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It seems like Windows 8 is a really great OS, but is it useful for someone who doesn't have a touchscreen computer at all?I am currently using Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
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Is there any real need at this time to upgrade though?
So I'm sitting here waiting to get into my office (we're adding on; business is good) and I looked at this and thought to myself, "Hey, there's an update tool that checks your PC for Win8." so, to amuse myself, I downloaded it to see how compatible this borrowed Dell Inspiron 1545 is. I think it's 3 years old.Turns out, the guy who owns it wouldn't be able to install Win 8 due to "secure boot" not being compatible. That's one thing a lot of people may not be aware of when they buy Windows 8.
Those would be the same people that bought Windows 7 (or Vista, or XP, etc), didn't do ANY research first then find out their favorite program doesn't work or their three year old printer suddenly doesn't have drivers available. It is certainly not unique to this OS.
Here is my advice for what it is worth. First download the upgrade assistant »windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ··· indows-8 to see where your problems will lie....If you find no major problems with the Upgrade Assistant or are willing to pay for the upgrades that might be required, only then consider upgrading.


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Good description of floatation and soil germination
I was poking around the internet and found an Aussie site with good instructions for starting seeds. Very timely hints as many of us have seed pods ripening. Just realize their seasons by month are reversed from the Northern Hemisphere.
Here is a link that might be useful: Floatation and germiniation hints
I've seen this site before and they've updated it since I was last there. I was always intrigued by Stellar Lace.
I too find the floatation method works best for me and I have tried both ways.
I had such poor luck with my first batch of seedlings this season, I'm wondering if there is something wrong with my water? I think I am going to try bottled water the next time. Am wondering if fluoride has any effect on the germination of seeds. They are always changing wells in our town and sometimes the water has a different smell to it..and we do have fluoridated water... Donna
I've tried the flotation method for these 50 seeds I bought from Ebay (big and viable), but it's been a week and most of the seeds just sink to the bottom of my 3-inch glass baking pan with nothing germinating. I had the seeds next to the window with lots of direct light (a mistake) and also added root growth hormone powder. I know it may takes up to 2 weeks or more for seeds to germinate, but if they sink, what does that mean? In another post, someone seems to say to try the soil method for folks in warmer climate (mine is 10a), so can I still put these soaked seed into some coconut coir? Thanks!
Hi Donna & Bunny,
I also got some nice fat seeds from Ebay and I tried the flotation method, but they turned slimey and rotted so I wondered the same thing about our water. I have even tried rain water from my rail barrel, but no luck. After that I switched to my old stand-by soil less mix (Promix 70% & Horticultural Vermiculite 30%) and I've had good results. The only difference is that I made a little furrow for each seed and planted them side-ways. They seem to like this better and the root knows to instinctively grow downwards despite the "un-natural" position.
Warm Regards,
Last year I had no problem germinating seeds in water. But this year since my first batch was more or less a total loss the next time I am going to stagger them in batches of about 7 or so. I am going to try bottled water on one batch and our water on another simultaneously, maybe rain water also.
I don't think I would put anything in the water until they have a root at least an inch long, and, as I'm sure you know, keep them out of the sun and change the water every 4 or 5 days.
You might try soaking the seeds for just about 5 or 10 minutes in a weak hydrogen peroxide solution (I do that for clivia seeds for about 1 hr) it's either 2 parts water and 1 part hydrogen peroxide or 3 to 1, I forget. Then soak them in plain water after to which you could add a drop or two of peroxide. Seeds from the Internet may not be as fresh as you think. Don't you just hate it when they go slimy on you?
And then of course you can always plant directly in the soil as Fred and many othes do.
I've got hundreds and hundreds of 1 ro 2 yr old seedlings merrily growing along and all were soaked...Good Luck...Donna
I have great luck with both floatation and soil (I prefer soil so I don't have to transplant).
I use tap water and add about 5 drops of H202 (hydrogen peroxide)...and I never change the water!
So there ya go!! Lots of different takes on how to do it. I also make the little rows that Fred does and put the seeds in sideways (think of little sails poking out through the top of th the soil).
I make my own seed starting mix. Just a bit of Miracle gro soil, lots of vermiculite and a little perlite. Light and fluffy!
I also got the 50 seeds of mixed species from eBay about 2 months ago. I floated them and some started sprouting in 2-3 weeks so I transferred them into the soil where one of my pachira aquatica plants was growing in. After another 2 weeks I got many green leaves coming up.
Some are over 2 inches tall now and they are forming little bulbs at the bottom. I am expecting some of them to make their 2nd leaf pretty soon. One thing about these plants is that they need to be kept moist. They don't need that much light to grow well either as mine only get filtered light from a south facing window.
I found that the cup-holder-sized gum containers made of translucent HDPE are good for starting seeds. Clear to let light in, and top both unscrews and/or pops up. I started many seeds successfully in these last year. While the sides are not "glass clear" you can see the seeds and developing roots through them.


