Guess what Turbine....horses CAN swim.

No Android...not interested...

There are very fast satellite internet options available now like Wildblue and others. They won't cost you and arm and leg either.

The ability to play this on Android in the future.

I was exploring in the Norn starting area and this NPC comes strolling by asking me if I could help him go into a cave and build a statue out of ice. We fought our way in and I gathered the ice for him and protected him while he built the statue. Then the guys I had fought gathered around and were impressed by this statue and their names turned from red to green. We walked out of the cave surrounded by friends that were but a few minutes ago enemies. I was hooked....

Because of certain events in my life I have missed  the previous beta events. Today I took part in the stress test for about 3 hours. It's an amazing game. Gone are the days when game companies can just throw NPC's out there wirh symbols over there heads that give out the same repetitive boring quests. It's going to be real hard to go back to playing LOTRO now (or any other game. The bar has been set higher and other MMO producers had better take note.

Originally posted by Castillle

Originally posted by Isasis

The funny thing is, it sounds like no one here has family members that work for game companies. What is that, like some kind of high prized job that no one can believe people do or does? Is it like working for the CIA? LOL. All of you make it sound like that.

 

Anyway, ArenaNet/NCsoft has already said they want a release this year.

I know this guy who has a cousin that works in domino's and he supposedly delivered pizza to the arenanet office.  He said they seem to be stress eating about some highly probable delay.

o.O

This post is legit!

Firefly.......The best show cancelled by an idiot network ever....

Originally posted by zyklonian

To the OP cut your losses and move to another game.  ive played Lotro since SoA and i can tell you the quality of their product is a mere shadow of its former self.  Their new "hybrid" (lol) ftp is a scam and everyone knows it.  The isengard xpac is still broken in every aspect.  PvP is pay to win.  the dragon raid is still broken after multiple attepts to fix it.  ( how hard is it to fix a 2 phase fight with 3 mechanics)  and dont even get me started with the T2 tower raid.  everything started going downhill with MoM and i can only imagine RoR state will be a disgrace.  Turbine is adding a new engine for mounted combat when they can even get the current engine to run smoothly.  What a joke.  Great game idea run by a horrible company.

 

PS real actors for rohan cut scenes?  how much did that cost?  put that money into your dev team

The current engine has serious problems (as well as hardware problems). I had to turn off game audio in order to quest in parts of RoI. Lag in the LL area is horrible. I fondly remember SoA days and hope they can return to at least close to those days. As it is I can barely log in these days and the game is just dead (even on the big E).

I  bought it! (and will unfortunately miss the next beta).

Great...another beta i will miss....have to go to a wedding out of town that weekend....

Pre-paid and game client is downloaded for Monday's stress test. Really looking forward to trying this game out!

Time to pre-purchase!!!

Originally posted by miguksaram

Originally posted by Cyrclez

Went slightly over, but theres some mail in rebates and discounts currently going on.  The video card will likely drop some more with Nvidia's new line of cards that just came out.

 

Case: NZXT Gamma - $40

Power Supply: Antec 550W - $65

Motherboard: ASRock P67 PRO3 - $100

CPU: i-5 2500K @ 3.3GHZ - $220 (great for overclocking - coupon code included)

RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws 4GB - $30 (can get 8GB for $45 if you'd like)

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti - $230 ($30 mail in rebate)

Hard Drive: Samsung 500GB - $85 (hard drive prices are high right now, so if you have one that you can use, don't buy one)

DVD Drive: Asus DVD-RW - $20

Total - $790.00 before discounts ($745 after)

 

Like I said, I went slightly over but I personally wouldnt go much lower than a 560 Ti for the video card, and the i-5 2500K is a great processor, but you can probably downgrade that.  Also, if you have a hard drive you can use, don't buy one right now unless you really need it as the prices for them are sky high right now due to the floods in Thailand.

Slightly over budget is doable but, and I forgot to mention this before, I live in Hawaii so I also have to consider shipping costs as most places that offer "free shipping" do not include Hawaii.

All in all that looks to be a solid build/upgrade from my current laptop although I have zero experience with overclocking so I'm not sure if I would see the full pontential out of the CPU.  Unfortunately I will need a Hard Drive so I guess I'm stuck with the craptastic prices of the market.  I had no idea the floods in Thailand were causing the issues you stated here.

It's been a awhile since I built a computer (2006) but I recall compatibility to be a serious thing to consider before buy parts.  Are you confident the parts listed here are compatible?  Thanks again!

I live in Hawaii too and almost always order from Amazon....free shipping to Hawaii and very fast service most of the time.

Originally posted by Quenchster

Originally posted by thedarkess

2 000 000 boxes sold (each 60$) = 120 000 000$

1 700 000 subscribers (15$) x 4 months = 102 000 000$

Total= 222 000 000$

 

So how much did it cost to make swtor? Is it 200 000 000$ or 300 000 000$ I don't see much profit yet. Maybe by the end of the year.

It was over $200 million according to the times and $300 million according to a disgruntled ex-employee, so the costs to make the game is somewhere in between those two numbers.

There's actually less than 1,700,000 paying subscribers. They used the word "active" to discribe people who were on their free month or were paying. They said that most of those were paying their subscription, which could be any number above 850,000.

I think it is safe to assume that they are below those numbers.

$265,325.543.23

Any open world or semi open world PvP game allows bullies and other mentally unstable persons the ability to grief others. Mitten crossed the line when he gave the guys game name out in a public forum (as to griefing) and it cost him. I avoid open world PvP games like the plague. I would suggest that if you are going to play these games that you go into them with full knowledge that it attracts people that could make your gaming experience really miserable. Most of the people in these games are good people, but it only takes a few bad ones to give the game(s) bad publicity. Next time Mittens don't go into these panel discussions like a drunken fool.

Originally posted by Rednecksith

The man attempted to get people to harass a person whom he had good reason to believe was suicidal. Perhaps it wasn't tecnically full-fledged cyber bullying, but honestly that's completely irrelevant. His actions were inexcusable and reprehensible to anyone who isn't a complete sociopath, and I honestly think he got off with a slap on the wrist (more than I expected from CCP TBH).

Personally I think it's just as disgusting that anyone would jump to defend him, especially on something so insubstantial as to whether or not 'cyber bullying' was technically the correct term to use (arguable either way), or that one article on the subject got some very minor details wrong.

 

He is truly a sick human being and got exactly what he deserved. I have known a few people like him in my life...it did not end well for them.

I will file a bug report in game. I never post on the LOTRO forums anymore since they require a game password to log in (which has already proved disastrous when their server was hacked).

One of the last instances in U6 in the Brownlands (A Sunset Storm) has some glaring issues. I had no horn at the beginning, the helpers at the mage area were almost worthless, and I killed the last captain before the third captain therefore I could not complete the quest. I walked right by the third captain to the last one not even realizing he was there in the very dark night. I got aggro on 3 of the last captains adds and they ran through the gate opening up the area (which i later realized was not supposed to open until the third captain was dead). Most of update 6 was fantastic but this instance left a bad taste in my mouth. The quest should complete if all captains are killed...period.