Does it seem to anyone else that the graphics engine in this game already seems extremely aged?
I understand that MMOs have a longer development lifespan than most other kinds of games, but it seems like they started off with a crappy engine, threw some cell shading onto it, and then said "Ok, that looks decent enough, on to the rest!" It may also be an issue of not seeing the graphics in motion or something, but by and large, from the screenshots I've seen, it just seems like some crappy texture work with lines around every outlying polygon.
Again, I don't mean to nitpick, but you'd think that in today's cut-throat next-gen MMO development environment, they would have put a higher emphasis on better graphics.
Now, if they bust out an army of Google patent lawyers and start suing everything that has an input box and a submit button... then I'd have to agree. But for now, it could just be a brilliant plan to showcase how NOT evil Google is, and how RETARDED the patent process can be.
And besides... what if some malevolent entity decided to patent this before Google did? Then we'd all be in for a heap of trouble, because this other entity would be doing it just to troll patent infringement lawsuits all over the place. At least now Google could potentially prevent that kind of behavior... But again, goes to show how dumb the patent process really is.
While the disclaimer may be in there for FIOS, I have found that every single time I go to download huge files (as in, 13 gigabytes apiece), I consistently get my full 10mb down rate.
When I was on cable, it varied drastically depending on the time of day I was downloading. I have never had more consistent service speeds than I have on FIOS.
I think we can all agree that given the number of iPhones/iPods that are out there, somewhere, some moron said "Hey y'all, watch this!" before he poured gasoline on the phone and lit it on fire... Yes, we can agree on THAT as an "External Force."
However, in this instance, it seems that Apple is more than happy to classify these "External Forces" as normal phone usage! What's that? You talked on the phone for more than an hour? We are sorry, Apple cannot be held responsible for these external forces which are beyond our control.
"But, it's a phone!" you'll reply. What's that, you turned the device on? We are sorry, Apple cannot be held responsible for these external forces beyond our control.
Software that automatically changes menus or frequently-used options around as a "favor" to the user was bad UI practice five years ago in Windows and Office, and it's bad UI practice today in Firefox. Unfortunately, it's such a clever bad idea that it'll never go away.
That's not true at all... at least for me personally. I can say for certain that in Google Chrome, I only ever type in en to get to wikipedia, g to get to gmail, s to get to slashdot, fa for fark, fai for failblog, fac for facebook, etc. I find this feature highly useful, and then when I click "New Tab," I find the information presented there interesting. In Chrome, there are little boxes that have previews of the sites you frequent most, and I am finding that those rankings change place occasionally. I don't use that page to determine what site to visit, but it's interesting to me to see the rankings change month-to-month.
I would personally prefer not to know that my relative was surfing for goatse/tubgirl/2girls1cup/etc... People have some scary proclivities when it comes to sex.
I'd like to see TPB's revenue streams, and if they are actually profitable or even break-even in any way.
I mean, I can understand fighting against the MAFIAA in some respects, but this is getting ridiculous. It's like people just pirate for the sake of pirating, just to stick it to "the man" so to speak. But then you have to question why they started pirating in the first place? I mean, are they seriously denting retail sales all that much? It doesn't seem like game and movie companies are all that concerned overall, (films especially), and films are still earning tens and hundreds of millions of dollars on movie release weekends.
I am just saying, if they are trying to prove a point or communicate a message, there has to be a better way.
In the first expansion, they put into the game space-faring goat men who, although crash landing in an interstellar spaceship, end up walking around whacking things over the head with a wooden club.
It's not like they have Tolkien working their lore department...
See, but it's not just about the mission totals...
Maybe it's just me, but having 10 missions per race was perfect for me, because by the time I got to the end of the campaign, I ended up being sick of playing that particular race and was ready to move on to the next one. I am worried that by the time I get up to the 20th mission, I'm going to be ready to be done with the Terran campaign, and itching to try out the Zerg. You get to see all these cool units and abilities used, and the cool thing about Starcraft was that you could look forward to being able to create that mad awesome Protoss Carrier (or a fleet!).
Now we're going to have to sit around for another two years just waiting for the Zerg and Protoss campaigns to be released.
My coworker and I love every single one of your games. But we don't love your release dates.
Ever thought about the fact that the REASON you love every single Blizzard game is because they put more emphasis on quality than they do meeting a release date? In my experience in the software development world, if you want to release software with as few bugs as possible (which Blizzard actively strives for more than any other game company I've heard of), and as fun as possible (which requires insane amounts of iterative work with development and then testing), by your logic, they may as well not give a release date until the discs go gold...
I think they have to put a release date on there because the publisher (Vivendi) requires it, but I've never seen a company take so much leeway with those release dates, and I think we're all better off for it.
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I'm surprised twitter hasn't come up as an issue before this...
"just ruld guilty 4 life LOL pmita prison!"
And clearly, PE is making a difference in how fat children really are.
Clearly.
Does it seem to anyone else that the graphics engine in this game already seems extremely aged?
I understand that MMOs have a longer development lifespan than most other kinds of games, but it seems like they started off with a crappy engine, threw some cell shading onto it, and then said "Ok, that looks decent enough, on to the rest!" It may also be an issue of not seeing the graphics in motion or something, but by and large, from the screenshots I've seen, it just seems like some crappy texture work with lines around every outlying polygon.
Again, I don't mean to nitpick, but you'd think that in today's cut-throat next-gen MMO development environment, they would have put a higher emphasis on better graphics.
Can't find out a way to produce needles in a haystack in a haystack already full of needles.
(one of my FAVORITE desktop OS'es)
Protip: adding a disclaimer to your post doesn't make it look any less anecdotal.
