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| News Comments > More Diablo III 1.04 Class Previews |
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Re: More Diablo III 1.04 Class Previews |
Aug 17, 2012, 14:02 |
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Creston wrote on Aug 17, 2012, 12:54:
So you have some classes with a few good skills, and a ton of bad ones. And so you BUFF the bad ones? Rather than just nerf the shit out of the good ones?
Who are you and what have you done to Blizzard?! 
Also, Bioware, since you wholesale copied Blizzard's method of "balancing" stuff, please take fucking note.
Creston
Reading the Monk notes, one thing stuck out pretty clear to me and it was that Blizzard was stressing how they didn't want to invalidate a player's accumulated gear with balance changes. Coming from a WoW background, hearing that from Blizzard made me just want to laugh and laugh since that has never been true for any of their games in the past...
Oh, the tangled web we weave when we seek to have a RMAH. Now that people are paying hard cash for their gear, Blizzard is afraid to do a change that will cause that gear to become worthless or cause shifts in the market. Future economic studies papers on Diablo 3 are getting more and more interesting all the time. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Aug 17, 2012, 11:45 |
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Apologies for the late start today: MrsBlue has been home this week as she starts her new job on Monday never did get to take advantage of our free Disney passes, either), which has thrown off what passes for a schedule around here. Things should be back on track next week.
That parenthesis has no start.... <twitches>
I'm just going to assume you are closing the one started HERE. I feel better now.
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| News Comments > Guild Wars 2 Stress Test Tomorrow |
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Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test Tomorrow |
Aug 14, 2012, 22:39 |
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Turglar wrote on Aug 14, 2012, 21:54:
Cool so I only have to pay full box price to stress test their servers. Where do I sign up?
You sign up HERE! You are welcome. <3
deqer wrote on Aug 14, 2012, 21:47:
Ughh.
You should get that looked at. It doesn't sound healthy. |
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| News Comments > Remember Me Announced |
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Re: Remember Me Announced |
Aug 14, 2012, 22:29 |
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jacobvandy wrote on Aug 14, 2012, 22:24:
Not sure how I feel about random YouTube commenters being quoted in news stories...
As for the game itself, could be interesting.
It is a horrible practice that needs to stop. Quoting social media is next to just making shit up. Although, I did get a good laugh out of a video game advertisement I saw that included the following quote among a number more relevant ones:
"Meh." - Dr.Tankle829, Random YouTube User |
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| News Comments > FINAL FANTASY VII PC Rerelease |
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Re: FINAL FANTASY VII PC Rerelease |
Aug 14, 2012, 22:06 |
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If this was released on Steam... Maybe...
It is hard. Big FF fan, but FFVII was released when 3D was pretty bad by today's standards. Without a graphics overhaul I'm not sure I could replay it. Sprites stand the test of time. 3D doesn't age well. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
Aug 14, 2012, 18:46 |
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Jivaro wrote on Aug 14, 2012, 15:49:
I am saving my donations for the groups that represent projects I REALLY care about and that are REALLY in need of the money.
Same. This was something that I'll most likely buy if it is successful, but it isn't an idea I think is sound and worth my support. You aren't making a purchase with Kickstarter. You are making an investment and too many things about this project seemed like a bad investment to me.
If I give money to something I truly believe in, it gets funded, but then flubs I wouldn't feel too bad because sometimes things don't come together, but I was happy to give it a shot. With this, I wanted to own one, but I didn't believe in it that much, so it flubbing now would just infuriate me and feel like I had my money stolen.
At the end of the day I'm still out of my investment in both scenarios, but one I can deal with better, personally.
As a side note, is it wrong of me to hope the next console generation doesn't come about for 2 or 3 more years just to see a few unimaginative and foolish publishers burn?
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Aug 14, 2012, 18:34 |
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Bhruic wrote on Aug 14, 2012, 18:27:
I don't understand this mentality.
The guy is a shill or has an amazingly bad understanding of how publishers work internally. |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Aug 14, 2012, 17:07 |
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You don't motivate the market by saying your product isn't up to standards and the customer should feel bad when you don't buy it. I doesn't work that way. This is a bad article written by someone who has some personal issues to work out in order to find out what lead them to writing it.
I will say I give kudos to the developer for being upfront about the quality of the PC Port, but we are under no obligation to support it unless the individual feels it is worth their money.
This comment was edited on Aug 14, 2012, 17:53. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Aug 13, 2012, 12:44 |
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Cutter wrote on Aug 13, 2012, 12:03:
Anyone seen Black Dynamite before? I hadn't until last night and it's the funniest thing I've seen in years. They really did a great job with it. If you haven't seen it before - and dig the Blaxploitation genre - you have to watch it. You'll laugh your ass off!
Black Dynamite is fantastic. They hit ever cliche in the genre perfectly. After watching it I had to see "I'm Gonna Get Ya, Sucka!" again just to top it off. I think both are still are Netflix streaming for anyone interested.
