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I think there's room for niche media sites, but again you need hooks, content, marketing, and more content. The problem is the MMO media market is dead. Mainly due to MMOs being mostly dead. Ten years ago they had huge buzz and potential, now you can't find investors if you have Everquest...

No, an actual amusing site, not a dozen angry neckbeards in a tuconets circle jerk. Media markets are saturated. It doesn't help to have an ass name like Junkies. The only way in is to get some good adverts or have some Jewish relatives who can promote you on the media bigwig sites. I still...

There are tens of thousands of gaming websites, just like there are thousands of games. What makes the successful ones is completely missing from this thread: Marketing. Also, partnerships in small business are bad. You need one Chief and the rest invested but understanding of their roles...

See my earlier post regarding Hartsman the business guy versus the game designer. The decisions were based on selling making mad coin to suits versus what the genre needed to push forward. It's why WOW has never really evolved that much. It's milking the moneys.

I think the released version was representative of Hartsman the business guy, versus Scott the game developer. I'm pretty sure it was profitable, if not the juggernaut they had hoped for at release. Most old school MMO people aren't at all interested in those types of games anymore. The lion...

You want this. I want this. Much of rerolled wants this. However, I'm not sure if joe-console-gamer actually does. Plus, this tech isn't ready for MMO primetime. If Hartsman couldn't get it to work with Rift, I doubt the SOE/Daybreak team could. The workaround is player content which is easier...

Nope. Investment types like these hack and slash everyone and anyone. It's all about the numbers game. This isn't a gaming company or insider, but a group focused on return on investment and lowering costs as fast as possible.

If I had to guess, it's likely the number of people laid off was secondary to the overall monthly amount the new overlord's agreed to spend to keep things moving and lower costs to an acceptable level. Redundant Director's and Managers are expensive and fairly easy to lay off, especially in...

Jim Henson 4evah.

Didn't we confirm Vitality is really Utnayan in disguse when he is on his meds? We should. I sense VPN snafu at work here..... Rescorla, stop taking things about the game personally. For fuck sake, I can only imagine how you'd be if you were this invested in Pantheon, dude... Tuco and PRX...

Maybe at Mcdonalds, but the opposite is true at Fortune 500 companies staffed by professionals who value their reputations and whose senior board members hope fear, uncertainty, and doubt push people to leave early. Plus, most have some form of severance packages. Layoffs, reorgs, and...

Isn't this true about anything, and more a result of marketing? The bigger problem is the game is boring compared to Skyrim, in my opinion and didn't have the staying power a group game should. I haven't played this in quite some time, but is it even as good as DA:I?

I pay 30/mo for Comcast in Houston and honestly I've had no complaints. Compared to AT&T and Buckeye in Ohio it's been great. My coworkers here seem to hate Comcast, so I'm guessing it's more customer service than product, or some neighborhood with a few guys sucking your shared pipe dry.

You just described all of the prequels. Anyways, it was far cooler when the force was purely metaphysical. The best part of Lucas selling Star Wars is they scrapped the EU. Now, if we could just get them to scrap the prequels.

Hopefully I'm not the only one who enjoyed DDO multiplayer dungeons, and combat to some degree. The big question for me is whether to nab this on PC or PS4....

It does not take a lot of research to figure exactly what this game is and whom they are aiming for. Also his point is pretty valid, trolling not withstanding. How do you make TF2 any more casual? My guess is OW is aimed at Valve in a DOTA2 manner, and looking to do a 'fresh' clone of it. I...

Actually, I think this movie appeals to the 35-49 crowd specifically, as it has everything we grew up loving: Cosmos, NASA, Physics, and Space Exploration. I feel exactly like Troll. This movie was made for me, going through high school in the late 80s. It hit all the chords of things I loved...

Even though there are some complaints, the special effects are top notch and worth seeing in a theater or Imax. Overall I've enjoyed them, outside of Super Jedi Ninja Master Legolas. I have gripes being a Tolkien purist, but the movies are fun for what they are: Popcorn entertainment. They...

As long as George Lucas has very little input and absolutely no role in directing the movie has a chance of not sucking. As far as the EU, the fact they are tossing it all is only a good thing. It has some neat ideas but outside of the Thrawn stories, the rest really didn't do much for me...

I'd change 90% to 99.9%. I have a background in Physics and contemplating relativity still hurts my fucking head. Awesome movie. Acting was great. Special Effects were top notch. The science was actually surprisingly good and accurate. Sure, it's science fiction but really much of what we...

