Just because you ask: I think some of us don't like a 12MB encrypted binary executable file running on our system that nobody [blackhat.com] except the creators know what it does.
It appears to make phone calls over the Internet and to POTS phones. Mystery solved.
No one's interested in doing the pre-BC high-level dungeons anymore.
That is rather unfortunate. The two guilds I helped were already getting difficult to help lower levels out with much needed quests to quicken their rise to 60, well prior to the expansion, due to either being burnt out from rep grinding or working on their end-game items.
5k, at least during the time I played (pvp server), was an insane amount of gold. I can see why gold farming is continuing to be popular. In my opinion, they should have made such a skill a reputation grind. But I no longer pay Blizzard 12 bucks a months, so my opinion no longer matters.:)
"Vile creatures"? LOL. You're a fucking dipshit. (Any WoW player calling anyone else a "vile creature" is a fucking dipshit, but really, you're extra-dipshitful.)
Yes, I consider people who sign up for dozens accounts on a game, then run Glider bots 24/7 for months until caught, then get dozens of new accounts and repeat this action are rather vile.
Also, yes, I played WoW for a year. The last I checked, there are millions of other people who play/played the game. Have fun trying to pretend life is an episode of Southpark where MMO games are only played by losers. At least, they are probably a few notches up on the food chain than people who spout off on/., but that's for a different thread.
Furthermore, no, game economies wouldn't be balanced. It just means that RMT would require higher USD prices because people want to take shortcuts and will pay to avoid grind, regardless of the expense.
Keeping an MMO economy balanced is a large task without hacking or botting. It gets out of hand when there's a continual influx of gold from the two listed reasons. When items for a level 41 character cost more than it is possible to earn from killing things when grinding from 1-60, you've got a problem and this was the problem I saw erupt about six months into playing WoW. Oddly enough, at the very same time Glider (bot package) was becoming very popular for farming.
The only resolutions, besides over-policing the markets, would be making the majority of gear 'bind on pickup' which is how just about all the end-game items are. Thus the only reason gold farming stays somewhat manageable.
Do you have any idea how economics works, "vile creature"?
Your creative use of the English language is amusing, but yes, I've been in the real market for years and have a nice nest egg. I've also managed to end up with wealthy characters in every MMO I've played.
While not entirely familiar with game content after the expansion, I did see many players literally freak out over not having enough gold to purchase their epic mount the moment they turned level 60.
This always bugged me how people feel like they aren't doing alright in the game if they don't have everything by a certain level. My first character was on-foot a solid five levels beyond where he could have gotten his first mount and level 60 for probably two weeks before being able to afford an epic mount. I got wise-cracked a bit in both cases, but I wasn't a big merchant and just enjoying the game.
By my second character, I had two different types of epic mounts at 60 from all the gold my first character ended up with. Not a big deal, but it was nice being able to take a shortcut the second time around by having resources I could just mail over.
I guess I am trying to say the game shouldn't be driven by desperation of getting "the best" right away. By design, most of these things were meant to take forever and not be things you can just run out and get, otherwise everyone would have exactly the same loot.
Game creators work so hard to stop these guys... Maybe they should realize their content sucks if people are willing to pay to skip it.
Thanks China, for $5, you saved me two weeks of grinding!
This is far from the case. If you had experienced WoW prior to the explosion of gold farmers, you would have seen items with reasonable prices, where you could spend a day or two of grinding gold to pay for your new fancy world-drop loot.
After the explosion of gold farmers on the server I was on, prices started to sky rocket as the amount of gold in play was reaching rather high levels, which was primarily generated by the gold farmers.
If not for these vile creatures of the 3rd world, game economies would be much, much easier to manage and not get so out of balance the normal players would have to resort to paying money for gold.
A fine example of things being screwed up is when a level 38 world drop costs more gold than you would be able to earn while grinding from level 1-60.
Tempting to waste time on something that will never be seen or touched by a fed?
The headline wasn't "FBI plans on spying on every American!" it's just them being able to investigate without a warrant. Pretty much the status quo for most countries on this fine planet.
