Gold farming is what drives up the economies in this game to begin with. If you don't believe, try rolling a character on a brand new WoW server before the gold farming sites make gold available for them. The prices in the AH start out *very* reasonable, 10 silver for a stack of leather. But then Guy A starts to get greedy, and trys inflating the prices on their goods in the AH by placing his leather for 50s. Normally, this sort of action would result in the goods not selling, and being returned to the seller. In steps Guy B, who freshly purchased 1000 gold from ige.com. Since he now has a surplus of gold, he has no problem in paying the 50s for Guy A's leather. The next time Guy A puts up all his leather, he will now sell it for 50s, and other people will follow suit. In steps Guy C, who wouldn't really think of buying gold initially, but feels he can't keep up with the prices of leather for 50s. Guy C goes to ige.com, buys 1000 gold, and the cycle continues. So you see, by buying gold, you are contributing to the problem which you claim caused you to buy the gold in the first place.
I also love how you keep bringing up one of the only expensive NPC purchased items in the game, an epic mount. This usually costs between 800-900 gold. Others are available for 640. A normal mount (which is slower admitingly) costs you only 90 gold, which is very easily obtainable by anyone. Simply put, this is not an item you *need*, it's something you *want*.
Lastly, consider that you probably are playing a genre of games that don't suit you very well. If you really are that unhappy about an aspect of a game, simply stop playing it.
The example you gave is completely inane. The Tauren in the game are depicted as a proud and honorable race of people(who yes do share a lot of similarities with Native Americans).
This sort of over sensitism is almost MORE damaging than people who are actually racist. Learn what the real world is like and then come back and post please.
In wow speak 'cry more newb'.
People outside of the US are not supposed to be playing on US servers whether they wanted to wait or not. This is Blizzards rules and you agreed to them by buying the game and accepting the EULA. Also, they must realize that even if you are a foreign person who legitimately wants to play on a US server, if your english skills are not up to par you are making the game very difficult for everyone else around you. We have several people from Spain in my guild and they are welcome because they speak english as well as anyone else in the guild(plus they rock!) We even had an asian person who didn't speak english very well but we still welcomed in the guild. Surprise surprise we caught them dupe hacking with this latest exploit and they were kicked from the guild and then banned from the game after we reported them to a GM.
The reason they are having so many problems is that despite having so many servers at launch, people were flocking to 5 or 10 of the most popular. I think the queues were not because the servers couldn't handle the load, but if you played the first night there was a lot of lag on the busiest servers. So instead of having laggy servers and people complaining about that, they chose to cap the busiest ones, nudging some of the players to less populated servers. I think it was the best case in a situation bad to begin with.
I see your point about video game genres being repetitive, but what do you expect from gave developers. Not EVERY game can be revolutionary, as the defining points of the genre will remain the same in every game. You have guns, you shoot things. Halo 2 adds many great new things which haven't shown up in any other FPS as far I know. It has a great melee weapon. You have the ability to steal vehicles ala GTA style. You can dual-wield weapons of different types and mix n match to your hearts content.
Don't get pissed because every new game isn't entirely different from those before it. Things don't have to revolutionary to be good, in fact many games that are too ambitious end up failing.
So in closing, RTS games will have armies, FPS will have guns, MMORPGS will have experience grinding and killing some sort of rat. Just appreciate those that get the formula right.
People who are addicts all have the same type of personality, the need to fill a void of some type. They will do this however they can, if you're lucky, it becomes something more socially acceptable like exercise or being a workaholic. It's a hole for whatever reason and it will get plugged, whether you like it or not.
No kidding, everyone liked clerks, and another done in the same style would be a refreshing addition. Heck, everyone was [i]ticked[/i] at Kevin Smith when he said he wasn't going to make another clerks universe movie. Now that he has, people are mad he went back on what he said.
I have no problems with steam. It's a pretty good concept that may have been buggy at first but has matured over age. Don't feel like keeping your CD's around? That's ok, because your CD-key is bound to your steam account, and you can just re-download a completely update version of the game in the event of a re-install.
If you really don't like it that much, watch out, because I see more distributors using systems like this. They no longer have to pay packaging fees, or print manuels, or mae CD's. Plus, people like the ones who pre-ordered Doom3 but still downloaded it over the weekend because they 'couldn't wait' will love this option.
