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I"m surprised no one has brought up having a roommate when buying a house. Obviously you can"t factor that into being able to afford a place, but if you find a place that you could afford on your own and then also get a roommate, you can save a lot of money. I posted a few pages back about a...

Looks like I got it worked out with my friend, we"re doing a 6mo lease to give me time to find a house and then he"ll probably move in there as well. Unfortunately, I got back the specifics on the house I was looking at (the one I referenced above) and it was indeed too good to be true...

Washington state, and thanks for the responses. As for number 4, ya, we we"ve been planning on renting together and if I decide to go the house buying direction instead, his lease ends way too early for him to move in, especially with a short sale. Basically, I"d be saying with 1.5 weeks left on...

So I"m kind of suddenly looking at houses in my area and a week ago I would have never even considered it. Basically, I"ve been looking to rent a place with a friend for the last month. It"s coming down to the wire now (his lease is up at the end of the month) for finding a place that meets all...

It"s probably not a good sign that I actually knew who that was without looking.

Ban him or not, at least restrict him from the thread and move the last 8 pages or so to the Rickshaw. Edit - I"d say it"s pretty fucking sad the mods have let it go one this long. Fucking JayReb gets (deservedly) banned from the MMA thread for temper tantrums many orders of magnitude less...

That would be crazy. Curt is like a living god in Mass, but he"s also pretty conservative. I want to see how that plays out, do it Curt.

In my experience, most MMO betas still have that sort of filter, it"s just generally not as structured. Usually, the devs will keep track of the beta players who do a good job of bug reporting and are always trying out the new content or pushing the envelope. A dialogue will then open up between...

Is that the case, or is it that most companies aren"t willing to spend the money to hire enough community folks? I imagine it can be difficult getting execs to sign off on more staff when the community section often doesn"t produce easily tangible results. If you really can"t find enough...

Guild Wars, and to a lesser extent, the original Everquest, have a very rudimentary system of "deck building." I agree though, I"d like to see that system expanded upon.

I doubt they are going to do something that drastic. That"s a huge risk/tiny reward mechanic. It could ruin the game for 90% of the player base at its worst, and maybe add 10% more players at its best. Would not be a wise decision IMO. That said, I love CCG"s. Having one built into the game...

I think the point is that a) some companies aren"t compensating for huge amounts of overtime (EA was sued over this), and b) too much crunch time leads to developer burnout (which is extremely high in the games industry) and poor product quality.

Well, one of the major points is that most developers are salaried and don"t get paid for anything past 40 hours a week. Working a shitload of overtime is one thing; working a shitload of overtime and not getting compensated for it is something completely different.

Hey Curt, somewhat off-topic, but as an executive/owner of a game development company, I"m interested what your opinion is on this: Play This Thing! | Game Reviews | Free Games | Independent Games | Game Culture There"s been a lot of back-and-forth going on for the last few days in the...

Some interesting news... In limbo: Big Huge Games ... games

When I bring up those two series, I"m really not even thinking of the gruesome aspects of them. On top of that, I"m just using them as examples, not as design docs.* Obviously you can"t have rape and child-killing in a game, but AoC did a decent job of having a "brutal" world that didn"t step...

That"s the hard fantasy from the "low/hard fantasy." It"s probably not an official description of it, but I meant it as a hybrid between low and high fantasy. The Malazan series definitely uses some aspects from high fantasy like dragons, gods and heavy magic use, but it also has a much harder...

I"d love to see a quality low/hard fantasy game world. I know this has been repeated ad nauseam, but a world akin toA Song of Ice and Fireand/orThe Malazan Book of the Fallenwould be amazing. Speaking of the Malazan series, my biggest complaint about nearly every MMO is the complete lack of...

I really miss the open-world bosses from EQ1. I know there are some in WoW, but they seem very few and far between. When playing EQ1, if you saw a named somewhere, there was excitement because you knew that a) it"s a "rare" spawn and b) you"d probably get some cool loot out of it. In WoW, I see...

While automatic updates to spells/abilities may be taking it a bit too far, I"d really like to see the ability to buy spells/abilities at least a couple levels before you can use them.

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It would have to be restricted from PvP; I don"t think it"s worth the whining that would result from something like that otherwise. The streamlining of looting so it went straight to your bag would be great, but you"d really need to drastically cut down on the amount of gray crap and boost the...

Well this is getting interesting...

So, I wasn"t sure where to put this, but I figured this would be the best place. Email fucking sent.

The scenario scarcity is by far the biggest complaint I have with the game so far. They really should"ve thought more about it. I"d much prefer 3 scenarios per tier that can all be queued for at the same time (like with T3 scenarios). Ideally, I"d prefer cross-server scenarios as well. I know...

I really disagree with all the bullshit people are throwing on you about the game and this thread, but... Jeez. I think most people already knew your political affiliation, you"re pretty public about it, but to bring it in here completely out of the blue and as an insult to boot? Really bad form...

Haha, nice.

If so, Curt"s probably being beaten by their PR person right now.

I don"t want to get too far off-topic, but I was actually pretty unimpressed with PAX. This was my first gaming convention and I"m hesitant about going to another unless there"s something specific I want to see. It was like being in a super-packed amusement park, except indoors and with less...

So are you planning on playing WAR for the PvE then? "Cause as far as I know there"s really very little. As for PAX, just use it as an excuse to go and play all the upcoming games and listen to to talks by cool industry people like Ken Levine. Edit - Oh ya, I forgot to mention that...

Ditto. Maybe we"ll play on the same server on release, that"d be cool. You going to be rolling with the Shwayd"s blogger guild? P.S. I wish you guys had a PAX booth, would"ve made the drive much more worth it.

WithENTHUSIASM. You should know the dangers of "who" better than anyone Curt...

Ninja-Pirate-Bards... Right Shwayd?

Moorgard was in the guild, but he played very little from what I remember. Blackguard was in it too, OH NOS CONSPIRACY! Seriously though, I"m all for pointing out hype machines, but I really think Blackguard just posted the link to another piece of concept art because most of us hadn"t seen...

Utnayan should right Vanguard"s chapter, he has tons of notes after all.

You guys going to have any presence at PAX Black? I"ll be there on Friday, was hoping you guys would have a booth or something.

Nice work Kyng! I need WAR beta so I can play with you and Adamar.

First time I"ve seen the second piece, very nice.

You guys going to have a presence at PAX? I"m definitely going to be there.