All Posts by jimmyman99

Originally posted by OrmSunnhet

Jimmyman99. LOL. Spoken like a true fanboi.

When in the dungeons. I'm talking about, for instance, Molten Core for example. Dangerous place to be alone or in a group where a key member leaves (Pirest or Shaman, etc.) on a whim because they got what they wanted. You can't simply solo there until you find replacements, etc.

And paint it anyway you want to, WoW is EASY. Even with it's "variety" of things to do, in the end, they are all easy to do if you have enough time to do them. Making it lack-luster.

And their isn't NEARLY enough room in the ignore list for the sheer amount of ignorance. Yeah, you could disable chat channels, but then how will you ever find a group or get any other thing done trying to weed through the BS for players that seems somewhat mature enough to communicate with or interact with to accomplish your goals.

I played WoW for almost two years (Somehow), so it's not as though I'm simply flaming it for no reason. I did enjoy playing it....for awhile. But the dependance on gear, and the poor community ended that for me. As well of the lack of true difficulty.

 Did you play EQ? If you had as I did, you'd understand how difficult it was, why it made it heart-pounding and fun, and why WoW wouldn't hold my attention for long...because it is missing those elements.  I am guessing you haven't and WoW is your first MMO? Could be wrong, but that would help me understand why you feel the way you do.

Fanboi? me? Nah. I give out arguments to your arguments. How is it fanboism? So anytime I say something positive i am a fanboi? Or anything negative i am a troll? You are stretching there buddy.

back to the topic. Yeah if priest bails on you in MC that sux. But why are you in MC? Do you have to be there? No. If  your group disbands (happens from time to time), you can just do something else. You are not FORCED to be there and get a group.

Game is easy? Well, what is definition of easy? Is it the fact that you can level from 50 to 55 in 5 hours by constant quest/mob grinding? Sure, you can do that. But you dont have to. There are days when I level 5 levels in 1 day. There are times when i level 1 level in a week. Its called diversity.

I dont know how your ignore list is full... are you anti-social or something? I played WoW since beta (on and off) and right now, my ignore list has max 5 people. The thing is, stupid people tend to leave the game, so you dont have to have them on ignore list. I even think your ignore list deletes names of the characters that were physically deleted. There is absolutely no reason why your ignore list should be maxed out (if thats even possible). If it is, well, don't blame anyone else but yourself.

Im not calling your posts a flame (except for your immature stab of me being a "fanboi"). This is a place to exchange opinions and ideas. So if one person posts something what you post, others will post to agree or disagree. If 1 person agrees but 10 disagree, well, I guess your opinion is in minority. Not that its wrong, there is no right and wrong with opinions. But, if given enough facts, one can change his/hers opinion. Maybe you do not like a particular aspect of the game because you never considered something else that everyone is doing. You cannot possibly know everything.

yes, I played EQ1, for a long time. And yeah, my heart trembled when I first played EQ1, it was FUN. You know why? Because it was NEW. There was nothing at the time that was anything like EQ1. I started with UO, but EQ1 was way better then UO. But, I changed my mind about EQ1. Why? Because it forced me to play THEIR game. Because I spent 5 hours LFGing in PoK. Because when I died due to lag, I lost hours and hours of experience. Because my real life comes first and I simply could not afford to spend hours in it to actually see my exp bar move a milimeter to the right. Is that what you called a "hard" game? Is that what you call "challenging"? If yes, then by that logic, you should cut your fingers off - that would make it even harder to play - more challenging! (No plz dont do that, its just to illustrate the point).

The challenge, IMO, is NOT in hindering the player to achieve few things like EQ1 did. THe challenge is going into deadmines in a group full of level 15s and beating it. If you are good, you will beat it. If you suck, you wont beat it even at level 20. That is what challenge is all about. And NOT how long it takes to reach 80, because the goal of WoW is not to reach 80. You have been playing the game for all the wrong reasons.

PS: how does priest leaving MC raid differ from Cleric leaving EQ1 raid? The only difference, in WoW, it is easier to find a replacement AND if you cant find one, you can actually start soloing, you aren't finished with the game just because you are a warrior and you cannot solo like it is in EQ.

PSPS: and please stay out of accusing someone of "fanboism" for the sole reason that that someone has a different view as yours. If you think my detailed posts aren't detailed enough to explain my point of view, then I will be glad to explain it in even greater details.  If you didn't know, a fanboi is the person who is utterly devoted to something or someone and will defend that without much reason. A fan that stalks a movie star and will chew a chewing gum discarded by that star is a fanboi. A fan who likes movie star's movies because he/she is a good actor/actress is not a fanboi.

