Yeah but GameSpy has been a bunch of corrupt sellouts from day one.
GameSpy's just a huge advertising network and they've been desperatly trying to crush any other gaming newssource to control the opinion of the gamers.
I'm not sure if this is still the case with IBM laptops today but my A20m had some really nasty overheating issues.
The way it cools the CPU is via a tiny horizontaly mounted fan and a heatpipe running through a big aluminum block...which did virtualy nothing.
Worse yet it was fairly common for that fan system to die. There was a controller card which regulated the fan based on the CPU temptriture. In my laptop that part failed three times during 2 years. Worse yet the ONLY way to fix it is to replace the mothereboard, $400 (the fan itself which can die is $50).
I personaly find it odd that they're so concerend with HDs. I dropped that very same laptop numerous times and that never resulted in a damaged HD or even damaged plastic. (I can't say the same about Dell laptops)
10 Hour battery life on the other hand is something I'm curious about.
Also another HUGE weakness IMO are ports.
Like keyboard, network, USB etc. On a PC those ports are used maybe 10 times a year, on a laptop several times a day, at times roughly. My current laptop can't play any sound because the 'sound out' port is broken (it's all made of plastic, cord got yanked sideways and the plug just shattered). A friend of mine has a useless laptop because the ethernet jack is broken. I have seen plenty of dell and IBM laptops where the powercable refuses to stay in.
Personaly I'm baffled how the designers didn't see these issues comming.
Fact is the laptops are NOT used gently for more than the first few days. Then they get tossed about and "ripped out" of networks at the end of a long day.
Bwahah. Get off your high chair: "Deep understanding of physics rules" my ass.
Come on how many physics rules do you need to guess the trajectory of a rocket launcher? My guess is none at all just some experience from shooting it.
To an extent I think the real problem is that the "jerks" tend to often suck horribly. The "elite" hate the sucky jerks and appear to be assholes who talk down to the "noobs".
The problem for the "avg" player is that the jerks think he's a leet and insult him when he's winning by just a bit and the leets think that the avg is just another noob and talk down to him like he's a 12 year old.
This puts the avg player in a nasty position with no place to go.
It's kinda like EQ when you really get down to it, you either play a lot or not at all in order to have fun.
Some people just cannot become "elite" at FPS, to others it's almost natural. I've been playing FPS since Doom and always found it easy to come out on top.
In the days of HEAT I participated in all the tournaments. While I never won a single one of them I generaly came out in the top 10 or at least the top 25 players.
In the end though, it's 25% natural ability, 25% computer(good video card, mouse and keyboard that you're used to and good connection), 40% knowledge of the game and 10% skill.
Seriously though, very little "skill" is needed to be great at FPS. It's all about knowing the layout of the map, having quick reflexes and knowing the tricks of the game.
If you have a sucky PC or you just can't seem to react as fast as the "twitch" gamers do, you'll just never attain the same level they will.
They "elite" will seem like freaks, you'll be sure that they play 24/7 and maybe even cheat, but then neither is true.
I go to LAN parties about once a month and several times people thought I was cheating when I shot them right in the head from across the map with a non scoped rifle, again and again...fact is I didn't but I just knew at exactly what level to position the mouse to hit someones head at that level and had the reflexes to point it there quickly.
By the way, if you think UT is hard, try Descent 3.
I swear that game will make you go mad. You think circle strafling is something? Try sphere strafling. I know people who play Descent 3 with 2 joysticks in order to strafle in 2 dimensions easier...now those are freaks.
I WANT to be in a guild that DOES play 80 hours a week. I just no longer have that time.
We would hit 3-5 targets a night, people got so many drops they forgot what they were wearing. I loved it, no matter how hight we set our goal we reached it. The only reason we did it was that we DID play 80 hours a week, we had scouts logged in 24/7, we had a call system for priority targets etc. I swear the army isn't as organised as we were.
Yet that kind of dedication made EQ far more than a hobby, far more than a life style, it became life itself. We lived for EQ, and it was great.
