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That is a ridiculous article. Seriously. I mean, I'm kind of hoping he is lampooning the whole piracy issue, because his points are not smart. I'm pretty sure I've seen better attempts at justification here on this forum.

Not a bad idea, start all the f2p folks out with bad acne and make them pay for clear skin.

To be fair, if you are playing multiple flashpoints and operations a day, you probably should be contributing some money to the game. That's really the idea here, you pay as you go if you aren't doing a subscription. I played TOR for 6 months and only ran a few flashpoints the entire time. This f2p stuff is really aimed at casual players.

It's totally a cop out, and I agree they handled it badly. For me, the good moments outweighed the bad moments in the game.

The writing is the same. There are highs and lows. I enjoyed many of the story lines tremendously. I never got the Gault complaints. It was bad that you couldn't finish him off, I agree totally, but he literally sits in my ship and I never talk to the guy. He's pretty easy to ignore. Apparently Bioware originally had companions that you could kill or miss out on, but players complained about it. So yeah, can't please everyone.

I hope TES Online is nothing like Oblivion or Skyrim. The combat and gameplay was not the strong suit of those games.

Seriously, I have a stable of characters in their 30's, so if they only charge for level 50 stuff, I can enjoy it for free easily.

http://www.swtor.com/info/news/press-release/20120731 Stolen from TrueNeutral, but I thought it should go here. I'm really not sure what to think about this. F2P is a viable option, but it is pretty shocking that TOR is abandoning the traditional model within the first year of release. I also was expecting a much more limited move here, like making the first act free and the others cost money. Apparently I am in line for a ton of cartel coins, so we'll see how useful those are.

It's a common mistake, but I'm not actually the President, so your rant is a bit misdirected. Have you ever been to the US? You seem to have a lot of confusion about the country. I've never been to Russia, so I won't pretend to know what it is like.

Delfosse, I'm sorry that things are so bad for you where you live.

I'm going to repeat myself, just buy a better T-shirt. http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/gadgets-electronics/stories/scientist-creates-cellphone-charging-t-shirt

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/30/exploring-the-unknown-parts-of-xcom-enemy-unknown/ More information on the game. Looks like the air combat game is the same, and it sounds like rocket launchers will be doing a lot of damage like the original.

Good ole journalistic integrity!

5 hours of heavy use is a ton, though! There are a lot of laptops that top out at that range as well. Honestly my phone can go about two days without charging with my typical use. I'm not sure what I could possibly do to run the battery down in 5 hours. The only thing that comes close is the GPS on road trips, and for that I either turn off the screen for long stretches or I use a car charger.

I've never had any problems getting through a long day with my Galaxy S3. I guess if I'm playing games for hours there could be an issue, but really the screen is the only major power drain, and as long as you don't leave it on all the time it goes for a long time.

Thanks for the offer, unfortunately I don't have Nightfall or Factions.

Ryan Reynolds as Batman does make me think of Val Kilmer. I'm pretty sure he is playing Green Lantern in the Justice League movie though. Also Reynolds was the only good thing about Green Lantern. His career isn't exactly hurting from the movie.

I've only got a few more days before I go back to work, so I'm hoping to just buy one Deldrimor remnant, so I can get one hero in, which is worth two points. Other than that I plan on finishing the Prophecies storyline and calling it a career.

It isn't going to take any government or third party regulations. If it keeps up at this rate, eventually companies that run game servers and the like will regulate speech, because they want their game to appeal to a mass audience. Eventually it is going to be clear that customers are lost because of bigotry online. You just have to look at the social network sites to see where we are headed. They don't allow harassment because they don't want to lose customers.

You could always buy that special shirt that charges you phone using built up static electricity.

Seconded.

I'm struggling a bit, I feel like I'm always out of money. I really need some Deldrimor armor remnants to upgrade my heroes, but there is no way I have the time to run a dungeon 5 different times. I know the Cloth of the Brotherhood is cheaper, but it also requires finishing a good chunk of the Eye of the North campaign. I also need just one more minipet to get my collection to twenty. That seems like an achievable goal at least.

I'm pretty sure Dreamland Chronicles was a mess. The Gollop brothers are geniuses in their own right, but big teams and heavy duty 3D engines are not their forte.

Have you checked this out? http://hom.guildwars2.com/en/#page=welcome I hadn't played the original in a number of years, and I was never super into it to begin with, but the Hall of Monuments has me hooked. In the last few days I've taken one character through about half of the original campaign, and I've got 6 points towards some legacy gear for Guild Wars 2. The nice thing is I had old characters that had sat for about 7 years, and they had all these birthday presents that count towards the hall of monuments.

It's pretty well established that the biggest consumers of video games are males between the ages 18-30. That is why the more popular titles are NOT child orientated. As a middle school teacher, I can tell you that almost all my students play video games, but it is only a small group of boys that play the games like Call of Duty. Those are the ones that need these lessons, so they don't grow up to be internet douchebags.