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I was thinking of making an actual forum for discussing games; PC/Xbox/PS3/whatever. But we should probably see how much interest there is in it first.
So, to start, Modern Warfare 3, anyone playing it? I can tell that a ton of our lurkers are; traffic's down exactly corresponding with the release of the game.
That was yesterday, when I played a couple games with Goons. It'd be nice to get a game or two going with Bullies as well.
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Tom & Friends: 20 North to exhibit work of studio glass pioneerWritten by Brigitta Burks | News Editor | email@example.com
The colorful work of studio glass pioneer Tom McGlauchlin, along with art from his closest colleagues and friends, is on display at 20 North Gallery until July 14.
"Tom & Friends: A Tribute to McGlauchlin's Legacy in Glass" is one of the glass exhibits happening during the Glass Arts Society Conference commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the studio glass movement in Toledo.
Tom died in 2011 at age 76, but his wife Pat McGlauchlin encouraged 20 North to go forth with an exhibit.
"We initially planned this exhibit with Tom McGlauchlin as an exclusive solo exhibit of his work and just days after he had made that decision [to exhibit] and we were moving forward with the exhibit, he passed away from pancreatic cancer," said Condessa Croninger, associate art director for 20 North.
Tom was one of the participants in the 1962 glass workshops at the Toledo Museum of Art, where several artists experimented with making glass art outside a factory setting. This exhibit will be the first time since the workshop that the attendees' pieces have been displayed together.
Pat met Tom when he was an assistant teacher for her ceramics class at the University of Wisconsin.
"He started out in engineering, but he realized after two years that was not for him. He'd never actually done any art before, but he just got into ceramics and that's where it all started," Pat said.
Tom, who grew up in Beloit, Wis., became interested in glass because of his mentor Harvey Littleton, whose family was involved in Corning Glassworks. Littleton had wanted to do something with glass his whole life, Pat said. Until the early '60s, most glass art was done in factories.
"[Littleton] just thought an artist should be able to do [glass art] on his own, just like a potter," Pat said.
"Back in 1962, glass was not considered a fine art form; it was a decorative object," Croninger said. "Glass workers were not considered artists; they were considered laborers."
Otto Wittmann of the Toledo Museum of Art agreed to host Littleton's glass workshop. Tom, also a potter and sculptor, was teaching at Cornell College in Iowa, but made the trip in March 1962 to explore new ways of making glass art.
"It was an exciting time for them. Tom's letters said they couldn't sleep at night because they were just so excited about what they were doing," Pat said.
In June 1962, there was a second workshop.
"That workshop Tom was late for, because our son was born," Pat said with a laugh.
After the second workshop, Littleton traveled the country getting universities to teach glass art while Tom began teaching his new craft at the University of Iowa, only the second program of its kind in the country.
"They hired Tom even though he had only blown glass a few days," Pat said.
The couple moved to the Glass City so Tom could teach at the University of Toledo and Toledo Museum of Art in 1971.
Part of what made Tom special was his willingness to experiment with art, said Pat, who was a potter for 25 years.
"He definitely tried different things and you learn from your mistakes; sometimes your mistakes can be a wonderful surprise. … He came up with new techniques that hadn't been done before just through trial and error," she said.
Many of the artists showing alongside Tom came from Pat's suggestions,while others volunteered, Croninger said.
"A number of old colleagues and friends had come into town for his memorial service and they had stated they would be really honored to have a piece alongside his work in the show," she said.
The artists who attended the 1962 workshops who are displaying at 20 North include Littleton, Clayton Bailey, Edith Franklin, Norman Schulman, John Stephenson and Dominick Labino.
"When they started, they were up-and-coming younger kids and now they're legends," Croninger said.
Other artists included in the exhibit are Herb Babcock, Fritz Dreisbach, Henry Halem, Philip Hazard, Janet Kelman, Shawn Messenger, Mark Peiser, Jack Schmidt, Robin Schultes, Patrick Dubreuil, Kelly Sheehan and Meredith Wenzel.
"This is a very small group of artists compared to the number of artists who could have exhibited. Tom had many, many friends," Croninger said.
The show will also include previously unexhibited work by Tom and items are available for purchase.
Tom's work is featured in the permanent collections of the Corning Glass Museum in Corning, N.Y., the Smithsonian Collection in Washington, D.C., the Kunstmuseum in Dusseldorf, Germany, The National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan, the Toledo Museum of Art and more.
An open house will be 6:30 p.m. June 15 at 20 North Gallery, 18 N. St. Clair St. This will coincide with the Glass Art Society's Gallery Hop, from 6:30-10:30 p.m., in which buses will loop between dozens of designed spots. Gallery hours are noon-4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday or by appointment.
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A Prince George's County school bus driver convicted of sexually exploiting a 7-year-old boy to produce child pornography was sentenced to 55 years in prison in federal court Wednesday, just five years short of the maximum sentence of 60 years.
Scott Smallwood, 29, of Upper Marlboro, was sentenced to lifetime supervised release from prison in addition to 30 years for count one and 25 years for count 6 of Smallwood's plea agreement where he pleaded guilty to two counts of sexually exploiting an unidentified boy.
The three-hour sentencing hearing involved home movies of sexual acts, trembling verbal testimonies from distraught family members and an exhibit of a homemade doll that resembled an anatomically correct adolescent boy Smallwood used in what U.S. District Court Judge Roger W. Titus called his own "fantasy world."
"He may have not been an evil person, but what he did is the embodiment of evil," said Titus before ruling on the case. "The defendant produced a potential lifetime of scarring."
Smallwood was a county school system bus driver since 2005 and his bus routes included schools in Clinton, Morningside, Brandywine and Upper Marlboro. He was arrested May 21, 2010, after police obtained a cell phone memory card that contained more than a dozen videos that showed him sexually abusing a young boy. According to Smallwood's plea agreement, Smallwood left the memory card at a 7-Eleven in Clinton and the card was found by someone inside the store and that person turned it in to the authorities.