Going back now to beat up little monsters wouldn't be fun to me. I want a 150 people guild that can waste the AOW with NO deaths in under 20 minutes from zone entry. I want a guild that WALKS through PoP encounters, anything else just isn't fun to me anymore.
They can speak about whatever they want as long as it's not to me. They can put those boards up so that only they see it. Or hell just not put propoganda up.
You can remove my posts by making me a foe and lowering the foe score to -6.
There is nothing I can do to remove the idiotic church propoganda.
You're such a pathetic fanboy, I just don't know what to say. I'm sure had I told you that I played it 1 hour a day you'd have said "Well you just didn't get to a high enough level to enjoy it!". The time invested doesn't matter. Good MMORPGS are fun no matter how many hours a day you play them. (EQ sucks because you can't enjoy it without less than 5hours a day play time)
I just told you that EQ remained fun no matter how long I played it, it was just too time demanding. It's one thing to play 80 hours a week, it's another thing to HAVE TO play 80 hours a week or be removed from your guild for "innactivity".
Good MMORPGS are fun no matter how many hours a day you play them. I know people who put in about 200 days a year into EQ since release and still love it.(Yes I do mean people with over 600 days played. Yes over a year and a half of nothing but EQ)
SWG is just not fun. There is NO purpose to ANYTHING you do in SWG. DAOC is only fun till you get to 50. Then there is nothing left except a day or two of PVP before you're bored of that too. Then all you can do is restart.
I don't care what they believe in. I just don't like their idiotic bilboards that they place RIGHT NEXT TO THE ROAD.
Considering that there is a church every 3 blocks in the US, each blaring out the "word of god"...
What I'm saying is that I'm annoyed by their existance because they make driving a hassle. It's very much like spam. Unwanted messages. I don't go about posting "THERE IS NO GOD" bilboards on my lawn. Why do they?
First, why would I have to use IMO? Ever? It's retarded. No shit it's my opinion, everything is an opinion, and facts are very very popular opinions.
I played DAOC the same way I played EQ. 70~ hours a week and quickly found that at high levels there was NOTHING fun to do other than PVP and that the world was TINY compared to EQ. There were other things that pissed me off, like that level is the ultimate factor. In EQ a lvl 30 could take a lvl 40 if the 30 had better gear, in DAOC gear made nowhere as much of a difference as level. To me that was absurd. Yes there were nice things, certainly the combat is very well done, but still dull in the long run.
SWG I played far more, proably in the 100 - 120 hours a week range as I played it during the summer when I go to college (Drexel = summer class winter work). I had a Bounty Hunter and found him to be totaly pointless. Sure I could do a TON of things but none were any fun. The community was nothing like EQ, the combat was horrid, the quests pathetic. Pvp was a joke. Nice things? Well the crafting system was by far the best in mainstream MMORPGS but the economy was a joke and the experience curve was enough to make ME groan. Keep in mind I'm an EQ vet so hell levels, XP Hell, level loss, time sinks etc is nothing new to me, but SWG was just horrid.
Did I get my money's worth? That depends, sure it was piss cheap entertainement. But I didn't want to play after the 2 months. EQ I still want to play today but I just don't have the time anymore. (Not to play at the level I want to anyway, as in organised guild raids every day 6pm - 1am(3am on Fri) with weekend raids Sat or Sun 1pm - 3am)
Thing is, people are looking for far more out of a MMO than a SP game. People WANT to play MMOs forever. SP they just want to finish. It's not fair to say "I paid $90 for the game and 2 months of playing. Killer deal". I'd rather say that I spent close to a $1000 (multiple accounts)on EQ and I played it for 2 years and would spend more had I the time.
Actually it's only a hate crime if you do it based on discriminating a religion.
I do not have any problem with religion, but I find that the churches in their current state are corrupt and we'd be better off with them burning.
I love the churches in Europe, they can stay. They're majestic, they're well built and they have style.
US churches on the other hand..
