Sometime down the road I'll install and patch up and play single player again, that was relatively fun. Maybe by then all the stupid gameplay mechanics will be fixed and the myriad of bugs and what not.

Don't count on it. The game still locks up on load 1/4 of the time when zoning.

The question you'd want to ask is "WAS it good", and even that is up for interpretation.

Video card drivers and the fact that they were freggin' awful for the first three months of video for both ATI and nVidia is probably a solid reason why everyone thinks Vista is crap. A shame that both card manufacturers chose not to make solid vista releases until AFTER vista's release, even though they had release candidates for half a year before it came out...

Eh, I think Vista looks and controls better than OS X, which I use all day at work. All my mac-hardcore coworkers swear that mac os is easier to use. Like taking a screenshot, for example. Who would ever think to hit printscreen? Just hit apple-shift-3! And finder is clearly the best file management ui ever!

Blech. I wish I could get my work to pay for the leopard upgrade.

Third person only?

Next thing you know they'll announce that it has autoaim.

Last minute bugs that people apparently reported on the 10th and were confirmed to be a problem by a dev on the 11th, mind you.

I was looking forward to getting my initial investment out of this game after the patch. I figure after the 3 or 4 patches they've put out, the game will be playable now.

With every patch that comes out I think that it might be closer to allowing me to get my initial $50 out of it...

Yeah, this will be part of the Station Pass

Is there anything besides DX10 Vista really offers?

Slightly better security (main user not admin), a better Explorer, and Aero.

That's really about it.

No - it hints at the death of Vista. ugh.
Stupid articles.

XP Pro ftw.

You know, I seem to remember people saying "there's no way i'm going to upgrade to XP and it's 5 million lines of code. 98 forever baby!"

XP sucked until SP2. Vista will get there.


note: arguably there's less reason to go from XP to vista than from 98 to XP, but still. Despite piss poor drivers from the video cards back in January, Vista runs fine now.
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Wait, so Raising Hell is out?

I'm not sure what the motivation was behind that decision.

B is 'bag' in WOW. Enough said about that.

P is your character sheet? I've been looking for that hotkey and haven't managed to find it. Thanks

Not that anyone actually cares here, but:

We don’t want people to miss out on the Halloween content, though. So, we’ll be deploying a small patch within the next 24 hours that will allow everyone access to the special All Hallows’ Eve event quests and rewards. We don’t want our technical snafu to stop you from enjoying the game and seeing what we’ve worked so hard to get done.

GW = Box cost with FREE additional content and season events (like Halloween and Halloween items). And ArenaNet adds TONS of free content.

ArenaNet has patched a lot of things and added some content, but I wouldn't call it "TONS". If Flagship added content at a rate of once every three months (and I would consider that to be slow), it'd be more than they added to GW.

Like I said, it remains to be seen if the subscription is worth the money, but I think the only perk that is part of subscription that is lame is the inability for someone to make a guild without the payment. You can still join guilds though.

Does this game have LAN support?

No but the access to game servers is free

I hate to be some sort of voice of reason, but you can play the game without subscription with no problems. It's hardly like they neutered the game if you don't subscribe.

It still remains to be seen whether the 10 dollars a month will be worth it. Maybe it will and maybe it won't, but saying "oh they're not giving me all this stuff for free even though the game comes with tons of content in the box so i'm going to pirate it" is just bullshit.

And if Lucasarts was smart and seeing the units sold between KOTOR and KOTOR2, they won't rush it, and let Bioware work their magic.

They aren't. This is Lucasarts. This is the company who's president says "it is unacceptable for a title to slip past it's release date for any reason"

Something is awry with DICE's coding because a patch should not take this long. Its like the guys making the patch don't know how the game is doing things so they hack changes and cross their fingers. Either that, or the game was just coded sloppily and making one subtle change creates unpredictable results. Either way this is unfortunate because I really do like BF2142! It's a great game.

The theory I have is as follows, and it actually is supported by facts pretty well...

* DICE makes BF2
* Right after BF2 goes gold DICE (sweden) is tasked with making BF2142. This is confirmed by a PC Gamer article
* Patching duties goes to DICE Canada. Their first patch contains a memory leak so bad they tell people to revert it by uninstalling and reinstalling the game
* Patches for BF2 continue to be problematic
* DICE Canada is eventually closed
* Patches for BF2142 are fairly decent, as they are done by the original team
* EA announces patch 1.4 for BF2142. It is a little dodgy with some well documented server problems
* Patch 1.4 stews over multiple iterations for months
* Rumors come out stating that DICE Sweden is hard at work at BF3

So the question is: (1) Who is working on BF2142 patches and (2) why does EA keep tasking groups that weren't the original developers with patching? Unless your code is really well documented, intuitive, etc, it will be hard for someone to just pick it up and start fixing it, especially on a project of that size.

Hasn't this beta patch been cooking for like 3 or 4 months now?

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