Recent content by Grave_foh

Also, a tip for the future: never fucking do that. Do NOT bring up an ex or any other guy for that matter as if you feel inferior. I don"t care if she"s gawking at some dude on the sidewalk or something when she"s with you. You do that too much and you become less and less attractive in her...

Tough it out if she"s really what you want. If you have the time you can do things like watch shows together over the net. I know it sounds lame, but it works. I dated a girl that loved doing that when we couldn"t see each other. We"d just both get online (hulu or netflix or whatever) and watch...

Well, it is looking like I can continue to help Kenny out without divulging the information. Things are sort of taking the right course without me doing it. He asked me to have a few beers earlier this evening and as we talked I could tell he was really on the fence about the whole thing. To...

Yeah, she"s pretty unwound and on various drugs. She has actually showed up at the office screaming and throwing shit whenever she and Kenny had fights in the past. She depends on him for money and general care even though she draws a check (it isn"t enough to sustain her habits) so if she knows...

This is correct and is definitely part of my dilemma. I worked with him and we got along well, but he"s not someone I hang out with regularly or even see anymore now that we aren"t working together. My only contact with him is IMing. That said, I still hate holding info that could wake this guy...

Need some advice my dear FoH companions. Not so much for my own relationships, but my role in someone elses drama here. The backstory: I"ve worked with this guy, Kenny, for nearly a year. He"s an all right dude, and has been married to this chick we"ll call Casey for the past 10 years...

I say that because in 2005 WoW was still new, the literal explosion of popularity hadn"t quite happened yet. Sure it was huge with MMO gamers, but it was awhile after that when it really started to penetrate the mainstream. I think a lot of female gamers came in after the word of mouth really...

I wasn"t saying it would make or break it, but having wider appeal is certainly something to consider. Usually, if a casual gamer (gender aside, not trying to be sexist here) can just sit down and enjoy your game, you have something good on your hands. I don"t know if its something...

This is exactly what I was saying needs to be avoided. I certainly think there"s room for a big ground-based sci-fi game, but I would hope it wouldn"t be done like this. WoW is great, yes, but copying its gameplay does not equal success. WoW"s success is beyond the design, beyond the...

There"s no way a Starcraft MMO would have the same mass market appeal that WoW does. I"m sure it"d be popular, but not nearly on the same level. Keep in mind that a large part of Starcraft"s success was its level of balance and highly competitive play. Could they recapture that in an MMO? People...

Precisely, and that"s the problem with all of these games that look at WoW as their design bible. I"m not saying WoW didn"t do anything right, far from it, it"s the best designed MMO ever made and I can say that even through my EQ nostalgia. But it"s far, far from perfect at the same time...

WoW is just an absolute phenomenon. I don"t think you can relate subscription rates to design choices at this point. I"m pretty sure they could do anything they wanted, terrible design or great design, and the subs will just keep rising. It"s unlike anything else at this point. It"s grown to the...

I hated this. It was one of the worst things about EQ2. "Here, try this dull, generic archetype for 20 levels so you can be sure whether or not you wanted to roll a Ranger!" It just doesn"t make sense to me to assume that people don"t know what they want or would like, so you try to ease...

Agreed. If nothing else, you should have a free trial of some sort right at launch. Nothing shows confidence in your product more than "Don"t take our word for it, try it for free." If your tutorial is interesting and story driven, ending on a high note that conveys how huge the world is...

They were boring, but the concept itself is a good one. Most tutorials act like the person is an absolute retard, which isn"t necessary. I get that you might feel that shooting for the lowest common denominator is the way to go with something like that, but it often just makes it feel...