actually supposedly playing on normal, is harder than playing on hard, because the requirements for some things are actually harder to complete on normal.
but the story ends with her death. People try to claim the shadows are parts of the original JP data for her, but all research and evidence points to the fact that much like the twins in 4 in the original version as well as rereleases, shes dead and never comes back.
all the gameshark does is force the data in, but depending on where you are, you can actually crash the game doing it.
I agree, compared to FFVI iit was kinda a dissapointment, like they spend forever on the graphics and forgot that a good story has to well infact, HAVE a story.
Not to say that VII didnt have a good story, but once Aries dies, its well kind of a letdown. Here they are building and building and building and then bame, shes dead and the story just takes a nosedive into emoville.
If they had made it so that Cloud made the ultimate sacrafice at the end and comes to the conclusion that he needs to, I have a feeling a lot of the ending could have been saved. But then we wouldnt have AC.
The number of people getting pushed out of there CS jobs for codejunkies in China and India is rising.
Maybe the reason people are not going into CS is because most companies in the US are farming off the stuff a comp sci major whos starting out in the field would do to these 2 dollar workers because its cheaper.
People go where the money/oppertunity is, right now, unless your lucky I dont see either around here, in particular on the east and west cost. There is just no job security in those fields, not where Hao Yang can take the job for no benifits.
yet Nintendo still made millions more than Microsoft and never once dipped into the red, while Microsoft has yet to see a profit in its games division.
Even when Nintendo reported a profit loss, it was a PROFIT loss. Microsoft hasn't even made profit off the Xbox or the 360, it hemorages it out in campaigns to get people to actually play the system.
the minute Microsoft starts paying what Nintendo pays in advertising and such is the minute the xbox dies and Microsoft leaves the market. They would never survive if they couldnt spend the millions they have on that system.
sorry I call Shenanigans on you. Even with Legacy software there is a noticable speed boost over how slow the G4 was. Maybe be not 5x but then they never SAID everything was 5x as fast, only up to.
see the problem here is, you think this is something new and different that Bush and his boys made this up or that tis the direction our country s going.
But the thing is (and what the article flamebaits you into thinking) paper journalists dont have the right either. It is required BY LAW that a journalist not withhold information that was stolen by a company thats not of public interest. What this means is if a journalist finds out that company A is dumping chemicals into the kiddy pool at the Y every week, they have the right to tell people. But if said company has a cool new product in production but its just that in production and they dont want anyone knowing about it, then it is well within the companys right to protect that, and if a journalist prints something that leaks the product, then the journalist and their companys is in BIG BIG trouble.
Leaks like this have completely destroyed companies and people have lost tons of money over it. Its well in their right to find out who did it. This punk college kid knows who it was, they have full right to string him up for the crime if he doesnt want to tell.
This isnt anything new, this is in our laws for a reason and HAS been there for hundreds of years now. Bloggers dont get a "get out of jail card" simply cause they never went to college to learn this, and I am disgusted by the assholes in the paper press who are using the case to push their own adgenda along to maybe get rights to leak info which they never had.
why without a mouse. only the gamecube doesnt have mouse support.
and 360 and PS3 have high def support.
But sales speak for themselves. PC's will always have the cooler games yes, but PC gaming has been a MAJOR slump for years and even the huge hit WoW was didnt pull it out.
dont worry about the AC, he has a history of following me and spounting WoW fanboy crap any post I make.
I might be somewhat a FFXI fanboy myself, but its only cause I played both games and saw the weaknesses Blizzard has in WoW, the biggest being a lack of storyline and the sheer lack of high lvl content on a game where it's inherantly designed for high lvl players.
Battlegrounds and ganking low lvls who stray into contested areas can only support people for so long. And players are getting tired of killing HNMs for that.5% increase in damage over a weapon of the exact same design and shape.
While I am sure the expantions going to be a huge draw because of the added new races and such, give it another year and a half and I have a feeling Blizzard will be seriously hurting unless they start addressing the endgame problems. As it is I know of a lot of FFXI players who left because of the timesink issues to play WoW only to come back because of the endgame issues and lack of a feeling of accomplishment that WoW gave them after a few months. While there are plenty of people who really dont care about that stuff, you need to adress both sides not one or the other.
