Actually, visits to Antarctica is also restricted so if you want to live there you would need get a permit from the UN (I belive it is) I think your best bet is to build a raft and sail out into the middle of the atlantic...
Do you belive that there will never be any more free coustume parts?
There where already a couple of costumes sets in the game that was harder to get than others and in this case it was maybe 6 pieces of costume and emotes you didn't get by not buying it.
If you quit a game over such a small issue then you probably would have left anyway.
Why would I want to 'help out' if the company is making money without extra 'help'? Because it's not about just making money. They are actually ramping up the development of the game again. Sure, some of the money from the ads will go straight to profit but some will be used to further the development.
The game has been out for four years now, so I'm just glad the game is still viable and that the subscription fee hasn't ever been raised since release. I hope that introducing in-game ads isn't a sign that the game is becoming unprofitable. I don't think it is. NCSoft has since they bought the game started to pump in a lot of money. They are talking about doubling the amount of developers and that sort of thing takes cash..
The wedding pack, which I'm guessing you're lamenting was so popular that will enabled the developers to assign more resources and finish an other long requested feature by the time of i12 instead of much later.
That is why most subscribers don't care about the ads. We know that when we buy something extra for the game some of it will in a tangible way go back to the game.
Speaking of ads, I would appreciate it if they had more in RL to get more people to play the game. It wouldn't hurt if my spell inks on CoV would sell a bit faster:)
At least on the european forum you have so far been proven right. People there seems to appricate that it's OPTIONAL instead of focusing on the possible down sides.
Questions has been asked how this is going to work and has been answered.
Even the mods has been supprised over the lack of protests.
This is what I expect and hope as well considering how long applying even a small patch takes for me but where have you heard that this was the way they intend to do it?
The developers though has already promised that only ads that fit the style of the game will be allowed. Hopefully they keep that up when money is being thrown at them but I will give them the benefit of doubt.
In my opinion the devlopers are good at listening to what the crowd wants. New powersets for instance was developed as a result of an poll.
Oh and the word they have been stressing all along is "optional". You don't like, shut it of.
Feel free to call me missinformed but you don't feel it's a bit strong to call me a liar? I enjoy Mark Twain as much as the next guy but what do we have to work with except statistics?
We may receive salmonella infections from other EU countries and we can only speculate if we would receive even more infections if meat from the US was allowed but does this realy change the numbers? Do you have any other statistics showing that my numbers are false?
If I had said that I rather shoot my self in the arm than in the head would you belive that I intend to shoot myself in the arm? But I guess we'll just have to see which one of use winds up in hospital first in a food related issue:)
Yes of course... except......when companies making prefab food refuses to declare where the meat is coming from: "/../makes them [the customers] to make the wrong descisions." - said by Pär Bygdeson VP for Livsmedelshandlarförbundet, ie the association for companies making "food". http://www.aftonbladet.se/matvin/karinahlborg/article2039977.ab once again unfortunately only in Swedish....when the companies write the country of origin but leaves out the fact that this is the country where the food has been assembled... One popular trick is to "marinate" the meat in salt and sugar. By lowering the percantage of meat to 98% they can claim it's a product and declare the contry where it was "marinated" as the country of origin.
It's not much the government dictate for me, I on the other hand try to dictate that the government should stop stupid crap like this and level the playfield.
No, I don't like raw chicken. That was kind of my point...:)
And yes I know that it can be killed by cooking it properly and yet people die from it every year. Thing about salmonella is that it is spread from unhygenic conditions. What does this tell you about american slaughter houses? I recomend reading the book Fast food nation. It got a good chapter or two about the subject.
Remind me to send them a thank you letter. If you would have said Brazilian meat then I would have conceded a point. I would rather eat raw Swedish chicken than to touch American beef. Couldn't find any numbers regarding beef but look at the ammount of salmonella in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmonellosis#Incidents_of_salmonellosis, 16% of the chickens had salmonella compared with Sweden where 1% of all the animals got it http://www.smittskyddsinstitutet.se/sjukdomar/salmonellainfektion/, the stats are from the Swedish CDC, unfortunatly I couldn't find the numbers in english on the site. In Sweden when ever salmonella is discovered the whole shipment of food is destroyed and if salmonella is found at a farm then all animals are destroyed.
You should try learning Danish. Even the Danish children are having trouble learning to write that. I have heard somewhere that they are among the latest to learn to write their own language. Not so strange considering that the spoken language almost only consists of vowels:)
It's just soooo embarassing to fire ones golf partner...
