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News Comments > Guild Wars 2 Stress Test Next Week
27. Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test Next Week Jun 21, 2012, 17:13 NKD
 
PR spinnage. By doing their stress test only for preorders and only for a small window during off-peak hours, they avoid any of the perception that their servers aren't ready for launch.  
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News Comments > PlanetSide 2 Night Ops Trailer
18. Re: PlanetSide 2 Night Ops Trailer Jun 21, 2012, 17:04 NKD
 
Cutter wrote on Jun 21, 2012, 13:54:
Now you know why clowns like Krowen are on ignore. He's obviously Mike Morhaime.

Fixed.

Also, yeah, I don't see much Pay to Win about this. Even with XP boosts, or certs, or whatever. If it can be obtained in-game in a reasonable amount of time, I give zero fucks if someone wants to blow extra money to get it quicker. We'll see what happens when they announce their business model formally, but I don't see them doing anything ridiculous on the P2W front.
 
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News Comments > THQ VP Resigns
15. Re: THQ VP Resigns Jun 21, 2012, 16:50 NKD
 
One thing that I guess we can draw some comfort from is that Volition survived the collapse of Interplay, with any luck they'll survive this too.  
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News Comments > PlanetSide 2 Night Ops Trailer
10. Re: PlanetSide 2 Night Ops Trailer Jun 21, 2012, 13:24 NKD
 
Help. This erection won't go away.  
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News Comments > THQ VP Resigns
8. Re: THQ VP Resigns Jun 21, 2012, 12:21 NKD
 
Fuckfuckfuck. SR4 never coming out now. THQ going down the tuuuubes.  
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News Comments > Quoteworthy
3. Re: Quoteworthy Jun 20, 2012, 21:58 NKD
 
Does seem to be heading that way.  
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News Comments > Train Simulator to Add Steamworks Support
1. Re: Train Simulator to Add Steamworks Support Jun 20, 2012, 16:23 NKD
 
Won't this cut into their hundreds of dollars of DLC business?  
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News Comments > Enter the Dominatrix Cancelled; Saints Row 4 Next Year
3. Re: Enter the Dominatrix Cancelled; Saints Row 4 Next Year Jun 20, 2012, 09:48 NKD
 
Much rather have SR4 than a stream of DLCs.  
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News Comments > Penny Arcade 3 Trailer
7. Re: Penny Arcade 3 Trailer Jun 19, 2012, 19:15 NKD
 
Creston wrote on Jun 19, 2012, 11:34:
Adlib compatible? Holy crap, not everyone is as state of the art as you, Penny Arcade! Where's the love for us Soundblaster users?

Joking aside, I LOVE how it looks exactly like FF3.

Creston

Yeah it's easy to tell what games sprites their artists used as a starting point LOL.
 
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News Comments > Diablo III Patched in Americas
18. Re: Diablo III Patched in Americas Jun 19, 2012, 19:11 NKD
 
xXBatmanXx wrote on Jun 19, 2012, 18:47:
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•The gold and material cost to combine gems ranks 2-8 has been reduced
•Combinations for these ranks now only require 2 gems, down from 3
•The gold cost to combine each rank of gems is now as follows:
•Rank 2 - Flawed: 10 gold (down from 500 gold)
•Rank 3 - Regular: 25 gold (down from 750 gold)
•Rank 4 - Flawless: 40 gold (down from 1250 gold)
•Rank 5 - Perfect: 55 gold (down from 2000 gold)
•Rank 6 - Radiant: 70 gold (down from 3500 gold)
•Rank 7 - Square: 85 gold (down from 7500 gold)
•Rank 8 - Flawless Square: 100 gold (down from 20,000 gold)

That kills the AH! Now I can convert all my gems, was getting a ton and going to save a ton!

This is actually a good fix. Flawless Squares drop frequently from mobs so it didn't make sense to have a high cost to manufacture something that the market is flooded with.
 
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News Comments > Morning Legal Briefs
2. Re: Morning Legal Briefs Jun 19, 2012, 16:49 NKD
 
necrosis wrote on Jun 19, 2012, 11:30:
So glad he was only slapped with the laws he actually broke.

Should have been deported for being a complete and utter tool in addition to his crimes.
 
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News Comments > Diablo III Patched in Americas
1. Re: Diablo III Patched in Americas Jun 19, 2012, 16:47 NKD
 
You have to buy the XP off the RMAH.  
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News Comments > NVIDIA Beta Drivers Promise Performance Boosts
2. Re: NVIDIA Beta Drivers Promise Performance Boosts Jun 18, 2012, 17:13 NKD
 
Planetside 2 SLI profile already? Nice.  
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News Comments > Dishonored "12 or 14" Hours
14. Re: Dishonored Jun 18, 2012, 11:57 NKD
 
Verno wrote on Jun 18, 2012, 11:43:
NKD wrote on Jun 18, 2012, 11:25:
What's with this McDonalds "quantity over quality" attitude people have towards games anyway. With very few exceptions, long games are padded to all fuck with grinding or a lot of reloading your save.

