I've been in the open beta too and I'm impressed so far. There are a few bugs, but fewer than I recall seeing in WoW at this same stage of release. I have to agree that the public quests are great. They're easy to get into (no worrying about joining a party) and fun. I like what little I've seen of the RvR too.
If said user has all these HD-DVD's they need to convert to Bluray, I would assume that some time in the past they purchased an HD-DVD player to play said HD-DVD's. Why not just go on using the HD-DVD player?
I used to be a design engineer with a pro-audio company. We looked into having some of our manufacturing done in China, primarily PCB manufacture and stuffing. We had a small batch made and delivered to us, but we were very unhappy with the results. Even with the great cost savings of having the boards made and stuffed for dirt cheap, it was costing us an arm and a leg to test and fix the crap they produced so we decided to stayed with our US board and stuffing houses.
About a year later, one of our Japanese distributors sent us a Chinese knockoff of the device we tried having made in China. They stole the board layout and bill of material and made exact replicas of our EQs with crappy Chinese parts. it sounded like crap, and looked cheap, but it had our name on it and there was nothing we could do. If you don't want your product copied by Chinese IP pirates, DON'T have your hardware made in China!
Mount suggested that a rush to create a new generation of consoles was not necessary until there was a compelling hardware feature to justify it.
I wish they applied the same thinking before creating an OS that no one wants and releasing games that ONLY work on that OS. This is what killed Shadowrun's sales
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I've been in the open beta too and I'm impressed so far. There are a few bugs, but fewer than I recall seeing in WoW at this same stage of release. I have to agree that the public quests are great. They're easy to get into (no worrying about joining a party) and fun. I like what little I've seen of the RvR too.
If said user has all these HD-DVD's they need to convert to Bluray, I would assume that some time in the past they purchased an HD-DVD player to play said HD-DVD's. Why not just go on using the HD-DVD player?
I used to be a design engineer with a pro-audio company. We looked into having some of our manufacturing done in China, primarily PCB manufacture and stuffing. We had a small batch made and delivered to us, but we were very unhappy with the results. Even with the great cost savings of having the boards made and stuffed for dirt cheap, it was costing us an arm and a leg to test and fix the crap they produced so we decided to stayed with our US board and stuffing houses. About a year later, one of our Japanese distributors sent us a Chinese knockoff of the device we tried having made in China. They stole the board layout and bill of material and made exact replicas of our EQs with crappy Chinese parts. it sounded like crap, and looked cheap, but it had our name on it and there was nothing we could do. If you don't want your product copied by Chinese IP pirates, DON'T have your hardware made in China!
Mount suggested that a rush to create a new generation of consoles was not necessary until there was a compelling hardware feature to justify it. I wish they applied the same thinking before creating an OS that no one wants and releasing games that ONLY work on that OS. This is what killed Shadowrun's sales