Originally posted by mari3k

Originally posted by Purutzil

The damage is already done. Changes really aren't likely to be enough to warrent a real spike in 'enjoyment' for the game. The only 'fix' really would be to take away the AH or make it far less viable and practically redo the entire item system... which won't happen since it would screw up the few players actually playing still.

True, PoE just destroyed D3 and splitt in the face of blizzards greed policy. Many of my friends are so upset about D3 that they refuse to buy SC2-HotS. 

What dimension are you from, exactly?

Oh, and your friends are toons if theyre passing on HotS. Really.

Originally posted by CalmOceans

Originally posted by BizkitNL

Now the CEO's salary is used as an argument? Wow.

When someone uses the argument that they are just "trying to make money", yes it is, ESPECIALLY when developers using microtransations always said that F2P was needed for games to survive, when it obviously has only one reason, make as much money as humanly possible disregarding your consumers who are completely against this idea EA put forth.

When a company said:

"adding microtransactions is the only way for our games to survive and we can only compete by adding microtransactions"

I might have said...."ok, I guess you have to do what you have to do".......but when a CEO is making 6 million a year, then no, I don't respect this decision at all, it is nickle and diming your consumer, completely against the interest of the playerbase.

In that case: Stop buying gas for your car, stop buying aspirines, stop buying diapers for your kids. Because guess what: All those companies have high-salary CEOs.

Judge the game by its gameplay. Not by its developers or publishers.

Gaming is about games.

Originally posted by Isturi

Originally posted by Loktofeit

Originally posted by TheScavenger

Almost everyone who plays EVE has 2+ accounts, most people I see tend to have 3...but not sure if that is the norm.

So it is more like around 250k, which isn't actually very much at all.

Source?

I mean, since you repeatedly state that as fact, you've got a source you can share, right, Scav?

 

lmao come on now there is no way you can denie that players do shadowbox or in anouther words run two accounts at the same time. Other MMO's allow it like hmm lets say WoW they love to let players run 2 or more accounts at one time. So I can very easy believe that EVE players will do the same.

Can you prove that they dont?

Well, yours truly has been running 1 account for several years now, so the number is already wrong :P.

That said, I've met people running 10 paid accounts, so it could be even less unique people.

(Does it really matter? I think not.)

Now the CEO's salary is used as an argument? Wow.

Way to completely overdo yourselves in your EA hate. Get a life already.

An LFG tool is great. The reason WoW made it cross-server is to remedy low-to-mid-level population issues when trying to do dungeons.

Atleast.....I think they did. I mean...it makes sense.

That said, I don't believe GW2 needs cross-server. 

Originally posted by Shubawkss
The guy from the Playstation conference said they're making an appearance at PAX for Diablo III PS3/4 version. I don't really think it's anything else.

Yeah, let's mysteriously announce something that we already announced officially?

Come on...

Originally posted by DavisFlight

I hated vanilla WoW because it was the most anti social, casual, linear, hand holding, easy MMORPG out at the time.

Why would I go back to it, just because WoW has gotten even MORE casual over the years?

You're not making any sense.

If you hated it back then, I'm assuming you stopped playing back then as well? So....if that's true, why are you posting here? The OP is obviously asking his question to people that loved Vanilla WoW and hate it's current state?

But Ford....Sergey sed he was sowwy!

I tend to come back after each expansion.

So yeah, I'm playing it once again. Last time, this time, I swear! Honest!

Heh...

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)

Tested on:2/22/2013 11:55:43 PM

Score:7883

Average Framerate:67.072

Performance:Extremely High

 -Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

Screen Size: 1920x1080

Graphics Presets: Maximum

General

-Improve overall graphic quality. : Enabled

-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Disabled

-Use low-detail models on distant objects to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled

-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Disabled

-Smooth edges. (Anti-aliasing) : Enabled

-Increase transparent lighting quality. : Enabled

-Grass Quality : High

Shadows

-Use low-detail models on shadows to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled

-Display : All

-Shadow Resolution : High: 2048 pixels

-Shadow Cascading : High

-Shadow Softening : High

Texture Detail

-Texture Filtering : High

-Anisotropic Filtering : High

Effects

-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Enabled

-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Enabled

-Effects While in Motion : Display All

-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : High

-Glare : Normal

Cinematic Cutscenes

-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

System:

Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120830-0333)

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz

8168.887MB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670(VRAM 4042 MB) 9.18.0013.1090

I knew something was wrong when I noticed Gamespy didn't put up new articles.

Scratch one from my daily routine :(.

Originally posted by Scilly

Originally posted by MarkJacobs

Originally posted by Scilly

Originally posted by MarkJacobs

Originally posted by Storm_Fireblade

Originally posted by MarkJacobs

I am genuinely excited about what the backers and CSE can do over the next few years.

Well, we will create the best RvR experience in the most immersive world ever, of course! *looking around* No, I see no hype here :-)

LOL, if you ever see me say that, please feel free to throw things at me. :)

mark FFS take sunday off and dont burn yourself out before dev even begins!!!! <3

Thanks but I'm going into the office shortly to work on the levels for MoO and final cleanup of tomorrow's post. I thank you for your kind words though.

 

 

NPS MJ, your the only dev imo that has ever given so much info and explantion prior to a project going ahead. I also think your allowing people to troll you to much but i undertsand your reluctance to ignore them and actually answer them. This makes the people that care respect you more so Kudos to you sir /bow

Get a room, you two.

Originally posted by Normandy7
Warhammer Online manipulated by EA, Camelot Unchained has nothing to do with EA. Yeah I'm supporting CSE.

EA was to blame for the blatant class balance issues?

Sure, sure.

Spat out my coffee. It's old, I know, but it's so damn true:

http://www.darklegacycomics.com/368.html

PoE is not an mmo.

In fact, and I quote the PoE developers:

"Path of Exile is an online Action RPG...."

Now, anyone that STILL says it's an MMO should be straight-up slapped on the noggin.

Images speak louder than words (courtesy Rock, Paper Shotgun :)):