Yeah that's fair. I like a competent game that doesn't overstay its welcome or have meaningless exp grinding just for the sake of a box bullet point. Sometimes quantity just means more goodness though

True. The best games are the ones where when you beat them you're thinking I WANT MORE, but not "Wow, this was way too short." Subtle difference between the two, but I think you get my meaning.

Creston wrote on Jun 18, 2012, 11:36:
(and the game STILL won't give me "Foxiest of the Hounds!" ARGH!)

Foxiest of the Hounds is a finicky mofo. My first playthrough I was ultra careful, sneak sneak sneak, thought I had gotten all the Smooth Operator bonuses, etc. No Foxiest. Second playthrough I do another stealth playthrough but more aggressive, literally killing every son of a bitch on every map. Wasn't even trying for Foxiest. But ended up getting it that time anyway.
 
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News Comments > Dishonored "12 or 14" Hours
11. Re: Dishonored Jun 18, 2012, 11:25 NKD
 
What's with this McDonalds "quantity over quality" attitude people have towards games anyway. With very few exceptions, long games are padded to all fuck with grinding or a lot of reloading your save.  
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News Comments > Diablo III 1.0.3 Skill Changes Found?
27. Re: Diablo III 1.0.3 Skill Changes Found? Jun 17, 2012, 12:26 NKD
 
RailWizard wrote on Jun 17, 2012, 12:10:
IF they are going to start playing the 'balance' game like in wow, I want patches reduced to YEARLY. Give those fuckers a chance to think that shit over because I'm quite convinced every single one of them is licking the blinds.

What pisses me off is that I was pretty sure they said in a couple interviews that they weren't going to aggressively try and balance the game because they didn't find it interesting.

Yet it has become nerf central where the ultimate goal is to make it so no one can accomplish anything.
 
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News Comments > Diablo III 1.0.3 Skill Changes Found?
19. Re: Diablo III 1.0.3 Skill Changes Found? Jun 17, 2012, 04:14 NKD
 
wonkawonka wrote on Jun 17, 2012, 02:36:
Is it that hard for these idiots to understand that having for example pants that give you +1000 vitality might be as useful as the resistance stuff, as opposed to +150 vitality?
Resistance will give you let's say 50% damage reduction. Then if you want a comparable vitality item, you want that item to give you double the vitality. Not 5%.

Uh, your math is a bit off there. Effective HP is a little more complicated than that. The more resistance you have, the more EHP each point of vitality gives you. The more vitality you have, the more EHP each point of resistance gives you.

You can't really take a piece of gear and make the resistance or vitality equal, because it depends on what other gear the person has. If I have a ton of resistances and crap vitality, then a cheap vitality piece is going to blow away even a strong resistance piece.
 
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News Comments > Diablo III 1.0.3 Skill Changes Found?
9. Re: Diablo III 1.0.3 Skill Changes Found? Jun 16, 2012, 18:01 NKD
 
Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Jun 16, 2012, 17:31:
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Tooltips on abilities are stored as client-side strings for localization and latency reasons. Hotfixes do not (and frankly, should not) alter the client itself, and thus they do not update the string relating to the ability until the next patch rolls around.

It can be a bit annoying and confusing, but it's better development practice than rolling out an actual patch requiring downtime and a client restart every time you need to hotfix something.

Do they not put this info in release notes for the hotfix?

They supposedly put ongoing hotfixes in a blog post on their site after they got some flak for doing ninja hotfixes which got a bunch of peoples hardcore characters killed. How complete that list is, that's anyone's guess.
 
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News Comments > Diablo III 1.0.3 Skill Changes Found?
7. Re: Diablo III 1.0.3 Skill Changes Found? Jun 16, 2012, 16:55 NKD
 
Tooltips on abilities are stored as client-side strings for localization and latency reasons. Hotfixes do not (and frankly, should not) alter the client itself, and thus they do not update the string relating to the ability until the next patch rolls around.

It can be a bit annoying and confusing, but it's better development practice than rolling out an actual patch requiring downtime and a client restart every time you need to hotfix something.
 
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News Comments > Neversoft Supporting CoD
3. Re: Neversoft Supporting CoD Jun 15, 2012, 12:36 NKD
 
Fuck Carl on Duty.  
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