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Ahh man, D3, well, should have saw that coming. hahahah, listen to the audience and their golf claps.

What the deuce? Blizzard? Titan??

Jesus, just speak Japanese and let a translator talk for you, dude. But the worst part "Well, be excited for E3, hahahah!"

As you can see from our posts here, most of us have a good grasp of the English language and can make decent beta testers, keep us in mind when you hand out keys! My only question is how is looting and death in PvP handled?

Attachment 14086 As for instant travel ect (Just expounding on what you were saying, Draeg). UO felt like a really big place, but it also had one of the most convenient and exploitable instant travel systems around. As someone said earlier, it's about "internal consistency". In UO, you had...

LOL. Seriously though, as others have said--travel and systems need to make sense in the game world. In WoW, not having an AH would be idiotic, the game's design lends itself to an AH. In UO, the design lends itself to vendors. Or on that note, UO always felt very "big" and yet had one of the...

The problem is that said advancement happened in the way that brought in the most new consumers. And that's a good thing, don't get me wrong. But it's a very specific road, and it's the reason why you see such compartmentalized, highly accessible design influences in the game. Again, the...

Beiber sells lots of music for the same reason WoW is popular....It's not about being "good", it's about offending/scaring the least number of people possible, and making your product accessible as possible to the widest range of people. There is a reason why Mcdonalds dwarfs the entire fine...

Yeah, which is why Jaime's classifications of power were meant to show how naive it is to believe in power in such a myopic way (It goes with the overall theme of the books). I'm willing to bet Qhorin wasn't half the swordsmen Jaime is--but if you were to put them both past the wall, and in a...

The other thing to is Martin really likes playing with "power". He will build up someone's prowess and then show how if you just change the situation a little bit, all that strength becomes meaningless. Like how the Reed's are called "frogmen" and mocked, but in their own bogs they are feared a...

It's the ebb and flow of the market. Kotick is a natural process, established companies get wealthy, get greedy--but in doing so they train a bunch of young, idealistic guys, who go out and hopefully start good studios. They produce some great games and start the cycle again. We're in the tail...

haha, just saw this, nice. If I ever move that plot, I'll contact you so you can place there. Hoping to open up shop in a few days, not sure which profession I'm picking though.

All content being useful doesn't mean it's always useful to everyone. It's like you said, a majority of the content can be exploited to greater, or lesser effect by both high end and low end players. But in the end, like with ALL of these elements, defining them as "set things" is silly. There...

Just because the lobby has a fucking town and an AH doesn't mean it's not a god damn lobby. If you're going to devolve your game down to instanced, fast port, specific zones--then why not do what D&D did and simply have a town, where you form groups and go to an instance, that IS a lobby--just...

Yes, you did. Listen, I know your shtick is some drunk angry dwarf that comes in and tears up the nerds like Itzena on a rampage, rather than being a whimpering cunt, but you did miss the point. You came in like a blind driver pulling a retarded rickshaw, barreling into a thread that he has no...

It's amazing how you were able to actually point out the subject of the conversation, yet totally ignore it in the totality of your rant. Just to explain. The conversation has been about how the current "level to endgame" paradigm makes it so that a large part of the game is inaccessible...

Yeah. The big thing in a sandbox game isn't really the seller talking to the customer. It's 1.) notoriety of wares and 2.) Traffic. The second is destroyed by an AH...But you can achieve both through vendors. By having a fully stocked vendor with premium items, that people can reliably...

On that note. Anyone get the feeling that Frank was letting Zoey get full of herself when she was walking around his house? I think he's pumping her up so when he breaks her, she will be in his pocket forever.

I love how he is hitting on chicks by first making sure they'd be "lesbians" if they were attracted to him. I am usually not someone that makes creepy comments like this: but damn I hope you're a lesbian. You're so gorgeous! Monti are you a lesbian? If so you need to message me because...

In razor there is a command to disable hotkeys. Make an F key that hotkey and you can flip your hotkeys on and off to talk and cast. Mark spell is sold by scribes in Britain (Below the bank).

