Just did the 3 quests in Badlands, with the gnome, dwarf and orc describing what happened when Deathwing flew over them. That has to be one of the funniest quests I ever done. Pretty awesome.

Originally posted by Teala

The rat talking to the turtles near a busted bottle of ooze in the Dalaran sewers.   Now that is awesome.

 

I remember seeing that for the first time in WotLK beta. Laughed for about 5 mins.

I began the day it launched, started raiding MC as decent guilds were beginning to form, and I still raid to this day. In fact there is a core of about 10 people in the guild that are still raiding from the MC.

Think that setup will play 99% of games at max res with all settings on. In fact, you should downgrade the CPU to an i5 750 as it won't make much difference in gaming and you can save yourself some money. Could say same thing about the case aswell as it's a bit overkill, but if you just going for looks then it's OK.

The HD5770 is a great little card. Only suggestion I'd make is to go with the sapphire vapor-x series, as they are a bit overclocked and come with a very quiet cooler.

In 1 or 2 years when the 5770 starts getting a little old, just buy another one and crossfire it. No need to buy more expensive hardware than that when only a demo game (Metro) can't run on it with max settings.

 How can a game that looks worst that EQ2 (a 5 year old game) work the GPU so much. It must be seriously badly coded.

 My account is active and I received emails last week saying it was compromised. Always check the address of the battle.net account before entering any info.

For example, this week the link sent me to something such as ttp://eu.batle.net/ (only 1 "t") and that's how they steal information from the users. 

I suggest using something like Chrome as it is very good at detecting phishing sites.

I think this would be a good move on their part, especially if they include it on the Cat expansion box.

Yes it might cost them a few million, but surely that is offset by the cost of hiring people to sort stolen account information.

 Holy crap, people really are running out of things to complain about.

What's next? Trees are the wrong shade of green?

Originally posted by nightbird305

Originally posted by Raztor

 ATI drivers might be crap but they are still better than Nvidia's... 

 

At the moment ATI's DX11 cards (the 5xxx line) are much much faster than anything Nvidia has out, and have been dominating for the last few months since they were released. Nvidia is struggling at the moment with production issues and won't release their new cards for some time yet.

 

The point is, and returning to OP, it's not right to recommend Nvidia GPUs as they are slower, more expensive and have worst drivers than their ATI equivalent. That might change in 5 months time when Nvidia releases their 300 series card line, but at the moment ATI is on top and if you are in the GPU market then you would be a fool to choose Nvidia.

 

 

ATI's drivers are better than Nvidia's? Hah prove it. 

The new 5xxx cards are fast, but they aren't amazingly fast as you lead on to believe. Only their best 5xxx card (the 5970) beats Nvidia's 295 gtx, and even then it's only with a gain of 10-20 fps (check any benchmark)

Nvidia are having production problems, but until they announce that they've given up on the GTX 300, I don't think it's anything to worry about. 

Your point is you have no point. You make baseless accusations with no proof for either side. If I was to recommend someone a video card, I would recommend a dx10 card that has gone down in price, so that they have the money for when the optimized dx11 cards come out.

Hmm, read the OP's post. He is using Vista. Nvidia drivers are the number one cause for Vista crashes (see this link). People might say Vista is crap, but that's what the OP is using. Recommending Nvidia is silly at this point. He will get better value for money with ATI and have less driver problems. 

I've so far used facts so far and back them up. OP, grab a cheap 4xxx series card, it'll give you less headaches than Nvidia and will have better performance.

Also, to the post above,  the 295 is a double card basically, while the 5970 is a single, and it still beats it by 10-20 fps. That's how far behind Nvidia has fallen. Imagine when ATI release their double version of the 5970. But anyway, this is going offtopic.

 ATI drivers might be crap but they are still better than Nvidia's... 

At the moment ATI's DX11 cards (the 5xxx line) are much much faster than anything Nvidia has out, and have been dominating for the last few months since they were released. Nvidia is struggling at the moment with production issues and won't release their new cards for some time yet.

The point is, and returning to OP, it's not right to recommend Nvidia GPUs as they are slower, more expensive and have worst drivers than their ATI equivalent. That might change in 5 months time when Nvidia releases their 300 series card line, but at the moment ATI is on top and if you are in the GPU market then you would be a fool to choose Nvidia.

Originally posted by jadonc

Originally posted by Raztor

 Anyone recommending Nvidia at the moment is clearly out of touch with the current GPU market. Ati is currently much better and cheaper.

 

lol, ATI does make nice cards, it's the drivers that suck and always have

With ATI you have to keep getting a new card because the driver support sucks. Also is horrible for backward compatibility with older games.

Hey, welcome to 2005.

Nvidia has fallen pretty low now. They don't even have a DX11 card out and won't do so for at least another 3 months. At the moment at all price points ATI is dominating, their driver support is better than nvidia when it comes to Vista/ Win7. There is just no reason to recommend Nvidia at the moment, you get much better value for money with ATI. Nvidia drivers are currently the number 1 reason for Vista crashes.

 Anyone recommending Nvidia at the moment is clearly out of touch with the current GPU market. Ati is currently much better and cheaper.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO1QJOooexQ

Preview of patch 3.3 that went live today. Contains story spoilers. Really cool video.

 I must admit I was pretty dissapointed with the game. For me, one of the main issues is simply the balance between Warrior/Rogue/Classes. Playing as a Mage on Nightmare mode is 10 times easier than a Warrior on normal. It's ridiculous. Things like attack range, miss rate, lack of visual targeting system and selection soon start stacking up to provide a frustrating experience. 

