Sure, it got 2 million players, then proceeded to loose somewhere between 400,000 to 1 million subscribers by this point in it's history. They should have held it back and took into account what beta testers like myself were trying to get through to the developers. People capped out, saw the endgame, and got bored. Or dealt with how wonky gearing is and left. Or tried at PVP and quit from how broken portions of it are. All of this could have been avoided and TOR would still have a viable playerbase. But let's face it, for this game to go free is a last gasp at remaining solvent and relevant in the MMO community.
It's not that TOR wasn't mature on launch. It simply lacked polish and things to do after capping out. It's DCU all over again, and BioWare simply didn't think that far ahead. The first 6 months are a sign of how well an MMO will do, and TOR did badly. Very badly.
Not everyone likes or wants applications to start in full screen. I know that I'll be using Win7 or Linux, instead of moving on to Win8. Mostly because of how counter-intuitive the dual-UI design of Win8 is. I don't use Windows to have a tablet interface on my laptop or desktop PCs. I surely wouldn't use Windows7 on a tablet. Why? The UI design in both cases doesn't work for the given platform. Add to that the fact that even if you wanted to live in Metro, you can't due to file management. Or that you can't live in Classic due to the Start Screen and Control Panel. It's going to be a confusing mess for new Windows users and an infuriating mess for existing ones.
AMD's been doing stupid crap for years. Like the original six-core Phenom II chips and the fact MSAA is still a feature that shouldn't be used on their graphics cards. It's going to be a sad day when AMD crumbles, but it is coming.
If he's not stepping down, I'm kinda sad. I was hoping that this would motivate Nintendo to actually create something new. I'm personally getting a bit sick and tired of every single piece of Nintendo hardware doing little more than showing off some useless gimmick and launching with nothing but rehashes of 20 year old games. Nintendo as a whole is slipping into irrelevance.
Um, how is the caffeinated jerky anything new? We've had it for years thanks to http://www.perkyjerky.com/ and until recently it was sold over at ThinkGeek.
AMD doesn't have much of a clue who their targeting with some of their processors these days. Even as an Intel user, I'm hoping that AMD doesn't end up committing corporate suicide. We need someone to egg Intel on and offer viable competition. Sadly, Bulldozer is far from the competition that Intel needs.
I'm aware of that, but XP wasn't HT aware right out of the box. The Prescot P4s were released after XP's launch and it's first service pack, even with SPs 2 and 3 that awareness was never added in. Vista was the first consumer version of Windows to incorperate it.
Windows also comes with this HT awareness out of the box since Vista. AMD has quite simply screwed themselves with Bulldozer. Promising massive gains, enough to shame Intel. Yet the reality is an abysmal one where not only does Intel still have the performance edge, but where the previous product offers better performance for even less cost of the newer hardware. AMD has failed, plain and simple.
I'd like to see you build your own laptop. I miss the days where IBM offered blank machines for just this purpose, alas those days are the past and Lenovo won't provide the same option.
This is just typical Apple. To them, security problems don't exist. They're all happily wandering about aimlessly in Steve Jobs' backyard like a bunch of mindless sheep. Content to shrug off anything that may do grievous harm to their esthetically pleasing brushed aluminum paradise. To those Mac users who actually are security minded, you're not included in this. At least you guys have a clue, more of one than the fanboys and everyone in Cupertino.
This design is fine and good for Tablet PCs, but if the street doesn't go both ways, I will be skipping this and potentially subsequent releases of Windows. I may use Linux for everyday tasks, but I am a PC gamer and Windows is the only thing I can run any worthwhile game on. I don't want to see Metro after my initial bootup to configure a new gaming PC, and if there's a way to go immediately to the Windows desktop, I'm going to use it. If there isn't, Microsoft better be prepared to support Windows 7 for a very long time.
If you want to call New York a true member of New England, ok. But you've also got to admit that Agnes was a very weak storm compared to everything that's come up this way since.
