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Originally posted by Tyres100

Originally posted by Laserwolf

It was that scary Skeleton looking guy Fox News always interviews. I think he is from the Washington Journal or post or something. Also, I apologize about getting more personal than I should have. It's late and I saw 4 or 5 of these anti-MSNBC, anti-Democrat posts pop up and am just trying to get a little counter in before I get to bed. I know a lot of people scan these before they head off to work or school in the morning and  it is easy to believe something second or third-hand if it is the only source of info and is repeated enough times by enough people.

 

But yeah, I thought it wasn't pro-Obama enough. I don't blame her for that, but rather the democrats themselves. If they hadn't cried foul so long and loud she would have probably been happy to deliver a more Pro-Obama Speech. At this point it only helps her if Obama wins. If I was a Democratic Senator looking at a potential High Democratic Majority Congress I'd sure as hell want a Democratic Executive branch.

 

Who James Carvele?

This guy:

 

Anywho to the OP it doesn't matter much when they are all at the DNC and all knowingly are informed it is for Obama. Come on, do we have anything else we can nit pick these days besides Hillary mentioning Obama's name only 6 times? Just crazy.

last time I voted, I voted straight Republican ticket, except in one case.  I voted for the 3rd party running against McCain's Senate seat.  Yup, I live in Arizona, I voted against McCain, I voted for Duncan Hunter in the primaries.

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Originally posted by King-Kong

i think this post makes a very good point

not only should there be positive motivators for players but also there should be many mysteries...some things should happen due to semi-random factors so that nobody can nail anything down and then macro it away...

in other words, if doing certain things will gain a player some status, the amounts of those things should be random

some players may  get luckier than others but it would all be fair overall if random...

if players dont know exactly what they need to do to progress, then it will keep them entertianed

 

Shifting resources created a mystery for many gatherers, we never knew where the best resource was and had to explore to find it.  And it didn't massively imballance the entire game either.

Originally posted by Tzimiscechi

Originally posted by AckbarNL

Originally posted by Tzimiscechi

Originally posted by Wakizashi
Remember when there were no Jedi in the game? People played the game... Shame on all of you.

Bite me. Go yell at Sony.

They said "And unlock the secrets of the Jedi" on the box. That's all I saw, all I wanted and all I worked for. It's not my fault they did it poorly. It's not my fault that they decided to include Jedi. In fact, they were advertising to people like me.

Without that sales pitch, most people wouldn't have been in the game. I didn't destroy the game by making the Jedi system - Sony did.

The only crime I committed was actually liking their game.

That aside - I heard a net rumor that the way to open Jedi was to go to the guild house of your original profession and find someone inside who acted like a noble but wasn't. Supposedly after running some missions for this character, the Jedi slot would open.

After three hours of doing the same four quests over and over and over I decided the rumor was false....

 

 

Yes yes...i understand...its not your faulth, but what i still don't understand is why almost everyone wanted to be jedi, i gess it has soemthing to do whit beinig all powerfull and such and beinig the best...i gess to few people relised that it would destroy the game, sony/lucas focusing to much attation to the jedi...yes its still there faulth, thay sould have never listen to all the caps,claim, crys threads and the game would have turend out prety decent.

They advertised "Unlock the secrets of the Jedi." After they said it, they had to do it...or face lawsuits.

I'm just tired of being blamed for the death of the game. It's not the players fault. It's Sony's fault. But I'm still the one getting screamed at.

Yes - I wanted to be a Jedi. Yes - it's the only reason I played the game. Yes - I wouldn't have bought the stupid game unless I thought I'd get my Jedi.

Yeah - anyone with foresight could have told them that eventually there would come a day when the servers would be packed with Jedis no matter what they do to discourage it.

But, these are the people who thought the NGE was a great idea....

 

You can play jedi now.  It's as easy as 1,2,3.

Enjoy.

I played cause at the time the graphics were great, and because it was a sandbox game.  I never wanted to be a "jedi".

Obama wants CHANGE!

He wants climate change and your pocket change.

Already the video game industry has overtaken Hollywood in revenue.  Don't tell me the money isn't there.

Color is pretty much a pointless debate since you can change the gamma, brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, red, green, blue by simply right clicking on the desktop.

People just don't want to WOW'ize the game, including me, so they'll nitpick at everything.