This is what happens when your brain only can plan 3 months in advance to the next budget report. The future be damned, the stock holders want possitiv reports now. In six months we'll come up with a new scam to bolster the numbers. If the stock holders where happy the last time when we fired a 1000 then they will be twice as happy if we fire 2000...
You might want to try a game like Team fortress 2 or City of Heroes. The amount of deaths in TF2 is so high that another doesn't matter that much and I have never had any trouble with 14 yr old n00bs.
Granted, CoH isn't FPS but at least the european english servers has a very nice community. During my soon to be 3 years of playing it I have in total met 2 persons that I disliked enough to make me mad. Of course I have played with people who was too far below my "skillz" that I left the group but lack of skills is not enough to make me mad:)
Actually, Swedens official strategy for an invasion is to only hold out long enough to allow all our milita to run into the woods and get armed. After that: guerilla/terrorist warfare for all:)
Just a tip, but you might want to check out LCHF. It has recently been approved by the Swedish goverment as an alternaive treatment for type 2 diabetes. Found an english version of the news for you here http://livinlavidalocarb.blogspot.com/search?q=annika+dahlqvist
Actualy there where a case a couple of years back where guy was found not guilty for including links on his homepage to places where you could download mp3:s Not sure if they have made any changes in the law lately but that was the case back when.
So true. And I belive that the only one in NT who has anything to say about homosexuality is Paulus who did it after he visited Rome. The most common form of "homosexuality" in Rome at the time was what we now days would call pedophile.
It's said to see how much influence Paulus got and how he changed. He started as an reformed farasee and preached the equality of men and women and basicly over the years changed back to being a farasee.
Oh God please explain to me why I still buy dvds? It can't be for the experience because ripped dvd is better in all the ways that realy count. Guess I just like to see the films standing in my book case. That or I need more hard disk space;) Though I must say that the FBI warnings are the most pointless irritation you can force your customers to watch. First thing a "pirate" rips out are those".
Btw, does anyone know if the number shoplifting has been going down?;)
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Actually, visits to Antarctica is also restricted so if you want to live there you would need get a permit from the UN (I belive it is)
I think your best bet is to build a raft and sail out into the middle of the atlantic...
Do you belive that there will never be any more free coustume parts?
There where already a couple of costumes sets in the game that was harder to get than others and in this case it was maybe 6 pieces of costume and emotes you didn't get by not buying it.
If you quit a game over such a small issue then you probably would have left anyway.
One example is the non free first expansion for CoH. People disliked the idéa so much that the developers instead baked the content into a couple of the free issues instead.
The wedding pack, which I'm guessing you're lamenting was so popular that will enabled the developers to assign more resources and finish an other long requested feature by the time of i12 instead of much later.
:)
That is why most subscribers don't care about the ads. We know that when we buy something extra for the game some of it will in a tangible way go back to the game.
Speaking of ads, I would appreciate it if they had more in RL to get more people to play the game. It wouldn't hurt if my spell inks on CoV would sell a bit faster
At least on the european forum you have so far been proven right. People there seems to appricate that it's OPTIONAL instead of focusing on the possible down sides.
Questions has been asked how this is going to work and has been answered.
Even the mods has been supprised over the lack of protests.
Are you talking about NCSoft or Cryptic?
This is what I expect and hope as well considering how long applying even a small patch takes for me but where have you heard that this was the way they intend to do it?
The developers though has already promised that only ads that fit the style of the game will be allowed. Hopefully they keep that up when money is being thrown at them but I will give them the benefit of doubt.
In my opinion the devlopers are good at listening to what the crowd wants. New powersets for instance was developed as a result of an poll.
Oh and the word they have been stressing all along is "optional". You don't like, shut it of.
Feel free to call me missinformed but you don't feel it's a bit strong to call me a liar? I enjoy Mark Twain as much as the next guy but what do we have to work with except statistics?
:)
We may receive salmonella infections from other EU countries and we can only speculate if we would receive even more infections if meat from the US was allowed but does this realy change the numbers? Do you have any other statistics showing that my numbers are false?
