THe Matrix Online is majorly story driven.... or is was meant to be, but SOE keeps stalling the story since there takeover of the game (which WBIE still supply the content for).
1 year after going live and we're about 5-6 months into the story:)
Aether, is that you ?? but seriously... content, MxO, expect more.... HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! oh yeah, welcome to the S&M club, you'll find its more fun to go find people to humiliate you, and it can be done for free, not the US$15 monthly SOE is charging:)
I have the same thing, I just want the MCE machine to fill in the PVR section, everything can play through the xbmx XBMC setup:) (after automatic conversion)
After much thought, investigation and frustration with Snapstream, I'm building a fairly similar setup with MCE as you have listed (but less HDD space & one tuner for now), but after checking out things here http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/ , I discovered you can indeed recompress the video files overnight, get a working EPG for Australia (something that the tv stations don't like) and various other things (the best was a dual login setup from http://www.thegreenbutton.com/community/shwmessage .aspx?ForumID=42&MessageID=89492&TopicPage=1 for having the MCE interface working on the console (machine) and a teminal (remote) interface active from the same machine)
But have a check around and see if you can overcome your little quirks, every media-pc setup has some.
Personally, my MCE is for record/recompress/torrent/dvd-burning only, mostly from a remote computer, all the output will be played via XBMC from a softmodded xbox:) so hopefully my WAF will go through the roof!
Between Ralph 'The customer makes the content' Koster & John Smeedley... SOE is rapidly getting a bad rep (getting ???), not only for SW:G, but with The Matrix Online, which they are keeping running to get the DC Comics MMO...
Hell, I'll just buy it as soon as I can, as being a year long player on the shining turd that is Matrix Online, I'll happily drop it to play Stargate, one of my favorite Sci-Fi shows:)
As long as SOE have nothing to do with it, I'll happily pay tomorrow for a copy.
And now that SOE manage The Matrix Online, with its 'content' (Live events, as was promised to further the story) on hold (because SOE won't pay for a dedicated Live Events Team), and now we are getting a Combat Upgrade (which was only announced after the SOE move)...
I'm so scared!!!!
Coming for Xmas: The Matrix Online: NGE... now you too can start as Neo!
either way, 5.5 Million copys sold is still a huge aceivment for MMO games... I suspect that EA can say the same thing about UO, but thats only because they have released an update to purchase every year, and sometimes twice yearly.
WoW probably stil has the biggest currently running subscriptions for a Western (non-asian) MMO.
So they launch in N America, and sell out compleatly, befoer they release it to the rest of the world ? I'd just call it pigheadedness to get out first.
XB360 will not be for sale in Australia until late Feb/March, and just avalible now in Europe & Japan.
I wouldn't call that a fast worldwide release. Just plain stupidity & greed to get 360 out for xmas.
P.S. I'm not buying one until they hack them and get XBMC running H.234 videos running smoothly in at least SD on it.
SOE really don't seem to be able to find there a$$ with both hands, lets see,
EQ2.. shut down SWG... Still suffering badly after 2 years MxO after moving... every patch seems to cause more problems than before, moving was awful, seems everytime they took down the servers it took 50% longer than what they thought to get it back up, with or without the patch, and the Live Events team doesn't exist, its mearly the Dev's doing double shifts.
Lets face it, SOE don't know what they are doing and have helped me realise WoW isn't the greatest, but simply very well done. Thanks for helping me find enlightenment with the Horde!
Ditto... UO2 was looking spectacular, but then it all got wasted when EA canceled it, and after a legal battle with Todd McFarlane shoehorned the art stuff he made into UO as 'Blackthorns revenge' or some such thing... THe latest for UO involves Elves "returning'... bah.
At least the team got to destroy most of the documentation & backups for UO2 themselfs, rather than EA abuse it. I still have the pictures somewhere.
True, I forgot that even more important point about our Parrallel Importing Laws.
Apparently this is being harped about as the reason books & music (I belive, correct me if I'm wrong) need to launch world wide at the same time. Least its keep Aus from being last to get new books.
Well in Australia it has been ruled by the courts or the consumer commission) that a region locked DVD player is bad and region unlocked players are compleatly legal.
4. how about an integrated mouse in a laptop? it could snap on/off and you could use it on the side, then just have the cord retract and it would re-attach to the machine.
Many, many moons ago, Compaq used to have this, it was a small trackball mosue that attached to the side of the laptop and plugged in the back like normal, so waas really just a small PS/2 trackball.
