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Not really. You can do a lot of other things while you're camping. Like watch an entire season of South Park. Is smoking boring? No it's that thing you did in between doing something. That was EQ camping.

Where did SA reference come from? Did I miss something? I think if Assad thinks he and/or his family is going to get killed all bets are off.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-...al-aggression/ Blast from the past.

If Vanilla WoW (prior to patch 1.6) had just made a few of the instanced dungeons non-instanced (LBRS, and a couple of others) and been a little bit less of a loot pinata so that some of the lower level gear was worth running dungeons for it would have been a near perfect MMO experience. It...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/30/us...-syria.html?hp NYTimes says it's a go.

http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affa...s-syria-attack Pelosi's onboard.

Sure. One month Avatar bet - just keep the Avatar reasonable sized if I loose. No 1/4 Screen taken up by Key & Peele.

I'm going to go with cruise missile strikes sometime during the coming long weekend. Like Sunday around Noon EST. @Karloff http://www.politico.com/story/2013/0...icy-96047.html

You should follow twiiter. Ed O'Keefe ?@edatpost 37m Aide to senator on #Syria call: WH "focus is on preventing Assad from using chemical weapons again." Int'l support wont dictate US policy. Care to change your bet Sir?

Yes the WSJ is pushing for another war - they're all idiots. @Karloff Okay buddy.

You realize that things like the NYT article are deliberate leaks by Obama's folks with his full knowledge? If he wasn't going to bomb he wouldn't leak this shit.

Mines of Gloomingdeep is so.... *meh* I think I've done it at least twice both times by the end of it I was like WTF? Why am I doing this again?

And in this case unilateral really means unilateral. I doubt very much the majority of Congress, Pentagon or even his aides are in favor of it. If Obama goes in, it's all about ego. Same as Bush and Saddam.

I take it you don't read the NYTimes. I was with you about two hours ago but now... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/30/us...a.html?hp&_r=0 I would prefer Obama not to bomb Syria. There is literally nothing good that can happen from such an attack.

The CIA probably gave the AQ affiliated group the rockets. Not going to stop Obama.

EQNext blah blah Storybricks blah.

Meanwhile at the Hall of Justice (NSFW) Obama still looks like he's going to lob some missles at Assad.

EA really should just release a single-player version of SWTOR for those of us who are never going to play SWTOR.

The simple fact we would say this today after Biden's statements yesterday or Tuesday.

Hopefully this means we're backing off.

Works for me if I can be a sycophant in your court, and by 'sycophant' I mean 'parasite who gets to eat the food gathered and cooked by your minions without doing one damn thing.' Also @Warhead, I don't think Nuclear Apocalypse is in anyone's interest so it isn't a worst case scenario. I do...

There are a couple of 100,000 gamers willing to pay a subscription for a (for lack of better terminology) "hardcore" MMO. It's not really what I mean because as a now casual player I too would want to play on this "hardcore" MMO. However a game for those 200,000 or so players has to: 1...

Which goods are these? China + Russia control 95% of Rare Earth metals. We're not even allowed to make lightbubls in this country (only LED bulbs allowed and those are so mercury contaminated we have China make them so they can kill their own people instead of ours). Etc.

Except that the Syrian excursion is bad for everyone. Not just us folks. Let's do it by the numbers shall we? Who are Syria's Allies? Russia and Iran Who are Iran's Allies? China and Hezbollah What is the worst that could happen if we bomb Syria? Iran bombs Israel with the help...

So I take it you prefer the MOBA classes? As discussed Diku-style combat/classes may be "old" but then again so is chess and Go and you don't see people replacing Go with stones that have different abilities. The advantage of DikU class/combat are that (1) People like Roles, (2) Developers...

The claim is that they can't reveal everything because they're afraid the player base couldn't handle it - contrast this with the statement back in March where they said they would "reveal everything." So yes, the marketing & PR is beyond retarded.

No it's an over-generalization, and as such both over and under inclusive. There are players who want things handed to them who will play long term, and players who want competitive content that will leave relatively early. However, like many generalization it is mostly true. A large...

Kudos for fighting the good fight but in this case we're not attacking everything they do/say. Almost everyone is very interested in StoryBricks and a lot of people are interested in Voxels. There are a decent amount of people like yourself that are okay with changes to the class/combat...

Eh. I've been moderately optimistic overall despite my reservations about class/combat. But the competition roundtable results and related dev tweets were ridiculous. Talisker might as well be making TESO, and as i said I found the guy very likable, so I'm a little disapointed if this is the...

Nah. It's worse. They are smart people who played EQ and are making a game that fixes all the problems they saw in EQ. The issue is that like instancing and quest-grinding in WoW the fixes are worse than the original problems. Some things just can't be fixed but then they aren't really...

Second System Effect. I liked VG, which Butler also had a hand in. I was rooting for EQN but this latest round of questions and Dev answers was disheartening given my already existing concerns with the class/combat system. I met Talisker at SOELive and he was a very pleasant, smart guy but...

Yeah, you can't help but think Smed's love of MOBAs is a driving factor behind the design. Which begs the question: where is the EVE influence? @Quaid good call.

I'll probably make a Pyramid and just leave it at that ;-)

I don't expect much. I'm just annoyed that SOE looks ike they're going to blow it again. Nothing said about the combat or classes since release has convinced me it was a good decision to entirely ditch EQ/VG style combat or classes. The only real justification for the change was the "reduce...

I like the AI and exploration options. But that could just as well be in a single-player game.

It just feels like Butler and Talisker were in the #2 guild on some server and resented the fact they got locked out of content by the uber guild (and also happened to lose a couple Clerics when the guildleader dumped his girlfriend). The solution isn't zero competition and be all you can be...

I think they went down the path of "let's make something new" and felt they had to make everything new. Which wasnt the best plan.

Lol. Even Reddit is upset over the Poll. Nobody wants instances any more -_- So they copy MOBA classes but not MOBA competition?

As we've discussed before, they could have made EQN with StoryBricks, with destructible Voxels but kept combat much more MMOish instead of going full MOBA. They are forgetting one of the lessons of DCUO - the average person gets tired with action combat all the time.

I've never liked the executive team at SOE and I've always stated my preference for old-school classes not the MOBA classes. The only thing I've changed was I've gone from not knowing who Omeed was to disliking him now that I've seen him in action. Edit: The only new info is from gamescom...