Me thinks that this is only to see how many people have pirated the beta in one way or another. I mean, this Panther release must be one of the most distributed Mac OS X developer seeded releases yet (a wild guess by me, but I think it's quite accurate) and at the same time they release a patch for it which they have NOT done with their previous seeds. Coincidence? I think not.
Flame me for being paranoid, but things like these are just too big to be small.
The couple say they have ransacked apartments, sent out their "troops" to urinate on others' lawns and once drove another player from the game.
Am I the only one of burst out laughing on that one? How evil can you get, really? While you're dealing drugs in Grand Theft Auto and driving over innocent people in Carmageddon, you piss on lawns in The Sims Online!
1. Blizzard won't go Linux for a long time. If you want to run Blizzards games on an *nix-based/like system, get a Macintosh (shameless plug, I know. But I'm just speaking the truth).
2. Blizzard will never, ever, never remove creeps, the harsh food-limit and upkeep. Producer Robert Pardo has said many, many times that those things are to stay and will never be removed from the game. If Blizzard removed the, what would the game be? Starcraft in a fantasy world with heroes and a fourth race? Not pretty in my opinion.
3. Open Bnet sucks. They're saying it's open source blah blah blah for good use for those with no internet connection yadda yadda. But all it's being used for is to play pirated versions of the games. It was used during the original Warcraft 3 beta, and it was in fact, used during this actual beta of the expansion set too.
4. 35 dollars is quite a low price. It's not much different than the price that was put on Starcraft's Expansion set Brood War. Nobody complained back then about the price -- gamers today are spoiled because of warez and expect everything to be put out for free. Sorry, but market economy don't work that way. Trust me that when I say that you will get value for your money, you will get value for your money. Thing is that Blizzard is a very different company from the other companies out on the market. They actually make GOOD expansions to their games with much content and thought behind them. They don't slap some small extra things in a box to spice up what was already big in the original, but they improve the flaws and faults of the original instead. Almost like a sequel in my opinion.
5. Ships will make a triumphant return to Warcraft 3, but that will be in single player only. However, there will still be ships in multiplayer in form of mercenary ships purchasable at goblin shipyards. So yes, ships are back! They did it to please you Warcraft 2-fanatics!
Last of all is the cool thing that Blizzard has basically added a fifth race to this expansion set. Not playable, but in the single player campaign they have their own buildings and have workers who mine gold -- and everything. Damn cool! Now if only somebody could do a hack or something...
Finally (just to add some more text to lengthen this post out), the departure of the recent workers of Blizzard have nothing to do with this game at all. Three of those were who worked on the Diablo-series while the fourth one worked for public relations. They have basically nothing to do with this game except that they happen to work in the same company, and do occasional voices for the games (Bill Roper, the PR-guy, did the Grunt voice in Warcraft 3).
Myth 2 is the best game I have ever played. The story is magnificent, the graphics were beautiful, and the atmosphere in the game was breathtaking. It felt like I was sitting outside, playing the game in the woods. Total Audio sure did a hell of a job by giving Bungie tons of ambient sound to the game.
Sad to see though that PlayMyth has been hacked by some morons. I just hope that this won't turn them off. In my opinion, this is the best thing to keep the Myth-spirit alive. It almost makes me cry. (honestly!)
Anyone got any idea how much this game has so far cost to make? I'm interested to see wether they will go minus or plus on this even after selling a couple of millions of copies. Unless 3DRealms is 1 person, then this game must have had a damn expensive development cost...
I've noticed that many people here don't really know the true meaning of the word Ironic and Sarcasm.
Ironic means that from what was expected, a total opposite of that occurred instead. For example, I expected it to snow yesterday -- instead we got one of the hottest days of the year.
Sarcasm is when a person is saying something but mean the complete opposite. For example, when somebody say "That's nasty!" but he mean that it is "cool" or "hip".
So to sum it up: You can not speak in irony and situations can't be sarcastic. I'm no linguistics expert or anything. It's just that I get pissed off when people mix these two up.
At this point, does it really matter if Intel, AMD, or Apple is the slightly faster computer?
The simple answer is: YES! Speed does matter! You're argument remind me of what all of us Mac users used to say in these latest couple of years right before the G5 announcement. It felt like as if you had a real small penis and tried to defend with the good ol' saying that "It's not the size that matter. It's how you use it!". We were all going "Speed doesn't matter. My penis can surf the net, listen to music and read my email. Size is irrelevant."
