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  1. tad10

    New Progression Server confirmed

    Wasn't Ranger Newbie armor ingame for TLP?
  2. tad10

    EQ Never

    Does anyone actually think at this point that EQNext will be anything but this?
  3. tad10

    EQ Never

    I'd want a source for this - I've never actually heard they ever started development of WoW2: I just assume Blizz being Blizz would have something simmering. They stopped development of Titan, which wasn't WoW2.
  4. tad10

    Good sci-fi/horror books?

    Color out of Space is wonderfully creepy as is Herbert West Re-animator, but you can't go wrong reading everything.
  5. tad10

    EQ Never

    I don't play WoW for the same reason I don't play Risk or eat McDonalds: I'm not twelve anymore. Risk is a fab game and McDonalds French Fries are the best when you're twelve, not so much when you're thirty-two. More specifically, WoW, except for a brief shining moment in early Vanilla, has...
  6. tad10

    EQ Never

  7. tad10

    EQ Never

    The phrase you're looking for is "Network Effect" Network Effect Definition | Investopedia
  8. tad10

    EQ Never

    You mean the 10-K from March 2015? Yeah, I'll get in my Time Machine and get that for you right away.
  9. tad10

    EQ Never

    From the November 10-Q I'll go with Blizzard would certainly consider a WoW2: generally companies want earnings to be going up, not be going down. Edit: 10-Q, not 10-K. Mea culpa.
  10. tad10

    EQ Never

    And yet look at EQNext - did they do the one zone and work on combat route? Nope. They've spent most of their time on art.
  11. tad10

    EQ Never

    You'd think that right? But AFAIK, no one has copied Blizz in the one thing they did absolutely perfectly - build one zone and then spend your time getting your combat engine and basic class mechanics working right in that one zone - and do not fuck around spending money on anything else...
  12. tad10

    EQ Never

    I'm aware of that and Blizzard is wrong - if someone every creates a WoW clone but instead of copying everything Blizz did including its mistakes, only copies the good (smooth engine, art style with longevity) and replaces the bad (hard 2 factions, gear resets, yada yada yada) with better...
  13. tad10

    New Progression Server confirmed

    I read this as simultaneously and serendipitously an ad for Birdman is going on to the right of the post in which a muted Michael Keaton seems to be screaming "Yes!. Yes!" and fist-pumping. Seems like the Internet AI approved of your post. In other news, I'll pass on this Progression server...
  14. tad10

    EQ Never

    Pretty much this: which is too bad because an MMO that just fixed WoW's problems would be reasonably nifty. At one point, didn't we all agrees that WoW has the best (aka most fluid) combat engine? But things like the DPS nerf/boring itemization, gear reset, quest running all the time and too...
  15. tad10

    WoW Vanilla Emu - Emerald Dream

    Pre fuck-you-for-actually-understanding-the-game-better-than-Blizzard nerf items.... and original AV? That's actually... interesting. Edit: WTF, I'm downloading the client and will roll on it when it opens.
  16. tad10

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    I think most of the public info came from some Jeff Butler interview as part of the Early EQNext marketing - I can't find it now - but IIRC the gist was EQ III was aimed at the EQ (not EQII) "hardcore" playerbase. I know a few people who talked with Butler at SOE '13 about it and there was some...
  17. tad10

    New Progression Server confirmed

    Mage Pets are OP. Death Touch is (was) OP. Don't bother logging in on Day One, it'll be too packed and you won't get any mobs. Otherwise I enjoyed it for the short time I played. I gather the 3 month lockout on the current progression server is a huge pain in the ass.
  18. tad10

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    Is this because you think Blizzard has 0 overhead?
  19. tad10

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    I think we've long established that the MMORPG market is saturated with crap fantasy games which is a far cry from being saturated with games, and, if you really want to split bamboo shoots, has little to do with whether or not the market is saturated with EQ IP games anyway, as we have also...
  20. tad10

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    Level based systems are better than skill-based systems for MMORPGS for all the reasons already discussed, but I'll repeat a couple, time being a flat circle and all. 1. Clear advancement mechanism. "I dinged" vs. "I am now 5% better at mansplaining" 2. Significantly easier for devs to...
  21. tad10

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    No, it says to me that WoW must now have a dreadful 1 to 80 leveling experience.
  22. tad10

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    As usual you're shit posting.
  23. tad10

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    So according to this people shouldn't actually play games? They should just give money to Blizzard/Trion/Daybreak and be given an end-game raider in return and be done with it? Because time invested in playing a game is no different than spending money on what that invested time could have...
  24. tad10

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    F2P always and inevitably leads to P2W. * * * And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem waiting to be born. -W.B. Yeats, clearly talking about F2P MMORPGs.
  25. tad10

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    Rage rage against the dying of the light. Do not go gentle into that good night.
  26. tad10

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    F2P is an abomination unto the MMORPG genre: anything obtainable in a game (XP, gold, items, etc) should only be obtainable through playing the game.
  27. tad10

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    I'd love to know where you and Draegan pull out the 50k number for EQ3. I know it's from someone's ass, but I'd like to exactly whose.
  28. tad10

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    They should have released the "improved EQ" version of EQ3 and then sold EQ and EQ2 as a stand alone game allowing peeps to setup their own private servers a la NWN. Not Rocket Science.
  29. tad10

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    Cringe? I'm going to marrystalkthe girl on the right.
  30. tad10

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    They keep using that word "metal" I don't think they know what it means.
  31. tad10

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    There's actually another thread for that apparently none of you can read. So I guess I'll ask here: I'm wondering if y'all are referring to the plane that most of you claimed was in the South Indian Ocean but hasn't been found after almost a year of searching in various spots in the SIO and...
  32. tad10

    EQ Never

    If Smed doesn't get fired soon, it means Epstein and Co and Colombus have no clue about what they've purchased.
  33. tad10

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Wow. Another True Belieber who can't face facts. Why don't you, Itzena and Justin take a trip to go see the Antarctic Ice Cap that isn't supposed to be there according to your models but still manages to, you know, be there. @1987 wrong thread Edit: My bad for forgetting to stay logged in...
  34. tad10

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    And you've got a whole bunch of Climate Predictions since the 1990s and earlier, none of which have happened. Antarctica? Ice Cap still growing. Artic Ice Cap? It's back too baby. Okay!
  35. tad10

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Article is correct. Try reading something other then bullshit written by Climate Change True Believers.
  36. tad10

    EQ Never

    Wrong thread.
  37. tad10

    EQ Never

  38. tad10

    EQ Never

    Carcosa.
  39. tad10

    EQ Never

    You guys have totally made me see the error of my ways: every future MMO (that's not EQ3) should be a WoW Clone because they're totally successful as can be seen by all the awesome WoW clones out there today that we can play and enjoy. Thanks Ukerric. Wildstar is exactly like an official...
  40. tad10

    EQ Never

    Magic. It's all magic. Edit: Beaten by Convo.