"It's not easy to test an IE update.... We have to make sure it breaks Firefox and Opera."
You didn't get the entire quote.
"It's not easy to test an IE update.... We have to make sure it breaks Firefox and Opera. We don't really have to worry about Netscape because it broke itself, so we were able to get this patch to you in a much more timely fashion."
Where the FUCK is the judicial branch? Hello? Checks and balances? Wake up, courts! Congress is planning to expand their craptastic Patriot Act so that the executive branch can go gathering information WITHOUT YOUR APPROVAL. Seriously, if I was a judge, I'd be so incredibly pissed off. I'd like to hope that this would never make it by the Supreme Court, but I'm beginning to think that's too much to hope for.
Disclaimer: I'm a conservative, but I no longer consider myself a Republican. The actions recently on behalf of both parties is reprehensible. The government stopped working for the people a long time ago. One almost wants to say "revolution," but then that would make you the "T" word wouldn't it?
When I first started playing Wolfenstein 3D when I was about 12, I experienced this problem as well. However, the game was so cool at that time that I just didn't care. I eventually grew out of it. Now, Wolfenstein 3D is a lot less detailed than some of the current 3D games. I imagine that just learning to play first person shooters with the latest and greatest would probably cause more serious nausea than Wolf 3D did. Maybe they should start from some older games and work their way up to the current stock?
I could be wrong, but I believe that killing someone 20 levels below you isn't a dishonorable kill. Only killing civilians is dishonorable. If a mob of level 20s attacks a level 60, he has to defend himself, right? If you're level 20 and don't want to get your ass handed to you, don't go PvP unless you're sure there aren't higher levels about.
First off, if you haven't played either Syberia or The Longest Journey, pick those games up now. Those are both phenomenal adventure games done in the 2D style (although the models are 3D).
Second, The sequel to The Longest Journey, Dreamfall, will be coming out at the end of this year (I think; you might have to check up on that one).
Third, if you would like a fun (but short, and kind of unfinished) online flash adventure game, I recommend: The Mystery of Time and Space.
No, but we would have if you asshats in the rest of the world hadn't screwed everything up and made it PRACTICAL. Jeez. We had a nice convoluted system going once...
Nope. The onyl thing you lose for a dishonorable kill is the time it took to do it. You get rewards for honorable kills, but no punishment for dishonorable kills.
You do not technically get rewards for honorable kills. What gets you rewards and moves you up in rank are contribution points. These are only awarded to you if the player is within a certain number of levels from you; the kill will also only be honorable if they fall within this range (though I do not believe it is dishonorable if they are not). From the Blizzard site:
"An honorable kill occurs when a player takes part in the killing of an appropriate player or NPC in the player's level range. The color system for players works the same as it does for monsters. Grey level players will not yield an honorable kill."
Futhermore, killing the same player over and over is not worth anything, as there are quickly diminishing returns. You can read more here.
I was gonna say that these things would easily be able to handle playing solitaire and minesweeper for three hours a day, but it doesn't come with games and doesn't run Windows, so I really have no idea.
As well off as Valve is, I don't think they have the experience or the connections to run the kind of advertising blitz that an experienced publisher can.
Let me preface this by saying that I play a couple of hours a day (more on weekends) on the Earthen Ring server, which is hardly low pop.
The WoW service frequently has unplanned outages, slow performance, server crashes, rollbacks (where you lose X minutes/hours of play development), and occasionally actual bugs.
I have never had the service go out on me or the server crash. Ever. They've had extended downtimes with their routine maintenance at times, yes, but other than that nothing unplanned. There are the occasional bugs, yes, and they are usually of the broken quest variety or a talent not working correctly in a certain instance. Hardly anything show-stopping.
Anyone who denies this or defends Blizzard's track record here simply doesn't play often, or plays on one of the rare low-population servers.
As I stated above, I play regularly almost every day and heavily on weekends (when the servers are most stressed) on a fairly high population server, and I have experienced none of the major issues you reference.
And despite seeming like an obviously useful option, Blizzard has been extremely reluctant to allow character transfers. At this point I believe that's because their game is very poorly designed, at least with respect to how they manage character data.
You have a point here. It looks like they are starting to get better about the transfers, but as of yet, it still looks like it's only for VERY high pop servers. At some point, I think it would be nice if they allowed you to transfer to any server you like. They would have to limit the number of transfers you can make, of course.