Ugly malformed things, with the HUGE bilboards that are lit up 24/7 placed just so that I see them when I drive by screaming the "message of the lord" out. I don't care. I don't want to see it. Burn. "God answers knee mail" "Save your soul! Better late then never!"
It's poor taste and it makes me shiver with disgust as I drive by. So no I'm not KKK or BP just an annoyed atheist.
I myself had a runing with Anti Spam sites. For some bizzare reason the IP of my mail server was listed as a spam server. Which is BS as it's only ever used for personal mail.
It took 5 emails and 3 days to get my server IPs of the list.
It's a real bitch. Your mail bounces, you call the ISP that bounced your mail and they tell you that "such and such list", now you got to go to that list and request a removal. The problem is that many of the lists mirror additions but NOT removals. So you get added to one list and tada you're in 20 and got to remove yourself one by one...
The growth will come when there are MMO games that do not involve HOURS of doing nothing. Because the devs will finally realize that doing nothing is neither intresting nor excieting.
The growth will come when there are MMO games that have fun things to do that don't get repetative after 2 days, or after 2 months or after 2 years.
The growth will come when there are MMO games that have a strong community of players supporting each other.
The growth will come when there are meaningful interactions between the players. Not "I OWNZ JOO!", not "Lets group up and XP", something deeper.
The growth will come when there are MMO with massive worlds, meaningful means of transportation and player property.
The growth will come when the PVP is meaningful and fun. Not something put in just so that highlevels could do "something".
There is currently no MMO that does this.
Everquest fails on the player property and has plenty of time sinks. Still the the most "perfect" MMORPG out there. I played it for over 2 years.
DAOC fails in the same areas as Everquest plus it lacks anything fun to do after 2 months.
Anarchy Online fails because it's more repetative than tick tack toe and lacks any purpose in high levels.
UO is dead. Lacks any real purpose other than chat once GM level is achieved.
SWG is horrid. There is NO reason what so ever to advance your char in the game. The game lacks purpose. Nothing that you do in SWG is fun for longer than 2 months. Took me 1 month to get bored of stockpiling money and buying the BEST gear out there.
PlanetSide is repetative and in no way persistant. The world needs to be far far larger. The base you capture is lost in an hour and you'll just capture it again, rinse and repeat.
I'm a MMORPG addict, well used to be. Been clean for months. It's all dull. Even Everquest can get repetative after a few years when your character has better gear than you ever thought possible and withstood challanges that seemed impossible. Once the challanges aren't so challanging, it's not fun anymore. It becomes a huge waste of time. If EQ didn't require so much time to be wasted, I'd still play.
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Yeah but GameSpy has been a bunch of corrupt sellouts from day one.
GameSpy's just a huge advertising network and they've been desperatly trying to crush any other gaming newssource to control the opinion of the gamers.
I'm not sure if this is still the case with IBM laptops today but my A20m had some really nasty overheating issues.
The way it cools the CPU is via a tiny horizontaly mounted fan and a heatpipe running through a big aluminum block...which did virtualy nothing.
Worse yet it was fairly common for that fan system to die. There was a controller card which regulated the fan based on the CPU temptriture. In my laptop that part failed three times during 2 years. Worse yet the ONLY way to fix it is to replace the mothereboard, $400 (the fan itself which can die is $50).
I personaly find it odd that they're so concerend with HDs. I dropped that very same laptop numerous times and that never resulted in a damaged HD or even damaged plastic. (I can't say the same about Dell laptops)
10 Hour battery life on the other hand is something I'm curious about.
Also another HUGE weakness IMO are ports.
Like keyboard, network, USB etc. On a PC those ports are used maybe 10 times a year, on a laptop several times a day, at times roughly.
My current laptop can't play any sound because the 'sound out' port is broken (it's all made of plastic, cord got yanked sideways and the plug just shattered). A friend of mine has a useless laptop because the ethernet jack is broken. I have seen plenty of dell and IBM laptops where the powercable refuses to stay in.
