So something with 1-3 pages of text for every image is a comic book? They are heavily illustrated novels, not comic books in any sense of the word. Why visual was selected over illustrated can be discussed but one has to remember that this is actually a game genre, and a large one to boot. I bet you that there have been more Visual Novels released than there have been Adventure Games, so why do the later deserve their own unique name but not the former? Why don't we call "The Secret of Monkey Island" an Interactive Comic Book instead, because IMHO you can't argue one without the other.

There are guns and there are guns. While Sweden/Norway and the US might have similar number of guns per person the type of weapons own differ. In Sweden over 80% of all guns are hunting rifles and hunting shotguns. Of the remaining almost all are sporting rifles and pistols owned by active sport shooters

Very few of these weapons make for usable self-defense weapons which means their usability when committing crimes is also low.

There are subtitles and there are dubtitles. They are very different and serve different purposes. If someone is watching a movie in the original language then they don't want dubtitles. You will have dialog with no text and viceversa, very distracting.

This because Google first translates everything to English and then to the target language. I first noticed this when I was trying to translate into Swedish a Chinese site what where selling Go game boards. The Swedish translation used the word "styrelse" which means "board of directors" instead of "bräde" which means "gaming board". Neither in Swedish nor Chinese are these words homonyms but they are in English. It did make for a funny read at least :)

The problem with something like apples is that it's a seasonal fruit. Different types of apples at different times of the year. Often the exact selection in the store will change every week. Especially in the autumn. Also the same type of apple grown in different places (or different times) can look very different so just learning the looks of the maybe 20+ apples types a store will have over the year won't help, you need to learn how they look right now. Those bad weeks when there are 6 different types of red apples you usually fall back to asking the customer. But even that won't work 50% of the time because most customer don't know what kind of apple they bought, they just picked one that looked good.

Just because the game have legitimate gold selling doesn't mean there won't be shady 3rd party sellers going for a lower than the official price. If you think that EVE's plex selling removed the hacking 3rd party sellers you are sadly mistaken. Reduced them a bit sure, removed them no way. Fact of the matter is that 3rd party gold buying is a huge gamble where you are not only gambling your game account but the content of your bank account and the existence of the game itself.

Why? Because 3rd party gold sellers are no saints.

If you think they are just macro farmers using normal payed or trail accounts then think again. Account hacking is the norm and when they do pay for accounts they are payed for with stolen credit cards, or with real cards where they after having received and used the game time they go to the bank and says they didn't receive the service. The bank issues a charge back and the MMORPG owner won't get any money and get higher CC transaction fees and penalties from the bank in the future due to the large number of charge backs.

Check the second half of this interview with the CEO of SOE if you don't believe me.
http://www.massively.com/2008/01/14/a-ces-interview-with-soe-ceo-john-smedley-pt-2/

So please think again before using a 3rd party gold seller service in any game in the future. These people won't think a second about hacking your account to steal the gold back or use your credit card to pay for more farming accounts.

Think you must remember wrong. Old SWG which had the proffssion system did not have a newbie area. After a very short solo tutorial it just dumped you outside the spaceport in one of the major cities (you could choose which one at character creation). Then you where on your own.

But you are right about money drops in a way. Most stuff you killed in SWG where animals and creatures which naturally did not carry any money. Humanoid npcs did drop money but mostly in fairly small amounts. You generally had to do the mission terminal mission if you wanted cash, the more quest like missions that existed unsually did not give much of a reward if any.

When I was a kid (don't remeber the exact age, around 10 maybe) I used to watch this cartoon http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0284735/ (dubbed to swedish). 20 years later when I now think of what I still remember about human biology and where I learned it the majority are from that show and not from biology class.