This is true to a certain extent, but how is it for them who absolutely need to use a penis that is as big as possible to get their work done as fast as possible? They had to switch penis or buy really tiny ones - ones who couldn't live up to competition. We all knew deep down inside that sizes did eventually matter. And dismissing the problem didn't exactly make it less inevitably to be teased by our PC-penis colleagues.
So yes. It matters. If humanity would go "Speed doesn't matter." what would people of the likes of John Carmack do for a living? Work for the Nasa? Bah! Useless! Thanks to the technology speed improvements over the years we've been able to watch crystal sparkling quality movies on our computer screens, play pirated betas of Doom 3 and download porn faster.
Because Logic is now just like Final Cut Pro. It's a product slapped with the Apple-sticker on it. You don't see Apple comparing After Effects on the Mac with After Effects on the PC, right? Because eMagic now run closely with Apple they can utilize the Macs better than for example, Steinberg can do. I know, I see your point about unfairness.
Think of it more as an Apple, eMagic and IBM vs Microsoft, Steinberg and Intel fight.
I used to fool around with iChat during the release of Jaguar. Didn't use it that much because most of my friends didn't have AIM-accounts. But it's changing now... AOL/ICQ have recently merged their networks, so now i can use iChat to chat with my ICQ friends (only of they use the latest ICQ-lite though).
And I think Steve Jobs described Video-conferencing pretty accurately. It's one of those features that you go "I will never use this. It's cool. But I will never use this." and then after some use you will go "Why did I say that? THIS IS GREAT!".
You know what? Steve Jobs was completely right! iChat is now my favorite chatting application because of it's sleek interface, ease of use and audio/video capabilities. I just plugged in my webcamera and iChat AV booted up automatically and configured itself! How is that for plug and play, Microsoft? No drivers, no nothing. It simply worked. Set up in less than ten seconds. I am stumped!
"Way to go Apple!" is what I say! This will completely change how I communicate with my father that reside in the US. We've emailed and called back and forth for six years now, but now it looks like we're taking a step further to the future!
But what really need to happen is interconnect-ability between all apps though:(
European Music Store, what about individual ones?
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One thing that kind of piss me off is that Apple has decided that the whole European Union will get one big European Music Store. That really sucks because that mean that either the store will be flooded by German or French-singing artists that rest of Europe don't have any clue who the hell they are, or that these artists who happen to sing in their own language get sacked from the store. Now as a Swedish person I'd like to have some Swedish Hip Hop in the store, but since Swedish Hip Hop isn't selling outside of Sweden -- I doubt that they would even think about. This is kind of stupid in my opinion, and I would like to see a Music Store per country instead. To not only launch it faster, but to please the consumers more specifically in each country.
Wasn't so long ago I heard that the people who beta tested the game got so fed up with this game because it was real crappy? They said that the game had no spirit because the worlds were completely random, and that there is nothing to do because you have no specific goal to aim to when you play. And according to my vocabulary -- it sounded like they were pretty experienced MMORPG gamers. So my guess is that this is the years Hyperware: Hyped up game that's highly expected with big sales the first week 'till reviews and word of mouth kicks in that the game sucks.
Mod me down on this if you like, but I just need to slap some sense in to them who have no clue.
Excuse me, but how stupid are people?
Anybody who say that the Intel and AMD processors are faster than the G5 are complete and utter morons. Apple had speed tests in various applications and it kicked the shit out of them. I saw it with my own eyes. There were thousands of developers and even more thousand of people who watched the stream afterwards. Apple is not lying when they say the G5 is faster! These idiots seem to disregard the speed tests that were done on stage, at the same time, infront of thousands of people, with Mathematica, Logic/Cubase, Photoshop and other software. If you think the G5 is slower than a dual Xeon or Pentium, then you must have seen the keynote backwards.
Why is he trying to talk down at the Mac? Doesn't he realize that we are on the same side? Everything good for Linux is good for Apple in my opinion. We both are fighting the fiercless war against big brother Microsoft!
But let's come to the most important part: What do I think the future behold? All of my G5 upgraded crystal balls tell me that Microsoft will start to fabricate their own computers (they're already doing it with HP, right?) to the point where they can start to cripple people that run Windows on other machines than those who are branded with the Microsoft-logo. In other words Microsoft will sooner or later turn in to Apple because they are Apple-wannabes... While on the sidelines Linux will grow and grow for some reason -- can't really tell because all of my balls are cloudy on that issue...
