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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy II - NWN Gold |
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Re: Does anyone... |
Nov 5, 2003, 00:00 |
DrEvil |
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"A word of warning: buy this game for the multiplayer and you'll be happy. Buy this game for the singleplayer and you'll have wasted $50."
That's rather subjective. Both I and a friend bought it and played it and enjoyed the single player and have done extremely little multiplayer.
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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy II - NWN Gold |
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Re: Does anyone... |
Nov 4, 2003, 18:04 |
DrEvil |
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"Thanks for your wordy retort, Herr Evil, but I happen to BE a game developer."
I could be considered a game developer too. Depends on what your definition is.
"I have personal experience with the development of online role playing games and know first hand what the development costs are for the support of such games. Guess what? They make MUCH more money than you can possibly conceive of and take MUCH less of that money than you think to support."
Bzzzzt...wrong. I know several people that work at Triple AAA title companies, and a few who deal with some of the big name game publishers directly. The costs are a lot more than you would have me believe. In addition i've also worked in the Fortune 500 Technical Support division at gateway.
"Being a member of the development community myself, I still vigorously stand by my statement that the model Bioware adopts is outdated and smacks of corporate greed (the impetus of which probably falls more on the shoulders of
Atari than Bioware)."
Well then, how about we say that Valve, Epic Games, Ensemble Studios, iD Software, Maxis and a few other companies are just as evil while you're at it by your standards. The reality is you're just a spoiled person who's used to getting things in life for free apparently.
"...reinforce the minds of the Ferrari driving sycophants that are decimating the industry for those of us that are in this for the love of what we do."
Hahahahaha. /wipes tears from eyes. Of the people I know in the industry that are involved because they love it, none of them can even afford a Ferrari, and most of them make just enough to support their families.
Extremely few game developers make that much money, of course you would have known this if you read a magazine like Game Developer who just recently did a salary survey. Game artists, developers, etc. simply don't make as much as you would have us believe. I think you're just jealous of those who make more or something. Almost 97% of game developers are male. Of those 97% the *average* yearly salary is between $59,000-$62,000 US dollars. Hardly enough to buy a Ferrari to me. In fact, most programmers consider 40,000 a entry level pay tier.
There's only one unnamed company that I personally know of that pays their employees salaries of six figures. I don't know of any others that do that. ALthough it's certainly possible.
"Take a look at what is happening with the current mutual fund mismanagement and the series of closures of game company after game company in the US, UK, and even Japan... its all symptoms of unmitigated GREED!"
Actually, in a lot of those circumstances if you've read the postmortems on several of those titles. It's not greed, it's just poor management and organization period. Greed plays a part on the publisher side sometimes from what I've seen, but hardly all on the Developer side.
"I've seen behind the curtain and maybe someday mundanes such as yourself will turn a glazed fanboy eye away from the high poly, rag-doll physics enabled, real time per pixel shaded wizard and see the money grubbing corporate crony operating the controls."
I've seen behind the curtain too, I'm just wondering what curtain you looked behind. Because it sure doesn't sound like the same one.
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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy II - NWN Gold |
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Re: Does anyone... |
Nov 4, 2003, 15:29 |
DrEvil |
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Supporting a game like this costs a lot of money, especially with the amount of community resource support they give which I might add is almost more than other company. They provide forums, internal file format information, contests, guild systems, new content and other things.
"Get with the times" is an insult to any game developer really. I don't hear you complaining about Valve requiring one CD key per gamer as they are now. Same with many other games.
The whole point of NWN is mainly the multiplayer and module component, giving away a free copy for every copy purchased doesn't even make good fiscal sense. Which is basically what you're proposing. Before you argue that War3 is the same way, I think Blizzard would disagree.
You also have to realize that Blizzard sells at least 3+ million copies of their games because real time strategy games are very popular. So they can afford to 'give away' free copies esentially by letting you do multiple clients per CD key, although there is a limit (3 or 4 I think per key).
Role Playing Games do not sell even nearly as much as that typically so it's a lot harder for them to afford the support and other resources you so readily dismiss.
Chances are you, like most people can afford the 2nd copy, you just don't want to have to purchase it. Make a few less visits to <insert favorite place to eat here> and eat at home instead or few less visits to the worthless drivel that's showing at places that dare to call themselves 'theatres'. Learn the value of a <insert monetary dollar standard here>.
