This post would be relevent if you were disagreeing with what I said.
Confusion as to why you posted "you must be kidding" , since you basicly share my view.
Is utter crap and flame bait. I could not roll my eyes any harder at the fanboi factor. My favorite part was when it defended Apples' affiliation with at&t which was accused of "Microsoft-style anti-competitive maneuvers and anti-privacy efforts á la RIAA." , they could only go "But..but...Microsoft! over there! sic the zune!". They could of... I dunno, showed the merits of using AT&T? Instead of just bashing?
Seriously, in the end of things, Fanbois on both sides of the PC/MAC debate are bad. At least the PC side has no illusions about their Cybertronic Overlords.
Sony Exec: Let's try to alienate even MORE of our playerbase...OH, I hear a lot of them like to use custom programs on their products... LETS THREATEN LEGAL ACTION PREEMPTIVELY!!!!
It might have some redeeming factors if they removed several key retardations of the Starwars universe...
First, "drain" for using force powers... Dr. Weird has a word for that.
Second, by the rules of d20 Starwars, the Emperor - despite his mass evilness and mastery of the darkside of the force - would be dead 1 year after the events in episode 1, at the LATEST.
Hitting a d20 group that plays like that, I'm afraid. Its what all d20 brings to the surface. Even groups that claim to be "different" all suffer the same sort of min-maxery.
The entire d20 line just needs to sink into oblivion and never surface again.
Being a former employee of an ISP, the "up to" a certain speed is in there to protect the company from complaints about their slow service due to line quality.
Actually, the problem here is really that people will exclude you purposefully because they dont like your build.
Thats the real issue, People are Assholes. Take the thing down.
From Blizzard's filing:
MDY's sale of WoWGlider has caused Blizzard great harm in the direct loss of
revenue from terminated users, the loss of subscription revenue from WoWGlider users availing
themselves of the cheat, and from the severe damage to the goodwill of the non-cheating
population of WoW users.
If they're going to sue him for loss of revenue, than they better well have refunded the money back to all the people they banned. Otherwise they haven't lost enough, because most of the people who got banned repurchased the game!
Anyone see that one small mention of the game, Majestic failing?
I remember that. In 2001, fall, there was a beta out for an EA based Battletech game. It was really fun, they had all the cool mechs in it, and the only annoying part in the game was how hit registration was handled. Anyways, Long story short at some point EA said, "Ok... our choices are This cool battletech game, or Majestic...uh...we're going for magestic." and closed the beta on one of the coolest mech games I've played. A month or so later, Majestic was in the bargain bin and completely offline.
Grats EA! You're stupid!
WoWitus. The scourge of new mmos. It started out as EQitus, but has since evolved to the newest mmo.
This disease usually manifests itself in an inability to enjoy new MMOs - simply because you believe that its just a wow clone. No matter how new and unique the feature is, you'll throw it off as a simple variation of a mechanic in WoW - even if its a mechanic thats been in MOST mmos pre-wow. In fact, you'll start seeing wow in features that arent even part of wow!
The only cure to this soul-destroying disease is to stop playing wow. After a few months, you'll be able to enjoy the MMos that wow has kept you from enjoying.
Now, a few other things.
Traits != talents. They're completely different, there are tons out there that you achieve by obtaining certain feats. An example of this is visiting several elven ruins. The reason why this seems random is because they dont show you what these are until you start on the path for it. This means they can sneak in new traits and they can be a secret. Gee, have to actually explore the game to improve your character! How Wowlike.
I also saw someone complaining about instanced indoors.... uh yea, because theres a lot that goes on. one newbie quest you're working with one of the dwarves from the Hobbit. and it takes like 30 minutes to do the entire track. Now, not only is this very not wow like, having to coop with npcs that arent just guards or something, but if this wasnt instanced there would be hell to pay as far as lag problems, and player angst.
Instances arent a bad thing, people. And they're not as common in the game as some people would want you to believe. from 1 to 15 I saw one instance, and it was in the newbie area.
There are honostly a lot of things in this game that are new, unique, and entertaining. Cries of "ZOMG Its just AC2 with Hobbits!" and "ROFL WOW CLONE" are just people who are trolls, dont understand the new game concepts, or are stricken with WoWitus.
About the only thing that I agree on are the Lore masters. They're Wizards/priests/beast tamers, depending on what you focus on. Its annoying. The only context it would make sense in, is when Gandolf used a pinecone as a grenade. otherwise it doesnt make sense at all. The beast tamer part does, but thats about it.
Yes yes, spelling errors aboud. Wheres the blasted Edit button!
The following refers to Valve.
