There are many farm companies that offer powerleveling services that will run your character 24x7. There is not much difference between the two of these. Both of them level up your character as fast as possible. They both can farm for you as well.
And both of them are against Blizzard's TOS and can get your account banned. You're right, this author is a moron. What's his point? Is he under the mistaken impression that Blizzard doesn't mind if you get a team of players to play your character 24/7?
The one that really gets to me is the map thing for Diablo II. For the love of God, nobody that still plays Diablo II enjoys exploring the same levels over and over and over again.
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That's the only thing that remains enjoyable once you've been playing Diablo II for a long time. If you want to use Maphack to rush through the levels to the boss, you're not enjoying playing the game, you're in the football card collecting mindset described by an earlier commenter. To mix metaphors, what you're trying to do is minimise the time in between pulls on the fruit machine handle, to maximise the return of rare football cards from the machine.
Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that the solution will be to create a sixth way of installing software, which will also not be widely accepted throughout the popular distributions?
But IE still controls something like 80 percent of the market.
And even amongst those who don't use IE for their day to day browsing, there are people like myself, and SacredNaCl above, who will sigh and fire up IE when we hit a site that we really want to access, that doesn't play nice with Firefox or Opera or whatever.
All the PS3 fanboys are bashing Carmack for his comments about Cell, despite the fact that it's quite clear none of them program at all, let alone program on asymmetric CPUs.
Don't worry, all the PS2 and PS3 programmers I've worked with have had nothing but contempt for Carmack for many years. Just another PC programmer who thinks he's hot stuff.
If you (like me) can see the benefit of having a fully developed MMORPG that is completely open source just donate a little, quickly!
Sorry, I thought this piece was about that hideous disaster Ryzom, but then you started talking about open sourcing a full developed MMORPG? Which MMORPG is that? I might be interested in donating to it.
When I worked at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari for six years, I was considered an oddball for reading a book on project management even though I was a lead QA testers.
I can assure you that during my couple of years in the games industry, I never came across a lead or manager who had ever read a book on project management. Or ever seemed likely to.
but that's the same thing with the napster/audiogalaxy/kazaa/etc lawsuits. the companies themselves werent breaking the law, they're just allowing users to break the law. and they still got shut down.
Those companies failed to demonstrate "significant non-infringing uses" for their technology. I think it's trivially obvious that license-violating sharing of CC-licensed music is going to be a tiny tiny slice of the Zune's usage, not the overwhelming majority, as was the case with Napster and copyright violation.
Actually, Lucas hired a dialogue coach (a director for actors) so it might not be so bad
Haha!! He's written some of the most infamously awful dialogue ever filmed, everyone knows that he is utterly incompetent at writing dialogue, so what does he do to remedy this deficiency? Blames the actors for now delivering his pearls well enough, and hires them a dialogue coach. Pathetic.
I think I speak for the entire population of the world, apart from you, when I say: no, he is not perfectly normal. The guy didn't even like episodes 1 and 2, and he's queueing up for 4 months for episode 3?!?!
You do know there's more MUD players in the world than there are MMORPG players right?
Really? Are you sure? Do you have any figures to back that up? Because with the top MMORPGs all boasting subscriber numbers in the hundreds of thousands, I find it unlikely that there enough people participating in what you must surely agree is a rather niche hobby for MUD players to number in the vicinity of a million or more.
part of the reason why this company didn't make any money to cover their costs, was because they gave the product away for free.
I beg your pardon? The reason they didn't make any money to cover their costs was that they hadn't finished and released the game! They didn't give anything away for free - they conducted several limited (both in number of participants, and in duration) beta tests of the unfinished game, but they in no way provided the means for people to sit on their asses enjoying the game for no cost.
I was actually going to post the same thing, but those screenshots don't really show what's wrong with Wish. I found the in-game graphics to be OK (not good, but OK), but the UI was just flat out abominable. Seriously, it was like playing something from the late 90's. Totally plain, ugly borders around windows, chunky non-antialiased fonts, no translucency or transparency on windows, so you couldn't have your chat window open, for example, without totally blocking a huge chunk of the game.
I know it was beta, but it was dreadful, just dreadful, and the slickness of competitors like World Of Warcraft just rubbed salt into the wound. I'm by no means a graphics-whore (I've put in my years of playing Nethack), but this was so unpleasant that I couldn't push myself to play more than half an hour or so, despite being really quite excited at getting into the open beta. Didn't help that the server was up and down like a yo-yo either, I guess, maybe I would have played a little more if it was more stable. But on the whole, I just didn't see how I could beta-test it when there was really nothing I could say that was more constructive than "I hate this game".
I'll tell you, though, one asset that they had locked in place was a well-honed team of fanboi forum flamers. Any criticism on the forums (even in the "Criticism" forum) was met with a torrent of abuse ending with "this is the best game ever, and if you're too stupid to appreciate it, ha! you'll have to carry on playing shit like WoW and EQ2, loser." Shame to see that go to waste.
Not engage in sharing the said copyrighted material themselves which would make the download a legal one.