During the council arguments, federal prosecutor Stacy Belf showed members of the court several videos obtained by county police that depicted Smallwood's sexual actions with the boy. She also read from stories of Smallwood's fantasies and a 50-page ledger Smallwood kept that listed specific actions he had done with specific children, she said.
Apart from working as a Prince George's school bus driver, he was also a bus driver for an area church and a summer camp in Montgomery County, which Belf said Smallwood used every opportunity to surround himself with children to prey upon.
"Very simply Mr. Smallwood is a wolf in sheep's clothing," Belf said. "He was documenting the very worst possible things to be done to a small child. Make no mistake, he is a pedophile."
Belf later presented Smallwood's homemade doll known as "Brandon" and played one of Smallwood's videos that showed him pleasuring himself over top of the doll.
She also played an audio clip taken from Smallwood's video of himself with the 7-year-old boy. In the audio recording, Smallwood entices the boy to continue with the sexual acts in exchange for more candy.
Defense attorney Timothy Sullivan, a Greenbelt-based lawyer, pleaded for a lower sentence and said Smallwood is taking ownership for his actions by appearing in court and will be able to reverse his mental state with a prison sentence of roughly 20 years rather than the 60 year maximum.
"He was living in a world that did not exist. He was a patchwork of perversity," Sullivan said. "It was a release for him to try to survive. Mr. Smallwood is here today to take responsibility for what he did."
Prior to the ruling, Titus also heard from the victim's mother and great-grandmother and a written statement from the 7-year-old himself, which was read by his stepfather.
"I hate what he's done to me and I hate him," the boy's stepfather, who was kept unidentified in court, read of his own writing. "I don't understand why he did this to me ... I would really like it if you could make Scott go away for as long as you can."
Smallwood, who wore a maroon jumpsuit and repeatedly placed a tissue on his eyes and shook his head during the prosecutor arguments, also gave a statement just prior to the sentence.
"I feel bad and cry all the time regarding what I'm going through and what the victim's family is going through. I cry myself to sleep every night," Smallwood said chokingly. "I'm not an evil person. I try my best to help anyone with anything at anytime. That's the kind of person I am."
Titus also ruled that he will make urgent recommendations to the bureau of prisons that Smallwood be taken to the Federal Medical Center in North Carolina and placed in their sex offenders program.
Family members who attended the hearing, including Smallwood's grandmother, mother and older brother, declined to comment after the ruling. Sullivan also declined to comment further.
Members of the victim's family, who were seen holding back tears and consoling one another during the statements and arguments, also declined to comment.


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I finally got a chance to see it yesterday. I was not disappointed nor was my wife who said to me as we left "that did not feel like a 3-hr movie".
Spoiler Alert
The biggest pet peeve is that the whole "no one will ever know who Batman was". The Gotham media was either very gullible or naive. I mean Batman dies and Bruce Wayne dies at the same time and no one connects the dots (which a few exceptions). Especially when Wayne had went into self exile AT THE SAME TIME Batman did yet no one thought to question it.
Also the stock trades that were attributed to Bruce Wayne (that forced him to lose his fortune and subsequently his company) came on a day were that said stock market was attacked. A simple review of the transaction records would have shown that the trades occurred during the attack.
Minor details but they drove me crazy none the less.
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So what you're telling me is that Batman might cheat on his taxes?
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I didn't want to start a new thread, but I just finished Batman: Arkham City for PS3, and all I have to say is, "Wow." Such a great game.
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Ben Affleck? Odd choice.
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24 Years and Counting...
You mean you haven't been waiting for that Daredevil-Superman movie?
Now I hope they dump Cahill and give Nick Cage his wish and let him play Superman. An Affleck/Cage Batman/Superman movie would be so awesomely bad.
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A lot of people are bashing this choice but I don't see anything "wrong" with it. I mean, I know a lot of people hated Daredevil, but he is pretty awesome in The Town and Argo.
The Sox traded Bullfrog the only player they've got for Shottenhoffen. Four-eyes Shottenhoffen a utility infielder. They've got a whole team of utility infielders.
I'm guessing that Bruce Wayne has moved on to saving Boston and he's chasing some Irish mobsters.
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Superman is held hostage and Ben Affleck stages a fake film where he plays Batman to help usher Supes to freedom.
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CRESTVIEW — A tenacious Class 1A Freeport High School volleyball team was no match for Class 7A Crestview on Monday as the teams celebrated Breast Cancer Awareness Night.
However, the visiting Bulldogs did keep things interesting for the host Bulldogs as Crestview won 3-0 by scores of 25-19, 25-12 and 25-17.
Crestview coach Kathy Combest knew there was a danger in playing a small school, but she was happy with a win that gave the Bulldogs a chance to work on their offense.
"It's hard to play smaller teams because you want to play down to their level," she said. "But I thought there were times there we kept going and didn't lose focus, and that's what we have to work on against the big teams, too."
A six-day layoff between matches for Crestview seemed to show early in the first set as the players struggled to find their timing.
Crestview led 3-1 in the opening points of the match but Freeport rallied behind the serving of Laura Ham and Crestview mistakes to go up 7-4.
A Jasmine Middleton kill that was followed by a Marisa Rogers service ace propelled Crestview to a 7-0 run that moved the host Bulldogs in front 11-7.
Freeport was able to close within two points of Crestview at 12-10 before the home team pulled away down the stretch.
A Brittany Pase ace to start the second set sent Crestview on a 6-0 run and gave the Bulldogs a lead that would never be challenged in the set.
Middleton had a kill in the run and Cailey Ness had a pair of blocks to help Crestview (15-4) come roaring out of the blocks.
Freeport's first point of the set came on a Crestview error. A second Crestview error in three points pulled Freeport to within 7-2. Crestview then went on a 6-0 run to put the set out of reach with the score 13-2.
Even though Freeport played Crestview even the second half of the set the damage was done as Crestview coasted down the stretch to take the set.
Freeportkept things close through the first half of the final set.
The visiting Bulldogs even led 15-14 before Crestview put it into high gear and went on an 11-4 run to take the set and seal the win.
Pase and Middleton shared the team lead with 11 kills each. Pase added three aces, two blocks and two digs to go along with her kills.
