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It"s possible, but it would take a tremendous amount of art assests.

Apply for entry level QA positions at a local software developer. It"s shit wages and you have to live in expensive areas where companies are located.

Curt has already stated this is his last year playing ball.

Except the 93 Blue Jays!

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I don"t think you can say that for sure. If WoW was only PvE it may not have all the subs it does, but it would still have millions and be hugely popular. Likewise if it was only PvP servers it would still be hugely popular. WoW PvP still has a lot of PvE, and with instances you can limit the...

I think one thing people forget about PvP in "older" games is that it basically sucked. Take the worst of the WoW PvP servers and that was the best you could hope for then. In UO you could be ganked, have all your shit stolen, your corpse chopped into pieces, cooked and eaten. That was great for...

Those sources seem to be rather old and by people I have never heard of. They are almost assuredly pre-WoW and don"t take into account many factors. Primarily, the type of game. You could point to EQ and say "they only had 4 PvP servers at peak", but EQ PvP sucked bad. That UO quote is funny...

Over half of the US servers are PvP. If you assume that everyone on a PvP server does some PvP then consider how many people on PvE servers do arena and battlegrounds, it"s easy to conclude that more than half of WoW players participate in PvP.

I"d wager that twinking in EQ practically saved it. If people didn"t have ways to eliminate the tedium of levelling up as designed they wouldn"t have suffered through it nearly as often as they did.

Yes, I reckon it is a moot point because Curt"s game isn"t likely to be group-centric, but that doesn"t change the fact that twinking is not a side-effect free act. It can and will have repricussions. The key is for the devs to acknowledge and address those before it"s too late. EQ didn"t have...

Heh, I was a necro in EQ. I knew what I did shouldn"t be allowed in the context of the game but hey, it worked. Screw grouping when I didn"t have to. Of course that was tempered with necros being a weak group class for the longest time.

No, you can"t blame people who don"t want to play but someone not playing with others when the game is designed that way means the result is just the same. Low pops, or a bunch of soloing twinks has the same result to those who are trying to experience the game as the devs envision. It"s not...

People not logging in does negatively impact a game that relies on people logging in. Look at Vanguard. Low pops = hard to find groups = boring ass game. In this hypothectical group-oriented game, grouping is the core of the gameplay experience. If you give people methods to circumvent that...

If none of your clique was rerolling and you wanted to complete some quests or kill some group content you would need others. And even if you didn"t group and just soloed it all, you are taking content meant for multiple people and consuming it all yourself. That may sound great to you, but it...

That"s pretty poor form, especially from a "site admin".

Bothers? No. Has an impact on the game and indirectly has an impact on me, or at least the average player? Yes. Small example: Let"s say you have your level 12 rogue twinked out. The content is mostly group oriented but this rogue can solo it. That is one less player that is participating in...

Except it does. It doesn"t have to be direct impact such as in a 1v1 PvP battle to have an effect on the game and the other players. People are often shortsighted though and don"t think past their own enjoyment to realize it. While your own enjoyment is why you pay for and play a game, having it...

There is a contingent of people (of whom you may not be one) that want a game to be "hard". They don"t want to make it hard, they just want it hard for everyone. Vanbois, I"m looking at you. The people who call WoW a McMMO or the pop music star of the month. You can make WoW as challenging or...

Twinking also defeats "challenge" which is something people like to claim they want. The two are at odds with each other. If WoW is so easy-mode why would you want to twink? If you claim to want a "hard" game why do you want to make it easier via abnormal item acquisition?

Twinking in EQ came about as a necessity to combat the long and tedious grind that was levellig up. In a game with a less tedious beginning and more accessible gear that actually helps you it"s not necessary. You can level along in a game like WoW or EQ2 or LotRO etc. and just take quest rewards...

BoE is a necessary evil that isn"t all that evil. It"s main purpose is to combat mudflation. Either you make items very rare or you make more items and have a way to take them out of the world. Obviously items will always enter the world a greater rate than they leave, but without BoE or some...

2 boxing is a result of group-oriented gaming being inaccessible to those who can"t or simply don"t want to group. Why put up with random people and split the loot when you can just do it yourself? It all just points to what WoW has reaffirmed, given the option and opportunity to do something...

Balancing trash is a fine line to walk. You don"t want to just have 10 bosses in a row with nothing between, but you don"t need 25 of the same trash mobs/packs between each one either. A few is good to ensure you figure it out and can execute the strat to take them down. Lava packs in MC for...

Along these same lines, you can also choose to play the game in as small or large of a group as you wish. You can be an army of one and solo, join a small group and do elite quests, join a regular group and do a dungeon or join a raid and PvP or raid. WoW is about options, not exclusives. You...

Same shit happened in WoW. Early on you knew when people got a Quel"Serrar or Ashkandi or Thunderfury etc. Guilds had rivals, who they "raced" to see who could down what first. But why am I bothering, you already played the McDonalds trump card.

This. Everyone is going to think something different and have a million reasons why. And then you"ll have a few who just don"t care. Personally I don"t care. I like instancing. I like knowing that if me and my group is good enough we will get to the nameds and get our loots and complete our...

LOL asking that is like asking if .999~ = 1.

You can be marginally useful within a few months, but you still have a long way to go to get into big ships. Sure some gang may let you run around in your light ship and tackle or whatever, but no, you won"t be in a Titan or anything for a couple of years. And yes, you could pay your monthly...

LOL, was it really? UO was the most unbalanced game ever. There was a reason 90% of people wore plate armor, cast Corp Pors and weilded a halbred.

Things that just aren"t possible in an MMO. Who would you kidnap? A player? That"s not going to go over too well to the kidnappee who is paying a monthly fee to be bound and gagged in a closet. What if no one wants to pay the ransom? Can"t extort a newb with no rich friends in the game. I...

Kinda like DnD you mean? Instead of letting people have level 50 clerics and level 50 warriors in the same character they could have 25 in each for 50 total levels. This way they could use both at once and be inferior to a pure spec of each class. Just like oldschool multiclassing. Of course...

Welcome to the internet. Where everyone but you gets road head from supermodels while driving their Ferrari.

Yeah.. that"s what we are discussing. And practically everyone on ESPN is ripping on Curt for it heh.

If Clemens goes to court the best he could hope for is "he said-she said" bullshit. Put his credibility on the line vs. the accuser"s. That"s best case for him and likely won"t happen. What will happen is people will get subpoenad and be forced to testify. People like Andy Pettite.

No ESPN and the public are doing that. Yes, that is an unfortunate byproduct but Mitchell specifically said that was not the intent and people need to try to keep it in context. Obviously that"s a practical impossibilty thanks to ESPN and sportswriters worldwide.

People are missing the point. The report was not intended to crucify individuals, its intention was to expose how prevelant these drugs were/are in baseball and what needs to be done to combat them. Yes, a lot of individuals were named but they are just examples, nothing more.

What type of behaviour? They questioned some people and gathered "testimony" and "evidence". The Mitchell report is not something that is supposed to be used to press charges or give out suspensions. It"s a gathering of information about how bad the steroid era really was/is. This isn"t a...

Well, when people named in the report as doing stuff come out and say it is accurate it does lend credence to the other claims. The reason it isn"t being used in a court of law is because NO professional athletes have ever been criminally charged after testing positive and/or being suspended for...

VG has this exact problem in areas. Dungeons with 6 step quests that take you to different areas. If you get to part 4 and your group falls apart then finding a full group on part 4 is impossible. So you decide to help out some people just starting and getting them to catch up and by the time...