But it's a boring question. The vast majority of players want a clean game experience and, for better or for worse, trust Blizzard to use the info they gather to step on cheaters and leave everybody else alone. 90% of the server population will play on the no-cheat realms. That's why Blizzard created this software in the first place; they know full well that the number of people who'll be truly upset and cancel their accounts over The Warden will be vastly less than the people who'll be upset and quit over widespread cheating.
So you make a claim that's wildly at odds with the article's statements, and when called on it, claim that the article's author isn't a 'proper researcher' (as if there were credentials for niche journalism, I must have missed the major in college). Way to butress your claims, I'm sure people are finding you real credible.
This is an odd place to suddenly become terribly worried about working conditions in the third world. Gold farming is pretty cushy by the standards of countries where the alternatives can be much less... pleasent.
"expansions", etc..(even charging an additional monthly fee for such "expansions")
Name the Everquest expansion that includes a separate monthly fee apart from the basic on.
There isn't one. I'll never understand why people have to lie to themselves and others in order to justify their hate for a game they once loved. You moved on, it happens, get over it.
You know how it's said that when you rant about something, you're really saying much more about yourself than about the topic you're ranting about?
You should probably find at least a sympathetic friend to talk about your sexual fetishes with. Most mental health professionals agree that sexual atypicalness isn't really a problem alone, but becomes a problem when the person in question makes it a problem for themselves. There's nothing wrong with your facination with 'Bastet or Cthulu worshipping gothic pagans with dominant tendencies who in the height of passion also enjoy shots of their significant others' blood', but if you keep projecting and rejecting this part of yourself like this, you'll never really be at peace with your sexuality.
I just want to help. Find a friend. Talk to someone. Really.
Given how radically the human environment has changed in the last 60k years and how radically the selection pressures have changed, I assume that 'evolution' (an imprecise term at best in context) is still a major and rapid force on the human genome.
On the other hand, the glacial speeds at which 'evolution' works on our gene pool are certainly overwhelmed by the rate at which we are changing and rechanging our environment. Evolution can't change us nearly as fast as we can change ourselves.
I'd say that Pixar might actually make a really good Power Pack movie, but after The Incredibles, why would they need to? Not a lot left there for them.
NWN is hardly 'competition' for WoW in the sense that the original article had in mind. I'm sure you like it and it is a very nifty piece of meta-gaming software, but... I don't think sheer force of advocacy will make NWN a meaningful comparison to WoW.
Intellectually bankrupt. 'A pox on both their houses' is fine if you've just been stabbed, but comparing Republican education policy to Democratic education policy is beyond stupid.
Science and knowledge are not 'a point of view' or a 'perspective' that needs to have both sides taught. Superstition and myth do not have equal standing with reason and rationalism.
Here's a clue; one of these parties wants to teach religion in science classes. One of them doesn't. I'll leave it to you to figure out which is which.
Because there aren't any Linux media hackers in the world who'll do a rip app to fool media apps into thinking it's outputting to a DRM-protected one-of-these and instead it just gets dumped to a data file for P2P.
I mean, what are the odds? DeCSS was just a fluke.
Or, to be less snide... yes, clearly this is an attempt to create a DRM-enabled display standard, the idea being to prevent people from intercepting the unencoded, unprotected signal coming out of your video card. But, as always, the client is in the hands of the enemy. All the information needed to snap this like a twig is already present on the box.
The only way DRM will ever work is government-enforced computer controls and white-listing of 'approved' software, with unapproved software being locked out (yes, there are ways even around that, but at that point it's too much trouble for John Doe to set up the whitewashing needed to run an unapproved box that looks clean to Big Brother). And even that will just force uncontrolled boxes off the Internet (as we know it) onto grey or black wireless networks outside the reach of governments.
Don't confuse us Amerikuns with facts, we ain't too smert here and we like it dat wey! Praise Jeebus and pass the Chinese-manufactured, Indian-designed, Japanese-researched cel phoon so I cun call in to Russ Limbaw.
Hey, guys, you need to seed Bittorret or it blows and nobody uses it, which leads to it blowing more, and you end up with nobody at all using it.
