I agree with you that the bean counters of Blizzard or its parent company made the descision to not buy more servers up front. That is very obvious since they knew exactly how popular it was just by looking at the year long beta.
However the cost of new servers is a lot more than 5k for 20. Each world server is made up of multile machines. These aren't Golden Dragon brand single cpu boxes either. So the cost of each is probably closer to 40k per server, adding up to possiblly serveral hundred thousand per new world.
Regardless, at 6 million per month it's really peanuts in a game that will run for years except to management that looks at profits per quarter so they get a nice bonus.
Everquest developers are going to allow shortcuts to get to previously difficult zones. Where it might of taken 15 or so flag events to get entrance, you will now be able to enter the zone with a group already flagged, get an item in the zone, do a small quest and be permanently flagged.
They couldn't find enough buyers because it didn't do what buyers wanted. They deviated from the design in 2.0 compared to what 1.x promised. The first release had some good stuff that just need a bit more management around. Then in version 2 they went a different direction.
We listened to them but there was no way we would of spend millions buying into UDC they way it was turning into.
What it boiled down to is the stopped listening to what customers wanted to began tell them what they needed.
I've had a few Apple ][ snafus. I didn't plug the ribbon cable properly on the floppy drive controller and when I turned on the computer smoke poured out of the drive. As I recall, the drive still worked but the controller card was a little scorched.
I also used to program my F8 ROM chip and once I pulled it out while the computer was on (the monitor was off). That fried the F8.
Same goes for beer. The swill most people drink and call good beer really makes you wonder. I drink big brewery beer from time to time but I know a good beer when I taste one where sadly a lot of others can't accept the taste.
"Gozaimasu" is used to make some phrases polite. Then you have formal and informal speach and past present combos, do a little conjugation and voila! Arigato gozaimashita polite past tense of thank you (it has already been done). Gozaimasu can be for both future and past however.
>It was way before my time, but wasn't it really proggressive to have a black woman play the part of one of the officers?
It was but they took it to the next level. The first interracial kiss on TV Nov. 22, 1968 took place between Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) on an episode of "Star Trek."
Sony has already announced they are going to offer the option to buy in game abilities, items or perks. Currently planned for some of their PS2 online titles.
Sony is already toying with the idea of allowing people to buy items and powers in their online games. Laying aside the arguement that it would destroy the feel of the game, it would certainly be a way to see all the game has to offer.
They are planning this for their online PS2 titles, but I think it could happen in their PC titles in the near future.
NCsoft has reported that Lineage has more than four million subscribers, most of them in Korea.
I read an article recently that stated that the profit per sub on Lineage is about 1/4 that of EQ. Still, they are making at least 2x that SOE is on EQ.
http://www.arcadedepot.com/ has decent prices for cocktail cabinets. This guy http://cocktail.loungespot.com/ has a pretty decent write up on building his mame machine.
I played on Arctic from 96-99. The Shriners were the games death method then. After they left there was an uneasy peace between players (and occasional pkill) that no other game I've played matched. Good times.
SAP Peoplesoft are applications that require a rdbms to store its information. For the most part, this is split between Oracle and MSSQL. SAP needs Oracle to support their business. Oracle also wants to enter the market themselves and not just be a backend supplier.
Knights of legend's problem was it was on like 8 disks and needed swapping a lot. The solution was a nice little hack to put all the disks onto a 800k apple drive, which the//gs and later//e could handle.
It was pretty impressive game, I do believe however it was written entirely by someone outside Origin but they published it for him. A lot of Apple games where like that back then.
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I agree with you that the bean counters of Blizzard or its parent company made the descision to not buy more servers up front. That is very obvious since they knew exactly how popular it was just by looking at the year long beta.
However the cost of new servers is a lot more than 5k for 20. Each world server is made up of multile machines. These aren't Golden Dragon brand single cpu boxes either. So the cost of each is probably closer to 40k per server, adding up to possiblly serveral hundred thousand per new world.
Regardless, at 6 million per month it's really peanuts in a game that will run for years except to management that looks at profits per quarter so they get a nice bonus.
Everquest developers are going to allow shortcuts to get to previously difficult zones. Where it might of taken 15 or so flag events to get entrance, you will now be able to enter the zone with a group already flagged, get an item in the zone, do a small quest and be permanently flagged.