Originally posted by OrmSunnhet

Anyways, WoW follows the same concept of today's society. It abundantly rewards with little failure involved. Easy leveling, quests, navigation (On-Star like dots showing you where to go in most cases), UI, etc, etc. Why do you think when you play that if a group your in fails a quest/boss fight that so many in the group complain or say "You guyz r noobs!" and leave instantly? Or if you DO win and the loot drops, they roll, get their item, and leave the group. In many cases, leaving the rest of you to fight your way out short-handed, not caring to see if everyone has their port refreshed and ready and can get out safely. They are in it for themselves and the rewards mainly. But yeah, the sheer amount of rewards WoW gives out, combined with it's ridiculously easy gameplay is what keeps the subs high. They are all sheep. Baaaahhhh! Best I can put it.

I think challenge is better personally. Being defeated a few times makes you THINK of another way around your challenge, and makes that victory all the better once it is obtained. That, combined with the piss poor attitude of a majority of the WoW community is why I left.

P.S. I look in MANY of the games forums for interesting topics and conversations to be involved in. I am in school for Game Art & Design, and it is like studying for me. =)

Flame on anyways I'm sure.

WoW does not reward failure. It just doesn't punish you with losing exp bumping you back by 2 weeks becuase you lagged out and died. You call people sheep becuase they like to play the game on their own terms, and not rely on someone else? Sure, some people are noobs and can leave your gruop in the middle of the dungeon run becuase they already got their loot they wanted. But I can say the same about any other game. Except in WoW, you do not realy on your group THAT much.

Someone left your dungeon? No problem, get a replacement. No replacement? No problem, it usualy doesnt take 5 hours LFGing. Has it been 5 hours LFGing and no replacement? No problem, WoW does not force you to group, you arent locked out of 90% of the game content because your class is not very group oriented. You can go quest/solo grind while you wait. and maybe while osloing, you get an item that is even better then the one you wanted from the dungeon.

Your definition of "challenged" differs from mine. For me, the fact that WoW gives me so many options of "doing things" does NOT make the game "easy" nor does it make me a sheep. In fact, your definition of "challenged" makes you the sheep - you are much more restricted in things you can do. Therefore, you are the sheep, you follow the 2 or 3 ways the game can be played. If my game gives me 10 ways to follow the path, while yours only 2 or 3, then I am 4-5 times less of a sheep then you are.

And please, no more comments on the "bad community". If you dislike the chat, disable it or put the little kids on ignore list. If someone acts like a noob and it affects your gameplay, well, because WoW is so "easy" it shouldn't affect you at all now, should it?

Originally posted by Silencium

Oki, for what it is worth. This patch is very active, Many players tonight. I think many players play.

I think your total subscrption count estimate is the most accurate of them all.

Originally posted by Martie

You do realise they are running hundreds upon hundreds of servers, and preparing for the biggest expansion launch, even bigger than BC, and you are complaining about a downtime, which is maintenance and you miss some hours??    They dont deal with a few thousaand players and a10s of servers, they deal with hundreds upon hundreds of servers in different languages, ranging for russia to south america.

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You dont prepare for an expansion/patch/update on a live server. You do it a bit on dev server, but mostly on test server. This failure most likely is a result of a human error. Or more likely several human errors, becuase in a big company like Bliz, there should be protocols in place limiting anyone's access to a point where the mistake would result in minimal damage. Only small companies cant afford to hire additional personnel, so they stack work and responcibilities on few people - and if one person screwes up, bad things can happen.

Better clean up your act Blizz. I am very disappointed in them lately.

Originally posted by solareus

Originally posted by jimmyman99

Originally posted by solareus

 

For the most part, DnL was badly executed,coded and unstable, all things that seem to be what Pix is wanting to claim with his lawsuit ?

 

 

 

Is that the whole point of the suit? I thought it was whether vworld was stolen or not. Also, you cant blame Pix for DnLs engine becuase vworld is just one part of the game. I would blame Pix if DnL was great in most things BUT the engine. Seeing that it was poorly coded all around, i would deduce that it was just poorly implemented by the coders.

Oh, and was the suit about Pix being the author or about stolen intellectual property?

It seems like it at times, the people are using this suite to vindicate that they got ripped off, but yet the actual suite is about software, I think some folk are trying to have there cake and eat it as well..

For the most part, people played the beta and still bought into the hype, that is there own fault.

About your first sentence: are you saying that people should not sue if they get ripped? And intellectual property includes software.

About your second sentence: Raltar is right, there was no beta, the thing we played was SOG, which was supposedly a game, a sort of pre-quel to D&L release. Some people realized that company that failed with SOG would most likely fail with D&L as well. But, some still believed. After all, the public promotion campaign used all legal and illegal tricks to get people interested in D&L. Remember the photoshopped screenshots? So I can't entirely blame people - they got duped.