This comment was edited on Nov 4, 15:30. |
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| News Comments > Steam Re-release |
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Steam this, steam that... |
Oct 29, 2003, 12:27 |
DrEvil |
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Steam this, steam that...it reall hasn't been so bad since they fixed the major remaining issues for me a few weeks ago. I've been enjoying Deathmatch Classic quite a bit. I do find the interface pausing while updating rather annoying, but other than that, it seems to work alright.
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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy III - Chrome |
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Thinking Man's Game? |
Oct 29, 2003, 12:25 |
DrEvil |
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Thinking Man's Game, eh? To mis-quote a line from "Manos: The Hands of Fate":
"Steve is thinking always. Not in the way you know it. Steve is thinking always."
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| News Comments > NWN Gold Edition Announced |
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Save Your Money |
Oct 9, 2003, 15:31 |
DrEvil |
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Don't buy the gold edition, hunt around and buy the NWN Collector's Edition. You get a neat shirt, uber large cloth poster of Aribeth (whistle), an art of Neverwinter Nights book (lots of glossy high quality illustrations), the NWN soundtrack, a much better bound edition of the manual and a few other things I forget about.
I really enjoyed NWN. It was the first D&D based game I've really enjoyed because it didn't require that I know anything about D&D for it to be fun 
While the first part of the original campaign moved a bit slowly, after that I really enjoyed it. I've also been playing Shadows of Undrentide at home, and I have to say I enjoyed the original campaign more so far. But I'm not very far in the expansion yet.
I think the thing that has always stuck out most to me about NWN is the character artwork and some of the voiceovers which are really awesome to me.
NWN is great for an RPG, because you can sit down and play it for an hour and feel like you've gotten somewhere. Unlike other ones I've played where it's only a 60 hour long game because the player has to backtrack over the same area a ridicolous amount of times.
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| News Comments > Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Gold Friday |
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Re: And from our consolation department. |
Oct 8, 2003, 23:27 |
DrEvil |
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Indeed.
I find CS humorous in general. Condition Zero from what I see in the screenshot is just a prettied up version of the existing one. Why would I buy this? Innovation in gameplay, what's that? We don't need that!
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| News Comments > On Half-Life 2 Performance |
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Re: No subject |
Sep 11, 2003, 16:47 |
DrEvil |
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I still say its partially intentonal, I just refuse to believe a company (ValvE) who is being paied money by a graphics card vendor (ATI) would be honest in this situation.
Um, what proof do you have that valve is getting paid by ATi? None. Point is, when the HL2 benchmark comes out the 30th of September no one will be able to refute what has already been shown.
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| News Comments > Uru: Ages Beyond Myst Beta |
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Re: Signed up... |
Aug 21, 2003, 09:37 |
DrEvil |
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"Oh yes, be prepared to rollback your vid drivers too. I had to rollback from 45.23 to 30.82 before the game would even load. They're waaaay behind on the driver support."
Or, most likely NVidia's wayyyy behind on supporting the game...
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| News Comments > New NWN Linux Beta |
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Re: No subject |
May 26, 2003, 11:18 |
DrEvil |
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"Really ***** plot"...
Let's see you write something better. I quite enjoyed it. I've seen far worse, and little that's better.
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| News Comments > New NVIDIA Detonator Drivers |
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Re: I wonder (#37) |
May 14, 2003, 17:15 |
DrEvil |
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"B) Increasing speed across the board, not just for one benchmark."
Funny, that's exactly what these drivers do.
"C) Actually try to make things LOOK better. I don't really give a shit about the difference between a game running at 98fps and 102fps, but I do care about the Image Quality."
That's also what these drivers do. They greatly improve anistropic filtering quality. Perhaps you should research these things before spouting off.
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| News Comments > MG Solid 2 Substance on DVD Only |
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Re: I have to agree |
Mar 21, 2003, 18:57 |
DrEvil |
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DVD Drives are only standard if you don't build the PC yourself. What reason do I have to have a DVD drive? Seriously. I don't watch movies on my PC. So what would be the point? I won't be buying this game...
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| News Comments > Darkened Skye Demo |
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Re: Based on skittles? |
Feb 12, 2003, 00:25 |
DrEvil |
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It's not a joke. I own the game unfortunately. AVOID THE SKITTLES GAME. IT'S NOT A JOKE. THEY LICENSED MARS INC SKITTLES.
Sorry to yell like that, just need to make sure people know to AVOID this game
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