When they say gamer I always think of MMO's. Asumming that is wrong though - I would say they should split their demographics to 16-22 (old enough to do what they want-unrestricted by parental controls and have plenty of time to play games all the time), and a 23-34 bracket for those who love to play games (console, or pc) but are restricted by wage earning duties. My online guild that I raid with has an average age of 30 (of a sample 50-60 people) and we have raids scheduled nightly that always end by midnight to help us get our sleep for work! We have enough people that if some can't raid every day someone else steps in.
So the core gamer definately exists, but if they define hard core by 20+ hours of gaming, I am sure there are way more of those in college than post college.
I can't understand why people complain about the quests. There are a fixed number of quest categories, and all quests will fall under them no matter how advanced. Collect 5 wolve's paws is just the same as collect the hands of 5 lords of molten core, one's just a bit harder than the other. Avenge the death of my husband kill quest at level 14 in the Barrens is ultimately the same as Kill Rend and i'll help you continue on your path to Onyxia atunement. Collecting glowy stuff in silithus and turning it in isn't much different from any other collection.
However, you have to look at the story of the quest you are doing, and put yourself in the game to truely enjoy it. Feel the joy of avenging a lost loved one's death. Yell at the screen when you vanquish Ragnaros (once again) after he called you a puny mortal, 'IN YOUR FACE FIRE MAN!'. Don't just play to get a bit more exp and some new ub3r l00t. In any case that loot will just make you look like all the other ub3r l00ters that came before you.
The game is fun. I've leveled to 60 doing quests and dungeons with my first character. I've leveled my second character by simply grinding on mobs and it can be faster than questing considering the run around time for quests slows you down and I had tons of rested exp from off-time.
There will never be any new types of quests, haven't found anything new since playing beta in EQ. However I find time to enjoy the little details the devs throw in for our amusement. There are some really funny quest lines that you miss by just clicking accept and then checking what item you need to collect.
I like Blizzard's mentality. I like their 'polish'. I enjoy their dungeons and encounters. What I can't understand is how their system and network engineers keep their jobs... but I guess that with enough money eventually they'll engineer the game to where Lag will just be a bad alt's name.
I agree with you, it is a great product marketed to above average savvy consumers. One drawback. It doesn't have GigE. If you fill that drive up with 160GB of data, you really want as fast a connection as possible to your pc.
Do I need to use a specific brand of Hair Gel? Do I need to spend big bucks on Salon type hair gel or would economy size no-name hair gel do the trick???
Maybe if the site wasn't destroyed in an internet traffic accident. Newsflash: The slashdot train runs over yet another site - website is in critical condition but doctors expect it to live once a day goes by and no one cares anymore.
Hence we are shown the power of the media to change the truth, then censor themselves, then to undo those changes at which point Mr. AvgJoeCitizen is so baffled that the truth loses any meaning.
Sony launched Betamax, Samsung launched VHS. One licensed their product to other vendors and the other didn't. Guess which? Sony hopefully learned from their mistakes in the 80's and plans to license their new technology to allow for better competition and pricing which is half the reason betamax failed. The other half is the fact that beta tapes could only hold 60 minutes while VHS tapes could hold a 2 hour movie which was a huge advantage and people flocked to VHS despite the better quality of Betamax.
We'll see how this plays out.
I would be willing to go further: I am ok with being forced to watch an ad as long as i'm allowed to skip the ad everytime it shows up again during the taping session. I would also like to be able to click a button on my remote control to let me rate the ad. The numbers 1-9 come to mind since they are already on the controller. Then similar ads to those that I rated as low won't be shown to me, or even better - go back to the advertisers and let them learn what really doesn't work for a certain demographic.
I live in NJ and have the following options:
Cablevision's optimum online, normally about $45 a month and I get 10-15mbs but that's cable so it's shared with my neighborhood, I have seen good burst downloads late at night but I'd say I average half that speed. They have a special for new customers $99 a month for cable tv, internet and IP phone for a year and that includes a free DVR for a year also.
Verizon's FIOS which uses Fiber to the home http://www22.verizon.com/content/consumerfios/pack ages+and+prices/packages+and+prices.htm
Prices and packages are in the link.
I guess i'm one of the luckier ones? It's fast enough but nothing is ever fast enough.
Flagship has nothing to do with sales volume. For example the Mercedes Benz Flagship is the S600 (or whatever 6xx it is now). It is not however their highest volume seller, but the most powerful most luxurious vehicle they offer no matter the cost.
I am just wondering as the word Merom sounds like hebrew and I know Intel has a large R&D center in Haifa. Consequently I wonder if the current hostilities there could cause delays in this chip developement. Of course I base it all on the name of the chip which may mean nothing.
Started to read article... low tech.. *snore*
Now if they had a small computer running windows media edition with the rider's peddeling powering it - then it would be an interesting read!
Still, they are in better shape than I hope to be.
That is something that bothered me all along. Granted the government has our information in databases, but why can that information be copied locally at any point in time? Shouldn't there be a guard against copying sensitive data to removable drives, laptops, etc? Couldn't this person work on the data at work or over a vpn instead of locally on his laptop?? I should get a job with the VA, seems like a cakewalk for IT.
My company post SOX doesn't even allow IPODs because you can potentially copy client data to them. That's if you know how to export from the database to a file in the first place.
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Valid point. Can I have his WoW account?
I use digsby www.digsby.com as my multi protocol instant messaging system on windows. It's pretty good and got me out of using pidgin.
Germany has experienced a population explosion of rats and mice who found new homes in subterranean tunnels that lead to many homes and businesses.
