That was a Croatian movie I suppose? One those selected movies they swear absolutely too much so it makes them unreal and unwatchable (aside from robotic acting, no script and pretty much everything else).
I understand your point but the new 1 icon only system does take something away.
Try opening 3 to n Windows Explorer windows and you'll have a big problem indentifying the right one. It just takes more time looking at those tiny preview windows.
I would give anything to have an option to disable 1-icon only in taskbar just for some programs (eg. Windows Explorer) so you can actually see by title in the taskbar which window do you need.
I know that you can turn on the classic view and some hybrid view but that is beside the point.
Of course I'm basing this on beta. This is in beta and I don't think its foolish to predict that it will be the same in release version. Or you assert that Blizzard likes to change fundamental parts of the games just before they release it? Not likely.
Concerning the AI difficulty. It makes no difference if the AI is very easy or very hard. And I just don't see a connection between AI levels and networking infrastructure. If you see it, please enlight me.
Removing LAN has the effect of forcing players to connect through Blizzard's servers, Battle.net, before playing multiplayer locally.
Better make that *any* game locally. So even you play against AI on your own computer it goes through battle.net. So if you have laggy connection your AI enemies would lag on your own computer. Even if you have 100ms to battle.net you still notice the lag to be honest.
Sorry, I would rather pay 5 times more and know that they are made by workers not slaves. Same goes for anything else regardless of your shrug-it-off indifference.
Want to check the news at breakfast, grab your instant-on iPad that you can control with a finger while eating at the breakfast table.
That is a recipe for a disaster. I know that many people see themselves using ipad when eating/drinking but I've learned my lesson a looong time ago. Liquids and non-waterproof electronics just don't mix.
At all.
You may be a ninja and you don't spill things but others do and they ruin $500+ devices easily.
Even though we both can't predict the future I'm certain that *much* more players will buy all three games for multiplayer. It just doesn't make much sense to pigeonhole themselves into the first game only. How many people would buy only the first game or first and second or all three of them? I think the safest bet is that to play with much more gamers one would certainly buy all three games. My comparison generally still stands with WoW. Lvl 60, 70 and 80 characters don't meet much (if at all). They all play different battlegrounds and dungeons. But we all know that there is only a handful of lvl 60 and lvl 70 gamers on a server. I bet >99% of players always play at max (80) level which is completely understandable. That is my point with with SC2.
Yes, you can try to quote Starcraft vs Brood War players, but frankly I would like to see some source of that. Even if the the ratio is much more favourable to SC, I still think that its not very relevant to compare a not released game with a very old game released when gaming industry was just a little more than in it's infancy.
According to Blizzard; no. The first game will only contain one campaign, the human one I think, but will contain full multi-player, including all the units and races from the next two expansions. Thus, if you are only interested in multi-player you can completely ignore the two other campaigns.
How will the expansion sets impact multiplayer gameplay? The expansion sets will add new content to each race for use in multiplayer matches. This could include additions such as new units, abilities, and structures, along with new maps and Battle.net updates.
In other words you *will* need all three expansions for multiplayer matches. Of course they won't force it, but that would be exactly like playing wow at lvl 60 when everybody is lvl 80.
The politicians in government want to spend our money. Don't be surprised that those guys who sell/install those screening devices are politicians' pals or pals of pals. This happens all the time. The "security" part is just a smokescreen and a distraction so you see those devices as a necessity. I bet they cost a fortune by the way.
True enough, and I was considering that answer while writing my previous post. But they did take more than five years for it and Cataclysm isn't released yet anyway. Moreover, I would venture a guess that half of the original population isn't even playing WoW anymore. And we'll see what we will get because they like to promise a lot of things for the "next expansion" which gets implemented later or unfortunately never.
My point was though, that even if WoW (the biggest MMO) has problems improving stuff which is already there, I'm not that certain that smaller MMOs will improve stuff more readily. But I could be wrong of course, wouldn't be the first nor the last time.
Character animation looks pretty good to me, but what a minor thing to complain about. It'll get better over time too.
I just can't agree with the second sentence. Take WoW for example. Of course it was tweaked thousand times, but huge building blocks of the game world didn't change a bit 4 years after even if they were broken or just hastily put together at launch. The only thing they did change was for things people were absolutely screaming about and that was usually class balance, some itemization, nerfing dungeons etc. They did put a lot of *new* stuff, but it is my observation that they didn't put much effort in improving stuff that is already there.
