"While the hacker website that published the exploit is safe from Criminal Prosecution, they may still get a visit from the Grammar Police
Then again, its a spanish language site, so I give them kudos for finding someone whose English isn't terrible to write it up for them."
Hate to do this to you, but when someone starts criticizing someone else's grammar, they'd better use proper grammar, punctuation, spelling, and capitalization in their own posts.
For starters, "Criminal Prosecution" isn't a proper noun and shouldn't be capitalized. Also, "its" is not being used in its possessive form. Rather, it's a contraction of "it is" and should contain an apostrophe. Lastly, "spanish" must be capitalized.
Tiggs was the community relations go-to person on the official SWG forums. Why is it that she parted ways with SOE only six days prior to the deployment of these changes? Does this signify some sort of internal conflict over the direction of the game?
Tiggs spent many long nights and odd hours doing her best to keep the community informed. Though people often disagreed with her, she was undoubtedly very dedicated and tightly-knit with the community. In spite of this, we received no goodbye post from her. Our only official notice was a vaguely worded message located at: http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?b oard.id=communityrelations&message.id=15830#M15830.
Blizzard has repeatedly ignored problems and lied to its customers. For a very long time they denied that duping was possible in Diablo II. In spite of numerous duped "uber" items, Blizzard insisted that its client/server model eliminated cheating. It became laughable after a while. Customers knew that cheating was rampant, and Blizzard knew that cheating was rampant. Maybe they were lying to themselves or maybe they were just trying to save face, but it took them quite a long time to even acknowledge the existence of duped items.
I played WoW in the recent stress test. There was a running contest that promised to award closed beta slots to people who reached high levels in their respective character classes. The contest looked good on paper, but Blizzard kept amending the rules and changing the deadlines. Should I keep competing? Is the contest over? Under one set of rules, I think I've won, but this other set of rules says otherwise--which is it? Is this contest being extended yet again? Your guess was as good as mine Blizzard didn't bother to answer (and in the cases where they decided to, it was often days late and ambiguous at best). Communication on the part of Blizzard devs and moderators was piss poor, and a number of people who were competing for these beta slots were left hanging and had no idea what was going on. In the end, they issued a notification that the contest would be ending only *one hour* before it actually did.
In the end, was the contest snafu a big deal? Maybe to you and me it wasn't, but to the people who were in the running for the competition it was. It was handled extremely poorly and let a lot of people down. If this and the prior Diablo II customer relationship is any indication of Blizzard's post-release attitude, then there are certainly dark days ahead.
Really, people like Blizzard because they put out games that are fun and are nicely balanced. But that's only half of the equation in a MMORPG. Communication and customer relations are just as important. Blizzard has never put out a game based on a subscription model and people's faith in them right now is based solely on their track record with less complicated games like Starcraft and Warcraft. WoW is a different ballgame, and the "just trust Blizzard, they won't screw it up" chant doesn't hold up any longer. Is WoW fun as a game? Sure. But if the level of communication we see during beta carries over to release without any significant improvements, we're in for a disappointment in the long run.
And don't worry about the bandwidth, these are hosted deep in the depths of the Microsoft data center, well beyond our own servers.
I think that's a challenge! Grab the hi-res version. It's a great update and is 90MB of good stuff(tm). I loved Halo and can't wait to get my hands on this.
Sullustans are widely favored as the new race (think Lando's co-pilot in ROTJ). The SW EU notes them as great pilots and navigators, which really fits in well with the SWG space expansion's theme. Plus the SWG developers have openly commented that they originally wanted to include them as a player race but simply couldn't because of time constraints.
Jawa were ruled out specifically, but as far as Gungans go... hoo boy. I agree with a lot of other people that SOE was throwing their name around to gauge the community response. So far it's been a resounding NO.
Please keep in mind that not all of us Americans are the arrogant sort who like flaunt our victories and gloat at the misfortunes of others. In fact, I'm sure you'll often find that the people who are the most arrogant also have the least justification to be proud.
I doubt you'll ever see a NASA team member proclaiming their superiority over the ESA. In fact, more than anyone, they would understand the pain felt by the entire Beagle project team at having lost something that they worked so hard for.