You sure seem to know a lot and use Vista an awful lot to hate it so much. Why expose yourself to these things if you dislike them? If it's job related, there is plenty of work out there which does not require much interaction with Microsoft products.
A 33 year old won the silver medal in the vault competition, so it's definitely possible to be successful despite not being prepubescent.
What's "Insightful" about saying someone won a medal in the vault competition when the post he's responding to specifically cites the advantage gymnasts have? Vault is all about speed and strength. Nothing to do with gymnastics. A different competition.
Yeah, there's a bunch of people who claim to be anarchists on here, too. It's pretty funny to click on their homepage links to anarchy forums hosted by rather large, incorporated, web hosting providers. If they really had such strong beliefs, I'd think there would be some mom and pop providers to chose from.
Anti-corporate types in IT is almost as hilarious, as the technology is only at it's current level because of many 'evil empires'. I'm sure I'll get a few alternate reality replies, so I'll stop here and let the hate flow my direction.;]
This gives you a chance to do something with a company-approved laptop SOE that doesn't involve waking the slow, cranky and belligerant dragon that is Vista or XP Pro.
Vista, sure it might take a while to get booted up, but XP Pro? Come now, this takes like 10 seconds on a decent machine.
In regards to the "business professional", most of the shops I've worked at require a VPN connection to access the Exchange servers to grab email.
Don't get me wrong, I see this being useful, but not very useful for the vast majority of laptop users who have to utilize a VPN. Blackberries and PDAs are the norm for quick email checks with everyone I know who really has to worry about such things at a moment's notice. For instance, I wouldn't enjoy having to carry around a laptop everywhere to get an email notification of a host being down. I'd much prefer the little box on my hip tell me.
You only have the ability to do this when it comes to sticking a dish on your porch. You still don't have any rights to have the install guy go nailing a dish where ever it may be needed to get a signal.
If your porch faces north or if there's no place on the porch to get a signal due to buildings or plants, you are still out of luck.
The best thing he can do is just stick an antenna on the porch or in a window frame and hope for the best.
Speaking of outdoor antennas, go to some place like Best Buy with a no-hassle return policy. Get a cheap model, try it, if it doesn't work, take it back and keep upgrading until you've got something that works. It's a nice way of doing a bit of experimenting on their tab. More expensive doesn't mean better, as I get all the local HD channels with a pair of rabbit ears hooked up to my setup.
Nothing looks as cool as a $4200 panel with a $5 radio shack pair of rabbit ears stuck on top of it.:)
I still play Doom2 and SF2 on XBLA. The latest 3D engine and multi-million dollar game isn't always as good as a re-vamped or rebalanced classic.
Plus, take into consideration several million XB360 owners who weren't old enough to get into these games when they were new and cutting edge.
Finally, I used to dream of having a gigantic display to play Duke on a comfy couch when I was sitting there with my 14" CRT in a $20 used office chair. Freshened graphics on a 50" HD panel in the den, online multiplayer, and better audio will be _that_ dream come true.
What country tries people captured during military operations anything like a normal criminal court? If this were Russia or China, you'd never hear from them again. The ones that'd return, would so with various crippling injuries or in body bags. Considering the US allowed any sort of coverage, exposing it's failures, is miles ahead of the conduct I've seen from most countries. I'm not saying it's your big friendly pal, Just that it's not exactly the worst thing out there.
Where are you from, by the way? I only ask because I'd like to see the history of your nation and how they've treated prisoners of various sorts over the past century.
Are you going to make sure to make every other post you do on the Internet show how concerned you are with China's political prisoners and the treatment of captured Georgian troops in Russia's latest conflict? Let's see your humanitarian, crying about freedoms posts talking shit about other countries locked up in conflicts.
Haha I get flamebait moderation for pointing out the US doesn't have a national firewall, the OP was out dated on his FUD, and not putting people in jail for talking bad about the government.
All hail our new Chinese overlords! This is pretty strong evidence of the mindless hatred of the US on/.:)
Not slavery... but the U.S. system allows companies to damn near treat visa workers like slaves. Clue in dude... this happens a lot.