I don't understand the fascination with pinch zooming anyway. It seems a completely unnatural way to use your phone to me.
Maybe it is unnatural to you but I still have to find more natural/faster way to zoom in/out on a touchscreen device. It is that good.
but honestly for a cell phone camera, virtually every photo I've seen taken with it is pretty good
IIRC the problem isn't with the quality of the photos themselves, it is the problem with the application which is horrendously slow. And that doesn't help at all with taking the photos.
Do you want a cell phone or an MP3 player?
You can have both. iPhone proves that easily. It is kinda ironic because just few years ago apple fanboys were all having their heads in the sand shouting that nothing will ever surpass ipod or a standalone media player. You can pull up that old argument how specialized hardware is always better than general purpose hardware but in this case (of general day to day cellphone use) I just don't buy it. Finally, trying to defend a company who made a crappy piece of software (media player) when at the same time they could have made it 100 times better is a rationalization.
The GP was thinking of a thin plastic film they put on the shop windows usually. The same is used for tinting car windows, but those are usually transparent. My friend installs those and are very hard to break. The window may crack but will not disintegrate so they still need to get through. They would need a car probably to ram it, but using a brick wouldn't help them in that case.
The summary describes the first part of our parking system well. That means when you park at the (pay for) parking space you have to go to the parking machine (which is generally near), insert some coins, get a ticket and put it on the dashboard.
But there is another, "more smarter way". You pay by sending a text message.
Lets say you park in the first zone (there are 5 zones afaik which have different prices), you just send a sms to 8511 (the last digit is the zone, the first three are the same always) with your licence plate. You immediately receive a confirmation sms and off you go. The amount is billed to your monthly bill with the mobile provider, or if you have prepaid, you are immediately billed. After an hour you will get another sms telling you that the time you paid for is expiring so you can just resend the last sms and the time will extend. The guys who check if you have paid the parking fee, walk up to your car, and if you don't have the ticket on the dash check by sending an sms to a parking server. They immediately receive confirmation if you paid by sms.
This is a great system and many people pay that way because it is so simple and convenient. You can even save your sms parking message as a template so you don't even have to enter it when you park, you just send it when you need to. Moreover, the mobile providers have put sim applications which enable you just to enter the parking zone (0-4) and licence plate for the first time. And did I mention that the price is pretty much the same as the normal ticket price?
It is easy to answer, those already present goblins/worgen will get different tribe names (some of them already have). There will be quests to explore why you have to kill them by the thousands (probably some eeeevil magic or potion or whatever). It is not a difficult thing to solve actually.
I'm sorry, but this reminds me of all the bitching and moaning that went on when they started letting people buy epic PvP gear with battleground honor....all the 1337 arena dudes were angry that their mighty e-peen wasn't guaranteed to be at least twice the size of everybody else's any more. For a couple of months it seemed like every time I set foot in a battleground, there was some wanker going on and on about "welfare epics" and how lame those of us were that were wearing them.
Completely agreed.
The players who profited the most with pvp gear was the ones who started arenas (5's mostly) immediately after they were introduced. Then just had to ride the wave and they always had the best pvp gear in game and with little effort. Those guys who started a bit later with arenas just got completely destroyed and that is mostly because of gear imbalance. Then I had to go back in battlegrounds to get some gear and then that epic gear through honor was introduced. But still it would be a total lie that type of gear was easy to get. It wasn't. It required a hell of a bg-time and tons of honor which was difficult to acquire if the opposite faction was winning almost every game. So after a few months almost any serious pvp-er outside of arenas had epic gear (which was still quite significantly worse then arena gear). But then those pvp seasons ruined almost all because they went by faster than I could get gear from battlegrounds, so it was perpetual grind and a big lag behind to get better gear. That was the reason I quit because I hated that grind and I hated the 4 battlegrounds which I visited 40million times.
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Doctors make mistakes all the time (...)
No they don't. Complications happen by themselves!
That was a Croatian movie I suppose? One those selected movies they swear absolutely too much so it makes them unreal and unwatchable (aside from robotic acting, no script and pretty much everything else).
I understand your point but the new 1 icon only system does take something away.
Try opening 3 to n Windows Explorer windows and you'll have a big problem indentifying the right one. It just takes more time looking at those tiny preview windows.
I would give anything to have an option to disable 1-icon only in taskbar just for some programs (eg. Windows Explorer) so you can actually see by title in the taskbar which window do you need.
