Thaylin you may have been correct at one time mostly because of Lineage - NC Soft is a Korean company and naturally followed the Korean MMO conventions. At the present time, however, you are misinformed. Auto Assault, Guild Wars, Dungeon runners (still in beta) Exteel (still in beta) Tabula Rasa (in pre-beta) and the highly anticipated Aion Tower of Eternity.
All these games were/are being developed with the idea that players should be able to enjoy their gaming experience even if they don't have massive amounts of time to spend playing. In fact Dungeon Runners and Exteel (both of which I've played) are both "Log on have some fun and log off" high action games. The same can be said for Auto Assault; while there is some grinding in the game, grinding basically comes down to driving a car around the game world and blowing everything you see into dust and puddles of assorted bio-matter. Tabula Rasa which I haven't yet played follows the same type of system and the developers of Aion claim to have done away with the "grind" completely.
Maybe you should check your facts before you calling people trolls.
I'm black and I agree with you Cog.
Besides 7 times out of 10 when people blame racism for cultural inconsistencies, the true culprit is classism or the imbalanced distribution of wealth.
Upper middle class kids of any race or creed usually don't become "thug life" even if they do try to "represent" as "straight gangsta" when they are teenagers. Right before they ship off to college and, more often than not, make something of themselves... unlike poor kids who usually don't have the opportunity. Race barely has anything to do with it.
(woah totally off topic)
Human rights or not, I think this is a good thing.
I've seen so many kid's lives fall apart because of MMOs because their parents just don't "get it" here in the USA.
On the other hand this will force MMO makers to stop making games that require multi-hour grinding sessions to keep people interested and active. They might have to actually come up with *gasps* engaging and entertaining content that can be completed within a reasonable time frame.... for China anyway.
The only MMO company with decent North American penetration that tries to do this normally is NC Soft. God bless em and their ugly low budget games.
I am under the impression that everyone that's ever reported on Vista's performance (and basically everyone here also) is a complete moron.
I upgraded to vista (small business - just to see because I got it free.) I have no unnecessary usage of ram while my pc is idle. The OS hasn't crashed once... no program has crashed within the OS once... it's never frozen and even hardware with drivers that aren't "vista certified" still continue to work without so much as a hitch and all the annoying security notifications took all of 30s to disable.
I was only the anti Vi$ta bandwagon too and I'm no M$ lover... but seriously I did nothing special and I'd venture to say my system runs better than it did with XP.
I think the problems people are having are self imposed and everyone else just buys into the bs.
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Thaylin you may have been correct at one time mostly because of Lineage - NC Soft is a Korean company and naturally followed the Korean MMO conventions. At the present time, however, you are misinformed. Auto Assault, Guild Wars, Dungeon runners (still in beta) Exteel (still in beta) Tabula Rasa (in pre-beta) and the highly anticipated Aion Tower of Eternity. All these games were/are being developed with the idea that players should be able to enjoy their gaming experience even if they don't have massive amounts of time to spend playing. In fact Dungeon Runners and Exteel (both of which I've played) are both "Log on have some fun and log off" high action games. The same can be said for Auto Assault; while there is some grinding in the game, grinding basically comes down to driving a car around the game world and blowing everything you see into dust and puddles of assorted bio-matter. Tabula Rasa which I haven't yet played follows the same type of system and the developers of Aion claim to have done away with the "grind" completely. Maybe you should check your facts before you calling people trolls.
I'm black and I agree with you Cog. Besides 7 times out of 10 when people blame racism for cultural inconsistencies, the true culprit is classism or the imbalanced distribution of wealth. Upper middle class kids of any race or creed usually don't become "thug life" even if they do try to "represent" as "straight gangsta" when they are teenagers. Right before they ship off to college and, more often than not, make something of themselves... unlike poor kids who usually don't have the opportunity. Race barely has anything to do with it. (woah totally off topic)
Human rights or not, I think this is a good thing. I've seen so many kid's lives fall apart because of MMOs because their parents just don't "get it" here in the USA. On the other hand this will force MMO makers to stop making games that require multi-hour grinding sessions to keep people interested and active. They might have to actually come up with *gasps* engaging and entertaining content that can be completed within a reasonable time frame.... for China anyway. The only MMO company with decent North American penetration that tries to do this normally is NC Soft. God bless em and their ugly low budget games.
I am under the impression that everyone that's ever reported on Vista's performance (and basically everyone here also) is a complete moron. I upgraded to vista (small business - just to see because I got it free.) I have no unnecessary usage of ram while my pc is idle. The OS hasn't crashed once... no program has crashed within the OS once... it's never frozen and even hardware with drivers that aren't "vista certified" still continue to work without so much as a hitch and all the annoying security notifications took all of 30s to disable. I was only the anti Vi$ta bandwagon too and I'm no M$ lover... but seriously I did nothing special and I'd venture to say my system runs better than it did with XP. I think the problems people are having are self imposed and everyone else just buys into the bs.