Personaly I'm baffled how the designers didn't see these issues comming.
Fact is the laptops are NOT used gently for more than the first few days. Then they get tossed about and "ripped out" of networks at the end of a long day.
Bwahah. Get off your high chair:
"Deep understanding of physics rules" my ass.
Come on how many physics rules do you need to guess the trajectory of a rocket launcher? My guess is none at all just some experience from shooting it.
To an extent I think the real problem is that the "jerks" tend to often suck horribly. The "elite" hate the sucky jerks and appear to be assholes who talk down to the "noobs".
The problem for the "avg" player is that the jerks think he's a leet and insult him when he's winning by just a bit and the leets think that the avg is just another noob and talk down to him like he's a 12 year old.
This puts the avg player in a nasty position with no place to go.
It's kinda like EQ when you really get down to it, you either play a lot or not at all in order to have fun.
Some people just cannot become "elite" at FPS, to others it's almost natural. I've been playing FPS since Doom and always found it easy to come out on top.
In the days of HEAT I participated in all the tournaments. While I never won a single one of them I generaly came out in the top 10 or at least the top 25 players.
In the end though, it's 25% natural ability, 25% computer(good video card, mouse and keyboard that you're used to and good connection), 40% knowledge of the game and 10% skill.
Seriously though, very little "skill" is needed to be great at FPS. It's all about knowing the layout of the map, having quick reflexes and knowing the tricks of the game.
If you have a sucky PC or you just can't seem to react as fast as the "twitch" gamers do, you'll just never attain the same level they will.
They "elite" will seem like freaks, you'll be sure that they play 24/7 and maybe even cheat, but then neither is true.
I go to LAN parties about once a month and several times people thought I was cheating when I shot them right in the head from across the map with a non scoped rifle, again and again...fact is I didn't but I just knew at exactly what level to position the mouse to hit someones head at that level and had the reflexes to point it there quickly.
By the way, if you think UT is hard, try Descent 3.
I swear that game will make you go mad. You think circle strafling is something? Try sphere strafling. I know people who play Descent 3 with 2 joysticks in order to strafle in 2 dimensions easier...now those are freaks.
As I said. At the level I want to play...
I WANT to be in a guild that DOES play 80 hours a week. I just no longer have that time.
We would hit 3-5 targets a night, people got so many drops they forgot what they were wearing. I loved it, no matter how hight we set our goal we reached it. The only reason we did it was that we DID play 80 hours a week, we had scouts logged in 24/7, we had a call system for priority targets etc. I swear the army isn't as organised as we were.
Yet that kind of dedication made EQ far more than a hobby, far more than a life style, it became life itself. We lived for EQ, and it was great.
Going back now to beat up little monsters wouldn't be fun to me. I want a 150 people guild that can waste the AOW with NO deaths in under 20 minutes from zone entry. I want a guild that WALKS through PoP encounters, anything else just isn't fun to me anymore.
Once you're "uber" there is no going back.
They can speak about whatever they want as long as it's not to me. They can put those boards up so that only they see it. Or hell just not put propoganda up.
You can remove my posts by making me a foe and lowering the foe score to -6.
There is nothing I can do to remove the idiotic church propoganda.
Yes. It's called mental anguish.
Some of the messages are practicaly threats, some insulting and harassing.
I shouldn't have to deal with them.
You're such a pathetic fanboy, I just don't know what to say. I'm sure had I told you that I played it 1 hour a day you'd have said "Well you just didn't get to a high enough level to enjoy it!". The time invested doesn't matter. Good MMORPGS are fun no matter how many hours a day you play them. (EQ sucks because you can't enjoy it without less than 5hours a day play time)
I just told you that EQ remained fun no matter how long I played it, it was just too time demanding. It's one thing to play 80 hours a week, it's another thing to HAVE TO play 80 hours a week or be removed from your guild for "innactivity".