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building and need help please!
Hello all! I've been on the building forum for years, but thought I'd post over here to get your thoughts. We are currently working with our architect and hope to build in the spring. This is my 3rd architect and I'm ready to just throw in the towel and quit. Ugh, why is this process so dang hard!?
ok enough whining :) Here is my latest plan - what do you all think of the kitchen? It's not ideal, but at this point I'm ready to just settle. I had him put the pantry behind the kitchen because I like the symmetry of having 2 doorways flanking the stove. (similar to the pic) But do you think this leaves me with enough counter space? Also, where is the best place to put the fridge? The oven will be with the range and the microwave might go in the pantry.
Also, is there enough walkway space to get to the screen porch? I think there's 3.5' there...I need some help from the experts please! thanks so much :)
Shift the pantry down till it meets the breezeway. That gives you the opportunity for one more window, and possibly extend the cabinetry into the sunroom for party serving. Then the access to the sun porch isn't through the fridge/stove/prep sink hot zone. It would also let you put a door into the breezeway so groceries could be unloaded from the garage into the pantry rather than having to walk all the way around the kitchen and then through it. Put that secondary sink ON the island at the end facing the fridge and it will serve well as a prep sink or possible beverage sink for snacks. In the cabinet next to the fridge, put either a MW in a cubby or on a shelf below the counter. Frankly, I'd also be really tempted to put the cleanup sink in that location as well since only 20% of your time in a kitchen is spent cleaning up. Then I'd have the area under the window still have an actual beverage sink and under counter fridge to serve for gatherings.
GreenDesigns - thanks so much for your feedback, but I'm not sure I'm totally following you. So basically you're suggesting moving the pantry area down by the breezeway and switching the door to the screen porch to be up next to the sink? I'm not sure I really want a prep sink - that little thing he has drawn next to the fridge is a microwave.
Your ideas give me something to think about - but how do I gain a window? Do you think the current fridge location is the only possibility? thanks again!


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I'm concerned about recent news that my dad left his cancer (located at the back of the tongue) too late and it might have spread to his lungs do they're going to run tests before conducting radiotherapy. I'm preparing for the worst but hoping for the best – that it can be treated and dad has a good quality of life without having to worry about it coming back. I'm going head over to my parents for dinner, offer them my support then drop into see my sister to organise her to pickup the screen I bought for my computer which has been recycled into a birthday present.
Courier Post came to pick up the XPS 8700 and XPS 13 (2015) so that is all sorted out with the promise that it takes around 7-10 days for the refund to be processed and the money appearing bank into my account. Once all the money is sorted out I'll wait to see what happens on the iMac front but I'd say that it will be skylake that'll be used in any updated iMac and iMac 5K. On a good side I was able to trade in my Lumia 830 and bought an iPhone 6 128GB because Windows Phone was driving me up the wall – I was going to hold off 6 months before the refreshed version came out but it became annoying enough to justify moving the timetable forward. I'm very happy with iOS 8.2 and having access to the Kiwibank application once again not to mention the great experience of Safari knowing that websites will work correctly.
I recieved an email confirming that my MacBook Pro (early 2015) will be delivered on 26 March which is an improvement on the initial estimated delivery of 30 March. I'm looking forward to getting back on the Mac platform after going through hell and back having been sucked into the marketing of Microsoft believing that long standing issues have been resolved when in reality they're as prevalent as always. On the good side the computer attached to my television I have replaced Windows with Fedora 21 – remembering to disable over scanning on the television (leaving it enabled results in the GUI being larger than the physical screen size) whilst installing the legacy nvidia drivers with hardware accelerated video deciding which makes full screen video decoding possible. The experience over all has been very good and getting used to using yum for system updates.
The sick feeling of buyers regret
Once again Kawaii you've made a fool of yourself – saying once before that you would never make the same mistake then and behold you make the same mistake once again moving to the PC world and realising that after convincing yourself over the doom and gloom of the Mac world that the PC world would be the land of milk and honey. I woke up this morning and two things were on my mind – first the annoying dog that keeps howling and the temptation to yell some abuse out the window maybe satisfying for my own sanity but doubtful that it would materialise in the dog shutting up. The second was the buyers regret of going with a PC running Windows when the reality is that I'm a dyed in the wool Mac user not to mention having to deal with the 'issues' that Windows has with high-dpi screen. I expect some iffyness when it comes to third party software because end of the day Microsoft can crack the whip and try to motivate third parties barring holding a gun to a developers head there really isn't a way of addressing what third parties do. That being said, the experience was just horrible when coming from a Mac perspective – where I expect fit and finish in every aspect of the operating system what I found was a superficial top layer of 'everything under control' but underneath the hood you find that as soon as you go off the front and head around the back you find that the wheels are very much falling off the truck.
