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You and a_skeleton_03 really need to work on reading comprehnsion. Chaos OTOH got the sarcasm. @Chaos it's well established that the the director is a lying SOB so come up with another cite.

pot, kettle, etc.

Only one missing now. Really remarkable.

Which is why I wouldn't oppose them two to three years after EQN is released. Just not at release.

I never said I thought he was undected. I was merely pointing out the inconsistencies in a_skeleton_03's and Chaos' commentary on the guy and Iannis thinking he could come up with a better plan. I think he's a moderately smart guy who's in over his head and saw the shit that was going on and...

I don't know. Abe's sorta right, there are people out there who will use any advantage to blaze through a game and then bitch when they're at endgame and there isn't enough to do.

So he's a mouth breathing moron, yet he was able to undetectably hack into the NSA despite (as chaos tells us) Sysadmins having only restricted access? Makes perfect sense.

Apples and Jackhammer comparisons. In an MMO the fundamental equation is: time invested x risk = reward. XP Potions fuck up the equation. I may put in 8 hours on a Saturday but I never put in 8 hours on a M-Fri. If somone is putting in 8 hours M-Sunday then they deserve everything they get...

Okay I'll bite. What would have been your plan?

Really low number of casualties. Pretty amazin actually considering the damage.

I don't even know where to begin. -1

In an MMORPG someone using XP pots to level can easily gain multipe additional advantages - I'll give you one example. Assume a robust crafting environment, the speed-leveler will be first to get uncontested rare resources. Replace crafting with adventuring, and rare resources with rare loot...

Given the fact that in both WoW and EQ there was a lot of hype about first to 50/60 I'd have to say you're factually wrong.

Only for raiders. I always preferred grouping and slow-leveling through interesting dungeons to raiding at endgame.

Bad move. Last time I checked government employees who weren't authorized to read the freely-available documents weren't supposed to read the documents. Better hope the NSA doesn't datamine and find this and you out.

Once EQN is released I expect Itzena to be the Head FanBoy for it on these boards.

Problem is Grim is comparing a long-running game (EQ) with a new game (EQN). There is a case to be made for purchaseable XP pots in a long-running game where the majority of the playerbase is at cap and which is designed for multiplayer. There is no case to be made for XP pots in a new game...

Whatever dude. Go join chaos with the "Snowden" must be a super-spy bullshit. Sysadmins have a great deal of access. Snowden was a sysadmin. That is beginning and end of the story. Anything else from you guys is FUD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...urity_breaches

Everything you've said or suggested about Snowden has ben bullshit. Including this. You're part of the cover-up team. I'm sure there's a memo out there in Chaos-NSA land "sow FUD". Good job buddy.

All FTP models are terrible. Anything you can use should be available and accessible only via in-game actions (drops, quest rewards, crafted loot or in-game events) - including cosmetics. I'm hoping for servers that are P2P only without even a cosmetic shop. Yes, I know - unlikely.

Chaos' comment sounds like an NSA shill trying to obfuscate the issues, demonize Snowden and cover-up the blatant illegality of the shit the NSA (and others) have been doing.

Last thoughts before I gotta go do some actual work. 1. You can't design for the entire addressable gaming population. People want different stuff and sometimes, many times the various wanted stuffs are incompatibile. 2. Content is hard to create, so anything that makes content easy to...

We'll see next 10-Q.

I will also add, from the Blizzard 10-Q for 1Q 2013 "The subscriber decline was primarily attributable to the East, with a smaller relative decrease in the West (where the ?East? includes China, Taiwan, and South Korea, and the ?West? includes North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and...

That's a problem with Blizzard releasing an expansion every 2 years not a problem with itemization, mudflation or denial of the playerbase to access. Release 1 expansion a year (as EQ does) and you won't have players bitching about that. Blizzard attempted to cure the symptoms without...

Mudflation isn't the problem - all games have to have some mudflation or you don't feel your character is getting more powerful, it is extreme mudflation that is the problem. Such as where (as in WoW) _early_ greens from the new expansion are better than purples from the top tier raids of the...

Why's that? If guild X can't conquer raid Y during expansion Z, they should be able to conquer raid Y during expansion Z+1. WoW fucked things up by making prior raid areas completely useless in new expansions so Blizzard had to create a system whereby all current content could be achieved by...

Considering the NSA just massively restriced SysAdmin access, yes. Certainly more believable then Snowden somehow manufacturing keys to hack the system.

Alexander, the same guy who's repeatedly lied to Congress? You really are the worst NSA shill on this board.

Again, insane. The EQNext thread on this board is the most viewed. EQN is the most anticipated MMO on MMORPG. Blah Blah Blah. It's a huge brand in the MMO universe and goes far beyond "doesn't have an outright bad name." Over the course of X years, millions of people played EQ or EQ1 now...

You're insane. EverQuest is no Coca-Cola or Apple but it is a huge brand, as MMO brands go.

Citation? Last I heard he was a system administrator for BAH which meant he had pretty wide access.

Reality. Also this:

I don't remember ever running BRD all at once - I do remember jumping off the bridge or wtf to the lava river to cut the time in half to whatever the hell we were going to on the bottom. As for the minimap - I never had a problem with a minimap. I do with modern in-game radarmaps that show...

There's something to be said for trying old games that you didn't like the first go around. I played a very little Legends of Norrath around release and wasn't interested. Finally tried it again last week maybe 4 years after I first played it as I was super bored (and also had a bunch of free...

Fair enough. I agree it was bullshit to refuse flyover for Morales' plane, I was just pointing out that the US has been refused flyover for some of its planes before as well but never, ever have I heard of a the plane of the President of a nation being forced to land and then searched.

Grant asylum to Snowden. I expect him to show up in Argentina or Boliva.

Morales is an ass but I'm actually sympathetic to him. But the big issue isn't that they refused flyover rights (happens all the time - e.g. France refused flyover rights to the US for bombing Libya years ago IIRC) but that when they were forced to land in Austria to refuel, the Austrians...