I know that you can turn on the classic view and some hybrid view but that is beside the point.
Of course I'm basing this on beta. This is in beta and I don't think its foolish to predict that it will be the same in release version. Or you assert that Blizzard likes to change fundamental parts of the games just before they release it? Not likely.
Concerning the AI difficulty. It makes no difference if the AI is very easy or very hard. And I just don't see a connection between AI levels and networking infrastructure. If you see it, please enlight me.
Maybe they could try croatian (or probably, serbian) language. Written and spoken letters/words match exactly.
Removing LAN has the effect of forcing players to connect through Blizzard's servers, Battle.net, before playing multiplayer locally.
Better make that *any* game locally. So even you play against AI on your own computer it goes through battle.net. So if you have laggy connection your AI enemies would lag on your own computer. Even if you have 100ms to battle.net you still notice the lag to be honest.
So what? Is using words now a crime? Well, not a crime, but immoral?
Do nazis have a copyright on that phrase? We used "final solution" alot in my math classes. Does that make my teacher a nazi?
Get a grip man. We have to learn from the past, but leave aside stupidity and ideology in history where it belongs.
Sorry, I would rather pay 5 times more and know that they are made by workers not slaves. Same goes for anything else regardless of your shrug-it-off indifference.
They did lower the price on first iPhone though.
I don't think it will happen again with the ipad but they did lower it at least once.
Beat this one-liner by Archimonde, some guy from slashdot.org:
'Large ipod touch and still more expensive".
Opinions are like asses - everyone has one. Even idols have them too.
Want to check the news at breakfast, grab your instant-on iPad that you can control with a finger while eating at the breakfast table.
That is a recipe for a disaster. I know that many people see themselves using ipad when eating/drinking but I've learned my lesson a looong time ago. Liquids and non-waterproof electronics just don't mix.
At all.
You may be a ninja and you don't spill things but others do and they ruin $500+ devices easily.
Even though we both can't predict the future I'm certain that *much* more players will buy all three games for multiplayer. It just doesn't make much sense to pigeonhole themselves into the first game only. How many people would buy only the first game or first and second or all three of them? I think the safest bet is that to play with much more gamers one would certainly buy all three games. My comparison generally still stands with WoW. Lvl 60, 70 and 80 characters don't meet much (if at all). They all play different battlegrounds and dungeons. But we all know that there is only a handful of lvl 60 and lvl 70 gamers on a server. I bet >99% of players always play at max (80) level which is completely understandable. That is my point with with SC2.
Yes, you can try to quote Starcraft vs Brood War players, but frankly I would like to see some source of that. Even if the the ratio is much more favourable to SC, I still think that its not very relevant to compare a not released game with a very old game released when gaming industry was just a little more than in it's infancy.
According to Blizzard; no. The first game will only contain one campaign, the human one I think, but will contain full multi-player, including all the units and races from the next two expansions. Thus, if you are only interested in multi-player you can completely ignore the two other campaigns.
You are unfortunately wrong there.
From http://www.starcraft2.com/faq.xml
How will the expansion sets impact multiplayer gameplay?
The expansion sets will add new content to each race for use in multiplayer matches. This could include additions such as new units, abilities, and structures, along with new maps and Battle.net updates.
In other words you *will* need all three expansions for multiplayer matches. Of course they won't force it, but that would be exactly like playing wow at lvl 60 when everybody is lvl 80.
... and we got half or even less of what people expected with iPad.
The question is: why?
The answer is simple really.
The politicians in government want to spend our money. Don't be surprised that those guys who sell/install those screening devices are politicians' pals or pals of pals. This happens all the time. The "security" part is just a smokescreen and a distraction so you see those devices as a necessity. I bet they cost a fortune by the way.
True enough, and I was considering that answer while writing my previous post. But they did take more than five years for it and Cataclysm isn't released yet anyway. Moreover, I would venture a guess that half of the original population isn't even playing WoW anymore. And we'll see what we will get because they like to promise a lot of things for the "next expansion" which gets implemented later or unfortunately never.
My point was though, that even if WoW (the biggest MMO) has problems improving stuff which is already there, I'm not that certain that smaller MMOs will improve stuff more readily. But I could be wrong of course, wouldn't be the first nor the last time.
Character animation looks pretty good to me, but what a minor thing to complain about. It'll get better over time too.