Then there is the lack of third party software that is up to the same standard that I experience in the Mac world such as when it comes to updating my blog I'm having to use the web based interface which lacks the flexibility of an offline WordPress blogging client but almost every blogging client for Windows is either abandoned, haven't been updated in 2-3 years or woefully incompatible with the latest incarnation of WordPress to handle the templates that are in use (Windows Live Writer). Then there is the video capturing where your choice is either the built in one that comes with Windows 8.1 which doesn't enable fine grain selection as to the rate of compression, resolution etc. given that when I upload videos I upload them to Vimeo (where I only have a free account) which means I have to keep it below 500MB. Transcoding the final file from its recorded format to a more compressed version will introduce horrible artefacts and lets not get started on the lack of an easy to use compression in the case of iffmpeg which serves as a nice front end.
On a good side though I've been able to return both the laptop and the desktop to Dell and refunded for the purchase price of both computers so this time around it has only been a matter of wasting time on my part rather than wasting a large amount of money. The monitor unfortunately is outside of the 15 day period but that is ok since I'm sure it can be useful for my brother, sister or mum if they need one. As for my phone, I am in no hurry and I'll probably sell that off given that the sdcard is probably worth more than the phone second hand but that is in the long run. I'll do one more video as part of the transition series and call it something along the lines "…and back again!". If you don't mind me I'm going to help myself to some humble pie.
Mac to PC Transition [Part 2]
Bring on the pain
Just reading through the latest 'great idea' from Republicans in the United States I wonder what is really required to give the lazy and apathetic public a boot up the ass is for them to experience pain on a scale they've never experienced before. What I mean by that is for the Democratic Party and the President to sit back and rubber stamp everything coming through congress up to the senate then over the president – let the public experience the Republican vision in its full undiluted purist form possible because at this stage I wonder whether the public need to hit 'rock bottom' before waking up and finally getting involved politically instead of looking for forms of escapism that allows them to bitch about things but never having to lift a finger to change them.
Another week come and gone
Don't you just hate it when you think that you've got everything under control then it all turns to shit within a matter of few hours. One of the stores needed a manager for the night so I organised one of ours to go to their store, one of the managers (who was a crew that night) to cover the shift then get a crew member to come in to cover the crew working as a manager that night – well, everything turned to crap when I received a text message "Oh, I can't start till 7pm because of tutorials" and I thought, "all good, shit happens" then I suddenly get told 6 hours after that text message "I can't come because of my student allowance". Honestly, this is the sort of shit that should have been said to me straight off the bat so then I could organise someone else to come in. So more drama at work that could have been avoided had the individuals involved realised how much of a pain in the backside all this actually is.
Something I noticed with Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11 when it comes to HTML5 video and http live streaming when compared to Safari it is very smooth – none of the buffering problems I was experiencing before which makes me wonder whether it is the implementation by Apple via Safari (and AV Foundation) or whether the problem sits further down the stack into the networking and it relates to their resent changes that have cause much grief in the Mac orientated blogosphere and rumour outlets as much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the much the predicted decline of Apple (and slide in quality of OS X). One of the benefits with Windows is that it doesn't move fast but when there is movement it doesn't result in all hell breaking loose with each release – the regular breakage of Wi-Fi with each release of OS X comes to mind.
In my old age I'm becoming increasingly intolerant of people who are wound up ideology to the point that they'll deny the blatantly obvious as so long as their understanding of the world around them fits their ideological narrative even if it requires selectively ignoring things that contradict what they believe. Neo-tribalism being an extension of that (the collective formed around an ideology/shared belief) is is even worse when discussing technology where interesting ideas are instantly slammed because they're not part of the persons 'tribe' aka 'I'm a Microsoft/Apple/etc man so therefore no one else comes to close to the awesomeness of my favourite business". I read through various outlets relating to the new MacBook ultra-ultra-book that has been released and all the blood letting over the fact that there is only one port and if you want more devices supported at once then you'll need to purchase a dongle to make that possible. Then there was the counter balance, well, an attempted counter balance over at iMore which only ended up turning into a giant game of 'see the other as the enemy therefore destroy them' aka 'the holy warriors of Mac' believing that they need to spend their spare time 'defending the honour of Apple online' as if a multibillion dollar company needs volunteers defending them online. Then again it appears the idiocy of man knows no bounds; from neo-tribalism around sports teams, car brands (Holden vs. Ford) and now we have people pledging allegiance to computer businesses or product line – finding meaning in ones life through a common connection shared with others over the internet. Le Sigh.
