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Nah, no one gets suspended for 30 days. I've only seen that happen twice ever, and it was unrelated to anything recent--I think 30 day suspensions are something unique/deliberate a GM or CS does, not part of their normal "process." The normal escalation is 7-->14-->Ban, but it has some sort of...

GoD won't directly change the leveling meta since it doesn't have a ton of relevant pre-60 content. It does have a couple zones that are sub-60 but even on live where they are sometimes hotzones they are never the fastest in their level range. LoY being out could change the meta some because...

Pretty much zero people who have done GoD on TLP hate it, that's purely a relic of people who haven't played since 2004, or who have never taken a TLP past PoP/LDoN. I've been of the mind for a while that the most enjoyable setup for TLPs is for them to just always release a Phinny clone...

Original tuning? Probably, while modern TLP have a ton of mouth breathers who can barely play, there is a nucleus of people who do the TLPs that are basically much better players than anyone was back in 2004. This is simply because of how MMO gaming has developed--it is the same reason even an...

They did not really change Selo's rules at all from announcement. All they changed was they relabeled it from the "Casual" server to the "Fast" server. Mangler they did revamp its rules because they were wildly unpopular, it had like mega-slow XP rate planned, double penalty from dying etc.

I mean the simple reality most people don't like to concede, at least of those who express this mindset--is the core gameplay loop of early EQ is deeply unappealing to most gamers. The core gameplay loop of WoW was much more appealing in the era in which that sort of MMO was big (I'd argue we've...

The big issue DPG has is any serious changes of the live game would potentially cost them some of their current live player base, and it has no guarantees to deliver any kind of serious growth, the game is deep into its gray years. Actually the entire Daybreak Games portfolio is made up of...

The last part of this post is where you lose me. As someone who ran through all the expansions on Selo, I do think there's a community that was/is very interested in doing all of 1-115 content. I think that community numbers maybe 200 or so people, 100 or so who stuck it out to do it with my...

I had actually forgotten that EQ even uses DX9, it's shocking sometimes so we still play this game and how it was maintained (or rather ill-maintained) for years, I can kinda excuse it a TAD under Daybreak/DPG because the money isn't what it once was (although they were making way more money...

In the immediate sense the 64 bit client will not likely make any difference whatsoever, we used it for awhile on Beta and it's not anything noticeable. EQ's current performance problem specifically meaning poor handling of lots of players in a zone, poor server performance during raid events...

While not 100%, they kind of reuse EQ2 assets in EQ1 now, which is sometimes a pretty good predictor of what's coming next. They now can use EQ2 assets in EQ1, and do so heavily. For example the Empires of Kunark (EQ1) Sarnak, enemy Iksar, forest / mountain giants, skorpiki etc are all straight...

I didn't say GoD wasn't hard, I said it wasn't mechanically hard. "Bosses do more damage in a round than I have HP" isn't a mechanical difficulty. Most GoD bosses had like one mechanic, which was an upgrade over the 0 mechanics most PoP and Luclin bosses had, especially if we take mechanic to...

To me I think the real watershed was WC3 remastered being a fail. That's the sort of project that should be free $ and acclaim for Blizzard. Why? Because WC3 is a classic, iconic game, massively well received when it launched. Remastering it to look good on modern high-res displays should be...

Yeah but hitting max level in AO wasn't nearly as meaningful in most other MMOs, AO is honestly like a left turn or some shit of the MMO family, I probably shouldn't have mentioned it because it's almost like its own weird niche that's even smaller than EQ1 is. Doesn't shock me at all, I saw...

I'd also keep in mind the MMO space wasn't "EQ" then a few years later "WoW." A lot went on after EQ's release. DAoC, Anarchy Online, Asheron's Call (came out like a few months after EQ1), Final Fantasy XI which had extensive instancing came out in 2002. While WoW we know was heavily inspired by...

The timeframe isn't that fuzzy, Gates released like 9 months before WoW. EQ did not have a significant population decline due to WoW beta. Some top end raid guilds that had been struggling to keep raiding moved over to beta. The number of people who were playing WoW beta is frequently...

To be factually clear—Omens launched like September of 2004, WoW launched like the last week of November 2004. Gates was not the current expansion when WoW launched. I'm just pushing back against a common narrative that WoW made MMOs "carebear", often again, something stated by early EQ players...