"Want to come to my lab for some 'test'?"
That sounds like the opening line to a dreadful geek porn.
Bow chicka wow^2
I only pay for 10mb... I could pay an extra $5 a month and get 20mb, but I've never had a need for that much bandwidth, so I didn't bother.
Google only acquiring the patent is NOT evil.
Now, if they bust out an army of Google patent lawyers and start suing everything that has an input box and a submit button... then I'd have to agree. But for now, it could just be a brilliant plan to showcase how NOT evil Google is, and how RETARDED the patent process can be.
And besides... what if some malevolent entity decided to patent this before Google did? Then we'd all be in for a heap of trouble, because this other entity would be doing it just to troll patent infringement lawsuits all over the place. At least now Google could potentially prevent that kind of behavior... But again, goes to show how dumb the patent process really is.
While the disclaimer may be in there for FIOS, I have found that every single time I go to download huge files (as in, 13 gigabytes apiece), I consistently get my full 10mb down rate.
When I was on cable, it varied drastically depending on the time of day I was downloading. I have never had more consistent service speeds than I have on FIOS.
Wow, thanks for that warning.
*Scribbles in important notes book*
Never... turn 360 on side... in operation. Got it.
I think we can all agree that given the number of iPhones/iPods that are out there, somewhere, some moron said "Hey y'all, watch this!" before he poured gasoline on the phone and lit it on fire... Yes, we can agree on THAT as an "External Force."
However, in this instance, it seems that Apple is more than happy to classify these "External Forces" as normal phone usage! What's that? You talked on the phone for more than an hour? We are sorry, Apple cannot be held responsible for these external forces which are beyond our control.
"But, it's a phone!" you'll reply. What's that, you turned the device on? We are sorry, Apple cannot be held responsible for these external forces beyond our control.
Clearly, I am being sarcastic, but in all honesty, Apple could admit to some culpability in this instance... As other posters have mentioned, it's not like Apple was not already involved in a Recall of Batteries Used in Previous iBook and PowerBook Computers Due To Fire Hazard
Did I stress the part about FIRE HAZARD enough there?
sex and washing
There's an app for that! Or I'm just brainwashed by the iPhone commercials...
That must be what they lost the Chandrayaan-1!
Somebody accidentally hit the prototype stealth button, and POW, satellite gone.
Have you heard of EA?
From their perspective, mission accomplished and money well spent.
So what does that make a mac? O.o
Software that automatically changes menus or frequently-used options around as a "favor" to the user was bad UI practice five years ago in Windows and Office, and it's bad UI practice today in Firefox. Unfortunately, it's such a clever bad idea that it'll never go away.
That's not true at all... at least for me personally. I can say for certain that in Google Chrome, I only ever type in en to get to wikipedia, g to get to gmail, s to get to slashdot, fa for fark, fai for failblog, fac for facebook, etc. I find this feature highly useful, and then when I click "New Tab," I find the information presented there interesting. In Chrome, there are little boxes that have previews of the sites you frequent most, and I am finding that those rankings change place occasionally. I don't use that page to determine what site to visit, but it's interesting to me to see the rankings change month-to-month.
I would personally prefer not to know that my relative was surfing for goatse/tubgirl/2girls1cup/etc... People have some scary proclivities when it comes to sex.
Use different browsers for different purposes.
For example, use Google Chrome for your porn browsing, and then Firefox for your legit browsing.
In other words... Don't cross the streams!!
Moar liek FailPort amirite?!?!
I'd like to see TPB's revenue streams, and if they are actually profitable or even break-even in any way.
I mean, I can understand fighting against the MAFIAA in some respects, but this is getting ridiculous. It's like people just pirate for the sake of pirating, just to stick it to "the man" so to speak. But then you have to question why they started pirating in the first place? I mean, are they seriously denting retail sales all that much? It doesn't seem like game and movie companies are all that concerned overall, (films especially), and films are still earning tens and hundreds of millions of dollars on movie release weekends.
I am just saying, if they are trying to prove a point or communicate a message, there has to be a better way.
What were you expecting?!
In the first expansion, they put into the game space-faring goat men who, although crash landing in an interstellar spaceship, end up walking around whacking things over the head with a wooden club.
It's not like they have Tolkien working their lore department...
For those interested, the trailer is on YouTube already: here.
See, but it's not just about the mission totals...
Maybe it's just me, but having 10 missions per race was perfect for me, because by the time I got to the end of the campaign, I ended up being sick of playing that particular race and was ready to move on to the next one. I am worried that by the time I get up to the 20th mission, I'm going to be ready to be done with the Terran campaign, and itching to try out the Zerg. You get to see all these cool units and abilities used, and the cool thing about Starcraft was that you could look forward to being able to create that mad awesome Protoss Carrier (or a fleet!).
Now we're going to have to sit around for another two years just waiting for the Zerg and Protoss campaigns to be released.
My coworker and I love every single one of your games. But we don't love your release dates.
Ever thought about the fact that the REASON you love every single Blizzard game is because they put more emphasis on quality than they do meeting a release date? In my experience in the software development world, if you want to release software with as few bugs as possible (which Blizzard actively strives for more than any other game company I've heard of), and as fun as possible (which requires insane amounts of iterative work with development and then testing), by your logic, they may as well not give a release date until the discs go gold...
I think they have to put a release date on there because the publisher (Vivendi) requires it, but I've never seen a company take so much leeway with those release dates, and I think we're all better off for it.
Will we still be able to play multiplayer matches of StarCraft II with all three races?
Yes! From the beginning, StarCraft II will be a fully featured multiplayer game, and all three races will be available for competitive play.