UIpdate from mmo-champion.com: "The next unlock will happen on January 5th, if each wing is unlocked after a month it means that we won't see Arthas before April but if I had to give my opinion I would say that it will probably be faster than that. The 4 weeks are probably here to let people test the rest of the content without focusing too much on raid instances."
So there you have it folks, they're giving themselves plenty of time to harvest those delicious greenbacks without updating the content at all. If MMOs are supposed to be constantly evolving persistent worlds, WoW now wins the award for consistently stagnant persistent world.
The "other content" they're referring to are the 5-player dungeons, but those will just get toasted by the end of the week.
If you want to remain playing WoW, you might want to consider putting a dent in Blizzard's coffers by cancelling your subscription at least until the new raid zone is fully released on normal difficulty.
Patch 3.3 is Blizzard's big squeeze for subscription cash before the next expansion. Each wing past the first wing of the raid dungeon is locked out on a real-time timer such that the dungeon incrementally opens. What's worse, is the final boss of each wing has an attempt count which also increases linearly as more wings open. All this is to forcefully stop well-coordinated teams of players from beating the dungeon quickly, and I don't just mean in one week. There are guilds out there who are capable of beating this thing in a couple months in about the 50th percentile of raiding guilds, but with the harsh attempt count on the bosses of each wing it will most likely lock these guilds out for more than that, keeping the subscription cash flowing longer than it needs to. To top it all off, hard modes won't be accessible until the whole dungeon is cleared, and when that happens, they're granting all players a buff to their statistics to make it easier to beat the dungeon. That last one is to deliver the psychological feeling of accomplishment to players who would have otherwise ended their subscriptions, in order to make it seem like the game is still fun for them to keep their subscription dollars coming in.
Blizzard has gotten so addicted to the high revenues that they're willing to implement game mechanics based around keeping people subscribing with minimal content updates. As a result, I've cancelled my subscription and I can safely say I won't be returning to Azeroth again -- ever.
As Auxis alluded to below, you can simply write a hack to tell the game that gameguard is running when it's not. These hacks are readily available for Lineage II (and I suspect almost every other game popular enough to warrant them), so all gameguard does is treat the gamer like a criminal while doing little to actually prevent unauthorized use.
Well their key must be in the executable somewhere if it works through some type of encryption. Find it, change it, and then make a fake steam server which unlocks the game.
Nobody's going to fear losing to a computer when we integrate the technology into our own brains. Perhaps the desire to best computers at go and chess will be an accelerator for this next step in our evolution.
Flooding peer to peer networks with software agents that appear to be downloading copyrighted content but which actually never accept a bit of the content might constitute a clever denial of service attack on these enforcement agencies. Of course, it's just a thought I had -- one that might not really work.
If kids don't learn a lot about violence, death, and loss, I wager it'll prepare people more for a career in murder. Without first fully experiencing the complex emotions behind these concepts, I would imagine killing would actually be easier at first, and easier to convince somebody to do! This is a little extreme in the context of this sesame street story, but kids need some exposure to tough concepts early in life. They don't need very much, but just a little bit. Too much probably has a desensetizing effect which could lead to the same behavioral outcome in the right conditions. This is the end of my armchair psychologizing!
The system in this anecdote was a high-end, AMD-based notebook. I can't remember the exact spec's (is that a valid contraction? "specs" just seems so dirty).
I opened 27 Internet Explorer windows with msn.com inside, resized them all randomly, and then jammed away at the keyboard -- rapidly mashing the keys responsible for Flip3D! In short order, Windows Explorer crashed and the snazzy new error reporting system appeared.
An important point to make about GIMP vs. Photoshop is GIMP has support for all the features you need to do great artwork: layers, brushes, masks, and some great filters. The artist always remains more important than the tool and anybody who understands visual design principles will excel with GIMP just as well as Photoshop. Knowledge is more important than the tools; I like this article's body more than its introduction.
I am going to be very broad here, but being a working American citizen, I know that most of us must work 40 hours a week to pay off massive debts. After the day is done, are we just too tired to think?
And these are just a few major examples. You have to convince these types of companies to port to Linux before you'll draw the professional audio crowd. I wish it could happen!
It would work just fine if everyone had surround receivers. The problem is the equipment is still prohibitively expensive for the non-enthusiast and there are an overwhelming number of people listening to compressed tunes with iPods now.
Is it just me or does anyone else think that there really isn't a "Search Engine War" going on? All these dumb articles keep talking about searches competing but people seem to just discover the search engine they use most by chance when they start using the web and stick with it.
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The Fellowship in Ultima VII The Black Gate has detailed rituals, songs, example services, etc... You even get to go through the initiation rituals to join at one point and interact with other believers and hear stories about how it's affected their virtual lives.
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UIpdate from mmo-champion.com: "The next unlock will happen on January 5th, if each wing is unlocked after a month it means that we won't see Arthas before April but if I had to give my opinion I would say that it will probably be faster than that. The 4 weeks are probably here to let people test the rest of the content without focusing too much on raid instances."
So there you have it folks, they're giving themselves plenty of time to harvest those delicious greenbacks without updating the content at all. If MMOs are supposed to be constantly evolving persistent worlds, WoW now wins the award for consistently stagnant persistent world.
