Yes, and that is in fact what I was referring to. It's just not terribly detailed - like when your particular server is (still) down but all the other PSTs are up, etc.:)
While I agree that they really haven't been doing an exceptional job of it, they have been giving some information at least. There have been a few items of information here and there in the forums...
I've had no problems with logging in, and I love the game, but I've already run into one or two bugs which still exist.
The most annoying/common so far - the gathering bug. Gathering the same item as someone else at the same time is prone to locking up that herb somehow and leaving you and the other person in a crouched gathering position (and anyone else who tries that herb later). Fortunately it resets your position if you log out.
The second thing I've run into was my camera randomly deciding it would only give me a sort of side profile. I could spin the camera around, but the moment I let go of the mouselook, it would spin back to the same view/direction. Once again, fixed by logging out and in again... but.. that one was really annoying me.
I agree, I don't much like that, though... if you look at it compared to other subscription services - a lot of those have some type of setup or installation fee as well.
Oh well, people who don't like subscriptions don't have to get it... it will do just fine without them from the looks of it so far:)
There's some merit to that argument, but there are a lot of other types of entertainment that require a constant influx of money to participate in. It's not like a subscription to WoW is alone in that respect. And some of the costs are much larger lump sums at the beginning rather than a small sum monthly... though it could be argued some of those are a more worthwhile use of time than staring at a computer screen. Still, I don't think it's so horrible...
Dunno, I was a little iffy about the 10/10 too though I love the game already. Still, it's just really good. There are some minor glitches and problems they're intentionally overlooking to give it 10/10. However, after playing FFXI previously, I can say... WoW just seems a *WHOLE* lot more playable and fun than the others. That may be why their review is so glowing and positive....
While a part of me agrees with that complaint, at the same time....
You could rent a few movies (or insert other form of entertainment) per month for a limited/set # of hours of entertainment, or.... you could pay $15 or less a month and spend as much time playing it/being entertained as you wish to.
When I get bored of it I'll unsubscribe, but for now it's worth the money to me:)
I have to second that:) A friend of mine insisted on getting FFXI and trying to get into that, so I tried that out with him, but soon got sick of the whole time sink aspect of it. It was impossible to get anywhere without sitting down and wasting a 4-6hour block of time trying to get a decent group, go out somewhere, wait while people got themselves killed repeatedly, etc etc. WoW has been nothing like that all so far, and any load times are hidden except at the very beginning.
Well, I did my share of mudding but bored of it after a few years. I tried out WoW in the open beta and enjoyed my brief time with it so I picked it up after it came out. I've enjoyed it so far. It's true that it doesn't really innovate too much over any of the others, but... what it does do is shine from how it's been polished. So far I've just found the whole experience smooth and enjoyable. It's still a mud with graphics thrown on, but it's quite well done and I look forward to getting to explore it further:)
I wasn't trying to play word games. The main point of taxing is for a government to relieve you of your hard earned cash. As long as I don't have to pay them a cent because I'm below the bracket, they can "tax" me all they want.
And as long as the cap is set at a reasonable level, I don't have an issue with this, US or otherwise. If someone wants to remain a US citizen while living externally indefinitely, then why shouldn't they still have to help support the US?
Well, the movie sucked, but the point the poster was making was that the story that was accepted included the line "or more along the line of the sucks-in-new-and-interesting-ways version of Highlander II?".
Well, you purchasing an album from a band will of course generate interest in the band through word of mouth/etc if you say anything to friends, regardless of whether you bought used or not.
Of course, what I was originally thinking when I wrote that was that people are more likely to buy something themselves if they know they can sell it later if they no longer want it.... it's true of anything, though I suppose it's probably more true of larger bill items than cds, but who knows. It's hard to really quantify something like that. I really don't think you can accurately say buying used cds never has any monetary effect on the artist/producers/etc at all.
Uh, it makes sense to me. The first thing you'd want to do after upgrading to XP would be install the service packs. They probably upgraded those seven machines to XP then accidently rolled the SP2 update out to everything rather than just those seven. That's the way it reads to me....
Well I never bothered removing labels, but I would have to agree with the OP. Their disks were complete crap. In my experience with them, they were crap. I had friends giving me multi-disk, multi-part zips, and almost invariably when there were problems, the re-used AOL disks were the ones that crapped out with bad sectors.
Right, because you have so much proof they did that themselves. Not that it's impossible, but you're just talking out your ass. I've seen a whole lot more serial codes/cd keys released by hackers than by companies, haven't you? Seems the more likely situation to me....
Anyway, while I don't know that I agree with their losing access to legitimately bought games, they would have to be pretty dumb to go and enter something like that in an online service if they actually thought it through first. I don't have a whole lot of sympathy in regards to that:)
Indeed, my last rash of problems were mostly related to that. I had a hell of a time getting everything cleaned out. I didn't get to trying HijackThis, but S&D, Spyware Blaster, and Ad-Aware were unable to remove everything.
