Recent content by Kendrick_foh

You"re making the assumption that WoW was ever viewed as direct competition. Same general market, yes, same clientele, not necessarily. And going after the biggest possible market at the expense of all else isn"t always a good idea. That concept seems to escape a lot of people for some...

WoW shipped 2.5yearsafter we went into production. Even if we WANTED to emulate WoW"s system reqs, that"s 2.5 years of artwork production thrown out the window, 2.5 years of engine tweaking thrown out the window, etc. You can"t reverse course easily in a multi-year project. Gameplay changes...

Remember, our "gamespace" back in 2002 was the 400k-600k EQ/DAoC/AC1/AO players. And that gamespace had shown it was more than willing to pony up for hardware upgrades in the past. EQ1 sold a lot of Voodoo and Riva cards and tons of P3"s and P4"s and monitors, Luclin sold a lot of RAM As for...

No, you"re full of shit or something Ut. Luckily for me, I don"t work in the industry now, so I can shoot back if I feel like it. EDIT: I see your retraction, appreciate it to a degree, but read on. First off, with the above ad hominen out of the way, fuck you very much. I don"t think you...

No, it was a 3 AM, 20+ Red Bull-induced joke. We"d already made all the items to put on the Warders, and had their loot tables done. We thought it would be funny to add the Cloth Caps, and btw, the cap drops didn"t impact the regular loot drops, they were in addition to the good stuff. Ut has...

Oh, I can answer that one, but it"s pretty much the same answer Brad"s given dozens of times. Perhaps I can put a bit more perspective on it though. EQ1 had no such expandibility, starting in Velious we had a full time engine guy trying to upgrade the Pyrotechnics engine (which 989 had...

"Here"s today"s menu... Egg and bacon Egg, sausage and bacon Egg and Vanguard bashing Egg, bacon and Vanguard bashing Egg, bacon, sausage and Vanguard bashing Vanguard bashing, bacon, sausage and Vanguard bashing Vanguard bashing, egg, Vanguard bashing, Vanguard bashing, bacon and...

You"re running Vista, right? Fix is simple, download the latest DX9 and install it, that gives you the .dll file you need. Strange that DX10 that ships with Vista doesn"t include all the latest DX9 files, but that"s the case. Doh, replied to this before I saw the five other poeple that beat...