All Posts by Darthorious

Originally posted by iduums

Being a CS Manager i can honestly say thats above average, and i'm in New Jersey.  We start at 20K a year.  At 12 bucks an hour that turns out to be about 23K a year.

I'm sure they get really good perks as well

 

You prolly lucky to get 7-8 an hour for McDonalds, and yes todeswulf i want to super size my order.

 

My question is what are the chances of getting overtime in a situation like that.

 

My current job I get paid less than that however I could work 16 hours a day seven days a week due to overtime avaliability.  In fact at one point I was working 20 hour days and had to slow down due to the headaches I was litterally getting from it lol...

 

But ya after taxes and rent with no overtime your looking at a total of around 300 for food gas and car insurance lol, you would be lucky now days to have enough food for the month for that price.  Maybe they want high school kids.

What your not really a Warrior!?

 

It's the ban stick for you geek!

I take it you guy's haven't played in quite a while lol...

 

No more CTD's chunking is minimal and the only lag I get now is the hick-up when someone enters your chunk.  PvP is just about fixed, everything is bind on equip now so crafters are happy, most people hate the bind on pick-up they added to all the rare items.  The population has started to steadly rise again.  I was actually surprised they continued with the server merge plans, as now I'm worried they might have to split them again down the road.

Originally posted by Reithal

Good article and one of the games that came to mind was Shadowbane. I recall this game getting some hype with my friends about the PvP perspective however, the game had many bugs, server issues and kept crashing to desktop constantly. In the end it was because of these reasons my guildmates and I left the game. This was at release, and I can't speak for the game as to what it has become cause I simply don't know if it has improved. One game that I never had these issues with was Final Fantasy XI. I still come back to play this game even after all these years. Apart from being a fan of the game, it has been very stable.

I agree FFXI was my first MMO when it released in the US and had a huge time sink compared to WoW.

 

I have gone back to that game several times now as I have never had a single bug occur in that game, it's graphic-ly a beautiful game, sure not life like more cartoonish but none the less it's very easy on the eyes.

 

I've often wondered when they will release a FFXI-2 so to speak.  From what I hear it's currenttly in the works but will be quite some time before it's ready to be officially announced. (or so I was told)

 

Anyway I know a ton of people who are going to warhammer if it lives up to the developers hype.  In fact every single person I know that plays MMO's in my area are going to buy warhammer when it comes out.  Hopefully there will be a downloadable version lol.

All I know was SWG was the second MMO I played and I loved it.

Cities attacking each other, destroying bases, watching gun fights in the cantina.

I played from the original release up to the CU.

The CU broke the game for me literally.  I couldn't play because lag was at about 0.5FPS on my comp. after the CU.

So eventually I went to WOW and in under three weeks I had literally everything maxed in WOW including running end game raids.  1 Week later I said wow, this is way to easy and boring.

So after I heard of the NGE I tried that for 6 months and couldn't believe how bad it was.  They might as well called it SWG for the mentally impaired.  It was easier than WoW.  The end game I was soloing everything and hardly even getting touched.  PVP lasted about 5 seconds at max. with a bunch of whinny kids.

So I made a crafter ground it out in just a 3 day time period only to realize you can't actually craft anything that sells due to drops off low end mobs being better than the highest crafted items in game.

Loved the original, hated the NGE as it was nothing but a dumbed down version of WoW which I thought could never happen from any game.  WoW handed everything to you on a gold plate.  Original SWG not only did you have to find your food you had to make the plate as well.  NGE hell they just feed you the food too, what a waste.

heh...

I use to play games non-stop from the time the atari came out up to the super nintendo days. 

Myself and one other friend beat every single game released by nintendo (for the original nintendo) that was available in the US.  It was a fierce competition between the two of us.  This eventually led into our school work in high school.  Both of us were pretty much F students.  After we started the whole competition thing, we were straight A's.  And on top of it we worked at the same place 40 hours a week and well our boss loved us as we made him a lot of money trying to beat each other even at our job..