You guys do realize why the necromancer was canned.  Because it takes up allot bandwidth if you have an army of 40 skeletons running around, and Blizzard doesn't want to pay for extra bandwidth.  Also I suspect that having 40 skeletons running around could tax the graphics processing in a 3D environment.  This is very bad considering Diablo is all about spamming, spamming firewall, spamming fireball, spamming whirlwind, SPAMMING SKELETONS.  Diablo is all about spamming. 

So I suspect Blizzard is already down the path of WOW'izing the game.  It is unfortunate cause WOW combat is really borring.

Theres a really nasty Malware going around.   And I think it starts with video codecs.

I was, you know, innocently surfing the internet for reviews of "Ice Age 2".  So I came up to a website that looked like the entire movie was there, and I was like wow that's amazing, so I clicked on it.  Ice Age 2 played for 3 minutes then stopped.

A few minutes later I was diverted to a website saying something like, "You are infected, purchase AntiVirus 2009".  It looked pretty professionally done, except I also noticed my desktop wallpaper also said the same thing, and usually professionally done software doesn't aggressively advertise by changing your desktop wallpaper.   I quickly rebooted my computer, and my desktop wallpaper still said the same thing, saying I was infected and I should purchase AntiVirus 2009.  I knew I was screwed.

So I startup Lavasoft's Adaware, and before running it I hit "Update".  IT WOULDN'T UPDATE! 

So I went to Lavasoft.com and I was diverted to another website advertisement. 

So I went to Norton's website and I was diverted to another advertisement. 

So I typed into the google searchbar Lavasoft.com, and FIREFOX didn't do anything.  I was blocked.

So I uninstall firefox, reinstall firefox, and it didn't help.

So I went to microsoft.com and tried to install their free virus protection thing, and I couldn't validate my windows, the validate button didn't do anything.

I surfed the internet for people having problems Keyword "Antivirus 2009", and came up with these forums, and half of the forums were blocked or diverted, so I had to copy and paste their address into firefox, sometimes it worked, sometimes those forums were blocked.  But these werent:

http://www.eggxpert.com/forums/thread/379222.aspx

http://groups.teenhelp.org/showthread.php?p=1319733

http://willtoexist.com/malware-hijacked-my-google-toolbar-and-killed-search_1167/

I noticed that everytime I surfed I was always going to analitic-checks.google.com, and connection was sluggish.   So in the forums someone suggested using Apple's browser.  So I try to go to Apple's Safari website, and I was diverted, I typed the name into the toolbar and I was blocked.  So I use the computer next to me to download Safari, installed it on my computer to see if it worked.  IT DIDN'T, safari was comprimised also, I was either blocked or diverted.  

So to sum it up, safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer browsing either diverted me or entirely blocked the websites of Norton, Microsoft, Hijackthis, Lavasoft, and all other websites which have forums or software that deal with virus, malware, and spyware.  And to make it worse, I read this malware was only a month or a couple weeks old and there probably wasn't a definition file on it yet. 

And I also read that if you DO click on the antivirus 2009 link you are even more screwed then I was, with popup gallore.

Someone suggested I download Malwarebytes' Anti-Maleware, their website was blocked and diverted so I download it on another computer then put it on my computer, and it fixed it.  Phew.

So what I think what happened was that everytime I browsed, I was sent to analitic-checks.google.com, and analitic-checks.google.com had a database of websites it didn't want me to go to.  Specifically any website had real anti-virus-malware-spyware software was blocked and diverted, INCLUDING RANDOM FORUMS that get top google hits of "antivirus 2009".

Originally posted by Raithe-Nor

Originally posted by zethcarn

WoW is a linear quest-driven hold-my-hand from zone to zone game.  Noone cares about the open world really.  Plus all the good loot comes from instances between dungeons, raids, and PvP.

 

Really?  My brother is a no-one?  I'll have to tell him. I think he'll be surprised.

Want to know what people really don't care about, especially those interested in sandbox-style gaming?

They don't care about where you get your good loot.

Are you satisfied by the endgame in WOW?  Doing emotes in front of anonymous strangers to show off your leet loot?  Cause that is the goal in WOW, the goal is doing emotes in front of strangers to show off your leet overexadurated loot.

I just don't find that satisfying.