A lot of people hate steam, but I say embrace your future.
Well I think they did it because someone on a budget can buy a 6600 GT now, then a year or 6 months down the road upgrade it with another card.
The only hangup being you have to drop cash for a motherboard which has more than one PCI-E slot. Nvidia doesn't really care if you buy one big card now or two smaller cards later, as long as they get their bottome line.
That's actually very interesting, because even though it doesn't seem to make sense, Ritalin and drugs like it are actually stimulants. It kinda of boggles the mind that someone with ADHD could be benefited by a stimulant, but since it is believed to be caused by nerve endings not properly linking in the brain, a stimulant could help this.
So I guess a high caffeine diet would have a similar effect.
Hehe...maybe slashdotters out there have become so overworked that they just moderate you according to your post title.
Time to put that theory into practice.
WHAT DID YOU SAY?? I'LL KILL YOU FOR THAT M#$@$#@!!!!!!
Oh sorry, just finished a round of Doom 3, little pumped up.
Oh, and by the way, if you really think that video games cause people to become murderers, then I have some GREAT real estate in the florida everglades to sell you.
Wow, you clearly have NO idea what you are talking about. I'm guessing that Doom 3 took 20-30 million dollars to develop, and I'm just being conservative.
I wish I could find the article, but PC Gamer gave a breakdown of what your typical games development costs were. For a 50 dollar game, they were lucky to make 2-3 dollars a copy. Is that greed? Besides, don't blame the developers, blame the publishers that bleed them dry.
Next time before you post, think, and say "Do I really know what I'm talking about?"
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Nice webrowser to use to surf slashdot and the forums while compiling, and you can use some GUI tools to get your drive setup.
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I think the thing you are all missing is this:
Gold farming is what drives up the economies in this game to begin with. If you don't believe, try rolling a character on a brand new WoW server before the gold farming sites make gold available for them. The prices in the AH start out *very* reasonable, 10 silver for a stack of leather. But then Guy A starts to get greedy, and trys inflating the prices on their goods in the AH by placing his leather for 50s. Normally, this sort of action would result in the goods not selling, and being returned to the seller. In steps Guy B, who freshly purchased 1000 gold from ige.com. Since he now has a surplus of gold, he has no problem in paying the 50s for Guy A's leather. The next time Guy A puts up all his leather, he will now sell it for 50s, and other people will follow suit. In steps Guy C, who wouldn't really think of buying gold initially, but feels he can't keep up with the prices of leather for 50s. Guy C goes to ige.com, buys 1000 gold, and the cycle continues. So you see, by buying gold, you are contributing to the problem which you claim caused you to buy the gold in the first place.
I also love how you keep bringing up one of the only expensive NPC purchased items in the game, an epic mount. This usually costs between 800-900 gold. Others are available for 640. A normal mount (which is slower admitingly) costs you only 90 gold, which is very easily obtainable by anyone. Simply put, this is not an item you *need*, it's something you *want*.
Lastly, consider that you probably are playing a genre of games that don't suit you very well. If you really are that unhappy about an aspect of a game, simply stop playing it.
The example you gave is completely inane. The Tauren in the game are depicted as a proud and honorable race of people(who yes do share a lot of similarities with Native Americans).
This sort of over sensitism is almost MORE damaging than people who are actually racist. Learn what the real world is like and then come back and post please. In wow speak 'cry more newb'.
People outside of the US are not supposed to be playing on US servers whether they wanted to wait or not. This is Blizzards rules and you agreed to them by buying the game and accepting the EULA. Also, they must realize that even if you are a foreign person who legitimately wants to play on a US server, if your english skills are not up to par you are making the game very difficult for everyone else around you.
We have several people from Spain in my guild and they are welcome because they speak english as well as anyone else in the guild(plus they rock!) We even had an asian person who didn't speak english very well but we still welcomed in the guild. Surprise surprise we caught them dupe hacking with this latest exploit and they were kicked from the guild and then banned from the game after we reported them to a GM.
Mal Ganis has a 4:1 or 5:1 horde:alliance ratio. I left playing alliance on that server to play horde on Burning Legion.
