Search results

Anyone able to recommend a UK supplier for American comic standing orders ? ,

It was obvious all along. azRAyne. I ask you. Darn Wookie killer.

I"m in a bromance with Brett. Din"t cha know ?

So your middle name is Nelson, then ? ps Jus" kiddin".

Aha. Now you"re going to hate me, buddy. **cough** Mike Nelson **cough**

Serious question. Why do you get involved in the hiring process at all ?

I might be wrong, but I"m not totally sure you meant the latter

You"re Utnayan. That"s all you are. Nothing more, nothing less. And Curt is Ngruk. Same deal. Celebrity means two things to me - jack and shit. Honestly. 100%. Anyway, everyone this side of the pond knows you Americans don"t have a decent sport between you. You even have "World Championship...

Oh no, you di"unt...... I responded to the Brett announcement in this thread by outlining the state Brett is probably in about now. What I didn"t say was that Brett leaving was probably not (in my ignorant opinion) something that Brett brought about or wanted to happen. And I"m only going...

The problem 38S have, Ut, is that this game is (90% nailed on) coming out end 2010. I couldn"t agree more that it sucks going up against a WoW expansion. Summer is no go. Suicide except for the most established IPs. It"s Christmas / year end or die. $100mill of development at 38S has been...

We weren"t discussing playing parts of the game via browser through the day, when not actually in the game. We were considering time based character advancement, as an addition to the regular XP or skill system, and perhaps tasks that could be scheduled while playing the game and which you could...

Exactly. And I suggested it in this thread aeons ago, so I"ll be expecting royalties, courtesy of my copyright lawyer, Sam Deathwalker. Imagine you are having the crappest day possible at work, but you log in to your task sheet and see you just got your first ever crit on a tailoring...

**double post**

Yes, but think of the alternatives. It doesn"t necessarily mean the level system from EvE. How about an AA system that is time based ? If it"s growth was planned years and expansions in advance, it wouldn"t need to be a barrier to entry. Off line trade skill or trade skill advancement that...

Two points : i) They are aiming for their IP to be bigger than the MMO. McFarlane and Salvatore aren"t onboard just to put their name to a game. They are making something much bigger. A drip, drip feeding unfounded expectations and discussions is going to take away from them growing it the...

You should hire Felicia Day and have her make series 3 of The Guild, based around them moving to Copernicus.

Now, you see, women can multi-task. Thats why they make good CEOs. You wouldn"t find a woman not being able to handle more than one topic at a time.

Ut, your presence is requested in the Champions Online thread. Some joker just suggested we should finally accept unfinished, broken MMOs at launch. Go get him tiger.

She was at Microprose when they shipped Master Of Orion, Master of Magic, Colonization, X-COM: UFO Defense/Enemy Unknown, X-COM: Terror from the Deep, Transport Tycoon / Transport Tycoon Deluxe and Master of Orion II, amongst others, 15 years ago. But that"s the wrong question, so the...

Looking at Bretts history I suspect it"s a combination of two things that have caused this : i) He is someone who will probably be doing Business Process Re-engineering rather than just running a company. 38S are a pioneer in being an MMO developer, built from scratch, whose whole approach...

Looks like plain old jealousy to me, Zehn.

I debated long and hard with myself before adding this, but screw it. Am I good at what I do ? Damn right. Probably the best in the UK. I"ve never failed an interview since I was 17. I"ve been offered every single job I have gone for, including IBM, Merchant Banks and even GCHQ (Government...

To be honest guanna, your posts have been good after the initial rage, and we all do that. You got a +1 from me for the second post on the page, which was spot on. Don"t beat yourself up over it

I"ve never heard of Curt and have zero interest in baseball. The truth is I am genuinely interested (*shock*) in the work of Dymus and Brett, which I believe to be revolutionary in the industry, outside of Japan. If you check my post history you"ll see me raving about QA in the industry...

I wouldn"t normally share this, but I will in the interest of balance. I"ve PM"ed Curt a number of times. He has never replied. I never expected him to, to be fair. I made a similar request for a signed photo for someone else. As was yours, a worthy cause. It arrived at my house, in the...

We have 6 kids, aged 2 to 16. They love reading, though that"s mostly the girls and, even then, Jacqueline Wilson and Twlight are their favorites. Mind you, I verge on over protective and have never let them play MMOs. I don"t know why, but I always found LotR a massive chore to read. I...

Pretty sure he is on a wind up. It"s common knowledge RA lives within a half hours drive of the 38S studios and goes in a number of times a week to guide and oversee their writing and lore.

Didn"t RA play a big part in developing Forgotten Realms, writing one of the first books and creating Drizzt, all at the insistance, btw, of a certain ..... Mary Kirchoff ?

Exactly. Been waiting for a decent MMO in game card game for years. It was yet another feature that could have turned it around for EQ2, but Smed or another exec saw the dollar signs. I was massively hyped when I first heard about it, but just as disappointed when I found out that it was a pay...

Anyone who hasn"t should have a play through FFIX. Some of the dynamics are reminiscent of what to expect in FFXIV online, next year. Which is my way of leading into the subject of MMO in game mini games, viaTetra Master,the FFIX in game card game that they took to an out of game client. Was...

It"s better in that it prevents the following : 1. My wife telling the guests John wouldn"t be joining them for lunch Christmas "99 as he was camping the Goblin King in the ice dungeon; 2. Rush four minute showers while the raid is mid CR; 3. Beating the end boss at 4.30am when...

I have it on pre order, via Steam. It"s bug free, decent graphics and not a bad game. But it doesn"t justify the hype and sales figures it is getting. It"s because we are in the middle of the worst period of releases in gaming history for RPGs/ MMOs. Interesting marketing ploy they are...

And while we are taking this 10 minutes sports break, can I mention how I loathe Tom Hicks, with a vengeance.

FYI and mentioned every couple of pages today : Zehn, please come up with a name for this that doesn"t use the word "job".

Power gamer is another word that needs to be consigned to the history books. It will have increasingly less relevance in the future of MMOs. As will the wishes of the vast majority of the people on hard core forums like this. But then we"ll realise, "damn, we"re actually having fun here"...

fixed

Hey, I told him I"d never heard of him. He plays rounders or something, no ?

Dorfeater, a lot of what you said is interesting, especially about community (which I agree with and its crucial) but I can"t agree with this : To be clear, I"m not thinking about what I or we on this forum want, but what will achieve massive commercial success. Different people want different...

Couple of pages back and linked in the post above yours :

You realize that you are suggesting that making us endlessly grind faction mutiple times on various alts IS healthy game design. Genuine question - can you think of any ways of enhancing the alt system that doesn"t involve this ?