Recent content by Arden

Quantum fears putting downward pressure on BTC. BTC community has been slow to address the concerns. Add to that the market apparently doesn't like Trump's most likely pick for Fed.

Only a matter of time until things rotate to BTC and we get a new ath. They need to address the fucking quantum stuff though- it's seriously holding everything back.

As an aside- gold is now rough double the price of platinum. Made me wonder why plat in EQ is 10x gold so I looked it up. When EQ was released platinum was worth significantly more than gold was in 98/99.

Also far fewer of them, which means it's easier for them to collaborate (collude) towards the common goal of opposition. Ultimately a losing battle for them though, I think- which if you believe in capitalism is good for consumers.

Yeah banks starting to wake up to the existential danger crypto poses to them. Their arrogance has made them slow to the punch here, but they can hit more than hard enough to make up for being slow- as we are seeing.

People knew, but it didn't get brought up much lol. I'd say there was a hope that computing power would eventually compensate, but those people tended to be the optimists. Not to be overly negative, but there were enough crises going on all at the same time that you could kind of take your...

We fought the good fight and managed to eliminate a lot of 3rd party gold sellers, but like I said, it was doomed to be a losing battle because we didn't have support from programming (not their fault), marketing, and the publisher. Also keep in mind I was only involved during the Sigil era. I...

Yep. There were 100 Chinese gold farmers for every actual player.

I was part of the Sigil team that battled rmt stuff in Vanguard. Learned quite a few lessons from the experience, but the main one was: if you are going to take a stand against 3rd party rmt stuff, you need to consider that through all stages of game- design, publishing, marketing, GM tools...

That's Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane buddy. NO -Amod

Count me firmly in the camp of those who don't care much about flashy graphics. I still dust off Super Mario Bros 3 every once in awhile because actual gameplay is what's king to me. Also art direction is way more important to me than polygon count. And I am very much liking the art direction...

Not sure there are hard fast rules or definitions for this stuff, but your list is pretty good imo. Like I said, I think for it to be a "collapse" it needs to result in fundamental structural changes. Great depressions clearly qualify. You could definitely argue that 2008 caused deep structural...

It's semantics, but I wouldn't consider 2020 a collapse. A crash, yes, but not a collapse. To me collapse implies a fundamental structural change with either no recovery or a really lengthy recovery that involves rebuilding.

Any word on when this will be available to play- either through additional invites or an open beta etc?

Run from FoB to EJ and then ask for a port- more likely to get one.