When they say gamer I always think of MMO's. Asumming that is wrong though - I would say they should split their demographics to 16-22 (old enough to do what they want-unrestricted by parental controls and have plenty of time to play games all the time), and a 23-34 bracket for those who love to play games (console, or pc) but are restricted by wage earning duties. My online guild that I raid with has an average age of 30 (of a sample 50-60 people) and we have raids scheduled nightly that always end by midnight to help us get our sleep for work! We have enough people that if some can't raid every day someone else steps in. So the core gamer definately exists, but if they define hard core by 20+ hours of gaming, I am sure there are way more of those in college than post college.
I can't understand why people complain about the quests. There are a fixed number of quest categories, and all quests will fall under them no matter how advanced. Collect 5 wolve's paws is just the same as collect the hands of 5 lords of molten core, one's just a bit harder than the other. Avenge the death of my husband kill quest at level 14 in the Barrens is ultimately the same as Kill Rend and i'll help you continue on your path to Onyxia atunement. Collecting glowy stuff in silithus and turning it in isn't much different from any other collection. However, you have to look at the story of the quest you are doing, and put yourself in the game to truely enjoy it. Feel the joy of avenging a lost loved one's death. Yell at the screen when you vanquish Ragnaros (once again) after he called you a puny mortal, 'IN YOUR FACE FIRE MAN!'. Don't just play to get a bit more exp and some new ub3r l00t. In any case that loot will just make you look like all the other ub3r l00ters that came before you. The game is fun. I've leveled to 60 doing quests and dungeons with my first character. I've leveled my second character by simply grinding on mobs and it can be faster than questing considering the run around time for quests slows you down and I had tons of rested exp from off-time. There will never be any new types of quests, haven't found anything new since playing beta in EQ. However I find time to enjoy the little details the devs throw in for our amusement. There are some really funny quest lines that you miss by just clicking accept and then checking what item you need to collect. I like Blizzard's mentality. I like their 'polish'. I enjoy their dungeons and encounters. What I can't understand is how their system and network engineers keep their jobs... but I guess that with enough money eventually they'll engineer the game to where Lag will just be a bad alt's name.
I agree with you, it is a great product marketed to above average savvy consumers. One drawback. It doesn't have GigE. If you fill that drive up with 160GB of data, you really want as fast a connection as possible to your pc.
Do I need to use a specific brand of Hair Gel? Do I need to spend big bucks on Salon type hair gel or would economy size no-name hair gel do the trick??? Maybe if the site wasn't destroyed in an internet traffic accident. Newsflash: The slashdot train runs over yet another site - website is in critical condition but doctors expect it to live once a day goes by and no one cares anymore.
Hence we are shown the power of the media to change the truth, then censor themselves, then to undo those changes at which point Mr. AvgJoeCitizen is so baffled that the truth loses any meaning.
I am invisible when I put my hands in front of my eyes. No one can see me! I learned this from my baby.
Sony launched Betamax, Samsung launched VHS. One licensed their product to other vendors and the other didn't. Guess which? Sony hopefully learned from their mistakes in the 80's and plans to license their new technology to allow for better competition and pricing which is half the reason betamax failed. The other half is the fact that beta tapes could only hold 60 minutes while VHS tapes could hold a 2 hour movie which was a huge advantage and people flocked to VHS despite the better quality of Betamax. We'll see how this plays out.
I would be willing to go further: I am ok with being forced to watch an ad as long as i'm allowed to skip the ad everytime it shows up again during the taping session. I would also like to be able to click a button on my remote control to let me rate the ad. The numbers 1-9 come to mind since they are already on the controller. Then similar ads to those that I rated as low won't be shown to me, or even better - go back to the advertisers and let them learn what really doesn't work for a certain demographic.
I live in NJ and have the following options: Cablevision's optimum online, normally about $45 a month and I get 10-15mbs but that's cable so it's shared with my neighborhood, I have seen good burst downloads late at night but I'd say I average half that speed. They have a special for new customers $99 a month for cable tv, internet and IP phone for a year and that includes a free DVR for a year also. Verizon's FIOS which uses Fiber to the home http://www22.verizon.com/content/consumerfios/pack ages+and+prices/packages+and+prices.htm
Prices and packages are in the link.
I guess i'm one of the luckier ones? It's fast enough but nothing is ever fast enough.
Flagship has nothing to do with sales volume. For example the Mercedes Benz Flagship is the S600 (or whatever 6xx it is now). It is not however their highest volume seller, but the most powerful most luxurious vehicle they offer no matter the cost.
I am just wondering as the word Merom sounds like hebrew and I know Intel has a large R&D center in Haifa. Consequently I wonder if the current hostilities there could cause delays in this chip developement. Of course I base it all on the name of the chip which may mean nothing.
I bet if they were naked the ad wouldn't look racist, just sexy! Sony needs to take some cues from Victoria's Secret ads. yum!
Started to read article... low tech.. *snore* Now if they had a small computer running windows media edition with the rider's peddeling powering it - then it would be an interesting read! Still, they are in better shape than I hope to be.
That is something that bothered me all along. Granted the government has our information in databases, but why can that information be copied locally at any point in time? Shouldn't there be a guard against copying sensitive data to removable drives, laptops, etc? Couldn't this person work on the data at work or over a vpn instead of locally on his laptop?? I should get a job with the VA, seems like a cakewalk for IT. My company post SOX doesn't even allow IPODs because you can potentially copy client data to them. That's if you know how to export from the database to a file in the first place.