Molly Kitchen had 12 assists, seven blocks, two kills and an ace. Macie Adams had 11 assists to go along with three aces. Rogers led Crestview with eight aces and was tied for the team high of 11 digs with Molly Woodward.
Kierra Potts had 10 blocks and five kills. Ness had six blocks, three kills, three aces and two digs.
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Me not nice Dino! Me bash brains!
Disclaimer...I never played DAoC, but I heard a lot about it and wish I had. I grew up with WoW/Warhammer/Rift/SWTOR, so that's to say that I'm much more familiar with the 2 faction systems.
I was excited to hear that GW2 would have 3-faction WvW because everything I read kept pointing to the fact that the third faction levels the playing field so that one server/faction can't dominate. If one server starts to pull ahead the two servers banded together to bring the top server down.
This sounded awesome to me. I'd been in all these other games where the one dominant faction/server could crush the other just because they were bigger so the though of the third server participating sounded great.
Now the reality. I'm on the Sanctum of Rall server and we're currently playing against Fort Aspenwood and one other server I forgot right now. At any rate Sanctum of Rall and the other server are each right around 70,000 points while Fort Aspenwood is sitting at 195,000!!!! They have more points, by a large margin, then both our servers combined! So, I'm not seeing the balancing the third server is supposed to add. I would say maybe it's just that these two servers suck, but then I'm reading posts and it appears this same scenario is playing out in most all the groupings. You have one server completely dominating 2 servers.
So can someone please explain what's going on here? All I can tell you is that it's not fun, and the WvW is the main incentive at "end game" for GW2. If that's not fun I question the longevity of the game. With free server transfers right now I see little incentive to stay on a poorly performing server which is only going to further the problem.
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Well if nothing else more games lost means being moved down the server rankings enough where presumably even if you keep losing, you'll play against other poorly performing servers.
As for 1 server often dominating, I think as the game ages you're going to see a bit more intentional teaming up by servers on the strong one, which of course is the main point of 3 faction to begin with.
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Well I have spent alot of time in WvW and I will tell you its co-operation based, if your server isnt on the same page you will lose fast. This is where the name Guild Wars really shines, having a large guild in a WvW is really an advantage for your server to acheive victory, its not all about getting kills and taking objectives, their is a degree of strategy and desception involved.
Take this for example, last night my guild was doing our sheduled guild WvW, we were attacking an oposing servers battleground, in terms of numbers they had far more than we did, we developed plan of attack, 2 small squads went for 2 key points on the map, this confused the enemy server to thinking we were zerging in prep for taking an Orb, which caused the majority of them to rush north, we then sent our main forces and captured the entire right side of the map, completly bottling the 2rd server in their own area, we then took the key points and finally sealed their whole server in their fortress, which we then attacked from 2 sides.
My point, an organised Guild can make all the difference to a servers progress in WvW, thanks to our guilds leadership in that battleground, the rest of our server followed our lead and we had our collective numbers working together against a larger number of single players doing their own thing.
If I remember correctly Fort Aspenwood has a couple of very organised guilds that lead them in their WvW tactics, their whole server follows them and does everything they are told to do, amking rhem the top server they are.
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Definition for innovation is below. Your welcome.
those are my opinions on it.
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what everyone keeps repeating is "the server that has the largest organized pvp guild will dominate in WvW".
of course if 2 servers have the same ammount of oganization then the one with more people wins...:p
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What I've seen is one server dominates and the other 2 sit in town all week. Leaving those that go out to fight 1 on 2 or 3.
I haven't seen any sort of two servers joining together to fight the one. This week we are getting stomped by another server. The third server showed up briefly, got rolled, and hasn't been seen since.
The problem is with 4 maps the servers that are getting stomped just retreat to their home map. If you go to the other maps it's maybe 10 people getting camped at the spawn point.
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The two weaker servers banding to fight the strongest is just wishful thinking. What really happens is that the two strongest servers band together to wipe the weaker off the map, then proceed to divide the land according to their power.
The point system also means pretty much nothing. Whatever server has a 24/7 presence dominates the points. Retaking everything back takes time and there are so many times your guild members will spend cash to fully upgrade keeps and towers, only to see all upgrades lost the very next day.
I don't know how I could balance the system. You could have it so noone can lose territory after a certain hour during the day, or if a certain server has the outmanned buff. Gaining or losing points slower during off-peak doesn't mean much, considering that a fully upgraded keep takes a ton of effort to be upgraded again (guarding the keep while it gets fired upon, guarding supply camps and dolyaks etc., not to mention people becoming more and more unwilling to spend on pointless upgrades (pointless since they'll be lost in a couple hours and not because they are bad).
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GW2 is a massive zergfest both PvE and PvP.
I don't see the problem in this.
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Nice post OP, and the guy who said the two stronger servers bad together then split the land. It's gotta be concerning to Anet too.
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Originally posted by bcbully
I have never actually seen two people from opposite servers crushing anyone. It would be funny to see though. I do enjoy the the PvP though.
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It's more the dominant side has to fight on 2 fronts as they have more territory.
We didn't really do this 2 weaker sides team up on the bigger one in daoc either. But because albs had more players they tended to have more territory so they had more fights going on at once.
Another factor which unfortunately doesn't seem to apply now is hardcore guilds would roll the smallest side for the kudos of it. Albion definetly had more noobs than midgard, won't comment on hibs as that's what I played.
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Here's the thing, most players that go in alone just look for something they can achieve. I don't believe it even matters whether they attack the stronger or weaker opponent, except that they want to get points.
Only guilds and large groups go into WvW thinking about overall objectives. It would shock me to find any guild that looks at the map from the lowest server and decides to attack the highest only. Guilds are looking for points so they try to attack the closest target they think they can get the most points from, if they even plan anything.
I think it was different in DAoC, maybe it was just me, but I think in DAoC people were trying to gain territory, which is the way I would like it to be.
The game I think is doing something like what I'd like is Planetside 2. I just wish it was this genre, but with cells to capture over a whole world. I don't believe bigger is better, but I do feel that ten times the GW WvWvW map size would be better with more ability to see a frontline to the war instead of the yo-yo points of interest that's in GW2.
