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New Monuments is pure fire! Oct 6th for the new CD

Man.. I take a 2 month break from WoW thanks to my gaming laptop taking a shit out here in Afghanistan, and all hell breaks loose. I just logged in and all my gear is.. uh.. wtf? LOL

Been listening to a lot of Veil of Maya lately.. Freaking love these guys!

Solid.. Regius Core.. It's STUPID light and sounds so good!

My new 7 string Mayones Duvell Elite Custom.. 26.5" scale 20" radius ebony fretboard BareKnuckle Ragnarok pickup set Hannes bridge w/Hipshot tuners Can't wait to get home in August to play it!

Anyone cracked this thing like the 3DS yet?

Heh.. I got accused of 'mansplaining' to some woman when I said I didn't agree with her response.. Then she went all nuts on me too when I replied "So disagreeing with a woman about something means I'm automatically wrong, and only disagreeing with you because you're a woman?" It literally...

The guy being a media partner shouldn't matter. He politely and respectfully disagreed with her, offered his opinion on why, and she went full retard on him. On social media. In a public environment. Deroir's comments weren't sexist IN ANY WAY, and she immediately went full "You hate me because...

Take my fucking money!

Depression isn't something to joke about. Don't be a douche.

Offhand and Primary were a way of limiting damage output as the calcs for primary and offhand damage were very different.

There is no mystery in games anymore. By the time people see something on their own, they've watched a dozen youtube videos and read every strategy on the fucking internet for how to beat something, down to maps of where to move, and when. Part of what made EQ so much fun back then was the sense...

Well.. Kevin McPherson wrote Kunark.. like.. ALL of it. McP was a coding wizard on EQ, but his lore for Kunark was just a great read... Dude is one of the most passionate guys I've ever worked with, and his talent matched his passion. Seriously.. On Vanguard, we had terrible problems initially...

Then don't.. Nobody is forcing you. I'm hoping they make a great game.. If they do, I'll play it! The MMO space needs good games.

When we did Vanguard with UE2, we rewrote a HUGE amount of the underlying code.. It basically wasn't much Unreal anymore.. but it showed the problems trying to convert an FPS engine into an MMO engine. UE2 was a great engine when everything could be canned and baked into the game, but when...

Horizon: Zero Dawn sequel hopefully

Bunch of us are playing out here in Afghanistan.. It's pretty fun

The problem MOST MMOs have today is staying power. People consume the content, and then just fade away. The challenge is not getting subs, it's keeping them longer than a month or two. For that the gameplay has to be fun. WoW crushed it in this regard, because playing WoW is still fun for a lot...

I play kinda casually on NA PC.. While leveling it just feels like everything is a massive FedEx quest.. I'm told things get a lot better once you get into grouping/higher end content.

She's actually really nice. Just a bad picture when she was asked to give her best zombie face.

Partially correct. Often times designers do what they feel is best for the game, and sometimes that doesn't equal what players want. More often than not, players want rather insane things to make their class better without considering the overall balance of the game. The other, more likely...

And then Free Realms went on to use the engine that became the Planetside 2 engine. You're completely correct about the random fields data. Several fields were that way. It was nuts trying to keep track of it all.

He and I clashed a few times over messaging about the game, but yeah, overall he's a good guy.

No, Pain and Suffering if I remember right, was just a thing added to the damage messaging if the system couldn't find an NPC or PC to attribute the damage origination, like if you got hit by a script that had no actual NPC in the game, then Pain and Suffering hit you for <X> damage.

Maggie was very cute.. She wasn't a designer though, no matter how much she claimed to be. She was a Planetside player who got put on the design team because she was a cute gamer chick, and Smed wanted to appeal to that audience. She was a rabid self-promoter, she was good at it, and she had a...

Scott is a GREAT guy.. Holly is awesome too, but I suspect now might not be the time for her to be talking much. She's got her hands full with things at Daybreak. Talking with people is one of the things I loved most about the Fan Faire stuff. Yeah we got to show off what we'd been working on...

I've never enjoyed a game so much that I'm so terrible at.. Fortnite is so much fun!

Actually there are quite a few who still play EQ who truly believe if Smed had just invested in EQ1, that it would beat WoW. They're dumb, but if recent history has shown us anything, it's people will believe what they want regardless of fact.

This. Fucking. Thing. Exactly.

I realize I'll probably never work in the industry again because of posts like this.. but I'm OK with that. There are some VERY talented people that got screwed over by con artists in management. Smed, for all the shit he takes from you guys, is a great boss to work for, and truly loves games...

Because everyone was betting on the 'next big thing' to make EQ revenue unnecessary. Free Realms. The game that shipped was probably the 4th or 5th reboot of the game. Yeah, EQN wasn't the first game to go through that shit. Great game, great press reviews, but nobody cared (well not enough...

Short version: I loved working on EQ because it was a game I'd invested so much time playing before getting into the industry. Through all of its faults, I still had a lot of fun making content for the game, and working with some incredibly dedicated people. Someone here talked shit about...

Honestly, nothing would have happened if they'd pumped money into EQ. IT WAS AN OLD GAME. People are fickle.. So many people want pretty over good. EQ could have the best gameplay mechanics ever in a game, and a subset of people would still not play it because it's ugly by today's standards...

This.. People claim they want difficulty, but they really want to faceroll everything and wag their e-penis at people.

Smed's problem was he was too trusting of people's claims about almost everything. The Agency is a perfect example. Those guys were selling THE MOST AWESOME Snake Oil ever heard of.. and kept giving the little previews of ideas that seemed really cool. Unfortunately, after several years of this...

Gates was a disaster at launch, for a lot of reasons. Delays in getting it finished, designers responsible for major aspects of it quitting just as testing of content was to begin leaving people scrambling to figure out just what the hell was intended, poor communication from community people on...

$40,000,000+ gross revenue in 2015 with the team size we had resulted in still a very nice profit margin. If you can roll your eyes at that kind of money, then what the fuck are you doing here?

I wish I knew more about building custom loadouts.. I'm having a lot of fun with the game, but sometimes I definitely wind up with the wrong mechs for a given mission requirements.