"...and it will be rolled out free of charge. "
Translation: PLEASE COME BACK! We know millions of you tried our game when we launched but then Wrath of the Lich King came out and you all went back to WoW and dropped us but we'd REALLY like it if you came back. Please. Pretty please.
Probably going to work for me. I got WHO, played for a couple of weeks, told everyone how much I was enjoying it and then when the included month ran out I just let it lapse. I don't know about WOTLK especially but there were a lot of really good SP games released around that time, or upcoming and those sucked me in. Before I look at WHO again, and I will, I have to shake an X3-Terran Conflict addiction, master (ha! won't happen) Left4Dead and work through the STACK of other games that came out over the Xmas period. I actually feel really sorry for Mythic. They did so much that was right, compared to Funcom's Age of Conan, and had a massive encouraging start and now they're shutting servers and are faced with tracts of lands that are empty because noone is doing the public quests. Of course what they really need to do is introduce the WH40K Tyranids as a playable race. Heh, it works for DOW2.
Point 3, the virtual memory running out, has been the cause of most slowdowns on my network but we used to use a number of misbehaved programs that had this as a specific problem. Without getting too technical it's easy to add Virtual Memory usage to the Task Manager display. (under Processes, go to View and Select Columns.)
Do they seriously think their customer base will stand for behavior like that? Anyone who has ever bought a used game will cease to buy any games, new or used, by companies that try to pull this shit. Consumers don't like being raked over the coals.
Actually it will probably just reduce the perceived value of used games making them cheaper for the resellers to buy and sell. Most people don't actually finish the games they buy so that final boss battle doesn't matter. Sales figures vs Xbox Live gold subscriptions also suggests that less than half of 360 users are even online. I realise that those of us talking about this on an Internet "message board" are more likely to game online but it's still not the norm.
Well that's just stupid. Are you saying pandas are more important than cultural ephemera? Seriously now, consider what you're saying here. You're saying that my cherished 25-year-old Mold-a-rama figure of a dolphin from Chicago's Brooklyn Zoo is LESS important than some smelly old animal in China.
Wow. Grow a set of priorities, man.
Seriously though, preserving one does not preclude preservation of the other. I think it's safe to say we all care about pandas (awww, they're cuuuute!) but that doesn't mean we should knock down the museums to build panda habitats.
I realise it's pointless to reply to posts like this BUT... the point of playing RPGs, MMO or otherwise, for me is to escape the mundane life that most of us do have in our 30s and 40s. We've done all that stuff you talk about and now we have wives, children and houses (not necessarily multiple of each but you get my drift) and debts, obligations and responsibilities. Some people watch TV, go to movies, play golf, go to their local bar or get a mistress to escape those mundane obligations. In the small amount of free time I do have I play video games. To each their own.
The price someone is prepared to pay is never going to be "overpriced". It works both ways. Some people think fresh bread is over-priced when you can buy day old for less.
Most hardcore pirates that I know are very much into promoting cool stuff and sharing it with others because they think it is really cool. They don't waste energy on crap. In part it gives them status in their community when they are able to turn people on to something impressive.
That'd be great and all except EVERYTHING gets cracked, crap or not. My only rule of thumb with piracy these days is that if the publisher wants me to feel like a criminal then their wish is my command.
Using the torrent means no online stuff like buddy lists or sporecast. Gonna be a toss-up whether EA closes that down before I run out of activations anyway.
I noticed on the Amazon website that Mount And Blade was getting a retail release and should be out mid Spetember so I pre-ordered. I played the demo years back but have never been that comfortable paying for stuff off miscellaneous websites so never registered the full product.
I prefer more...ahem...interesting girls------Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
After that confession you should hang your head in shame and slope out of the games section.
I also disagree with you that independent games aren't fun - or at least that the ratio is any worse when compared to big developers. I also miss the time when mods were more prevalent. There are still plenty of mods out there but the barrier for entry to modding modern games is SO much higher than it was back in the HL days.
Yep, if he doesn't have the drive to learn programming on his own he never will.
Is that really fair? When a lot of us started programming every home computer had a built in version of Basic (or Forth if you had a Jupiter Ace... you lonely lonely soul...) so jumping in wasn't too hard when the first thing you looked at after bootup was the Basic interpreter.
He did miss it, like a lot of other people, because he's not playing any more. Like him I left but I'll be back to Age of Conan some day. However I suspect I'll have burned out on WotLK before I do. Hopefully by then Funcom will have stitched something worthwhile from their corpse of a game, assuming it doesn't go the way of Asherons Call 2, which WOULD be a shame.
I'm glad I tried AoC but I'm glad I quit too.
What if your order damaged the robot but through it's actions was able to save a human, but you didn't feel like having to explain to it why it would be breaking the First Law by following the Third? Something like ramming itself into a packing crate to stop a girder falling on a person behind it. You get my drift...
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"...and it will be rolled out free of charge. " Translation: PLEASE COME BACK! We know millions of you tried our game when we launched but then Wrath of the Lich King came out and you all went back to WoW and dropped us but we'd REALLY like it if you came back. Please. Pretty please.
Probably going to work for me. I got WHO, played for a couple of weeks, told everyone how much I was enjoying it and then when the included month ran out I just let it lapse. I don't know about WOTLK especially but there were a lot of really good SP games released around that time, or upcoming and those sucked me in.
