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Comment Re:Going back on their word (Score 2) 197

by Impeesa (#37687748) Attached to: <em>WoW</em> To Add Avenue For Real-Money Gold Buying
Note that you are not purchasing gold from them directly - it's an important distinction that no new gold is added to the economy as a result of this. It's functionally not really different from the CCG mounts and pets, which have been tradeable for a long time. A lot of the other things they've reversed their stance on, like PVE to PVP transfers and so on, were just arbitrary restrictions and have proven to be very useful services for a lot of people. If anything, it's more a slow process of caving to player demands than hunting for more cash (though I'm sure that's a happy side effect). I think they still understand where the line is for things that would damage the health of the game.

Comment Re:So you can hit your data cap... (Score 1) 121

by Impeesa (#37622450) Attached to: BT Promises 300Mbps FTTP By 2012
Wouldn't be surprised, in which case, not impressed. Starting sometime very soon, my ISP claims they'll be offering 250Mbps over regular cable, with either 1TB or unlimited monthly transfer. The price is high for a residential connection, of course, but you don't have wait for them to run fibre to your neighbourhood.

Comment Re:Yeah, but they gimped it so bad it's worthless (Score 1) 244

by Impeesa (#36617144) Attached to: World of Warcraft Goes Free With Starter Edition

When I first heard about this, I was actually excited. I never really got into MMO's much (I did play some MUD's back in the day pretty addictively). I've tried out a few, like Eve Online and City of Heroes, but usually got bored with them after a while (Guild Wars was the only one I played for any length of time). People keep raving about WoW, and I've been tempted to try it out a few times. But paying $50, plus buying a bunch of expansion packs, *ON TOP OF* $15 a month?!?!? Christ, why don't I just give them my house too? That's a lot to go into an MMO, sight unseen.

For what it's worth, you can now get the full retail game plus the first expansion (70 levels of content with a free month to start) for a twenty. That's enough to get a pretty broad sample of the game, for a movie ticket and snacks.

Comment Re:Do the math (Score 1) 362

by Impeesa (#34626634) Attached to: Split Screen Co-op Is Dying
Split-screen multiplayer: supports 1 friend at 1 physical location.
Online multiplayer: supports N friends in N physical locations.

Which scenario do you think players find more convenient? The forward march of technology can be good for consumers and manufacturers at the same time, it's okay.

Comment Re:this is the problem (Score 1) 145

by Impeesa (#33756710) Attached to: Blizzard Rolls Out Real ID Privacy Options

As others have said -- I have a feeling it's all some ulterior motive from Kotick to try to cash in on Blizzard or Starcraft in some anti-gamer way.

Yeah, it's hard not to sound like the anti-corporate tinfoil hat guy saying it, but it's also hard not to feel like Blizzard is a bit hobbled by direction from above these days.

Comment Re:This is the universal hack. (Score 4, Interesting) 1066

by Impeesa (#33607504) Attached to: HDCP Master Key Is Legitimate; Blu-ray Is Cracked

All digital content ultimately ends up as an HDMI stream protected by HDCP.

With HDCP compromised that stream can eventually be captured. All that needs to happens is for a company to make a NON-HDCP compliant capture card which just happens to be easily flashable. Think they might end up selling a lot of those? Think some companies in asia would be willing to make that "mistake".

Kind of funny, when you think about it. Used to be that the shady Chinese knockoffs were the less useful hardware, because they wouldn't go to the extra effort to make them work right. Now, it's easy to conceive a scenario in which the cheap stuff is the most functional, because they won't go to the extra effort to properly break them.

Comment Re:The price is actually pretty nice (Score 4, Insightful) 249

by Impeesa (#33567722) Attached to: Gigabit Speeds At Home In the US
"I can't believe the ignorance of some people on slashdot to think that you could run a 1gbps service on a T1." I can't believe the reading comprehension required to interpret a post making exactly that point in the complete opposite way. See also: the joke about 1 gig down, 128k up. Simple version: the GGP suspects that while they can roll out gigabit fiber to the home, they do not have the additional infrastructure (such as a large pipe out) to properly utilize it.

Comment Re:At first I was angry (Score 1) 141

by Impeesa (#33227064) Attached to: Valve Trademarks 'DOTA'
Like all innovative things, the original has served its purpose, and been laid to rest. From the ashes, not one, but many successors rise. And inevitably, one will bear the name of its father - even if, like present-day Napster or Atari, it is at best a shambling husk of a brand compared to the original.

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