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"What do you mean 'forcing' there is no expectation that a company has do anything other than making money for their shareholders, what are you, a Communist ?" Your comment doens't make sense. Why would I be a communist when I'm not for it. But, yes, the law most certainly forces companies to do certain things including when it comes to who they can or cannot hire and fire. This is undisputable FACT.

"Fallout3 is a CRPG just as DA is a CRPG." No. No, it isn't. It's an Action RPG. There's nothing wrong with that; but it's not the same. The goals of both are different. "I have never seen Fallout: Tactics considered an RPG before." Yeah, no doubt. Espicially since its genre is basically right in its name.

Man, your loathing of BIO and bashing of them is still nonstop. "obsolete, almost 8 yr old game had support pulled. " An 8 year old game that likely has more actual fan participattion than newer games - including its own sequel. "And the news exactly?" It's news 'cause it has nothing to do with how old NWN is. This likely legal; crap, not 'this game is old so let's stop supporting it'. Espicially, since these modules are still available for those who already bought themw hich means the bandwidth is still being paid for. "Did no one think eventually NWN1 was going to fade away retail wise?" Not ebfore NWN2. R00fles! " *shugs* Considering the community is down to the cult level its not a big deal really." It hasn't dropped all that much. You exaggerate too much. "Whos going to pay for DLC for a 8 yr old game at this point?" I bet more than you think. You are obviosuly still mad that NWN2 failed to destroy NWN1 like you predicted. R00fles!

Forcing a company to keep employees just because it's the moral thing to do is rather immoral. It's their company. They should be able to it run it as they see fit. There's already way too many laws that try to destroy companies and tell owners who risk THEIR money on how they run their business. IMO, if a company wants to fire someone they should be allowed to. Period. Even for racist, sexist, or any nonsensical reason.

Has to be. DA isn't supposed to be an action rpg ...

If they can't afford to pay those salaries, and EA goes udner, and every EA employee loses their jobs.. you prefer that outcome? Come on, now.

Atari having a tantrum that BIO decided to make DA instead of NWN2, and passed on BG3. R00fles!

Interplay *was* BIS. Interplay developed them. All BIS was was the finally named RPG division of Interplay. But, same company. At least in EA BIO's case, at least there's the argument they were a seperate company and were simply. And, at least for now, for the most part, they are still largely their own beast. But, with major EA taint.

"1) EA are the publisher, not the developer. Who cares who the publisher is?" The pubisher, and developer are basiclaly the same. EA *is* BIO. They didn't simply hire BIO like many pub-dev relationships; but they are the, in essence, the same company. You should be blaming (or praising) both.

"Clearly you are going to defend this design choice until you are blue in the face, even in the face of a superior stance as usual when in comes to the all knowing bioware. Typical." Is that the best you got? A flat out lie? Typical. There are plenty of things to criticize DA for. And, I have. *shrug* The tatics is fine. Just deal with it or play another game.

There already is a happy middle ground. Just use the 'tatics' for 'heal self if you have less than x health', attack enemy, and that gives you two extra slots ot get fancy with just the basic tatics set up. *shrug* More than enough. Also, use one of those extra slots to quick spam at least one stun attack, and maybe 1 mass damage spell for mages.

Ahh... Accoridng to those charts linked to, I should have some enchantable weapons...

Meant tier 4. I'm getting solid loot so that's not the problem. Just no enchantable ones. BOOO!

"Art: the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. Anything creative is art. " That definition is lame, and the wussie's way out. I prefer the TRUE defintion of art as the one above is so fake, and this short line explains why: 'Anything creative is art' If you can use a word to basically describe 99% of the world, it's 100% useless. The meaning is meaningless. By thatd efintion my crap can be 'art'. LMAO

"I had a whole bunch of them by then. Now (at level 12) I'm just tossing them left and right, it's multiple enchantment slots or bust." Meh. I'm gettings crewed for some reason. Hope it's not some sort of lame bug.

Not if it worked. Nope. The overreaction to it by a vocal few? Yup.

"So far, the marketing have blatantly misrepresented the game." No, it isn't.The marketing was right on. The issue is that the marketing and the game can come across differently to different people. The marketing was a multiple angle blitz. And, it was presumably fantastic (guess we will find out for sure how successful it is when the sales numbers come in, though). The worse thing one can say about the marketing for DA is that it was all over the place; but for the most part, it's pretty accurate.

I'm level 8, and deep in the SPOILER SPOILER. Got tons of stuff including fancy tier 8 crapola + runes. Enchantable equipment must be very rare.

That's true. Sometimes the AI does things better than me. L0L

Well.. what type of weapons and stuff then? I have all sorts and yet nothing available to enchant on his enchanting screen? I'm not talking about crafting stuff as that's eaisly done by you. I'm talking enchantments.

"AI but unlike other CRPG games labled it as a 'feature' of being 'tactical' and the sheep bought it." L0LZ WAAA! 'Everyone who is positive must be a sheep'. There are thinsg to complain about DA, and this isn't one of them. Anyone who tries to use the AI tatics thing is missing teh point. It's the same as those who used AI tatics in BG. The game is meant to be played by the player NOT the AI. Control your characters, all of them. Those tatics are for the lazy. Why do you want the AI to do all the work, anyways? On top of this, the AI is fine. It does EXACTLY what YOu tell it to do.

I don't get why someone who has absolutely no interetsing in buying or playing a game would waste time in threads dedicated to it. It's illogical, and just waste a time. Better off going to experience something you 'enjoy'.

How does one get enchantments? I try to get the goof in camp to do it; but all i Get is a 'you have no items that cna be enchanted' screen... I got weapons, armours, and enchantment stuff as well as moolah...

"Other notables include Men of War, Company of Heroes, Uncharted 2, Battlefield 2 & 2142, Operation Darkness, Valkyria Chronicles, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, OFP: Dragon Rising, God Hand, Kane & Lynch, the Devil May Cry series, and Mount & Blade." Man. What a crappy list of games. L0L

"Having the option to buy it, after you've heard the salesmans -ahem- the npc's pitch is trickery," What you call trickery. Is called effective marketing. World of gaming is competitive so you you gotta come up with creative ways to market your product. Calling it trickery eludes to some sneaky, unethical underhandedness to get money for no reason. Like always, you pay x dollars you get y in return. Seems fair to me. "2) What happens like 5 or 10 years from now, when EA decided to shut down the servers for this game? (they'd done it before, I think?" This is an issue, of course. It's also why I personally avoid online purchases - espicially DLC - as much as possible. I like to 'own' what I buy. It's why I NEVER use steam.