Originally posted by solareus

 

For the most part, DnL was badly executed,coded and unstable, all things that seem to be what Pix is wanting to claim with his lawsuit ?

 

 

Is that the whole point of the suit? I thought it was whether vworld was stolen or not. Also, you cant blame Pix for DnLs engine becuase vworld is just one part of the game. I would blame Pix if DnL was great in most things BUT the engine. Seeing that it was poorly coded all around, i would deduce that it was just poorly implemented by the coders.

Oh, and was the suit about Pix being the author or about stolen intellectual property?

Originally posted by silverreign

i liked the game as well. too many grey minimaps and ctd's that i gave up. ive read that those issues are fixed. i will give it another try sometime after my war fix is gone.

on a side note:  all of this whiny crap about launch is old. go back to swg forums and post there. i played aoc since beta, i purchased 2 ce editions, etc..       i lost money like everyone but i dont continue to whine about it. move on plz.

Thats actually a really bad point of view. I don't know if you are rich or not, but if I spend 50$ on something that was advertised one way just to turn out crap - id be pissed. A person who earns his/hers money hard doesn't let go that easily. In your case, you either:

1) are rich
2) did not earn the money you spent on the game or did not work hard for it
3) you enjoyed the game to consider it worthy spend

Neither option gives you the right to call out legit complaints as a whine. If you enjoyed the game enough to warrant spending money for 2 CEs, well, good for you. Other people spent their money and ware feeling cheated because they did not enjoy the game as you did. Everybody has the right to complain for something they spent money on. If the world was like you suggested, then there would be no CSR, no refunds and no returns. That would suck big time.

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Originally posted by Raltar

Originally posted by solareus

Name one game in the Asian Market that has the mechanics of DnL ? I LOVED the Sega Saturn by the way, had had more power and better performance then Playstation .

Chinese can do anything they want at low cost, being a communist country , half of the people don't even have to work, they get hand outs , unlike in the Capitalistic world where the rich get richer, China's economy is completely different from ours, leaving them more resources  and more people to do things like create fake iphones.  tearing apart a game and rebuilding it to a functioning product is like a hobby for some Chinese.

The chinese take there tiem, they have no where to be anytime soon. A great game to see the Chinese playing a game is Marlog Server in Shadowbane, it is simply magical , in how they can run bits, block server access, and muniplate ingame items to server there needs, and that is on a game that they don't even have the code for.

 

First of all, The Sega Saturn had more power for 2D games because that was what Sega designed it for. Big mistake on their part because 2D games went out of style at that point. After seeing the amazing 3D games the Playstation was bringing to bear they tried to patch some 3D power into the Saturn but it was too little too late because all the third party developers abandoned Sega and Nintendo to go make games for Playstation. That was the death blow for Sega, although it took them another decade of incompetent hardware releases to figure it out. So you "LOVED" the Saturn? All FIVE of the games released for it I take it? I can see why you like DnL so much. I guess medicority and failure are what you look for in a game.

Oh, and then you go and bring SHADOWBANE into the debate. The second worst MMORPG ever made. You sure know how to pick em.

You seem to be a big fan of communism. Need I remind you of Tibet? Or the USSR? Communism did wonders for those countries... I'm sure it will save DnL somehow... Next why don't you tell us about the theory of Time Cube and how it will bring Lennin back from the dead to conquer France and stop the corrupt Anti-DnL military industrial complex which is secretly conspiring aginst Vuuar?

Comrade, the greatest father of the revolution was called Lenin ( his name basically means he is Lena's. Lena is a female name. As in Samantha = Samantha's).

death to capitalist swines! Rise up proletariats, rise up against the capitalism. Rise up workers and peasants of the world! Proletalirats, unite!!!

Originally posted by damian7

Originally posted by logicbox9

Ghost training is completely retarded... and it's about time CCP finally stopped it. Really, you should only be able to train skills WHILE SUBSCRIBED. I'm amazed that CCP didn't stop it sooner.

 

you should only be able to train skills while logged in and actually playing.  i'm amazed that ccp hasn't stopped that yet and have sent in several petitions today requesting they do.  i will also be amazed if you, and everyone else in support of the inactive training nerf, do NOT wholeheartedly support my petition with petitions of your own and then posting your support here.

 

to do otherwise would be hypocritical.

Thats actually a very good point. I will use it everytime a fanboi corp sucker screams "OMG about time ghost training was removed, gogo CCP!"