The Northeast? Threatened? I wholeheartedly guffaw at the though. Hurricanes end up in the New England area whenever they don't sputter out on the way up. They're shadows of their former selves when they get here as cold northern waters neuter the hurricane. We get 1-2 days of rain and that's it. The storms are never anything we have to feel threatened by here. Call again in winter, we'll show you the storms we New Englanders actually fear.
Obviously, you don't know thing one about Diablo 3. The reason the single-player experience is able to effect the economy of the online game is a) Diablo 3's Auction House and b) single-player characters are fully usable for online gameplay and vice versa. So do a little research before simply posting a kneejerk reaction comment.
Security by obscurity isn't security at all. It's akin to walking around without health insurance and hoping you don't get injured. Same thing happens, when you do get attacked/injured, it's a world of hurt and quite possibly game over.
That'd be awesome if Archos actually supported their older hardware at all. Can you imagine the situation that users would be in when Archos releases the successors to their first 10 inch Android tablets? It'd end up the same state that a lot of smartphone owners find themselves in when their carrier/hardware vendor chose to not upgrade the software on those phones. No thanks.
With gamesaves on a local drive, I don't see that happening. With cloud stored gamesaves, I only see that possibly happening if the data is stored on the publisher's servers. Even with XBL moving so that a gamertag lives solely in the cloud, your data is still going to be on Microsoft's servers and rather difficult for a publisher to get their hands on and edit.
If you're gaming in a communal environment, for games like this, use a public sign-in for the whole house. Everyone's pleased. This isn't rocket science. I already do it myself between me and my wife, so I know that this does work. And no, they're not short-changing the primary customer. They're short-changing the secondary customer, and I honestly couldn't care less for the secondary customer as I don't buy used games nor sell the ones I have and have also planned ahead when the concept of DLC came to fruition.
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Sure, it got 2 million players, then proceeded to loose somewhere between 400,000 to 1 million subscribers by this point in it's history. They should have held it back and took into account what beta testers like myself were trying to get through to the developers. People capped out, saw the endgame, and got bored. Or dealt with how wonky gearing is and left. Or tried at PVP and quit from how broken portions of it are. All of this could have been avoided and TOR would still have a viable playerbase. But let's face it, for this game to go free is a last gasp at remaining solvent and relevant in the MMO community.
It's not that TOR wasn't mature on launch. It simply lacked polish and things to do after capping out. It's DCU all over again, and BioWare simply didn't think that far ahead. The first 6 months are a sign of how well an MMO will do, and TOR did badly. Very badly.
For general purpose usage, you're right. Even for graphic design, you're right. But a trackball pales in comparison to a mouse when you're a PC gamer.
Not everyone likes or wants applications to start in full screen. I know that I'll be using Win7 or Linux, instead of moving on to Win8. Mostly because of how counter-intuitive the dual-UI design of Win8 is. I don't use Windows to have a tablet interface on my laptop or desktop PCs. I surely wouldn't use Windows7 on a tablet. Why? The UI design in both cases doesn't work for the given platform. Add to that the fact that even if you wanted to live in Metro, you can't due to file management. Or that you can't live in Classic due to the Start Screen and Control Panel. It's going to be a confusing mess for new Windows users and an infuriating mess for existing ones.
AMD's been doing stupid crap for years. Like the original six-core Phenom II chips and the fact MSAA is still a feature that shouldn't be used on their graphics cards. It's going to be a sad day when AMD crumbles, but it is coming.
If he's not stepping down, I'm kinda sad. I was hoping that this would motivate Nintendo to actually create something new. I'm personally getting a bit sick and tired of every single piece of Nintendo hardware doing little more than showing off some useless gimmick and launching with nothing but rehashes of 20 year old games. Nintendo as a whole is slipping into irrelevance.
Um, how is the caffeinated jerky anything new? We've had it for years thanks to http://www.perkyjerky.com/ and until recently it was sold over at ThinkGeek.
AMD doesn't have much of a clue who their targeting with some of their processors these days. Even as an Intel user, I'm hoping that AMD doesn't end up committing corporate suicide. We need someone to egg Intel on and offer viable competition. Sadly, Bulldozer is far from the competition that Intel needs.