C'mon... We all know that they're pissed at this for one reason only: When making an album they only need to make two to three good and catchy songs while the rest of them are boring, monotone and pure crap as a way to fill out the album. In other words, they're scared because now they need to write a good song every single time. No more lazy productions!
But you know what? I don't really care. I say let them put their stuff on to the iTunes Music Store with an album download offer only! And if nobody buy the album because they've heard that 8 out of 10 songs suck -- well, then it's their own damn fault!
I hope the day of buying an album and getting disappointed on what was on it because their hit single was really good is in the past. More power to the consumer!
These can be obvious fakes. Just because they might please the common users wet dream, don't mean that they're true. I'm not a pessimist, but a realist. The leaked G5 picture last week made me think... Half of the crap that is said in the rumor mills of the Mac community is pure bull. Remember those other screenshots of Panther way back? The one with piles. Obvious fake (it looked really bad). And then there was the one with the brushed metal Mail application. Obvious fake (it also looked really bad, and made no sense too). You know what? If these turn out to be true, there is only one person in the world I feel sorry for. And that is Steve Jobs. It's ashamed. He really love suprises. Now not only are the specifications of the G5 leaked, now probably the screenshots are. This could have been the best keynote ever from Steve Jobs. And now it's all ruined because of the rabid behaviour of mac websites. In its current state they're worse than the English gossip press... I used to be one of them. But I quit, because it was just too fanatical.
This doesn't suprise me. These kind of things are to be expected because the US put on a hefty steel toll on their exports around a year ago. The European Union got pissed at that and since that, it's been quite a war between us. But I don't care, right? This is what the European Union was all about: Creating a unioned power that would balance out the American superpower on the international market.
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Isn't this against what democracy stands for? In a democracy everybody has the equal right to vote, regardless of income and computing platform.
Me thinks that this is only to see how many people have pirated the beta in one way or another. I mean, this Panther release must be one of the most distributed Mac OS X developer seeded releases yet (a wild guess by me, but I think it's quite accurate) and at the same time they release a patch for it which they have NOT done with their previous seeds. Coincidence? I think not.
Flame me for being paranoid, but things like these are just too big to be small.
The couple say they have ransacked apartments, sent out their "troops" to urinate on others' lawns and once drove another player from the game.
Am I the only one of burst out laughing on that one? How evil can you get, really? While you're dealing drugs in Grand Theft Auto and driving over innocent people in Carmageddon, you piss on lawns in The Sims Online!
I'm addicted. This can be proven with that I always check up on Slashdot every fifteen minutes.
Actually, Blizzard has in recent years stopped showing advertisements from other companies other than themselves!
I've got a paper bag! Anyone got some poo and a lighter?
1. Blizzard won't go Linux for a long time. If you want to run Blizzards games on an *nix-based/like system, get a Macintosh (shameless plug, I know. But I'm just speaking the truth).
2. Blizzard will never, ever, never remove creeps, the harsh food-limit and upkeep. Producer Robert Pardo has said many, many times that those things are to stay and will never be removed from the game. If Blizzard removed the, what would the game be? Starcraft in a fantasy world with heroes and a fourth race? Not pretty in my opinion.
3. Open Bnet sucks. They're saying it's open source blah blah blah for good use for those with no internet connection yadda yadda. But all it's being used for is to play pirated versions of the games. It was used during the original Warcraft 3 beta, and it was in fact, used during this actual beta of the expansion set too.
4. 35 dollars is quite a low price. It's not much different than the price that was put on Starcraft's Expansion set Brood War. Nobody complained back then about the price -- gamers today are spoiled because of warez and expect everything to be put out for free. Sorry, but market economy don't work that way. Trust me that when I say that you will get value for your money, you will get value for your money. Thing is that Blizzard is a very different company from the other companies out on the market. They actually make GOOD expansions to their games with much content and thought behind them. They don't slap some small extra things in a box to spice up what was already big in the original, but they improve the flaws and faults of the original instead. Almost like a sequel in my opinion.
5. Ships will make a triumphant return to Warcraft 3, but that will be in single player only. However, there will still be ships in multiplayer in form of mercenary ships purchasable at goblin shipyards. So yes, ships are back! They did it to please you Warcraft 2-fanatics!
