Originally posted by Nadia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Monster_Games

 

novermber 2007 interview

www.allakhazam.com/story.html

Curt Schilling: We are just past our one year anniversary and things are going fantastic. Being able to watch this game, this world, these iconic characters R.A. has created, come to life, has been beyond incredible. We have put together a core group of people who have all been in on the production of previous MMO’s from EQ to EQ2 to WoW to Final Fantasy and many more. We recently hired one of the lead concept men from LotR. We are preparing to announce the hire of our CTO as well, and with each and every hire we legitimize ourselves more and more within the gaming community.

I am amazed at the increasing number of parallels between the gaming space, the MMO space in particular, and the movie industry. For example our premier title has a budget over 60 million dollars.

That’s similar to a Hollywood movie these days. But one thing I have always believed was that if you were doing something you did it to the very best of you and your team's capabilities. In this regard and this industry that means spending money to mitigate risk. You mitigate risk, in our position, with people. Hiring the perfect people is the most vital task to accomplish right now and we’ve done that to this point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._Salvatore 

And if it is his Forgotten Realms books this MMO is based on I will be a very happy gamer.

Anyone kow what he means by R A ?

Damn I hope it is Salvatore.

Originally posted by Rikimaru_X

 

 

Ohhhhh, so the way I act online is suposed to reflect my actions or attitude offline?  Don't come in my topic and TRY to MAN UP to me then say "sorry". You already lost that chance long ago. If you want to take the forums serious even in a topic like this (or the two lousy things you have against me) , I think there are other places you should go.

Replying in my topic don't make you a man...heh.

Not sure if that was a question or if you are trying to say that your behaviour here does not reflect your offline self, there is the answer in any case.

Exactly how "long" ago did I lose my chance to man up, or say sorry?

To be honest I am unsure wich of the two I lost my chance at, or is it both?

Because not only were my post really short, you replied to it fairly quickly, then again perhaps Ninjas have a different sense of time then the rest of us lowly beings.

And pray tell, when do I state I take this seriously?

More importantly though, with this new revelation that you are in fact "joking", what makes you the only one allowed to do that?

And absolutely nowere did I imply that replying in your topic made me a man, if I implied anything it was that the opposite is true.

And saying I was sorry was a courtesy, not to you but to the other people here for the knee-jerk response I knew was coming from you, and behold, it did.

Now Riki, repeat after me.

"Other people are allowed to make jokes to"

Even if they are about you.

Umbrood is out.

Cant believe I am replying to a Riki thread, but here goes.

- Does not refer to himself in third person.

- Does not think he is a Ninja.

Cant really blame him for being intimidated by you, if you are half the nutjob RL that you are here then id be bloody afraid to.

It just had to be said, sorry.

What Orca said.

It is fast paced, pointless fun.

I play from time to time, actually had my account since they launched it outside asia, yet only lvl 27.

It is with games like it is with books or movies or any form of entertainment, sometimes you want Weekend at Bernies, sometimes you want The Ninth Gate. ( If you have not seen that movie then do so ).

From what I heas MS is a huge financial success, was an article not long ago in a Swedish newspaper on how kids wasted fairly large sums of money on their avatars, new hairstyles, clothes or whatever in their item mall, just to be "cool".

The weird thing with MS's item mall is that it only sells "fluff", like said hairtsyles, no uber items, and yet the kids trip over themself to spend the cash.

Its not a bad game if you see it for what it is, a tool to kill an hour now and then without much effort.

Originally posted by Coldmeat

 

 

No shit? <- For the sarcasm impaired, I am already well aware of Wine, and Cedega. As for Macs, I could give two shits if Macs allow you to communicate directly with god, they still suck.

Also, not the point.

Some douchebags are crying because they couldn't log in to a video game server for a few days. What they really need to do is man up, and stop crying like bitches. XBL Gold is what $8ish a month? Service was spotty for a week, so divide 8x4... $2. There's your fucking refund. Same thing you get if your phone, or cable, or internet goes out for a bit. And I guarantee one or more of the three have gone out in the last year(probably more than once), regardless of your carrier/isp.

