I'm seeing more and more of this, especially since now I too am one of these people. I actually started monkeying around with D2 again because of the fact I could walk away from it at any point. It seems to me like Blizzard is getting detached from their core market which IMO is growing older and gaining responsibility and can't devote 6 hours a day to experience all that content.
This has quite literally made me decide to move my 2 checking, 2 savings, and my one credit card out of BofA's hands. In America we cast our votes with our money.
I'm in my early 20's, have 0 credit because I buy everything in cash.
Until recently I haven't ever needed to go into debt and have, for fundamental reasons, avoided it like the plauge. Now, however, I need more reliable and safer means of transportation which on my income is unaffordable to pay for in cash and unaffordable to lease or finance because insurance is just to much for full coverage for a male my age.
I consider myself very thrifty, and good about saving money and don't have the appetitie for spending most american's do.
Now, if I want to up my credit, I don't have to wait a year for bank of america to report my secured visa. If I want to find a 3 year 6000 dollar loan to cover what I can't on a new car, I can and won't get stuck paying for full coverage (insurance is a scam). Since I'm dealing with people, they may be more likely to listen when they see "No Credit" as opposed to a bank who will automaticly shut me down.
Those bastards at EA did the same thing to me so many years ago.
The game was Motor City Online. It was the funnest game I've ever played in my entire gaming life. And one day they turned off the servers and gave us a free copy of The Sims Online as an apology...
We're just a generation of video gamers that's older now. Gen X-Y played/plays video games... This new generation doesn't. It used to be that target markets were 12-20, now we're older and its changed along side us to 18-30.
They found an abundant market, and are profitting from it (all be it against a EULA it isin't against any laws). I figure it's a win/win. I get my gold or power leveling, some chinamen gets a paycheck.
It's supply and demand at it's finest. I have the expendable income, someone else has the time that I don't.
If you want to debate about how it's wrong because it messes up the economy, consider that you're trying to apply real economics to a video game. It's a cool concept but in the real world you can't kill a wolf that will respawn in 5 minutes for a few copper that appears out of nowhere. The money supply is endless and has no real standard.
I witnessed this phenomanon when I worke dat gamestop several years ago and the new colors of the gameboy advance were coming out. Kids would come in and reserve these things even when the system had been out for I don't know how long. It's hard to get a kid to delay the satisfaction of picking up that shiney new GBA. It's my theory that kids would have multiple, sometimes many of them.
We'd even have people (read: kids) TRADE IN their old GBA's and pay a bit more to get the new color.
This whole color thing seems to me to be a very important peice of nintendo's business model.
That would be fun watching a CS clan math on TV. I'm not a football fan, but I can imagine becoming like one if they started showing MLG matches... Drinking beer, eating cheez-its watching Starcraft finals.
Who didn't want to cry like a baby when Aeris died in FF7?
Cinematics are very effective in the right situations. Would a cinematic be a selling point for me if I wanted a new hack n slash? Probably not. Would I be disappointed if the next installment of FF had no cinematics? Deffinitely.
Except when the weatherman speaks to millions of potential buyers of sunshine driving the price of sunshine up for no good reason other than what an analyst says.
then other buyers go, omg! I like sunshie... sunshine can make me rich! it went up 20% yesterday because of what some jackoff analyst said on JIM KRAMER'S REAL SUNSHINE!
Now everyone's buying google... erm, uhm, i mean sunshine, and it's 400 dollars a share for no good reason.
I feel I have to chime in here in the defense of raids.
First, I find them a lot of fun but not for 8 hours. So, I don't join competitive guilds, I join more relaxed guilds, generally with higher numbers (about 140 or so) that has people willing to go on various raids if you'd like to that week
Second, They aren't required.
I spend more of my time on wow playing battlegrounds and leveling alts. I also like the concept of making a lvl 29 WSG character (that being a character that I don't level passed level 29 so he can play in a lvl 20-29 bracket in an instanced pvp arena) and getting the best possible gear for him and seeing how bad I can beat people (since its not going to happen in the 60 bracket.) Then do it again with a different race/class.
To me it's amazing working together in a 40 person group to accomplish a goal. It's cool to see all the rogues running around and hunters and mages unleashing ranged attacks from 41 yards. But, it does get redundant. I equate getting the best gear and (in an MMO world that means being the best generally) to being a dedicated athlete, it takes boring and redundant good ol' fashioned work! The best rewards shouldn't be easy to obtain and if you don't like it you probably should stick to FPS or RTS.
This is ridiculous, when I go to a movie theatre and hear someone talking about guild drama, when I talk to friends I haven't seen in years and they have a rank 8 undead mage on Archimond, and indeed, when WoW appears in the Times.... WoW has gotten out of hand.
Fact of the matter is even news of them possibly slowing down on the BUYING bonds effected the market greatly, now if they were to start selling them it would be quite a bit more influential on the market.
I thought it was my responsibility as a parent to keep my kid from looking at porn, not the governments. I think that's a task I'd like to handle myself.
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I'm seeing more and more of this, especially since now I too am one of these people. I actually started monkeying around with D2 again because of the fact I could walk away from it at any point. It seems to me like Blizzard is getting detached from their core market which IMO is growing older and gaining responsibility and can't devote 6 hours a day to experience all that content.
This has quite literally made me decide to move my 2 checking, 2 savings, and my one credit card out of BofA's hands. In America we cast our votes with our money.
