Beamer wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 17:09:
Ok, he's getting 2 years salary as severance, plus "benefits." All in all not a huge parachute. He was making something like $5-$7 million per year, approximately, but the severance is just salary, so that's about $750,000 per year.

2 years salary, and $1.7MM, isn't enough to make me angry. I mean, it's not like I'm sitting here feeling extremely sorry for him, or thinking employees fighting tooth-and-nail for an extra half a percent raise should, but this isn't one of those deals where a guy is walking away with something ridiculous, especially relative to what he was earning.

"The Diablo III Website announces that a pretty basic feature is soon being added to Battle.net; the ability to appear offline. This will actually be patched into each game individually, starting with the upcoming version 1.0.5 patch for Diablo III"

"For Diablo III, we expect to add the feature in a patch after 1.0.5."

id Hasn't Forgotten RAGE

Dev wrote on Jun 19, 2012, 12:27:
Any info on if repair costs went up by 6 times or not?

LucasArts Drops Gamers into the Criminal Underworld with New Mature Themed Videogame Franchise, Star Wars 1313™

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif - May 31, 2012 - LucasArts, a Lucasfilm Ltd. company, announced today a new internally developed videogame franchise, Star Wars 1313™. The game will make its formal debut at the 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles June 5-7. As players take control of a lethal bounty hunter in a never-before-seen dark and mature world, Star Wars 1313 introduces an integrated development approach by bringing together great artists across the Lucasfilm organization, including LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm Animation Ltd. and Skywalker Sound. A third person cinematic action adventure game, Star Wars 1313 will bring to life the Coruscant underworld, the most dangerous place in the Star Wars™ galaxy.

Named for Level 1313, a ruthless criminal underground deep below the surface of the planet of Coruscant, the game puts players in control of a deadly bounty hunter as he uses an arsenal of exotic weaponry to hunt down his marks and uncover the truth surrounding a criminal conspiracy. Star Wars 1313 emphasizes epic set pieces and fast-paced combat with a hero who uses human skills and gadgets, rather than supernatural Force powers, to make his way through this dangerous world.

"We're excited to share one of the projects LucasArts has been hard at work developing," said Paul Meegan, President, LucasArts. "Star Wars 1313 dives into a part of the Star Wars mythos that we've always known existed, but never had a chance to visit. We are committed to bringing the best gameplay experience and visual fidelity to life and I truly believe the work we are showcasing at E3 will speak for itself."

More details about Star Wars 1313 will surface in the coming months. Visit www.StarWars1313.com for the latest updates.

Mashiki Amiketo wrote on May 7, 2012, 16:47:

RollinThundr wrote on May 7, 2012, 13:53:
I still want to know what Blizzard and their fanboys like Krowen are going to come up with as an excuse when dupes start showing up anyway.

So tell me something, how many dupes have you seen in WoW? It's a valid comparison.

Well there is a secret. Ninja moles inside the PC.

Flatline wrote on May 7, 2012, 15:50:
Is it going to break dupers though? Where there's a will there's a way.

More than likely. It's unprofitable to cheat in WoW unless you're using stolen accounts, or they're using accounts that have been bunged off for powerleveling. If there is duping it's very small time, since every item that's created in the game is assigned a unique trackable ID. The one time there was a dupe bug in WoW, a few hundred thousand people had their ill-gotten T5 stripped off of them.

Jerykk wrote on Jan 6, 2012, 00:27:
The beta was a lot of fun. Was also poorly optimized. Hopefully this delay will help iron that out. Would be nice to have GFWL and matchmaking ironed out as well but I doubt that will happen.

nin wrote on Dec 20, 2011, 15:52:

Parallax Abstraction wrote on Dec 20, 2011, 15:36:

Undocumented Alien wrote on Dec 20, 2011, 10:22:
Star Wars: Attack of the Queues

You fought in the Queue Wars?

Fought? Why no, we all just stood around, alt-tabbing in and out and surfing the web.

Verno wrote on Dec 20, 2011, 10:49:
Loved CoH, my friends and I dumped something like 300 hours into it. Can't wait for info on this.

Cutter wrote on Dec 19, 2011, 16:09:

xXBatmanXx wrote on Dec 19, 2011, 16:03:
So glad we have Origin now for competition. Cause we don't have enough digital distribution centers yet.

Regardless of it being EA, yeah, more competition is always better. Something we desperately need in cable, sattelite, (cell) phone coompanies, etc. As limited as you guys have it in the US it's even worse in Canada. The more companies fighting for your dollars providing you best service at the lowest possible price = win.

Darks wrote on Dec 19, 2011, 15:47:
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that It’s not Tuesday yet people, your codes probably won’t work until tomorrow. Tuesday is the official release date. I would imagine that’s the issue here.

eRe4s3r wrote on Nov 9, 2011, 11:09:
Suppression mechanic is unique.. as well as the use of GI Domes , and squad-wide perks

Not much, but still... also generally speaking, BF3 is a direct evolution of BF2 after dice noticed what an awesome game BC2 really was. And they DID evolve gameplay.. MW3 doesn't

Its exactly 1:1 the same as MW2 (different maps, unlocks, perks and weapons, 100% same game besides that)

Also, nothing ever beats sitting in a scout helicopter and hovering in front of a building and killing guys through windows as you slowly dismantle the entire floor... and finally a huge boom and the building crumbles.

How anyone can go back to COD after experiencing that is beyond me.

MxxCon wrote on Nov 7, 2011, 17:26:
Yes, there are a lot of hacks for vB, but that doesn't mean they are unpatched. If you are running the latest version of vB, you are as secure, if not more, than running your own custom software. Plus if anything, I'd expect Valve to be competent about running their service, and this hack wasn't just a simple 'exec()?' exploit.