Yep, just like it's legal to buy drugs off an undercover cop - after all, if a law enforcement agent is doing the selling, that means that the purchase is considered acceptable.
"Currently the game has been released to North America, Canada, South Korea, and Australia."
ok I know that Americans doesn't include Canadians. However Canada *is* part of North America.
Also, the game has been released in New Zealand, which, believe it or not, is *not* part of Australia. Even if they do sometimes refer to Australia as "the West Island".
Ha, I got motion sickness from the airboat too! It's happened to me before when playing deathmatch style multiplayer games, where you're constantly running around, rapidly whipping your view from side to side, but never before in a single player game, since I take things at a much more measured pace. But that airboat ride.. wow.. I felt like I'd eaten a dodgy kebab by the end of that chapter!
From the linked article: Pre-order sales reached 1.5 million, more than any other game in history. Oh really? Then how come I clearly recall Warcraft III having 4.5 million pre-orders, more than any other game in history. Looks like lots of other people remember it too.
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Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that the solution will be to create a sixth way of installing software, which will also not be widely accepted throughout the popular distributions?
Cool. Joss needs to go bankrupt so he can stop making more crappy stuff. Go download the rip.
Just use it and call it "fair use" - that's the Wikipedia way!
What kind of nerd would hang around Slashdot to show off their low user ID?
Actually, Lucas hired a dialogue coach (a director for actors) so it might not be so bad
Haha!! He's written some of the most infamously awful dialogue ever filmed, everyone knows that he is utterly incompetent at writing dialogue, so what does he do to remedy this deficiency? Blames the actors for now delivering his pearls well enough, and hires them a dialogue coach. Pathetic.
There are more good games for the Xbox than there is time for any reasonable person to play.
In that case, how come the second top selling Xbox game of 2004, after Halo 2, was.. Halo?
He's perfectly normal, and very nice.
I think I speak for the entire population of the world, apart from you, when I say: no, he is not perfectly normal. The guy didn't even like episodes 1 and 2, and he's queueing up for 4 months for episode 3?!?!
You do know there's more MUD players in the world than there are MMORPG players right?
Really? Are you sure? Do you have any figures to back that up? Because with the top MMORPGs all boasting subscriber numbers in the hundreds of thousands, I find it unlikely that there enough people participating in what you must surely agree is a rather niche hobby for MUD players to number in the vicinity of a million or more.
part of the reason why this company didn't make any money to cover their costs, was because they gave the product away for free.
I beg your pardon? The reason they didn't make any money to cover their costs was that they hadn't finished and released the game! They didn't give anything away for free - they conducted several limited (both in number of participants, and in duration) beta tests of the unfinished game, but they in no way provided the means for people to sit on their asses enjoying the game for no cost.
I was actually going to post the same thing, but those screenshots don't really show what's wrong with Wish. I found the in-game graphics to be OK (not good, but OK), but the UI was just flat out abominable. Seriously, it was like playing something from the late 90's. Totally plain, ugly borders around windows, chunky non-antialiased fonts, no translucency or transparency on windows, so you couldn't have your chat window open, for example, without totally blocking a huge chunk of the game.
I know it was beta, but it was dreadful, just dreadful, and the slickness of competitors like World Of Warcraft just rubbed salt into the wound. I'm by no means a graphics-whore (I've put in my years of playing Nethack), but this was so unpleasant that I couldn't push myself to play more than half an hour or so, despite being really quite excited at getting into the open beta. Didn't help that the server was up and down like a yo-yo either, I guess, maybe I would have played a little more if it was more stable. But on the whole, I just didn't see how I could beta-test it when there was really nothing I could say that was more constructive than "I hate this game".
I'll tell you, though, one asset that they had locked in place was a well-honed team of fanboi forum flamers. Any criticism on the forums (even in the "Criticism" forum) was met with a torrent of abuse ending with "this is the best game ever, and if you're too stupid to appreciate it, ha! you'll have to carry on playing shit like WoW and EQ2, loser." Shame to see that go to waste.
Not engage in sharing the said copyrighted material themselves which would make the download a legal one.
Yep, just like it's legal to buy drugs off an undercover cop - after all, if a law enforcement agent is doing the selling, that means that the purchase is considered acceptable.
"Currently the game has been released to North America, Canada, South Korea, and Australia."
ok I know that Americans doesn't include Canadians. However Canada *is* part of North America.
Also, the game has been released in New Zealand, which, believe it or not, is *not* part of Australia. Even if they do sometimes refer to Australia as "the West Island".
Tell that to Nigel Tufnel.
Mod parent up to SIX!!
Ha, I got motion sickness from the airboat too! It's happened to me before when playing deathmatch style multiplayer games, where you're constantly running around, rapidly whipping your view from side to side, but never before in a single player game, since I take things at a much more measured pace. But that airboat ride.. wow.. I felt like I'd eaten a dodgy kebab by the end of that chapter!
History? Soviet revisionist history maybe.
From the linked article: Pre-order sales reached 1.5 million, more than any other game in history. Oh really? Then how come I clearly recall Warcraft III having 4.5 million pre-orders, more than any other game in history. Looks like lots of other people remember it too.