Hell, they're giving out a free game for what should be a $2 refund. A 1600 pt card is $19.99 at EB, etc. So, 10 bucks for an 800 pt game. I fail to see the huge issue that it requires a lawsuit, given the Microsoft apologized, and are giving everyone a free game, since it's likely easier for them than trying to credit one week of service.

Shit happens. Servers crash. Get over it, and grow the hell up already.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A bitch to me is someone who takes it up the ass without complaining.

A Grown up is someone who sends the soup back if it sucks, or returns an item because it did not fulfill its promises.

At least to me the exact opposite of what you seem to associate them things with.

But each to their own I guess.

Originally posted by Aelfinn

The problem with both Blu-ray and HDDVD is that, niether of them are in fact the "wave of the future". They have all the weaknesses of standard DvDs and few actual advantages.

Just wait and see, not 5 years from now both systems will be outdated, most likely replaced by cartridges similar in function to our current flash drives and HiDef downloads. In the meantime, I won't be wasting my money.

A non-mechanical system, as in no moving parts, will by all probability be available in the not so distant future, and be far superior both in terms of longevity and reliability.

I have 4x500Gb drives in my computer, all but the c:\ disc is set to 15 minute power down on non-access because when they all wind up my entire apartment start to shake, well almost.

Most people probably likes the idea of freeform style play, because it do sound awesome in theory.

But faced with the reality of it, what it will take in terms of investment to get something out of such a game, I think most people will just go back to their easily digested entertainment, much like they do with TV, Movies, Books, Art, Music or whatever form there migth be.

All forms of entertainment gives back to you as a multiple of what you put in.

But with the wold looking as it does most people will just look for the smallest common denominator, as in asking, "What can give me the most entertainment for the least personal investment".

Any producer that understands this and truely hits the sweetspot, like WoW, will indeed reek in the rewards.

And come the end of the day very few, if any, is in this for altruistic reasons, these things are big business and for the time being WoW is the yardstick against wich all others are measured.

I do not blame producers for trying to get in on that action.

This will settle though as they start to realise that for now this market only has room for one WoW and the road to success is not to try to topple the giant because lets face it, it is probably totally futile at this point.

If you offer the same thing that WoW has, without actually having WoW then how do you convince people to NOT play WoW and play your game?

After all if I want a WoW like gaming experience there is absolutely no substitute to the real thing.

In my opinion the only way to at least have a partial success to day you need to offer something different.

Be that what it may.

Ah EVE, on of my MMO love/hate relationships.

First, about the sandbox, it is not a sandbox ( freeform from here on ) until you realise its full potential.

The new players I am sure do not see what makes this thing freeform.

It is all in the eye of the beholder, and you do not really get the full view until you have played for quite some time, get to know the industry and market of EVE, as well as its 0.0 conflicts that drives both of these things.

It still is freeform though, even though it may not look like it at first glance.

To the new player this is simply a quest for cash and a slow path to better ships and equipment.

CCP have done a lot to remedy this though, the tutorial now in place is very good, I tried it even though I started long before it was in place, it sets you up with enough cash, some gear and perhaps even an implant to get you well on your way with a good basic understanding of the game.

They increased the starting SP from varying between I think 10k-120k to settle around 900k, wich in the beginning is well over a month of play, until you have your learning skills.

I think the learning skills is one of the biggest hurdles for new players, most every old player will tell you to go for these first, and this is sound advice of course, it will benefit you in the long run.

Myself however tend to disagree with this, I say gor for fun first, and start on the learning skills when you know you are in it for the long run, going for the usual 5/4/3 setup ( 5 in the actual learning skill, 4 in basic, 3 in advanced ), in all skills, although most skip charisma, is something like 500k SP, wich will take you about 3 weeks tops.

But waiting with this for a month or two will not cost you all that much, at the very most a week total slower learning during that time.

Loss of ships and clones will not bother you much if you go prepared, a clone and good insurance will make you come out with no skill loss and an economic loss that migth well sting but wont crush you.

Insurance do not cover modules, and when you start moving into t2 ships it will not cover much of that cost either, I do not even insure my t2 ships, but that is a much later problem.

EVE is an aquired taste for most people, you get out of it what you put in, and the beginning can be troublseome no doubt, this is probably why EVE has one of the longest trials out there, and it still may not be enough for you to ge into it.

