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Playing Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast, Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal and Star Wars Episode 1: Starfighter (Platinum) which I just ordered off SR this morning.
And probably the week after that too...
*Starts a stakeout by his letter box*
And probably the week after that too...
*Starts a stakeout by his letter box*
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I'l be mostly doing uni work, trying to finish PGR and perhaps watch Platoon which I recorded over Christmas, and still haven't seen :-(
I shall be sitting in some bar in Cyprus!
Platoon's great, and Sniper, how the hell did you remember Princess Laramat? :D
OakeyDokey wrote:
> AND GETTING ANGRY THAT ITS p2p
They should scrap P2P for a one off payment. I mean, you don't have to P2P to play most Blizzard games online like Diablo, so why can't other developers/publishers follow suit?
Online consoles are going the same way with their games, most are going to be P2P :(
It may be a profitable financial model, even SquareSoft announced at Christmas that they'd finally got enough subscribers to Final Fantasy XI Online to break even, but most gamers hate the P2P system. There has to be a better way. (And banner clicks aren't a better way).
> AND GETTING ANGRY THAT ITS p2p
They should scrap P2P for a one off payment. I mean, you don't have to P2P to play most Blizzard games online like Diablo, so why can't other developers/publishers follow suit?
Online consoles are going the same way with their games, most are going to be P2P :(
It may be a profitable financial model, even SquareSoft announced at Christmas that they'd finally got enough subscribers to Final Fantasy XI Online to break even, but most gamers hate the P2P system. There has to be a better way. (And banner clicks aren't a better way).
apparently, there is some MMORPG game in the offing that has no subscription costs, but you use real money to purchase in game items...
....Trying to get into Alice's pants.
Goddam shes gorgeous.
Goddam shes gorgeous.
Insane Bartender wrote:
> apparently, there is some MMORPG game in the offing that has no
> subscription costs, but you use real money to purchase in game
> items...
That sounds crazy, you're spending money on virtual items that don't exist. Having said that on eBay there is a thriving economy for people selling items from games like Diablo, Everquest, Lineage and so on.
It's so crazy... it just... might... work...
> apparently, there is some MMORPG game in the offing that has no
> subscription costs, but you use real money to purchase in game
> items...
That sounds crazy, you're spending money on virtual items that don't exist. Having said that on eBay there is a thriving economy for people selling items from games like Diablo, Everquest, Lineage and so on.
It's so crazy... it just... might... work...
exactly, it's just taking the next step.
I would imagine that game items would go for a few pence, and only hitting high values if you spend a great deal of time in the game.
Of course, it's also possible to profit using this style of gameplay...
I would imagine that game items would go for a few pence, and only hitting high values if you spend a great deal of time in the game.
Of course, it's also possible to profit using this style of gameplay...
Insane Bartender wrote:
> Of course, it's also possible to profit using this style of
> gameplay...
Yeah, major drawback :( Only takes one female elf to get cyber-jiggy with a GameMaster or a script-kiddy to apply a bit of knowledge and the whole economy goes up the spout.
> Of course, it's also possible to profit using this style of
> gameplay...
Yeah, major drawback :( Only takes one female elf to get cyber-jiggy with a GameMaster or a script-kiddy to apply a bit of knowledge and the whole economy goes up the spout.
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