Originally posted by Catamount

Originally posted by Miklos

This: http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=135&cat2_no=271&prod_no=2127

Why? AMD graphics, Intel I7 CPU, MSI magic (Dynaudio and TDE).

Best gaming laptop in price/performance ratio by far.

If I could find a place that sold it with the 1080P screen as shown on MSI, that would pretty much be the most awesome laptop out there :)

Yea I spoke to my usual retailer - he said in about 3 weeks it's in stock.

he said they had a demo unit and it's truely awesome - and the cooling is better than usual for gaming laptops.

This: http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=135&cat2_no=271&prod_no=2127

Why? AMD graphics, Intel I7 CPU, MSI magic (Dynaudio and TDE).

Best gaming laptop in price/performance ratio by far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNhPig8inEY

CCP's Fanfest 2009 keynote - watch from approx 1 hour and on for Dust 514 details. Or as an EVE player watch from 50ish minutes and onward to see how it will affect our game.

Glad you like it.

To CCPs credit - the new player experience as a whole has gone up tremendously over the last 2-3 expansions.

Originally posted by heerobya

Originally posted by Miklos

I can't wait for Aion - hoping it will be a blast (never played a NCsoft product before as I didnt like GW and L1/L2).

And in terms of PVP - unless you state that EVE Online is the best PVP MMO game to ever launch, you are misinformed.

 

UO PvP was a lot better then EVE ever was/will be. Fact.

Yea sure if you only want simple one-shot kill combat without any tactics, player skills or depth.

In EVE you can 'PVP' without ever firing a weapon and still crush your oponent - because the game has the most advanced economy/crafting system ever developed for a computer game. Fact.

I can't wait for Aion - hoping it will be a blast (never played a NCsoft product before as I didnt like GW and L1/L2).

And in terms of PVP - unless you state that EVE Online is the best PVP MMO game to ever launch, you are misinformed.

EVE Online is the only true PVP MMO to ever be released.

Other games have PVP, some better than others, but _real_ PVP is only supplied by EVE Online as you can PVP with anything, even the economy. Forums (pre-GOONS) was an important PVP tool. Ingame politics, hatred, feuds, diplomacy, alliances - EVE has everything and everything is open for PVP.

There is only one rule - as long as you leave it ingame - anything goes. Now that's real PVP.

(cheating/exploiting the game is not allowed in any game so that's a given).

Originally posted by Axxar

-Blizzard uses a spyware-like tool called Warden which is installed on your system without you knowing it, to locate possible hacks you have running while playing the game.-

Actually everyone with a brain knows this as you have to accept it when you install and every single time they release a patch for it.

About the WoW hacks - all of them are fixed, every single one and they were fixed as soon as they went public.

Has Mythic done this?

Fail.

The pic in the OP is useless - let's have the whole unedited dialoge if you are to gain sympathy. It could just as well be you in the wrong.

And I'm all for using macros for farewells and greetings - as it's less repetitive for the GM and the person can service more people - it's simple math. The conversation itself isn't macroed just the greeting and the farewell so get a grip and stop the QQ.

Originally posted by Trand

For the last 4 years WoW has increased subsrcibers every quater, now with the release of Dark Fall WoW has stagnated!!! Coincidence????????????

Hehehehe nice troll attempt - I'm sure the few thousands that play Darkfail has an impact on WoW subscription numbers :)

If any game has an impact on WoW numbers it's Aion in Asia or Runes of Magic elsewhere.

Just to set some facts straight.

The "GMs favor their friends" bit is pure bull - nothing else. There was a single incident years back where a GM cheated the company and gave himself some stuff. When this was discovered the things were deleted and he lost all GM rights. Also they created a department internally in the company (CCP) to prevent cheating. They monitor all actions taken by GM or dev staffmembers.

The only downside to EVE is the company behind it - they were some years ago so pressed for cash they didn't enforce their rules about a 3rd party utility/hack that Goonswarm alliance had made and used. They should have permanent banned around 2000 accounts, but since that's bad business they built in the stuff the hack did so they wouldn't need to use the 3rd party hack anymore.

(A way to tell friends from foes in the userlist/chatwindow).

Ofc. RoM looked to WoW for inspiration, it's the logic thing to do with a game as RoM.

And they can't just copy it, that would infringe on copyrights/ip so there is some differences. I dont think the animations are one par with WoW yet.

But RoM is certainly the most interresting F2P I've ever seen.

WoW - Still playing

EVE Online - 4 years

EQ1 - 1 year

UO - 1 year

DAoC - ½ year

Countless betas and F2Ps.

Originally posted by MacVale

Originally posted by Miklos

Goons whining about cheating is hillarious.

They were exploiting the game from the start with 3rd party tools - and instead of banning all 2000ish of them CCP added the tool into the game (friendly/unfriendly in chat marker).

Goons together with the russians exploited the old server structure to crash nodes at will and thus getting their goals without fighting for it.

Goons whining is ironic and sad, but I guess it's fun to throw rocks when you live in a glasshouse.

 

 

Hahaha, this shit never gets old.

Never stop posting.

Which part - the fact that you used a 3rd party tool to change the portraits or the node crashing?

In terms of game engines, Blizzard created the best character based MMORPG engine to date. The ability to scale to slow computers is from a business POV the smart choice.

Besides there has been huge improvements to the WoW engine and it's by no mean outdated - the entire graphics engine is rewritten for every expansion just like fx. EVE Onlines engine has been rewritten 5 times while I was playing that because sometimes it's best to start over instead of patching and adding layers that will just complicate things.

No MMORPG game is truely innovating, most have been describen in books, old games or pen & paper games. But that's not to say that you can't improve and I think saying someone copied something is a waste of time - the better game will always win out - always.

Originally posted by Bakoryo

Originally posted by drasilgame

WoW copied EQ1. WoW copied EQ2. EQ2 copied WoW.

 

 

Eq2 came before Wow, but nice try :3

And before someone says otherwise, look it up before posting.D

EverQuest II and World of Warcraft launched within 4 days of each other. So unless Blizzard created, printed, published World of Warcraft in just 4 days the statement that they copied anything from EverQuest II is stupid.

Fact is everyone borrows from each other, just like most cars have 4 wheels and a motor.

If you want to talk about copy - let's ask the pen & paper RPG'ers what they think of MMORPGs....

Here you can sort by release date.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_MMORPGs

The OP is wrong in so many ways that the vote is useless.

EQ2 was NOT one of the first graphical MMORPGs - might have been number 20 (guesstimate). Everyone looked at EQ1 and Blizzard hired some EQ1 people.

But saying WoW copied EQ2 is uhmm - not smart.

I love EVE and still support it but havn't played it for two years.

It's a great game but I lost too much during the old server structure where nodes would lock up and stuff you had worked for, for 1-2 years would be gone before you could log in again.

Goons ruined EVE for me, too bad they weren't all banned when it was found out they were exploiting with 3rd party utilities.