Don't let the door bump you in the ass on the way out! If it sucks, go home. You don't have to quit before getting a new job and making plans to move the family back wherever you came from.
It's sad that people actually want to whine about being allowed to go to another country and take jobs that would otherwise go to locals. The problem lies in the simple fact that these people are welcome here at all, not the fact that they are considered discount labor by employers.
And no, they aren't more skilled, harder workers, etc than the local workforce, they are simply cheaper, temporary labor the company can get away with not committing to like they would a normal worker.
No, its because they think they'll make more profit in Europe charging more, either because Europeans have more money they are willing to throw at this kind of tech, or because its a narrower, richer segment of the market willing to consider the product at all in Europe; its simply a matter of segmenting the market and charging as much as the market will bear in each segment.
Cost probably has next to nothing to do with it.
So this is what Europeans claim these days? Electronics cost more in Europe for decades, even when their economies were in the collective dumper.
From my experience in selling things to people in European countries, it costs quite a bit more to get things from Asia to Europe than compared to North America, not to mention the mountain of languages needed to advertise for a smaller market. Blame your politicians and many languages.
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Just because you ask: I think some of us don't like a 12MB encrypted binary executable file running on our system that nobody [blackhat.com] except the creators know what it does.
It appears to make phone calls over the Internet and to POTS phones. Mystery solved.
No one's interested in doing the pre-BC high-level dungeons anymore.
That is rather unfortunate. The two guilds I helped were already getting difficult to help lower levels out with much needed quests to quicken their rise to 60, well prior to the expansion, due to either being burnt out from rep grinding or working on their end-game items.
5k, at least during the time I played (pvp server), was an insane amount of gold. I can see why gold farming is continuing to be popular. In my opinion, they should have made such a skill a reputation grind. But I no longer pay Blizzard 12 bucks a months, so my opinion no longer matters. :)
"Vile creatures"? LOL. You're a fucking dipshit. (Any WoW player calling anyone else a "vile creature" is a fucking dipshit, but really, you're extra-dipshitful.)
Yes, I consider people who sign up for dozens accounts on a game, then run Glider bots 24/7 for months until caught, then get dozens of new accounts and repeat this action are rather vile.
Also, yes, I played WoW for a year. The last I checked, there are millions of other people who play/played the game. Have fun trying to pretend life is an episode of Southpark where MMO games are only played by losers. At least, they are probably a few notches up on the food chain than people who spout off on /., but that's for a different thread.
Furthermore, no, game economies wouldn't be balanced. It just means that RMT would require higher USD prices because people want to take shortcuts and will pay to avoid grind, regardless of the expense.
Keeping an MMO economy balanced is a large task without hacking or botting. It gets out of hand when there's a continual influx of gold from the two listed reasons. When items for a level 41 character cost more than it is possible to earn from killing things when grinding from 1-60, you've got a problem and this was the problem I saw erupt about six months into playing WoW. Oddly enough, at the very same time Glider (bot package) was becoming very popular for farming.
The only resolutions, besides over-policing the markets, would be making the majority of gear 'bind on pickup' which is how just about all the end-game items are. Thus the only reason gold farming stays somewhat manageable.
Do you have any idea how economics works, "vile creature"?
Your creative use of the English language is amusing, but yes, I've been in the real market for years and have a nice nest egg. I've also managed to end up with wealthy characters in every MMO I've played.
While not entirely familiar with game content after the expansion, I did see many players literally freak out over not having enough gold to purchase their epic mount the moment they turned level 60.
This always bugged me how people feel like they aren't doing alright in the game if they don't have everything by a certain level. My first character was on-foot a solid five levels beyond where he could have gotten his first mount and level 60 for probably two weeks before being able to afford an epic mount. I got wise-cracked a bit in both cases, but I wasn't a big merchant and just enjoying the game.
By my second character, I had two different types of epic mounts at 60 from all the gold my first character ended up with. Not a big deal, but it was nice being able to take a shortcut the second time around by having resources I could just mail over.