But its cheap as well, 20euro for the game with one month sub gives you a play time of 6 weeks for peanut money, by wich time you should be pretty sure about wether or not you like it or not.

At that point you sit at about 2m SP, wich is not all that bad and if you skipped lvl5 skills should let you fly both frigates and cruisers with some success.

About the huge SP differences between players, remember that over 75% of all skillpoints is the step from 4 to 5 and using the same ship, skills and modules someone with 40m SP will only have a minute advantage over someone with 10m.

Allthough lvl5 skills usually lets you move into tech 2 modules and ships with all things being even skillpoints do not matter as much as most people lets you think.

The two most important things to remember.

1. Do not fly something you can not afford to loose, I know this is starting to sound kilché, but it just can not be stated enugh.

2.  It is all about setup, skills and experience do matter but if you pick a role and equip for it you will be far more efficient then anyone that tries to be jack of all trades, regardless of how many skillpoints they have.

Sorry for the windy post.. ;)

Originally posted by spankybus

I think a LOT of people are going to hate whatever they make....because people are already drumming up absurd expectations...and they've no idea about anything of the game, save that SOMETHING is being made...

 

 

Remember that game "Fable" and all teh hype that went with it...well...i don't think the game was that bad, it was actually pretty fun. However, because all of the promioses that its producers made never surfaced...people hated the game...because it wasn't what they were expecting.

 

In this case, its not even the game developers doing it...its players with no clue about anything, already setting themselves up for dissapointment.

Spot on.

Ever since the release of AO, ( Wich honestly have since evolved to something good ), I try to not have any expectations what so ever.

After all, it is much more fulfilling to bo pleasantly surprised then the opposite, and if you build un-achievable air castles you are pretty much certain to be.

Originally posted by Samuraisword

You know the Romans enslaved most of the known world at the time and stole land from countless ethnic groups. Should Italy compensate all those people?

Do not really care what the natives do in America, I assume this is more a political standpoint then anything else, fully realised this emancipation, or whatever you want to call it, would probably spell doom for its inhabitants.

But this discussion do bring up another point, that pretty much all of us in the western world has at least some interest in, not just the US.

For how long should a country be held accountible for its transgressions?

Is there some international standard that governs this?

Or is it per treaty?

Saying that Germans do not pay amends for what happened during WW2 is simply not true, every german born since carries this stigma, rigth or wrong do not matter, that just how things are.

Saying that just because your family moved to the US in the early 1900's, or after whatever incident in question, they should not have to take any responsibility for it is also flawed.

Anyone moving to the US today and start to work pays for a national debt that was accumulated before they came there, they would be hard pressed to get a tax cut stating that it is not "their debts".

None the less, what is the opinion here, how long is your country, not you personally, accountible for its past transgressions?

25 years?

50?

100+?

My opinion is that it should be a pretty damn long time, of course this all depends on who writes the history and if the current population even sees anything wrong in what happened.

I suppose it is for as long as its inhabitants feel they have a moral debt to pay.

Highly subjective I know, but I think thats exactly what it needs to be.

It seems to me that trying to promote your playstyle, and get others to embrace it by insulting the people you are trying to convert is a less then brilliant move.

I find it ironic that very often when these discussions come up, be it Darkfall, EVE, UO or whatever, the arguing technique is ALWAYS this, the pre-adolescent "IF you do not do this you are a coward/idiot", or both.

Honestly, how old are you when you argue like that?

How smart are you?

How ignorant are they when in the same breath they not only try to come of as intelligent, but by some twist of their mind they actually think they are?

I do play EVE, I do like the sandbox style, I absolutely loath the people that are trying to promote it in this manner.

People like that should not be allowed to talk in favor of anything, unless it is a freak show or the special olympics.

Why are they doing this, really?

Tjoff.

I just got the expansion, downloading rigth now.

I am sure you will get to hear fairly shortly how I progress in there. ;)

( This assuming you are the Endorin I know? )

How about the space shuttle?

Or the entire NASA for that matter.

Pretty much the only thing I admire about the US these days is tied into them 4 letters.