I just can't agree with the second sentence. Take WoW for example. Of course it was tweaked thousand times, but huge building blocks of the game world didn't change a bit 4 years after even if they were broken or just hastily put together at launch. The only thing they did change was for things people were absolutely screaming about and that was usually class balance, some itemization, nerfing dungeons etc. They did put a lot of *new* stuff, but it is my observation that they didn't put much effort in improving stuff that is already there.
I don't understand the fascination with pinch zooming anyway. It seems a completely unnatural way to use your phone to me.
Maybe it is unnatural to you but I still have to find more natural/faster way to zoom in/out on a touchscreen device. It is that good.
but honestly for a cell phone camera, virtually every photo I've seen taken with it is pretty good
IIRC the problem isn't with the quality of the photos themselves, it is the problem with the application which is horrendously slow. And that doesn't help at all with taking the photos.
Do you want a cell phone or an MP3 player?
You can have both. iPhone proves that easily. It is kinda ironic because just few years ago apple fanboys were all having their heads in the sand shouting that nothing will ever surpass ipod or a standalone media player. You can pull up that old argument how specialized hardware is always better than general purpose hardware but in this case (of general day to day cellphone use) I just don't buy it. Finally, trying to defend a company who made a crappy piece of software (media player) when at the same time they could have made it 100 times better is a rationalization.
The GP was thinking of a thin plastic film they put on the shop windows usually. The same is used for tinting car windows, but those are usually transparent. My friend installs those and are very hard to break. The window may crack but will not disintegrate so they still need to get through. They would need a car probably to ram it, but using a brick wouldn't help them in that case.
I'm quite puzzled now because I just formatted my sandisk stick which had u3 so the virtual cd and all other software just went away.
Good old format (insert linux equivalent) doesn't work?
Shaped, sized and weighted like a nonpocketable brick? Check.
The summary describes the first part of our parking system well. That means when you park at the (pay for) parking space you have to go to the parking machine (which is generally near), insert some coins, get a ticket and put it on the dashboard.
But there is another, "more smarter way". You pay by sending a text message.
Lets say you park in the first zone (there are 5 zones afaik which have different prices), you just send a sms to 8511 (the last digit is the zone, the first three are the same always) with your licence plate. You immediately receive a confirmation sms and off you go. The amount is billed to your monthly bill with the mobile provider, or if you have prepaid, you are immediately billed. After an hour you will get another sms telling you that the time you paid for is expiring so you can just resend the last sms and the time will extend. The guys who check if you have paid the parking fee, walk up to your car, and if you don't have the ticket on the dash check by sending an sms to a parking server. They immediately receive confirmation if you paid by sms.
This is a great system and many people pay that way because it is so simple and convenient. You can even save your sms parking message as a template so you don't even have to enter it when you park, you just send it when you need to. Moreover, the mobile providers have put sim applications which enable you just to enter the parking zone (0-4) and licence plate for the first time. And did I mention that the price is pretty much the same as the normal ticket price?
It is easy to answer, those already present goblins/worgen will get different tribe names (some of them already have). There will be quests to explore why you have to kill them by the thousands (probably some eeeevil magic or potion or whatever). It is not a difficult thing to solve actually.
I'm sorry, but this reminds me of all the bitching and moaning that went on when they started letting people buy epic PvP gear with battleground honor....all the 1337 arena dudes were angry that their mighty e-peen wasn't guaranteed to be at least twice the size of everybody else's any more. For a couple of months it seemed like every time I set foot in a battleground, there was some wanker going on and on about "welfare epics" and how lame those of us were that were wearing them.
Completely agreed.
The players who profited the most with pvp gear was the ones who started arenas (5's mostly) immediately after they were introduced. Then just had to ride the wave and they always had the best pvp gear in game and with little effort. Those guys who started a bit later with arenas just got completely destroyed and that is mostly because of gear imbalance. Then I had to go back in battlegrounds to get some gear and then that epic gear through honor was introduced. But still it would be a total lie that type of gear was easy to get. It wasn't. It required a hell of a bg-time and tons of honor which was difficult to acquire if the opposite faction was winning almost every game. So after a few months almost any serious pvp-er outside of arenas had epic gear (which was still quite significantly worse then arena gear). But then those pvp seasons ruined almost all because they went by faster than I could get gear from battlegrounds, so it was perpetual grind and a big lag behind to get better gear. That was the reason I quit because I hated that grind and I hated the 4 battlegrounds which I visited 40million times.