SE saw the timesink problems, which is why there are a huge number of ways to get XP now, from scrolls, jobs who can actually boost XP (Corsar has a actual move that if lucky boosts XP gain for a short time) gear that gives XP bonus, instances that give XP AND you can purchase XP with points upon finishing and even the new signat for the added zones gives a XP bonus while worn. Bliz still hasnt address the endgame issues which as this point it really should have.
was going to comment on that but I wasnt entirely sure if I was remembering correctly or not. But yes they claimed ages ago that they would never use Ads. Infact one of the original mods used to go to my school and even he said that the difference between them and other places at that time was they would never run ads.
And you HAVE to pay by the month now, back in the old days you could buy a lifetime membership (infact my girlfriend STILL has one) then all of a sudden they stopped offering it as well as seriously nerfed the free accounts to the point people where leaving in droves and they had to re-instate a few things (like more than one user pic). Something tells me this was planned as a last ditch thing if the paid members wouldnt accept getting thier fee's raised too high.
the thing was at fan fest the producer commented on the fact that as of that time, they didnt even know what the PS3 was going to even BE like, since they didnt have a Dev version yet.
It probably will be out for both systems its just they never mentioned it in the second article.
FFXI did very well for a MMO, prior to WoW and Lin2 it was the 2nd best selling MMO of all time and is still number 4 at 650,000. Likewise they still are turning a huge profit, enough of one that their Japanese players got a second strategy based MMO called Fantasy Earth not long after, though SE wont release it here cause there is little market for a strategy based MMO in their opinions on the NA market.
EQ isn't even close in the number of people they had at the most popular, and that was considered the "to beat" game for years in the MMO circle.
People want MMO's on the smaller systems. All of them sept Gamecube can accept keyboards and the controller is remarkably good in player movement, much better than the mouse or keys are, especially when you consider its not a FPS that requires precision just movement of character/camera. If Blizzard could have gotten their head out of their asses they would have known this, but then the company cant even get Ghost out, and from all indications have no interest in the market, only in the PC/Mac market.
If SE can put out a game similar to FFXI that works with the hard-cores, while keeping in the improvements they made in the last year in updates/new expansion that caters to the casuals with easy XP, solo and small group (3-4) oriented content AND put it out for the PS3/360/Vista, they will have a goldmine by the time it comes out, unless Blizzard can get their act together and see that computer gaming is on its way out.
no hes a raging asshole. he is well know to be a total dick to everyone and to feel his writing is superior to everything out there.
There are many storys on the web of him berating announcers, hosts, guests, and even the fans in the audience. Why people look up to him I dont know. If he wasnt famous he would be that old guy who everyone stayed away from and died alone in their house and wouldnt be found for 3-4 months cause even their kids wouldnt want to talk to them.
ahh my stalker is back.. god I wish AC's automatically couldn't post so i could block your moronic ranting toward me by name.
up until recently he has used the 500,000 figure, he explicitly said he moved it up based on character to player ratio. this was JUST updated and is not "over a year old" like you seem to think.
the 500,000 figured though is NOT a figment this is hard data from 2004. SE just stopped playing the number game since it doesnt much mater to anyone but Blizzard, most MMO's dont even have 100,000 thousand.
in 2005 they said the number had not much changed, meaning it could have gone a little up, it could have gone a little down, but based on number of players on at any one time likely did go up since servers went from 2000-3000 players to 2500-3500 players with another 1000 on the weekends.
They have yet to state anything beyond there was a player increase at fan fest. Likely they wont say anything till they see how many new vs transfered characters come from the 360.
I simularly feel the same, a lot of the numbers are very weird, he doesnt consider Lin or Lin 2's official figures to be valid, when he does consider WoW's when its been proven by many people that Blizzard greatly scewed the number by counting past and trial subscriptions along with current subscriptions.
WoW would still come out on top, but if you actually used real number and not Blizzards official, you would come out well under 4 mill for the game.
Would love to know where the FFXI numbers came from too. I know we did get a server increase and that other servers noticed it too, but I didnt think it was THAT much of a increase that we are closing in on 750 thousand.
which would mean 2% of 5 cents since they cant count the 95 cents since that doesnt actually go to Apple, it goes directly to the record labels.
Thus for every 100 songs, they will have made 1 dollar, thus if you go retroactivly becomes 1 million dollars for a patten from a company that doesnt exist anymore beyond 3 guys in a office with a phone because they where forced out of the market at the end of the dot com bubble.
which was ripped off of Apple System 6, Konfabulator even willingly admitted they based their idea off the older System 6 apps program. Microsoft of course rips everything off of Apple (cough Vista Cough)
um you sir dont actually know what the hell conspiracy means.