A lot of people that haven't played a lot of MMOs since the early 2000s often repeat the claim about WoW being carebear EQ, but it doesn't really hold up to any serious scrutiny. EQ was carebear EQ when WoW launched. There were basically three (design) things that made early EQ brutal: big...

I mean so what exactly are you saying here, because Cosby being a rapist wasn't a "well known meme used in the meme community" there is no chance that someone would make a Cosby rape joke? (Odd position since I've linked to a video where the writing staff of 30 Rock did just that in like 2010...

I actually don't really know why they called it the Cosby Suite, lots of stupid friend in jokes have stupid stories. I certainly don't think there is any evidence they were running a rape room at Blizzcon, and I think there's a number of HR issues the lawsuit revealed at Blizzard but the "Cosby...

Again, it was 2014 dude, I've linked to the article actually covering Burress's set, I'm not sure why everyone keeps getting the year it went viral off by 1. But anyway, you continue to confuse "this wasn't viral to the degree that I, a stupid person that knows nothing, knew about it, therefore...

"No one can link me to anything not pure news media to show people knew about something." Dude you fucking know that people hear about things on the fucking news, right? Show me a non-news article about Biden's infrastructure bill. Oh wait you can't? So I guess no one knows about it? It's...

"Comedy" circles, meaning multiple national newspapers and multiple national TV broadcasts in the mid 2000s.

I think Google had two CEOs for like a decade during which it made like $800bn in profits, so I'm not convinced it can't work. What I find concerning is the woman is named Jen Oneal like, every official release with her name spells it that way...O'Neal with a fucking APOSTROPHE is how you spell...

I don't think it matters at all, it's just silly to literally pretend that no one knew anything was off about Bill Cosby until Hannibal Burress's set in 2014, when the whole premise of the set was "go google all the shit that's out there." It's so much circular illogic it's almost like North...

I would say if you actually did a Cosby rape joke the same time he was being accused of Rape on Matt Lauer’s show which was one of the most watched shows in America, some portion of the audience would get it.

Well I mean I would not agree with what you were saying earlier which was basically before 2015 (which is not even the right year, Burress's set was in 2014 but it's w/e), it wasn't common knowledge. I would say tons of people knew about it, which means it's not at all unlikely some of the...

I mean it was national news when Andrea Constand originally accused him back in 2005. After Constand came forward other women did as well. They were all old stories with no evidence to support them, but they got attention. One of the early Cosby accusers was interviewed by Matt Lauer on NBC...

I don’t think they named the room the Cosby suite because they planned to rape people in it. But saying there was zero public knowledge that Cosby was potentially a rapist until 2015 just isn’t true. Maybe that’s when a lot of you found out, but it’d been in news articles and other discussion...

I never knew Furor and don't think Furor/Führer was a thing. That being said last name Afrasiabi = Iranian = 100% guaranteed Antisemite, which is true of all Muslims and 75-90% of Europeans as well.

EQ's overall pop is roughly stable / slightly growing as per the financial disclosures EG7 made when they acquired Daybreak.

Nice. I'm assuming you can sell a card w/money still on it for crack or meth?

I'm curious because I've never been on it, but does welfare come as a check or just a direct deposit?

It was just for one day. Note that for white collar workers a one day "walk out" has almost no corporate impact at all. When factory workers would do it in the old days, that cost the owner x amount of lost production and money he wasn't ever getting back. In a white collar job most likely you...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

It's a real shame when people just make shit up on the internet and you can find easily researched government sources that show union members make more money: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf

The fact that the best they could get out of it was OW suggest the MMO version of it was really bad.

One of my random jobs in my early 20s I interacted with FedEx/UPS/USPS drivers a lot who came on site to deliver shit. There was also a big UPS hub nearby that a lot of people I went to college with would work at over Christmas break and shit. I never really knew anyone associated with UPS who...

WilmerHale isn't really a "union busting" law firm, that's Kotaku bad journalism nonsense. WilmerHale is a storied white-shoe firm, they represent any big clients with money. Union busting is no more their "specialty" than anything else in corporate litigation. Big commercial litigation firms...

EQ also had some core design issues + a lot of its team got cannibalized over to work on SWG and executives decided to launch GoD completely unfinished which were major blunders worse than anything Blizz has done. Blizzard's biggest sin is it's just made the game tedious and boring, 2004-2007...