Oh thank god Microsoft ignore forum posts
Reading through a forum you get the good, the bad and the ugly all rolled into one when you read some of the comments relating to the Windows 10 look and feel. Honestly, the whining about wanting 'aero' and 'glass' effect back – the tacky faux futuristic transparency that falls into the vein as the tacky transparent computer cases, neon lights, transformer style decals etc. and those people are the ones believing that they should be giving 'tips' on how the future of Windows should look. Honestly, I'd hate to be the person having to look through these 'contributions', in the feedback section, to the future of Windows and how the UI should look. This goes onto a second thing I'm going to whine about – what is it with this addiction so many people have with 'busy interfaces' that seem to be an icon soup with icons that are attempt be 'works of art' rather than fulfilling the function of being an 'icon' representing something with the least amount of details that is absolutely necessary. The benefit of having a minimalist icon set is the ability to scale up and scale down, the icons don't end up looking out of date quickly or looking like crap on a high DPI screen, a standard DPI or on a small screen like a smartphone. I have to admit that when I saw the icons for Windows 10 I was at first a bit sceptical but over the last several weeks they've really started to grow on me – even that very much flat and basic rubbish bin icon which is also used in Outlook 2013.
Whilst I'm having a good whinge and whine I'm sick and tired of firstly people complaining that a 'technology preview', shock horror, actually is buggy, features missing and all round problematic – it is a frigging 'technology preview' for a reason and to run it as your daily driver is moronic at best. Oh, and whilst we're talking about missing features, please oh please don't pat yourself on the back for things being added in future Windows 10 builds by claiming that "Microsoft finally listened to us derp derp" as if these features were some how never going to be added to the system until Microsoft heard the out cry and decided to burn the midnight oil to keep the great unwashed masses happy.
Finally got Ad-Blocker Plus sorted
Found where the HTML configuration files were and now I've bookmarked it so I added WordPress to the list of domains which has resolved the 'slow typing' when it comes to typing up a blog. I've added a few more websites to the exemption list that don't use obnoxious ads and provide content but most other websites I'll block because in all due respects ramming ads in my face with autorun video ads is a sure fire way of ensure that all ads are blocked. Honestly, do these web developers realise that rather than making more money they're actually driving away their potential audience? imagine walking through the store and having someone consistently interrupting every 30 seconds, jumping in front of you and being a noisy nosy asshole – you wouldn't want to hang around in that store let alone enter it yet web developers some how think that is 'good business' to be annoying. I for one am confused.
Finally back home, watching TV
Finally finished the shift at work, filling up the display fridge, organising the walk in, trying to work out why the order hadn't been entered into the computer along with variances in the stock take so that was lots of fun dealing the problems meaning I wasn't out until 3:30am but at lest I got those loose ends tied up before heading off home. Oh the drama of having to clean up organisational messes after only having a couple of days off from work.
Sitting on the sofa watching 'Breaking Bad' for the first time – I am up to season 4 and really enjoying it and it now makes sense when it comes to the new series 'Better call Saul' that has recently appeared on television but having started watching 'Breaking Bad' I'm now finding that 'Better call Saul' makes a lot more sense when seen within context. Supposedly 'Better call Saul' is meant to be a prequel to 'Breaking Bad' but you really need to see the later to understand the former so you could say it is more of a side project/off shoot given that a prequel can be viewed independently of the original yet still make sense.
Regarding my notebook, I updated my video card drivers to the latest one from Intel given that the ones bundled with the laptop originally was dated November. I haven't noticed any performance improvements but then again I haven't noticed any regressions but I'm going to guess that it probably has fixed up issues that I'm unaffected by such as OpenGL games, OpenCL performance however I have noticed a slight improvement in the battery life so maybe it has something to do with the ability to down clock. What I am impressed at is how snappy Windows is and how far Intel has gone in terms of improving their GPU design particularly how much grunt they're able to get out of their CPU/GPU combo these days considering how little power is used and how much 'horse power' is being provided. It will be interesting to see what WDDM 2.0 delivers in terms of improved performance especially with the other changes under the hood, DirectX 12 of which the HD 5500 is compatible with.
Ever since my Dell XPS 8700 arrived I pretty much have stuck with Internet Explorer because for what I need to use it for it is 'good enough' for me and the fact that when it comes to memory usage, power efficiency, speed, reliability and integration in with Microsoft's own cloud services however I am always open to using Chrome or Firefox if for example the 64bit version of Firefox yields improvements or that Google finally address the power sucking related issues pertaining to Chrome. With that being said however I'm open to use Chrome if I ever did make the leak to Android if it turns out that Windows 10 Mobile is in the same position it is today but next year. That being said the HTC One M9 is a very tempting device.
Random addition, I notice that the performance of Internet Explorer is absolutely horrible when I have Ad Blocker Plus installed – I guess that is part of the problem where there is a performance hit when it comes to blocking ads and Ad Blocker Plus isn't hi-dpi compatible which means I cannot disable it on a per-website basis but then again it is a bit of a none issue given that I'm waiting for the big Windows 10 release and the revamped Windows 10 web browser which rumoured to have an extensions API that is comparable to Chrome and Firefox which should hopefully address the performance issues I have been facing. I'm looking forward to seeing Firefox 64bit appear soon for Windows but the Universal Application future of Windows is pretty exciting.