I'm aware of that, but XP wasn't HT aware right out of the box. The Prescot P4s were released after XP's launch and it's first service pack, even with SPs 2 and 3 that awareness was never added in. Vista was the first consumer version of Windows to incorperate it.
Windows also comes with this HT awareness out of the box since Vista. AMD has quite simply screwed themselves with Bulldozer. Promising massive gains, enough to shame Intel. Yet the reality is an abysmal one where not only does Intel still have the performance edge, but where the previous product offers better performance for even less cost of the newer hardware. AMD has failed, plain and simple.
I believe it'd be something along the likes of 'They're aboot fucked, eh?'.
Beauty post, eh?
This is more along the lines of a PLEX, not the Noble Exchange or Aurum. That was done properly and was in place way before Incarna was planned.
I'd like to see you build your own laptop. I miss the days where IBM offered blank machines for just this purpose, alas those days are the past and Lenovo won't provide the same option.
This is just typical Apple. To them, security problems don't exist. They're all happily wandering about aimlessly in Steve Jobs' backyard like a bunch of mindless sheep. Content to shrug off anything that may do grievous harm to their esthetically pleasing brushed aluminum paradise. To those Mac users who actually are security minded, you're not included in this. At least you guys have a clue, more of one than the fanboys and everyone in Cupertino.
This design is fine and good for Tablet PCs, but if the street doesn't go both ways, I will be skipping this and potentially subsequent releases of Windows. I may use Linux for everyday tasks, but I am a PC gamer and Windows is the only thing I can run any worthwhile game on. I don't want to see Metro after my initial bootup to configure a new gaming PC, and if there's a way to go immediately to the Windows desktop, I'm going to use it. If there isn't, Microsoft better be prepared to support Windows 7 for a very long time.
If you want to call New York a true member of New England, ok. But you've also got to admit that Agnes was a very weak storm compared to everything that's come up this way since.
The Northeast? Threatened? I wholeheartedly guffaw at the though. Hurricanes end up in the New England area whenever they don't sputter out on the way up. They're shadows of their former selves when they get here as cold northern waters neuter the hurricane. We get 1-2 days of rain and that's it. The storms are never anything we have to feel threatened by here. Call again in winter, we'll show you the storms we New Englanders actually fear.
Obviously, you don't know thing one about Diablo 3. The reason the single-player experience is able to effect the economy of the online game is a) Diablo 3's Auction House and b) single-player characters are fully usable for online gameplay and vice versa. So do a little research before simply posting a kneejerk reaction comment.
Security by obscurity isn't security at all. It's akin to walking around without health insurance and hoping you don't get injured. Same thing happens, when you do get attacked/injured, it's a world of hurt and quite possibly game over.
That'd be awesome if Archos actually supported their older hardware at all. Can you imagine the situation that users would be in when Archos releases the successors to their first 10 inch Android tablets? It'd end up the same state that a lot of smartphone owners find themselves in when their carrier/hardware vendor chose to not upgrade the software on those phones. No thanks.
With gamesaves on a local drive, I don't see that happening. With cloud stored gamesaves, I only see that possibly happening if the data is stored on the publisher's servers. Even with XBL moving so that a gamertag lives solely in the cloud, your data is still going to be on Microsoft's servers and rather difficult for a publisher to get their hands on and edit.
That doesn't really apply here since you can't put gamesave data on a DVD/BD-ROM. It's read-only, after all.
If it's a single GamerTag/PSN ID for the whole house, on one device in the living room, I don't see why it wouldn't work.
If you're gaming in a communal environment, for games like this, use a public sign-in for the whole house. Everyone's pleased. This isn't rocket science. I already do it myself between me and my wife, so I know that this does work. And no, they're not short-changing the primary customer. They're short-changing the secondary customer, and I honestly couldn't care less for the secondary customer as I don't buy used games nor sell the ones I have and have also planned ahead when the concept of DLC came to fruition.