Great, as soon as they make a train that can go from my house to any destination in the country at a low price at any time I want, I'm sure these things will take off.
Seriously, you have to use a car to get to the train station in the first place, and they're incredibly expensive, so what's the point?
Busses are MASSIVELY more inconvenient, and don't help the environment at all. A huge bus with three people on it isn't better for the environment than an efficient car with two people in it.
Oh, never mind the fact that busses don't start early enough to get many people to work, or late enough to get many people home. Or that they only visit selected points and travel on selected routes, at selected times. But don't let reality get in the way of your argument though.
An alarm clock that only wakes you up when you'r ready to wake up is completely worthless. The whole point in an alarm clock is to wake you up BEFORE that so you're not late for work.
1. Caps weekly play time to 2 hours so even older gamers can play. I'm 31.
Even the most lightweight player would probably play more than that. A lot of older players spend hours every day playing MMORPGs. I don't see how other players playing more hours affects your game.
4. Supports Linux.
He shouldn't bother unless he supports an OS that nearly no-one uses? That's a ridiculous condition, you're just a fanboy trying to work Linux into a post that's nothing to do with it.
Another guy with much cash wanting to mimic everyone else, ugh.
Yeah, what an idiot, wanting to do things that are known to work, rather than pandering to a minority of people who number in the dozens, and probably wouldn't play it anyway because they whine about everything.
LOTR without pvp? The most memorable parts of the books/films were the big battles, and the game's not going to have them. I suppose you'll just go round killing boring mobs like in every other game.
It's just an attempt by the company to make money off the name with an off-the-shelf MMORPG.
Hang on, on one hand you're criticising the developers for making a game that they'd enjoy playing. Then you're criticising them for making games based on marketing. Those two criticisms don't go together, you can have one or the other.
What would you describe as a 'dreamer'? I'd guess someone who aimed for something they wanted, but according to you that's a negative so I really don't know what the fuck your opinion is, unless you've just got an agenda against Turbine that you can't really verbalise.
Designing an MMORPG must be a bitch. It doesn't matter wich choice you make it will always upset someone who will bitterly complain that your game wich they have no intention of really paying for anyway is not exactly like the game they are paying for.
You mean the way you're bitching about every single MMORPG? You don't like fighting mobs (levelling), you don't like fighting other players, you don't like crafting, maybe that genre of game just isn't your thing.
Not ideal, but honestly what fucking business is it of yours what I or anyone other than yourself enjoy anyhow?
It's not him who's telling people how to run their game. If you don't like it don't play it. I don't go into a butcher's complaining they don't sell vegetables, just because the one I used to go to sold them.
The original D&D wasn't a solo player game so I don't see why you should expect this one to be as well. Just the Slashdot sense of entitlement rearing its ugly head again.
Students generally get jobs like behind bars or stacking shelves. You're not going to get an IT job with no qualifications anyway, especially not part time.
The original shuttle had gimballed engines, now they're using it for the RCS as well? Big fucking deal. May as well post an article about how the toilet's going to have a different colour of soap.
The original design with millions of RCS thrusters all over the place was stupid anyway.
So you're saying you have to pay for the six month trial? That's the only way it couldn't be counted as free, and the only way your post would make any sense whatsoever.
Yeah, and every car should cost the same amount of money. It's just greedy that a Ferrari costs more than a Skoda. And fillet steak should cost the same as a bag of crisps.
I pay £130 a year for a TV licence, that's it. And I watch a lot more than 5 or 6 shows. At £2 a programme I'd only be able to watch one or two things a week!
I don't know any programmes that last 22 episodes either. Usually it's six or so, and doctor who was about a dozen.
Not to mention programmes I don't plan to watch in advance but just find them randomly. I'm not paying £2 to change the channel.
Considering how long the drooling, brain-dead McDonalds workers take to give you something already cooked, I dread to think how long it'd take them to do something from scratch.
Not that it would make a difference. Fresh cooked plastic doesn't taste any different to 15-minute old plastic.
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I remember reading this exact same post in a story months ago.
Great, as soon as they make a train that can go from my house to any destination in the country at a low price at any time I want, I'm sure these things will take off.
Seriously, you have to use a car to get to the train station in the first place, and they're incredibly expensive, so what's the point?
Busses are MASSIVELY more inconvenient, and don't help the environment at all. A huge bus with three people on it isn't better for the environment than an efficient car with two people in it.
Oh, never mind the fact that busses don't start early enough to get many people to work, or late enough to get many people home. Or that they only visit selected points and travel on selected routes, at selected times. But don't let reality get in the way of your argument though.