Good MMORPGS are fun no matter how many hours a day you play them. I know people who put in about 200 days a year into EQ since release and still love it.(Yes I do mean people with over 600 days played. Yes over a year and a half of nothing but EQ)
SWG is just not fun. There is NO purpose to ANYTHING you do in SWG. DAOC is only fun till you get to 50. Then there is nothing left except a day or two of PVP before you're bored of that too. Then all you can do is restart.
Who said anything about views?
I don't care what they believe in. I just don't like their idiotic bilboards that they place RIGHT NEXT TO THE ROAD.
Considering that there is a church every 3 blocks in the US, each blaring out the "word of god"...
What I'm saying is that I'm annoyed by their existance because they make driving a hassle. It's very much like spam. Unwanted messages. I don't go about posting "THERE IS NO GOD" bilboards on my lawn. Why do they?
First, why would I have to use IMO? Ever? It's retarded. No shit it's my opinion, everything is an opinion, and facts are very very popular opinions.
I played DAOC the same way I played EQ. 70~ hours a week and quickly found that at high levels there was NOTHING fun to do other than PVP and that the world was TINY compared to EQ. There were other things that pissed me off, like that level is the ultimate factor. In EQ a lvl 30 could take a lvl 40 if the 30 had better gear, in DAOC gear made nowhere as much of a difference as level. To me that was absurd. Yes there were nice things, certainly the combat is very well done, but still dull in the long run.
SWG I played far more, proably in the 100 - 120 hours a week range as I played it during the summer when I go to college (Drexel = summer class winter work). I had a Bounty Hunter and found him to be totaly pointless. Sure I could do a TON of things but none were any fun. The community was nothing like EQ, the combat was horrid, the quests pathetic. Pvp was a joke. Nice things? Well the crafting system was by far the best in mainstream MMORPGS but the economy was a joke and the experience curve was enough to make ME groan. Keep in mind I'm an EQ vet so hell levels, XP Hell, level loss, time sinks etc is nothing new to me, but SWG was just horrid.
Did I get my money's worth? That depends, sure it was piss cheap entertainement. But I didn't want to play after the 2 months. EQ I still want to play today but I just don't have the time anymore. (Not to play at the level I want to anyway, as in organised guild raids every day 6pm - 1am(3am on Fri) with weekend raids Sat or Sun 1pm - 3am)
Thing is, people are looking for far more out of a MMO than a SP game. People WANT to play MMOs forever. SP they just want to finish. It's not fair to say "I paid $90 for the game and 2 months of playing. Killer deal". I'd rather say that I spent close to a $1000 (multiple accounts)on EQ and I played it for 2 years and would spend more had I the time.
Actually it's only a hate crime if you do it based on discriminating a religion.
I do not have any problem with religion, but I find that the churches in their current state are corrupt and we'd be better off with them burning.
I love the churches in Europe, they can stay. They're majestic, they're well built and they have style.
US churches on the other hand..
Ugly malformed things, with the HUGE bilboards that are lit up 24/7 placed just so that I see them when I drive by screaming the "message of the lord" out. I don't care. I don't want to see it. Burn. "God answers knee mail" "Save your soul! Better late then never!"
It's poor taste and it makes me shiver with disgust as I drive by. So no I'm not KKK or BP just an annoyed atheist.
Yep! I bet he loves SPAM. I bet his LOVE for SPAM is exactly why his e-mail is UNLISTED.
I want to burn down churches too, but I don't see black lists as a great evil.
Yes they such. Yes they're overkill. Yes removing your IPs is a bitch (been there done that). But I don't see them as the "bad" guys.
They maybe the over zealous crazed fantical lunatics but they're still more "good" than "bad". At least they harbor some good intentions.
The spammer on the other hand are more sinister than the devil as far as I'm concerned.
As far as the church vs adult store comparisson.
The difference is that there are some pople who actualy LIKE having an adult store while NOBODY likes spam.
Of course everyone expects growth to come with each MMORPG release.
Each clames to be the next generation ground breaking release and each fails in some area.
There are so many MMORGPs lined up for release it's hard to keep track of them all.