I know there are people out there that get good use out of BitTorrent as a technology, but 9 times out of 10 I try it, it turns out to simply not work.
Surely you're not shocked to learn that there are people who cannot build up, so to fill the void inside they tear down?
It's the basic distinction between civilization and barbarism. The person in question is one of the huge number of people on the Internet that, in the great struggle between those who wish us all to be richer and those who wish us all to be poorer, have decided they're on the side of those who wish us to be poorer.
It's a small thing, but the thing that most impressed me recently in MMORPG design was City of Heros' boss/lieutenant/minion breakdown of the mobs in a group, along with populating each group with, rather than the 1, 2, or 3 or so mobs common to the EQ paradigm, 6 or 10 or 15. Minions were little trashy things, no match at all for the PCs and only dangerous in large groups (which would occasionally be provided), while bosses were nearly a PC's equal or more. It was a very nice change from the pacing of many MMORPGs, where you daren't pull more than one or two mobs at a time. It seemed much more 'heroic' to me to engage large groups of foes and triumph. I think it could work very well for a fantasy or S/F-themed MMORPG just as well as it does for City of Heroes.
Don't get me wrong. D&D stuff is retarded, too. But honeslty, dressing like a vampire and hanging out with 80 other wannabe-oh-so-cool types at the local Shari's all night, becuase you couldn't get a real date and have to hang out with a bunch of losers under the premise of a "game"? Sheesh. Just retarded.
Because that's so not cool. I mean, the way people try different things that you might not like and the way they are sooooo wrapped up in what they're doing, to the point of not noticing your disapproval! Goddess above, how do you stand the burden of being you?
You've got the format of a 'if you denounce A without denouncing B, you must support B' down to a science. I hope you're proud of your achievement. But where is your post denouncing the drowning of kittens? And have you finally gotten around to stopping beating your wife?
Well, you're not wrong in a lot of ways. However, there's really two standards here. By your standard, Rockstar is in the clear, because they do have that 'M for Mature' thingie on the box. On the other hand, though, they had reason to know they were publishing an edgy game in a time when their industry was under heavy scrutiny by the Powers-That-Be. Is that fair to them? Of course not. It's unfair to the entire industry, and I'm not any happier about it than you are. However, as part of the industry, I think Rockstar behaved quite irresponsibly and has now certainly set the cause of video-games-as-legitimate-cultural-content back years, if not decades. If it's a choice between 'hot coffee' and 'no hot coffee', while it's not Rockstar's fault that they exist in a climate of cultural paranoia, I still wish they'd switched to decaf.
That was kinda my responce, too, actually. And that from someone who is themselves a game dev professional. Right or wrong, our country is obviously having a social debate about videogames, and in the middle of that, Rockstar is not just putting out iterations of GTA3, but... releasing content like this. Thanks for helping the rest of us in the industry reach some sort of accord and avoid uneccesary regulation, Rockstar. When I have to put my next indie release through some chickenshit review board process, I'll make sure to send you a nice note.
Hm, I got modded as a troll for saying what you just said.
Frankly, the reason I think Vanguard is going to be much less successful than people like rellix think is the near-total unquestioning devotion and intolerance of alternative perspectives that V:SoH anticipators display in threads like this.
It's established fact, to the point of being banal, that McQuad was the person at Verant that wanted to retain slow level grinds, item camps, hell levels, competition for a limited supply of spawns, etc, etc. You can like this and support it in V:SoH, or you can dislike this and prefer, say, WoW's design. But pointing out that the people who put that stuff in EQ are the same people designing V:SoH isn't a troll. It's just a fact.
And if you find that fact angering or threatening, maybe you need to reassess your opinion of how good V:SoH is likely to be.
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But it's a boring question. The vast majority of players want a clean game experience and, for better or for worse, trust Blizzard to use the info they gather to step on cheaters and leave everybody else alone. 90% of the server population will play on the no-cheat realms. That's why Blizzard created this software in the first place; they know full well that the number of people who'll be truly upset and cancel their accounts over The Warden will be vastly less than the people who'll be upset and quit over widespread cheating.