An alarm clock that only wakes you up when you'r ready to wake up is completely worthless. The whole point in an alarm clock is to wake you up BEFORE that so you're not late for work.
1. Caps weekly play time to 2 hours so even older gamers can play. I'm 31.
Even the most lightweight player would probably play more than that. A lot of older players spend hours every day playing MMORPGs. I don't see how other players playing more hours affects your game.
4. Supports Linux.
He shouldn't bother unless he supports an OS that nearly no-one uses? That's a ridiculous condition, you're just a fanboy trying to work Linux into a post that's nothing to do with it.
Another guy with much cash wanting to mimic everyone else, ugh.
Yeah, what an idiot, wanting to do things that are known to work, rather than pandering to a minority of people who number in the dozens, and probably wouldn't play it anyway because they whine about everything.
Tact doesn't really help anyone in the long run.
It's taken them this long? I've known how bees fly all along: THEY'VE GOT WINGS. Can I get millions in grant money now?
LOTR without pvp? The most memorable parts of the books/films were the big battles, and the game's not going to have them. I suppose you'll just go round killing boring mobs like in every other game.
It's just an attempt by the company to make money off the name with an off-the-shelf MMORPG.
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Hang on, on one hand you're criticising the developers for making a game that they'd enjoy playing. Then you're criticising them for making games based on marketing. Those two criticisms don't go together, you can have one or the other.
What would you describe as a 'dreamer'? I'd guess someone who aimed for something they wanted, but according to you that's a negative so I really don't know what the fuck your opinion is, unless you've just got an agenda against Turbine that you can't really verbalise.
Designing an MMORPG must be a bitch. It doesn't matter wich choice you make it will always upset someone who will bitterly complain that your game wich they have no intention of really paying for anyway is not exactly like the game they are paying for.
You mean the way you're bitching about every single MMORPG? You don't like fighting mobs (levelling), you don't like fighting other players, you don't like crafting, maybe that genre of game just isn't your thing.
Please, can you never use the word 'henchies' ever again?
Not ideal, but honestly what fucking business is it of yours what I or anyone other than yourself enjoy anyhow?
It's not him who's telling people how to run their game. If you don't like it don't play it. I don't go into a butcher's complaining they don't sell vegetables, just because the one I used to go to sold them.
The original D&D wasn't a solo player game so I don't see why you should expect this one to be as well. Just the Slashdot sense of entitlement rearing its ugly head again.
I'm in the same boat as the original author: I don't group with strangers and my friends are on rarely (if at all).
Perhaps you're better off with a single RPG rather than a MORPG.
Considering how successful the subscription model is, why would they change it just to suit a few people who don't like it?
Anyway if it were free you'd just get all the kids who can't afford to play WoW.
If you don't have a family, there is not much reason to get home before 8:00.
And if you have a family, there's all the more reason to work as late as possible.
Students generally get jobs like behind bars or stacking shelves. You're not going to get an IT job with no qualifications anyway, especially not part time.
If someone spends thousands looking for a few pence, then they'd probably spend billions looking for a missing million.
How's the buff Asian guy next to you going to feel when he and his machine are doused in cooking oil?
Dunno, but you'll probably be hungry again in half an hour.
But aren't message boards just full of whiners who moan about anything?
The original shuttle had gimballed engines, now they're using it for the RCS as well? Big fucking deal. May as well post an article about how the toilet's going to have a different colour of soap.
The original design with millions of RCS thrusters all over the place was stupid anyway.
So you're saying you have to pay for the six month trial? That's the only way it couldn't be counted as free, and the only way your post would make any sense whatsoever.
Yeah, and every car should cost the same amount of money. It's just greedy that a Ferrari costs more than a Skoda. And fillet steak should cost the same as a bag of crisps.
I pay £130 a year for a TV licence, that's it. And I watch a lot more than 5 or 6 shows. At £2 a programme I'd only be able to watch one or two things a week!
I don't know any programmes that last 22 episodes either. Usually it's six or so, and doctor who was about a dozen.
Not to mention programmes I don't plan to watch in advance but just find them randomly. I'm not paying £2 to change the channel.
Considering how long the drooling, brain-dead McDonalds workers take to give you something already cooked, I dread to think how long it'd take them to do something from scratch.
Not that it would make a difference. Fresh cooked plastic doesn't taste any different to 15-minute old plastic.
How many muds let normal players code their own items?
I think that laws against drugs are immoral, so is a company evil for not letting people smoke weed on the corridor?
I also think income tax is immoral, so I'm sure all of Slashdot would praise Bill Gates if he stopped paying it?