This is good news for us all. Let's hope the REAL ID dies and stays dead. We don't need anything even remotely resembling a national ID card. It is completely unamerican. Good riddance.
For anyone who doesn't know, or who was looking forward to this game back then, this project was originally to be called MEO and was being done by Sierra. It's had a long road since then which put it in Turbine's hands and changed the name... as well as pretty much everything else about it. Here's a link to an old article about it.
http://haven.theonering.net/gaming/middleearth.htm l
and here is some info involving the axing of the entire original dev team:
http://thecan.org/in/me.html
Originally, this game was to be set in the 4th age (after the books, the time period which they would have the MOST freedom to do what they wanted). This was when Sierra was developing the game, back when it was called Middle-earth online. I want to say this was like 1998/1999, somwhere around there, not totally sure, but it's been a long time. At any rate, the original game was going to be something quite different from anything that was available then, and even anything now. What it has turned out to be is certainly MUCH different than originally planned. But the first dev team got axed because Sierra basically wanted an Everquest clone (as that was the big game at the time). They then sat on the title for about a year before a new dev team started work on it, which they were pretty tight-lipped about the game, no idea where they were going with it really, but ultimately Turbine acquired the rights from them. So this may be the 3rd iteration of this game. I am glad that it is finally coming out, have played the beta and am having fun in it, but I think ultimately I am going to be disappointed comparing it to what might have been when I was looking forward to the original Middle-Earth Online team's vision years ago....
I didn't say it's definately true, but it's not like I'm basing my life on this. The story is plausible, the way he presents it seems believable, therefore I BELIEVE he is telling the truth, despite it not being proven fact. My point is, so what if it isn't hard news? Does that really matter? And you act as if, even if I did vote for Bush, as though Kerry would have been a better choice. But to answer your question, I didn't vote for either of them, because frankly, they were both equally terrible choices.
I hardly see why the fact that there is no absolute proof that he was the one involved means that it shouldn't be posted here. No, it wasn't on a news site, but he does go into a lot of detail involving the story. Enough so that I have no reason to doubt him. Besides, he would have to be very desperate for attention to make up such a story, and if he did, he really should consider a career in writing, because it was quite enjoyable to read. It's a story that is of interest, and hence is perfectly worthy of a post on slashdot.
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This is good news for us all. Let's hope the REAL ID dies and stays dead. We don't need anything even remotely resembling a national ID card. It is completely unamerican. Good riddance.
For anyone who doesn't know, or who was looking forward to this game back then, this project was originally to be called MEO and was being done by Sierra. It's had a long road since then which put it in Turbine's hands and changed the name... as well as pretty much everything else about it. Here's a link to an old article about it. http://haven.theonering.net/gaming/middleearth.htm l
and here is some info involving the axing of the entire original dev team:
http://thecan.org/in/me.html
Originally, this game was to be set in the 4th age (after the books, the time period which they would have the MOST freedom to do what they wanted). This was when Sierra was developing the game, back when it was called Middle-earth online. I want to say this was like 1998/1999, somwhere around there, not totally sure, but it's been a long time. At any rate, the original game was going to be something quite different from anything that was available then, and even anything now. What it has turned out to be is certainly MUCH different than originally planned. But the first dev team got axed because Sierra basically wanted an Everquest clone (as that was the big game at the time). They then sat on the title for about a year before a new dev team started work on it, which they were pretty tight-lipped about the game, no idea where they were going with it really, but ultimately Turbine acquired the rights from them. So this may be the 3rd iteration of this game. I am glad that it is finally coming out, have played the beta and am having fun in it, but I think ultimately I am going to be disappointed comparing it to what might have been when I was looking forward to the original Middle-Earth Online team's vision years ago....
I didn't say it's definately true, but it's not like I'm basing my life on this. The story is plausible, the way he presents it seems believable, therefore I BELIEVE he is telling the truth, despite it not being proven fact. My point is, so what if it isn't hard news? Does that really matter? And you act as if, even if I did vote for Bush, as though Kerry would have been a better choice. But to answer your question, I didn't vote for either of them, because frankly, they were both equally terrible choices.
I hardly see why the fact that there is no absolute proof that he was the one involved means that it shouldn't be posted here. No, it wasn't on a news site, but he does go into a lot of detail involving the story. Enough so that I have no reason to doubt him. Besides, he would have to be very desperate for attention to make up such a story, and if he did, he really should consider a career in writing, because it was quite enjoyable to read. It's a story that is of interest, and hence is perfectly worthy of a post on slashdot.