And if there wasn't a story then Blizzard wouldn't be in the news. If there wasn't a story the modder wouldn't be in the news. It is pretty much a win for everyone involved for this to be news.
The guy has gotten a job offer and now a tour of Blizzard over this. How is this a tarnish exactly? If it was such a tarnish, why would a company immediately offer to scoop him up. You don't know what you are talking about. Any budding game developer would love to tbe in this position.
They want the guy to change the name of his mod and suddenly the golden fairy that made love to you in your sleep is your evil step father that gets drunk and beats you. Over react much?
Your analogy is terrible. Pawn shops have to follow the law or they will be shut down. If they are knowingly selling illegal goods, they will be shut down. Analogies are only useful when trying to explain a difficult concept. This is not one of those cases. The government wants to stop child porn. They propose a technical solution which isn't feasible and places the burden on the ISP. ISP complains it isn't feasible. Pretty simple.
He lives in reality. Where companies can get it wrong the first time and get it right after that. Not saying that is necessarily the case here, but the previous Windows phone OS and the current one are fundamentally different. Windows ME was hideous but XP was extremely solid.
So to be just as inflammatory back at you: how slow are people these days that they can't evaluate each product by their merit?
Wow. I am just shocked they wouldn't introduce LTE in this version. I suppose it isn't rolled out yet and they will include it in the next generation. But they missed the opportunity on being able to say "we have the first true 4G iPhone".
If your whole business model collapses when you remove all the illegal material, then you are probably being immoral. They could easily implement a check on what is uploaded that would block files that already have been flagged.
If you removed all the illegal files from all of the Internet, google would still be viable and so would ISPs...so I don't think you are really countering his point.
Do you have a point? Your post is all over the place and I can't figure it out. You don't make any sense with your whole injection vs digestion argument. As if injecting something is instantly absorbed throughout your body....and consuming something normally is so slow that something toxic wouldn't damage the system. The rest of your post is just stating random things without a point or a conclusion. Yeah, some very small percentage of people will react badly to vaccines. If the people who react poorly to the vaccine is greater than the people saved by the vaccine then we should probably reevaluate the use of the vaccine. Duh. This isn't the case...so freaking get your kids their vaccines.
I disagree. Forums aren't just for complaining to the developer because you think you can design the game better. It is to discuss the game and post announcements. Having a forum is a good way to create a community around your game. The developer doesn't have to read it...some people will appreciate it...but as long as it is a good game, that is all that matters. I could care less if a dev posts in the forum.
Everyone was freaking out that there was a Star Wars game where you couldn't play a Jedi. The nerd rage was fierce. When people think Star Wars, they think light sabres...that is just how it is. So you have to have Jedi...and that is what Bioware is going to do. But then you need to have a bunch of other classes to be an MMORPG....honestly, they should just make everyone a Jedi with different professions because how do you balance against a Jedi? They are supposed to be the most powerful people in the universe, so you are already messing with lore. Star Wars just isn't a great universe for an MMO.
Judging from your posts...you are just a fanboy of the game before it is even released. Just relax and wait until it comes out and see if it is a good game before you start advocating for it like a soccer mom. I don't know how many "WoW killers" I have played that claimed to be so much better in so many ways to just be more of the same yet less polished. If they do it, great...until then...calm the heck down.
They aren't different games...they are both FPS's. The skin and feel of the games are slightly different and one person can prefer one presentation over the other, but they are still FPS's. If you like FPS's, then you probably like/play both these games. The difference between fantasy and sci fi are even less of a factor. At least with your FPS example, one might argue they prefer realism over Halo's sci fi. In this there is much less difference, both are fictional worlds....both have swords, both have magic (sorry, that's all the force is), both have made up creatures and monsters...there is seriously no difference between sci fi and fantasy. Star Wars is more of a fantasy universe (since everything revolves around the force when has no basis in science or reality) with sci fi thrown in (space ships and laser weapons). Most people who are in to a WoW universe are going to be in to a Star Wars universe and vice versa. It is completely irrelevant to how popular it will be. People will only care that it is a good game.
No, they aren't completely different genres. They are both MMORPG. When you are talking about games, that is the only context in which genre really matters. Warcraft is based in a fantasy realm. Starcraft is based in a sci-fi realm. Both are still RTS's and are judged on those merits. While one world may appeal more to one person than another, it isn't a driving factor since generally if a person likes one, they like both.
Dynamic story is great in single player games. It is less interesting in an MMORPG...or maybe I should say more challenging. When you give someone choices that are dramatically going to have an effect on your character (or not even dramatically), all people are going to do is look up online what will give the best eq/perks. WoW did something like this in its first expansion where you had to choose between two factions that offered different quests and different perks based on your status to them. If you do something significant, like changing the world around you based on choices, you have to deal that everyone else around you is in a different reality or you are in a different phase. WoW does this to allow you to feel you have had an impact on the game world. In a single player Bioware game, your choice will remove characters, destroy cities, etc. So they really can't do the same thing since you will be splitting the world for people permanently.
