Originally posted by PieRad

All you pro F2P'ers, why do you care if someone exploit, all they do is get the gear faster, kinda like how F2P works, those willing to pay get it faster, but they don't "win" anything according to you, so why do you feel the exploiters win something?

Just because they exploit doesn't mean you lose, you'll just get the purples slower.

Hypocrisy if you ask me.

There's always the game's economy to consider. And plain sportsmanship.

Also: I run my main games from the SSD. PS2 is a lot more enjoyable that way :P.

Anyway: Running the memory at it's rated stock speed? Sounds interesting, I'd have to look into that.

Thanks for your comments :).

Hey guys and girls,

I was wondering:

If I had 500 euros to spend on component upgrades, which would give me a noticeable perfomance boost (If any)?

Main games I play:

Planetside 2

World of Tanks

My current system:

Operating System

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1

CPU

Intel Core i5 2500K @ 3.30GHz (Running at 4GHzk)

Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology

RAM

8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 488MHz (9-9-9-24)

Motherboard

ASUSTeK Computer INC. SABERTOOTH P67 (LGA1155)

Graphics

SMS24A350H (1920x1080@60Hz)

2048MB GeForce GTX 670 (ASUStek Computer Inc)

Hard Drives

112GB OCZ-AGILITY3 ATA Device (SSD)

466GB Hitachi HTS725050A9A364 ATA Device (SATA)

I think it has to be stated once again:

WoW is down TO 8.3m subs, not down 8.3m. There's a world of difference.

That said, it still goes extremely strong.

Originally posted by Zinzan

Originally posted by MarkJacobs

Originally posted by Gyrus

Originally posted by colddog04
...

 

What I found disturbing more than people getting upset by the thread spam was the people that would cry out that the mods hated CU and they had an agenda against it. They claimed the mods created a culture of trolls. They blamed them for not allowing them to "attack the trolls." It got really ugly there more than a few times.

This is a tactic I warned MMORPG.com about... and I have some really interesting links on it... which I probably shouldn't post  13861848 / 4182013

 

Let's just say that what goes on in forums is often governed by moderators.  The problem that often occurs in developer forums is there is a tendancy to support the 'fans' (because after all - they are saying nice things!) at the expense of the critics.  The problem is, IMHO, in game development you need those critics.

So what I have seen in the past is the Developer Forums became a haven for the 'fans' and MMORPG.com forum became a haven for the 'trolls' (critics).

 

 

For what it's worth, I want our backers to voice their concerns/disagreements. I was in the comment section last night and I told the folks that we will have a strict "Don't be a jackass" policy. I will apply it to anyone who is not helping things along. I want to hear opinions from all sides but what I don't want nor will I tolerate, people flaming each other, us, making threats, sexual suggestions towards CSE staff, etc. Critics != Trolls usually. I just will not tolerate rude behavior on our developer forums. 

These aren't just alpha/beta testers, these are the people funding your game. 

While strong insults and abusive behaviour etc Im sure no one can have any real complaints with, you can't stop them complaining....they are paying for this game to be made, you have to listen to them. Gag them at your peril, you asked them for money, you have to put up with a certain amount more than you'd usually tolerate.

Caution about overly strong forum moderation, it could be the death of your game before it ever reaches beta.

There is so much wrong in that reply, I don't even know where to begin.

I'lle just TL;DR: Rude behaviour should never be tolerated.

Originally posted by Kyleran

Originally posted by -Zeno-

One word: Progression

You can see your progression and see others progression (prowess points).  In DF1.0 you could not see progress.  All you saw in DF1.0 was dirt in your face as you lay on the ground about to be ganked and no way to know if they were better or worse than you skill wise.

As someone with 15k prowess that regularly kills players with 30k or more porwess.  The new game is a godsend!

So what I can draw from this is that Progression (prowess points) doesn't really matter at the end of the day, so you meant to say progression of your character isn't really that important, and the game provides you a way to prove that to each other.

Or put more simply, player skill is a much bigger deciding factor in a fight rather than actual progression of your character.

 

That's exactly what I read out of it.

Originally posted by Zaphear

Originally posted by MadDemon64

Originally posted by erinys

- it's not neverwinter nights

- it's not dungeons and dragons

- made by cryptic

- published by PWO

- pay 2 win

 

Would advise everyone to steer clear, its a bad shallow game as are all the cryptic games.

 

1.  Might as well complain that Star Wars: The Old Republic is a bad game only on the grounds that its not Knights of the Old Republic 3 (which by the way, would have VASTLY improved the game, as it is a good game, but a bad MMO).

2.  Um, yes it is.  If it is officially licensed by the owners of D&D to have the D&D title and has said title, it is a D&D game.  Love it or hate it, it is still a D&D game, just like Wand of Gamelon and Faces of Evil are Zelda games.  Just suck it up and take it like a man (or woman).

3.  By that logic, City of Heroes was a bad game because it was made by Cryptic.  Except it wasn't.  In fact, it was the best game NCSoft had until they shut it down.

4.  Logical fallacy.  Moving on.

5.  If you looked at the cash shop, you will see that there are no pay 2 win items.  No uber-loot for sale, no gamebreaking anything.  Do you even know what pay 2 win even means?

You obviously haven't looked at the item shop then because you can buy the best armor in the game there..

Yikes, heh.

What a weird topic. Basically a rant, without any kind of substance.

Oh wait, I just remembered where I'm posting :).

When did outrageously overpriced items became the norm for F2P?

Good way to kill yourself as a company, that's for sure.

-Don't be stupid

-Don't be scared

Originally posted by Hjamnr

Originally posted by Siveria
I've played the Sea version, its pretty much just a generic mmorpg now, I lost interest pretty fast in it myself, it just was boring, since it just felt like every other run of the mil mmorpg. What happened to the gunner class, and such that was in a older version of ro2? did they scrap the older version for this generic mmorpg version or?

You want to know why?  This is why: http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/5679242#5679242

Specifically this:

Originally posted by Siveria

Personally I still feel the game is vaporware till we see an actual playable alpha or something. I personally dislike kickstarter it just seems like a scam since a large majority of the games are like CU, nothing but concepts and art and no actual game in any form to show yet. Yet people seem to throw money at them with no promise that anything will ever come of it.

The attitude that you won't support developers when they are trying to create something new, just because they don't have any playable betas already made, is why games are homoginized into "generic mmorpgs" by the publishers/VC's they go to, for the funding you wouldn't pony up.

I beg to differ:

Developers create generic "crap" simply because we throw money at it regardless.

Now, if you prefer spending money on ideas without any kind of guarantees, thats great. In fact, there's businesses just DYING to get their hand on people like you :).

Me? I'lle wait for something more solid before I start spending. I've already seen some kickstarters waisting the cash on anything but the game.

I'm quite happy I cancelled my preorder last month. I wasn't too sure at that time, but I am now.

That said, I hope they get their shit together ([mod edit]).

Originally posted by Rhinotones

Being an Aussie, would you be able to explain to me what justifies EA being the worst company in the history of America in your opinion?

It's a "contest" that's pretty much rigged by gamer trolls, hence a game publisher beating banks and whatnot :P.