They're making you pay more for an expansion(not the 100 dollars others have claimed, but more to the tune of 64 dollars) and fewer hours of gameplay. In closing, This episodic content would only work out if theres more content in the next 2, than in this one. IF not, and they put the same half-bun effort into it, I'd rather not waste the money. Note: I understand that its cheaper from steam, but coincidently isnt halflife 2 also cheaper? wouldnt an expansion be cheaper as well? Prices would probably offset accordingly, and still remain true.
Honostly Apple has never been too honost. They've always talked a bit of BS, proclaiming themselves better than microsoft, when the cold Reality is that they're just as bad, if not worse.
Its a highhorse, and all it will take to knock them down a knotch is a few script kiddies deciding its time for the first wave of mac virii.
Quake 4 was short, used a lot of the same textures and content as doom 3(Anyone remember the silly bridges that assembled? Its a neat trick, but by now its old. Very old. Stop repeating it!), and probably has just as limiting as multiplayer(I'll try it out in a bit, but if its just quake 3 arena all over again, I'll be soarly dissapointed) -
HOWEVER, atleast ID is upfront about screwing you. They werent hiding behind Buzzwords and schemes, like Episodic content. They're making you pay more for an expansion(not the 100 dollars others have claimed, but more to the tune of 64 dollars) and fewer hours of gameplay.
In closing, This episodic content would only work out if theres more content in the next 2, than in this one. IF not, and they put the same half-bun effort into it, I'd rather not waste the money.
Note: I understand that its cheaper from steam, but coincidently isnt halflife 2 also cheaper? wouldnt an expansion be cheaper as well? Prices would probably offset accordingly, and still remain true.
Basicly, Episodic content is a cheap trick to get you to pay more for an expansion than you normally would. For those who find math necessary, 3 x 19.99, with 7 percent sales tax, equals 64 bucks.
Thats if They dont raise or lower the price.
Overall, the company doesnt have to give you a finished product, and you pay more for it. Oh, and 5 hours game play is far too generous. Try 2. 10 bucks an hour!
He's not contributing to the people who are raising the AH prices, otherwise each person who plays WoW normally would be getting Cash.
the source of the ingame inflation in anygame is the same: Its the Common man, wanting more money for their goods. Its the Players fault that the individual material to make an item sells more than the item its self. Its the players fault useless gear costs 100000 times more than it should. The biggest evidence of this, is in games where you cant buy gold. Ragnarok Online for example. Inflation there is TERRIBLE. You cant pay for money, but you can certainly make rediculace amounts of cash off a worthless item.
So in closing, while Paying for money in game is stupid, You might want to get the reasons for it correct.
As far as ingame inflation is concerned, Blame your neighbor. The finger pointing only ends when the community gets together, cleans out the auction house, and starts over with agreed price ranges. This of course, Will never happen. I will eat my hat the day it does.
I know, its not worth much to most of you, but I would like to set something straight.
The EVE population, while more dynamic, is certainly not more mature than your average CS player. Griefing is a Big part of the game, just not the most advertised.
Because we knocked one ruthless bloodthirsty dictator, out for another.
We're supposedly putting democracy into this wartorn country, made up of two races of people who hate eachother, however just look at Saddam's Trial. Sure, he's mr. baddy #1, but lets run through the facts.
#1 - he's accused of retaliating against an assassination attempt. Sure, his reaction was over the top, but if the situations were switched they'd be the same way.
#2 - Special "hidden" witnesses proclaiming their hardships - these could easily be someone they pulled off the street and promised land to.
#3 - they are constantly screwing with the rights of the defendents. Even the guy WE sent in to defend Saddam saw major issues with it and protested in court.
We're just going to have Iraq War 5.0 in the next 5 years, or maybe 20 - Anyone else know the turnaround time for "Country Rescued by americans" to "Armed nation of hostiles" ?
Perhaps we need to look at this message before you go to using it to say they're out to get your money. First, the location: a Democratic fundraiser as quoted in the Associated Press; June 29, 2004 That would indicate that she's talking to people who are giving a big chunk of money to the cause. This often includes: 1) High end businessmen 2) other politicians 3) People who are Rich in general.
To back this up, look at this : "'Many of you are well enough off that... the tax cuts may have helped you,' - this does not describe the average person. Moreso its directed to the rich people attending the party.
"probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.'"
To Summerise, She's saying, "We're not going to give the UPPERCLASS any more tax cuts, infact we may increase them(As economical common sense usually dictates) to help pay for things that the Current government(Republicans, Past Democrates, Whoever.) are taking out of the Average joe's pocket instead.
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This post would be relevent if you were disagreeing with what I said. Confusion as to why you posted "you must be kidding" , since you basicly share my view.
