Seriously, your sig makes me want to sign up to MSDN or some other Microsoft based website and whine about all M$ products while bitching about the futility of arguing with zealots.
omg, me too! Should we get our nails done and talk about girls too? (In all seriousness... the technical talk on forums.msdn.com is pretty good, a lot of compotent folk. Go browse it, you don't need a subscription. But its not a fair comparison, because it is a techical Q&A forum and this is a broader forum.)
Kripes man you are a real dumb ass you know it?
no I'm not a dumb ass. I just miss the old slashdot where half the people gave a shit and actually knew what they were talking about, instead of people talking out of their asses and buying into the hivemind philosophy present here.
I'm no zealot for anyone. I use Windows, I use linux. They each have their use. I do CFD work on my linux box, I do Excel, time management and a lot of my 'tool programming' on Windows for the wider audience/distribution. I do hate Mac though. If you want to go Unix(-y), use Linux or the gridiron. And while I'm no fan of the FSF, I do like Open Source. There is a difference, you know.
7Mb/sec download, 1Mb/sec upload, fine by me (rural Alabama... most, but not all, of the US has it better I'm sure). Seriously, there is good enough to get the job done, and then there is digital penis envy. I'm not saying don't innovate, but what's the point of pissing and moaning when 90% can get higher speeds than they need for the time being?
yeah, and what do they cast to shift? a spell. It's a spell modification to the base character. A hybrid would natively have the statistics of the tank they are inheriting from, plus spell casting abilities from the caster they are inheriting from. A druid is a caster, who can cast a spell that makes him look like a tank, but only while that spell is active. That spell may modify statistics, but it is still a spell and after the spell wears off the druid is still a leather wearing caster. See the difference?
Every year or so, release an expansion that completely invalids any progress made in the last expansion.
More than once a year. We are running on 14 expansions in 8 years. But I disagree. Have you ever played EQ? There are basically 3 things that can get added in any given expansion, beyond land mass
1) more gear / items
2) Level cap increase
3) More Alternate Advancement points available to purchase
You always get 1. 2 happens every other or every third expansion. 3 happens about out of cycle from 2, it seems. You are probably complaining because a new expansion invalidates your gear. Well suck it up. You are no less efficient a day after the new expansion grinding the old mobs, than you were the day before. But to enter the new areas, yes, it will be a challenge. Cry me a river.
Raising the level caps? That's just a part of life. Without that, the game stagnates. Again, you can cry me a river and I won't care.
Now, here is the beauty of Everquest, in my opinion. AA's. They give you a reason to live after you hit max level. You can funnel your experiance from grinding into ability points. These give you abilities not unlike talents in WoW, but a hell of a lot more of them. And you aren't restricted in how many you can obtain.
Endless treadmill? Only if you make it such.
The great thing about capitalism is that CEOs like Bill Gates who wants to make hand-over-fist in terms of money, doesn't have to give a rat's ass about basic human rights, he can choose to hide behind his business like a coward. Craig Mundie's answer was "I don't think that is my area of expertise." Cowards.
And you can honestly say you have never purchased anything that has run through China? No iPod? No rice? Never eaten Chinese food? Never shopped at any major chain?
Remember, though, the bulk of those users are Chinese, paying a few pennies an hour to play. While they are making a killing, they aren't making nearly as much as most people believe.
let me follow that up by saying expansions are good, but balancing the amount of land mass you have with the number of active players is important... EQ screwed up partially in adding too much land mass (I like it, but it makes you feel alone in the world... again, why I like it, but makes grouping a bit more difficult at times). They did correct themselves with a number of expansions that added a lot of content - soloable, groupable and raidable - with little to no additional landmass, by way of instanced dungeons and extensions on existing continents, meshing with existing zones, not creating new continents, planets or 'planes'.
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dude, you forgot to hit 'AC'.
... the technical talk on forums.msdn.com is pretty good, a lot of compotent folk. Go browse it, you don't need a subscription. But its not a fair comparison, because it is a techical Q&A forum and this is a broader forum.)
Seriously, your sig makes me want to sign up to MSDN or some other Microsoft based website and whine about all M$ products while bitching about the futility of arguing with zealots.
omg, me too! Should we get our nails done and talk about girls too? (In all seriousness
Kripes man you are a real dumb ass you know it?
no I'm not a dumb ass. I just miss the old slashdot where half the people gave a shit and actually knew what they were talking about, instead of people talking out of their asses and buying into the hivemind philosophy present here.