Originally posted by Raithe-Nor

Originally posted by RogueSeven

you CANT say something is sandbox compared to another game, it is sandbox or it isnt and WoW certainly isnt!

 

Complete nonsense.  WoW has a non-instanced open world that can be traversed with mounts.  It has crafting, farming, fishing, and trade.  It is a sandbox to many new players of the genre, and just because it has restrictions and lacks function that make it less than ideal for many gamers, that doesn't disqualify it as at least a semi-sandbox game.

One sandbox game is always going to have more function and less restrictions than another.  The style is a completely grey area, there are no absolutes.

You'll find yourself doing nothing but instances in WOW sometimes.  WOW is is a semi-persistant world, mostly instanced.

Originally posted by RogueSeven

Originally posted by Camisado

Originally posted by Belsameth

Originally posted by hubertgrove

The same style, polish, content and ingenuity of WoW plus landscapes at least ten times larger than the current zones, some dungeons instanced and some not (or at least, only the end boss instanced), player cities, player housing and player shops plus player crafted and made transport? Can you imagine that? Blizzard would have the GDP of Holland by Launch Date +1, I'd bet.

 

They wouldn't get much at all. Sandboxes aren't quite as popular as some might think.

Just look at Eve. Sure, it has a nice bunch of subscribers but nowhere near WoW's numbers :)

 

Wow is a sandbox compared to AoC and War... so whats ur point.

 

you CANT say something is sandbox compared to another game, it is sandbox or it isnt and WoW certainly isnt!

Well, maybe he can, there are some games out there where your freedom of movement and choices are about as diverse as a literal rat maze with one piece of cheese at the end. 

That's how WOW improved on Everquest.  Everquest had some really really narrow options for your character. 

You ALWAYS grinded at zone A at level 1-5. 

You ALWAYS grinded at zone B at level 5-10. 

You ALWAYS grinded at zone C at level 11-15.

Some could say, in comparison to Everquest, WOW is more-of-ah-Thandbox.  But say it with a lisp.

Originally posted by Belsameth

Originally posted by hubertgrove

The same style, polish, content and ingenuity of WoW plus landscapes at least ten times larger than the current zones, some dungeons instanced and some not (or at least, only the end boss instanced), player cities, player housing and player shops plus player crafted and made transport? Can you imagine that? Blizzard would have the GDP of Holland by Launch Date +1, I'd bet.

 

They wouldn't get much at all. Sandboxes aren't quite as popular as some might think.

Just look at Eve. Sure, it has a nice bunch of subscribers but nowhere near WoW's numbers :)

EVE online has some serious game breaking issues for a wide audience. 

Many people don't like the real time training (you'll never catch up to someone whos been subsribed longer then you.) 

Many people don't like having to grind for a month then get ganked at a gate camp and lose everything to someone who's been subscribed longer then them.

Originally posted by Raithe-Nor

Not everyone who plays games plays or has played World of Warcraft.  WoW players are actually in the minority when compared to all gamers worldwide, and it probably isn't even as popular as some other Wii, PS3, or XBox game.  Obviously, because of that fact, Blizzard should stop working on it immediately and appeal to the greater audience... .

First of all, WoW is a sandbox game for many people.  My brother's exclamation after playing WoW for a couple of months was "you can do anything you want in the game."  He just hasn't figured out (yet) that there are even bigger possibilities for an online game.

Second, just because something is in smaller demand than something else does not necessarily make the project with the smaller base a worse choice.  The smaller base may be longer lasting and more loyal when it comes to word-of-mouth advertising.  A project with steady & slowly increasing income can easily overtake one which has a lot of initial income but quickly declines. 

Third, for all the people saying sandbox is the minority style, why is EVE doing as well or better than many of the newer semi-sandbox MMOs that have come out, and unlike most of them is increasing subscriber numbers at a fairly steady rate?

Lastly, a genre name is supposed to mean something.  You don't just take the MMORPG genre, convert all your games to whatever is most popular, and call them "MMORPGs" because you want to appeal to a new crowd as well as an old loyal one.  As someone who played MMOs and MUDs extensively in the late 80s in college, then took a pretty long break before coming back, I can say that is exactly what has happened with MMORPGs.  Somehow, fantasy adventure and fantasy-baseball-like genres have been brought in and labelled "MMOG" (dropping the RP), as if redefining an entire genre was good strategy or even possible.  Because MMORPGs have historically been associated with sandbox-style gaming, it's causing a lot of confusion in the industry.

