What are you playing now

[Purkake]

That's not what I'm saying at all.

 

My point was that, they'll stick with what works for Starcraft. If they want to try something new, they won't be using one of their old IPs as a guinea pig, but will instead make a new one.

 

I'm not defending anyone, just speculating on Blizzards modus operandi.

 

It's not so much as when to innovate and when not to, but just the way Blizzard works and they continue to make good games.

Edited July 21, 2010 by Purkake

[Mamoulian War]

... It's not so much as when to innovate and when not to, but just the way Blizzard works and they continue to make good games.

 

We'll see how long that will last under the Kotick influence

[Purkake]

Even Activision knows that letting Blizzard lay it's golden eggs is better for business and continue exploiting their own franchises and customers.

[Mamoulian War]

Even Activision knows that letting Blizzard lay it's golden eggs is better for business and continue exploiting their own franchises and customers.

 

Did you miss how Kotick already kicked one of their golden egg laying goose already? *hint hint Infinity Ward hint hint* and forcing RealID up our asses is the first step on the way to suffocate another goose

[Purkake]

It's still to be seen if they really need Infinity Ward, or if Treyarch and the IP is enough to make the same money. Also, from what I understood of the whole debacle, it was far from one-sided. Not that I blame Infinity Ward for wanting to do their own thing, but it wasn't evil Kotick firing them for kicks either.

 

I was under the impression that RealID was at least mostly Blizzard's doing. Why would Activision care about Blizzard's WoW forums?

Edited July 21, 2010 by Purkake

[Raithe]

Should have Just Cause 2 arriving in a day or two... so the weekend could be bringing some general chaos and explosions...

[Mamoulian War]

You must be realy naive, if you think, that RealID is only about real names posted forums...

[Purkake]

It was obviously part of a larger conspiracy to expose all our secret identities and establish new world order.

[Mamoulian War]

Uhm, no... you have 2 more tries...

[Purkake]

Kotick is actually a supertroll and he wants to eliminate all competition?

[Mamoulian War]

nope 1 more try

[Oner]

but it wasn't evil Kotick firing them for kicks either.

-Senior Kotick! Senior Kotick!

-What is it, cheap mexican labor man?

-Your Evil Quota has fallen senior! Like a shooting star!

-NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Erm, I mean, impossible! I rule over Activision! I sell one of the most successful franchises ever for thrice as much as any ugh..'nice' person would! I bought a whole band just to have them make an Evil Theme Song! I drink ****ing baby blood!

-But senior, that simply isn't enough nowadays!

-Tell me then, how could I raise my Evil Output?

-Well senior according to our research you can only meet the Quota if you ...fire Infinity Ward. But firing our ah, I mean your golden, nay, diamond laying chicken would be-

-*slasher smile* -Evil?

- *mumble*...retarded *mumble*

-Do it, now! I can already taste the Evil in me! Palpatine has ****ing nothiing on me!

[Purkake]

nope 1 more try

They want out of the gaming business and into the bright shiny future of personalized advertising and/or selling information?

[Mamoulian War]

tsk tsk tsk... thou have faileth...

 

http://investor.activision.com/releasedeta...eleaseid=466721

[Purkake]

So their secret evil plan was to link Battle.net to Facebook?

 

I guess I was expecting something more... exciting? evil?

[Hurlshort]

While Activision is guilty of making plenty of bad business decisions, I think Mammary War is being a bit paranoid here.

[Malcador]

Messing about with PI in EVE. Apparently I've been doing it wrong by making P2s via the entire chain myself. Makes more sense to buy P0, d'oh. At least I made a cool spreadsheet to evaluate P&L on the entire set up.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Messing about with PI in EVE. Apparently I've been doing it wrong by making P2s via the entire chain myself. Makes more sense to buy P0, d'oh. At least I made a cool spreadsheet to evaluate P&L on the entire set up.

Wait, what?