Eventually because of this I got to work with NASA and several other agencies which I can't disclose.

All because of a stupid so called "Video game addiction" me and a friend of mine had.  The most amazing part I never went to a day of college in my life and was offered a job as a prof. at a state university because of my background.  My only response was, "Sorry I ain't no teacher, I'm in it for the competition"

If anyone is wondering my age well I'm 34.  Have owned every system released, yes even the CD-i,  but after the PS2 and xbox being junk IMO I decided no more game counsels they all pretty much have junk games anymore.  Sure the counsels have potential but the game programmers suck so I'll stick with the old comp.

Now days I just have a "regular" job, no bills, and work 12 hour night shifts. 

Therefore I'm up all night and sleep all day.  On my days off, I can either cruise the local wall-mart, watch info-mercials,  or play online video games that can't be beat. Therefor saving me extra money for when I decide to retire, as opposed to buying every PS2 game and beating it.

Addicted? Maybe to competition but all in all because of nintendo I ended up with a heck of a background. 

Oh and my friend he chickened out and went to college.  I see him very rarely anymore but when I do I usual greet him with "I think I beat you", his response "S-T-*-U"  My response, "I told you college was a bad idea, it just slowed you down, so how much do you owe yet?"

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Originally posted by Holyavenger1

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Originally posted by Admin

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Originally posted by Sentime

Heh dream on.  This site runs ads for things NCsoft considers "illegal" btw.

The title of this column should be, "FBI shuts down L2Extreme operation.  Investigation ongoing."  They didn't stop much.

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To make it really clear selling virtual currency is NOT illegal in any sense of the definition.  For something to be illegal it has to violate government's law.  Software piracy on the other hand is illegal, very illegal in fact with penalties in the US being up to 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine (Title 17 of U.S.C.).  Copyright laws are also upheld across the world in most civilized nations.

Virtual currency trading is a breach of private contract and would only be heard in a civil case (ie NCSoft vs IGE, etc).  When a LAW is broken (ie something illegal was done) then it becomes (The State of California vs xxx or The United States of America vs xxx, etc, etc).

To my knowledge there are no US laws (or laws in any other nations) that prohibit the sale of virtual currency or items.  MMORPG.com would never advertise for a company that did anything illegal...ever.

 

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Pssst. Breaching a private contract IS illegal. Otherwise, you couldn't be held responsible in front of a civil.. huh.. court of law, you know, which could later on give you the order to pay something back or authorize the use of limited force to seize from you the goods that will be used as your payment.

So I think the word you're looking for is "Criminal". It is NOT criminal to sell online currency because it is NOT criminal to breach a contract. However, you can be held legally responsible for breaching the contract and it IS illegal because a court of law can constrain you to a certain action as the result of you breaking the contract.

That being said, don't fancy yourself too much in what you do. I understand it brings you money to have those ads up, but it DOES encourage illegal activity, wether you like it or not, and it is immoral, wether you like it or not, because it does more to disrupt gameplay in regular customers than it does for those rich SOAB you buy the currencies/items. Its not a matter of opinion, its just plain fact and not playing with the words.

Finally, I appreciate that you had the guts -- or plain stupid idea -- of posting this. I respect MMORPG.com for being a major hub in MMO world, but this kind of post from an Admin here is just crossing the line and plain just unacceptable.

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lol you must be smoking something it's obvious what he stated,

The FBI did not close them down for selling of curency because it is illegal, FBI has no jurisdiction in cival matters period, nor do they want it.  They were closed dow because they may have commited a fedral offense by allowing their users to download directly off the gaming sites servers costing them large amounts of money in bandwidth.  Which after a certain dollar point met is considered a fedral crime basicly stealing bandwidth.  Same as stealing gold out of fort nox it's not money but the value of it is enough to land you in a fedral court.