There is no valid excuse or defense against the claims I make.
Yes, there are. Blizzard can not anticipate every end user's situation. Many crashes, network stability problems, etc occur because of problems on the CLIENT SIDE. Whether someone has a crappy internet connection, a slow computer, or is infested with spyware are surprisingly never mentioned in any of these articles. For some reason it seems it can't ever possibly be the fault of the consumer, and yet I bet you that a LOT of the problems that come up are because of those things that I mentioned.
My experiences are mirrored by thousands of other players.
Quite possible, given the sheer number of WoW players. However, 15,000 of over 1,000,000 copies sold is a very small number.
Anyone who isn't experiencing these issues simply isn't playing often, isn't playing on a moderate/high pop server, or isn't willing to concede that a previously high quality game company has slipped.
Again, pure rubbish. Re-read my post to see why. I'm not saying you aren't experiencing these problems; I'm sure you are. But to make it out like EVERYONE is in your situation is just naive.
Being a Virginia Tech graduate, the first thing that popped into my mind was Blacksburg Transit, pretty much the best public bus system I've had the pleasure of riding.
I expect a lot of explosions. Terrible dialogue. An incredibly bad mixture of CGI and reality, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the end of Air Force One.
Are you one of the fortunate ones who have not seen either of the Star Wars prequels?
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"It's not easy to test an IE update .... We have to make sure it breaks Firefox and Opera."
.... We have to make sure it breaks Firefox and Opera. We don't really have to worry about Netscape because it broke itself, so we were able to get this patch to you in a much more timely fashion."
You didn't get the entire quote.
"It's not easy to test an IE update
Actually, no, I didn't. I live in Maryland, and the Congresspeople I voted for did not get elected. Thanks for playing.
Where the FUCK is the judicial branch? Hello? Checks and balances? Wake up, courts! Congress is planning to expand their craptastic Patriot Act so that the executive branch can go gathering information WITHOUT YOUR APPROVAL. Seriously, if I was a judge, I'd be so incredibly pissed off. I'd like to hope that this would never make it by the Supreme Court, but I'm beginning to think that's too much to hope for. Disclaimer: I'm a conservative, but I no longer consider myself a Republican. The actions recently on behalf of both parties is reprehensible. The government stopped working for the people a long time ago. One almost wants to say "revolution," but then that would make you the "T" word wouldn't it?
When I first started playing Wolfenstein 3D when I was about 12, I experienced this problem as well. However, the game was so cool at that time that I just didn't care. I eventually grew out of it. Now, Wolfenstein 3D is a lot less detailed than some of the current 3D games. I imagine that just learning to play first person shooters with the latest and greatest would probably cause more serious nausea than Wolf 3D did. Maybe they should start from some older games and work their way up to the current stock?
I could be wrong, but I believe that killing someone 20 levels below you isn't a dishonorable kill. Only killing civilians is dishonorable. If a mob of level 20s attacks a level 60, he has to defend himself, right? If you're level 20 and don't want to get your ass handed to you, don't go PvP unless you're sure there aren't higher levels about.
That's too bad. Imagine popping an old Riva TNT2 card into your PC, logging on to World of Warcraft, and obliterating Azeroth! Talk about griefing...
First off, if you haven't played either Syberia or The Longest Journey, pick those games up now. Those are both phenomenal adventure games done in the 2D style (although the models are 3D).
Second, The sequel to The Longest Journey, Dreamfall, will be coming out at the end of this year (I think; you might have to check up on that one).
Third, if you would like a fun (but short, and kind of unfinished) online flash adventure game, I recommend: The Mystery of Time and Space.
Yeah, really. I seem to remember reading tripe like this about the time the original X-Box was released...
Off the top of my head:
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Prey
Fear
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Dungeon Siege 2
Call of Cthulhu
Battlefield 2
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
And that's just what I can think of at the moment.
No, but we would have if you asshats in the rest of the world hadn't screwed everything up and made it PRACTICAL. Jeez. We had a nice convoluted system going once...
Hahaha, oh man, Trespasser! I remember that game. The idea was cool, the dinosaurs were awesome, and it was a user interface nightmare.
That's no moon...