[Hurlshort]

EVE is like a business trading MMO in space. Lots of spreadsheets and profit/loss statements.

[Gorth]

Ehh... so The Sigillite is playing a game of MMO Excel?

[213374U]

While Activision is guilty of making plenty of bad business decisions, I think Mammary War is being a bit paranoid here.

You'll all change your tune when the hordes of teenage elite asian haxors steal all of your personal data in under two minutes, and then proceed to empty your bank account! It's not paranoia when they really are out to get you!

 

*ahem*

 

Just wrapped up my ToB game. SCSII AI + Ascension Melissan = fun times. Pretty crazy too that the only really, really dangerous enemy in that battle is none other than Illasera. I had to Timestop-Mislead-Backstab her right off the bat just to get a shot at winning. Pretty satisfying battle overall. They just don't make 'em like this anymore. Wait, since I'm playing Gaider's version of what it should have been, I guess they never really made 'em like this...

[HoonDing]

So their secret evil plan was to link Battle.net to Facebook?

 

I guess I was expecting something more... exciting? evil?

Activision board meeting:

 

[Tigranes]

Just finished BG1. In the end, the XP from TOTSC & mod quests had me at about 150k xp: combined with years of replay and a lot of money the party was a walking bag of doom by the end, stocked full of detonation arrows (on Kivan, something like 5/2 attacks/round) if nothing else.

 

Even Sarevok went down within a couple of minutes: Kagain tanking it up with that barbarian health with Jaheira support, Imoen firing dispelling arrows, Kivan firing piercing arrows, PC & Edwin summoning monster fodder.

 

Now for BG2, if only BG2 Tweaks would install properly... it's dying for some reason. Does anyone have that mod? Woudl they mind uploading the .tp2 file on here?

[213374U]

Just finished BG1. In the end, the XP from TOTSC & mod quests had me at about 150k xp: combined with years of replay and a lot of money the party was a walking bag of doom by the end, stocked full of detonation arrows (on Kivan, something like 5/2 attacks/round) if nothing else.

 

Even Sarevok went down within a couple of minutes: Kagain tanking it up with that barbarian health with Jaheira support, Imoen firing dispelling arrows, Kivan firing piercing arrows, PC & Edwin summoning monster fodder.

 

Now for BG2, if only BG2 Tweaks would install properly... it's dying for some reason. Does anyone have that mod? Woudl they mind uploading the .tp2 file on here?

Dispel arrows are SO cheap. There's no save or caster level check for the dispel -- they just kill all magic in one shot. 20 of those should be enough for the whole game. Useless against a well prepared mage, maybe, but deadly against fighter types AND especially divine casters.

 

What's exactly the problem with BG2Tweaks? I can upload my tp2 but I think it's an old version and there's no guarantee it would work for you. Usually install errors are patch-related. Have you checked if there's a hotfix?

 

edit: just took a look at your WeiDU log, and there's a lot of ???? and profit over there. My guess would be that a previous install went wrong and BG2Tweaks attempts to run a check on what's already installed is having problems with that...

Edited July 22, 2010 by 213374U

[Tigranes]

I have version 7, and version 9. You could upload the .tp2 for either one... or, if you could trouble yourself, whatever version you have (I don't think it's big?).

 

I know my way around BG2 mods and files somewhat, but I'm not sure on this one - thought it had to do with WeiDU autopatching but the workaround didn't work. No hotfix out there either.

 

conversely, WeiDU installs take way too long - I've spent at least 2 hours into this now.

 

Edit: Yeah, I only remembered I had dispel arrows before the last chapter - good thing, too. I seem to remember them not being so cheesy, but they took down Angelo(? the final fight mage)'s protections down in one go.

 

Of course, it can't beat Wand of Monster Summoning - the cheesiest item in BG1. It's what lets me get past Aec'Letec without seventeen tons of frustration, with the stupid 'countdown of death' hold gaze.