Oh and breaching a private contract you have to prove it was breeched which is next to impossible.  A simular court case was thrown out of court over a MMO because it could not be proven that the guy actually pressed the accept button.  It was argued that his 10 year old son could have been doing it and playing the game wich would not make the parent liable for the breech but make the parrent liable for the child breeching the contract and then again they have to prove the child did it etc...  Gets thrown out of court and did happen.

There is one concern I do have although I may have missed something.


When you have a large custamizable character, ships, etc... and it's all on a non-loading large area well lag...

Playing SWG I would notice when you got a large group of people in an area just the loading of all the diffrent customized charecters alone would cause quite a bit of lag.  But say in FFXI there are very few customizations you can do and the lag is noticiblly less and I have noticed this with other MMO's. not just the 2 I mentioned.

Ya I know this isn't SWG or FFXI engines persay but when practicly everything is customizable and to top it off it's all on one non-stop world will lag become a factor this day in age? Or sense it's a 6km viewing distance is there what I would assume a type of "Silent load" rendering objects within that range and de-rendering objects (dropping from memory) things which go outside the range as you move around?

I'm honestly just looking for info not saying one way or the other or trying to start a flame war going,  just trying to find out some facts about an area I'm not too familliar with when it comes to rendering and memory concerns wich in turn can cause lag.

Hate to say it but anyone who plays the game and didn't know about it lives in a cave.  I never played the thing and have heard all about this game and knew about the report before it was linked here.

Point is the people who "could" use this code already where (actually slightly diffrent) long before and I know this for fact and have never played the game.

How do I know this for fact?  I use to be really big onto finding security holes without getting caught back in yester year so to speak.  I long sense quit that activity to find more productive things to do with my life.  However I stay current on latest issues and frequent alot of old sites that are still up.  That being said this was already well known and talked about on some sites even before that reports release, much less the link here.  And ya people were taking advantage of the issue.

You can believe me or not I don't really care but this just places it in the "authorities spot light" so someone actually fixes the problem instead of denying it ever existed in the first place or by sweeping it under the rug by just making general statements that ya it can be done.

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Originally posted by Gorukha
 LOL are you high ? The game word is incredibly little. The maps are tiny and planning for it horrible. Quests have you running through mobs that can kill you in a few hits. The game is a mess. looks nice but overall quality is horrid. Ya I played cb too, and it didn't look like the Wow of asian games lol.  Skill ? This game is all about levels and diablo clone equipment like any other asian game.

  BTW everyone trains on the dummies, theres not much skill in that and it's another half assed reminder of why the game is not well thought out.

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Ya the beta was very little they never released all the areas or maps and stated they would not in the beta.  According to them only 10% of the game is what we saw in beta.

It has nothing to do with levels per-say I was consitentlly beating folks that were 10 levels higher than me with ease...
Of course if I was lvl 35 and had a lvl 175 attack me then ya I would die.

I had no problem with the quests either.  In fact I would complete all the given quests for my level and then have to grind maybe 20 orange mobs because there were no quests left.

It took me 3 weeks in WoW to get max level, maxed all crafts  including fishing and cooking, elite gear and in an end-game guild.   That was from the day I installed it to 3 weeks later.  WoW was too easy.  Oh and I only did 2 quests in wow that were job specific from lvl 1-60.

I can garentee that I won't get to lvl 175+ with "epic gear" in 3 weeks on CB.

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Originally posted by Arkangelous
The game is fun to play I play on the 1st closed beta North America but too bad is lock per region which sucks and the company doing the North American Servers is taking too damn long to do it :C

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QFE...

I would think if the EU version is fine just use that one and slap a USA only IP code on it and done.  I played the EU version and it was awsome way way way better than those other Korean games. This is the WoW of korean MMO's IMO.  It's all about skill and less about your level but the skills require mad training and  if you AFK your skills on the training dummies over a few nights you can easily beat someone who didn't that's ten levels above you...

This is the only Korean MMO I've played or beta'ed to date that I really enjoyed and wanted to buy when released.  I beta'ed maybe 5-6 other Korean MMO's and they all were just terrible to be honest.