Last of all is the cool thing that Blizzard has basically added a fifth race to this expansion set. Not playable, but in the single player campaign they have their own buildings and have workers who mine gold -- and everything. Damn cool! Now if only somebody could do a hack or something...
Finally (just to add some more text to lengthen this post out), the departure of the recent workers of Blizzard have nothing to do with this game at all. Three of those were who worked on the Diablo-series while the fourth one worked for public relations. They have basically nothing to do with this game except that they happen to work in the same company, and do occasional voices for the games (Bill Roper, the PR-guy, did the Grunt voice in Warcraft 3).
Any more questions?
I think he should hire Monica Lewinsky as an intern. She has a lot of experience in blowing.
Myth 2 is the best game I have ever played. The story is magnificent, the graphics were beautiful, and the atmosphere in the game was breathtaking. It felt like I was sitting outside, playing the game in the woods. Total Audio sure did a hell of a job by giving Bungie tons of ambient sound to the game.
Sad to see though that PlayMyth has been hacked by some morons. I just hope that this won't turn them off. In my opinion, this is the best thing to keep the Myth-spirit alive. It almost makes me cry. (honestly!)
Anyone got any idea how much this game has so far cost to make? I'm interested to see wether they will go minus or plus on this even after selling a couple of millions of copies. Unless 3DRealms is 1 person, then this game must have had a damn expensive development cost...
Don't diss genres. plz
I've noticed that many people here don't really know the true meaning of the word Ironic and Sarcasm.
Ironic means that from what was expected, a total opposite of that occurred instead. For example, I expected it to snow yesterday -- instead we got one of the hottest days of the year.
Sarcasm is when a person is saying something but mean the complete opposite. For example, when somebody say "That's nasty!" but he mean that it is "cool" or "hip".
So to sum it up: You can not speak in irony and situations can't be sarcastic. I'm no linguistics expert or anything. It's just that I get pissed off when people mix these two up.
I've been to Dreamhack twice now and they've estimated everything from 4000 to 6000 people.
How's that for a Lan, Tom'sHardware?
At this point, does it really matter if Intel, AMD, or Apple is the slightly faster computer?
The simple answer is: YES! Speed does matter! You're argument remind me of what all of us Mac users used to say in these latest couple of years right before the G5 announcement. It felt like as if you had a real small penis and tried to defend with the good ol' saying that "It's not the size that matter. It's how you use it!". We were all going "Speed doesn't matter. My penis can surf the net, listen to music and read my email. Size is irrelevant."
This is true to a certain extent, but how is it for them who absolutely need to use a penis that is as big as possible to get their work done as fast as possible? They had to switch penis or buy really tiny ones - ones who couldn't live up to competition. We all knew deep down inside that sizes did eventually matter. And dismissing the problem didn't exactly make it less inevitably to be teased by our PC-penis colleagues.
So yes. It matters. If humanity would go "Speed doesn't matter." what would people of the likes of John Carmack do for a living? Work for the Nasa? Bah! Useless! Thanks to the technology speed improvements over the years we've been able to watch crystal sparkling quality movies on our computer screens, play pirated betas of Doom 3 and download porn faster.
Because Logic is now just like Final Cut Pro. It's a product slapped with the Apple-sticker on it. You don't see Apple comparing After Effects on the Mac with After Effects on the PC, right? Because eMagic now run closely with Apple they can utilize the Macs better than for example, Steinberg can do. I know, I see your point about unfairness.
Think of it more as an Apple, eMagic and IBM vs Microsoft, Steinberg and Intel fight.
I used to fool around with iChat during the release of Jaguar. Didn't use it that much because most of my friends didn't have AIM-accounts. But it's changing now... AOL/ICQ have recently merged their networks, so now i can use iChat to chat with my ICQ friends (only of they use the latest ICQ-lite though).
:(
And I think Steve Jobs described Video-conferencing pretty accurately. It's one of those features that you go "I will never use this. It's cool. But I will never use this." and then after some use you will go "Why did I say that? THIS IS GREAT!".
You know what? Steve Jobs was completely right! iChat is now my favorite chatting application because of it's sleek interface, ease of use and audio/video capabilities. I just plugged in my webcamera and iChat AV booted up automatically and configured itself! How is that for plug and play, Microsoft? No drivers, no nothing. It simply worked. Set up in less than ten seconds. I am stumped!
"Way to go Apple!" is what I say! This will completely change how I communicate with my father that reside in the US. We've emailed and called back and forth for six years now, but now it looks like we're taking a step further to the future!