Interesting quirk with XPS 13 Wifi driver and no video tonight
So I booted up my notebook and found that I couldn't connect to my WiFi network so I enabled the 2.4Ghz frequency just to connect to the network but as soon as I was setup I did a bit of a search on Bing and found that it is related to the driver itself. I took the advice and uninstalled the Dell provided custom driver and used the Broadcom wireless one instead which enabled me to connect to the 5Ghz network. The connection is incredibly stable and when I meet incredible, I'm sitting in my bedroom with at 866Mbps, full bars and enjoying the sort of stable connection that I could only dream of. All in all I'm one happy camper.
Regarding the video, I'm going to make it tomorrow after work but so far all I can say it is that I'll be lavishing praise on Dell and how, although Windows 8.1 its quirks Microsoft is working on the issues relating to scaling for high DPI screens but then again it is very much a situation of software vendors making sure their UI code is scalable. Even on OS X there are scaling issues particularly when you're dealing with third parties who abstract their UI layer using a go-between such as a custom widget kit or a third party one such as GTK/Pango/ATK or Qt. I think that is part of the reason why Microsoft is making the big push to WinRT given the mountain of perks you get by moving to WinRT: better memory management, hardware accelerated GUI, fewer 'wake ups' of the CPU, scalable UI from smart phone screens all the way to big high DPI 4K screens with the added perk of 'write once, tweak then compile everywhere' when it comes to the Windows offerings. It is going to be a long hard road moving from Win32 to WinRT but this is part of a long term plan that also includes moving .NET to a share common UI toolkit which should make sharing code between WinRT and .NET a lot easier – especially in the enterprise market where there is a tonne of .NET LOB applications that enterprise business use internally that I'm sure they'd love to get working on tablets and smartphones.


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Sen. Barack Obama won the endorsement of the Teamsters earlier this year after privately telling the union he supported ending the strict federal oversight imposed to root out corruption, according to officials from the union and the Obama campaign.
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Novice Member
Joined: 3/18/11
What is "real"? How do you define "real"?
Originally posted by immodium
No, it's wrong to spend that much time playing one game and then complaining there's not enough to do in the game.
The job reference was more about the amount of time spent, not whether or not someone likes what they're doing.
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Joined: 12/23/08
There is another point that should be considered in mmorpgs alongside the need for systems to keep players engaged, that the players can see opportunities, scope for expansion.
No game will ever be able to launch with enough systems that work correctly right off the bat to keep lots of players involved, a lot of the systems will have to develop over time as minor tweaks can have large unintended consequences either immediately or sometimes months down the road. If you are handing over tools to the players, the players will use those tools in ways the developers did not and often cannot forsee, the developers need to have properly thought out metrics and sampling tools to be able to spot what's actually happening.
The developers idea for the future of the game isnt necessarily where the players want it to go, and the devs will have to be able to change their vision for that of their players, or they wont have as many players as they could have had.
The above reasons are why the players have to be able to see that there is potential in a game, not just from rumours of "whats down the road" but also from the engagedness of the devs, if they're actually in the games asking questions and talking to players on forums, generally are they listening to the people who are playing their game. If the development team gets cut to the bone immediately after launch players know that more systems/content will be delayed and that reduces the potential of the game. If management comes out and states everything is fine and dandy when there are obvious problems, that reduces the potential of the game in the players eyes, which will lead to players looking for something with more potential in their eyes, or abandoning the genre altogether.
A second point I would make is that "one size does not fit all" which will be incredibly unpopular with VC's, but it is a truth. MMORPG's make their large profits from having lots of players play for a long time no matter what monetisation method is used. If you try to appeal to everybody you will end up appealing to very few over time.
Wall of text, no tl:dr.
Player of Eve Online for 6+ years.
F2P/P2P excellent thread.
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Joined: 10/15/12
Originally posted by Ozivois
didn't they speed it up to avoid being called 'a korean ginder'?
I think the prostitute mod corrupted your game files man. -elhefen
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Joined: 1/25/12
I'm only playing the role chosen for me. Who you supposed to be?
/slow claps. Finally an article which represents the *actual* problem with MMORPGs. For a minute I was thinking I was going crazy because it was not being recognized.
Problem today is we have a bunch of MMOs who feign as MMORPGs. Without the RPG you really dont have much to keep a sub.
Systems are the absolute core of an RPG. Give me tools to *create* my own role in a persistent world and I will barely log out.
If we have some secret developers on these boards. LISTEN! And persistent does NOT mean instancing. Get rid of it.
EQNext talks a good game, skeptical if they can deliver but willing to wait to find out.
Keep the momentum on this going... good stuff.
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Joined: 1/25/12
I'm only playing the role chosen for me. Who you supposed to be?
Originally posted by rounner
A system is a mechanic introduced in a game like a tool, that a player can leverage to develop their own interpreted fun. Crafting is a system. Housing is a system. Building boats, etc is a system. Player-driven markets is a system. Which is different from content which is a scripted set of events that all users get to enjoy (but cannot change). I can tell you how a quest or piece of content will end since it will be the same no matter who does it. Even the so-called 'dynamic' events are scripted and have a known end. With a system, you cant predict what a user will do or how they will leverage it. Adding an unknown factor that is fun.
