Because he is a megalomaniacal attention whore as well.

Except pandas were already in WC3 and it was awesome!

The level-cap was quite a challenge in Everquest. Which is also _the_ hardcore PvE MMO. Maybe start playing that one, it is free2play now. Vanilla WoW is child's play compared to EQ.

Besides I just remembered that there are vanilla WoW servers, so if you love it so much, why don't you play vanilla? But as GP said, vanilla WoW wasn't very hard. The endgame content basically only needed tons of grinding (and an immense pain-tolerance because of all the bugs). Scholo, strat etc. hard? Only if you have terrible equipment, but that.. again.. can be fixed by just grinding.

In the end all "challenges" in WoW can easily be beaten by investing more time, and it has been that way since launch.

Don't worry it was very obvious and everyone except for one person got it.

It is pretty much impossible to build new reactors and that is definitely not because of technological problems.

The sad thing is, that the anti-nuclear-power-lobby is actively fighting against upgrading existing reactors or building new ones. This plays right into the hands of the power-companies who want to keep these old reactors as long as possible to make the maximum amount of profit.

All people want is some false sense of achievement. There are literally thousands of games that do this without guns. And do so successfully.

"no mean feat in a mass-market games industry currently obsessed with the crude dopamine-triggering effects of simulated weaponry" -- This quote just shows another person knowing absolutely nothing about the gaming market, but having an opinion on how to "improve" it anyway.

You would already have to be a programmer to understand that. So this is definitely not the reason why there are so few female programmers.

This would be perfect for machine learning. Just analyze _all_ the scores from a certain source and calculate a most probable score with a standard deviation. Then assign a score from 0-100 accordingly. I don't know that much about machine learning so I'm sure an expert could find a way better algorithm for that.

"Trying to compensate for these variations is a nigh-impossible task" - definitely not.

That story is ridiculous. I'm no psychohistorian but I saw that war coming without ever knowing that the lance corporal was a dumbass. Everything ever is done by single persons in the end. They still act according to statistics. Seldon's plan obviously broke because the plan goes on for so long and the chance for deviation increases.

I think these new acronyms were coined by LoL and co. because they obviously couldn't use the genre-name everyone else is using: Dota-like.

They are not getting more expensive, you just have a much lower tolerance for higher prices because you can easily get a game for free on the internet.

You just wrote three paragraphs saying absolutely nothing. Maybe instead of rambling on about the API, just say _what_ is wrong with it. Nobody is going to take your comment seriously if it doesn't contain a single sentence of constructive criticism.

Well steam is definitely one of the better gaming-communities.

You probably did not intend it that way, but it actually makes sense. Obviously they can censor phone calls they don't agree with, why not? I think it would be good if people stopped lying to themselves and just accepted the fact that not everything is private. They can and will sell you out if only the smallest amount of pressure is put on them. The sooner you realize the better. No legislation in the world will ever change that.