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• • MMO for the young ones.....

  • Originally posted by XxNevaehxX
    

    Hey guys

    Ok so heres the deal my God son who's 5 watches me play MMO/MMORPG's and hes really into them..can any of you suggest a good MMO that's not so hard preferably one that uses the mouse alot and has alot of cool looking monsters.

    Thanks in advanced.

     

    SOE will be releasing Free Realms pretty soon.  It'll probably be the best kidfriendly MMO once it hits.  I'm only saying that because most of the other such stuff I've seen has really been meh.

  • Posted: 9/07/08 12:29 AM
    General Discussion
• • Are WoW server economies in recession?

  • Originally posted by Roxianna
    

    I wondered if this was a server thing or the WoW economies in general are slowing down because people are in wait mode fro the expansion.

    
    

     

    That.  People are realizing that Wrath will have its share of goldsinks, so they're buckling down and hording their gold.  Blizzard talked about fancy new mounts.  I doubt they're going to be free.  Probably some massive training costs to even use them, too.  I've got a hunter, and he's going to have to buy the new stable slots when Wrath hits.  The list will probably go on with additional stuff that they haven't even talked about.

    I'm thinking what I'm sure a lot of people are thinking.  Everything we have now will be useless in a few months, so why bother?

     

  • Posted: 9/06/08 11:07 PM
    World of Warcraft
• • Fishing Tournament

  • Originally posted by Kabbax
    

    Thanks for the link Lucrecia, I hadn't checked wowhead.

    Searched it on Google and got the IGN guide which was enough to get me started.

    I did notice that i wouldn't always get a tasty fish even when i would land my line dead center of the node. I'd get stone eels, or oily black mouths etc..

    Maybe i'll get luckier next week if i get a chance to be on for the start again.

     

    About fast win times, it's possible to get it in about 15 minutes in one very specific situation.

    Anyway, I've won twice.  The only reason I didn't win three times was because I decided not to be a prick and take the victory from somebody who could actually use the reward.  On this third time, I helped somebody else.  He won, even though I had more fish than he did when I whispered him to tell him how.  To clarify, these three occasions were out of the first six times I had done the contest.  Out of the remaining three times, I was able to call the winner on one just by watching her and realizing she had figured out what I had.  After that, I just did it for the rare fish.  Out of all of the people that I know who have won at all, almost all of them have won twice, and the only reason they haven't won more is because they don't need to.

    My point with all this is that it's not about luck.  You will hear that it is from some people.  These are the people who have never won or have only gotten their victories after years of trying.

    In terms of useful advice, it would be easiest for me to show you in-game.  I play on Velen, for what it's worth.  If you're on another server, I could probably just roll a level 1 toon.

  • Posted: 9/02/08 10:57 PM
    World of Warcraft
• • *grumble*

  • Originally posted by unknown22
    

    hahaha

    ok.. maybe its just me.. maybe i am the only woman who prefers older men and doesn't eye down the younguns for fun..

    oh, and i have no problem with revealing my age... it says it right in my username.

    
    Just wait until you hit your late thirties and forties.  You might suddenly find yourself paying a lot of attention to those twenty-somethings around you.

    
    
  • Posted: 9/02/08 10:17 PM
    General Discussion
• • Google Chrome Browser.

  • This isn't really about speed or functionality.  When Chrome takes off, your idea of what a browser is will change.

    You've all heard this before, but it's about web-based applications.  One of the big things holding Google back in this department was the lack of compatibility from either IE or Firefox.  That's what Chrome is meant to be, a real platform for this kind of thing.  The emphasis is on platform.  Ten years from now, you will tell your kids that you had to physically install Office on your computer, and they will look at you like you're on crack.

    To make it more clear, Chrome is not meant to compete against IE or Firefox.  It's meant as a direct attack on Windows itself.  Microsoft is already on the road to losing one of their main advantages, the fact that Windows is currently the only platform for almost all of the applications used by both major corporations and end users.  You see, in under a decade, essentially all of that software will not even deal with the OS layer, just with the browser.  Microsoft realizes this and has released their own, proprietary of course, set of standards to facilitate this.  Google wants to undercut them here.  They want to strangle MS of their monopolistic leverage by hoping their free, open standard alternative takes hold.

    I don't know for sure whether Google will be the ones to force this change.  It will happen eventually, but it may not be them.  They're certainly the most likely party, though.  Google has already lined up agreements with most of the major PC manufacturers to ship Chrome stock with their machines.  Plus they can leverage Chrome by using their search engine.  Microsoft is in no position to stop them.  If MS even says one word about this to manufacturers, MS will again find itself on the losing end of an antitrust suit.  They have no chance of victory this time, since the precedent of their own previous defeats alone would sink them.

  • Posted: 9/02/08 10:03 PM
    General Discussion