When taking into account the recent "theme park" MMORPGs of note, it is increasingly hard to deny that the industry is moving away from designing games that are meant to last a player for months and years at a time. The market is entirely too crowded to compete in and single player games like Halo, Skyrim, and Half Life sell millions of copies in comparison without a third of the required upkeep of a traditional MMORPG. The same is true for co-op games like BF3 and COD.
Those big dollars are guiding the industry. As a result we read the same forum complaint about every new MMORPG release now - "It's a single player game with co-op features." The latest games in the genre expect you to buy the download, play for a month or two, and then move on to the next big thing while hoping to lure you back for a short time when they release the next expansion. The comment you hear from angry developers upset by fan complaints so often now is that the only people who want all these virtual life features with lasting appeal are those looking to compensate for having no lives...
All these systems and mechanics that generate lasting appeal in a game are by nature hard and time consuming. This is a drawback in an industry looking to broaden its appeal and bring in more casual players to make more money. Increasingly you are seeing face book, twitter, and other social networking features brought into games to make it a more casual social exercise between real life friends at the expense of encouraging internal game communities or a play model that requires too much in game communication between strangers.
I think it was brought home not so long ago after reading a certain TESO lead developer state that MMORPG was a dead term with little meaning anymore as almost every game had multi-player features. This was a telling comment to me in that it showed the development team didn't see the same feature set as distinguishing an MMORPG from any other MMO game that I did. This has been true of many developer interviews regarding various in development games in recent times.
Why not aim for big download and box sales, keep the subs going for as along as possible, and then try to milk it for all a title is worth using a F2P model once most have moved on? It's more profitable to just make cash shop items and requires less ongoing financial investment than making a game with lasting appeal would. It's the new norm for every new game because it makes money and its not expected to really last any one player.
You may see these systems for lasting appeal as a way to save the industry from turmoil OP. I just see it as a sign that we are all dinosaurs, a small niche group with desires not financially worth catering too, in an increasingly casual play oriented market. I fear we are going to have to adjust our expectations of MMORPG releases or move on to another hobby as we have been left behind and such games, our games, have become something else.
Originally posted by ShakyMo
On that list the only definitive WoW clones are Rift, SWTOR, WAR, and Tera. Aoc and TSW only contain the endgame of a WoW.
Teso and Neverwinter share none of the core foundation principles of a WoW. Both offer different playstyles, non linear questing, and endgame consisting of something other then the "raid or die" mentality.
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Joined: 12/19/07
No one is talking about sandbox features? We've been talking about it daily on these forums for over five years.
All of the sudden everyone is getting a clue, and now you'd think these thoughts were just discovered days ago.. ;)
Great article by the way. This discussion needs to move from the forums to the mainstream, and now is the time. I've tried to share many of my thoughts on the matter for a long time now. Many of us who started out in those older games, never found the themepark games to be even remotely entertaing by comparison. We've waited a long time for everyone else to catch up.
A sure sign that you are in an old, dying paradigm/mindset, is when you are scared of new ideas and new technology. Don't feel bad. The world is moving on without you, and you are welcome to yell "Get Off My Lawn!" all you want while it happens. You cannot, however, stop an idea whose time has come.
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Joined: 10/08/11
Originally posted by BillMurphy
The first thing I thought after reading through that -very good- article was: "I bet people will be jumping down his throat to claim they've been talking about this exact issue for years".
I think it goes to show that gamers and developers differ, sometimes vastly, in what they talk about. And if you take a look at the MMOs that were released in recent years, devs really didn't talk about this issue at all, whereas gamers talked about little else (when you boil it down).
It is generally not a good sign for any industry when the makers have their minds on completely different things than the consumers.
Regarding the "WoW fluke", I have always thought it moronic that so many companies tried to copy its success. And of course, they didn't succeed. Because, as I see it (which is, of course, also only one point of view), they overlooked the most critical information about WoW subscribers: They are not MMORPG gamers. They are WoWers. Most only know WoW and only want WoW. Many keep their subs open even if they don't play.
You just can't think that just because WoW has ~10mil subscribers that the market is that big. I think that MMORPGs of the last years have taught us that it really, really isn't. If you're not WoW, you will NEVER see those subscriber numbers. WoW is a freak accident, an absolute exception to the market.
That said, I concur with the article: MMORPGs today are too much focused on developer-created content, and don't feature enough robust systems with which gamers could entertain themselves. One MMORPG (I know of) that differs a bit would be WAR: Here, the whole idea behind RvR was quite robust. Sad to say, it still fell flat because it had many shortcomings (technical as well as design-wise. When will people learn that any long-term, meaningful PvP can't work with just two parties? Three is the way to go if you want the population to auto-balance itself).