So really, don't expect something to be game changing. I hope they just focus on it being a good game rather than worry about WoW. If you think it is going to be this amazing thing that will be so different from WoW...you will be disappointed.
Why would that matter? If they make a good game in the Star Wars universe, people will come. SW:G just wasn't a good game. That has nothing to do with the universe.
Eve doesn't require any intelligence to play. Maybe more patience learning how to play (mostly due to the worst UI of any MMO), but not intelligence. I have played both games and always found it amusing how jealous Eve players are of WoW. Always insults on how dumb they are...how it is for the masses. Maybe if Eve was a better game, it would have more people. But Eve only appeals to the griefer. It has the worst...most boring PvE ever...really, no story and only a few missions you do over and over again. PvP is mostly camping at a gate for hours and blowing up people who never have a chance. Due to the loss of your ship, most people don't take risks and it just makes it boring. Also, the developers are corrupt and forever tainted the game by giving stuff to one group of people.
But keep telling each other you guys are so smart...you have plenty of time to post in the forum since there isn't much to do camping that gate. The people who play WoW are too busy playing the game to know your little niche game exists.
I totally disagree. WoW from the start was hugely successful. While buggy, it was one of the least buggy MMOs for release...it more had issues with too many people wanting to sign up. It also did what Blizzard does best...take something and make it better. They got rid of annoying things like exp penalties at death and made it more fun to play. They have continually done this throughout its life. WoW at its core is just a good game that they keep making better. Make a good game...people will come...with people comes a community and longevity.
How is it transparent? Your actions are changing the environment around you completely. You aren't changing the environment for other people, but it isn't transparent because you have no idea what they are seeing...and ones in different phases aren't even there. If you actually want to change the environment for everyone, than you would never even have a chance to change the environment because 100 people would have already beaten you to it. Honestly, there is no better way to handle the problem that thousands of people are playing on the same server yet it gives you a chance to do quests that actually allow you to cause major changes in your environment.
Where are you getting statistics that burnout is high? How is it any different than the previous expansions? You are just making stuff up. Once they start removing and combining servers due to low population, then maybe you can start talking about a real decline. I just started playing again after stopping for a few years...it is still extremely active.
I don't think you understand what the word hype means. Hype is something you do to attract interest to a product. WoW is an established juggernaut. It is far past the hype phase.
Blizzard has always been advertising for WoW. Actually, I have seen less advertising for Cataclysm than WotLK. Even less than there normal advertising (don't you remember the "celebrity" ads with Mr. T and mini-me?).
Blizzard isn't shifting at all. It has different development teams working on the different games. People like you have been saying the same thing about WoW's demise years and years ago and it is still going crazy strong.
Also, you don't seem to know anything about WoW. WoW still survives because it is a moving target. They are constantly changing the game and improving it since launch. That's why no one can beat it. If they let it stagnate, sure, it would die off...but the latest expansion goes through all of the old content and revamps it. WoW was buggy at launch but much less so than most MMORPGs. Now WoW is an extremely solid product that people are used to. Any new MMORPG is going to seem like a pile of garbage next to WoW just because of the nature of developing this type of game. As long as Blizzard continually improves and revamps...nothing is going to take its place at the top.
Of course, no one ever said these "screens" couldn't also have a keyboard and a mouse and that you only do certain activities with your hands up in the air. There may be certain functionality that would be more efficient doing it in this manner. It would also make sense for presenting or for interactive learning. Just not for day to day work tasks on the computer.
Ugh. You people with your entitlement labeling garbage. There are some people out there that exploit the system. This is not the majority. Hell, I bet you are friends with people in the entitlement crowd and don't even know it since they are good people and work hard. But you imagine it must be awesome living on a few hundred dollars a month...ahh the sweet life.
So what's your point? Other societies handle this differently? Great. We are in this society and a logical argument can be made why this should be illegal. It is illegal. Therefore the guy was punished. "But it's ok in other societies" doesn't really hold up all that well in court. If you want to argue that it should be legal to do this, fine. But then we wouldn't get to have a lot of the nice stuff we get because people wouldn't want to put effort in to something they couldn't make a living doing.
Yeah, it is so awful being able to download games anywhere off your Steam account. I find it such a burden actually having to have an Internet connection this day and age. I mean...who has Internet connections? I mean, particularly Slashdotters...none of us must have Internet connections considering how much we complain about steam.
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And if there wasn't a story then Blizzard wouldn't be in the news. If there wasn't a story the modder wouldn't be in the news. It is pretty much a win for everyone involved for this to be news.
