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Comment Re: forbidden from transferring or open-sourcing? (Score 1) 285

I had my WoW account banned.... It was nothing I did at all, so I can share my story here!!! lol

Started off a few years back when Google had it's Gmail servers hacked, my account was one of these accounts that got hacked into. According to the email Gmail sent me my account was accessed by "unknown means by some one in China" alright what ever.... I change all my passwords and try to log into WoW to do the same... no dice my password has been changed, ok so I have them send me a password reset to my email and everything is fine. The hackers had gained me 2 levels on my main (was right as the expansion hit that raised the cap to 85) no problem I played for like 15 minutes and logged off to go to work. I come home from work and wanted to explore some of the new expansion I had just paid for... My account was banned because who ever had been using my account my account was selling gold or something.

I contact reps on the phone from Blizzard and am told "We do not reset passwords via email!" rotflmao hmmm ok I tell him I can forward the email if he would like. He doesn't want it of course. After dealing with this idiot for about 15 minutes I ask if I can speak to supervisor as being nice is getting me no where fast. No dice there are no supervisors on the floor that can help me. I kindly tell the rep that Blizzard will never see another dime from me and they have lost a customer that has been with the company since Diablo 1.

I had been playing WoW since the day it had come out and spent quite a bit of money playing the game (paying the fee's to play.) and true to my word since that day I have not bought any Blizzard products. The customer service was horrible.

So yes they do ban people for nothing and when you try to work with them they don't care about lost customers.

Comment Re:Strayed too far from the original formula (Score 1) 137

Enigma was awesome!!! Of course getting a legit one was pretty much a pipe dream. (by legit I mean making it with non duped runes.)

That was my problem with Diablo 2 -- all the good stuff was (mostly) only available through cheatery. Were real drop rates modified by the expectation/reality of duping bugs?

I have recently started playing Diablo 2 LOD on the ladder again (about a week ago.) and the drop rates seem to be higher. I have already found a Pul, not that it's a very high rune but I am only level 84 right now and I have been soloing everything. (no public games.) about to finish up act 5 in hell mode and start farming Baal. That's when I will know if they have really changed the drop rates or not.

But my gut feeling is that if you still wanted Enigma on the ladder you would be farming runes for months to make one legit.

Comment Re:Don't expect high sales (Score 1) 137

Yeah I played the hell out of Diablo 1, Diablo 2 and LOD, Starcraft and Broodwars, Warcraft Bnet Edition, and WoW I played and bought all the expansions after getting level 80 a couple of times on WoTLK and getting all the epic loot I got bored with it and haven't been back the new expansion looked like hell and judging from the number of subs they lost I can tell I am not the only one who jumped ship.

Sad to see such a great company go down hill, but I do remember dimly that some of the people responsible for Diablo II and LOD left Blizzard to form a different company and that could be part of the reason Diablo III is such a mess.

Comment Re:Don't expect high sales (Score 2) 137

What I don't understand is how you can go from Diablo II LOD to Diablo III... I bought Diablo 1 maybe a year after it came out (hey computers where expensive back then! lol) when Diablo II came out I had it on pre order at Electronics Boutique and managed to get my copy a day early... So awesome!!! Then the expansion came out LOD and holy shit it was fucking awesome, the patches only made it (mostly) better and I still play on the ladder to this day. I may have spent some money on the game but I feel like I have gotten 10 times my money out of it in value. I got Diablo III the day it released, I have a barb about half way into inferno and even made some money (more money than I spent on buying the game!) at the RMA and holy shit you can't even pay me to play the game.... (I mean that literally I can make money playing it and I still just can't bring myself to do it. The game is boring....)

Maybe the expansion will fix some things, but after reading up on it and watching the video's a couple of times each trying to see what was new... I don't see any sort of in depth crafting system or runewords. I probably will skip the expansion unless it gets insanely good reviews months after release (you can't trust new reviews on a new game those are prime selling material....)

Comment Re:Which $400 gaming PC? (Score 1) 611

whilst a console gets more powerful throughout its generation.

I laughed.

The reason I laughed is that, I believe what you meant to say with out understanding what you where saying...

The reason graphics improved on the older generation of consoles in ye olde days, was that these where entirely new systems each one had all kinds of quirks to learn the CPU's where not usually the same ones used in PC's the Graphics chips usually where custom jobs same with the sound processors in most machines.

The PS4 and the Xbox One, are both pretty much PC's, there is no new hardware to learn, the graphics cards are a couple of generations back PC hardware the CPU while new is AMD's weakest CPU currently available so much so that is it even under-clocked for the consoles at 1.6Ghz (You can get them in PC's now they come in the $299 E-Machines with less cores but much higher clocked.) So the software you see on the PS4 and the Xbox One, will see ever so slight improvement as developers "master" the systems but don't expect the giant leap in graphics quality like the PS1 or PS2 enjoyed with later games in the lifespan of those systems making the launch software look bad. That's not going to happen this time.

What will this mean for PC gaming? Well any sort of console to PC ports will not require much in the way of hardware... Give PC's 2 years and the lowest of the low end E-Machine will be bumping up against the PS4 and Xbox One in terms of power, especially since AMD and Intel are both doing the integrated CPU/GPU thing.

Long story short, you don't buy a console because your worried about how powerful it is, that's just dumb. Buy a console if you have the extra money and it has some games you really want to play. If you have to pick between owning a PC and a console... get the PC it can do things like "work" and if you happen to spend enough on it you can also play games too, many of the times the exact same games released on the consoles. (Making owning a console seem outright redundant.)

Comment Re:Console VS PC (Score 1) 611

That and consoles used to cost about 200 bucks at launch, sometimes a little more, and PC's used to cost 3,000 for a decent gaming PC (yeah you can still spend 3K on a machine but those are insane machines...) Meanwhile these days launch consoles have jumped in price and PC's have fallen to the point where there almost is no difference in price.

If not for exclusive games consoles would be all but a waste of time, and that's getting harder and harder to justify not saying "Ahhh hell with this I will just build a HTPC throw MAME and every other emulator on it and buy a wireless gamepad."

Comment Re:Which $400 gaming PC? (Score 4, Informative) 611

You can get a gaming PC for about $400 but it will be entry level, when it comes to PC's better to spend at least a little bit more and get something that will last a while.

This one is $529 and is more than a match for the new generation of consoles.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883229285

The biggest thing about investing in the price difference on a gaming PC is that when your not playing games, you can do a LOT of other things on a PC. So the price difference is more than made up for.

All this being said, I am lucky and have enough money to do both, I tend to buy 2 consoles from each gen and keep a gaming PC around. This will be the first gen I do not buy at least 2 of the consoles at launch. I own a Wii-U and I don't plan on getting a Xbox One, I also do not trust Sony enough to pick up a PS4 at launch my PS3 was not a good experience for me... Always seems like I spend more time updating the firmware than actually playing it.

Comment Re:What about rain? (Score 3, Interesting) 82

Some people have a tough time detecting humor in text form... Although to give credit where credit is due, I had not considered some big breasted woman wearing something like this to a wet T shirt competition, and in that case this could be a winning idea. So maybe in that context my comment is more interesting than I had imagined.

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