Something I've always wanted in MMO's with world like PvP was domination as a possibility and re-boot the whole system after. If domination is possible then I thnk it becomes clear that the map needs to be large enough that you can't take the whole world in a night or even a week.
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I enjoy pvp because no one is OP and rolling over a single team. Some servers are really bad at pvp however.
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Joined: 2/24/07
People say it's all down to organised guilds but it's really not. In the end it's a numbers game. Whichever server can raise the most players over every 24 hour period will win, it's as simple as that.
I'm on a relatively small server, we rarely have queues and have no meaningful night coverage which means we get dominated by any server that can attack at night when we can't defend and who can outman us during peak. Actually I say that, but we're starting to get pretty good at being outnumbered and have got to the point where we usually win in standing fights against groups up to twice our own number. There's a knack to it which I think only regularly outnumbered servers will have at this stage and I'm not going to share it here.
This week's match-up was going pretty well for us, we fought from a terrible last place on Saturday to a point where we could push for first place within a couple of days. Trouble is, the currently winning server ran two all-nighters (I think they may have members from another time-zone), capped all four WvW maps and opened up an 80,000 point lead which is unassailable. They may do the same again tonight.
It's down to the way that points are scored and I'm mostly OK with it for now, but I really hate the effect it has on people on our server and on others who get rolled the same way. No one likes losing but losing at times when you can't defend due to real life requirements naturally saps the will to participate in a lot of people, and I don't blame them for losing interest.
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IMO, the BIGGEST problem with WvW is the point system.
It alone, makes the two smaller servers battle for 2nd, rather than battle #1. They'd rather see themselves atleast be "ahead" than on bottom.
If comparing to DAoC, the only "point system" we had was relics. And who ever had the most was getting hit by both teams. Or if #1 was attacking one other, typically the one team would try and hold out, while the next would try and cut off #1.
Not all the time, but a majority. WvW it's not like that. There is many things that WvW can do differently, but I think the point system is really the only flaw. Point systems work great for 1v1 or FvF (faction vs faction), but if you want 3 teams to try and balance themselves out, having a constant point battle will ruin that.
Again, this is all in my perspective. But if you want the DAoC RvR "balance" (which we all know it wasn't, but it worked better than anything else) you can't have a points battle.
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Bill's musings about why some gamers have stayed away from TSW - still nursing wounds inflicted from past crap releases - is very true in my case. I am interested in TSW, but likely won't touch it until at least the end of the year. This gives time to fully vette it's gameplay, community, and dev support. And until a free trial opens up, it's a non-starter.
The days of heavy presales and blindly jumping into the lake of hype is over for this old gamer and, I suspect, many like me.
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I saw the same sentiment echoed by both of you up front. "You stand by the score the site review gave for the game." Alright then. Who questioned your objectivity and why do you feel a need to defend yourself now? From my perspective the simple truth is that good products can under preform for a variety of reasons. Release date doesn't cut it as an excuse for what every knows is a niche product with limited appeal up front. So you like it and the market doesn't yet. I don't think you are out of touch...
I'll admit in my view it's a well done one or two month wonder for the average MMO goer that might have been better off being released as a single player RPG. That's because there isn't really anything to do in game other than follow along with the story (good as it is.) The current games where this same thought applies on the market are preforming on par with TSW if you understand. There is a disconnect in the MMORPG world right now between what players want and what they are getting that can't always be traced to spending habits.
I do not think TSW is a bad game. As much as I like what they did and tried to do they dug their own hole. Maybe like RIFT, they can make a comeback. I hope so. But that last FUNCOM statement about changing the focus of the company's products really is tellling. (Not to be a prophet of doom.)
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Joined: 3/28/06
You have made a very astute comment (yet failed to understand what it meant):
Originally posted
Funcom was a participant in the mass market P2P failure of he past few years. They helped to turn unhappy consumers into an angry mob that demanded change. This has caused them (and the rest of the market) to turn away from P2P (a valid business model) because it has been overused to such an extreme.
F2P is the 'hot' new fad for a reason. Customers are angry at how they have been treated, and have moved on to something different. Companies such as FunCom are still expecting their old tricks to work... and believe that they can sell a Million copies of this game to customers, despite the fact that they know only a few hundred k will actually like it. The expectation of product sales is not based on the demand for the product, but rather the ability of marketting to sell the product, regardless of its actual value.
TSW is a decent game. However, it is a niche game, and one that needs more polish. No one could have reasonably thought that it would sell a Million copies, unless they believed that they thought they could do so through trickery. They have blamed the results on poor reviews.... but have not actually adressed the issues that caused the poor reviews.
Bottom line is this:
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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Joined: 6/17/12
Another thing I think that really hurt them was that they used their beta tests for testing rather than for advertisement. I think a lot of people who played the beta weekends to try the game came out very unimpressed. I first played the 2nd beta weekend and didn't really like the game very much. I managed to pick up a closed beta key and decided to give the game another try and really started to like it much more after they started polishing it and I had more time in the world. For most people you only get one chance at a first impression and I think TSW's first impression wasn't very strong during those open beta's.
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Joined: 6/11/08
I think with my heart and move with my head.-Kongos
That's just it. Funcom has a good game on their hands. It's niche and not too many people know seem to know about it, but it's a good game. Maybe the only thing they need to do is advertise in standard gaming media or Youtube commercials or something.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
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Joined: 8/10/09
Bill, it surely is the end of Funcom as we know it. They have crashed and burned on TSW and will now head in a different direction.
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Joined: 5/08/08
nanu nanu
LOVED this game! It is ahead of it's time. It's downfall was that it was released at the wrong time, it should have waited at least until Christmas time after GW2 and MoP hype died down.
The other downfall was severe lack of advertising. Everyone I know that's an MMO player never heard of TSW. I only heard about it because it come to this site. My friends don't come here and hence didn't know about it.
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Joined: 7/24/03
There are a lot of factors at work here...