The guy has gotten a job offer and now a tour of Blizzard over this. How is this a tarnish exactly? If it was such a tarnish, why would a company immediately offer to scoop him up. You don't know what you are talking about. Any budding game developer would love to tbe in this position.
They want the guy to change the name of his mod and suddenly the golden fairy that made love to you in your sleep is your evil step father that gets drunk and beats you. Over react much?
Your analogy is terrible. Pawn shops have to follow the law or they will be shut down. If they are knowingly selling illegal goods, they will be shut down. Analogies are only useful when trying to explain a difficult concept. This is not one of those cases. The government wants to stop child porn. They propose a technical solution which isn't feasible and places the burden on the ISP. ISP complains it isn't feasible. Pretty simple.
He lives in reality. Where companies can get it wrong the first time and get it right after that. Not saying that is necessarily the case here, but the previous Windows phone OS and the current one are fundamentally different. Windows ME was hideous but XP was extremely solid.
So to be just as inflammatory back at you: how slow are people these days that they can't evaluate each product by their merit?
Wow. I am just shocked they wouldn't introduce LTE in this version. I suppose it isn't rolled out yet and they will include it in the next generation. But they missed the opportunity on being able to say "we have the first true 4G iPhone".
Will that be true once LTE is rolled out? Considering LTE is a 3GPP standard (which is what AT&T uses) it should be able to support both.
If your whole business model collapses when you remove all the illegal material, then you are probably being immoral. They could easily implement a check on what is uploaded that would block files that already have been flagged.
If you removed all the illegal files from all of the Internet, google would still be viable and so would ISPs...so I don't think you are really countering his point.
Do you have a point? Your post is all over the place and I can't figure it out. You don't make any sense with your whole injection vs digestion argument. As if injecting something is instantly absorbed throughout your body....and consuming something normally is so slow that something toxic wouldn't damage the system. The rest of your post is just stating random things without a point or a conclusion. Yeah, some very small percentage of people will react badly to vaccines. If the people who react poorly to the vaccine is greater than the people saved by the vaccine then we should probably reevaluate the use of the vaccine. Duh. This isn't the case...so freaking get your kids their vaccines.
I disagree. Forums aren't just for complaining to the developer because you think you can design the game better. It is to discuss the game and post announcements. Having a forum is a good way to create a community around your game. The developer doesn't have to read it...some people will appreciate it...but as long as it is a good game, that is all that matters. I could care less if a dev posts in the forum.
Wow. They must have completely changed it since I played. That sound like exactly the opposite game I played years ago.
Everyone was freaking out that there was a Star Wars game where you couldn't play a Jedi. The nerd rage was fierce. When people think Star Wars, they think light sabres...that is just how it is. So you have to have Jedi...and that is what Bioware is going to do. But then you need to have a bunch of other classes to be an MMORPG....honestly, they should just make everyone a Jedi with different professions because how do you balance against a Jedi? They are supposed to be the most powerful people in the universe, so you are already messing with lore. Star Wars just isn't a great universe for an MMO.
Judging from your posts...you are just a fanboy of the game before it is even released. Just relax and wait until it comes out and see if it is a good game before you start advocating for it like a soccer mom. I don't know how many "WoW killers" I have played that claimed to be so much better in so many ways to just be more of the same yet less polished. If they do it, great...until then...calm the heck down.
They aren't different games...they are both FPS's. The skin and feel of the games are slightly different and one person can prefer one presentation over the other, but they are still FPS's. If you like FPS's, then you probably like/play both these games. The difference between fantasy and sci fi are even less of a factor. At least with your FPS example, one might argue they prefer realism over Halo's sci fi. In this there is much less difference, both are fictional worlds....both have swords, both have magic (sorry, that's all the force is), both have made up creatures and monsters...there is seriously no difference between sci fi and fantasy. Star Wars is more of a fantasy universe (since everything revolves around the force when has no basis in science or reality) with sci fi thrown in (space ships and laser weapons). Most people who are in to a WoW universe are going to be in to a Star Wars universe and vice versa. It is completely irrelevant to how popular it will be. People will only care that it is a good game.
No, they aren't completely different genres. They are both MMORPG. When you are talking about games, that is the only context in which genre really matters. Warcraft is based in a fantasy realm. Starcraft is based in a sci-fi realm. Both are still RTS's and are judged on those merits. While one world may appeal more to one person than another, it isn't a driving factor since generally if a person likes one, they like both.
