All that's fine and good but it's hubris to think that AMD drives the market.

It's quite the opposite in reality - software, nay, games, drive the PC hardware market. Always has, always will.

As soon as you've got a CPU-bound game that can't run at 60 frames on ultra-max because AMD can't or won't step up.. nevermind, let me put it another way.

When Crysis 12 or CoD iteration 27 comes out and nobody can run it on max then AMD will focus on making faster CPUs with more cores. Until then, there is simply no need. The desktop PC just doesn't NEED more cores and faster CPUs with the games that run on it at the moment.

In fact, I'll make another prophetic statement: when the XBox 720 (or whatever they call it) comes out, PCs will start taking the next big leap. Because then the big production houses (EA, Activision, etc..) will be able to target higher end PCs and still target the console without having two sets of textures or rewriting all their shader logic etc..

Guess not.

I agree, the review is pretty spot on.

Originally posted by Cuathon

Originally posted by Kyleran

Playing games for fun is so 2005, shredding them to pieces on the forums is where it's at.

The reason all the vets go to forums is because they provide the content missing in MMOs :)

Well put. I hadn't expected anything from this thread.

WoW is fun. The others aren't.

Originally posted by xBlackBoxX

Originally posted by BilboDoggins

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Nope. Sounds to me like he has a grievance that he itemized and articulated nicely. I think a lot of people on this site could learn a thing or two from this guy.

Not all software is like this. I work for a very large company that's primary business is software and they strongly believe that software made by small teams is the best way to make something useful and profitable.

Every company I've heard that works like this pays a heavy price for it in the end. I've worked for one of those too. Most software engineers around my age know of one.

Originally posted by Cameo3

Alright, last question. What about the idea that 70-80% of WoW's player base is in the Asian regions?

Seriously, who the eff is this guy?

That particular horse has been dead for years.

I can't speak for anyone else but I left because the major good city was sickeningly bland and the major bad city was something straight out of a horror movie.

The other thing for me was the animations were terrible. Also, the game didn't perform as well as it should have on my system.

That's all I can remember.

I moved the top row to the bottom ala WoW and all other similar games. I use pretty much the same keybinds on all MMO games to keep from having to retrain my finger memory.

Top Center:

F1 - F5 = short term, frequently used debuffs or other cooldowns I need to keep an eye on

` = my opener

S+1 - S+6 = various less freqently used spells like melee skills on a ranged character.

Bottom Center:

1 - 6 = most used items in order of use (if I have a fairly static rotation) or priority.

R = an interrupt

F = some form of CC

V = something that breaks CC done to me

A+1 - A+3 = CC and/or AoE

Left (top to bottom):

C+1 - C+6 =  buffs

S+T = backup to below

T = potion or whatever "oh shit healmyself" spell I've got

S+G = alternate food/drink.

G = food/drink or whatever recuperation/rest spell I have

H = fast travel / hearthstone

Mouse:

Autorun = buttom 5

Walk Backwards = button 4

Middle = nothing, ever.

Originally posted by Chieftan

Originally posted by stealthbr
Difficult to say at the very least. So far, every class that I have played feels awesome. Right now, I'm focusing on my Mercenary but I don't really like Mako. She's too ethical for my tastes lol.

My agent always goes light unless there's an option to kill.

I pretty much go light always.

Looks like Agent is in the lead.

Originally posted by Chieftan

Agent vs. Trooper--I seriously don't need all that soldier talk "Get busy livin' or get busy dyin' and other assorted war movie cliches!"

 

I hear you there. For me, the Agent was an easy choice because I really dig the whole secret agent thing. I'm like a semi-evil James Bond.

I'm trying an Imperial Agent.

I've read a lot of speculation with regards to how many of what classes there are. I think we could all use some real numbers.

Thanks in advance for voting.

There?

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/115

So you're grinding away at your MOG dejour while munching on some wicked awesome corn chips and some of your mom's special seven layer bean dip. You're having a heated debate about the ins and outs of Newtonian Physics or the 2004 Boston Redsox, or the downsides of the swinger lifestyle or whatever and you get a little too animated and drop a dollup in between the I and the U keys. Since it's just not easy orating your life's story to complete strangers without your two favorite vowels, you decide this will not stand - you can NOT abide this beanery infraction.

You must do something. 

I finally realized today that the whole reason I keep doing the whole quit-restart-quit MMO cycle is because I greatly enjoy doing group stuff with friends (or guildies) but keep getting turned off by how shallow people are.

In WoW atleast, I always end up spending the better part of 2 weeks getting caught up gear wise only to realize that, in the end, those people I'm playing with are not actual people - they're manifestations of pure unadulterated greed who don't give a rat's fuck about me. This is a hard pill to swallow.

At least in Darkfall I was able to participate in guild everything after a week or so of grinding - I'm sure that wouldn't be the case anymore now that everyone has had 2+ years to bot their ways to uber-l33tness.

/sigh

I'm still waiting on a good game that has good graphics, dungeon crawls, and good people. Kinda like old OLD DAoC or pre-Ren. UO.

Originally posted by Sovrath

You guys do know that there is a whole world out there with experiences that completely surpass video game right?

You have over 10,000 posts.

...

Ten thousand.

Yep. I'm waiting around. Bored with everything.

Kyleran, DNS isn't just a misspelling, it's a totally different term. DNS means Domain Network System/Service. It's the think that allows you to type in mmorpg.com instead of the IP address that mmorpg.com resolves to. Them saying this is a DNS attack, although incorrect, is plausible - someone would modify the game's DNS host record thus rendering the client inable to the connect. The writer should change it.