More like three solid days, or less if you're not just dicking around the whole time.
I'd have to agree that playing at 70 requires a time commitment, but not for buying an epic flying mout. That's a small part of being 70. With a little planning you could easily save up enough gold for it while leveling.
The time commitment comes from coordinating raids or arena. After you hit 70 playing solo isn't really an option anymore.
Players can't really develop a bad name in WoW like they can in EVE, since they don't prey on each other for wealth and power. The worst someone could do is maybe suck at playing their class so people won't raid/arena with them.
You can't really say there's a lack of content in WoW. There's a crapload, and there's always more being added.
Full blown expansions take a lot of work. How fast do you think they can make them?
They apparently had some piles of ash to work with too.
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I agree leveling a character 1-70 to participate in raids in some capacity your current classes don't allow is a daunting task, especially if you're not interested in all the other content, or you've seen it all already or whatever.
I don't think forcing players to personally level a character to 70 helps the game in any way.
Being able to create higher leveled characters (After you've leveled one normally at least) would be a good feature.
Fortunately something exactly like that is planned for the next expansion. After a player unlocks the Death Knight class, their Death Knights will start at some high level.
Once certain criteria are met, players will be able to create a new death knight character, which will start at a high level. The exact level has not yet been determined, but a senior producer of Blizzard says it will be somewhere around level 60 or 70. That's from http://www.wowwiki.com/Death_Knight_(hero_class)
I know it's not a solution to the problem, but it's a step in the right direction. As the level cap gets higher it becomes more of a problem. They'll need to make changes eventually. Perhaps later on they'll allow normal classes to be created at high levels, or have more new classes that can do different things.
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Obviously the game is specifically designed around the idea that the more you play the stronger your character becomes.
I imagine the vast majority of players have fun just playing the game and earning things. Getting it all for free overnight isn't exactly what I'd call fun. Maybe you've heard the expression "getting is better than having", or however it goes.
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I think bots can definitely have harmful effects on the game in general. They're against the rules for good reason.
Just imagine if bots were allowed. They'd probably be crawling all over the place. Every character would be logged in nonstop, grinding away while the actual players are working, sleeping, etc. Players would have easy access to large amounts of gold, honor point, and of course higher-leveled characters.
Playing side by side with bots would probably be pretty lame, too. Interactions with other people is sort of a highlight of online gaming.
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Aren't the WoW bots pretty limited in what they can do?
The only thing I know of them doing is grinding a specific type of mob, in a specific area, using a predefined strategy.
Maybe they can do more complex things. I don't know really know. Regardless, just because it's possible to automate certain things in a game doesn't mean those things aren't fun to do yourself.
I really doubt making changes to gameplay would help with the bot problem. How complex would it have to be? What sort of things can a bot not do? Would players accept drastic changes?
I don't think of eye tracking as an ideal form of input, especially not for FPS games.
What would you even use it for? Moving? Aiming? It'd be a poor choice either way, and you'd still need other input for all the other stuff you need to do.
It would be surprising if it ends up having any practical applications at all.
Computers operate in base-2. It only makes sense to represent different amounts of data in base-2.
As I understand it, the only reason the terms use SI-like prefixes in the first place is because 1000 and 1024 are "close enough".
Presumably anyone actually dealing with data would be able to understand these units, but nowadays the average user has no idea how data is stored internally. They'll believe "kilobyte" means "1000 bytes". Why wouldn't they?
But that creates some problems. Even if manufacturers decide to use base-10, computers are still going to be base-2, and users are going to see a discrepancy between what box and the OS tell them, and they aren't going to be happy with it.
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More like three solid days, or less if you're not just dicking around the whole time.
I'd have to agree that playing at 70 requires a time commitment, but not for buying an epic flying mout. That's a small part of being 70. With a little planning you could easily save up enough gold for it while leveling.
The time commitment comes from coordinating raids or arena. After you hit 70 playing solo isn't really an option anymore.
The life of an aphid was already pretty sucky in the first place
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It looks like real video because it is real video. Wow.