But we would need more of that: Less 'one-time' content, and more robust systems that work without constant injection of new things by the devs. Heck, why do you think that Legos are so popular? Because they're a robust system: Bricks with which you can build anything, not just the one thing the package shows. And MMORPGs do it backwards: They build entire systems that funtion only in one very specific way. Which, of course, gets boring fast. Just like Legos if you could build only one thing with it.
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Joined: 11/16/07
Originally posted by Foomerang
And not only that...
But it also seems that all of the reviewers here and at other sites also seem to miss most of what is in this article, too... when they are writing the review/preview of theme park of the moment and almost uniformly give all AAA games high marks...
So, a game can be missing all kinds of systems giving a game longetivity and deep game play, as mentioned in the article, and still score in the high 8s/low 9s? Even though because of this we have seen the population crashes 2-3 months after launch?
Seems to me a good bit of that could be mentioned during reviews (and isn't).
But these games continue to get high marks anyway...
I wonder why... (not really).
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Joined: 5/09/04
I think the thing lost in this article and a good many mmos is that the goal is not to keep the player logged in. The goal is to get the player to pay for that month. The idea of keeping the player logged in leads to grind games and time sinks that just are not fun. There are better alternatives that would increase player enjoyment and reduce bandwidth costs like releasing 1 or 2 dungeons a month.
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Joined: 7/08/12
Nice article and very true.
One other thing I think is that a sense of lore and place is important. For example, GW2 has tons of content, beautiful vistas and lots of lore but none of it hangs together. The lore is puddle-deep, sometimes awful, uninteresting and very poorly interwoven with the locales making even the most beautiful city or location initially 'ooh' then rapidly 'meh'. I think a long term attention grabber would do well to have your character feel embedded in a world full of rich background which he/she is a part of and makes some impact on...even if it's illusory.
And (flame shield engaged) there is no way in hell wow's success was anything close to a 'fluke'. It was very carefully market researched effort to meld together the attractive features of previous games that were percieved as too difficult/niche/socially awkward and they made a highly polished, cartoony, widely accessible monster for its day. Unfortunately a) it's charm has vastly dimmed after 7 odd years and b) it created a monster by making too much money that subsequent investors wont back anything that isn't chasing that market...even if it's now overwhealmingly clear that trying to repeat that format ad nauseum is a surefire route to failure.
In my opinion a fantasy (MMO)RPG would be wise to aim for that tingly feeling in the belly a paper and dice roleplayer would get when leafing through a Dungeon masters guide back in the day where a single drawing of an adventurer holding a torch and a map with a big beasty lurking out of sight ready to pounce, could come alive right off the page. I have high hopes that designing dungeons for your mates to run through in Neverwinter (complete with traps and copious kobolds) could make that possible.
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Joined: 1/10/11
Originally posted by BillMurphy
But a Theme-park can have quality longevity, just the same. For millions, WoW does the trick. I don't know how, but it does.
But WoW does not have many systems, before MoP it pretty much trusted just in dungeons, PVP, and the knowledge that they have a huge player base with celebs like Mila Kunis advertising the game on TV by casually letting everyone know how she plays the game. All of a sudden, gamer or not, girl or a boy, it's cool to play WoW.
Other games like Rift does not have that kind of meta game where you can just walk to someone and start talking about it. Personally this is the biggest longevity factor WoW had for me, it's why I sticked with WoW long past I got bored of it, since everyone was still talking about it, no matter if I was on the forums, at home, at work, or just saw some dude I barely knew, if there were nothing else to talk about, just bring WoW up.
I cant do that with anyone anymore since I know like 2 people who play the game, but obviously someone else also still plays according to the sub numbers, which would mean a constant stream of new players, and that again comes from the reputation of the game, the phenomenon status, and the still large community which spreads the word if the marketing department cant reach someone. Am I far fetching? I dont think so tbh.
From a gamers perspective, I'd rather have a game with vast and rich systems to bring longevity into my mmorpg rather than just enormous community or phenomenon that simply just steamrolls onwards. I've went back to WoW a few times after my personal WoW-community eventually dissolved, and there was nothing for me. Just the same old dungeon crawling and PvP with item rewards that has bigger numbers.
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Joined: 2/14/04
Isn't it obvious how WoW did it? WoW gained it's critical mass when it "almost" was a traditional old-school themepark MMORPG. Sure, it was more streamlined than the older ones - but it built on the systems from EQ and DAoC: there was no cross-server dungeon finder, there was no cash-shop, there was factional PvP, there was no personal story and no instancing and no phasing, there was no lobby game, there even was a (compared to now) long levelling experience.
All the other themeparks trying to repeat that success did one major thing wrong: they copied how WoW is "now", not how WoW was when it grew to their impressive customer base. Now WoW is an old game with a slowly dwindling subscriber base. And that's what the other themeparks copy: an old game with a slowly dwindling subscriber base ...