Also the fact there's a cut scene every few minutes is very annoying. It made me reinstall the original NWN though so it wasn't all bad.

 All of WAR'S problems were detailed during it's BETA phase. Soon after released, after I along with 300k people quit it, it should've set alarm bells ringing at Mythic.  In all this time the 2 main issues still haven't been solved:

1. A PvP game with 2 factions, with 1 locked out of content while the other does a PVE encounter as endgame is just lunacy. Whoever came up with that ideally should never work in MMO's again. 

2. Game Engine and net code is not up to to modern standards. It's simply couldn't do what the devs were trying to achieve.

To go from 1.2 Million copies sold to retailers, starting out from 800k subs to now having 3 servers. That's the price you pay for incompetence. When I quit I made a post that this game would be closed down by this Christmas period. I wasn't too far off with that prediction.

RIP WAR

Originally posted by Frostbite05

Originally posted by avalon1000

 The only games I have played with lots of bots are the Korean games.  My main game is LOTRO and bots are almost non-existant (as are the gold spammers) and are dealt with quickly.  Two years ago I came from Maple Story to LOTRO thinking that gold buying was normal (as MS was my first MMO).  So I bought some in game money from the company I did business with in MS and received it through the mail in LOTRO.  The next day I got a nasty mail from a GM telling me that if I did that again I would be banned.  Turbine takes gold selling seriously.  NCSoft does not.  That is the difference. 

 

Turbine also has a fraction of the servers that aion. Same with population. It is a lot harder to respond to situations and hand out bans when there is a higher volume of players.

Yes, that explains why WoW is overflowing with bots right? 

I swear every time I come on this forum to see how the game is doing, the excuses for it's problems keep getting worse and worse. 

Originally posted by tryklon

 Here you go, some numbers like WoW fans like. Ofc, they will always refute them in relation to Aion, but gladly accept them in respect to WoW... =P

 

The market share: www.xfire.com/genre/mmo/massively_multiplayer_online/

The MMOData studies: users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/1m-12m.png

 

(since Runescape is a browser game XFire cant acknoledge it ofc)

This bit made me laugh from MMOData:

"I estimated Aion Asia numbers on 2,5m as NCSoft does not want to confirm the 3,5m and they do not release subscription numbers anymore in their quarterly reports."

Yea... very reliable. Sorry, but I was talking about official data. NSoft released the sales figure earlier (somewhere around 700 or 800k  or something like that). That is the only official thing we can take for certain. Until the Xfire numbers get stable for Aion, it's too early to use that as an indicator of subs. 

For now, EvE remains the second most popular MMO in the Western market. When we get a subs number from Asia (a sub is an account that has been paid and played for in the last 30 days), then we can have a better idea of of where we stand.

Originally posted by tryklon

Originally posted by DevilXaphan

Originally posted by Zorndorf

Originally posted by Frostbite05

Originally posted by DiSpLiFF

 i would say EVE also if were just talking about the west. I'm sure Aion had a pretty good start but its lost a lot of players after the free month was up. I don't think Aion will suffer as bad as WAR and AoC, but I highly doubt it will keep good numbers once TERA comes out. 

 

heh aion still well above anything else in the west my friend. The game itself isn't broken like war and aoc were.

 

Proof ?

Where are those official paid subscription numbers of Aion in the East ????

Where are those official subscription numbers of Aion world wide??

 

Nowhere to be seen

And ... even 2 months after the western launch NCsoft doesn't publish any subs numbers in the West. AoC did, War did, WOW did 2 monts after launch ....

As for Xfire .... They SELL the damned thing througn Xfire, so those stats are worthless now.

14NA/18EU servers (not even full) means they are WAY BELOW the Korean number of players (400K on 42 servers)...

NCSoft being quiet on the subject means .... they didn't reach that 2nd place in the west.

Not by a long shot.

Aion fans: PROVE it or shut up the lying .

oh and btw : 300K subs for EVE WAS announced officialy....this year. Just like the 11.5 million of WOW. Official.

So where is that official NCSoft statement of subscribers ?:)))

 

And WOW doesn't have 10 million subscriptions, big deal. I can still say Aion is the second most popular MMO and you can't dispute it's not.

 

Ofc he cant. He only has 2 options there, to ignore the Asian market, and in that case wow has only 4,5k or around that, or count thee Asian market to give wow it's 11,5k, assuming theres nothing wrong with the chinese market and its fiasco.

Either way Aion is clearly the 2nd on the market.

But I find it funny for a guy that always defended XFire numbers now to come and say XFire is good for everygame except for Aion. The guy just fell on the ridicularity and doesnt even seem to see it...

Aion is clearly the 2nd biggest on the market? Since when? Do you have official figures to back that statement or is this another one of those chinese whispers people hear from friends of friends? Please don't spout BS statements unless you can back them up.

Like WAR and AOC, Aion has sold a lot of copies. I'm surprised they didn't release the sub numbers at this point, since it's when they are likely to be at their highest. That in itself is an indicator of how Aion is doing. If it was doing well, they would jump at the opportunity to put those sub numbers out in the public eye, rather than going the AoC/WAR route and release units sold instead.

They were aiming for 2nd spot in Western market, so if they had 350k subs they would say they accomplished their goal. That hasn't happened yet, so it'll be interesting to see the trends in x-fire and official sources to see how Aion does in the coming months.

 Thing is Blizzard have been doing these fluff items for ages (3 years) through the TGC cards that you can buy that give some mounts or pets. Exactly same thing and people never complained about it. As long as it remains fluff items, then I don't see what the fuss is about.