So you make a claim that's wildly at odds with the article's statements, and when called on it, claim that the article's author isn't a 'proper researcher' (as if there were credentials for niche journalism, I must have missed the major in college). Way to butress your claims, I'm sure people are finding you real credible.
This is an odd place to suddenly become terribly worried about working conditions in the third world. Gold farming is pretty cushy by the standards of countries where the alternatives can be much less... pleasent.
"expansions", etc..(even charging an additional monthly fee for such "expansions")
Name the Everquest expansion that includes a separate monthly fee apart from the basic on.
There isn't one. I'll never understand why people have to lie to themselves and others in order to justify their hate for a game they once loved. You moved on, it happens, get over it.
You know how it's said that when you rant about something, you're really saying much more about yourself than about the topic you're ranting about?
You should probably find at least a sympathetic friend to talk about your sexual fetishes with. Most mental health professionals agree that sexual atypicalness isn't really a problem alone, but becomes a problem when the person in question makes it a problem for themselves. There's nothing wrong with your facination with 'Bastet or Cthulu worshipping gothic pagans with dominant tendencies who in the height of passion also enjoy shots of their significant others' blood', but if you keep projecting and rejecting this part of yourself like this, you'll never really be at peace with your sexuality.
I just want to help. Find a friend. Talk to someone. Really.
Given how radically the human environment has changed in the last 60k years and how radically the selection pressures have changed, I assume that 'evolution' (an imprecise term at best in context) is still a major and rapid force on the human genome.
On the other hand, the glacial speeds at which 'evolution' works on our gene pool are certainly overwhelmed by the rate at which we are changing and rechanging our environment. Evolution can't change us nearly as fast as we can change ourselves.
I'd say that Pixar might actually make a really good Power Pack movie, but after The Incredibles, why would they need to? Not a lot left there for them.
A novel attempt to turn FFXI's worse-than-EverQuest mind-numbing XP grinds into a positive point in the game's favor.
NWN is hardly 'competition' for WoW in the sense that the original article had in mind. I'm sure you like it and it is a very nifty piece of meta-gaming software, but... I don't think sheer force of advocacy will make NWN a meaningful comparison to WoW.
Intellectually bankrupt. 'A pox on both their houses' is fine if you've just been stabbed, but comparing Republican education policy to Democratic education policy is beyond stupid.
Science and knowledge are not 'a point of view' or a 'perspective' that needs to have both sides taught. Superstition and myth do not have equal standing with reason and rationalism.
Here's a clue; one of these parties wants to teach religion in science classes. One of them doesn't. I'll leave it to you to figure out which is which.
Byte me. :P
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Sorry. >_
Booooooooring.
Because there aren't any Linux media hackers in the world who'll do a rip app to fool media apps into thinking it's outputting to a DRM-protected one-of-these and instead it just gets dumped to a data file for P2P.
I mean, what are the odds? DeCSS was just a fluke.
Or, to be less snide... yes, clearly this is an attempt to create a DRM-enabled display standard, the idea being to prevent people from intercepting the unencoded, unprotected signal coming out of your video card. But, as always, the client is in the hands of the enemy. All the information needed to snap this like a twig is already present on the box.
The only way DRM will ever work is government-enforced computer controls and white-listing of 'approved' software, with unapproved software being locked out (yes, there are ways even around that, but at that point it's too much trouble for John Doe to set up the whitewashing needed to run an unapproved box that looks clean to Big Brother). And even that will just force uncontrolled boxes off the Internet (as we know it) onto grey or black wireless networks outside the reach of governments.
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/08/president-and -intelligent-design.html
Don't confuse us Amerikuns with facts, we ain't too smert here and we like it dat wey! Praise Jeebus and pass the Chinese-manufactured, Indian-designed, Japanese-researched cel phoon so I cun call in to Russ Limbaw.
Hey, guys, you need to seed Bittorret or it blows and nobody uses it, which leads to it blowing more, and you end up with nobody at all using it.
I know there are people out there that get good use out of BitTorrent as a technology, but 9 times out of 10 I try it, it turns out to simply not work.
