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Hades One has h4x0red Ender's account!

I liked listening to him whine when .

We know that. But Tel Aviv mentioned Walter Simons from the first one, so the discussion evolved to the original Deus Ex.

I'm not quite sure what you were trying to say there.

I just beat it again!

"Motormouth" Jones. :D I loved him in Spaceballs too!

I haven't seen many games that require the latest and greatest computer equipment. Even Half-Life 2 only requires a DirectX 7 video card to actually play the game. You won't get the beautiful shaders or anything, but you can still play it. Having said that, the majority of people that do own the latest and greatest computers still use a Microsoft Windows OS, so it's still part of the largest marketshare. Also, towards Mkreku, if DirectX was the only thing that made games OS dependent, then I'm pretty sure that a game like Neverwinter Nights would probably have made it to Linux as well (Neverwinter Nights engine is OpenGL). Also, just from experience this past year, the difference in compilers alone makes "recompiling" code more difficult. The work I did this summer utilized only open source libraries on Linux, and we repeatedly broke the Windows build when making minor tweaks to the code. Eventually it got so broken we just said Fark It and continued with the Linux build exclusively.

Maybe I was young, but I didn't mind 1-6 all that much. #5 did have a babelicous Janet Jones :D But Mission to Moscow....wow....just wow.

A lot of the perennial big names are getting pretty old. Yzerman and Sakic to name two. I had a feeling Moose would be retiring this year. A lot of the older guys I think, given the year off, have experienced life without hockey and have gotten used to it. I'm still surprised that Yzerman is going at it, but I suspect he's the type of player that didn't want to end his career with an injury. Just seems like something he would do.

Thing is, if the game sold a million copies, then it sold quite well. I can't see a game being "modestly profitable" even if it's just in the long run, if it sells a million copies. Jade Empire has only sold 500,000 copies, albeit in a shorter time frame. There's no way the game sold anywhere near 3 million copies though. To suggest that it's even close to selling half of what Starcraft did is rather bold in my opinion.

6 or 7 digits??? I've never seen anyone (including myself) acquire more than 100,000 bucks in the game.

"Somehow I doubt that Planescape: Torment sold more than the original quake. Otherwise we'd have Planescape: Torment 2 and Planescape: Torment Arena as well" There's a world of difference between 1 and 2 million, let alone 3 million. If Planescape: Torment sold anywhere near eve 2 million, we WOULD have had sequels.

No mentions of Dr. Wily? He was one evil dude!

Going with the hit nerve The main reason why I asked was because it's very easy to say "I tried it and got burned!" even if it never happened. Fortunately, you can still mail a cheque to the people to buy Geneforge. Or have you been burned by mail fraud too? And if it's THAT bad, don't you have any friends that don't mind using e-commerce, and you could just use them to buy the game? Refusing to purchase stuff online does not make a game like Geneforge unavailable. Aside from the fact that they also offer fax and phone ordering, it's not THAT difficult to find ways of buying the game without using your own credit card over the internet.

I think he just needed a way to try to rank Sarevok higher. I don't know many villains that connect to the saga or life story of the character.

I'm about to try hard, although I find goalies on both sides tend to suck serious ass. They flop like crazy, even if a pass gets blocked and is no loner crossing in front of the crease, they'll still flop across. I've scored a few goals by trying to pass for the one timer, but it gets blocked right in front of me, but because I'm now hitting shoot, the player immediately shoots and since the goalie has flopped across my side of the net is now wide open. As usual, scoring is way too high IMO. I'm averaging just over six goals a game, while averaging around 5 goals against per game. I'm demolishing the scoring race as a result, but my PK is 50%. I suppose I make up for it though as my PP is 54%

Ah. I don't know if that is or is not the case, but I'll take your word for it.

Why would your definition of a villain have a "In the case of SoA" qualifier?

Ahhh.. No. I never attacked anyone who said that Sarevok wasn't a good villain. I, OTOH, have been attacked for saying that Irenicus is a bad villain. Try again. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You have quite adamantly defended Sarevok, especially compared to Irenicus, this entire thread.

Most of the scams that arise from Paypal is that your money is TOO secure though. People have purchased expensive items using paypal, and then report that the account had been cracked and had the financial part of the transaction reversed, while still receiving the goods. Many of the scams revolving around Paypal are also emails that come out from scam artists saying "You're account may be compromised, come here and enter in your information so that we can fix it" type scams. Maybe I'm optimistic, but Hades One doesn't seem like someone that would be stupid enough to do that. But if Hades went and bought an item from "OMGZ0rs, ph4t lewt here Emporium, give as j00r credit cardz please!" then he got what he deserved. My credit card reverses transactions if my number is stolen, so I don't lose money to begin with. I'm guessing this isn't unusual, because my Dad has been burned (he has his own computer store) by credit card fraud, where he doesn't get any of the money because the credit card used was stolen. Even if I "got burned," the only cost I'd have would be learning a new credit card number.

At the same time, it seems just as difficult for you to comprehend that someone may think Sarevok is not as good a villain as Irenicus.

EVE is basically a game where you're a ship pilot of one of a variety of races. The game is pretty open in terms of how you specialize your character and how you can play the game, given the space archetype. You can be a pirate, mercenary, merchant, miner, and corporations serve as the guild mechanic in the game. Almost all of the economy is entirely player driven. You can check out buy orders and try to satisfy them in order to turn a profit, and perhaps check out the sell orders which is basically people selling the goods. The economy is actually really neat, although I only played the 14 day trial of the game. I was too busy with school at the time.

Yes, it does matter.

Have you played an MMO Walshingham?

You tried it once and got burned twice? How so? Besides, you don't need credit card numbers if you're paying via mail or via Paypal. E-Commerce is only a good way to get your numbers out on the web if you're an idiot with your numbers. You're just buying into the unsubstantiated ph34r of teh 1d3nt1ty 7h3f7. What site did you attempt your e-commerce purchase?