It really sucks when every time you open an IE/Explorer window it restarts and dls 3/4 of the stuff you just stopped and removed. Before that I was using IE maybe 30-40% of the time. That was enough to make me swear it off for anything but windows updates, and I wish I didn't have to use it for that....
Unfortunately, that particular mix won't always do the job right. The last time I had a problem with bargain buddy, nls, and a slew of others, that mix would only remove a few of the files. Hijackthis might have helped more but I didn't try it, and spyware blaster didn't do the job either though. To get rid of everything I finally ended up having to use giant antispyware, which removed another 48 files or so that the others were completely ignoring (some despite being parts of what they can scan for).
Well, I was actually just parroting the general #s that seem to be showing up elsewhere. I haven't actually bothered to count the time myself. I know the initial load is far worse than that, but the individual loads afterwards don't seem to be *as* bad though they were still driving me insane. For reference though, my machine is a AMD XP 3000+, Radeon 9800 Pro, 768MB ram, with a 7200rpm 8MB cache WD drive. Not at the extreme top of the line now, but admittedly not quite what you'd call bottom of the line either.
Re: Vampire the masquerade, I read somewhere that has the same load time problems? Is it a remake of the old one using Source, or a new game?
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Yikes. I like BT, but at the same time, I'm not a huge fan of it. I don't like how they've taken out the cap configurability of the main client. I know, nobody likes a leech, but most of us have limited up bandwidth and it's frustrating to have that saturated. I know I know, the official client supports a cli option, how obvious!
Anyway, on a different but related topic, what's worse is I'm hearing whisperings of at least one large ISP starting to severely cap BT traffic in the background to something like 10-20k using traffic shaping software/hardware. With BT traffic accounting for like 60-80% of ISP traffic (wild guess/recollection of the insane # seen in past articles) now, other ISPs can't be too far behind, which doesn't bode well for its use for something like that.
The stutter bug (which has only affected me mildly), and more annoyingly.... loading. The loadtime for all the textures/etc is just ugly. I know Doom3's load per level was pretty nasty on my machine, but HL2 stops and loads for 5-20 seconds every few minutes. That's my single biggest annoyance so far.
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Yes, and that is in fact what I was referring to. It's just not terribly detailed - like when your particular server is (still) down but all the other PSTs are up, etc. :)
While I agree that they really haven't been doing an exceptional job of it, they have been giving some information at least. There have been a few items of information here and there in the forums...
I've had no problems with logging in, and I love the game, but I've already run into one or two bugs which still exist.
The most annoying/common so far - the gathering bug. Gathering the same item as someone else at the same time is prone to locking up that herb somehow and leaving you and the other person in a crouched gathering position (and anyone else who tries that herb later). Fortunately it resets your position if you log out.
The second thing I've run into was my camera randomly deciding it would only give me a sort of side profile. I could spin the camera around, but the moment I let go of the mouselook, it would spin back to the same view/direction. Once again, fixed by logging out and in again... but.. that one was really annoying me.
I agree, I don't much like that, though ... if you look at it compared to other subscription services - a lot of those have some type of setup or installation fee as well.
:)
Oh well, people who don't like subscriptions don't have to get it... it will do just fine without them from the looks of it so far
Yeah, though I've avoided that fun aspect of it thus far by choosing a rogue without realizing it was basically the powerhouse char :D
There's some merit to that argument, but there are a lot of other types of entertainment that require a constant influx of money to participate in. It's not like a subscription to WoW is alone in that respect. And some of the costs are much larger lump sums at the beginning rather than a small sum monthly... though it could be argued some of those are a more worthwhile use of time than staring at a computer screen. Still, I don't think it's so horrible...
Dunno, I was a little iffy about the 10/10 too though I love the game already. Still, it's just really good. There are some minor glitches and problems they're intentionally overlooking to give it 10/10. However, after playing FFXI previously, I can say... WoW just seems a *WHOLE* lot more playable and fun than the others. That may be why their review is so glowing and positive....
While a part of me agrees with that complaint, at the same time....
:)
You could rent a few movies (or insert other form of entertainment) per month for a limited/set # of hours of entertainment, or.... you could pay $15 or less a month and spend as much time playing it/being entertained as you wish to.
When I get bored of it I'll unsubscribe, but for now it's worth the money to me
I have to second that :) A friend of mine insisted on getting FFXI and trying to get into that, so I tried that out with him, but soon got sick of the whole time sink aspect of it. It was impossible to get anywhere without sitting down and wasting a 4-6hour block of time trying to get a decent group, go out somewhere, wait while people got themselves killed repeatedly, etc etc. WoW has been nothing like that all so far, and any load times are hidden except at the very beginning.
