teknoman2

Wanting to pretty much be given billions of EUR as a gift, is a strange position from which to say "NO" and be proud of it. gift? the money is given as loan with a very hefty interest rate in the last 5 years Germany has paid nothing to anyone and has gotten over 500M euro from Greece as interest for the bailout loans. they even admited it publicly! Greece is getting loans with high interest to pay off loans with low interest and is called a thief too because misinformed people say that the rest of the EU is giving away taxpayer money for free. and that is because 5 years ago, the then PM Papandreou "sold" the greek economy to the IMF and to the germans for a share of the pie. because of his antics during his time as a PM, there was even a rumor (unconfirmed but plausible since he was born there and has the citizenship) that he could not go to USA because there was a federal arrest warrant for him there, for "conspiracy against the state".

the first 2 Gothic games (especially the first) were among the most original fantasy settings ever. the best thing about them was how realistic (and atypical of the fantasy genre) the character's personalities were they lost the ball with the 3rd, because they focused on the (fan made) rivalry with oblivion and not on the game itself, so the game lost its identity and became rather generic. couple it with the fact that their only talented designer (and the lead designer of PB) died during Gothic 3's development and nobody had the skill to replace him, and you get why their games since then are mediocre

actually before the anouncement of the referendum, they had almost reached a deal. they agreed on what is to be done late at night and they went to sleep. the next morning they gathered to make a final review of the deal and sign it, and the greek PM found a completelly different deal waiting for him with the pen ready next to it. the thing is that Merkel, Draghi and the rest dont like the new greek government. they were too used to dealing with yes-men, and having someone say NO is painful to them like a vampire bathing with holy water

and they dont even need to give money... russians want the reserves of un-mined gas under greece. they simply sign a deal and Gazprom can pay for the excavation rights through taxes. china on the other hand has (almost) a monopoly on rare earths and would give and arm and a leg to get exclusive mining rights for the rare earths recently found in greece and the Arabs that always had a good relationship with greece, knew for over 30 years now that there is oil in both the aegean and ionian sea, but due to US "pressure/bribery" on the greek governments, all notions about the oil's existence were dismised. now that that pressure is off because the US aims for that oil, they suddenly all remembered the 30 year old geological surveys... and that is another reason why they pushed for greece to be in this situation: to get the oil for a piece of bread

let me make somethings clear of the original 360B of debt that greece had to pay, only 150 were public debt. the rest were private debts from banks and big companies on the verge of bankrupcy that the government decided to take off them and load them on the tax payers (for a price of course). also, much of that debt was created by falsifying economic reports and intentionally spreading rumors and seeding chaos on the international markets in 2010, the greek government has agreed to take certain measures in order to fix the economy. these measures included new laws that would improve the efficiency of the tax system and facilitate the generation of new income from production and trade. most other countries that were in the same situation passed (or were forced by germany to do it) these laws and within 2 years could generate enough income to pay their debts. the greek government of the past 5 years though did not pass these laws and instead kept increasing the taxes while lowering the salaries to make ends meet. why? because they did not want to lose the support of the big companies that own the media, because in greece's case germany did not insist on the passing of these laws since most companies that would be affected are owned by germans and because relatives of the ministers could use the fluctuation on the market created by the government to make bilions. nobody gave a flying F about the country, the people, the economy or even the debt itself all money that was supposedly taken by tax payers of other european countries and given to greece is vaporcash (like vaporware). the EU countries did not give a single cent to greece, they simply singed as guarantors for what greece had to pay. each time greece had to pay an installment, the part that greece could not pay was divided and added to the debts of the others. right now each EU country has payed 0€, has about 2 or 3B of extra debt while they have loaded an extra 300B on greece (since greece has to pay for the 3B of each country that nobody actually gave to the loan sharks). also greece has no need of EU support to survive. since august 2014, greece did not get any EU support but schools, hospitals, police, army and all other public services worked fine, salaries and pensions were payed in full and in time and the debt collectors got 17B. so if greece were to simply stop paying the IMF and the rest of the loan sharks, it could have 15-20B left over each year. as for the installment to the IMF missed a few days ago, EU law states that the ECB has to pay for a country that missed a payment to the IMF and get even with that country later. so even if greece does not pay, the IMF will get its money so there is no actual bankrupcy like they say. most of the stuff that are asked of the new government of greece (and are to be voted on the referendum) are tailored to suit the interests of german companies. i.e in all europe, islands have tax reductions but they ask greece to remove them. why? because if tax reductions are removed, the prices on islands will go up by 30-50% and all tourists will move to the coast of turkey that is littered with german owned hotels and restaurants.