This was back when pen computing was first attempted (a compaq notebook with a pen touch screen, I forget the name)
After reading this I was wondering if anyone had this sort of story about the Ultima Online servers, and how they have changed/ grown onver the last 7 years.
I'm curious now as to how many servers run the oceania shard (supposedly in Sydney)
I guess this is the que for me to laugh and say, I Aus, before our Cartoon Network was even thinking of playing Adult Swim (and there's more bad comments about that later) our free-to-air channel SBS was playing various animes, including Evangelion & Bubblegum Crisis 2040, and Sat night films used to be an anime every 2 months or so (still LOTS more than anywhere else, and this was 5 - 6 years ago I noticed this), and strange and surreal movies every other time. Very minor censoring, very happy viewers.
SBS is an Australian channel that broadcasts specifically forion shows & news (and by forien, I don't mean US or UK) so gives a great variaty of good shows to watch for us Aussies that we wouldn't ever see elsewhere:)
P.S. Adult Swim in Aus grip - On sat nights they will play 3 anime series in a row. Shame for almost 2 years its been exactly the same shows ( Orphen, Trigun & something else.) they have finally noticed and changed it back to 2 shows, Initial D & InuYasha. Are they worth watching tho ?
Ditto, and I highly agree parenting seems to be a dissapering art nowdays....
But the quote seems to be a very american-centric point of view as well, in Japan (as we all know on/.) anime is made for all age ranges with all syles of storys done. Manga even moreso.
I am sooo glad I don't live in USA nowdays, trouble is they (the idiots, not the inteligent, friendly americans that do exist.) are exporting their mindframe & worldview... *sigh*
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THe Matrix Online is majorly story driven.... or is was meant to be, but SOE keeps stalling the story since there takeover of the game (which WBIE still supply the content for).
:)
1 year after going live and we're about 5-6 months into the story
Aether, is that you ?? but seriously... content, MxO, expect more.... HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! oh yeah, welcome to the S&M club, you'll find its more fun to go find people to humiliate you, and it can be done for free, not the US$15 monthly SOE is charging :)
I have the same thing, I just want the MCE machine to fill in the PVR section, everything can play through the xbmx XBMC setup :) (after automatic conversion)
After much thought, investigation and frustration with Snapstream, I'm building a fairly similar setup with MCE as you have listed (but less HDD space & one tuner for now), but after checking out things here http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/ , I discovered you can indeed recompress the video files overnight, get a working EPG for Australia (something that the tv stations don't like) and various other things (the best was a dual login setup from http://www.thegreenbutton.com/community/shwmessage .aspx?ForumID=42&MessageID=89492&TopicPage=1 for having the MCE interface working on the console (machine) and a teminal (remote) interface active from the same machine)
:) so hopefully my WAF will go through the roof!
But have a check around and see if you can overcome your little quirks, every media-pc setup has some.
Personally, my MCE is for record/recompress/torrent/dvd-burning only, mostly from a remote computer, all the output will be played via XBMC from a softmodded xbox
Between Ralph 'The customer makes the content' Koster & John Smeedley... SOE is rapidly getting a bad rep (getting ???), not only for SW:G, but with The Matrix Online, which they are keeping running to get the DC Comics MMO...
But is that metric buttloads or imperial butteload ??
but seriously, Goggle pays a fortune for bandwidth, so the telcos should stfu.
(good thing I live in Australia where this doesn't happen... oh wait, Tel$tra... damn...)
I understand what you are saying, but SOE and creative in the same sentence ???? lol... omg I'm gunna die laughing....
Hell, I'll just buy it as soon as I can, as being a year long player on the shining turd that is Matrix Online, I'll happily drop it to play Stargate, one of my favorite Sci-Fi shows :)
As long as SOE have nothing to do with it, I'll happily pay tomorrow for a copy.
lol.. your about the 4th person I've found on /. that admits to playing that game too. Is it some secret MMO shame that no-one ever talks about ?
And sorry for going OT.
I belive this is very true for this argument's sake: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
And now that SOE manage The Matrix Online, with its 'content' (Live events, as was promised to further the story) on hold (because SOE won't pay for a dedicated Live Events Team), and now we are getting a Combat Upgrade (which was only announced after the SOE move)...
I'm so scared!!!!
