alanschu

Well, I have played Baldur's Gate and expansion, Baldur's Gate 2 and expansion, MDK 2, NWN with HOTU, KOTOR, and Mass Effect. At the same time, some "fresh" perspective is never a bad thing either.

Why?

Won it off a dev, I'm getting it free. Except I didn't mention anything about buying the game, just playing it. My comment still applies to your situation.

EDIT: Nevermind, too easy.

He's saying that "them" got more than 1500 points. He's not comparing his score, just making an approximation of the score. He knows it was more than 1500. The first one is less than 200. In any case, I was playing Panzer General 2. I am now downloading War in the Pacific, Admiral Edition.

ZOMG!!! But HOI3 is right around the corner!!!!!!! I'll have to have two AAR threads haha.

I have never played Jade Empire, and this isn't a criticism against you in particular Morgoth, but I've seen so many people cry out "Cliche!" and "Generic" when writers make the drunken badass have some drama and past. Because they typically do.

But if you become too dark, it's never impossible to decide to fully redeem yourself.

I'm sure you have made millions off the stock market, but that doesn't really apply here. A speculator (shareholder) could perhaps take your advice, but not a company board. Why? Because going public means an initial injection of cash in exchange for obligations towards those who bought parts of your business. And those guys demand dividends like crazy. Umm... increasing dividends by decreasing your overall income? DOES NOT COMPUTE I don't think he's suggesting that game developers go public and offer shares. I think he's literally saying the company should take its money, invest in the stock market, and make oodles of money there so that they don't need to charge us as much for the subscription. How well are they doing? The most successful one I can think of is Guild Wars, which unfortunately wasn't my cup of tea. I heard D&D Online did one, but it's pretty ridiculous how much stuff you don't get access to unless you offer up some money. It'd be like letting you play KOTOR for free, but you can't go to any of the other planets without buying those planets first.

Google loses money with YouTube (they likely gain some other benefits, but it doesn't make Google any money). Either way it still is same price, just like 50 bucks a year would equal 4.20 bucks a month (I think) I'm confused..... I already pointed this out and now you're restating my point? The underlying fact is that you simply want developers/publishers to charge less for the game. I'd like that too, but there's no real reason, outside of philanthropy, to do so. Yes, they could do that, but if they play their cards right and know what your doing and make some big cash, you really wont need to be charging people as much. So you're just hoping that the developers decide to be nice? Why don't you go play the stock market so you can get crazy rich, so that monthly fees aren't an issue.

Hmmm, I didn't think so. Though if it is that should help convince Wrath of Dagon to pick up the game.

Hopefully there's a mission that involves going to the Congo and deciding between freeing the slaves from their imperialistic opressors, or harvesting some Coltan and making a huge chunk of coin.

Why would they tell you when they can get you to play the game to find out?

No steamy hot 2-dwarfs-1-elf footage? How lame. Hahahaha. There's some stuff I want to say but I won't spoil it (and no, I'm not confirming that there is 2-dwarfs-1-elf footage....in fact I'm not making a comment about 2-dwarfs-1-elf footage at all ) EDIT: I'll see what the computer is that I am running the game on at work. I played through it with the medium texture pack (since it's faster to get the daily updates) at 1024x768 and I thought the game actually looked pretty darn good. Though I'm not sure what type of computer I have since I just made the assumption that they'd give me something good enough to play it

Currently playing HOI2 as I anxiously wait for HOI3.

Hahaha, I think a keylogger might even be a bit much for me. It's not like I'd even know where to get one or how to use it

To be honest, I'm trying to find out how that can be interpreted as a joke but I'm not getting it. It's been some long days I guess. Was the joke that Echelon was misspelled as a shot against Third Echelon from Splinter Cell? 5 days of 12 hour days is getting to me I think...

I think it was "their" instead of "there"

LOL that would be interesting for sure.

Youtube doesn't make money: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31414965/ns/bu...ss-us_business/ Google is gigantic with a fantastic search engine and other functions that they use to make money, so they can swallow the cost of YouTube. I don't know if Disney makes much money on the internet or not. 50 bucks a year might satisfty some people. Surely some people will be willing to pay 20 bucks a month but some may be smart enough to think yearly, and stop. What is the difference between spending $20/month or $240/year? The fact that the cost is yearly doesn't change anything. You're still saying "Make the subscription cost cheaper." It doesn't matter if you say "Hey make it $20/year" or "Hey make it $1.75/month" Maybe lower subscription fees and attempt the stock market. If you know what your doing, you can make some big bucks. If this is the case, wouldn't it make sense for the company to keep subscription fees where they are at, and still play the stock market, making even more money? Probably. They could try to do 10 buck monthly fees too, that way your still making cash in the triple digits when looking at it yearly. $10/month is much more attainable, especially as a lot of MMOs charge $15/month. However, a lot of that is perception. To each end user, the idea of spending $5 more per month is pretty easy to justify, whereas to the developer, they'll make thousands/millions more by that $5 per subscriber if that game is a success.

LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF4JjIM84bc

How am I complaining or whining? I'm not the one posting in a thread copious amounts of vitriol because BioWare is working on SWTOR instead of KOTOR 3. If game developers want to start charging less for MMOs I'm not going to complain. I never have an issue with getting stuff cheaper. However, if people have demonstrated that they are willing to pay the price for the current model, and developers don't feel that they'll make additional revenue by dropping the price, then I won't begrudge them for charging the subscription fee that that do.

Personally, I think you assume too much. Perhaps you're just bitter because you're not the target audience of such a game? Coming up with excuses for me for your own rationalizations is a bit much, don't you think? Err, you're resorting to insults right now, and had no issues passing judgment on me in your previous posts. I did address your points. You just didn't like my answers, and decided to accuse me of being in denial and how I need to justify the costs to myself. Perhaps you should look in the mirror before you start accusing people of being in denial and making rationalizations.

The thing is, I have to learn about the third party knowing about it, and it coming back to me. That is the tricky part. But meditate on this, I will.

Though I can't help but laugh out loud at the fury animation heeheehee.