Yes - 5 man content is definitely more fun and challenging than 40 man, however it is very difficult for the designers to balance 5 man content (think of all the different class mixes) than 40 man content. If you make 5 man content very hard, it will be impossible for some groups and trivial for others - look at the Shaman epic helm quest in Scholo.
When I first started playing, I used to 5-man Strath / Scholo / Dire Maul / BRS with my mates. However, that eventually wore out.
Now the fun for me is running my guild and organising 40 people at once; we just downed Garr yesterday for the first time and the fight unfolded like clockwork, as everyone knew what they were doing and did it well. That's now the buzz for me!
Please be realistic here - single player PC games only require your own hardware to run.
Massive multiplayer games require vast amounts of server hardware, administration staff, network bandwidth, more initial development... none of this comes for free - that is why you pay by the month.
If US$15 per month is too much for you, you should look seriously into your personal budgetting.
Say you play WoW 30 hours a month (most people would play more...) that's still only US$0.50 per hour. Find me other forms of entertainment that cost this much.
I don't think they know about the security flaws or possible worms - it's not a big conspiracy at MS. They're programmers like the rest of us, fighting fires as they come up.
It's like the "UFO conspiracy" that the US government has been executing for the last 50 years - do you really think they're that organised???
I'm happy with this "functional illiteracy" of the unwashed masses of my colleagues: all my emails contain correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, form etc.
It makes me look so much more professional than my colleagues, with their "SMS grammar and spelling". People always pay more attention and give more respect to properly written emails and documents.
What is wrong with holding the church up to ridicule???
Surely they are secure in their beliefs and can take a bit of criticism....
You should see the joy on the faces...
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...of the smacktards when you tell them that they don't need to replace their two year old computer because it is "too slow".
A simple removal of the spyware and toolbars, banning of IE and OE, installation of Firefox and Thunderbird is all that is required. Oh, and you have to tell them not to install anything else - just use what you have.
Always, the response to the question of what they use their computer for is: "web, email and word processing". A 5 year old computer will do that job with Win XP on it. Soon, a 10 year old computer will do it!
...is how I described the performance of Media Player 8 on my PII-400MHz, when it first came out.
But Media Player 9 also runs sluggishly on my P4-3GHz.
I hope that the Microsoft coders have actually followed the 80/20 rule and made some efficiency improvements in this release, because having to wait 2-3 seconds after double clicking a media file is not good enough.
I guess that is why Winamp 2 is so popular - launch the media file and it instantly starts playing.
You can use the iPod as a secondary storage device.
It is a standard firewire disk - it is hot pluggable - and gets autmagically mounted on Mac OS / Windows / Linux.
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Yes - 5 man content is definitely more fun and challenging than 40 man, however it is very difficult for the designers to balance 5 man content (think of all the different class mixes) than 40 man content. If you make 5 man content very hard, it will be impossible for some groups and trivial for others - look at the Shaman epic helm quest in Scholo. When I first started playing, I used to 5-man Strath / Scholo / Dire Maul / BRS with my mates. However, that eventually wore out. Now the fun for me is running my guild and organising 40 people at once; we just downed Garr yesterday for the first time and the fight unfolded like clockwork, as everyone knew what they were doing and did it well. That's now the buzz for me!
Please be realistic here - single player PC games only require your own hardware to run. Massive multiplayer games require vast amounts of server hardware, administration staff, network bandwidth, more initial development... none of this comes for free - that is why you pay by the month. If US$15 per month is too much for you, you should look seriously into your personal budgetting. Say you play WoW 30 hours a month (most people would play more...) that's still only US$0.50 per hour. Find me other forms of entertainment that cost this much.
I don't think they know about the security flaws or possible worms - it's not a big conspiracy at MS. They're programmers like the rest of us, fighting fires as they come up.
It's like the "UFO conspiracy" that the US government has been executing for the last 50 years - do you really think they're that organised???
I'm happy with this "functional illiteracy" of the unwashed masses of my colleagues: all my emails contain correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, form etc.
It makes me look so much more professional than my colleagues, with their "SMS grammar and spelling". People always pay more attention and give more respect to properly written emails and documents.
What is wrong with holding the church up to ridicule???
Surely they are secure in their beliefs and can take a bit of criticism....
...of the smacktards when you tell them that they don't need to replace their two year old computer because it is "too slow".
A simple removal of the spyware and toolbars, banning of IE and OE, installation of Firefox and Thunderbird is all that is required. Oh, and you have to tell them not to install anything else - just use what you have.
Always, the response to the question of what they use their computer for is: "web, email and word processing". A 5 year old computer will do that job with Win XP on it. Soon, a 10 year old computer will do it!
That's scarily close...
...just come to my workplace here in Sydney - they have IBM Mainframes, SNA, Connect Direct, even Windows 95 for god's sake!
I use Winamp for every file that the QuickTime player can't play e.g. WMV
...is how I described the performance of Media Player 8 on my PII-400MHz, when it first came out. But Media Player 9 also runs sluggishly on my P4-3GHz. I hope that the Microsoft coders have actually followed the 80/20 rule and made some efficiency improvements in this release, because having to wait 2-3 seconds after double clicking a media file is not good enough. I guess that is why Winamp 2 is so popular - launch the media file and it instantly starts playing.
You can use the iPod as a secondary storage device. It is a standard firewire disk - it is hot pluggable - and gets autmagically mounted on Mac OS / Windows / Linux.
This is also appropriate for your internet connection e.g. a 3 Gigawank per month cable connection from Optus is very popular.