Coming for Xmas: The Matrix Online: NGE... now you too can start as Neo!
either way, 5.5 Million copys sold is still a huge aceivment for MMO games... I suspect that EA can say the same thing about UO, but thats only because they have released an update to purchase every year, and sometimes twice yearly.
WoW probably stil has the biggest currently running subscriptions for a Western (non-asian) MMO.
Microsoft is launching the console Worldwide!
So they launch in N America, and sell out compleatly, befoer they release it to the rest of the world ? I'd just call it pigheadedness to get out first.
XB360 will not be for sale in Australia until late Feb/March, and just avalible now in Europe & Japan.
I wouldn't call that a fast worldwide release. Just plain stupidity & greed to get 360 out for xmas.
P.S. I'm not buying one until they hack them and get XBMC running H.234 videos running smoothly in at least SD on it.
Oh, and I forgot a big problem : Ralph Coster
SOE really don't seem to be able to find there a$$ with both hands, lets see,
EQ2.. shut down
SWG... Still suffering badly after 2 years
MxO after moving... every patch seems to cause more problems than before, moving was awful, seems everytime they took down the servers it took 50% longer than what they thought to get it back up, with or without the patch, and the Live Events team doesn't exist, its mearly the Dev's doing double shifts.
Lets face it, SOE don't know what they are doing and have helped me realise WoW isn't the greatest, but simply very well done. Thanks for helping me find enlightenment with the Horde!
rofl.... mod this up + Funny/True
My first thought when I seen that controller was 'hold on, WiFi ? guess what else does WiFi ? DS Controller anyone ?"
I was wondering when someone would point out the very large problem too...
Seems MS want the 'games for windows' to mean 'Games for Vista' so buy a new computer sucker...
Screw MS, and if the game develepors are that stupid to go along with it, screw them too..
Ditto... UO2 was looking spectacular, but then it all got wasted when EA canceled it, and after a legal battle with Todd McFarlane shoehorned the art stuff he made into UO as 'Blackthorns revenge' or some such thing... THe latest for UO involves Elves "returning'... bah.
At least the team got to destroy most of the documentation & backups for UO2 themselfs, rather than EA abuse it. I still have the pictures somewhere.
And also Sam N Max 2.
True, I forgot that even more important point about our Parrallel Importing Laws.
Apparently this is being harped about as the reason books & music (I belive, correct me if I'm wrong) need to launch world wide at the same time. Least its keep Aus from being last to get new books.
Well in Australia it has been ruled by the courts or the consumer commission) that a region locked DVD player is bad and region unlocked players are compleatly legal.
4. how about an integrated mouse in a laptop? it could snap on/off and you could use it on the side, then just have the cord retract and it would re-attach to the machine.
Many, many moons ago, Compaq used to have this, it was a small trackball mosue that attached to the side of the laptop and plugged in the back like normal, so waas really just a small PS/2 trackball.
This was back when pen computing was first attempted (a compaq notebook with a pen touch screen, I forget the name)
Would have been 10 - 12 years ago.
After reading this I was wondering if anyone had this sort of story about the Ultima Online servers, and how they have changed/ grown onver the last 7 years.
I'm curious now as to how many servers run the oceania shard (supposedly in Sydney)
I guess this is the que for me to laugh and say, I Aus, before our Cartoon Network was even thinking of playing Adult Swim (and there's more bad comments about that later) our free-to-air channel SBS was playing various animes, including Evangelion & Bubblegum Crisis 2040, and Sat night films used to be an anime every 2 months or so (still LOTS more than anywhere else, and this was 5 - 6 years ago I noticed this), and strange and surreal movies every other time. Very minor censoring, very happy viewers.
:)
SBS is an Australian channel that broadcasts specifically forion shows & news (and by forien, I don't mean US or UK) so gives a great variaty of good shows to watch for us Aussies that we wouldn't ever see elsewhere
P.S. Adult Swim in Aus grip - On sat nights they will play 3 anime series in a row. Shame for almost 2 years its been exactly the same shows ( Orphen, Trigun & something else.) they have finally noticed and changed it back to 2 shows, Initial D & InuYasha. Are they worth watching tho ?
Ditto, and I highly agree parenting seems to be a dissapering art nowdays....
/.) anime is made for all age ranges with all syles of storys done. Manga even moreso.
But the quote seems to be a very american-centric point of view as well, in Japan (as we all know on
I am sooo glad I don't live in USA nowdays, trouble is they (the idiots, not the inteligent, friendly americans that do exist.) are exporting their mindframe & worldview... *sigh*