Scot said:
unspoiled said:
Herbert actually addresses spice addiction in the third book onward.
Not to my memory, but then it has been many years since I read the books, the Fremen live all their lives with it to no harm I can r…
Theocritus said:
Hasnt WoW pretty much been one constant change? I wouldnt even recognize it today from when I played at launch to 2006.
Well, that's good.
If you don't change and adapt to the times then you stagnate and die.
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Before Microsoft/Xbox acquisition - "We have no plans to port WoW to consoles"
After Microsoft/Xbox acquisition - "Uh, we're thinking about it ... Yeah ... Maybe"
This is just lip service to their current overlords.
At least one MMO publisher is smart enough to realize that boring tedium is not interesting gameplay, such as running around and collecting flight path locations on your 12th character.
Perhaps if the other MMO publishers caught on to this the…
Machkeznho said:
Company is on my do not buy from list they went full greed... one simply doesn't go full greed. Telling us get used to not owning our products we purchased get real Ubisoft... Do us a favor call Larian Studios and wake up.
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Arglebargle said:
WoW is the WoW Killer.
If these Chinese players all decide to play then that would put WoW at 9.3 million active players.
Then you have The War Within in a few months which will bring back a bunch of people.
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Kyleran said:
For every game which sees huge success there are hundreds if not thousands of also rans which quickly fade away.
Investors are definitely walking away from the gaming industry (some others as well of course) unless an idea shows …
Scot said:
Xiaoki said:
Monetization fatigue? What the hell are you talking about? What does this, in any way, have to do with monetization?
Or, are you just posting about "I heard gaming journalists talking about monetization fat…
Blizzard slowly updates the graphics over time rather than the entire game at once.
Every expansion Blizzard updates some old models.
And, now with The War Within, they are also updating old texture mapping using AI.
So, it might not get…
Scot said:
Kyleran said:
Scot said:
Well apparently all the gaming industry needs to do is to pare back staff numbers to pre-corvid levels "refocus" and everything is going to be fine. Not looking like that to me, ever more la…
Scot said:
"It’s not unlike a traditional developer-publisher relationship—just without the pressures of, y’know, hitting deadlines or needing to make any money"
Which is why it is totally unlike the traditional developer-publisher relatio…
Homecoming is so much better than original City of Heroes.
The Homecoming team has put in an incredible effort to fix and balance things that Cryptic/Paragon didn't have time for or never tried.
Mastermind is one of my favorite classes of …
Scot said:
Xiaoki said:
Gaming Journalists are idiots and posters on MMORPG are bigger idiots.
I said it in a topic about Dragons Dogma 2 that people will complain about microtransactions online but still pay for them.
What pe…
Scot said:
Xiaoki said:
Scot said:
Xiaoki said:
Larian just had a big hit so something like this is easy for them to say.
Let's see how they think when their next project doesn't do nearly as well and money is t…
Scot said:
Xiaoki said:
Larian just had a big hit so something like this is easy for them to say.
Let's see how they think when their next project doesn't do nearly as well and money is tight.
A fair comment, but do you…
Larian just had a big hit so something like this is easy for them to say.
Let's see how they think when their next project doesn't do nearly as well and money is tight.