"But Black Dynamite... I sell drugs to the community." |
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| News Comments > Borderlands 2 DLC Coop Mode Dustup |
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Re: Borderlands 2 DLC Coop Mode Dustup |
Aug 13, 2012, 12:38 |
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| Is there an skill trait I can get that will stop my wife from stealing all the good guns from me and looting chests while I'm still being attacked? Because that is what she did when we played as my then "girlfriend". |
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| News Comments > TF2 Gray Tease? |
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Re: TF2 Gray Tease? |
Aug 11, 2012, 14:59 |
SimplyMonk |
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Silicon Avatar wrote on Aug 11, 2012, 12:45:
There was a 4 team mod for the original TF that worked out okay. It had red, blue, green, and yellow I think.
I still miss spy gas and some of the spammier grenade weapons.
I'd take some Helicopter-MIRV Grenades and Needle Grenades please. |
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| News Comments > FINAL FANTASY XIV Rebirth Interview; Video |
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Re: FINAL FANTASY XIV Rebirth Interview; Video |
Aug 10, 2012, 19:28 |
SimplyMonk |
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Dades wrote on Aug 10, 2012, 17:46:
Few other companies would have the sack to say they're sorry and try to fix the game from the ground up. How about a trailer showing something other than cinematics? Damn Square-Enix loves their bloody CGI.
I always wondered if they had made a better movie than "Spirits Within" if Square-Enix would be a movie company now. |
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| News Comments > FINAL FANTASY XIV Rebirth Interview; Video |
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Re: FINAL FANTASY XIV Rebirth Interview; Video |
Aug 10, 2012, 15:54 |
SimplyMonk |
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Verno wrote on Aug 10, 2012, 14:42:
SimplyMonk wrote on Aug 10, 2012, 13:29:
As much as I want to give this game another shot, due to rabid Final Fantasy Fanboyism... Guild Wars 2.
Man I don't know, I'm about as big an FF fanboy as they come and I'm pretty dubious about this. Between the original beta/launch for this, FFXIII, FFXIII-2 and now plans for FFXIII-3 (yep Final Fantasy 13 Three) I'm left wondering if anyone sane still works there.
Don't get me wrong. I have a bunch of respect for Square in that they didn't settle for the game just being crap and are actually working hard and investing in the game to make it better... but unless they really come out with something at least as progressive as GW2, I can't really say I would take even the time to give it a whirl again.
As for the 13, 13-2 and 13-3 nonsense... It isn't any different to me than the off shoot games they made based on FF7 of FF12. Although, at least with their other offshoot games, they were usually a change of genre like Dirge of Cerberus, Crisis Core and Revenant Wings. Maybe they've just gotten lazy with their naming?  |
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| News Comments > U.S. Digital Sales Up |
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Re: U.S. Digital Sales Up |
Aug 9, 2012, 12:58 |
SimplyMonk |
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Dev wrote on Aug 9, 2012, 11:15:
Edit: This is what I was thinking of:
blues link
But its just a list of the top 5 heavyweights in the digital arena as of 2 years ago. 2 of them being the same company.
And I can't see most of them being willing to provide info to NPD.
So, I'm not sure if they are doing this or even if the practice is still valid, but Battle.Net used to use sequential order numbers when they sold digital products. When Starcraft II released, you could make a reasonable guess at what Blizzard sold digitally based on buying copies throughout whatever time period you wanted to capture.
Now this is fraught with edge cases and other problems as ANY digital order would get an order number so you can't get accurate numbers for specific titles or even games at all considering that Battle.Net also handles sales of virtual goods.
Outside of that, NPD is getting crap from Activision-Blizzard. Activision is insanely tight-fisted with their internal numbers and Blizzard takes it a level even beyond that. My best guess would be that they are looking at their own retail numbers and comparing that to reported gross and assuming that digital make up the difference.
I'll also say that Blizzard is a horrible benchmark for the Digital industry. They would most likely be an outlier in any data set. EA might be a little better, but without some middle of the road companies giving up their figures your won't get an accurate representation even if you had EA's and Acti-Blizz's internal numbers.
This comment was edited on Aug 9, 2012, 14:38. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
Aug 8, 2012, 19:38 |
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MajorD wrote on Aug 8, 2012, 19:11:
Longjocks wrote on Aug 8, 2012, 18:34:
"THI4F"... What's a thiaf?
HAHAHA! Yeah, it is a stretch isn't it. It would have worked for Thief 3 (Thi3f), but Thi4f....not so much! 
It's better than "Army of T|||O: Devil's Cartel" at least. |
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| News Comments > Final Fantasy VII PC Released and Pulled |
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Re: Final Fantasy VII PC Released and Pulled |
Aug 6, 2012, 14:13 |
SimplyMonk |
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Rattlehead wrote on Aug 6, 2012, 13:50:
sauron wrote on Aug 6, 2012, 11:40:
Steele Johnson wrote on Aug 6, 2012, 11:04:
Looks like they're off to a good start lol
They need to put it on Steam. FFXI is already there and has been a big success with fans. Lots of new players on the servers. Really? I loved FFXI back when in the day, I played it like crazy. But the thought of starting a new character and everyone else is level 99 scares me. I remember I would sit around hours waiting for a group, and I was a red mage.
Ugh. Red Mage here as well. I remember waiting forever for a group, finally getting one, wiping first pull or some moron fishing up a monster during a pull and deleveling. Boo. |
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