I believe the reason the Sims is banned has nothing to do with people learning how to run lives and the like but that it has the ability to have same sex relationships in it. That and the ability to have kids I suppose since they are only allowed 1 per couple ?? Not sure how their rules are now. And seriously, why would you want to teach people how to pee in other people's houses in a game and burn things down or trap people in pools. I think this is the type of mentallity they were trying to avoid. I used to love the game until it just became insanely stupid with the AI unable to learn to keep clean, clean after themselves after dinner and take showers... can you say micromanagement?
Bah, FFXI left a bad taste in my mouth after they repeatedly said it was possible to level up soloing. When I got to about lvl 25 Red Mage they changed their minds and pretty much forced everyone to group... ala EQ ( with the 1-2 hour waits). So I quit. Mind you I love grouping in WoW, but being forced to group to level up should never be the norm. WoW actually gives you an incentive to be away from the game and I love it, when you come back after a few days you gain experience faster than someone that has been playing nonstop. As a casual player this has been very useful as I can catch up to my friends fairly easily in one afternoon.
LOL,
I know what you mean, I used 2 days of leave to do a quest with some friends and to hang out. Have not done such a thing since back in my UO days.
If there is one thing I HATE about playing WoW is the Bittorrent updates. Although for a lot it is perfectly acceptable I for one do not enjoy updates that should take 10-30 minutes and instead turn to 1-3 hours depending on how many people are dishing out the file. It reminds me of my dial up days when downloading 10 MB would take hours. And I have DSL, I feel bad for modem users.
Are you confused with EA Ultima Online series? Blizzard has had many hits that they do not expand even though players want them. Starcraft players have been waiting for Starcraft II for years and still only one expansion was ever made for it. The same for Diablo. About the only game that had 2 expansions was the latest Warcraft ( not WoW ).
Also EverQuest has had about 10 expansions (exaggerating but not far off) and people still get it.
About the only thing in the works right now in WOW is the Battlegrounds upgrade which will allow players to have benefits from joining in player vs player battles.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/battlegrounds-p art2.html
I play WoW, the problem they ran into began at launch when they decided to split the servers by localizing them to time zones. This in essence made a lot of guilds/friends decide what side of the US they would choose their servers from. Of course East coast servers being instantly over-populated and then West Coast. After many complaints from their playerbase this was removed and all server names were placed in a pool you choose from... makes more sense that way. Now people did not really know if they were on east coast, central or west coast and people began to log on to underpopulated servers. But to my understanding the damage was done and it looks like those servers as well as the SUPER-Overpopulated Player-vs-Player servers are still giving them headaches. I for one am glad that my friends picked a quiet server and have not once been on a queue to get into the server. Whereas the first server I chose is still to this day repeatedly being rolled back and lagging badly.
I feel bad how one small decision as localization can do this much damage down the line and hope they don't do that for korea and European servers. It is a great game still and I give them kudos for all their efforts... for the Horde!!
For one using profanity to drive your argument does not make it right. Secondly it's not productivity that is in question or using company tools but in fact trying to take advantage of a company to enrich yourself and cause them a loss. It's alright to look for greener pastures and create your own company or go to a new one but exploiting your current employer is just absurd and shows the type of character you are and your moral standards. Rather than trying to find ways to steal (which it all boils down to) you can congure up ideas to make yourself more useful and make the company more money or take those ideas and go elsewhere. There is just no reason to exploit someone that hired you in good faith, even if they ended up treating you bad then you can just leave. Bitterness in the end will always get you because you are not in a right state of mind and cannot comprehend what actions can be taken against you if you are found out... like they were. Fry baby, fry!!
You guys are looking at GUI as an evil tool when in fact for the normal user it is a God send. When IMB/OS, Macs came out normal people like myself (normal = non-programers/coders) could finally click on an icon and have the program actually load. No more trying to learn what the executable file name was or if we had root access to execute it and load it. As far as I knew this meant not having to read those Commodore 64 865 page manuals on how to make a letter and save it and change the fonts to what I needed just to say hello to someone by handing them a disk that would take 1 hour to copy to. I used to get my hands dirty back then with loads of code from C64/C128 magazines in which 10% of the programs actually worked. GUI got rid of the learning curve and got people the courage to start using PC's for everyday things... without GUI do you think grandparents and kids would be using PC's? Not likely, tell someone to go to root and type in their password and load their VMI or whatever and you already lost the person's interest. For developers and programmers command line will always be an ACE, for the consumer and business front they want their GUI and they want it faster and meaner and speech recognition should be gaining speed with more and more gamers getting used to Roger Wilco, Teamspeak and other speech applications.