This is actually all fact, our history in the middle east in the last 40 years has been terrible. The fact that our two biggest enemies of the region (Iraq and Iran) both use US military hardware against us as well as Osama is a very capable tactician in the way US forces move their troops is a testament to this since we TRAINED Bin Laden and gave him stinger missiles during the Soviet Afghan war.
Even worse is the fact that both Bush and his right hand man Cheney have hands in the company who through its many subsidiaries is largely gaining from this war in defense contracts, rebuilding contracts, and security contracts.
the kind of people who surf/. wouldn't. But then your talking about the same number who would leave their computers open to attacks, the same number who wouldn't know what vorbis is and the same number who think DRM is bad.
IE your talking about like.000002% of the population here.
A LOT of people shop at Walmart. and a large percentage of the technically challenged would buy things from there.
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actually supposedly playing on normal, is harder than playing on hard, because the requirements for some things are actually harder to complete on normal.
all the gameshark does is force the data in, but depending on where you are, you can actually crash the game doing it.
agreed those tags need to go. it does nothing but promote group think, even moreso than Slashdot promotes currently.
Not to say that VII didnt have a good story, but once Aries dies, its well kind of a letdown. Here they are building and building and building and then bame, shes dead and the story just takes a nosedive into emoville.
If they had made it so that Cloud made the ultimate sacrafice at the end and comes to the conclusion that he needs to, I have a feeling a lot of the ending could have been saved. But then we wouldnt have AC.
Maybe the reason people are not going into CS is because most companies in the US are farming off the stuff a comp sci major whos starting out in the field would do to these 2 dollar workers because its cheaper.
People go where the money/oppertunity is, right now, unless your lucky I dont see either around here, in particular on the east and west cost. There is just no job security in those fields, not where Hao Yang can take the job for no benifits.
Even when Nintendo reported a profit loss, it was a PROFIT loss. Microsoft hasn't even made profit off the Xbox or the 360, it hemorages it out in campaigns to get people to actually play the system.
the minute Microsoft starts paying what Nintendo pays in advertising and such is the minute the xbox dies and Microsoft leaves the market. They would never survive if they couldnt spend the millions they have on that system.
sorry I call Shenanigans on you. Even with Legacy software there is a noticable speed boost over how slow the G4 was. Maybe be not 5x but then they never SAID everything was 5x as fast, only up to.
But the thing is (and what the article flamebaits you into thinking) paper journalists dont have the right either. It is required BY LAW that a journalist not withhold information that was stolen by a company thats not of public interest. What this means is if a journalist finds out that company A is dumping chemicals into the kiddy pool at the Y every week, they have the right to tell people. But if said company has a cool new product in production but its just that in production and they dont want anyone knowing about it, then it is well within the companys right to protect that, and if a journalist prints something that leaks the product, then the journalist and their companys is in BIG BIG trouble.
Leaks like this have completely destroyed companies and people have lost tons of money over it. Its well in their right to find out who did it. This punk college kid knows who it was, they have full right to string him up for the crime if he doesnt want to tell.
This isnt anything new, this is in our laws for a reason and HAS been there for hundreds of years now. Bloggers dont get a "get out of jail card" simply cause they never went to college to learn this, and I am disgusted by the assholes in the paper press who are using the case to push their own adgenda along to maybe get rights to leak info which they never had.
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/news/show_blog_entry .php?topic_id=24533453
looks like thats one of the games you wanted to brag about
why without a mouse. only the gamecube doesnt have mouse support. and 360 and PS3 have high def support. But sales speak for themselves. PC's will always have the cooler games yes, but PC gaming has been a MAJOR slump for years and even the huge hit WoW was didnt pull it out.
I might be somewhat a FFXI fanboy myself, but its only cause I played both games and saw the weaknesses Blizzard has in WoW, the biggest being a lack of storyline and the sheer lack of high lvl content on a game where it's inherantly designed for high lvl players.
Battlegrounds and ganking low lvls who stray into contested areas can only support people for so long. And players are getting tired of killing HNMs for that .5% increase in damage over a weapon of the exact same design and shape.
While I am sure the expantions going to be a huge draw because of the added new races and such, give it another year and a half and I have a feeling Blizzard will be seriously hurting unless they start addressing the endgame problems. As it is I know of a lot of FFXI players who left because of the timesink issues to play WoW only to come back because of the endgame issues and lack of a feeling of accomplishment that WoW gave them after a few months. While there are plenty of people who really dont care about that stuff, you need to adress both sides not one or the other.
