there is not proof of cheating

Except for that one time where the dev confessed to it.

But really... it's alright... they said they stopped cheating. They wouldn't lie about that...


(seriously though, there's only the one confirmed incident. it's more than likely that every other thing you've heard isn't true)

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Stop dude. Just stop.

And your 6 months figure is not accurate at all, but feel free to continue to lie to try to make Turbine look good, and Blizzard look bad. You'll be right up there with Jeff.

5, 6. Whatever.

Hasn't helped its subscriber rate. Maybe thats because its a niche game that not many people like. They can add as much content to it as they want, and it still won't change that fact.

What's wrong with it being a niche game? First you said it's a joke and now it's "niche"? Not every MMO has to be a WOW-style success.

The type of posts I have been reading are not anywhere near this level. Most simply state they felt no urge to log in anymore, were bored, or simply felt the game wasn't that good. The reason that people are so... passionate... on the WoW forums, is because they care about the game a great deal. People just don't seem to care about LOTRO.

Why are you reading forums to find "i quit" posts about LOTRO? I mean, I played WOW. I'll probably play WOW again in the future. It's a good game. It just takes too long for content to come out. The entire time I've gone to the WOW forums in the last year or more there's been posts talking about how blizzard did something and the game will go out of business in the next few months. That's MMO forums in general. It doesn't mean shit.

WOW is doing fine. It doesn't need you to bash every other MMO for it's sake.

I find it amusing some of the stuff he's taken Blizzard to task for. You know, I can't argue with him basically saying "so blizzard is the biggest company for mmos in the world now. why does it take them 6 months to make a content patch?"

Despite DDO being a "joke", it's gotten a huge amount of content in the last year in free patches.

Its pretty obvious to me, after reading most of the popular LOTRO forums, that people are leaving the game in droves. Is it a coincidence that after the first "free" month is up, that the CEO of the company starts making his sales rounds?

Game forums are going to make it look like everyone is leaving because when one guy leaves, he makes as much fucking noise as he can. If you read the WOW forums, you'd think that the game was shutting down tomorrow. It's been like that for a year and a half now. I think we can all agree that WOW doesn't need to worry about their subscription levels.

Man this thread is retarded.

Apparently this picture has been in the internal bungie tools forever and slipped through. Whoops.

http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=804962

Check out post #18. I have absolutely no way to confirm whether or not the original post is true, but if it is then this isn't about boobs at all. I can confirm that Halo 2 does use .ass files for map data, though.

Part of me thinks that may be valid. However, I do have to wonder why a game that only runs on vista has an error box with the old XP scheme?

actually, it's any 360 pad, there's no special version for the PC, the wired one just works (requires freely downloadable MS driver, or there are 3rd party ones if you wish), though for the wireless ones require you to buy a little usb receiver.

No shit? I might have to look into getting that then, at some point. I can't think of anything I'd play joystick over mouse right now but I do like that controller.


edit: Vi$ta? Seriously? I thought we were past people saying "m$" and all that other retarded bullshit.
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Now that i have a hard time to believe. I have never heard of a malware or spyware that destroys hardware. How can you proove that it was starforce that killed your drive, and it didn't just go by itself. I had a bunch of CD ROM drives that just died after a year or so. I never thought of blaming it on a malware software though.

"For example, here's one of the common problems brought by Starforce: under Windows XP, if packets are lost during the reading or writing of a disk, XP interprets this as an error and steps the IDE speed down. Eventually it will revert to 16bit compatibility mode rendering a CD/DVD writer virtually unusable. In some circumstances certain drives cannot cope with this mode and it results in physical hardware failure (Most commonly in multiformat CD/DVD writer drives). A sure sign of this step down occurring is that the burn speeds will get slower and slower (no matter what speed you select to burn at). Starforce, on a regular basis, triggers this silent step down. Until it reaches the latter stages most people do not even realise it is happening.

It has been reported by many users that the slowdown caused by StarForce on some recent multiformat DVD writers can cause irreversible hardware failures on those drives (they aren't recognized anymore), as they aren't supposed to write at slow speeds."

http://www.glop.org/starforce/

Starforce has caused enough problems that major magazines have run articles about it. Nearly every company has abandoned using it. Don't try to say that people are full of shit about this just because it hasn't affected you.

Notice how the screen refers to the Xbox Select and Back buttons ?

It supports the xbox 360 gamepad (there's a PC version of it) so there's the reason for that. You can also click on the buttons or press A/B.

Not a bug they missed, just a design decision.

And yet I have it already because Circuit City broke street last weekend. Heh.

especially since you can already buy this on Steam in NA.

Yeah, the NGE in SWG is pretty much why everyone hates SOE, which is at least a little funny because a lot of the old devs have said that the NGE pretty much came down from Lucasarts.

@Marshall: Fair enough. SOE certainly deserves some blame for not saying "ok we can't release this for money in this state" and they probably need more ire for the rigamarole that they put me through when I cancelled it (cancel button didn't work).

I'll agree LOTRO is pretty good though. Glad to see Turbine get a hit after how much DDO tanked (relatively. I like the game and play it but it's not what I'd call the most popular)

@Marshall: I doubt it was an issue of "withholding money" from Sigil. It's more like SOE getting distribution rights doesn't mean that they were going to give Sigil millions more to work on the game (even Brad has said that the ship date was set before they got bought by SOE). Even if they had another 6 months of dev time, it's more likely that they would have spent that time adding unfocused new features instead of polishing the game. Not the devs fault but a lack of good management (i'm looking at you McQuaid). In the end, it doesn't matter.

Maybe this game will be good in a year. Who knows. I'm playing EQ2 again and it's actually good now so who knows.

Vanguard has some promise but SOE has a lot of work on it's hands to fix the mess Sigil made.

It's worth mentioning again, if you haven't played the xbox1 version, do so. It's so much better as a game than the next gen version, especially if you have the shitty PC port that doesn't even work right half the time.

Yeah anything that is going to use Live is going to be Vista only.

Why does that guy's gun have the star wars font on it?

Are you kidding me? SOE rushed it? The date for it's release was set to be fall 2006ish ever since it was at MS before they jettisoned it. It was Sigils money doing development, and they ran out of money. Does it suck for them? Sure. Should I support them because they ran out of money and need to keep working on their shitty product? Hell no.

I played this for a month. Sure potential is there but I'm not paying for a badass game in a year or two. I did that with SWG and never got my badass game, so i'm done doing that.