Dynamic story is great in single player games. It is less interesting in an MMORPG...or maybe I should say more challenging. When you give someone choices that are dramatically going to have an effect on your character (or not even dramatically), all people are going to do is look up online what will give the best eq/perks. WoW did something like this in its first expansion where you had to choose between two factions that offered different quests and different perks based on your status to them. If you do something significant, like changing the world around you based on choices, you have to deal that everyone else around you is in a different reality or you are in a different phase. WoW does this to allow you to feel you have had an impact on the game world. In a single player Bioware game, your choice will remove characters, destroy cities, etc. So they really can't do the same thing since you will be splitting the world for people permanently.
So really, don't expect something to be game changing. I hope they just focus on it being a good game rather than worry about WoW. If you think it is going to be this amazing thing that will be so different from WoW...you will be disappointed.
Why would that matter? If they make a good game in the Star Wars universe, people will come. SW:G just wasn't a good game. That has nothing to do with the universe.
Eve doesn't require any intelligence to play. Maybe more patience learning how to play (mostly due to the worst UI of any MMO), but not intelligence. I have played both games and always found it amusing how jealous Eve players are of WoW. Always insults on how dumb they are...how it is for the masses. Maybe if Eve was a better game, it would have more people. But Eve only appeals to the griefer. It has the worst...most boring PvE ever...really, no story and only a few missions you do over and over again. PvP is mostly camping at a gate for hours and blowing up people who never have a chance. Due to the loss of your ship, most people don't take risks and it just makes it boring. Also, the developers are corrupt and forever tainted the game by giving stuff to one group of people.
But keep telling each other you guys are so smart...you have plenty of time to post in the forum since there isn't much to do camping that gate. The people who play WoW are too busy playing the game to know your little niche game exists.
I totally disagree. WoW from the start was hugely successful. While buggy, it was one of the least buggy MMOs for release...it more had issues with too many people wanting to sign up. It also did what Blizzard does best...take something and make it better. They got rid of annoying things like exp penalties at death and made it more fun to play. They have continually done this throughout its life. WoW at its core is just a good game that they keep making better. Make a good game...people will come...with people comes a community and longevity.
How is it transparent? Your actions are changing the environment around you completely. You aren't changing the environment for other people, but it isn't transparent because you have no idea what they are seeing...and ones in different phases aren't even there. If you actually want to change the environment for everyone, than you would never even have a chance to change the environment because 100 people would have already beaten you to it. Honestly, there is no better way to handle the problem that thousands of people are playing on the same server yet it gives you a chance to do quests that actually allow you to cause major changes in your environment.
Where are you getting statistics that burnout is high? How is it any different than the previous expansions? You are just making stuff up. Once they start removing and combining servers due to low population, then maybe you can start talking about a real decline. I just started playing again after stopping for a few years...it is still extremely active.
I don't think you understand what the word hype means. Hype is something you do to attract interest to a product. WoW is an established juggernaut. It is far past the hype phase.
Blizzard has always been advertising for WoW. Actually, I have seen less advertising for Cataclysm than WotLK. Even less than there normal advertising (don't you remember the "celebrity" ads with Mr. T and mini-me?).
Blizzard isn't shifting at all. It has different development teams working on the different games. People like you have been saying the same thing about WoW's demise years and years ago and it is still going crazy strong.
Also, you don't seem to know anything about WoW. WoW still survives because it is a moving target. They are constantly changing the game and improving it since launch. That's why no one can beat it. If they let it stagnate, sure, it would die off...but the latest expansion goes through all of the old content and revamps it. WoW was buggy at launch but much less so than most MMORPGs. Now WoW is an extremely solid product that people are used to. Any new MMORPG is going to seem like a pile of garbage next to WoW just because of the nature of developing this type of game. As long as Blizzard continually improves and revamps...nothing is going to take its place at the top.
Of course, no one ever said these "screens" couldn't also have a keyboard and a mouse and that you only do certain activities with your hands up in the air. There may be certain functionality that would be more efficient doing it in this manner. It would also make sense for presenting or for interactive learning. Just not for day to day work tasks on the computer.
Ugh. You people with your entitlement labeling garbage. There are some people out there that exploit the system. This is not the majority. Hell, I bet you are friends with people in the entitlement crowd and don't even know it since they are good people and work hard. But you imagine it must be awesome living on a few hundred dollars a month...ahh the sweet life.
So what's your point? Other societies handle this differently? Great. We are in this society and a logical argument can be made why this should be illegal. It is illegal. Therefore the guy was punished. "But it's ok in other societies" doesn't really hold up all that well in court. If you want to argue that it should be legal to do this, fine. But then we wouldn't get to have a lot of the nice stuff we get because people wouldn't want to put effort in to something they couldn't make a living doing.
Yeah, it is so awful being able to download games anywhere off your Steam account. I find it such a burden actually having to have an Internet connection this day and age. I mean...who has Internet connections? I mean, particularly Slashdotters...none of us must have Internet connections considering how much we complain about steam.
Google makes the OS, not the phones. What do you expect them to do?