Sad really how a country can plummet from such heights so quickly, barely ten years ago the US was the envy of the world.

Now it is pretty much the antagonist of the entire world.

Sader still is that a large portion of the population does not seem to care that this is the case, why is this?

Trying to use the search function in this place is only marginally more useful then trying to use the warp drive on a Nissan Micra.

On another note, enough acid and the Micra migth actually launch, no amount of drugs will fix the search here though.

Always done this, ever since AO early beta, we were 3 people on the same account ( We got a guild account that let us all log in at the same time. )

Come to think of tit, we did it even earlier, with Diablo 2 for muling purposes, was nice to have a second install.

AO, I did play AC as well but I had no RL friends in there so no sharing, EQ2, Horizon, Neocron, Vanguard, WoW, pretty much every game I have played since I have had access to friends accounts, and they to mine.

I now play EVE and there you pretty much need a friend who can access you account if for nothing else to set your skills if you can not get in for a while for some reason. 

This bug is somewhat bad, but not gamebreaking.

It pales in comparison to the POS bugs currently in the game, of wich I have heard no official response.

Originally posted by KnivesOnly

Rofl all the reviews it's getting ont he site now cause of this...

http://uk.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/kanelynchdeadmen/players.html?tag=hotslot;yousay

 

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I watched the review and I could not see anything wrong with it as far as a review should be made.

It was on topic, he explained the flaws and why he did not like it and it was indeed professional.

This one is going to be fun to follow, I REALLY hope gamespot and eidos take some damage from this, I know I will try to do my part to make that happen. 

Nice to see gaming news that is actually news worthy for once.

Allthough the norm for human civilisation is 1Atm and 21% oxygen there are a lot of humans living sucessfully under different environmental circumstances.

People high up in the himalayas for example, not sure what the oxygen level is at 4000 meters, but I bet it is not 21%, nor is the atmospheric pressure 1.

And take some of the more polluted industrial regions in asia, conditions there is grim tp say the least, and allthough many is not healthy they do survive.

Humans are if anything versatile and adaptable, add our borderline idiotic curiosity and there is no way we will not at some point live of earth, if for no other reason than "its there".

There is nothing that says that we need to create an entire eco system similar to earth to be able to live somewere, environmental control can be very localized.

Think total recall.

But again, we are to curious to not go, in fact this curiosity is probable what is going to kill us all.

The last words spoken before the end of the universe will almost certainly be.

"I wonder what happens if I do this?"

Perhaps someone with a bit more time can check at wich extremes of the scale humans are sucessfully existing?

We had a russian living on mir for over 700 days as example, returning to earth was no picknick for him, but he survived.

I play story based games like eq2 for just that, story, exploration, companionship, just because people do not bother with the backstory and all that "reading" part, does not mean there is none.

To say there is no storyline in eq2 is like saying there are no rocks on the moon.

I play EVE for its financial simulation, wich is indeed awesome and has a crafting system that is almost life like in its complexity. This is PvP for the brain if you will, to outdo the compeition.

I play FPS, ( or in rare instances RTS ), for my player to player skill-of.

PvP in MMO's is for people that have some form of disfunction that makes them unable to cut it in real games, and make up for it with time investment.

Quite frankly, and not to be rude or politically incorrect but whenever I see people tooting their MMO pvp "skillz" I see Stephen Hawking before me, wich is my hero in many respects but lets be honest, he just would not cut it in quake4 but would probably do ok in a MMO.

Just my 2cents.

Allthough your actions falls on the "less brilliant" side I do doubt they can do this within the reaches of the law.

It would be similar to them demanding back all your boxed games as well, wich I am 100% certain they can not do.

They have the technical power to cut you of from their services, but I do not think they can take back what they sold to you without a refund, wich is actually what they did.

It is like someone getting caugth shoplifting being ordered to return every item they ever purchased from that store, with no money back, I very VERY much doubt any company could get that trough court.

I like the car warranty anaology, they were correct in voiding the car insurance, but would they get away with voiding his house, life, medical without a refund as well if it was in the same compnay?

Wich is what happened here.

Highly doubtful.

Again, this was not a smart move on your part, but the law protects the feeble minded as well.