There is a weird phenomenon that happens about 5-10 years after someone retires. They do, indeed, revert back to a more teenage/childish phase. Like the world owes them for passing some sort of age marker--and fuck anyone who doesn't see things their way. It really is uncanny. Give it 40...

He obviously did plan on doing it. All he needed to say to his deputy was "we need to accelerate our plans", and the deputy had all the pieces in place to tank him. I'm actually surprised anyone would have thought he was going to "back him all the way to governor". The shocking thing for me was...

Judge Dredd not doing well at the box office.

Ultima Online Final Fantasy Tactics Xenogears X-Com Civ 4 Need to note: D2, Zelda, FF7 and 3, Metroid, Contra, Ogre Tactics, EQ, Counter Strike, BF 42...Honestly, could probably name 20 or so that could easily make my top 5 depending on my mood.

Well, if player shops have vendors, that's great. Economic movement through the world is a huge cornerstone of world PvP, and social interaction. One of the few ways to get players to go to towns is shops. This leads to attracting PK's, which leads to town guards--it creates a whole little...

First, I'm a little nervous when he talks about nixing the AH for player interaction. Don't get me wrong, I'd remove the AH in a sandbox or a sandbox/themepark game, too. I only skimmed, but it sounds like he wants people auctioning shit off. The reality is, that doesn't really build bonds, at...

You've looked at the "bi-partisan" gun control stuff and can say this with a straight face? Even with the blood of children, they couldn't do anything but enforce current laws, lol. So, yes--the gun control debate for the left is going very bad. But that's because even most of the left in this...

^ Car MacGyver, slayer of swamp donkeys and doesn't afraid of anything.

The thing is, by channeling all progression into items, like WoW has essentially done, you end up with a pretty linear and fairly boring system. That's because, due to how progression is handled, you HAVE to give gear out at a consistent rate. This has serious ramifications on things like the...

First half was somewhat tolerable. Second half just lost all moorings on reality. Not only do I not believe a multi-million dollar newsroom is run like that, I don't believe any office full of adults is run like that. Seriously, it's like every person on there is eternally stuck in co-ed college...

The problem with leveling is that it was all taken from PnP systems. The thing with those systems, that a lot of the developers forget, is that they were never really designed for anyone to actually reach max level. Essentially the system is a soft cap system after you hit a certain point...

At least GW2 tried something different. And they made a solid, functional game--those 2 things are reasonable expectations and so many developers fail to meet them. However, one thing that I just don't ever see working is hard faction PvP. PvP needs to be fluid, and adaptable...a lot of that...

My sons. Lithoose Liithose Lithosee Litthose Llithose Though I'm sure we'll see a lot of that, it's an absolutely awesome and unique idea. Really great compromise on death have personal and unique meaning, while not taking people out of the game that much.

Confirmed rustles my jimmies.

Only thing that has me even a little hopeful is saying it's designed for a niche market. But damn, I'm just so sick of faction based PvP.

So you're saying everyone here has the MMO equivellent of PTSD? Seriously though...as dumb as I think it is to advocate heavy time loss (From bad CR's)...Adding a danger element to the game does make "victory" taste a bit sweeter. It's a VERY fine line to balance, and I think EQ, during the...

I was in a GM event once....I kill the big bad guy. My wife gets an earing (Mind you this is Kunark.) that is something like +10 to all stats +50 HP/Mana and I believe some kind of aura, completely unique and awesome. I get...A cloth mask, +8 str/+8 Stamina (On my mage.).....I was so sad, so...

So is this theme park with PvP, as in most of your gear comes from dungeons/pve? Or does it have crafting, and player housing and all?

Might do a little to change your mind when he decimates his own troops. On the other hand. Remember, Caesar actually pushed huge "social" changes and equality in his short reign. And that's *partly* because, even though he was born of the Aristocracy, Sulla essentially took great pain to shit...

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