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really.. that is the best you can do? Refute my premise or don't bother to post. You can't though. The economy still stinks, the ACA sucks and Obama is laughed at. But we only have a couple more years of his incompetence to deal with. Hillary is very likely to be the next Pres. Another...

Hahah. It is truly funny to watch the rationalizations of people denying the tidal wave of disaster that killing everything in sight. You are a text book example of that and it is pretty obvious you will be that way for the rest of your life. You have an excuse for every pain inflicted by...

You love to pull stats out of your ass from websites you use to blind yourself from reality. My healthcare and my family's stayed very close to the same rate for over 20 years, the cost increases were minimal and we never complained or felt it. It wasn't until ObamaCare was PASSED that the...

"Let me be exactly clear about what health care reform means to you," Obama said at one rally in July 2009. "First of all, if you've got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from...

"I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family's premium by up to $2,500 a year." .... Barack Obama. The cost of insurance has risen over $2000 ($2014 by some estimates). The true...

None of the promises of the ACA have come true. The cost curve is still bending upwards and the same amount of people or more are uninsured. The hope that the young will sign up to cover the costs of the old is a pipe dream. It is cheaper and easier for them to pay the fine and just sign up when...

Just make the game so brutally hard that eveyone dies all the time, and everywhere, if they solo. Make grouping required for surviving, while joining an army is required for success. Presto chango, instant socialization. Or you can turn the game into a preening fashion show where every girl...

Well RI definitely helped in the fall of 38Studios, and a big reason for that was the change in administrations. The new governor was against the loan from the beginning and was out to make a point. But that is the cost of doing business with the government. If you get in bed with them, you...

All I want is that sense of danger again, but in a mmo. Very few games have ever put me on the edge of my seat, with my full attention focused on what might be around the next corner, tree, or rock. Only one mmo ever did that for me and it was EQ1. But EQ1 (classic, not current) done again...

I log into a mmo about once or twice a month. There are a bunch I play occasionally but the usual suspects are GW2, EQ1 or Lotro. Don't have a lot of time atm. Will probably pick up FFXIV during the holidays. GW1 is a MMO, it just doesn't fit some people's anal retentive definition. I...

LoL, you funny. People move on all the time. MySpace thought they were the king of the world also, and so did all their members. Then Facebook showed up. WoW is old and tired. It still rules the roost but it's days are numbered. Even Blizzard knows that.

"The next great MMO" will not be a carbon copy of what has gone before with minor improvements, ala WoW. It worked for WoW because they were the first to make a user friendly (and crappy computer friendly) MMO. They didn't innovate, they just made what worked, better. But what worked back...

No, he's not wrong. But he's pissing into the wind. The entertainment industry has always been that way and always will. It's a consequence of the realities of human nature.

They should shut up and focus on making the game. They have nothing to show but hype. I hate to go UT on them but they are starting to get on my nerves with their BS. Put out Landmark and make some actual progress on the game, THEN start the hype train. This constant stream of crap from no...

Heheh. One of the gaming companies I worked for back in the 90's use to have the Charger girls come by and cheer us on. And we didn't even have motion capture back then. We also had excellent goal line seats on Qualcomm field for the NFL games. And since we were doing naval warfare games, we had...

Well, as I said in the last part of my post, the problem isn't the lack of Dev's caring, even at the highest levels. It is the fact that most of the people in the position of making the decisions that matter are talentless hacks, I count Butler and co. among that group.

Uhhh... wrong. Devs do care, a ton. And many of them (especially the ones that care the most about their games) read as many forums as they have time for. They care because the vast majority of them came from the same pool of people that we do... gamers who spend too much of their lives...

Lol, everyone has a "game in development". I don't care about them (Brad's included), until they are actually playable they mean nothing. You totally missed my point, but that doesn't surprise me. The difference with Brad is that he actually has produced games that have meaningful consequence...

Name one that is actually viable and playable. Edit to your edit: You are clueless. Just looking at the picture of the SoE wimps above should have given you an inkling to how totally fucked EQNext is. Those pathetic morons haven't had an original thought in their lifetimes, let alone the...