Players can't really develop a bad name in WoW like they can in EVE, since they don't prey on each other for wealth and power. The worst someone could do is maybe suck at playing their class so people won't raid/arena with them.
People stopped listening to him a long time ago.
Jack Thompson's antics are a common topic here.
It's surprising that anyone has not heard of him.
It was probably just a coincidence. It's not like GTA invented car jacking.
Oh, my. The default browser check box is checked by default!
This is so not meaningful or interesting. What could possibly be less significant?
Funny how you wouldn't believe the only real piece of information.
You can't really say there's a lack of content in WoW. There's a crapload, and there's always more being added.
Full blown expansions take a lot of work. How fast do you think they can make them?
This might be great... for someone sitting alone in a dark room, playing a first person shooter.
PUKE PUKE PUKE
Still, it cripples my browser.
Do you think something like this could be drastically optimized?
Agreed. The life demo is especially laggy. ( http://ejohn.org/apps/processing.js/examples/topics/conway.html )
Or in other words they're full of shit.
And, of course, £600 is way out of line with the cost of a game.
Here it is!
http://i32.tinypic.com/mbn2x4.jpg
They apparently had some piles of ash to work with too.
I don't think forcing players to personally level a character to 70 helps the game in any way.
Being able to create higher leveled characters (After you've leveled one normally at least) would be a good feature.
Fortunately something exactly like that is planned for the next expansion. After a player unlocks the Death Knight class, their Death Knights will start at some high level. Once certain criteria are met, players will be able to create a new death knight character, which will start at a high level. The exact level has not yet been determined, but a senior producer of Blizzard says it will be somewhere around level 60 or 70. That's from http://www.wowwiki.com/Death_Knight_(hero_class) I know it's not a solution to the problem, but it's a step in the right direction. As the level cap gets higher it becomes more of a problem. They'll need to make changes eventually.
Perhaps later on they'll allow normal classes to be created at high levels, or have more new classes that can do different things.
Obviously the game is specifically designed around the idea that the more you play the stronger your character becomes.
I imagine the vast majority of players have fun just playing the game and earning things. Getting it all for free overnight isn't exactly what I'd call fun. Maybe you've heard the expression "getting is better than having", or however it goes.
Of course, some people just want to instantly have 70s with endgame gear. For those people there's the area tournament:
http://worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/tournament/index.xml
I think bots can definitely have harmful effects on the game in general. They're against the rules for good reason.
Just imagine if bots were allowed. They'd probably be crawling all over the place. Every character would be logged in nonstop, grinding away while the actual players are working, sleeping, etc. Players would have easy access to large amounts of gold, honor point, and of course higher-leveled characters.
Playing side by side with bots would probably be pretty lame, too. Interactions with other people is sort of a highlight of online gaming.
Aren't the WoW bots pretty limited in what they can do?
The only thing I know of them doing is grinding a specific type of mob, in a specific area, using a predefined strategy.
Maybe they can do more complex things. I don't know really know. Regardless, just because it's possible to automate certain things in a game doesn't mean those things aren't fun to do yourself.
I really doubt making changes to gameplay would help with the bot problem. How complex would it have to be? What sort of things can a bot not do? Would players accept drastic changes?
Being a senator doesn't exactly put someone in the public eye.
I don't think of eye tracking as an ideal form of input, especially not for FPS games.
What would you even use it for? Moving? Aiming? It'd be a poor choice either way, and you'd still need other input for all the other stuff you need to do.
It would be surprising if it ends up having any practical applications at all.
Yeah, everything from Wikipedia and NASA is right there on the 7-year-old level.
And the library has books. Who knew?
Computers operate in base-2. It only makes sense to represent different amounts of data in base-2.
As I understand it, the only reason the terms use SI-like prefixes in the first place is because 1000 and 1024 are "close enough".
Presumably anyone actually dealing with data would be able to understand these units, but nowadays the average user has no idea how data is stored internally. They'll believe "kilobyte" means "1000 bytes". Why wouldn't they?
But that creates some problems. Even if manufacturers decide to use base-10, computers are still going to be base-2, and users are going to see a discrepancy between what box and the OS tell them, and they aren't going to be happy with it.