Ultimately the point is that the anti-sandbox crowd probably needs to get off their high horse, cause they are actually riding chihuahuas.

Hard to ride chihuahuas when they're sh*TTING ALL OVER THE PLACE!!!!!

Anyone have any pointers for potty training them?

Originally posted by ryman

Originally posted by Kulthos

Originally posted by nariusseldon

I don't know what the developers intend to do but if this is going to be WOW in space then i wills tay clear. I would like to see open PVP with serious penalties.

 

No. Just no. It is been quite clear that stiff penalties is NOT what players want. That is one of the reasons why Eve, while good, is still so niche.

 

 

EVE is for masochists.  I want a fun game where I can't lose several weeks worth of play by getting killed while traveling from point A to point B.  If Jumpgate is trying to be EVE, EVE already has that niche. 

 

Nah, EVE is for people who enjoy challenges, AKA not the average Joe like yourself. Eat some McDs.. Yum...

EVE is for people who are subscribed longer.

Originally posted by Torak

Check out

 

Beyond Protocol

www.beyondprotocol.com/phpnuke/html/

 

the MMORTS

 

 

Minor little problem, Beyond Protocol is in closed beta.

Originally posted by Rinic

Looks kinda boring.

I specifically used terms like "Civilization" and "Master of Orion" so if you don't like those games, then don't look.

Originally posted by gillvane1

Originally posted by Nerf09

Originally posted by KvenTelGhoul
Sandbox is what all MMORPGs should be. IMO its what makes the genre unique. When you log onto a server it should be completely different than the one you usually play on. The players should shape the environment. I think Oblivion is a good example of what a sandbox could be. You could have a linear path of quests and such like most games but you could also have fun and never even do one single quest.

 

Oblivion isn't a sandbox game. 

You become leader of the mage guild, kill the necromancer leader and your effect on the world is zero and there are still necromancers running around oblivious to the fact that their great leader is dead. 

If it were really a sandbox game, and you wanted to be the leader of the "mage's guild" you wouldn't have to do Quest A followed by Quest B followed by Quest C followed by Quest D E F G H I J K L...   You could create an uprising among the necromancers to overthrow the mage's guild leader, or you could just go around killing mages until the mage's guild can't take it anymore and they accept you as leader.

It's a questing game.  Sure the spell crafting is great, and the NPC scripting is better, and the graphics are beautiful but it is NOT a sandbox game.

 

I think this shows how people focus on different areas of gameplay, when referring to a "sandbox" game.

Some people focus on the world, and being able to change the world, like in this example overthrowing the Mages guild and becoming it's new leader, or destroying it, or making it the most powerful guild in the world, etc.

Other people focus on their character, which is why they think only games with "skills" are a sandbox, so they can shoot lightening spells, wear armor, wield a sword, turn invisible, fish, and build a boat.

But if you're focused on the world, obviously you could overturn the mages guild even if you couldn't turn invisible or fish.

And another little minor detail, a single player game can never be a "sandbox".

THIS IS IT!  No hexagons, no warp-lanes, no wormholes, distance is calculated in 3 dimensions to the decimal point *cries*. 

The genre is finally advancing (4X + massive multiplayer). 

Why did it take 10+ years?

I'm psyched.

Originally posted by KvenTelGhoul
Sandbox is what all MMORPGs should be. IMO its what makes the genre unique. When you log onto a server it should be completely different than the one you usually play on. The players should shape the environment. I think Oblivion is a good example of what a sandbox could be. You could have a linear path of quests and such like most games but you could also have fun and never even do one single quest.

Oblivion isn't a sandbox game. 

You become leader of the mage guild, kill the necromancer leader and your effect on the world is zero and there are still necromancers running around oblivious to the fact that their great leader is dead. 

If it were really a sandbox game, and you wanted to be the leader of the "mage's guild" you wouldn't have to do Quest A followed by Quest B followed by Quest C followed by Quest D E F G H I J K L...   You could create an uprising among the necromancers to overthrow the mage's guild leader, or you could just go around killing mages until the mage's guild can't take it anymore and they accept you as leader.

It's a questing game.  Sure the spell crafting is great, and the NPC scripting is better, and the graphics are beautiful but it is NOT a sandbox game.