I guess I am trying to say the game shouldn't be driven by desperation of getting "the best" right away. By design, most of these things were meant to take forever and not be things you can just run out and get, otherwise everyone would have exactly the same loot.
Game creators work so hard to stop these guys... Maybe they should realize their content sucks if people are willing to pay to skip it.
Thanks China, for $5, you saved me two weeks of grinding!
This is far from the case. If you had experienced WoW prior to the explosion of gold farmers, you would have seen items with reasonable prices, where you could spend a day or two of grinding gold to pay for your new fancy world-drop loot.
After the explosion of gold farmers on the server I was on, prices started to sky rocket as the amount of gold in play was reaching rather high levels, which was primarily generated by the gold farmers.
If not for these vile creatures of the 3rd world, game economies would be much, much easier to manage and not get so out of balance the normal players would have to resort to paying money for gold.
A fine example of things being screwed up is when a level 38 world drop costs more gold than you would be able to earn while grinding from level 1-60.
If you can't "afford to" then you can just walk right down to Mexico and live with other types in your income bracket.
Oh man. That is sooo tempting. Must ... resist ...
Tempting to waste time on something that will never be seen or touched by a fed?
The headline wasn't "FBI plans on spying on every American!" it's just them being able to investigate without a warrant. Pretty much the status quo for most countries on this fine planet.
I predict you will likely have a heart attack soon. Either while posting on the Internet or while setting up a Windows box. ;)
You sure seem to know a lot and use Vista an awful lot to hate it so much. Why expose yourself to these things if you dislike them? If it's job related, there is plenty of work out there which does not require much interaction with Microsoft products.
Don't believe everything you read on /., remember yesterday when they green-lighted an article stating Duke Nukem Forever was coming out on XBLA soon.
http://www.crn.com/hardware/209901649
Yes, I was hoping for a "everything on the chip" solution, but I'm guessing that's a few years off still.
A 33 year old won the silver medal in the vault competition, so it's definitely possible to be successful despite not being prepubescent.
What's "Insightful" about saying someone won a medal in the vault competition when the post he's responding to specifically cites the advantage gymnasts have? Vault is all about speed and strength. Nothing to do with gymnastics. A different competition.
Actually, I think our objection there is rather poorly defined. Why don't we allow children to compete?
The same reason we don't allow children to work in factories.
We aren't pandering for mod points, are we?
a) Year of the Linux Desktop
b) Microsoft dropped the ball
c) Vista sucks
d) Prediction of a hated empire's doom
I'm amazed Google isn't in there somewhere.
Yeah, there's a bunch of people who claim to be anarchists on here, too. It's pretty funny to click on their homepage links to anarchy forums hosted by rather large, incorporated, web hosting providers. If they really had such strong beliefs, I'd think there would be some mom and pop providers to chose from.
Anti-corporate types in IT is almost as hilarious, as the technology is only at it's current level because of many 'evil empires'. I'm sure I'll get a few alternate reality replies, so I'll stop here and let the hate flow my direction. ;]
This gives you a chance to do something with a company-approved laptop SOE that doesn't involve waking the slow, cranky and belligerant dragon that is Vista or XP Pro.
Vista, sure it might take a while to get booted up, but XP Pro? Come now, this takes like 10 seconds on a decent machine.
In regards to the "business professional", most of the shops I've worked at require a VPN connection to access the Exchange servers to grab email.
Don't get me wrong, I see this being useful, but not very useful for the vast majority of laptop users who have to utilize a VPN. Blackberries and PDAs are the norm for quick email checks with everyone I know who really has to worry about such things at a moment's notice. For instance, I wouldn't enjoy having to carry around a laptop everywhere to get an email notification of a host being down. I'd much prefer the little box on my hip tell me.
You only have the ability to do this when it comes to sticking a dish on your porch. You still don't have any rights to have the install guy go nailing a dish where ever it may be needed to get a signal.
If your porch faces north or if there's no place on the porch to get a signal due to buildings or plants, you are still out of luck.