But what really need to happen is interconnect-ability between all apps though
One thing that kind of piss me off is that Apple has decided that the whole European Union will get one big European Music Store. That really sucks because that mean that either the store will be flooded by German or French-singing artists that rest of Europe don't have any clue who the hell they are, or that these artists who happen to sing in their own language get sacked from the store. Now as a Swedish person I'd like to have some Swedish Hip Hop in the store, but since Swedish Hip Hop isn't selling outside of Sweden -- I doubt that they would even think about. This is kind of stupid in my opinion, and I would like to see a Music Store per country instead. To not only launch it faster, but to please the consumers more specifically in each country.
Wasn't so long ago I heard that the people who beta tested the game got so fed up with this game because it was real crappy? They said that the game had no spirit because the worlds were completely random, and that there is nothing to do because you have no specific goal to aim to when you play. And according to my vocabulary -- it sounded like they were pretty experienced MMORPG gamers. So my guess is that this is the years Hyperware: Hyped up game that's highly expected with big sales the first week 'till reviews and word of mouth kicks in that the game sucks.
Suddenly all the people who said that Apple is an evil company that use false advertising and crooked benchmarks are nowhere to be seen..!
Mod me down on this if you like, but I just need to slap some sense in to them who have no clue.
Excuse me, but how stupid are people?
Anybody who say that the Intel and AMD processors are faster than the G5 are complete and utter morons. Apple had speed tests in various applications and it kicked the shit out of them. I saw it with my own eyes. There were thousands of developers and even more thousand of people who watched the stream afterwards. Apple is not lying when they say the G5 is faster! These idiots seem to disregard the speed tests that were done on stage, at the same time, infront of thousands of people, with Mathematica, Logic/Cubase, Photoshop and other software.
If you think the G5 is slower than a dual Xeon or Pentium, then you must have seen the keynote backwards.
Why is he trying to talk down at the Mac? Doesn't he realize that we are on the same side? Everything good for Linux is good for Apple in my opinion. We both are fighting the fiercless war against big brother Microsoft!
But let's come to the most important part: What do I think the future behold? All of my G5 upgraded crystal balls tell me that Microsoft will start to fabricate their own computers (they're already doing it with HP, right?) to the point where they can start to cripple people that run Windows on other machines than those who are branded with the Microsoft-logo. In other words Microsoft will sooner or later turn in to Apple because they are Apple-wannabes... While on the sidelines Linux will grow and grow for some reason -- can't really tell because all of my balls are cloudy on that issue...
C'mon... We all know that they're pissed at this for one reason only: When making an album they only need to make two to three good and catchy songs while the rest of them are boring, monotone and pure crap as a way to fill out the album. In other words, they're scared because now they need to write a good song every single time. No more lazy productions!
But you know what? I don't really care. I say let them put their stuff on to the iTunes Music Store with an album download offer only! And if nobody buy the album because they've heard that 8 out of 10 songs suck -- well, then it's their own damn fault!
I hope the day of buying an album and getting disappointed on what was on it because their hit single was really good is in the past. More power to the consumer!
Don't worry, you never have to feel sorry for Steve Jobs. He's a major league asshole who just happened to know Wozniak.
What's the difference between Steve Jobs and an asshole?
The asshole isn't a fucking billionare!
These can be obvious fakes. Just because they might please the common users wet dream, don't mean that they're true. I'm not a pessimist, but a realist. The leaked G5 picture last week made me think... Half of the crap that is said in the rumor mills of the Mac community is pure bull. Remember those other screenshots of Panther way back? The one with piles. Obvious fake (it looked really bad). And then there was the one with the brushed metal Mail application. Obvious fake (it also looked really bad, and made no sense too). You know what? If these turn out to be true, there is only one person in the world I feel sorry for. And that is Steve Jobs. It's ashamed. He really love suprises. Now not only are the specifications of the G5 leaked, now probably the screenshots are. This could have been the best keynote ever from Steve Jobs. And now it's all ruined because of the rabid behaviour of mac websites. In its current state they're worse than the English gossip press... I used to be one of them. But I quit, because it was just too fanatical.
This doesn't suprise me. These kind of things are to be expected because the US put on a hefty steel toll on their exports around a year ago. The European Union got pissed at that and since that, it's been quite a war between us. But I don't care, right? This is what the European Union was all about: Creating a unioned power that would balance out the American superpower on the international market.