I'm in my early 20's, have 0 credit because I buy everything in cash. Until recently I haven't ever needed to go into debt and have, for fundamental reasons, avoided it like the plauge. Now, however, I need more reliable and safer means of transportation which on my income is unaffordable to pay for in cash and unaffordable to lease or finance because insurance is just to much for full coverage for a male my age. I consider myself very thrifty, and good about saving money and don't have the appetitie for spending most american's do. Now, if I want to up my credit, I don't have to wait a year for bank of america to report my secured visa. If I want to find a 3 year 6000 dollar loan to cover what I can't on a new car, I can and won't get stuck paying for full coverage (insurance is a scam). Since I'm dealing with people, they may be more likely to listen when they see "No Credit" as opposed to a bank who will automaticly shut me down.
Those bastards at EA did the same thing to me so many years ago.
The game was Motor City Online. It was the funnest game I've ever played in my entire gaming life. And one day they turned off the servers and gave us a free copy of The Sims Online as an apology...
My mom and my sister both play bejeweled, my grandma plays a slot machine game (religiously) so they're fucking up the averages.
PS - Redmond is much closer than 30-50 miles... more like 15-20. The Microsoft area is like a commune.
Oh, and we don't smell... That's Tacoma.
I think this actually convinced me to buy a Wii.
We're just a generation of video gamers that's older now. Gen X-Y played/plays video games... This new generation doesn't. It used to be that target markets were 12-20, now we're older and its changed along side us to 18-30.
But who really reads the plot behind the yellow exclamation mark?
I was entirely to distracted by "FUNNER" to understand what you were ranting about.
They found an abundant market, and are profitting from it (all be it against a EULA it isin't against any laws). I figure it's a win/win. I get my gold or power leveling, some chinamen gets a paycheck.
It's supply and demand at it's finest. I have the expendable income, someone else has the time that I don't.
If you want to debate about how it's wrong because it messes up the economy, consider that you're trying to apply real economics to a video game. It's a cool concept but in the real world you can't kill a wolf that will respawn in 5 minutes for a few copper that appears out of nowhere. The money supply is endless and has no real standard.
I witnessed this phenomanon when I worke dat gamestop several years ago and the new colors of the gameboy advance were coming out. Kids would come in and reserve these things even when the system had been out for I don't know how long. It's hard to get a kid to delay the satisfaction of picking up that shiney new GBA. It's my theory that kids would have multiple, sometimes many of them.
We'd even have people (read: kids) TRADE IN their old GBA's and pay a bit more to get the new color.
This whole color thing seems to me to be a very important peice of nintendo's business model.
That would be fun watching a CS clan math on TV. I'm not a football fan, but I can imagine becoming like one if they started showing MLG matches... Drinking beer, eating cheez-its watching Starcraft finals.
No one will listen
Don't try to compete with WoW.. You're opening a no name coffee stand next to a Starbuck's.
Not even EQ could make another EQ.
I would have to agree the current plans for super awesome MMO's are going nowhere.
Everyone is playing WoW. Who needs to buy an HugeBox360 when their gaming time is already spoken for?
Who didn't want to cry like a baby when Aeris died in FF7?
Cinematics are very effective in the right situations. Would a cinematic be a selling point for me if I wanted a new hack n slash? Probably not. Would I be disappointed if the next installment of FF had no cinematics? Deffinitely.
Except when the weatherman speaks to millions of potential buyers of sunshine driving the price of sunshine up for no good reason other than what an analyst says.
then other buyers go, omg! I like sunshie... sunshine can make me rich! it went up 20% yesterday because of what some jackoff analyst said on JIM KRAMER'S REAL SUNSHINE!
Now everyone's buying google... erm, uhm, i mean sunshine, and it's 400 dollars a share for no good reason.
Their bank account balances? Stock price?
I feel I have to chime in here in the defense of raids.
First, I find them a lot of fun but not for 8 hours. So, I don't join competitive guilds, I join more relaxed guilds, generally with higher numbers (about 140 or so) that has people willing to go on various raids if you'd like to that week
Second, They aren't required.
I spend more of my time on wow playing battlegrounds and leveling alts. I also like the concept of making a lvl 29 WSG character (that being a character that I don't level passed level 29 so he can play in a lvl 20-29 bracket in an instanced pvp arena) and getting the best possible gear for him and seeing how bad I can beat people (since its not going to happen in the 60 bracket.) Then do it again with a different race/class.
To me it's amazing working together in a 40 person group to accomplish a goal. It's cool to see all the rogues running around and hunters and mages unleashing ranged attacks from 41 yards. But, it does get redundant. I equate getting the best gear and (in an MMO world that means being the best generally) to being a dedicated athlete, it takes boring and redundant good ol' fashioned work! The best rewards shouldn't be easy to obtain and if you don't like it you probably should stick to FPS or RTS.
This is ridiculous, when I go to a movie theatre and hear someone talking about guild drama, when I talk to friends I haven't seen in years and they have a rank 8 undead mage on Archimond, and indeed, when WoW appears in the Times.... WoW has gotten out of hand.
Even Bill Gates has to keep up with the Jones's
Fact of the matter is even news of them possibly slowing down on the BUYING bonds effected the market greatly, now if they were to start selling them it would be quite a bit more influential on the market.
Like the government wouldn't bend over backwards for China if they suddenly decided they'd cash in their bonds if we didn't play nice with them.
I thought it was my responsibility as a parent to keep my kid from looking at porn, not the governments. I think that's a task I'd like to handle myself.