Originally posted by el_muerte

Saying it wasn't a virus or keylogger because you have AVG installed is like saying it's impossible to die in a traffic collision as long as you have your seat belt on.  AVG is a decent antivirus, but as an IT technician I've seen dozens of trojans sneak past AVG.  In at least one instance I can remember, the guy's computer was so infected he couldn't get on the Internet without his ISP blocking him for flooding their connection.  And he had a fully up-to-date install of the latest AVG.  I don't mean to bash AVG, it is one of the best free antivirus apps you can get, but relying completely on it is just foolish.

Agreed.

I see a lot of people complaining about viruses who have AVG installed. This could happen to any AV software though, so dont uninstall it just because X number of people got infected. People need to combine AV software with a good firewall and common sense. People get way too overconfident thinking heir AV software will prevent their system from getting a virus. Using outlook express or MS Outlook (and in some cases IE) is almost a guarantee on itself that you will get infected.

People need to be educated on computer use. This overconfidence and illiteracy will cost them dearly.

Originally posted by Zanpt

So it's completely reasonable to view the training step as fully bought and paid for when the skill book is submitted for training or the next step clicked to begin training.  After that point there is not a single thing CCP's servers do to "advance" the training.  There is no training process, just a wait until an out-of-game calendar date and time after you can use the new skill.

So there never was an issue of getting any service for free.  Now, though, there is additional code added to Eve to prevent you getting what you already bought and paid for, tying it to your account being active.  Note that any former unsubbed training gave no benefit whatsoever unless and until you reactivated the account and logged in, at which point the client and server would "discover" that the required waiting period had been satisfied, i.e. the training step had "completed."

A very interesting paragraph here. Something that I completely missed before. One can legally argue that since only a paying customer can initiate a skill training, then that skill has been FULLY paid for till it is completed. Once your training is finished and assuming you havent resubscribed back, you cannot train another skill. Which is fair, you cannot train for something you have not paid for. But, If I paid for my skill to train, I expect it to be completed.

I also agree 100% on the technical implementation. The way Eve trains its skill, it requires no "processing" abilities other then start the training, at which point server saves the start and finish date of the skill. Thats it.

This monkey business that CCP is currently involved in may fire back with a class action sute for the reason of misadvertised (ghost training was advertised as a feature for 5 years) AND for contract breach (I paid for my skill to complete, regardless of the completion date). Im curious how this works out, ive seen much worse cases go to court.

Originally posted by TheBrewer

Agreed Ghost training needed to go. Anyone who is mad that it's gone obviously doesnt wanan work for anything just get freebies

How exactly do you have to "work" for your skils? Do you sell your services as a sex worker to the devs and they give u a 10x boost to the rate you learn your skills?

The ONLY difference between you training your 1 month skill while playing and I training 1 month skill NOT playing is: CCP gets money in your case and CCP gets no money in my case.

Conclusion: they canceled ghost training becuase they want the money.

Whats wrong with that? nothing, unless you specifically mentioned that that part of the game was a feature for 5 freaking years!

Imagine you ordering a good looking young redhead lady prositute called Samantha . You paid in advance becuase you've done this before - the service was always delivered in time and as advertised. You wait impatiently for her to arrive. You hear a door bell, you put up your best smile, you fix your shirt and check your breath. You go for the door, you open it. You see a bearded guy who speaks to you: "Hey baby, Im Samantha. Sorry. no refunds honey."

With ghost training taken out of picture, Eve just turned from hot redhead into a bearded dude. Enjoy your dude, dude.

Originally posted by Krazco

Originally posted by Xenune

Originally posted by Krazco

seen it all, done it all, nothing more to do.

the game died after blackwing lair, nothing intresting to do after that

You got to be kidding me? You missed out over half the game. Clearly shows you haven't done it all and a troll WoW hater.

 

no i done it all.. even sunwell.. but nothing of the contents have been intresting after blackwing lair.. (it has just been more of the same all the way, and suddently everyone looked the same when it comes to gear, nothing felt unique anymore, ) i have even been rank14, something 80% of wow players never have, and never will..

whats getting added in new expantion, i cant comment, but im not gonna play it, because i dont trust blizzard anymore.

so yeah i am a wow hater now, but with good reason, main problem is the people who play it, who calls everyone noob and trolls.

The thing is, you are either a specialist, or you spend way too much time on WoW. WoW fits best for generalists, people who like to do many things. Right now, Im working on my level 66 hunter and herbalism. Tommorow, i will work on my priest and enchanting. The day after that on rogue and engineering, then on helloween event, then on something else.

It doesnt take much time to master a particular aspect of the game if you only do that one thing. Thats why hardcore people or specialists like you burn out quickly. I played WoW since beta, and I usualy play for a month or two, then take a break. The longest period I played non-stop was half a year, and I once skipped WoW for 10 months. I have 7 characters, one of them is 66, 2 are 50+ rest are 20-30+

So when you say youve done it all, you actually done a very small (but focused) part of that "all". If you