You can be fairly certain that the only taunting you'll hear will come from an uninvolved lay person who's looking for yet another excuse to think that the accomplishments of other people somehow makes them more important.
In short: not all Americans are assholes, though at times we deservedly look so.
Of course, that's what they said about The Phantom Menace. And we all know how that one turned out.
Reloaded and Revolutions could very well be fantastic, but more money != greatness.
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Hate to do this to you, but when someone starts criticizing someone else's grammar, they'd better use proper grammar, punctuation, spelling, and capitalization in their own posts.
For starters, "Criminal Prosecution" isn't a proper noun and shouldn't be capitalized. Also, "its" is not being used in its possessive form. Rather, it's a contraction of "it is" and should contain an apostrophe. Lastly, "spanish" must be capitalized.
Tiggs was the community relations go-to person on the official SWG forums. Why is it that she parted ways with SOE only six days prior to the deployment of these changes? Does this signify some sort of internal conflict over the direction of the game?
b oard.id=communityrelations&message.id=15830#M15830 .
Tiggs spent many long nights and odd hours doing her best to keep the community informed. Though people often disagreed with her, she was undoubtedly very dedicated and tightly-knit with the community. In spite of this, we received no goodbye post from her. Our only official notice was a vaguely worded message located at: http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?
Blizzard has repeatedly ignored problems and lied to its customers. For a very long time they denied that duping was possible in Diablo II. In spite of numerous duped "uber" items, Blizzard insisted that its client/server model eliminated cheating. It became laughable after a while. Customers knew that cheating was rampant, and Blizzard knew that cheating was rampant. Maybe they were lying to themselves or maybe they were just trying to save face, but it took them quite a long time to even acknowledge the existence of duped items.
I played WoW in the recent stress test. There was a running contest that promised to award closed beta slots to people who reached high levels in their respective character classes. The contest looked good on paper, but Blizzard kept amending the rules and changing the deadlines. Should I keep competing? Is the contest over? Under one set of rules, I think I've won, but this other set of rules says otherwise--which is it? Is this contest being extended yet again? Your guess was as good as mine Blizzard didn't bother to answer (and in the cases where they decided to, it was often days late and ambiguous at best). Communication on the part of Blizzard devs and moderators was piss poor, and a number of people who were competing for these beta slots were left hanging and had no idea what was going on. In the end, they issued a notification that the contest would be ending only *one hour* before it actually did.
In the end, was the contest snafu a big deal? Maybe to you and me it wasn't, but to the people who were in the running for the competition it was. It was handled extremely poorly and let a lot of people down. If this and the prior Diablo II customer relationship is any indication of Blizzard's post-release attitude, then there are certainly dark days ahead.
Really, people like Blizzard because they put out games that are fun and are nicely balanced. But that's only half of the equation in a MMORPG. Communication and customer relations are just as important. Blizzard has never put out a game based on a subscription model and people's faith in them right now is based solely on their track record with less complicated games like Starcraft and Warcraft. WoW is a different ballgame, and the "just trust Blizzard, they won't screw it up" chant doesn't hold up any longer. Is WoW fun as a game? Sure. But if the level of communication we see during beta carries over to release without any significant improvements, we're in for a disappointment in the long run.
Sullustans are widely favored as the new race (think Lando's co-pilot in ROTJ). The SW EU notes them as great pilots and navigators, which really fits in well with the SWG space expansion's theme. Plus the SWG developers have openly commented that they originally wanted to include them as a player race but simply couldn't because of time constraints.
Jawa were ruled out specifically, but as far as Gungans go... hoo boy. I agree with a lot of other people that SOE was throwing their name around to gauge the community response. So far it's been a resounding NO.
I doubt you'll ever see a NASA team member proclaiming their superiority over the ESA. In fact, more than anyone, they would understand the pain felt by the entire Beagle project team at having lost something that they worked so hard for.
You can be fairly certain that the only taunting you'll hear will come from an uninvolved lay person who's looking for yet another excuse to think that the accomplishments of other people somehow makes them more important.
In short: not all Americans are assholes, though at times we deservedly look so.
Of course, that's what they said about The Phantom Menace. And we all know how that one turned out. Reloaded and Revolutions could very well be fantastic, but more money != greatness.