Actually, ask the people who've already left WoW to find out why they've left. The only former WoW addict that I know of left to play EQ2 and said that WoW became too tedious because of constant grouping and raids in the end game. She wanted to solo for the most part and enjoyed EQ2 because of it. I nearly game WoW a spin myself until I heard about the amount of raids and such. I just can not play a game on someone else's schedule and I enjoy soloing.
Huh? EQ2 is much more dependent on grouping. I mean, that's not a bad thing in and of itself, but WoW is the most solo-friendly MMORPG out there right now. And it even got moreso with the expansion pack.
I actually quit WoW for a year because I couldn't get into the endgame. Then I came back a month or two before the expansion hit and have been having a blast ever since.
Apparently there is an array of cheats you can do in Gears of War if you edit come.cfg files on your pirated copy of the game. Probably lots of other stuff possible too, in general.
How many of those were replacements for older and/or broken iPods?
More importantly, how many of those were Shuffles?
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I never understood why they just didn't build on their PocketPC platform. A large, thin PPC would be an ideal e-book reader, and would have good battery life too.
You nailed it. The political spectrum has been moving right but the social spectrum is moving left (gay marriage, medicinal pot,etc) and thus you have this tension, this sharp divide between red state and blue state.
The "divide" isn't as dramatic as you make it out to be. It's not like blue states vote 100% democrat and red states vote 100% republican. Most states in 2004 went 60/40, or even closer.
What's really weird is that George W. Bush gained overall percentage points in 49 states, compared to 2000. So it's not like blue states grew increasingly alienated in the first four years of his presidency.
Parent poster was talking about a level business playing field. That doesn't mean that you should be given a leg up when competing against a rich and entrenched corporation. Merely that they can't use certain unfair business practices to keep you down.
If you want to break into the car market with your own little startup, odds are that you're going be driven out of business by the likes of Toyota or GM. There's nothing morally wrong about that. Being rich, and using your wealth strategically, is not a sin.
But if the big auto maker were to, say, pressure all the tire manufacturers not to sell tires to you... well, that should be illegal.
The problem is that the GTA series has been pretty solid, but most of the Final Fantasy side-sequels have been subpar. Final Fantasy X-2 is easily the best of them, and that's sad.
If the government hadn't granted the companies certain rights (protection of copyrights, patents and trade secrets)...
Beyond that, the government sets up the patent system with certain rules. Microsoft applies for patents under those rules, and now the government suddenly decides "oh, well those patents aren't really *innovative*, you can't charge for those." Well why were the fracking patents granted in the first place then?
And even beyond that, it just seems like this "innovation" rule is ripe for abuse and selective enforcement. If Microsoft's EU patents really are a problem, strip them away. None of this meddling bureaucratic bullshit. But I'm guessing the prosecution doesn't have a good enough case to strip away their patents outright.
I wonder if they have factored in World of Warcraft in these figures, or its imminent demise in the next 9 months.
It appears with the new expansion, the playerbase is slowly dying away though
Uh, have any sources for this? Other than your bitter anti-WoW fantasies, that is. Internet forums and "people I know" don't count either.
Frankly, I loved the expansion changes, and look forward to the coming patch. IMO, most people quitting are either "hardcore" whiners or people upset (heartbroken!) that they can't keep up with the hardcore whiners.
Give it another year. The comparison will be night and day.
When the original Xbox launched, its games looked better than their PS2 counterparts, right off the bat. And those were launch titles.
If the PS3 really is much more powerful than anything else, why couldn't it pull off the same thing? Should I really take your word over everyone who's done an in-depth technical comparison?
Kill off Windows, and then you have a bunch of better processors - PPC, ARM, whatever.
Or even use Windows Mobile 2006 if you want to start off with an established software base. Frankly, I'd kill for a large, flat PocketPC device. It'd be the ideal e-book reader, among other things.
Trying to shoehorn a desktop OS into a handheld device always seems like a bad idea.
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France -- no Nazi-memorabilia sales; no non-journalist videos of violence;
Actually, it's illegal to insult the president in France also. Nobody else, just whoever the current President of France is.
We conquered it, then tried to give it back to "the people". We also didn't close the borders.
Basically, if human rights was not a concern at all, we could have brutally repressed and/or slaughtered everyone in Iraq years ago. Without the use of nukes, even.
The fact that this is not an acceptable option is kinda the parent post's point.