I had a lot of fun in WarHammer up untill the 1.2 patch (about 6 months after release). One of the few mmo's that I actually have fond memories of. A lot of lessons to be learned from it, good and bad.

It is becoming painfully obvious that Brad McQuaid, with all of his faults, is the only mmo dev that has balls. The rest were castrated years ago, if they ever had them.

The Plane of Fear... with all the wipes, lost xp, begging for help and then the ultimate victory over Cazic Thule months later. Death touches, zone wide trains bys noobs, the sound effects, graphic design, learning the pulls, etc etc etc.... there has never been a zone so totally fucked up as...

etchazz is correct. It doesn't matter what you call it, as long as a character's power can be increased over time then it is leveling. Old school FPS games don't have leveling, almost every other game does. But mixing up how character progression (leveling) is done can be an improvement...

And most of Vanguard's issues were technical. When your customer base has problems actually loading the game or ctd every few minutes then it doesn't matter how good the design is, casual or hardcore. So using Vanguard as an example doesn't work. Good games sell. If they are fun and run...

Pretty much this and the fact that there wasn't anywhere else to go. I took a lot of breaks from EQ back in the day but always came back. Back then taking a break meant not playing mmos and instead going outside for a few months. FFXI was the first break where I went to another mmo. And up...

I don't have an issue with the alternate universe concept, it's a good idea imo. In fact I think most of their initial concepts are good ideas. It is feckless execution by the people in charge that I have a problem with, they are cowards and morons.

Want to try this game but the sub requirement means I'll wait for the inevitable switch to F2P. The money isn't an issue, it's the time. I refuse to pay for subs because work and rl keep me so busy that logging into any game is a rare luxury. When I do have the time I don't want to be...

The "issues" they say they are fixing are exactly the gameplay elements that made EQ interesting. EQN will suck, guaranteed. They are so heavily invested in fixing "Denial of service" issues that they have forgotten that that is what EQ was about.

They keep pumping out mmos faster than the audience expands. Back when WoW first came out you could count the number of mmo's on one hand. Now there are probably hundreds. The industry is fine, but the competition is fierce now. You can't get away with the crap EQ and WoW pulled back in the day.

So have the server issues been worked out? Been too busy lately to buy the game, but have a little bit of free time coming up next week and would like to try it. My nephew swears FFXIV is the best thing since... well, he really isn't old enough to have experienced many good mmo's. But he...

"Denial of service" is just the SoE dev's excuse for being pussies. They are clueless idiots. A game without "Denial of service" of some sort is a boring and pathetic game, just like all the boring and pathetic games that have come out recently. EQN is doomed because the devs castrated...

I guess you missed the recent FFXIV launch. Theme park mmo's will always be around. There is a large market of people who like to have their hand held while adventuring. The problem is that the theme park market is over saturated and mmo devs have been cutting the pie into smaller and smaller...

24/7 about a game with no real info or progress just shows how desperate we all are for EQ. I hate being that guy. This thread grows and grows but the EQ devs have still revealed basically nothing but hot air and empty promises. Been too busy to keep up with the never ending page turning in...

Frankly, I really don't care what kind of cash shop F2P or Sub games have. The reason being is that the market will weed them out. If I think a game is P2W , Runes of Magic is a good example, then I stop playing it. So do most players. Some idiots will stick around and pay the short sighted devs...

The herd is all in an uproar over this game, no doubt about it. But I very rarely listen to the herd, they are wrong more often than not. My point was simple, if after it's released, people actually enjoy the game when they play it, then all of this pathetic hand wringing will mean nothing. I...

Proud graduates of the Paul Barnett School of Bullshit.

True, but the reverse also holds. If at the end of the day the game is fun and keeps people playing for months, then all the bunched up panties in this thread won't mean a thing.

The show is pretty good and as of now it has been renewed for a second season. Nothing is set in stone obviously but I don't see why they would drop it. Still haven't played the game.

Being able to see everything kills the mystery. Being stuck in one corner for eight hours is a bit much, but that doesn't mean that every player should beentitledto see and do everything in a game. And especially not on cruise control.

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