yesterday.
I got to play the beta for about the last month and for the most part was enjoying myself. Sure there were bugs, patches, glitches, servers going down, and the one crash to desktop, but it was beta and I expected those sorts of things. I will say that I agree with the people who feel the game is not ready for live release, but that decision was probably not under the control of the developers anymore. Personally, I'd wait to praise of condem this game until it's been out for a month or so and the initial launch problems that come with any game this large are taken care of. I'm sure some people will say that all problems should be taken care of by launch, but then the game would probably never launch at all. Look at EQ, it's been around for several years now, and they still have to patch to fix bugs and game balance issues.
That said, I did find myself getting a little bored doing the UPS routine to earn money to be able to take a shuttle to another planet, and waiting on the shuttles to arrive sucked, but overall I enjoyed playing this game. Like any new large scale game, there are good and bad things to say about it, but I think the game will balance out shortly after launch, and no, I'm not talking about the Force when I say balance.
As one of DanteKy's former coworkers, I know how he feels. I started out in CS for mostly the same reasons and ended up getting burned out and finding other things I like better. Now I'm working on a degree in graphic design. Not entirely away from computers, but I actually enjoy this.
I still hate people though, tech support scars never heal completely.
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Once upon a time it could be done with intel as well. I have a Slot 1 BX chipset based intel motherboard that I upgraded over the course of three years without changing anything but the cpu and the heatsink and adding some memory. It started with a Celeron 266 and 128 Megs of RAM.
-Upgraded to a Celeron 333
-Upgraded to a Celeron 433
-Added 384 MB RAM
-Upgraded to a P3-800
I bought the board in 1998 and it's still in service now. Of course now it's not as easy to do that with anything intel makes, but one upon a time it could be done. And yes, it was plain old PC-133 SDRAM. Nothing wrong with AMD either, got a 1.3GHz Athlon sitting next to my P4 now.
Of course by adding to HTML they made developing things for the web a bit more of a pain when trying to get things working on both Netscape and IE at the same time.
At a college I attended for a while, one of the labs had a scheme of Star Wars and Star Trek character names. I remember there was a preiod of several weeks when the only two workstations that wouldn't behave and talk to each other were Darth Vader and Yoda.