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Originally posted by Zylaxx
The list is dumb. Lotro and Rift alone started as WoW clones and have pulled away from that and now have their own identity. Also to be fair, calling it a WoW clone isn't accurate as they aren't as good as WoW at all. More like cheap knockoffs of WoW to be more precise. Much like the SyFy channel does with those horrible doomsday movies that are cheap knockoffs of the big budget Hollywood blockbusters.
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Originally posted by Burntvet
Not really fair to be honest considering we as humans always review or rate/grade a product when we try it. In the case of MMORPGs, they really can't be fully graded until one has hit that "plateau" of gameplay where they feel they have experienced enough of the game to be an expert on it. At THAT point is when we should review and score these games. Otherwise, everyone sits in the honeymoon phase hopped up on the newest shiny game to come out the door. They are all great for that first "hit". It's whether they get stale or not that counts with these types of games and again, the review process either needs to wait till "one character completion" is hit or a certain timeframe has passed.
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The Industry standard is Sony and Blizzard what they do will more then anything dictate what the rest of the Industry does. The gaming outfits who without any qualms take advantage of there gamers ie: Funcom, Turbin, EA and to some degree other companys will in the end lose Subs. Whats coming will be more single player games like Oblivion. Im through with any company who promotes Life-Time Subs period.
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Why don't the MMO developers get this? I just can't understand why this is such a hard concept. If Bill got it... well then.... :)
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They do get it, it is Bill who is missing by a mile tho...
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What do you think an mmo with tons of game systems is called? I would call it a sandbox. Sandboxes are ultimately what we are talking about here. A themepark with enough systems becomes a sandbox. Thats what a lot of people dont seem to understand. Themeparks consist of mainly a combat system with a bunch of developer made sub systems to do said combat in. you start adding non combat systems, creative tools for players, other ways to play, and your themepark starts to become a sandbox. Themepark is just a sandbox waiting to happen. But most of them never get past the kill shit stage.
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I get much more satisfaction from getting a pentakill than, well, any other thing in the game...
I play casters and cant push towers well, so its like my wimpy 80 damage autoattack trying to push towers while master yi is like OMG I HAVE TO GET LIZARD
lol! exactly my thoughts. As a caster I'll have their entire creep wave down in no time and I'm staying at the tower as enemies swarm in thinking
You are absolutely right.I totally agree.Most players,even good ones cant get to the logic of this game,which is to win the game no matter the cost.They prefer to satisfy their big ego instead with big scores like 34-3-3.After losing the game from enemies with ****py scores they start crying and call stupid excuses like backdooring and noob team.
I have won many games where my team was pawned by gangs all the time but in 2 good teambased push late game we won in 5v5 battle and took the game.The opponents couldnt believe that and thought this game was theirs.
A death has a good value once it is for a good reason.If i die and a tower or an inhibitor falls then its worth the effort.If i die and 3 enemies that killed were all killed from my team after then its very ok also.
This game is a coop one.Medium or even bad players can win even top players if they coop better.I have seen it happen many times and thats why this game is so cool.It can be turned many times in only some good pushes.
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When I started and first got Rammus I was like. "Alright time to pwn some champion arse." but after I got owned from being agressive and my team kept loseing because I was a feeder. I then killed someone and smiled on a later game... but then it was 3 on 1... I took out the tower myself with all 3 of em on me. I died but... just knowing I took out that turret felt even better.
in short. I sucked because I thought killing champ = victory and feeling good. I then got better because I knew killing turret = victory and feeling even better.
Even as a gank heavy champion. knowing you helped drop that turret feels so much better.
I think the main issue stems from this:
To push turrets, you usually need a coordinated effort. Sometimes this is a 5man roll, but sometimes it involves having a harrasser or 2 push side lines, pull the other team out of shape, and then a push. In short, it requires intelligent, coordinated action. If no one on the team takes leadership, as often happens in pub games, individuals decide to farm more until they can win without good coordination.
The solution to people not behaving in a coordinated way is not to QQ at them. It is to show constructive leadership and help the team win.
Before I played premades for most of my games, this problem happened to me constantly. No one would understand why towers are more important than kills. They would go chasing after a hero at half hp when the lane they were in has 10 minions stacked on the enemies tower, unguarded. Luckily I was tower kill / crit Gangplank back then so I could kill two towers while everyone sat mindlessly waiting for a team fight at mid.
My philosophy on this was simply, "Champ kills last 35 seconds, tower kills last forever."
Their philosophy was, "Lolomg I want to kill that Rammus so I can complete my Avarice Blade."
OMG I was just talking about this two nights ago. My team was winning a game early on. We have a Blitz who got everyone wound up about killing their heroes. Sure we got kills in, but we totally walked away from the point and ended up losing badly.
Focus on the goal - winning. Hunting heroes is not the way to do it. If they get in your way, sure kill em, if not leave them be and focus on their defenses.
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