I have to agree with this. I finally nabbed the game, being a huge Civ fanboy. Even a Civ V mod would have been nice as Gods and Kings had good stuff. This was a step backwards. I forced myself to play through this game, and it just did not hold me at all. I can't see playing even 30 hours...

I've yet to purchase a Blizzard title and not at least get my money's worth in time. Except Hearthstone, that is. I wonder if this will have a box price or be micro transaction based?

This stuff is completely doable, and not just by GMs. The problem is everyone follows the Blizzard MMO model of plop down a static server/game and make money off mudflation, instead of advancing the genre. The flip side is whether or not there's a market for this sort of dynamic game. I'd...

I personally don't really see the point of the FPS portion, but I guess if you have too much cash. I'm more worried they will screw up the Privateer multiplayer part by trying to do too much. Elite looks like a decent game, but I hate the asshat community who seem to get their rocks off...

Strategically, it'd be smart if they bundled the console releases with a discount for PC players and a small expansion with new content. I'd buy this for the PS4, especially if they lower the sub costs to a reasonable rate or do a 'season pass' type of format.

I'm intrigued by it, but have such a backlog of current games and a shiny new PS4 that I can't justify buying it. I'll probably pick it up eventually, just don't have the time for it now. I'm sure it'll sell like hotcakes. Blizzard makes good product. The bigger question is how will retention...

Dude. We all buy these games for the romance subplots. You left out the best part! If I get a good 30 hours of fun gameplay, I'm golden. If anything my only gripe right now is I'll have to go through Origins, which isn't a big deal. I really wish EA would torpedo their service and go back to...

6/11 I guess I'm old, too. Some of them were fairly visible. Others I had a hard time telling the difference. We should do an age check on this, too..

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to get 100% uptime but I know the RNG gods are fickle bitches. I've been trying for a while to get Firebirds completed and for some reason now I just get Rolands or Firebirds Gloves. I'm glad it seems it isn't as much of a pain as it seemed. My playtime is fairly...

According to DWs formula I think it's 55.5 for 100% uptime, but that would require one to hit the button or macro to hit it exactly when it ends. I don't macro or bot at all, as the fun to me is playing.

At 50% with full Akkhans I'm less than 3 seconds between AC. It doesn't seem to be worth the trouble for me to worry about going from 50 to 55% since I'm not a botter with a fuckton of extra stuff and cash. Then again, the numeric part of this game is definitely for OCD people worried about a...

I'm not an expert, but the number thrown around on the forums is 50%. I'm at 49% and my uptime is pretty good. After trying for weeks to get my Firebirds set complete, it took me a day to get my last two pieces of Akkhans. I'm enjoying the Stampede build, and hoping to nab a Leoric's Crown...

The problem is games focused on humans, i.e. UO, Shadowbane, etc always get cratered by the anti social fucks who chase off all the normals. Design hasn't figured out a good method to have real FFA and yet play nice rules together. The closest to what you want is probably Camelot Unchained...

I just got my 6th Firebirds gloves....go me. Time to go back to the Crusader for a while.

I wonder if the problem is nobody working on Titan is as hungry or fresh as the team for WOW composed of hard core EQ players who had a vision of what they wanted. Problem being making a game that really appeals to us, here. I'm hoping there's a cool VR based Oculus MMO in the future that...

In other words, it's still a shitty time sink with very poor return probability. 25% would make far more sense given the higher cost and since there's no increased chance based on number of rolls.

There's definitely room for nextgen MMOs and a large audience to capture and/or recapture. My guess is it's more along the lines that Titan wasn't up to Blizzard standards. They probably had the same problem .38S did in their game probably was just boring. I'm sure a lot of the resources from...

I wonder if that might change: Kadala Philosophy While Kadala is doing a great job of giving players more control over finding specific items, we felt the current experience was a bit cumbersome and inconvenientAs a result, we're working to reduce the frequency at which players need to...

Yes, you really should. The optimal spec for 6 piece firebird is meh without it. I'd play around and spec based on the gear you have. If you have a mirrorball, use MM. The only thing is pre 2.1 most Wizards did the Archon thng, and it's somewhat ass now, even with Vyrs. I personally found...

I thought you were wrong, so I posted it. I think having the capacity for a personal emulator does not change the fact the main persistent world is an MMO. It's not really comparable to Star Citizen which is still up in the air. Chris Roberts is hitting those of us who were huge Privateer...