If I had said that I rather shoot my self in the arm than in the head would you belive that I intend to shoot myself in the arm? But I guess we'll just have to see which one of use winds up in hospital first in a food related issue
Yes of course... except... ...when companies making prefab food refuses to declare where the meat is coming from: "/../makes them [the customers] to make the wrong descisions." - said by Pär Bygdeson VP for Livsmedelshandlarförbundet, ie the association for companies making "food". http://www.aftonbladet.se/matvin/karinahlborg/article2039977.ab once again unfortunately only in Swedish. ...when the companies write the country of origin but leaves out the fact that this is the country where the food has been assembled... One popular trick is to "marinate" the meat in salt and sugar. By lowering the percantage of meat to 98% they can claim it's a product and declare the contry where it was "marinated" as the country of origin.
It's not much the government dictate for me, I on the other hand try to dictate that the government should stop stupid crap like this and level the playfield.
No, I don't like raw chicken. That was kind of my point... :)
And yes I know that it can be killed by cooking it properly and yet people die from it every year. Thing about salmonella is that it is spread from unhygenic conditions. What does this tell you about american slaughter houses?
I recomend reading the book Fast food nation. It got a good chapter or two about the subject.
Remind me to send them a thank you letter. If you would have said Brazilian meat then I would have conceded a point.
I would rather eat raw Swedish chicken than to touch American beef.
Couldn't find any numbers regarding beef but look at the ammount of salmonella in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmonellosis#Incidents_of_salmonellosis, 16% of the chickens had salmonella compared with Sweden where 1% of all the animals got it http://www.smittskyddsinstitutet.se/sjukdomar/salmonellainfektion/, the stats are from the Swedish CDC, unfortunatly I couldn't find the numbers in english on the site.
In Sweden when ever salmonella is discovered the whole shipment of food is destroyed and if salmonella is found at a farm then all animals are destroyed.
You should try learning Danish. Even the Danish children are having trouble learning to write that. I have heard somewhere that they are among the latest to learn to write their own language. Not so strange considering that the spoken language almost only consists of vowels :)
It's just soooo embarassing to fire ones golf partner...
This is what happens when your brain only can plan 3 months in advance to the next budget report. The future be damned, the stock holders want possitiv reports now. In six months we'll come up with a new scam to bolster the numbers. If the stock holders where happy the last time when we fired a 1000 then they will be twice as happy if we fire 2000...
You get hit by lightning often? :)
You might want to try a game like Team fortress 2 or City of Heroes. The amount of deaths in TF2 is so high that another doesn't matter that much and I have never had any trouble with 14 yr old n00bs.
:)
Granted, CoH isn't FPS but at least the european english servers has a very nice community. During my soon to be 3 years of playing it I have in total met 2 persons that I disliked enough to make me mad. Of course I have played with people who was too far below my "skillz" that I left the group but lack of skills is not enough to make me mad
But of course as you said, YMMV...
Is it just me or doesn't dear old Jack talk like if he was a Wrestling star? :)
Can we make up a suitable wrestling name for him?
How about "Jack the Gameinator Thompson"?
Actually, Swedens official strategy for an invasion is to only hold out long enough to allow all our milita to run into the woods and get armed. After that: guerilla/terrorist warfare for all :)
;)
A tactic I belive USA in Iraq called unfair
Just a tip, but you might want to check out LCHF. It has recently been approved by the Swedish goverment as an alternaive treatment for type 2 diabetes. Found an english version of the news for you here http://livinlavidalocarb.blogspot.com/search?q=annika+dahlqvist
Actualy there where a case a couple of years back where guy was found not guilty for including links on his homepage to places where you could download mp3:s
Not sure if they have made any changes in the law lately but that was the case back when.
Would guess that picking a car that is popular by germans would be a smart move. Knight Rider is for the Germans like Starcraft is for South Korea.
That said, surley Ford has any car that isn't soo ugly? If that's the best they can come up with...
So true.
And I belive that the only one in NT who has anything to say about homosexuality is Paulus who did it after he visited Rome. The most common form of "homosexuality" in Rome at the time was what we now days would call pedophile.
It's said to see how much influence Paulus got and how he changed. He started as an reformed farasee and preached the equality of men and women and basicly over the years changed back to being a farasee.
Oh God please explain to me why I still buy dvds? ;)
;)
It can't be for the experience because ripped dvd is better in all the ways that realy count. Guess I just like to see the films standing in my book case. That or I need more hard disk space
Though I must say that the FBI warnings are the most pointless irritation you can force your customers to watch. First thing a "pirate" rips out are those".
Btw, does anyone know if the number shoplifting has been going down?