Enahs wrote on Apr 25, 2012, 20:05:
The interface on Windows Phone is just absolutely amazing and a joy to use. Windows 8 is based around that design.

Rhialto wrote on Apr 25, 2012, 22:09:
Would be curious to see if Bettle.net will be able to handle all the load.

StingingVelvet wrote on Apr 24, 2012, 10:52:
I've read those articles many times, but their sampling is often quite limited. The overall effect, IMO, is much less known.

StingingVelvet wrote on Apr 23, 2012, 14:18:
1) Moderators know nothing.

StingingVelvet wrote on Apr 23, 2012, 14:28:
God I hate how Steam sales have ruined the value of games. OMG it's a year old it isn't worth shit! How silly...

Valve’s Gabe Newell once spoke about a series of pricing experiments on Steam, and stated that a price reduction of 75 percent should mean gross revenue remains constant, based on their prior experience. “Instead what we saw was our gross revenue increased by a factor of 40,” he said. “Not 40 percent, but a factor of 40. Which is completely not predicted by our previous experience with silent price variation.”

shinchan0s wrote on Apr 22, 2012, 20:34:
OMG. You are, like, the biggest fanboy.

I've purchased every game Blizzard has released on the PC since Warcraft 2. I don't have some kind of agenda against Blizzard. I want Diablo 3 to be great. That's why I've been questioning every lousy design decision they've made. It's also not like I grew jaded from the gameplay either. I just played the crap out of D1 and D2 a few months ago. I'm ready for the next Diablo!

It's a horrible feeling because Blizzard games used to feel like an event. Now, I won't be buying D3 or MoP this year. That sucks. I'm not paying $60 this limp dick - even after waiting for so long.

StingingVelvet wrote on Apr 20, 2012, 06:44:

Creston wrote on Apr 17, 2012, 14:01:
If some dev said "Yeah, I'll use this funds to pay for my rent, and my laundry, and my lunches, and my attorney fees, and taking my girlfriend to see a musical", I wouldn't give him a dime.

Well, a lot of that falls under salary doesn't it? I think it's a no-brainer that these funds go to salaries and thus living expenses.

xXBatmanXx wrote on Apr 21, 2012, 21:52:

I can't scroll in to look at my character in a 3D game? Jeez, even Torchlight had this with 1/200th of the budget.

It is a button push....don't remember what it was. I was doing the button mash test on the game to see what everything does....

killer_roach wrote on Apr 21, 2012, 18:10:

Kristian Joensen wrote on Apr 21, 2012, 16:46:

killer_roach wrote on Apr 21, 2012, 16:41:

Dev wrote on Apr 21, 2012, 16:09:

What Is Valve Not Good At?
[...]
Finding and hiring people in completely new
disciplines (e.g., economists! industrial designers!).

I'd add server specialists, UI specialists, etc too.

If they're interested in hiring a tech-savvy economist, they know where to find me.

They ARE looking to hire Economists: http://www.valvesoftware.com/jobs/job_postings.html

*sigh* Yet another posting with the same "four years experience required" BS... really getting annoying for somebody just out of grad school when everyone wants 3-5 years experience for most any position.

eunichron wrote on Apr 20, 2012, 14:10:
Thanks for saying exactly what I said, in too many words. Chiggidity check yo'self before you wreck yo'self.

eunichron wrote on Apr 20, 2012, 13:24:

Tumbler wrote on Apr 20, 2012, 13:22:

listen & read all quest and flavour text

Everything isn't voiced? Can you go into more detail on what you have to read? I despise that fluff text that they throw up on simple quests as if we're here to read a novel.

So many MMO's do this and I don't get it. Keep it short and sweet. 3-4 lines to explain what is needed and voice the rest.

All quest text is voiced, including side quests. Townsperson babble is not, however.

Verno wrote on Apr 20, 2012, 11:40:
Despite claims to the contrary by the usual suspects it will take about an hour, maybe an hour and a half if you take your time.

NegaDeath wrote on Apr 19, 2012, 11:26:
I'll grab the Third when they release the "complete" edition with all the dlc.

Jdrez wrote on Apr 18, 2012, 19:47:

Quinn wrote on Apr 18, 2012, 18:31:
Still doesnt work. Going to bed now.

Let me say though that the Tide-o-Hype got me swimming along. That doesn't mean I understand it. To me, Diablo kinda games aren't that interesting. The start is, but later on in the game you're being nothing but zerged the entire time. I hardly ever finished a Diablo (clone) because it got so goddamn tedious at some point.

In those games, plot at some point gives way to mindless enemy waves. I still love it while it lasts, don't get me wrong, but the hype...? It's a mystery to me.

I quit Torchlight after a few days for this reason. I barely got anywhere in Diablo 2. Boggles my mind that people still play it.

But whatever floats your boat. I have a friend who is so obsessed with loot that these types of games trump anything else for him. *shrug*

Ant wrote on Apr 17, 2012, 23:26:

Dev wrote on Apr 17, 2012, 22:08:

Ant wrote on Apr 15, 2012, 11:31:
Will there be a playable demo? Does this game play like Eyes of Beholder games?

I dunno about a demo, but you can see exactly what the gameplay is like from youtube vids.

Yea, I guess no demo since the game is short, no multiplayer, not much replayability, etc.

DangerDog wrote on Apr 17, 2012, 22:51:
aside from not having a pause function.

Tumbler wrote on Apr 17, 2012, 15:43:

Got a corruption error on pack0.dzip when installing the patch downloaded via the launcher. Lots of others having same issue.

Redownloading part 1 and 2 from http://en.thewitcher.com/ee_manual/ solves the issue.

Oh my, thank god. Didn't want to have to reinstall the game and then re download all of that again!