Trevellian wrote on Jun 13, 2012, 21:10:

Don't lie, you just want Katy Perry's Sweet Treats.

Dev wrote on Jun 14, 2012, 03:06:
Working in the video game industry is not automatically a poor security job where you might lose it at any moment. You just have to work for the one place where that would never happen. A place where you could freely adjust your workload and switch projects at will if you had something (personal or medical or anything) going on. A place where even if you are out for a very long extended period dealing with something like say medical problems, you'd still have your job when you were ready for it.

Valve

Calistoga wrote on Jun 13, 2012, 21:45:
Just make sure you have beefy computer to enjoy it to its fullest. We bought 2 new computers just to play this game after we started playing it and loved it. There is your endorsement.

Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Jun 13, 2012, 18:09:

Beamer wrote on Jun 13, 2012, 15:49:

Cutter wrote on Jun 13, 2012, 15:41:
Something sounds very wrong with this story. I want to know why Atlas hadn't collected from 38 in 6 months. I don't know of any company that would let such a large bill slide that long. How could that not come to anyone's attention? Had 38 refused or even stalled they would have sent notice to the employees long before a final 10 day notice. And a 45 page moving contract? I find that highly unlikely. And Curt was entirely unaware of ANY of this??? Someone is either exaggerating or lying outright here. Several things about all of this are very rotten. I won't be surprised at all to find criminal wrongdoing here.

Not overly uncommon to have businesses behind on bills, especially for services rendered that don't need to be repeated. 6 months is a lot, but if Atlas assumed it would get paid they may not have forced it, at least for a few months, and when they got nowhere they apparently turned to the person they moved.

It all reeks of poor management, mismanagement, bad decisions, etc., but none of that is criminal wrongdoing. There's been zero sign of fraud or any other financial crime on 38s part, just a whole lot of bad decisions and broken contracts.

Could something surface? Sure. But nothing here is unusual. Companies implode daily. Employees and creditors don't get told until the day of regularly. I know people that have shown up to work and found the locks changed overnight. It's shitty and it sucks but it isn't criminal. Hell, changed locks often mean management was working as long as possible to find a way to keep it afloat (though they should have given up sooner to give employees a chance to move on.)

Seems like not paying them their wages should be criminal.

Sempai wrote on Jun 13, 2012, 03:54:
They have a solid game on their hands, it's just sad the company running it appears to be 1 fry short of a happy meal.

JohnBirshire wrote on Jun 13, 2012, 03:22:

They need to merge servers, plain and simple. Allowing people to leave low population ones and go to higher population ones does not solve anything, it just makes the problem worse. Now you're left with even MORE low population servers than before. Get it yet?!

RailWizard wrote on Jun 10, 2012, 00:39:
I remember playing this game when it was called NeverWinterNights, and then after that when it was called KnightsOfTheOldRepublic. I had zero desire to play it after it went on to become DragonAge or MassEffect.

Yeah, yeah...my loss, I know. (I don't actually. Fuck this reskinned engine.)

eunichron wrote on Jun 9, 2012, 17:42:
The pots were the #1 spot for botting. You don't have to kill anything to get there, and there are no enemies in the area. You could make 40k+ gold in an hour doing nothing other than breaking pots totally unimpeded.

m00t wrote on Jun 7, 2012, 20:37:
Agent, quick note:

A) Person who was Governor when loan was made: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Carcieri

B) Person who is Governor now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Chafee

Note how these are two different people.

Mr. Tact wrote on Jun 6, 2012, 08:07:
I never understood why Blizzard was so resistant to making skills dual functional. ie... Skill #1 does X against mobs, but does Y against other players. Many PvP balance issues resulted from adjustments made due to PvE problems.

I guess I can understand they want skill #1 to work the same for consistency's sake, but it was clear long ago that dual functionality was what they really need.

Muscular Beaver wrote on May 29, 2012, 04:22:

Theo wrote on May 29, 2012, 03:33:

Muscular Beaver wrote on May 28, 2012, 18:49:
I just unlocked Inferno yesterday and the game instantly went from awesome to pure SUCK!
I have very good gear, lots of HP for a wizard, but there is no chance completing even act 1. People already have adapted. They dont play Inferno much, and if its being played, a few areas are being farmed, by avoiding mobs and running to chests and stuff.

Yeah, better gear will prolly change that, but I wont farm act 1 or Hell act 3 & 4 until I have 20 million to buy proper gear.
I feel like Im going to stop playing soon, because this is not fun.

repeat after me, HP is the least important stat in inferno.

Yeah, especially if the servers lag so much that you cant avoid getting hit, even as a wizard. Also you have to kite the elites all the time (which is another joke) and in tight quarters its even more impossible to avoid getting hit.

Ive seen people like you who run around with 17k HP in Inferno and die every second. Yes, very much fun indeed and so unimportant!