It's Uranus
*rimshot*
...read the article title and immediately think of the Phantom console?
Nope. The onyl thing you lose for a dishonorable kill is the time it took to do it. You get rewards for honorable kills, but no punishment for dishonorable kills.
You do not technically get rewards for honorable kills. What gets you rewards and moves you up in rank are contribution points. These are only awarded to you if the player is within a certain number of levels from you; the kill will also only be honorable if they fall within this range (though I do not believe it is dishonorable if they are not). From the Blizzard site:
"An honorable kill occurs when a player takes part in the killing of an appropriate player or NPC in the player's level range. The color system for players works the same as it does for monsters. Grey level players will not yield an honorable kill."
Futhermore, killing the same player over and over is not worth anything, as there are quickly diminishing returns. You can read more here.
I was gonna say that these things would easily be able to handle playing solitaire and minesweeper for three hours a day, but it doesn't come with games and doesn't run Windows, so I really have no idea.
I just can't, for the life of it, imagine what it could be...
Duke Nukem Forever!
Advertising.
As well off as Valve is, I don't think they have the experience or the connections to run the kind of advertising blitz that an experienced publisher can.
Let me preface this by saying that I play a couple of hours a day (more on weekends) on the Earthen Ring server, which is hardly low pop.
The WoW service frequently has unplanned outages, slow performance, server crashes, rollbacks (where you lose X minutes/hours of play development), and occasionally actual bugs.
I have never had the service go out on me or the server crash. Ever. They've had extended downtimes with their routine maintenance at times, yes, but other than that nothing unplanned. There are the occasional bugs, yes, and they are usually of the broken quest variety or a talent not working correctly in a certain instance. Hardly anything show-stopping.
Anyone who denies this or defends Blizzard's track record here simply doesn't play often, or plays on one of the rare low-population servers.
As I stated above, I play regularly almost every day and heavily on weekends (when the servers are most stressed) on a fairly high population server, and I have experienced none of the major issues you reference.
And despite seeming like an obviously useful option, Blizzard has been extremely reluctant to allow character transfers. At this point I believe that's because their game is very poorly designed, at least with respect to how they manage character data.
You have a point here. It looks like they are starting to get better about the transfers, but as of yet, it still looks like it's only for VERY high pop servers. At some point, I think it would be nice if they allowed you to transfer to any server you like. They would have to limit the number of transfers you can make, of course.
There is no valid excuse or defense against the claims I make.
Yes, there are. Blizzard can not anticipate every end user's situation. Many crashes, network stability problems, etc occur because of problems on the CLIENT SIDE. Whether someone has a crappy internet connection, a slow computer, or is infested with spyware are surprisingly never mentioned in any of these articles. For some reason it seems it can't ever possibly be the fault of the consumer, and yet I bet you that a LOT of the problems that come up are because of those things that I mentioned.
My experiences are mirrored by thousands of other players.
Quite possible, given the sheer number of WoW players. However, 15,000 of over 1,000,000 copies sold is a very small number.
Anyone who isn't experiencing these issues simply isn't playing often, isn't playing on a moderate/high pop server, or isn't willing to concede that a previously high quality game company has slipped.
Again, pure rubbish. Re-read my post to see why. I'm not saying you aren't experiencing these problems; I'm sure you are. But to make it out like EVERYONE is in your situation is just naive.
Being a Virginia Tech graduate, the first thing that popped into my mind was Blacksburg Transit, pretty much the best public bus system I've had the pleasure of riding.
Just in case that was unclear, that means they're reading TFA...
I was with you up until that line. That's when I knew you were full of it. No one reads the articles here; that would violate protocol.
Brain: "Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
Various Pinky responses:
"I think so Brain, but where are we going to find a tattoo parlor at this time of night?"
"I think so Brain, but if people called them Sad Meals, people just wouldn't buy them."
"I think so Brain, but what if we can't get the stockings on the chicken?"
Isn't this how Doom 3 started?
Also, Rare will move all their projects to Xbox 3. Yes, 3 is not a typo.
But what if BOTH of those 3s are typos? How am I supposed to know?!?!?
I expect a lot of explosions. Terrible dialogue. An incredibly bad mixture of CGI and reality, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the end of Air Force One.
Are you one of the fortunate ones who have not seen either of the Star Wars prequels?
The character's name was Dorf.