Final Fantasy XI, Dragon Empires, EQ 2, WoW, Horizons, Gems of something or other...bah
I have long ago given up waiting for MMORPGs, the first months of release never tell you much about the game anyway.
Oh and to the mod who rated my original post "Troll", I suggest you go back to www.aol.com where brainless jerks like you belong.
This is definetly true.
I myself had a runing with Anti Spam sites. For some bizzare reason the IP of my mail server was listed as a spam server. Which is BS as it's only ever used for personal mail.
It took 5 emails and 3 days to get my server IPs of the list.
It's a real bitch. Your mail bounces, you call the ISP that bounced your mail and they tell you that "such and such list", now you got to go to that list and request a removal. The problem is that many of the lists mirror additions but NOT removals. So you get added to one list and tada you're in 20 and got to remove yourself one by one...
What justice?
Anti Spam services get nuked and you call that justice? Explain?
And if you can't make sense of them as they are the full words would be just as meaningless to you.
Of course the growth is still to come.
The growth will come when there are MMO games that do not involve HOURS of doing nothing. Because the devs will finally realize that doing nothing is neither intresting nor excieting.
The growth will come when there are MMO games that have fun things to do that don't get repetative after 2 days, or after 2 months or after 2 years.
The growth will come when there are MMO games that have a strong community of players supporting each other.
The growth will come when there are meaningful interactions between the players. Not "I OWNZ JOO!", not "Lets group up and XP", something deeper.
The growth will come when there are MMO with massive worlds, meaningful means of transportation and player property.
The growth will come when the PVP is meaningful and fun. Not something put in just so that highlevels could do "something".
There is currently no MMO that does this.
Everquest fails on the player property and has plenty of time sinks. Still the the most "perfect" MMORPG out there. I played it for over 2 years.
DAOC fails in the same areas as Everquest plus it lacks anything fun to do after 2 months.
Anarchy Online fails because it's more repetative than tick tack toe and lacks any purpose in high levels.
UO is dead. Lacks any real purpose other than chat once GM level is achieved.
SWG is horrid. There is NO reason what so ever to advance your char in the game. The game lacks purpose. Nothing that you do in SWG is fun for longer than 2 months. Took me 1 month to get bored of stockpiling money and buying the BEST gear out there.
PlanetSide is repetative and in no way persistant. The world needs to be far far larger. The base you capture is lost in an hour and you'll just capture it again, rinse and repeat.
I'm a MMORPG addict, well used to be. Been clean for months. It's all dull. Even Everquest can get repetative after a few years when your character has better gear than you ever thought possible and withstood challanges that seemed impossible. Once the challanges aren't so challanging, it's not fun anymore. It becomes a huge waste of time. If EQ didn't require so much time to be wasted, I'd still play.
Yes but it's 56kilobits. Maybe I am a retard and was confused and thought it was kilobytes.
Why not sue for that? This is stupid.
Thats just stupid. I think the lawsuit is innapropriate.
HD manufacturers always measuered their disks like that.
What next? Will people sue that their 56k modems are not 56kilobytes/second? Or that their DSL line is 1.5Mbits and not bytes?
This is just silly. They might as well complain that they lose size in formating.
Good to know.
I'm sure GWBush is despreatly looking for an "evil nation" that can "bring it on".
But then I find US and China having any kind of hostility highly unlikely.
China exports so much to the US that they'd fall over backwards and cry if the US put on a trade embargo. No shots need to be fired.
Yep definetly a mac. I used to have one like that and loved it. I thought the way the desktop and monitor stacked nicley was the coolest thing ever.
I believe something like msgbox("Hello World") would do the trick.
The book is hyped garbage.
I looked at it during one of my monthly bookstore visits and was repulsed by it.
It's like "The Idiots Guide to Being a Skript Kiddie".
It rants about going to "hackerish" websites for information etc.
The whole book reeks of beign targeted at naive teenages who watched Hackers one time too many and want to go haxxoring cause it's cool or something.