Ive never like MMOGs much, partly because I want casual gaming, where I can appear and dissapear from a game without suffering for it. CounterStrike would be a good example, you have the same capabilities as every other player in the game, regardless of whether you have player for an hour, or five days straight.
I also don't like the idea of paying a subscription for my games. I want to buy the entire thing and have it right there in my hands. It's very unlikely that youll be able to play a MMOG in 25 years time if you dig out your old computer.
A lot of the fun comes from the number of players in the servers. Why dont developers just increase the server capacity of new first person shooters for instance? A 64 or 128 player fps which was designed to play well with that number of players would capture a lot of that. So called leveling up reminds me a lot of caring for your 'cyber-pet'!
you cant be serious this is awful. microsoft working with goverments, to make online id systems. "no im sorry, you need windows verifyor 1.0 to access the internet or you could do ANYTHING!"
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I can imagine millions of slashdotters around the world all going crosseyed at this. Brilliant :)
Ive never like MMOGs much, partly because I want casual gaming, where I can appear and dissapear from a game without suffering for it. CounterStrike would be a good example, you have the same capabilities as every other player in the game, regardless of whether you have player for an hour, or five days straight.
I also don't like the idea of paying a subscription for my games. I want to buy the entire thing and have it right there in my hands. It's very unlikely that youll be able to play a MMOG in 25 years time if you dig out your old computer.
A lot of the fun comes from the number of players in the servers. Why dont developers just increase the server capacity of new first person shooters for instance? A 64 or 128 player fps which was designed to play well with that number of players would capture a lot of that. So called leveling up reminds me a lot of caring for your 'cyber-pet'!
Damn right! Always those Aussies making trouble... :D:D:D
yep and i say leave them too it :)
Ok. Following on from that, assuming you were operating a terminal...
If you used it 12 hours a day of straight 100% CPU use, for 365 days a year itd cost:
$4380
If theyre upgrading, and maintaining...
You would also spend an awful lot less that that because you wouldnt be running the cpu flat out.
Do thet sell disk space too?
you cant be serious this is awful. microsoft working with goverments, to make online id systems. "no im sorry, you need windows verifyor 1.0 to access the internet or you could do ANYTHING!"
Use MAC filtering with AES WPA, run an IPSEC VPN and then hope noones very interested in the network :)
I couldnt agreee more. Huge inflatable santa clauses and singing snowman appeal to the same crowd. My PC is completely black and unobtrusive :)