SE saw the timesink problems, which is why there are a huge number of ways to get XP now, from scrolls, jobs who can actually boost XP (Corsar has a actual move that if lucky boosts XP gain for a short time) gear that gives XP bonus, instances that give XP AND you can purchase XP with points upon finishing and even the new signat for the added zones gives a XP bonus while worn. Bliz still hasnt address the endgame issues which as this point it really should have.
And you HAVE to pay by the month now, back in the old days you could buy a lifetime membership (infact my girlfriend STILL has one) then all of a sudden they stopped offering it as well as seriously nerfed the free accounts to the point people where leaving in droves and they had to re-instate a few things (like more than one user pic). Something tells me this was planned as a last ditch thing if the paid members wouldnt accept getting thier fee's raised too high.
the thing was at fan fest the producer commented on the fact that as of that time, they didnt even know what the PS3 was going to even BE like, since they didnt have a Dev version yet.
It probably will be out for both systems its just they never mentioned it in the second article.
FFXI did very well for a MMO, prior to WoW and Lin2 it was the 2nd best selling MMO of all time and is still number 4 at 650,000. Likewise they still are turning a huge profit, enough of one that their Japanese players got a second strategy based MMO called Fantasy Earth not long after, though SE wont release it here cause there is little market for a strategy based MMO in their opinions on the NA market.
EQ isn't even close in the number of people they had at the most popular, and that was considered the "to beat" game for years in the MMO circle.
People want MMO's on the smaller systems. All of them sept Gamecube can accept keyboards and the controller is remarkably good in player movement, much better than the mouse or keys are, especially when you consider its not a FPS that requires precision just movement of character/camera. If Blizzard could have gotten their head out of their asses they would have known this, but then the company cant even get Ghost out, and from all indications have no interest in the market, only in the PC/Mac market.
If SE can put out a game similar to FFXI that works with the hard-cores, while keeping in the improvements they made in the last year in updates/new expansion that caters to the casuals with easy XP, solo and small group (3-4) oriented content AND put it out for the PS3/360/Vista, they will have a goldmine by the time it comes out, unless Blizzard can get their act together and see that computer gaming is on its way out.
LJ has paid accounts and paid for their servers and setup years ago. its just upkeep now.
There are many storys on the web of him berating announcers, hosts, guests, and even the fans in the audience. Why people look up to him I dont know. If he wasnt famous he would be that old guy who everyone stayed away from and died alone in their house and wouldnt be found for 3-4 months cause even their kids wouldnt want to talk to them.
Apple's lawyers can easily spin that as well we dont make $1.00 we only make 5 cents.
If on the off chance Apple actually loses, watch and you will see they are going to make a lot LESS money than they actually think.
up until recently he has used the 500,000 figure, he explicitly said he moved it up based on character to player ratio. this was JUST updated and is not "over a year old" like you seem to think.
the 500,000 figured though is NOT a figment this is hard data from 2004. SE just stopped playing the number game since it doesnt much mater to anyone but Blizzard, most MMO's dont even have 100,000 thousand.
in 2005 they said the number had not much changed, meaning it could have gone a little up, it could have gone a little down, but based on number of players on at any one time likely did go up since servers went from 2000-3000 players to 2500-3500 players with another 1000 on the weekends.
They have yet to state anything beyond there was a player increase at fan fest. Likely they wont say anything till they see how many new vs transfered characters come from the 360.
WoW would still come out on top, but if you actually used real number and not Blizzards official, you would come out well under 4 mill for the game.
Would love to know where the FFXI numbers came from too. I know we did get a server increase and that other servers noticed it too, but I didnt think it was THAT much of a increase that we are closing in on 750 thousand.
Thus for every 100 songs, they will have made 1 dollar, thus if you go retroactivly becomes 1 million dollars for a patten from a company that doesnt exist anymore beyond 3 guys in a office with a phone because they where forced out of the market at the end of the dot com bubble.
This is actually all fact, our history in the middle east in the last 40 years has been terrible. The fact that our two biggest enemies of the region (Iraq and Iran) both use US military hardware against us as well as Osama is a very capable tactician in the way US forces move their troops is a testament to this since we TRAINED Bin Laden and gave him stinger missiles during the Soviet Afghan war.
Even worse is the fact that both Bush and his right hand man Cheney have hands in the company who through its many subsidiaries is largely gaining from this war in defense contracts, rebuilding contracts, and security contracts.
Haliburton
unles its made with a pack of chewing gum, string, can of raid, and a wire, you cant call it MacGyver-esk :p.
the seconds not entirely safe either.
IE your talking about like .000002% of the population here.
A LOT of people shop at Walmart. and a large percentage of the technically challenged would buy things from there.