Flash banner ads and an innaccesible Facebook game (though interesting) aren't going to cut it in terms of marketing. Features... articles... blogs... that is where it counts. Reviews were mixed with both players and critics. Simply, TSW didn't have much of a presence prior to its release as it was constantly competing with GW2 beta/stress events and GW2 coverage.
Thankfully, I had closed beta access which convinced me to pick the game up at launch as opposed to a few months down the road. The devs had a lot of momentum leading up to the release and I was more than excited to see what came of that.
However, with that said, there are a lot of small rough edges. More than enough to distract the "core" player. This certainly didn't help with reviews which didn't help sell boxes.
However, with that said, this isn't your standard "WoW Clone" with a few nuances. The core of the game is "similar" but a bulk of the game isn't. I think with the right changes and additions... the game could grow ala EVE.
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Joined: 4/18/07
Ooh, they have the internet on computers now.
I was one of those 200k box sales. I enjoyed the game & would probably be subbed to it right now if it performed better on my PC. The game was never going to cater to the MMO masses, but I hope it will stay around and not go the way of the Matrix online.
Also, it's probably a combination of factors people have mentioned above that has put the game at its current numbers.
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Joined: 6/11/08
I think with my heart and move with my head.-Kongos
You know who should be angry about this? That Ragnar guy. He actually managed to get a decent game done and Funcom somehow managed to fumble it. They should have grabbed TSW from Ragnar and just tap danced through a field of tulips into a money filled win zone. He's probably sitting in an office with a look of shock on his face as Funcom continues to stagger around with his game.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
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Joined: 10/05/03
Gaming should be about fun, not gender equality.
I think a lot of reason for why TSW did not sell well is because it is Funcom and they dont have a particulary good reputation among gamers, mostly because of AoC which was a big dissapointment.
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Joined: 2/10/12
Originally posted by Tawn47
2 - Box price, subscription and cash shop. Seems excessive.
I cannot stand this type of practice. I know companies can price their goods for whatever they want, but it feels like nickel & diming to me.
Here's how I see it:
If a game has a box fee and monthly subscription, I should have access to any item in-game - if I earn those items.
If a game is free-to-play, then cash shop is acceptable.
Star Trek Online did this in the worse way ever. This is why I'll never play a Crpytic MMO.
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Joined: 7/21/12
This game is a gust of fresh air but there is one big problem there funcom forgot to brush the teeth for development of combat system and pvp. It's same old stuff... it works but I think others did this better. So people enjoy mystery and immersion even hard dungeons but that runs dry quickly people goes back to WoW or whatever.
To be subsciption based MMO you have to provide wothy long / grindy endgame content that keeps people involved besides quests and story. This game should have been released q1 2013.
I guess they have lost at least half of subs to Guild Wars 2
They should be developing expansion and hype it up to be big thing next year but I guess FC first overestimates than throws project to trash. If they spent money on marketing this game could have at least return itself becouse it apeals to mature audience who has money besides allowance isnt afraid to pay upfront and have month or two of fun with a good game that's not cartoonish and childish like most mmo's.
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Joined: 11/08/10
This is spot on --> ...I have to opine that releasing TSW less than two months before the much more familiar and touted Guild Wars 2 and less than three months before WoW: Mists of Pandaria was a big mistake. As a new and different and, as Bill said, irreverent MMO, The Secret World needed time to captivate its audience. One to two months simply wasn't enough time to become part of the fabric that makes the MMO player community...
Also the subscription model is a dying breed...and rightly so in my opinion.
For all of you who bought a lifetime subscription to TSW, LOTRO or any other sub. based game. I also bought one to GW2. And it cost me the price of the game only.
I have nothing against TSW or FunCom (I still play AOC).
I would really like to give TSW another go in the future, when I need a break from GW2 and after it goes F2P.
Until then good luck!
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Joined: 1/06/05
I get wrapped up in our genre's culture, and expect everyone to know every MMO that's coming out like I do. When in reality, despite recent high-profile releases and the phenom known as WoW, we're just a gaming subculture.
This ^
Besides this site I have only met about two handfuls of people who knew anything about mmo's and that is from when I started playing them.
And most of those people only knew WoW.
So it doesn't surprise me that TSW only sold 200k. My thougth is that Funcom should have budgeted the development of the game with the idea that not everyone would be itnerested in it as it seems a bit of a niche game among mmo's.
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Joined: 2/21/06
It was just bad timing. Nothing more. Nothing less.
You just don't launch a game in middle of summer when everyone is on holiday.
I said it before launch and I say it again.
GuildWars 2 launched on the perfect time. End of August. As pretty much everyone is now back to school or work.
Couple this with the lack of any real advertisement they did for TSW and know you gonna sell little amount of boxes. /sigh
But besides all that, I still enjoy the game tho and the server I am playing on still has good amount of activity each night.
It's just a shame they didn't went for an autumn/winter launch window, which everyone was actually expecting anyway. The whole 21st of December 2012 thing that was going on for a while.
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Joined: 8/30/04
What gamers say and what they in reality want is often more a matter of self delusional wishthinking that seldom reflects in the buying behavior.
MMOrpgs be a niche of gaming, quite a big one thanks to a very few MMO-Giants and blown up "we count even the dead" numbers of some f2p games.
Many gamers want to belong to the "winning team": Booh, my mmo is bigger and badder than yours...
The really big numbers only come when you have an established fanbase like Blizzard, a successfull prequel like Arenanet, where the gravitiy of the playermasses alone let the numbers grow to many millions.
A big IP not backed by a successfull online portfolio of the developer like its with Star Wars and Bioware did only sell what? 3 Millions and maybe less than 500k play it still?
I really think that if Blizzard had made TSW it would have been a million seller.
I dont play TSW bcs i can play another game i like more in my finite time and i am not happy with the late corporate decisions funcom did and i have doubts that they can keep up the needed pace for frequent monthly updates but that does not change the fact that TSW does not play like SWTOR, is a craft of passion, yet in its infancy, and one of the best Themeparks that is made in the last decade.
Try it out and judge it for your own!
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Joined: 7/04/04
A lot of people(myself included) were really excited about the game's concepts... Then we played the beta weekends and the game's great concepts are not done justice by the lackluster and, frankly, crappy gameplay...