Well, I did my share of mudding but bored of it after a few years. I tried out WoW in the open beta and enjoyed my brief time with it so I picked it up after it came out. I've enjoyed it so far. It's true that it doesn't really innovate too much over any of the others, but... what it does do is shine from how it's been polished. So far I've just found the whole experience smooth and enjoyable. It's still a mud with graphics thrown on, but it's quite well done and I look forward to getting to explore it further :)
I wasn't trying to play word games. The main point of taxing is for a government to relieve you of your hard earned cash. As long as I don't have to pay them a cent because I'm below the bracket, they can "tax" me all they want.
And as long as the cap is set at a reasonable level, I don't have an issue with this, US or otherwise. If someone wants to remain a US citizen while living externally indefinitely, then why shouldn't they still have to help support the US?
by the way, yeah, if you are a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident, you are taxed by the U.S. government wherever you live, including s. korea.
That depends entirely on your income. You still have to file taxes, yes, but you don't pay anything unless you make more than a certain bracket.
Well, the movie sucked, but the point the poster was making was that the story that was accepted included the line "or more along the line of the sucks-in-new-and-interesting-ways version of Highlander II?".
:)
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Well, you purchasing an album from a band will of course generate interest in the band through word of mouth/etc if you say anything to friends, regardless of whether you bought used or not.
Of course, what I was originally thinking when I wrote that was that people are more likely to buy something themselves if they know they can sell it later if they no longer want it.... it's true of anything, though I suppose it's probably more true of larger bill items than cds, but who knows. It's hard to really quantify something like that. I really don't think you can accurately say buying used cds never has any monetary effect on the artist/producers/etc at all.
Any "more" money you mean. They still got some in the first place so in some respect you're still helping to drive original sales.
There is a way to get read/write support for NTFS now. It uses the real NTFS.SYS driver. Here it is: Captive
Uh, it makes sense to me. The first thing you'd want to do after upgrading to XP would be install the service packs. They probably upgraded those seven machines to XP then accidently rolled the SP2 update out to everything rather than just those seven. That's the way it reads to me....
Well I never bothered removing labels, but I would have to agree with the OP. Their disks were complete crap. In my experience with them, they were crap. I had friends giving me multi-disk, multi-part zips, and almost invariably when there were problems, the re-used AOL disks were the ones that crapped out with bad sectors.
Right, because you have so much proof they did that themselves. Not that it's impossible, but you're just talking out your ass. I've seen a whole lot more serial codes/cd keys released by hackers than by companies, haven't you? Seems the more likely situation to me....
:)
Anyway, while I don't know that I agree with their losing access to legitimately bought games, they would have to be pretty dumb to go and enter something like that in an online service if they actually thought it through first. I don't have a whole lot of sympathy in regards to that
Indeed, my last rash of problems were mostly related to that. I had a hell of a time getting everything cleaned out. I didn't get to trying HijackThis, but S&D, Spyware Blaster, and Ad-Aware were unable to remove everything.
It really sucks when every time you open an IE/Explorer window it restarts and dls 3/4 of the stuff you just stopped and removed. Before that I was using IE maybe 30-40% of the time. That was enough to make me swear it off for anything but windows updates, and I wish I didn't have to use it for that....
Unfortunately, that particular mix won't always do the job right. The last time I had a problem with bargain buddy, nls, and a slew of others, that mix would only remove a few of the files. Hijackthis might have helped more but I didn't try it, and spyware blaster didn't do the job either though. To get rid of everything I finally ended up having to use giant antispyware, which removed another 48 files or so that the others were completely ignoring (some despite being parts of what they can scan for).
Well, I was actually just parroting the general #s that seem to be showing up elsewhere. I haven't actually bothered to count the time myself. I know the initial load is far worse than that, but the individual loads afterwards don't seem to be *as* bad though they were still driving me insane. For reference though, my machine is a AMD XP 3000+, Radeon 9800 Pro, 768MB ram, with a 7200rpm 8MB cache WD drive. Not at the extreme top of the line now, but admittedly not quite what you'd call bottom of the line either.
Re: Vampire the masquerade, I read somewhere that has the same load time problems? Is it a remake of the old one using Source, or a new game?
Yikes. I like BT, but at the same time, I'm not a huge fan of it. I don't like how they've taken out the cap configurability of the main client. I know, nobody likes a leech, but most of us have limited up bandwidth and it's frustrating to have that saturated. I know I know, the official client supports a cli option, how obvious!
Anyway, on a different but related topic, what's worse is I'm hearing whisperings of at least one large ISP starting to severely cap BT traffic in the background to something like 10-20k using traffic shaping software/hardware. With BT traffic accounting for like 60-80% of ISP traffic (wild guess/recollection of the insane # seen in past articles) now, other ISPs can't be too far behind, which doesn't bode well for its use for something like that.
The stutter bug (which has only affected me mildly), and more annoyingly.... loading. The loadtime for all the textures/etc is just ugly. I know Doom3's load per level was pretty nasty on my machine, but HL2 stops and loads for 5-20 seconds every few minutes. That's my single biggest annoyance so far.
Ahhhh I shouldn't have read that. That's kind of sadly hilarious though :D