I'm no zealot for anyone. I use Windows, I use linux. They each have their use. I do CFD work on my linux box, I do Excel, time management and a lot of my 'tool programming' on Windows for the wider audience/distribution. I do hate Mac though. If you want to go Unix(-y), use Linux or the gridiron. And while I'm no fan of the FSF, I do like Open Source. There is a difference, you know.
yoda? but I thought you were at one with the Force...
/. is the Force?!?
waitaminute...
WoW has a card game, and in-game vendors where you enter codes ...
7Mb/sec download, 1Mb/sec upload, fine by me (rural Alabama... most, but not all, of the US has it better I'm sure). Seriously, there is good enough to get the job done, and then there is digital penis envy. I'm not saying don't innovate, but what's the point of pissing and moaning when 90% can get higher speeds than they need for the time being?
sure, if specced holy, but you can't tank worth a shit :P
What I was saying is that a hybrid class is a compromise of the two classes it is inheriting from.
yeah, and what do they cast to shift? a spell. It's a spell modification to the base character. A hybrid would natively have the statistics of the tank they are inheriting from, plus spell casting abilities from the caster they are inheriting from. A druid is a caster, who can cast a spell that makes him look like a tank, but only while that spell is active. That spell may modify statistics, but it is still a spell and after the spell wears off the druid is still a leather wearing caster. See the difference?
best be glad she knows nothing of astroturf :P
spellcaster.
and yes, Warrior is not a hybrid.
I'm not saying the employees are sending money back to China... but yes, the raw materials, I betcha you are getting some from China.
druid has never been a hybrid. Was not in EQ, or EQ2, is not in WoW.
What makes a paladin a hybrid is the fact that it is literally, half warrior, half cleric. Gimped at both.
And the DK, I presume, will be the equivalent of EQ's shadowknight, half warrior, half necromancer.
Every year or so, release an expansion that completely invalids any progress made in the last expansion.
More than once a year. We are running on 14 expansions in 8 years. But I disagree. Have you ever played EQ? There are basically 3 things that can get added in any given expansion, beyond land mass
1) more gear / items
2) Level cap increase
3) More Alternate Advancement points available to purchase
You always get 1. 2 happens every other or every third expansion. 3 happens about out of cycle from 2, it seems. You are probably complaining because a new expansion invalidates your gear. Well suck it up. You are no less efficient a day after the new expansion grinding the old mobs, than you were the day before. But to enter the new areas, yes, it will be a challenge. Cry me a river.
Raising the level caps? That's just a part of life. Without that, the game stagnates. Again, you can cry me a river and I won't care.
Now, here is the beauty of Everquest, in my opinion. AA's. They give you a reason to live after you hit max level. You can funnel your experiance from grinding into ability points. These give you abilities not unlike talents in WoW, but a hell of a lot more of them. And you aren't restricted in how many you can obtain.
Endless treadmill? Only if you make it such.
Sounds like the Shadowknight from Everquest :)
The great thing about capitalism is that CEOs like Bill Gates who wants to make hand-over-fist in terms of money, doesn't have to give a rat's ass about basic human rights, he can choose to hide behind his business like a coward. Craig Mundie's answer was "I don't think that is my area of expertise." Cowards.
And you can honestly say you have never purchased anything that has run through China? No iPod? No rice? Never eaten Chinese food? Never shopped at any major chain?
If you have, you are just as much a 'coward'.
My knobs are digital ...
If the stove is white, what color shoes should you be wearing? :)
It's funny. Till you find out your kid has been chewing on one of those toys (like mine, damn you, Thomas the Tank Engine)
... the kid is going to be fine. So bring on the sunblock, I guess... what doesn't kill you...)
(I'm a realist though
n/t
badgers? We don't need no steenkin badgers!
Your digital camera puts out 500kb native resolution files?
well, it sure was no Newton
why troll? check out a Blizzard press release stating it, and according to this site they are paying ~5c/hour.
Remember, though, the bulk of those users are Chinese, paying a few pennies an hour to play. While they are making a killing, they aren't making nearly as much as most people believe.
let me follow that up by saying expansions are good, but balancing the amount of land mass you have with the number of active players is important ... EQ screwed up partially in adding too much land mass (I like it, but it makes you feel alone in the world ... again, why I like it, but makes grouping a bit more difficult at times). They did correct themselves with a number of expansions that added a lot of content - soloable, groupable and raidable - with little to no additional landmass, by way of instanced dungeons and extensions on existing continents, meshing with existing zones, not creating new continents, planets or 'planes'.
something important to keep in mind
Why do they only have 1 expansion, with the second only on the horizon? EQ has like... 14 expansions in 8 years :P
People with Mod points, however, are actually extremely intelligent and discerning.
:)
So you are saying they don't get laid?