If they had made good gameplay to go with their good concept, I would probably be subbed right now. :(
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Joined: 3/05/10
i love this game. so much. its one of the greatest games i played in a long time. and i sure hope theyre gona pull through this.
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Joined: 4/19/09
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They did an awful job marketing the game. Their focus only interested those that were already a fan of the game to begin with. They didn't market it the right way to encourage new customers. They also had their bad rep that hurt them.
It is a shame because the game does deserve more attention. It is a good mmo that offers some interesting storytelling and compelling questing.
1. For god's sake mmo gamers, enough with the analogies. They're unnecessary and your comparisons are terrible, dissimilar, and illogical.
2. To posters feeling the need to state how f2p really isn't f2p: Players understand the concept. You aren't privy to some secret the rest are missing. You're embarrassing yourself.
3. Yes, Cpt. Obvious, we're not industry experts. Now run along and let the big people use the forums for their purpose.


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So, every day, they come by the hundreds to Stone's site and tell him what a gluttonous bastard he is or what a bad idea his group is. They call him names; they shout in capital letters. "Get a grip on reality and realize that MP3s and file-sharing are here to stay," writes one of the more thoughtful posters. "Call it piracy if you like, but there's no way to stop it." Another writes, "You are all fucking retards. I will fucking pirate everything I own and laugh in your faces. PIRACY OWNS ALL OF YOU. YOU CAN'T STOP IT." One poster even encourages people to take down the list of artists affiliated with Artists Against Piracy, "copy their CDs to MP3, sell the CDs second-hand, and never buy their music or memorobilia [sic]."
It is little wonder that Stone feels more than a little beat-up. Since the inception of Artists Against Piracy, which raised its profile last month with a series of TV ads built around the copyright logo, Stone has tried to convince people he's working only for the good of the musicians, whose livelihoods, he insists, are threatened by the new technology. Seems a lot of people ain't buyin' it.
"The hardest part is trying to convince everyone, including the people who use Napster, that even though we're working in part with the record companies, we don't directly represent them," Stone says from his offices in Los Angeles. He sounds weary, and with good reason. Three days before this interview, he was sitting in his office waiting for a VH1 crew, which was to film Stone for its year-end Behind the Music special, when he was notified that Napster had entered into a business arrangement with one of the labels suing it, Bertelsmann Music Group, which has on its roster such acts as Santana, Christina Aguilera, and Foo Fighters. Though Napster continues to be free, sooner or later a monthly fee (most likely $4.95) will be assessed to use the service. Stone finds the settlement "encouraging," but a long way from the answer. For starters, how will Napster divide the money and distribute it to artists?
"This is a very difficult thing," Stone says. "In a time of revolution, you've got all these people trying to storm the castle, and I'm in the middle going, "No, wait, we can work this out.' I'm the guy trying to break up the fight. I always have been. I kind of wish I had had a sociologist on staff this whole time. Initially, there wasn't a lot of that anti-label sentiment, and then that seemed to be a justification argument to cloud the issue: This isn't stealing from an artist we love, this is stealing from the monolithic labels. It became a revolution, which it never really was. It seemed like it was, and people were stirring the flames, and then Napster was stirring the flames. But what we're doing at Artists Against Piracy is we're saying, essentially, there isn't a revolution, but there is a chance for reformation, and to be a reformist when people think there's a revolution is a really unpopular position to be in."
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PITTSBURGH, PA - For the second time this season, sophomore Adam Weaver (Stow, OH/Archbishop Hoban) has been named as the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference's men's volleyball Player of the Week March 26.Weaver earned 69 kills for the Hawks and finished the week with 4.31 kills per set and a .403 hitting percentage.
His strongest hitting match was against Penn State Behrend (3/21) when he struck for 13 kills, 2 errors in 20 attempts (.550). At the Endicott College Tournament, the outside hitters most impressive match was a 3-1 loss to The Sages (3/25) when he led the Hawks with 27 kills and one service ace. He was named to the All-Tournament team at the conclusion of the 14-team tournament.
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I am outraged at business leaders and legislators' outright lack of concern toward the people from whom they profit. Bracing for a difficult economic future and that ubiquitous inflation word, recession word, housing word, etc. Wouldn't you think a compassionate capitalism could show its gentler side and meet the struggling working stiff halfway and still satisfy its corporate greed? Or how about that concerned legislator, allowing their constituents to be exploited in a moment of economic distress?
Having come up with the money needed to get a MINIMUM delivery, 100 gallons of home heating fuel, paying top dollar, roughly $4.80 a gallon, knowing full well the wealthier citizen pays well below that price, to then be informed an additional fee of $150 will be required to make that seven-mile trip to my house.
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On Saturday night, Honey Boo Boo's family was hosting a toy drive at their home in McIntyre, Ga. when the reality star's father, Mike "Sugar Bear" Thompson, said he wasn't feeling well. Each year, Sugar Bear dresses up as Santa and allows people to sit on his lap and all of those merry things, but this year, he just wasn't feeling up to it.
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HAMBURG, NY: Franciscan University of Steubenville rebounded their way to victory over the Hilbert Hawks on January 31 (48-35). The taller Barons found their way to the offensive glass for second chance opportunities resulting in their second conference win of the year (2-13 AMCC). Hilbert's offensive run in the second half cut the lead to eight points but couldn't get any closer. The Hawks find themselves with their 20th loss of year.
Hilbert started the game slowly giving Franciscan a double-digit lead 5 minutes into the game and had to play catch up from there. Franciscan took a 30-17 lead into half time, but that lead didn't last long. The Hawks continued to hang around within reach of breaking into a single digit deficit. By the final horn, after 27 trips to the foul line, the Barons grabbed the win.
Hilbert was led by sophomore guard Mary Zinni (Batavia, NY/Batavia) with 11 points. Sophomore Julie Bossard (Arkport, NY/Canisteo-Greenwood) worked the boards for the Hawks grabbing 6 rebounds for the day. Hilbert struggled from the floor (28% field goal percentage) and were out rebound 39-33. {Sophomore Amanda Dudek in photo to right}
Cara Mitchell finished the game with 23 points for the visitors (18 at half time on 7-11 shooting).