The "other content" they're referring to are the 5-player dungeons, but those will just get toasted by the end of the week.
If you want to remain playing WoW, you might want to consider putting a dent in Blizzard's coffers by cancelling your subscription at least until the new raid zone is fully released on normal difficulty.
Patch 3.3 is Blizzard's big squeeze for subscription cash before the next expansion. Each wing past the first wing of the raid dungeon is locked out on a real-time timer such that the dungeon incrementally opens. What's worse, is the final boss of each wing has an attempt count which also increases linearly as more wings open. All this is to forcefully stop well-coordinated teams of players from beating the dungeon quickly, and I don't just mean in one week. There are guilds out there who are capable of beating this thing in a couple months in about the 50th percentile of raiding guilds, but with the harsh attempt count on the bosses of each wing it will most likely lock these guilds out for more than that, keeping the subscription cash flowing longer than it needs to. To top it all off, hard modes won't be accessible until the whole dungeon is cleared, and when that happens, they're granting all players a buff to their statistics to make it easier to beat the dungeon. That last one is to deliver the psychological feeling of accomplishment to players who would have otherwise ended their subscriptions, in order to make it seem like the game is still fun for them to keep their subscription dollars coming in.
Blizzard has gotten so addicted to the high revenues that they're willing to implement game mechanics based around keeping people subscribing with minimal content updates. As a result, I've cancelled my subscription and I can safely say I won't be returning to Azeroth again -- ever.
As Auxis alluded to below, you can simply write a hack to tell the game that gameguard is running when it's not. These hacks are readily available for Lineage II (and I suspect almost every other game popular enough to warrant them), so all gameguard does is treat the gamer like a criminal while doing little to actually prevent unauthorized use.
Well their key must be in the executable somewhere if it works through some type of encryption. Find it, change it, and then make a fake steam server which unlocks the game.
Nobody's going to fear losing to a computer when we integrate the technology into our own brains. Perhaps the desire to best computers at go and chess will be an accelerator for this next step in our evolution.
Flooding peer to peer networks with software agents that appear to be downloading copyrighted content but which actually never accept a bit of the content might constitute a clever denial of service attack on these enforcement agencies. Of course, it's just a thought I had -- one that might not really work.
Deliberately producing files that cannot be easily copied also constitutes crippleware.
I was probably able to crash it because of a driver issue somewhere.
If kids don't learn a lot about violence, death, and loss, I wager it'll prepare people more for a career in murder. Without first fully experiencing the complex emotions behind these concepts, I would imagine killing would actually be easier at first, and easier to convince somebody to do! This is a little extreme in the context of this sesame street story, but kids need some exposure to tough concepts early in life. They don't need very much, but just a little bit. Too much probably has a desensetizing effect which could lead to the same behavioral outcome in the right conditions. This is the end of my armchair psychologizing!
The system in this anecdote was a high-end, AMD-based notebook. I can't remember the exact spec's (is that a valid contraction? "specs" just seems so dirty).
I opened 27 Internet Explorer windows with msn.com inside, resized them all randomly, and then jammed away at the keyboard -- rapidly mashing the keys responsible for Flip3D! In short order, Windows Explorer crashed and the snazzy new error reporting system appeared.
An important point to make about GIMP vs. Photoshop is GIMP has support for all the features you need to do great artwork: layers, brushes, masks, and some great filters. The artist always remains more important than the tool and anybody who understands visual design principles will excel with GIMP just as well as Photoshop. Knowledge is more important than the tools; I like this article's body more than its introduction.
I am going to be very broad here, but being a working American citizen, I know that most of us must work 40 hours a week to pay off massive debts. After the day is done, are we just too tired to think?
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That's not aimed at gamers, though. Maybe they meant it was the first card made for gamers.
Robert Duffy's 10/15/04 .plan reveals that Doom3 will already take advantage of the 512MB cards at the "Ultra" quality setting.
Barely any commercial vendors write VST plugins or multitrack host environments for them.
Examples of things you can only find on Windows/Mac:
Cubase (www.steinberg.net)
Logic (www.apple.com/logic)
ReFX (www.refx.net)
Albino2 (www.linplug.com)
NI: (www.native-instruments.com)
And these are just a few major examples. You have to convince these types of companies to port to Linux before you'll draw the professional audio crowd. I wish it could happen!
It would work just fine if everyone had surround receivers. The problem is the equipment is still prohibitively expensive for the non-enthusiast and there are an overwhelming number of people listening to compressed tunes with iPods now.
Fleet ATMs use OS/2 Warp. ;) Not that it's really ... pertinent to this discussion.
How long before Radioshack sues them for trademark?
Little chance. You'd have to know what bot it was you were playing against, and the algorithm inside out.
Is it just me or does anyone else think that there really isn't a "Search Engine War" going on? All these dumb articles keep talking about searches competing but people seem to just discover the search engine they use most by chance when they start using the web and stick with it.
The Fellowship in Ultima VII The Black Gate has detailed rituals, songs, example services, etc... You even get to go through the initiation rituals to join at one point and interact with other believers and hear stories about how it's affected their virtual lives.
Holy shit, I made this whiskey sour way too strong!
refer to this post too!
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Winamp 2.0 + some features of 3.0 = WINAMP 5! 2+3=5!
This makes perfect sense unlike Sun and Netscape!