Not much of a problem, some customers will knee-jerk refund for sure, but barring the game being a total mess (in which case it's not a flawed gem) most people will find something worthwhile to slug it out. Assuming the vendor actually takes steps to fix things so to not waste the goodwill of those customers. Give customers some credit in that they will appreciate the situation on a developer by developer basis, that and if you release crap, don't cry about what follows. indeed.it is one thing for a game to have some or even many problems at launch but be still enjoyable to play, and another to be so badly made that the buyers feel insulted and scammed. an example of the former would be alpha protocol... the new batman was the later still, this situation is a long overdue wake up call for developers and publishers that we wont take anymore crap. the fiasco with the order 1886 was the first slap towards the industry, this will probably drive the point through their thick sculls I think you have short memory. Diablo 3, Sim City and some others predate Order 1886 Diablo 3 had a really crappy launch and got a lot of hate for it, but there was no financial backlash for blizzard since it sold like crazy. im not sure about what happened with sim city other than it was a bad game the order 1886 created a big hole in Sony's wallet though, since it was so bad that nobody wanted it and it proved that the players are not as gulible as the publishers think them to be Arkham knight however caused (so far) the biggest backlash, because selling poorly is not as bad as getting massive refund requests from angry clients

i was thinking that the design of the walker was cool back in the day, but now that i know a few things it looks pretty ridiculous and impractical for combat. the most obvious flaw is that all weapons are on the front and have a limited fire arc, leaving the back and sides completelly defenseless.

Not much of a problem, some customers will knee-jerk refund for sure, but barring the game being a total mess (in which case it's not a flawed gem) most people will find something worthwhile to slug it out. Assuming the vendor actually takes steps to fix things so to not waste the goodwill of those customers. Give customers some credit in that they will appreciate the situation on a developer by developer basis, that and if you release crap, don't cry about what follows. indeed. it is one thing for a game to have some or even many problems at launch but be still enjoyable to play, and another to be so badly made that the buyers feel insulted and scammed. an example of the former would be alpha protocol... the new batman was the later still, this situation is a long overdue wake up call for developers and publishers that we wont take anymore crap. the fiasco with the order 1886 was the first slap towards the industry, this will probably drive the point through their thick sculls

well pillars didnt have any serious issues at launch. a bug here and there but nothing major and while witcher 1 and 2 had their share of problems at launch, neither of them was in such a sorry state that 97% of the buyers would ask for a refund less than 2 hours after purchase hell, even brokenfield 4 was enjoyable enough at its disastrous launch for people to keep playing it while waiting for a patch

a really bad comparison BG was a complete game and the expansion came later as a bonus. they never said "there will be an island and a tower but you will have to buy them separatelly" battlefront 2 had space battles, old and new trilogy era battles and much more from day 1 battefront 3 is half a game in comparison to 2 and it is already set in stone that the other half will be added later

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I only saw the Hoth trailer, and it looked awesome. What kind of stuff are you thinking they cut for DLC? Space battles I'm thinking. and clone wars battles

i ve seen some gameplay trailers of Battlefront 3... it may actualy turn out to be a good game. still, the feeling that at least 50% o what the game could have in it was cut out to be sold as dlc is making me cringe

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where i found this video they said it was obsidian who was making it

in another site i read that obsidian IS making the new south park

Bethesda does not make games... they make mod tools, assets and a base world for the comunity to make the games themselves

South Park 2 by obsidian confirmed at E3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u9oXclCgyU

the footage is clearly from console and, if you missed it, he may be moving in a corridor-like way but there seem to be explorable areas that he skips also, fps without health regeneration in the last 10 years can be counted in the fingers of one hand, so the choice not to include that crap in it is cause for celebration. let's not forget we are talking about Bethesda "the masters of bad design" here, so not having regenerating health is the last thing i would expect from them

did you not see it? it does not have health regeneration! somebody cured the cancer of modern fps!

it certainly is heavilly focused on action (at least the trailers are), but i hope there will be some roleplay elements in it. so far it looks more like RAGE +dog than Fallout

once, an ancient greek philosopher said that the best place to stand in order not to get hit by a bad shooter is in front of the target... seems the deer knows it too

that would be the first good news about that game

in that case though, Han took it from Luke and used it. in the trailer you can see the black guy having it on his belt, meaning it's his and didnt just picked it up