Originally posted by DeathTouch

Originally posted by King_Kumquat

RIFT and other bad copy cat games are not getting slammed because there are some people out there who like them. These companies and possibly people looking to pitch new games are being asked (by a worthwhile public) to just stop reusing old ideas. It's almost to the point of theft, but there's the excuse (Well how else am I supposed to make my warrior charge into an enemy and stun them other than doing it exactly like how WoW did it?) that it's just too common to avoid.

Yet there are a lot of games who avoid doing this. Some get praised, some get canned. Okay most get canned.

Still RIFT should be held accountable for their copying. 

Those who are saying avoid this game aren't doing so because there are people out there who don't mind the unflinching rip-off copies; it's because we expect more from developers who claim to be doing something new or innovative.

This article paints a really one sided picture.

This is a perfect exacmple of what the article is discussing. i've been gaming on PCs since the 8086 16Mhz days. every game since then has been a "ripoff" of the game before it. what you state here is an opinion, an opinion you push on 1 game you dislike. do you go into wow threads and post its a ripoff as well, because it is. do you go into battlefield 2142 threads and post its a ripoff cause it is, and CoD, Unreal, Splintercell. they are all knockoffs. SO, why is it you choose this game to put your HATE towards? cause so many of us like it? thats its successful beyond all of the hate towards it? i mean this article isnt even about RIFT and yet you came here just to hate on the game.

 

As I said in a post above,  "If you cant stop flaming and trolling a game you dont like, i think its time to put the mouse and keyboard away and go try something new for a change."

 

Please people, can we not just agreee that everyone has an asshole, like an opinion, and like an opinion they both stink somebody(s)?

In most countries this is called treson and is punishable by death....I think you know where I stand on it. :D

Originally posted by Muppetier

Originally posted by Arulin

*begs the blood God "Ed Boon" to send us more hard core titles to kill these damn casural games and the accursed lamers who play them*

 

16XP away from level 8, come on strawberries grow quicker, i need that burger bar.

 

 Go back and play with your "Wii Wii" lamer.

*begs the blood God "Ed Boon" to send us more hard core titles to kill these damn casural games and the accursed lamers who play them*

Well seems Blizzard has once again overlooked talient that their team could of seriously used....Excuse me while I look at Roit to see what they have plans of coming out with...and Blizzard, go the way of dead gaints like Capcom please.

As for that comment WSIMike, Arenanet dosen't have to follow the WoW footsteps, they got a groove all thier own and a non-stat (no int, str, or other trash) based system all in a buy - to - play system. I'm looking forward to the story continuing 250 years after Eye of the North, WoW so stall in the storyline that it makes me thankful they aren't planning a "World of Starcraft". Besides, I got sick of WoW's one side bias development, Horde horde horde.... I think I'll go join Mr Murphy at the Vomit Bar.

Arenanet kick Blizzards ass please like you did EQ.

I agree , wow is too old and stell. Maybe GW2 will change the layout of MMOs, what I've seen of it....I am going to ban WoW and salute the returning King of MMOs, ArenaNet. The chance to play a Char like Goblins look so vain.

Black Isle and Wizards are the gods of RPG back in the hayday, unlike now where Square "Suck"it is produsing trash rpgs like a Bull produses cowpie. I welcome Interplay to come back into the rpg world and BEG them to team with Wizards of The Coast again. MTG online damit I want to play a counter-discard ( blue black mad jack) mage in an rp not a card game! Fallout Online will be the test to see if I lobby for it.

Yet another reason why Nintendo needs to go the way of Sega....Epic fail!

Sure, protect kids, right, and I'm Jerry Springer......Pedo is everywhere, sex is every where, because the money is there supporting it. Plain and simple, and Blizzard just hates getting money....So please Blizzard save us from the takes on Dreni screawing a blood elf....Please, we know this is just a PR stunt.