The reason they are having so many problems is that despite having so many servers at launch, people were flocking to 5 or 10 of the most popular. I think the queues were not because the servers couldn't handle the load, but if you played the first night there was a lot of lag on the busiest servers. So instead of having laggy servers and people complaining about that, they chose to cap the busiest ones, nudging some of the players to less populated servers. I think it was the best case in a situation bad to begin with.
I see your point about video game genres being repetitive, but what do you expect from gave developers. Not EVERY game can be revolutionary, as the defining points of the genre will remain the same in every game. You have guns, you shoot things. Halo 2 adds many great new things which haven't shown up in any other FPS as far I know. It has a great melee weapon. You have the ability to steal vehicles ala GTA style. You can dual-wield weapons of different types and mix n match to your hearts content.
Don't get pissed because every new game isn't entirely different from those before it. Things don't have to revolutionary to be good, in fact many games that are too ambitious end up failing.
So in closing, RTS games will have armies, FPS will have guns, MMORPGS will have experience grinding and killing some sort of rat. Just appreciate those that get the formula right.
Didnt' they already try this?
Yup thought so
People who are addicts all have the same type of personality, the need to fill a void of some type. They will do this however they can, if you're lucky, it becomes something more socially acceptable like exercise or being a workaholic. It's a hole for whatever reason and it will get plugged, whether you like it or not.
oh hey i bet she knows mine!
errrr....you're basing your obvservations on slangterms derived from game titles?
Remind me never to give you a research grant...
No kidding, everyone liked clerks, and another done in the same style would be a refreshing addition. Heck, everyone was [i]ticked[/i] at Kevin Smith when he said he wasn't going to make another clerks universe movie. Now that he has, people are mad he went back on what he said.
No pleasing some people I guess.
I had heard a nasty rumor that he had OD'd and died, but I guess it's nice to hear that he was just in rehab....given the two things....I suppose.
I have no problems with steam. It's a pretty good concept that may have been buggy at first but has matured over age. Don't feel like keeping your CD's around? That's ok, because your CD-key is bound to your steam account, and you can just re-download a completely update version of the game in the event of a re-install.
If you really don't like it that much, watch out, because I see more distributors using systems like this. They no longer have to pay packaging fees, or print manuels, or mae CD's. Plus, people like the ones who pre-ordered Doom3 but still downloaded it over the weekend because they 'couldn't wait' will love this option.
A lot of people hate steam, but I say embrace your future.
Yup. My computer is on terror alert orange right now in preperation for the game.
Don't quite> know what that means, but I for sure feel safer knowing that.
Well I think they did it because someone on a budget can buy a 6600 GT now, then a year or 6 months down the road upgrade it with another card.
The only hangup being you have to drop cash for a motherboard which has more than one PCI-E slot. Nvidia doesn't really care if you buy one big card now or two smaller cards later, as long as they get their bottome line.
That's actually very interesting, because even though it doesn't seem to make sense, Ritalin and drugs like it are actually stimulants. It kinda of boggles the mind that someone with ADHD could be benefited by a stimulant, but since it is believed to be caused by nerve endings not properly linking in the brain, a stimulant could help this.
So I guess a high caffeine diet would have a similar effect.
Hehe...maybe slashdotters out there have become so overworked that they just moderate you according to your post title. Time to put that theory into practice.
Well perhaps, if little johnny's parents said he shouldn't have the game, then maybe he shouldn't...
Why is a 12 year old playing a rated M game anyway?
WHAT DID YOU SAY?? I'LL KILL YOU FOR THAT M#$@$#@!!!!!! Oh sorry, just finished a round of Doom 3, little pumped up. Oh, and by the way, if you really think that video games cause people to become murderers, then I have some GREAT real estate in the florida everglades to sell you.
Wow, you clearly have NO idea what you are talking about. I'm guessing that Doom 3 took 20-30 million dollars to develop, and I'm just being conservative. I wish I could find the article, but PC Gamer gave a breakdown of what your typical games development costs were. For a 50 dollar game, they were lucky to make 2-3 dollars a copy. Is that greed? Besides, don't blame the developers, blame the publishers that bleed them dry. Next time before you post, think, and say "Do I really know what I'm talking about?"
You could just use a Knoppix CD to install, that's what I've always done. Nice webrowser to use to surf slashdot and the forums while compiling, and you can use some GUI tools to get your drive setup.