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I believe the reason the Sims is banned has nothing to do with people learning how to run lives and the like but that it has the ability to have same sex relationships in it. That and the ability to have kids I suppose since they are only allowed 1 per couple ?? Not sure how their rules are now. And seriously, why would you want to teach people how to pee in other people's houses in a game and burn things down or trap people in pools. I think this is the type of mentallity they were trying to avoid. I used to love the game until it just became insanely stupid with the AI unable to learn to keep clean, clean after themselves after dinner and take showers... can you say micromanagement?
Bah, FFXI left a bad taste in my mouth after they repeatedly said it was possible to level up soloing. When I got to about lvl 25 Red Mage they changed their minds and pretty much forced everyone to group... ala EQ ( with the 1-2 hour waits). So I quit. Mind you I love grouping in WoW, but being forced to group to level up should never be the norm. WoW actually gives you an incentive to be away from the game and I love it, when you come back after a few days you gain experience faster than someone that has been playing nonstop. As a casual player this has been very useful as I can catch up to my friends fairly easily in one afternoon.
LOL, I know what you mean, I used 2 days of leave to do a quest with some friends and to hang out. Have not done such a thing since back in my UO days.
If there is one thing I HATE about playing WoW is the Bittorrent updates. Although for a lot it is perfectly acceptable I for one do not enjoy updates that should take 10-30 minutes and instead turn to 1-3 hours depending on how many people are dishing out the file. It reminds me of my dial up days when downloading 10 MB would take hours. And I have DSL, I feel bad for modem users.
Are you confused with EA Ultima Online series? Blizzard has had many hits that they do not expand even though players want them. Starcraft players have been waiting for Starcraft II for years and still only one expansion was ever made for it. The same for Diablo. About the only game that had 2 expansions was the latest Warcraft ( not WoW ). Also EverQuest has had about 10 expansions (exaggerating but not far off) and people still get it. About the only thing in the works right now in WOW is the Battlegrounds upgrade which will allow players to have benefits from joining in player vs player battles. http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/battlegrounds-p art2.html
I play WoW, the problem they ran into began at launch when they decided to split the servers by localizing them to time zones. This in essence made a lot of guilds/friends decide what side of the US they would choose their servers from. Of course East coast servers being instantly over-populated and then West Coast. After many complaints from their playerbase this was removed and all server names were placed in a pool you choose from... makes more sense that way. Now people did not really know if they were on east coast, central or west coast and people began to log on to underpopulated servers. But to my understanding the damage was done and it looks like those servers as well as the SUPER-Overpopulated Player-vs-Player servers are still giving them headaches. I for one am glad that my friends picked a quiet server and have not once been on a queue to get into the server. Whereas the first server I chose is still to this day repeatedly being rolled back and lagging badly. I feel bad how one small decision as localization can do this much damage down the line and hope they don't do that for korea and European servers. It is a great game still and I give them kudos for all their efforts... for the Horde!!
For one using profanity to drive your argument does not make it right.
Secondly it's not productivity that is in question or using company tools but in fact trying to take advantage of a company to enrich yourself and cause them a loss. It's alright to look for greener pastures and create your own company or go to a new one but exploiting your current employer is just absurd and shows the type of character you are and your moral standards. Rather than trying to find ways to steal (which it all boils down to) you can congure up ideas to make yourself more useful and make the company more money or take those ideas and go elsewhere. There is just no reason to exploit someone that hired you in good faith, even if they ended up treating you bad then you can just leave. Bitterness in the end will always get you because you are not in a right state of mind and cannot comprehend what actions can be taken against you if you are found out... like they were.
Fry baby, fry!!
You guys are looking at GUI as an evil tool when in fact for the normal user it is a God send. When IMB/OS, Macs came out normal people like myself (normal = non-programers/coders) could finally click on an icon and have the program actually load. No more trying to learn what the executable file name was or if we had root access to execute it and load it. As far as I knew this meant not having to read those Commodore 64 865 page manuals on how to make a letter and save it and change the fonts to what I needed just to say hello to someone by handing them a disk that would take 1 hour to copy to. I used to get my hands dirty back then with loads of code from C64/C128 magazines in which 10% of the programs actually worked.
GUI got rid of the learning curve and got people the courage to start using PC's for everyday things... without GUI do you think grandparents and kids would be using PC's? Not likely, tell someone to go to root and type in their password and load their VMI or whatever and you already lost the person's interest. For developers and programmers command line will always be an ACE, for the consumer and business front they want their GUI and they want it faster and meaner and speech recognition should be gaining speed with more and more gamers getting used to Roger Wilco, Teamspeak and other speech applications.