Not true. This is from a twitter chat with the devs just a few weeks ago, on April 30:
Q: For several Australian players at a LAN, who have logged into a custom Battle.net game, will the game be local once initiated?
A: You'll be connected through Battle.net. However, we're locating game servers more strategically to allow the best possible game experience from where you play. For Australia we are by default routing games through the Oceanic region which should provide a much lower latency experience.
I'm rank 42, I play probably 90% domination and 10% team deathmatch (not ground war) and I haven't seen a single person I would call a cheater, unless you count a few people who hacked their rank.
Troll?or just a Dick?-- You are the reasons [evil] corporations act the way they do.
If VW offered jettas for 100$ and you only gave them that, they would be out of business and then noone would ever offer a car that low again.
So how much did you donate to your dealer above the minimum asking price last time you bought a car?
I feel tremendously bad if you teach your kids the same sentiment: "lie/cheat/steal/abuse/take/copy do what ever it takes to get what you want in life w/o regard for others"
I feel tremendously bad if you teach your kids "if you think a price for something is too low, pay more!"
It may have just been a matter of timing, but I was totally disappointed in HL2. All that hype and anticipation during that long wait
And the long wait continues. It's been nearly 2 years since Episode 2 came out and they haven't released a single iota of information about Episode 3 yet. I can only assume because they don't have anything to show. And to think that they went with the episodic format to make releases faster.
Eclipsed in the fact that Valve keeps releasing updates for TF2 and not CS:S, but not eclipsed at all with player base size. CS:S still has the most players of any Steam game by far. If you add up the people playing CS:S and the original CS, it has more players than all the other Steam games combined. http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
A logo next to the note highway? How does that make sense at all? Making sense would be putting in-game ads where ads would be in real life. Such as billboards, posters in subway stations, etc.
My only complaint about Steam is that they won't let me change my account name. I created my account back when you had to use your email address as your account name. I moved, and my ISP wasn't available in my new town so I had to lose it, and my email address with it. Now I haven't had that email address for years, but I'm still forced to remember just in case I have to manually log into steam. Being able to just change my account name would be so much easier.
The incidents of hacking on my realm indicate the hacking is happening to their servers, and they, being blizzard, refuse to admit they're at fault.
Blizzard isn't at fault. They aren't responsible for people going out and downloading trojans which steal their passwords. Oops, I'm sorry, I think the word everyone uses for that nowadays is "getting hacked."
I think the only one of the sites listed I actually ever used was heat.net. I could play the original DOS version of Warcraft 2 with other people online! For free! This was 2 or 3 years before online multiplayer was officially made available from Blizzard, via the "Battle.net edition" which you had to buy a whole new copy of the game for.
And I got a free heat.net t-shirt from the site too. Sweet!
I've rented from redbox 5 times so far and haven't had to pay anything! You can find codes for free rentals online, and you can use the code once per payment type (debit/credit card). Three credit cards? Three free rentals per code!
c) you get much less bad press for litigating against one person than 100'000 They'll actually get good press for litigating against this one person, at least amongst gamers. 100,000 may have bought the bot but there are about 9,900,000 that want bot users to stay away and will applaud Blizzard for this.
The best example of this is the map 2Fort. This map is exactly the same that was in TF1, but in the basement near the intelligence room (ie. flag ala TF1), it might look like you can get to other points. The areas in 2fort are blocked off by walls or windows. A better example would be the rooftops of the little shacks in dustbowl and gravelpit. It never made sense to me that some of them you can get on top of with rocketjumping, but others you can't because of invisible walls. There are many rooftop areas in the game that seem like they should be accessible but aren't.
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I agree. Weaseling out of things is an important thing to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.
Q: For several Australian players at a LAN, who have logged into a custom Battle.net game, will the game be local once initiated?
A: You'll be connected through Battle.net. However, we're locating game servers more strategically to allow the best possible game experience from where you play. For Australia we are by default routing games through the Oceanic region which should provide a much lower latency experience.
I'm rank 42, I play probably 90% domination and 10% team deathmatch (not ground war) and I haven't seen a single person I would call a cheater, unless you count a few people who hacked their rank.
Troll?or just a Dick?-- You are the reasons [evil] corporations act the way they do.
If VW offered jettas for 100$ and you only gave them that, they would be out of business and then noone would ever offer a car that low again.
So how much did you donate to your dealer above the minimum asking price last time you bought a car?
I feel tremendously bad if you teach your kids the same sentiment: "lie/cheat/steal/abuse/take/copy do what ever it takes to get what you want in life w/o regard for others"
I feel tremendously bad if you teach your kids "if you think a price for something is too low, pay more!"
Ok maybe the summary writer just doesn't understand English very well then.
The summary has it backwards. Or whomever wrote it doesn't know the meaning of "endorsed."
If you had read TFA you'd know that they are using the game Infinite Mario Bros, which has randomly generated levels.
It may have just been a matter of timing, but I was totally disappointed in HL2. All that hype and anticipation during that long wait
And the long wait continues. It's been nearly 2 years since Episode 2 came out and they haven't released a single iota of information about Episode 3 yet. I can only assume because they don't have anything to show. And to think that they went with the episodic format to make releases faster.
They've already said that max level will be 100
No, they haven't.
The summary is wrong, this isn't an open beta, it's the game being released.
Eclipsed in the fact that Valve keeps releasing updates for TF2 and not CS:S, but not eclipsed at all with player base size. CS:S still has the most players of any Steam game by far. If you add up the people playing CS:S and the original CS, it has more players than all the other Steam games combined. http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
A logo next to the note highway? How does that make sense at all? Making sense would be putting in-game ads where ads would be in real life. Such as billboards, posters in subway stations, etc.
Former Medievia player here. From 1999 to when WoW came out.
My only complaint about Steam is that they won't let me change my account name. I created my account back when you had to use your email address as your account name. I moved, and my ISP wasn't available in my new town so I had to lose it, and my email address with it. Now I haven't had that email address for years, but I'm still forced to remember just in case I have to manually log into steam. Being able to just change my account name would be so much easier.
I'd say Warcraft became the bigger brand sometime around 1996. The original Warcraft II (released late 1995) sold over 4 million copies.
The incidents of hacking on my realm indicate the hacking is happening to their servers, and they, being blizzard, refuse to admit they're at fault.
Blizzard isn't at fault. They aren't responsible for people going out and downloading trojans which steal their passwords. Oops, I'm sorry, I think the word everyone uses for that nowadays is "getting hacked."
If the article had actually linked to the US webpage instead of the European one you would see that they are only $6.50.
Well, let's just say that I have no idea what "old snakey" is supposed to imply so why don't you just use plain english to tell me!
And I got a free heat.net t-shirt from the site too. Sweet!
venerable: made sacred especially by religious or historical association
You sure that's the word you meant to type?
I've rented from redbox 5 times so far and haven't had to pay anything! You can find codes for free rentals online, and you can use the code once per payment type (debit/credit card). Three credit cards? Three free rentals per code!
Black Temple, yes, I agree it was supposed to be in the expansion. Sunwell Plateau and Magister's Terrace, I'm not so sure about.
What amazes me is that with perfect dark you could play against bots. What ever happened to that? Where's the bots to play against in the Halo games?