Y'know? Betamax is actually a superior technology to VHS. There's a reason it's what TV stations and recording studios have been using until they went digital.... It records better picture quality, and better sound. VHS won out because of marketing.
TV stations used Betacam, not Betamax. The formats are somewhat related, but incompatible.
Oh, and VHS won because they came out with bigger tapes sooner. Betamax launched with 1 hour recordable tapes.
WoW requires you to go back to your body in an invulnerable form from a fixed point and then respawn in the immidiate area of your body. If you don't you suffer a severe hit to your stats for a period of time.
You also get a durability hit to all your armor (and currently equipped weapon). This can be repaired at a vendor, for a fee. Of course this is especially bad if you die too many times in the middle of a dungeon. Items with 0 durability are no longer useful.
It doesn't sound like you've played WoW all that much, if you don't know that basic tidbit. Of course, that didn't stop you from posting a lengthy diatribe about it.:-/
The Gran Turismo series has been going nowhere lately, and people are starting to catch on. GT3 sold 15 million copies, while GT4 sold 8 million. The biggest regional drop was in the Americas, where it went from 7.1 million to 2.4 million sold. Gran Turismo fans are evaporating quickly.
SNES released, Nintendo touts its graphical superiority Nintendo 64 released, Nintendo touts its graphical superiority Gamecube released, Nintendo touts its graphical superiority Wii released, graphics don't matter anymore!
Nintendo will always promote its strong points, like any sane company would. And there will always be fans out there parroting their talking points.
I don't think Nintendo is going in a bad direction with the Wii. But graphics have mattered in the past and can still matter today. Depends on the game.
Oh, and that's beside all the non-graphical improvements that next-gen hardware can bring. Like advanced physics, better AI, bigger and more complex game environments, and procedural content generation.
You (and everyone else) seem to have forgotten Jet Force Gemini. Arguably the best N64 game Rare ever made. Kameo and Viva Pinata were also pretty great too.
Frankly, it seems like new and original titles are rarely rewarded anymore. Bring on the sequels!
Yeah, we can sue McDonald's for making us fat, or we could stop thinking that paying $15 for a restaurant meal that won't kill you is some great injustice.
Most restaurant food out there is in the same range of unhealthiness as McDonalds food. And I'm not just talking about Denny's here. Practices such as glazing vegetables with fat are very common.
"Truthiness" isn't really a joke. He's passing it as a joke so people will listen, but what he's lampooning actually exists and effects all of us every day. Truthiness has taken the place of truth, not only in the executive branch, but in the mainstream media. [snip]
See what I mean? Lecturing. Ranting. Only on the Colbert Report it's thinly disguised.
Seeing shovelware titles like Cabela's Big Game Hunter and Barbie Horse Adventures making the cut while fantastic games like Psychonauts and Shenmue 2 were forgotten was a bad thing.
Shovelware doesn't "make the cut". It just happens to become compatible as they work to refine the emulator. Would you rather they didn't add it to the list?
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Huh? EQ2 is much more dependent on grouping. I mean, that's not a bad thing in and of itself, but WoW is the most solo-friendly MMORPG out there right now. And it even got moreso with the expansion pack.
I actually quit WoW for a year because I couldn't get into the endgame. Then I came back a month or two before the expansion hit and have been having a blast ever since.
Apparently there is an array of cheats you can do in Gears of War if you edit come .cfg files on your pirated copy of the game. Probably lots of other stuff possible too, in general.
How many of those were replacements for older and/or broken iPods?
More importantly, how many of those were Shuffles?
I never understood why they just didn't build on their PocketPC platform. A large, thin PPC would be an ideal e-book reader, and would have good battery life too.
Not punishing people for success makes a functional, stable society.
The "divide" isn't as dramatic as you make it out to be. It's not like blue states vote 100% democrat and red states vote 100% republican. Most states in 2004 went 60/40, or even closer.
What's really weird is that George W. Bush gained overall percentage points in 49 states, compared to 2000. So it's not like blue states grew increasingly alienated in the first four years of his presidency.
Parent poster was talking about a level business playing field. That doesn't mean that you should be given a leg up when competing against a rich and entrenched corporation. Merely that they can't use certain unfair business practices to keep you down.
If you want to break into the car market with your own little startup, odds are that you're going be driven out of business by the likes of Toyota or GM. There's nothing morally wrong about that. Being rich, and using your wealth strategically, is not a sin.