Is utter crap and flame bait. I could not roll my eyes any harder at the fanboi factor. My favorite part was when it defended Apples' affiliation with at&t which was accused of "Microsoft-style anti-competitive maneuvers and anti-privacy efforts á la RIAA." , they could only go "But..but...Microsoft! over there! sic the zune!". They could of... I dunno, showed the merits of using AT&T? Instead of just bashing? Seriously, in the end of things, Fanbois on both sides of the PC/MAC debate are bad. At least the PC side has no illusions about their Cybertronic Overlords.
Personally if I had mod points I'd mod the article as "Flame bait"
Sony Exec: Let's try to alienate even MORE of our playerbase...OH, I hear a lot of them like to use custom programs on their products... LETS THREATEN LEGAL ACTION PREEMPTIVELY!!!!
It might have some redeeming factors if they removed several key retardations of the Starwars universe... First, "drain" for using force powers... Dr. Weird has a word for that. Second, by the rules of d20 Starwars, the Emperor - despite his mass evilness and mastery of the darkside of the force - would be dead 1 year after the events in episode 1, at the LATEST.
Hitting a d20 group that plays like that, I'm afraid. Its what all d20 brings to the surface. Even groups that claim to be "different" all suffer the same sort of min-maxery. The entire d20 line just needs to sink into oblivion and never surface again.
Being a former employee of an ISP, the "up to" a certain speed is in there to protect the company from complaints about their slow service due to line quality.
Since the church was built for public use, and not private... Someone's getting a little tired of being tax exempt , apparently.
Thats right, take everything the corporation says hook line and sinker like a gullible little sheep :p thats how they make the big bucks.
It sounds like Janet Reno has/had a really wicked sense of humor we didnt get to see through the mask of her mannishness
Actually, the problem here is really that people will exclude you purposefully because they dont like your build. Thats the real issue, People are Assholes. Take the thing down.
From Blizzard's filing: MDY's sale of WoWGlider has caused Blizzard great harm in the direct loss of revenue from terminated users, the loss of subscription revenue from WoWGlider users availing themselves of the cheat, and from the severe damage to the goodwill of the non-cheating population of WoW users. If they're going to sue him for loss of revenue, than they better well have refunded the money back to all the people they banned. Otherwise they haven't lost enough, because most of the people who got banned repurchased the game!
Anyone see that one small mention of the game, Majestic failing? I remember that. In 2001, fall, there was a beta out for an EA based Battletech game. It was really fun, they had all the cool mechs in it, and the only annoying part in the game was how hit registration was handled. Anyways, Long story short at some point EA said, "Ok... our choices are This cool battletech game, or Majestic...uh...we're going for magestic." and closed the beta on one of the coolest mech games I've played. A month or so later, Majestic was in the bargain bin and completely offline. Grats EA! You're stupid!
WoWitus. The scourge of new mmos. It started out as EQitus, but has since evolved to the newest mmo.
This disease usually manifests itself in an inability to enjoy new MMOs - simply because you believe that its just a wow clone. No matter how new and unique the feature is, you'll throw it off as a simple variation of a mechanic in WoW - even if its a mechanic thats been in MOST mmos pre-wow. In fact, you'll start seeing wow in features that arent even part of wow!
The only cure to this soul-destroying disease is to stop playing wow. After a few months, you'll be able to enjoy the MMos that wow has kept you from enjoying.
Now, a few other things.
Traits != talents. They're completely different, there are tons out there that you achieve by obtaining certain feats. An example of this is visiting several elven ruins. The reason why this seems random is because they dont show you what these are until you start on the path for it. This means they can sneak in new traits and they can be a secret. Gee, have to actually explore the game to improve your character! How Wowlike.
I also saw someone complaining about instanced indoors.... uh yea, because theres a lot that goes on. one newbie quest you're working with one of the dwarves from the Hobbit. and it takes like 30 minutes to do the entire track. Now, not only is this very not wow like, having to coop with npcs that arent just guards or something, but if this wasnt instanced there would be hell to pay as far as lag problems, and player angst.
Instances arent a bad thing, people. And they're not as common in the game as some people would want you to believe. from 1 to 15 I saw one instance, and it was in the newbie area.
There are honostly a lot of things in this game that are new, unique, and entertaining. Cries of "ZOMG Its just AC2 with Hobbits!" and "ROFL WOW CLONE" are just people who are trolls, dont understand the new game concepts, or are stricken with WoWitus.
About the only thing that I agree on are the Lore masters. They're Wizards/priests/beast tamers, depending on what you focus on. Its annoying. The only context it would make sense in, is when Gandolf used a pinecone as a grenade. otherwise it doesnt make sense at all. The beast tamer part does, but thats about it.
Yes yes, spelling errors aboud. Wheres the blasted Edit button! The following refers to Valve. They're making you pay more for an expansion(not the 100 dollars others have claimed, but more to the tune of 64 dollars) and fewer hours of gameplay. In closing, This episodic content would only work out if theres more content in the next 2, than in this one. IF not, and they put the same half-bun effort into it, I'd rather not waste the money. Note: I understand that its cheaper from steam, but coincidently isnt halflife 2 also cheaper? wouldnt an expansion be cheaper as well? Prices would probably offset accordingly, and still remain true.