It's almost as if Microsoft bought out the creator of Delphi and had him build the same thing.
Oh, wait...
They couldn't find enough buyers because it didn't do what buyers wanted. They deviated from the design in 2.0 compared to what 1.x promised. The first release had some good stuff that just need a bit more management around. Then in version 2 they went a different direction.
We listened to them but there was no way we would of spend millions buying into UDC they way it was turning into.
What it boiled down to is the stopped listening to what customers wanted to began tell them what they needed.
I've had a few Apple ][ snafus. I didn't plug the ribbon cable properly on the floppy drive controller and when I turned on the computer smoke poured out of the drive. As I recall, the drive still worked but the controller card was a little scorched.
I also used to program my F8 ROM chip and once I pulled it out while the computer was on (the monitor was off). That fried the F8.
The levy isn't a burden. Buying a spindle of 100, stores sell CDRs for $0.25 each and DVD+-R for $0.70 each.
Same goes for beer. The swill most people drink and call good beer really makes you wonder. I drink big brewery beer from time to time but I know a good beer when I taste one where sadly a lot of others can't accept the taste.
"Gozaimasu" is used to make some phrases polite. Then you have formal and informal speach and past present combos, do a little conjugation and voila! Arigato gozaimashita polite past tense of thank you (it has already been done). Gozaimasu can be for both future and past however.
I want my Chilliwack!
Your numbers are all wrong. He was basically losing 0.67 lbs every week. Losing 2.5 pounds a month via daily exercise is hardly impossible.
Also, people who begin to exercise typically eat more sensibly as well. Fewer sodas, pizza, etc, drinking more water.
>It was way before my time, but wasn't it really proggressive to have a black woman play the part of one of the officers?
It was but they took it to the next level. The first interracial kiss on TV Nov. 22, 1968 took place between Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) on an episode of "Star Trek."
That's right. It specifically targetted Opera 7.0. Opera 6 worked fine.
Sony has already announced they are going to offer the option to buy in game abilities, items or perks. Currently planned for some of their PS2 online titles.
Sony is already toying with the idea of allowing people to buy items and powers in their online games. Laying aside the arguement that it would destroy the feel of the game, it would certainly be a way to see all the game has to offer.
They are planning this for their online PS2 titles, but I think it could happen in their PC titles in the near future.
NCsoft has reported that Lineage has more than four million subscribers, most of them in Korea.
I read an article recently that stated that the profit per sub on Lineage is about 1/4 that of EQ. Still, they are making at least 2x that SOE is on EQ.
My add blocking software stops text adds from google, yahoo, etc.
allofmp3.com is about $0.15 per song and you can choose mp3, oog, aac, and your bitrate on the fly.
We have a few NetFlix clones in Canada
a l.ca/
http://www.moviesforme.ca/
http://www.dvd-rent
http://www.relayrentals.com/
http://www.arcadedepot.com/ has decent prices for cocktail cabinets. This guy http://cocktail.loungespot.com/ has a pretty decent write up on building his mame machine.
I played on Arctic from 96-99. The Shriners were the games death method then. After they left there was an uneasy peace between players (and occasional pkill) that no other game I've played matched. Good times.
Methinks you have misread the kg for lbs.
Right on said web page it states, it's 14.1 lb. (6.4kg) with combo drive, 15.7 lb. (7.1kg) with combo drive and battery.
SAP Peoplesoft are applications that require a rdbms to store its information. For the most part, this is split between Oracle and MSSQL. SAP needs Oracle to support their business. Oracle also wants to enter the market themselves and not just be a backend supplier.
Bah I got Knights of Legend and Times of Lore mixed up. ToL is 2 floppies and KoL was the 8 disk swapping monster.
Knights of legend's problem was it was on like 8 disks and needed swapping a lot. The solution was a nice little hack to put all the disks onto a 800k apple drive, which the //gs and later //e could handle.
It was pretty impressive game, I do believe however it was written entirely by someone outside Origin but they published it for him. A lot of Apple games where like that back then.
Actually this was a pretty fun game. I played on my Apple ][.
There was also Tangled Tales a wacky RPG from Origin probably their last game for the Apple platform.