But if the big auto maker were to, say, pressure all the tire manufacturers not to sell tires to you... well, that should be illegal.
The problem is that the GTA series has been pretty solid, but most of the Final Fantasy side-sequels have been subpar. Final Fantasy X-2 is easily the best of them, and that's sad.
Beyond that, the government sets up the patent system with certain rules. Microsoft applies for patents under those rules, and now the government suddenly decides "oh, well those patents aren't really *innovative*, you can't charge for those." Well why were the fracking patents granted in the first place then?
And even beyond that, it just seems like this "innovation" rule is ripe for abuse and selective enforcement. If Microsoft's EU patents really are a problem, strip them away. None of this meddling bureaucratic bullshit. But I'm guessing the prosecution doesn't have a good enough case to strip away their patents outright.
Uh, have any sources for this? Other than your bitter anti-WoW fantasies, that is. Internet forums and "people I know" don't count either.
Frankly, I loved the expansion changes, and look forward to the coming patch. IMO, most people quitting are either "hardcore" whiners or people upset (heartbroken!) that they can't keep up with the hardcore whiners.
When the original Xbox launched, its games looked better than their PS2 counterparts, right off the bat. And those were launch titles.
If the PS3 really is much more powerful than anything else, why couldn't it pull off the same thing? Should I really take your word over everyone who's done an in-depth technical comparison?
Or even use Windows Mobile 2006 if you want to start off with an established software base. Frankly, I'd kill for a large, flat PocketPC device. It'd be the ideal e-book reader, among other things.
Trying to shoehorn a desktop OS into a handheld device always seems like a bad idea.
Actually, it's illegal to insult the president in France also. Nobody else, just whoever the current President of France is.
We conquered it, then tried to give it back to "the people". We also didn't close the borders.
Basically, if human rights was not a concern at all, we could have brutally repressed and/or slaughtered everyone in Iraq years ago. Without the use of nukes, even.
The fact that this is not an acceptable option is kinda the parent post's point.
TV stations used Betacam, not Betamax. The formats are somewhat related, but incompatible.
Oh, and VHS won because they came out with bigger tapes sooner. Betamax launched with 1 hour recordable tapes.
You also get a durability hit to all your armor (and currently equipped weapon). This can be repaired at a vendor, for a fee. Of course this is especially bad if you die too many times in the middle of a dungeon. Items with 0 durability are no longer useful.
It doesn't sound like you've played WoW all that much, if you don't know that basic tidbit. Of course, that didn't stop you from posting a lengthy diatribe about it.
The Gran Turismo series has been going nowhere lately, and people are starting to catch on. GT3 sold 15 million copies, while GT4 sold 8 million. The biggest regional drop was in the Americas, where it went from 7.1 million to 2.4 million sold. Gran Turismo fans are evaporating quickly.
Bonus tip: The Cell isn't a very good CPU either. All that vector performance isn't too helpful when you want to do scalar calculations.
SNES released, Nintendo touts its graphical superiority
Nintendo 64 released, Nintendo touts its graphical superiority
Gamecube released, Nintendo touts its graphical superiority
Wii released, graphics don't matter anymore!
Nintendo will always promote its strong points, like any sane company would.
And there will always be fans out there parroting their talking points.
I don't think Nintendo is going in a bad direction with the Wii. But graphics have mattered in the past and can still matter today. Depends on the game.
Oh, and that's beside all the non-graphical improvements that next-gen hardware can bring. Like advanced physics, better AI, bigger and more complex game environments, and procedural content generation.
You (and everyone else) seem to have forgotten Jet Force Gemini. Arguably the best N64 game Rare ever made. Kameo and Viva Pinata were also pretty great too.
Frankly, it seems like new and original titles are rarely rewarded anymore. Bring on the sequels!
Most restaurant food out there is in the same range of unhealthiness as McDonalds food. And I'm not just talking about Denny's here. Practices such as glazing vegetables with fat are very common.
See what I mean? Lecturing. Ranting. Only on the Colbert Report it's thinly disguised.
No accounting for taste, I see.
This apparently also includes the upcoming Dragon Quest IX. Go watch the gameplay video.
Shovelware doesn't "make the cut". It just happens to become compatible as they work to refine the emulator. Would you rather they didn't add it to the list?