*goes back to life outside of MMOs and the PR stunts*

LOL, you folks crack me up. Ok, A+, Cisco, and Net+ are still rare. The reg hack is a nice one, it can help sometimes. Frankly, if you have the cash you can ditch the latency. As for the DSL vs T1....Can you get a 39ms ping on WoW over DSL, I think not. The Megs that ATT/Quest/Verzion keeps selling you dumb ill-eddies out there has nothing to do with true speed, dsl and cable both are on what is called a ring/ star/ring hybred topology. T1 is on a more direct network configuration called a star topology, shorter wait time for the server. Hint the fact you get a 39 ~ 60 ms reponce rate on a T1 over 150~300 ms+ on dsl or cable.  With a nic on it own cpu you can cut your ms by 20~. Thus on a T1 you can get 40 or less, on dsl even with a Killer you can't. 

Ozmodan and xoring:

You both failed your A+ certs didn't you, just a point, multi-processors off-loading processes is a good thing and having the software (the drivers you nit-wits) to tell which processor to off-land to is VERY good. Don't talk down unless you know what you are talking about.

Prince Arulin has spoken.

Ok, hate to crash on this bashfest, Sylvene got a point. Here a nice list of bottlenecks that cuase lag:

Harddrive (if you are not running SSD or SCSI 160 your a lag bag)

Video card (not running at least a a card with 512 of ddr2 , welcome to being a lag bag)

On-board NICs (F MOTHER LAG BAG)

AND THE KING OF LAG .... DSL or Cable period, shell out for a t1 or go as far as a OC48 if you want to do 40 vs 40 battlegrounds in WoW without a lick of lag. If you can shell for a killer high-end nic then you can afford a T1. Get something that the killer can actural excel on.

BTW, black/Art decks are about to become the decks to beat in MTG.

With MSN / Comcast merger happening, with Verizon getting a way with stuff here in the states that the EU would lay in a multi-Mills lawsuit on them for....The gaming biz wants to do what?! Ok, it offical I'm going back to pen and paper D&D and Magic The Gathering, long live Wizards of the Coast.

Amen to that Erictlewis......The first developer who gose full M or even better NA-17 on mmo will have my WoW cash, especially if they don't go and lop-side towards a faction like WoW has with the horde in cata.

Ok, good stuff.....Now when I'm I going to see a 21 and over server of WoW with all the friles of seeing my black arrow pop someone's head like a pimple. Now that we have the kiddies in thier own sandbox I want a blood bath.

and no , I never got fired becuase when I screawed up, I went into red alert and corrected my mistakes begging the users forgiviness.

Adding to this, I'm SOOOO DAMN MOTHER *DONKEY BRAY* SICK OF HOW GAME DEVELOPERS GET A WAY WITH MURDER.

If I were to tell my user base "Get over it, it our game we do what we want" bull*doNKEY BRAY* , I would be fired on the spot. Ask any of the 160,000 senior citizans who play professional bridge at ACBL what hell "Richard Oshlag" would burn any developer who would dare as such things to the customers.

BTW, I no longer work for ACBL but I can tell you, Game developers are the redneck of developers and deserve hell I would get for it!

Jon Wood, and to all you other whinny pussy "Game" developers out there, get over your egos!!!!! You guys make the rest of us developers look bad. Yes, I am a fully seasoned Java/Flex developer with back-end database experience and oh yea you dorks, I have papervision 3d and OpenGl experience for you "Game" developers rock stars who mifght be perparing a flame backdraft. You jokers make me sick with this absurd whiinnnnneeee. Go back to basics, "How to feed and care for your users" you dumb #$@@!. You develop bad logic, bad code, perpare for user revenge!!!! As every other developer dose. Either that or put that gun to your heads and pull the trigger for developers who have FAR GREATER ABILITIES THEN YOUR JOKE *DOCKEY BRAY* . I been in the field for 13(started back in 1997) years, and the users/players either worshop you like a Incan God or hate you for your dismal excuse for code. Fix it so that everything is to spec, or there is always the 38 (one of my favorite guns) to your mouth or *dockey Bray* off at least into networking along with the rest of the I.S wannabes. 

Development in general isn't for the weak or faint of heart. There is a reason why Myst developers called programming, Game Hell.