Before I look at WHO again, and I will, I have to shake an X3-Terran Conflict addiction, master (ha! won't happen) Left4Dead and work through the STACK of other games that came out over the Xmas period.
I actually feel really sorry for Mythic. They did so much that was right, compared to Funcom's Age of Conan, and had a massive encouraging start and now they're shutting servers and are faced with tracts of lands that are empty because noone is doing the public quests.
Of course what they really need to do is introduce the WH40K Tyranids as a playable race. Heh, it works for DOW2.
It means 20 years of waiting for the patent to expire before this kind of interface can be advanced at all.
In the US. Probably Europe eventually and almost certainly Australia. Meanwhile in Asia they will be using phones we can only dream of.
Point 3, the virtual memory running out, has been the cause of most slowdowns on my network but we used to use a number of misbehaved programs that had this as a specific problem. Without getting too technical it's easy to add Virtual Memory usage to the Task Manager display. (under Processes, go to View and Select Columns.)
But not much point cloning the drive at THIS stage when he has the problem.
agreed 100%. until some serious pound me in the ass prison time is handed out to more than a few of these guys, it won't stop.
Exactly! After all that's how they managed to stop illegal drugs. Oh...
They used Rise of Nations for the experiment. Good choice IMO. Asking senior citizens to play Starcraft might have been a step too far.
Do they seriously think their customer base will stand for behavior like that? Anyone who has ever bought a used game will cease to buy any games, new or used, by companies that try to pull this shit. Consumers don't like being raked over the coals.
Actually it will probably just reduce the perceived value of used games making them cheaper for the resellers to buy and sell. Most people don't actually finish the games they buy so that final boss battle doesn't matter. Sales figures vs Xbox Live gold subscriptions also suggests that less than half of 360 users are even online.
I realise that those of us talking about this on an Internet "message board" are more likely to game online but it's still not the norm.
You mean another one.
The cost of "listening" may drop to zero, but the cost to interpret the data is going to rise exponentially as the volume increases.
Well that's just stupid. Are you saying pandas are more important than cultural ephemera? Seriously now, consider what you're saying here. You're saying that my cherished 25-year-old Mold-a-rama figure of a dolphin from Chicago's Brooklyn Zoo is LESS important than some smelly old animal in China.
Wow. Grow a set of priorities, man.
Seriously though, preserving one does not preclude preservation of the other. I think it's safe to say we all care about pandas (awww, they're cuuuute!) but that doesn't mean we should knock down the museums to build panda habitats.
Oh really
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubZimS4E3F0
I realise it's pointless to reply to posts like this BUT... the point of playing RPGs, MMO or otherwise, for me is to escape the mundane life that most of us do have in our 30s and 40s. We've done all that stuff you talk about and now we have wives, children and houses (not necessarily multiple of each but you get my drift) and debts, obligations and responsibilities. Some people watch TV, go to movies, play golf, go to their local bar or get a mistress to escape those mundane obligations. In the small amount of free time I do have I play video games. To each their own.
The price someone is prepared to pay is never going to be "overpriced". It works both ways. Some people think fresh bread is over-priced when you can buy day old for less.
Most hardcore pirates that I know are very much into promoting cool stuff and sharing it with others because they think it is really cool. They don't waste energy on crap. In part it gives them status in their community when they are able to turn people on to something impressive.
That'd be great and all except EVERYTHING gets cracked, crap or not. My only rule of thumb with piracy these days is that if the publisher wants me to feel like a criminal then their wish is my command.
Sony - not well-known for their Xbox releases...
Using the torrent means no online stuff like buddy lists or sporecast. Gonna be a toss-up whether EA closes that down before I run out of activations anyway.
I noticed on the Amazon website that Mount And Blade was getting a retail release and should be out mid Spetember so I pre-ordered. I played the demo years back but have never been that comfortable paying for stuff off miscellaneous websites so never registered the full product.
The bot may have been confined to the Netherlands but that doesn't mean it wasn't used to spam worldwide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXzRczBk06M
I prefer more...ahem...interesting girls------Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
After that confession you should hang your head in shame and slope out of the games section.
I also disagree with you that independent games aren't fun - or at least that the ratio is any worse when compared to big developers. I also miss the time when mods were more prevalent. There are still plenty of mods out there but the barrier for entry to modding modern games is SO much higher than it was back in the HL days.
Yep, if he doesn't have the drive to learn programming on his own he never will.
Is that really fair? When a lot of us started programming every home computer had a built in version of Basic (or Forth if you had a Jupiter Ace... you lonely lonely soul...) so jumping in wasn't too hard when the first thing you looked at after bootup was the Basic interpreter.
He did miss it, like a lot of other people, because he's not playing any more. Like him I left but I'll be back to Age of Conan some day. However I suspect I'll have burned out on WotLK before I do. Hopefully by then Funcom will have stitched something worthwhile from their corpse of a game, assuming it doesn't go the way of Asherons Call 2, which WOULD be a shame.
I'm glad I tried AoC but I'm glad I quit too.
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What if your order damaged the robot but through it's actions was able to save a human, but you didn't feel like having to explain to it why it would be breaking the First Law by following the Third? Something like ramming itself into a packing crate to stop a girder falling on a person behind it. You get my drift...
+1 insightful gives a karma bonus, whereas +1 funny doesn't. And in any event it WAS insightful.
I hope you don't buy a gun.