Surely you're not shocked to learn that there are people who cannot build up, so to fill the void inside they tear down?
It's the basic distinction between civilization and barbarism. The person in question is one of the huge number of people on the Internet that, in the great struggle between those who wish us all to be richer and those who wish us all to be poorer, have decided they're on the side of those who wish us to be poorer.
Feel free to present a panel on practical AI programming techniques to achieve this result at the next GDC.
It's a small thing, but the thing that most impressed me recently in MMORPG design was City of Heros' boss/lieutenant/minion breakdown of the mobs in a group, along with populating each group with, rather than the 1, 2, or 3 or so mobs common to the EQ paradigm, 6 or 10 or 15. Minions were little trashy things, no match at all for the PCs and only dangerous in large groups (which would occasionally be provided), while bosses were nearly a PC's equal or more. It was a very nice change from the pacing of many MMORPGs, where you daren't pull more than one or two mobs at a time. It seemed much more 'heroic' to me to engage large groups of foes and triumph. I think it could work very well for a fantasy or S/F-themed MMORPG just as well as it does for City of Heroes.
Don't get me wrong. D&D stuff is retarded, too. But honeslty, dressing like a vampire and hanging out with 80 other wannabe-oh-so-cool types at the local Shari's all night, becuase you couldn't get a real date and have to hang out with a bunch of losers under the premise of a "game"? Sheesh. Just retarded.
Because that's so not cool. I mean, the way people try different things that you might not like and the way they are sooooo wrapped up in what they're doing, to the point of not noticing your disapproval! Goddess above, how do you stand the burden of being you?
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Well, the first Marvel PnP RPG can probably be laid at the feet of TSR rather than Marvel itself.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not is a fool forever.
- old chinese proverb
White Wolf is mostly a table-top 'old school' RPG publisher. Their IP has been pretty dramatically successful, so it's gotten licenced a lot.
You've got the format of a 'if you denounce A without denouncing B, you must support B' down to a science. I hope you're proud of your achievement. But where is your post denouncing the drowning of kittens? And have you finally gotten around to stopping beating your wife?
Well, you're not wrong in a lot of ways. However, there's really two standards here. By your standard, Rockstar is in the clear, because they do have that 'M for Mature' thingie on the box. On the other hand, though, they had reason to know they were publishing an edgy game in a time when their industry was under heavy scrutiny by the Powers-That-Be. Is that fair to them? Of course not. It's unfair to the entire industry, and I'm not any happier about it than you are. However, as part of the industry, I think Rockstar behaved quite irresponsibly and has now certainly set the cause of video-games-as-legitimate-cultural-content back years, if not decades. If it's a choice between 'hot coffee' and 'no hot coffee', while it's not Rockstar's fault that they exist in a climate of cultural paranoia, I still wish they'd switched to decaf.
That was kinda my responce, too, actually. And that from someone who is themselves a game dev professional. Right or wrong, our country is obviously having a social debate about videogames, and in the middle of that, Rockstar is not just putting out iterations of GTA3, but... releasing content like this. Thanks for helping the rest of us in the industry reach some sort of accord and avoid uneccesary regulation, Rockstar. When I have to put my next indie release through some chickenshit review board process, I'll make sure to send you a nice note.
Pop-up blocking is an in-built feature of Firefox
If only that were still true.... Sadly, the advertisers appear to be way ahead of the Mozilla devs on this one.
Hm, I got modded as a troll for saying what you just said.
Frankly, the reason I think Vanguard is going to be much less successful than people like rellix think is the near-total unquestioning devotion and intolerance of alternative perspectives that V:SoH anticipators display in threads like this.
It's established fact, to the point of being banal, that McQuad was the person at Verant that wanted to retain slow level grinds, item camps, hell levels, competition for a limited supply of spawns, etc, etc. You can like this and support it in V:SoH, or you can dislike this and prefer, say, WoW's design. But pointing out that the people who put that stuff in EQ are the same people designing V:SoH isn't a troll. It's just a fact.
And if you find that fact angering or threatening, maybe you need to reassess your opinion of how good V:SoH is likely to be.