Honostly Apple has never been too honost. They've always talked a bit of BS, proclaiming themselves better than microsoft, when the cold Reality is that they're just as bad, if not worse. Its a highhorse, and all it will take to knock them down a knotch is a few script kiddies deciding its time for the first wave of mac virii.
Quake 4 was short, used a lot of the same textures and content as doom 3(Anyone remember the silly bridges that assembled? Its a neat trick, but by now its old. Very old. Stop repeating it!), and probably has just as limiting as multiplayer(I'll try it out in a bit, but if its just quake 3 arena all over again, I'll be soarly dissapointed) - HOWEVER, atleast ID is upfront about screwing you. They werent hiding behind Buzzwords and schemes, like Episodic content. They're making you pay more for an expansion(not the 100 dollars others have claimed, but more to the tune of 64 dollars) and fewer hours of gameplay. In closing, This episodic content would only work out if theres more content in the next 2, than in this one. IF not, and they put the same half-bun effort into it, I'd rather not waste the money. Note: I understand that its cheaper from steam, but coincidently isnt halflife 2 also cheaper? wouldnt an expansion be cheaper as well? Prices would probably offset accordingly, and still remain true.
Its episode one of three parts.
Basicly, Episodic content is a cheap trick to get you to pay more for an expansion than you normally would.
For those who find math necessary, 3 x 19.99, with 7 percent sales tax, equals 64 bucks.
Thats if They dont raise or lower the price.
Overall, the company doesnt have to give you a finished product, and you pay more for it. Oh, and 5 hours game play is far too generous. Try 2. 10 bucks an hour!
I think the very first one - although i may just be mixing it up with 8-bit theatre.
This is probably the exact same crowd, which will approach any new MMO with the following Logic:
I hate X because it doesnt have Y from Everquest.
This game would be much better if it was Everquest.
In short, Hypocritics and Kainophobists.
I have a better idea. A tax on people who blame other parties for problems their own party cause.
He's not contributing to the people who are raising the AH prices, otherwise each person who plays WoW normally would be getting Cash.
the source of the ingame inflation in anygame is the same: Its the Common man, wanting more money for their goods. Its the Players fault that the individual material to make an item sells more than the item its self. Its the players fault useless gear costs 100000 times more than it should. The biggest evidence of this, is in games where you cant buy gold. Ragnarok Online for example. Inflation there is TERRIBLE. You cant pay for money, but you can certainly make rediculace amounts of cash off a worthless item.
So in closing, while Paying for money in game is stupid, You might want to get the reasons for it correct.
As far as ingame inflation is concerned, Blame your neighbor. The finger pointing only ends when the community gets together, cleans out the auction house, and starts over with agreed price ranges. This of course, Will never happen. I will eat my hat the day it does.
I know, its not worth much to most of you, but I would like to set something straight. The EVE population, while more dynamic, is certainly not more mature than your average CS player. Griefing is a Big part of the game, just not the most advertised.
Because we knocked one ruthless bloodthirsty dictator, out for another.
We're supposedly putting democracy into this wartorn country, made up of two races of people who hate eachother, however just look at Saddam's Trial. Sure, he's mr. baddy #1, but lets run through the facts.
#1 - he's accused of retaliating against an assassination attempt. Sure, his reaction was over the top, but if the situations were switched they'd be the same way.
#2 - Special "hidden" witnesses proclaiming their hardships - these could easily be someone they pulled off the street and promised land to.
#3 - they are constantly screwing with the rights of the defendents. Even the guy WE sent in to defend Saddam saw major issues with it and protested in court.
We're just going to have Iraq War 5.0 in the next 5 years, or maybe 20 - Anyone else know the turnaround time for "Country Rescued by americans" to "Armed nation of hostiles" ?
Perhaps we need to look at this message before you go to using it to say they're out to get your money.
... the tax cuts may have helped you,' - this does not describe the average person. Moreso its directed to the rich people attending the party.
First, the location:
a Democratic fundraiser as quoted in the Associated Press; June 29, 2004
That would indicate that she's talking to people who are giving a big chunk of money to the cause. This often includes:
1) High end businessmen
2) other politicians
3) People who are Rich in general.
To back this up, look at this : "'Many of you are well enough off that
"probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.'"
To Summerise, She's saying, "We're not going to give the UPPERCLASS any more tax cuts, infact we may increase them(As economical common sense usually dictates) to help pay for things that the Current government(Republicans, Past Democrates, Whoever.) are taking out of the Average joe's pocket instead.