The best thing he can do is just stick an antenna on the porch or in a window frame and hope for the best.
Speaking of outdoor antennas, go to some place like Best Buy with a no-hassle return policy. Get a cheap model, try it, if it doesn't work, take it back and keep upgrading until you've got something that works. It's a nice way of doing a bit of experimenting on their tab. More expensive doesn't mean better, as I get all the local HD channels with a pair of rabbit ears hooked up to my setup.
Nothing looks as cool as a $4200 panel with a $5 radio shack pair of rabbit ears stuck on top of it. :)
Some things was best in their time.
I still play Doom2 and SF2 on XBLA. The latest 3D engine and multi-million dollar game isn't always as good as a re-vamped or rebalanced classic.
Plus, take into consideration several million XB360 owners who weren't old enough to get into these games when they were new and cutting edge.
Finally, I used to dream of having a gigantic display to play Duke on a comfy couch when I was sitting there with my 14" CRT in a $20 used office chair. Freshened graphics on a 50" HD panel in the den, online multiplayer, and better audio will be _that_ dream come true.
/me points at the AC response below.
What country tries people captured during military operations anything like a normal criminal court? If this were Russia or China, you'd never hear from them again. The ones that'd return, would so with various crippling injuries or in body bags. Considering the US allowed any sort of coverage, exposing it's failures, is miles ahead of the conduct I've seen from most countries. I'm not saying it's your big friendly pal, Just that it's not exactly the worst thing out there.
Where are you from, by the way? I only ask because I'd like to see the history of your nation and how they've treated prisoners of various sorts over the past century.
Are you going to make sure to make every other post you do on the Internet show how concerned you are with China's political prisoners and the treatment of captured Georgian troops in Russia's latest conflict? Let's see your humanitarian, crying about freedoms posts talking shit about other countries locked up in conflicts.
Haha I get flamebait moderation for pointing out the US doesn't have a national firewall, the OP was out dated on his FUD, and not putting people in jail for talking bad about the government.
All hail our new Chinese overlords! This is pretty strong evidence of the mindless hatred of the US on /. :)
And it sounds like you are a self-loathing European AC. Nice to have more fans. =)
No it isn't, but the bill of rights certainly hasn't helped any 'illegal combatants'.
You are a couple of years behind on the news, eh?
the US throwing stones in it's own glasshouse
Yes, the US has a "national" firewall, puts people in prison for any dissent and is all about being a communist country. :rolleyes:
You mean we should blame our politicians for Europe's location? Incidentally, how is the Wii hunt going in the USA?
According to my globe Europe is closer to Asia.
Why hunt for a Wii? They are plentiful around here.
Not slavery... but the U.S. system allows companies to damn near treat visa workers like slaves. Clue in dude... this happens a lot.
Don't let the door bump you in the ass on the way out! If it sucks, go home. You don't have to quit before getting a new job and making plans to move the family back wherever you came from.
It's sad that people actually want to whine about being allowed to go to another country and take jobs that would otherwise go to locals. The problem lies in the simple fact that these people are welcome here at all, not the fact that they are considered discount labor by employers.
And no, they aren't more skilled, harder workers, etc than the local workforce, they are simply cheaper, temporary labor the company can get away with not committing to like they would a normal worker.
Attempting to jump into the CPU business (almost) exclusively is likely to kill them, since AMD and Intel have the market fairly well tied up.
It's a good thing the folks at AMD didn't think like you when considering taking a leap at Intel's customers years ago.
No, its because they think they'll make more profit in Europe charging more, either because Europeans have more money they are willing to throw at this kind of tech, or because its a narrower, richer segment of the market willing to consider the product at all in Europe; its simply a matter of segmenting the market and charging as much as the market will bear in each segment.
Cost probably has next to nothing to do with it.
So this is what Europeans claim these days? Electronics cost more in Europe for decades, even when their economies were in the collective dumper.
From my experience in selling things to people in European countries, it costs quite a bit more to get things from Asia to Europe than compared to North America, not to mention the mountain of languages needed to advertise for a smaller market. Blame your politicians and many languages.