I agree that speeding up the early levels is something that needed to be done (and had already been done) since it's now very very old. But it's also clear that they're testing the water here, and have been for a while. If they can charge people for major player enhancements in endgame, without causing an uproar, then I have no doubt they will.
Blizzard has been increasingly adding out-of-game rewards for people who spend more money (WoW TCG being an example) and this is the first time that those rewards have affected gameplay. You can level three times as fast if you can get a friend to sign up, or (and more likely to happen) you decide to multibox.
This shows Blizzard has lost their scruples about abusing this business model. It's only a matter of time before they start charging money for in-game content that should otherwise have been covered by the subscription/price of the game.
The only legitimate use for this type of product is to violate my copyright to the content I own. I lobby congress to ban media devices which do not support the protection scheme. They willingly oblige, and then crawl back under my desk.
I need to protect my product from piracy, and these are the only measures I can think of to do that. While I recognize your right to first sale is important, so is my right to selling my product. You lose, I win.
Thank you, come again.
It doesn't strike me as "more difficult" to write a bot which grinds predictable enemies all day, than a bot which actually has to think about strategies in a game like StarCraft. Seeing as how the AI in StarCraft pretty much wiped the floor with me every time I played against it, I'm sure one could do the same for WoW.
I think you miss the point. While it's true that it takes time to become "good" at something, at least it's the actual person who becomes good at it. In WoW, your character becomes "good", while the player can remain as stupid and incompetent as they've always been.
... it really puts a sour taste in my mouth. I have no interest in dealing with this idiotic bullshit. I'd rather pick up trash on the side of the road for a living.
... but a lot of older systems get hit hard by virus protection overhead. Machines with less than 256mb of RAM are pretty much dead in the water. I personally use a free version of AVG, and only run it once a month or so. I'm not running a business out of my home, and viruses don't usually cause me any trouble.
Good luck trying to tell people that you've restricted them from the "hot" deals that other people are getting simply because you're a jackass. I don't think Google is going to be duped into this.
No, I'm saying that if you charge different people different amounts of money for the same product (namely, targeting specific businesses) then that would seem unacceptable. That's different from simply having an expensive product. If verizon had to charge everyone more money for bandwidth, they'd just be raising prices, and hurting themselves.
That depends, does he intend to charge everyone outrageous prices for those mushrooms, or just the people who have that kind of money? Because honestly, if it's the latter, I doubt it would be considered acceptable practice.
Wikipedia is good for one thing; illustrating how half-ass some people can be. Honestly I think a lot of bad reporting can be attributed to laziness rather than malice. Just because it has to sound interesting doesn't mean it really is... blah blah blah experts agree.
Don't expect decent research to pop up anywhere except on some esoteric journal somewhere that nobody but other researchers read. People like stupid science, like why does your breath stink, or why you get tired on thanksgiving.
You think FF7's combat system sucked, you should have seen FFIII. Character leaps across screen and stomps their opponent, ala mario bros, and then hops back. The "cinematics" in that game were handled using the game engine. Still had an impact.
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I agree that speeding up the early levels is something that needed to be done (and had already been done) since it's now very very old. But it's also clear that they're testing the water here, and have been for a while. If they can charge people for major player enhancements in endgame, without causing an uproar, then I have no doubt they will.
Blizzard has been increasingly adding out-of-game rewards for people who spend more money (WoW TCG being an example) and this is the first time that those rewards have affected gameplay. You can level three times as fast if you can get a friend to sign up, or (and more likely to happen) you decide to multibox. This shows Blizzard has lost their scruples about abusing this business model. It's only a matter of time before they start charging money for in-game content that should otherwise have been covered by the subscription/price of the game.
It's almost like Diablo 3 isn't an MMO, and StarCraft 2 isn't an adventure game.
I don't know about you, but my twelve-year-old self et. al were terrified.
including this one.
Although I feel like it's only a matter of time before crap like that happens here.
Hotkeys are for lazy people.
Oh wait... that's called learning!
The only legitimate use for this type of product is to violate my copyright to the content I own. I lobby congress to ban media devices which do not support the protection scheme. They willingly oblige, and then crawl back under my desk.
I need to protect my product from piracy, and these are the only measures I can think of to do that. While I recognize your right to first sale is important, so is my right to selling my product. You lose, I win. Thank you, come again.
It doesn't strike me as "more difficult" to write a bot which grinds predictable enemies all day, than a bot which actually has to think about strategies in a game like StarCraft. Seeing as how the AI in StarCraft pretty much wiped the floor with me every time I played against it, I'm sure one could do the same for WoW.
I think you miss the point. While it's true that it takes time to become "good" at something, at least it's the actual person who becomes good at it. In WoW, your character becomes "good", while the player can remain as stupid and incompetent as they've always been.
... it really puts a sour taste in my mouth. I have no interest in dealing with this idiotic bullshit. I'd rather pick up trash on the side of the road for a living.
The only plugin I know of that crashes firefox is that crappy Quicktime plugin which pops up and asks for updates. Personally, I blame Apple.
... but a lot of older systems get hit hard by virus protection overhead. Machines with less than 256mb of RAM are pretty much dead in the water. I personally use a free version of AVG, and only run it once a month or so. I'm not running a business out of my home, and viruses don't usually cause me any trouble.
If you remain logged off for an extended period of time, leveling up happens 100% faster.
Good luck trying to tell people that you've restricted them from the "hot" deals that other people are getting simply because you're a jackass. I don't think Google is going to be duped into this.
No, I'm saying that if you charge different people different amounts of money for the same product (namely, targeting specific businesses) then that would seem unacceptable. That's different from simply having an expensive product. If verizon had to charge everyone more money for bandwidth, they'd just be raising prices, and hurting themselves.
That depends, does he intend to charge everyone outrageous prices for those mushrooms, or just the people who have that kind of money? Because honestly, if it's the latter, I doubt it would be considered acceptable practice.
Wikipedia is good for one thing; illustrating how half-ass some people can be. Honestly I think a lot of bad reporting can be attributed to laziness rather than malice. Just because it has to sound interesting doesn't mean it really is... blah blah blah experts agree.
Of course people don't usually take that into account when their concerned about _their_ feelings.
Most cameras have a "raw" format, people just don't use it because they are n00b.
Don't expect decent research to pop up anywhere except on some esoteric journal somewhere that nobody but other researchers read. People like stupid science, like why does your breath stink, or why you get tired on thanksgiving.
You think FF7's combat system sucked, you should have seen FFIII. Character leaps across screen and stomps their opponent, ala mario bros, and then hops back. The "cinematics" in that game were handled using the game engine. Still had an impact.
I'm changing my cable subscriber. I need a solid 2 hours of shark attacks and baseball, plus regular updates about that kitty down the well.