Coming up next for the Hawks is a rematch with Franciscan University next Saturday, February 6 in Steubenville. Today's game was originally scheduled to be played January 2. Hilbert has a bye this week in the AMCC schedule so they will begin to prepare for the Barons again, this time as a road team.
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Superheroes, like all things Disney, Dr. Seuss and "Star Wars," are in America's pop culture DNA. Images of Batman, Spider-Man and their muscle-bound peers inundate us on clothing, grocery store shelves and every manner of electronic screens.
My wife and I did a decent job of screening influences as our boys Evan (who is almost 7) and Sean (who is almost 5) have journeyed through stories, books, television and movies. We tried to shield them from commercials, violence and elements more interested in slapstick than education. But as the boys have begun their education, they have been exposed to a much wider pool of myths and entertainment properties than we have introduced at home.
As a voracious and enthusiastic consumer of pop culture, I am keenly aware of the benefits and drawbacks of entertainment and escapism. But I am sure I was nowhere near as critical and questioning at a young age as our sons are. I watched Superman fly, The Cat in the Hat clean up a house in 30 seconds, and 4,000 sharpshooting stormtroopers miss while shooting at Luke Skywalker from a distance of seven feet, all without deconstructing the mechanics of the story logic.
Evan, by contrast, seems to be carefully considering each scene of every story, examining it for holes and flaws like an appraiser studying what he expects to be a fake diamond.
Recently, I showed Evan two episodes of the 1970s "Super Friends" show, that silly but fun series in which DC Comics stars Supes, Bats, Wonder Woman and their pals battle the Legion of Doom, led by Lex Luthor, Sinestro, Gorilla Grodd and Riddler.
Evan is far more familiar with the "The Super Hero Squad Show," a Marvel Comics show in which The Avengers are depicted in friendly little kid versions. I have always been a DC guy, devouring Batman and Joker stories, but Evan seems far more interested in the Marvel worlds of Spider-Man, Hulk and Iron Man. I thought a few "Super Friends" episodes might draw him into the DC stories.
As we watched an episode in which the Legion of Doom used manufactured global warming to make the Earth open for a Venusian invasion, Evan asked a string of impatient questions, something he does not do when watching "The Super Hero Squad. Show"
We are spending a lot of time with Evan working on teamwork, teaching him the importance of doing his individual best while contributing to a larger cause. As we watched the Legion of Doom plot and scheme to take down the Super Friends, Evan made a few astute observations.
"Daddy, the bad guys are working together and being a team while the good guys are doing everything on their own and not together. Does that mean the bad guys deserve to win?"
"No," I said. "The good guys are working together for the same cause, just in different parts of the world. The bad guys are weak and mean, so they need to team up to be evil. They're like the New York Yankees."
Evan watched a few more scenes, then said, "How come Wonder Woman is wearing a swimsuit to fight the bad guys?"
"That's not a bathing suit," I said, then hesitated, "That's a, um, that's a … well, it looks like a swimsuit, but it's her uniform."
"The girls in X-Men wear real uniforms, not swimsuits," Evan said.
"Well, Wonder Woman is an Amazon from an island, so maybe it's hot there all the time. Let's just watch," I said.
In the story, a scene showed Superman, Batman and Robin running for what seemed like miles in that slightly jerky, '70s animation.
Evan watched, but said, "Why is Superman running forever when he can fly?"
"I don't know," I said. "Maybe he doesn't want Batman and Robin to fall behind."
"Can't he carry them and fly?" Evan asked.
"He could, but isn't it cooler to see the good guys rushing to action?" I said.
"Daddy, why does Superman need Batman?" Evan asked. "Superman is Superman and Batman doesn't have any powers."
"Batman is a detective and very smart," I said. "He always helps, even without superpowers, which is what makes him cool."
On screen, Flash's enemy Captain Cold froze the Brooklyn Bridge with his freeze ray.
"Daddy," Evan asked, "Is Captain Cold the same guy as Batman's bad guy Mr. Freeze?"
"No," I said. "They're completely different bad guys."
"How?" Evan asked. "They both use ice and freeze rays."
I thought about it.
"I'm not that familiar with Captain Cold, but he's not Mr. Freeze," I said.
In the show, Mr. Freeze — I mean, Captain Cold — froze a New York building, intending to topple it and watch it smash into pieces. Flash used his super speed to run around the Brooklyn Bridge, taking its suspension cables to lasso the building so it would not fall over.
"See, that was cool," I said.
"But if the bridge cables are wrapped around the building, what's holding up the bridge?" Evan asked.
"He must have left some cables on it," I said.
So, Evan will probably go back to watching The Avengers in "The Super Hero Squad Show," as he chooses which myths and entertainments he favors. But "Super Friends" stuck with him, for later in the day, we had another conversation.
"Daddy, why are there no black Super Friends?" Evan asked.
"Well, that's a good question," I said. "When I was growing up, people who made TV shows and movies did not always include everybody in their shows. Today, we try to do a better job of remembering to be sensitive to include all people."
Evan was quiet, then asked, "Is that why there were no gay Super Friends? Was Robin gay?"
"Why would you ask if Robin is gay?" I said.
"I don't know," Evan said.
"Evan," I said, "It's not intelligent to think that about someone just because of the clothes they wear or how they talk or act. It can be hurtful to someone to label them. You don't want people to think things about you before they get to know you. And if someone is gay, you know that doesn't ever mean we think less of them just for that."
"I know, Daddy. Daddy, was Aquaman gay?"
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Twitter is blowing up right now with the news of the UFC's newest signing - undefeated Sergio Pettis!!
Cant wait for this and hopefully this can be confirmed by a reliable source soon but for now here is what i have...broke translation so be warned. According to the report he will be fighting at 135 pounds and making his debut on the GSP/Hendicks card
http://sportv.globo.com/site/combate...peso-galo.htmlAt 20 years of age and unbeaten in nine fights, Sergio Pettis has signed with the UFC and will make his debut at UFC St-Pierre Hendricks X, what happens next November 16, in Las Vegas, USA, and will celebrate 20 years of the organization. The information was confirmed by the Combate.com Daniel "Big Dog" Wanderley, jiu-jitsu coach of the American fighter:
- Yes he just signed with the UFC. Signed on Monday and now will fight Nov. 16 - said the coach, who also revealed that Sergio will fight in the same category as the Brazilian Renan Barao:
- He will fight in the division to 61.2 kg, which is the weight-cock. Still do not know who will be the opponent, but they are required to confirm soon. The UFC wanted Sergio before, but the Duke (Roufus) was waiting for him to gain a little more experience to be able to fight at the level of the UFC guys. After you enter has no easy fight, but finally got the chance of Sergio. - Complete.
Daniel Wanderley live in the U.S. for 7 years and is a student of Carlson Gracie Pernambuco. He was hired for three months to be the coach of jiu-jitsu Roufusport MMA Academy - Duke Roufus Academy (former K-1 fighter) in Milwaukee, where the brothers Pettis train, and was in Sergio's corner on Saturday when the fighter James Porter won the event with a kimura regional NAFC (North American Fighting Championship). After the victory, Anthony Pettis was social networks congratulate younger brother and threw a "indirect" to Dana White, UFC president:
"Congratulations to my little brother! Great win today! UFC here we come! Dana White, the brothers Pettis will take over!" Posted Anthony, what Dana said: "I loved it! Congratulations!"
Asked if Sergio Pettis is ready for the challenge of following in the footsteps of his older brother in the UFC, Daniel said he has no doubt that he is going to be increasingly popular in MMA:
- Sergio is a young fighter, but I never miss a class, it is very disciplined, very fond of training, dedicated much. It is a humble fighter and learns very fast. Surely have a bright future in the UFC! - Daniel Wanderley bet.


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An Aiken woman is dead after she was struck by a Jeep Saturday afternoon while walking along York Street.
Lukisha Nicole Thomas was pronounced dead at approximately 3:30 p.m. Saturday while in surgery at Georgia Regents Medical Center, according to Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton. She died from multiple body trauma.
Thomas, her 2-year-old son, and Ray Charles Wooden Jr. were on the sidewalk on York Street near the intersection of Eastern Place when a 2006 Jeep Cherokee, driven by Thomas G. Woodruff Jr. of Aiken, left the roadway and struck Thomas and Wooden.
The accident occurred at approximately 2 p.m.
Both Thomas, 29, and Wooden were taken to Georgia Regents Medical Center.
As of press time, Wooden was undergoing surgery. His condition was unknown.
The 2-year-old was evaluated and released from Aiken Regional Medical Centers.
An autopsy on Thomas is scheduled for today in Newberry.
This tragic collision is being investigated by the Aiken County Coroner's Office and the Aiken Department of Public Safety.
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text: Pre-Joining Documentation If you are successful in being offered a position with Etihad Airways, you will need to provide us with important documentation. We strongly advise you to start gathering these documents as soon as the recruitment process begins to ensure a prompt start. Please submit the following key documents prior to commencing your new position with Etihad Airways: 1. Scanned passport size photograph (JPEG format, white background, business attire) 2. Colour copy of valid passport (With UAE Residence Visa page, if currently residing in the United Arab Emirates) 3. Attested colour copy of your Highest Educational Certificate – The education certificate should be attested by the Ministry of Education or a Notary Public, stamped by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and finally by UAE Embassy, in that order, and in the country of the institution where it was obtained. If your Education Certificate is in another language then this should be translated to English or Arabic, this translation must also be attested by the UAE Embassy. 4. Complete Introductory Form which will be provided at offer stage. Candidates of Arabic origin must fill this form in Arabic. It is mandatory to complete each section of this form. 5. Copies of employment service letters as per your submitted CV covering your professional experience over the last 10 years. Please make sure that these letters comply with the following: Printed on company headed paper Specify your job title(s) Detail your complete duration of employment It is vital to include a letter of employment from your current employer; this can be a generic 'To whom it may concern' letter specifying your job title and start date. 6. For those currently residing in the UAE, you will also need to submit a Police Clearance Certificate. You can obtain this at your local police station taking with you, your original passport with visa, your Emirates ID card and a passport size photograph with a white background. All submitted copies must be in colour and be clear copies.


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McFarlane Toys is proud to finally announce the official lineup for one of our most-anticipated lines of the year. The first in our ongoing McFarlane's Military series is set to be released in May of 2005.
A line of soldier action figures is a concept we've been tossing about for quite some time. After taking a long look at what was currently available on the market, we thought we had something to add. Our take on soldiers will -- at least in the beginning -- focus on modern American troops from all major service branches. We will put out series of soldiers in accurate uniforms and equipment, and sculpted in real, life-based action poses.
These are not generic, static "army men"; they're fully detailed representations of American soldiers in authentic uniforms and equipment, sculpted in standard McFarlane scale (6 to 7 inches). We may someday branch out into other countries and other time periods, but for now we're concentrating on the current four main branches of the military.
Here's the lineup for Series 1:Army RangerNavy SEALMarine Corps Recon sniperMarine Corps Recon soldierArmy desert soldierAir Force Special Operations Command, CCTWe are moving right along in the sculpting of this initial line and should have final approved photography and more details to share soon. Neither the Department of Defense nor any of its components has approved, endorsed or authorized this product.


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Team DRX Gets 2nd at MY-NPL Event #3
Team DRX came in 2nd last weekend in the 3rd event of 2013 MY-NPL. Dropping only 2 points in the preliminary, the team emerged on top of the table to take on Team Rockstar in the semi-final.
Surviving an early scare with 2 points down in a race to 4 format, Team DRX hung on with everything they have to come out winning the game with a 3-2 scoreline. Onward to the finals….
As expected, Team DRX face off against Team Recda Waxers in a much anticipated final game of Division 1…In the end, as the dust settles, we lost to a better organised team but that's all part and parcel of the game we love.
A big thank you to Dye and our sponsors to make this win possible and we look forward to the finale in Malacca (Oct 19-20)!
-Team DRX