Comment Re:Chargebacks for Visa have consequences (Score 1) 216
I was affected. No many folks that were left in a bad state due to this.
Luckily not myself, but am charging back every penny on my wife and my account.
Comment Re:Another game that doesn't get it... (Score 1) 353
"PvP is a much more important part of..."
Ok, so they got a focus group together, and looked on the internet, and people said "More, better PvP!"...
Too bad the niche hardcore players are the only people who speak up in those forums. Here's a big hint to everybody making this type of game: All those casual players that make Warcraft and Diablo crazy, stupid successful.... They play for the co-op and social aspects. They don't PvP. People who post on internet forums and create feature wishlists for these types of games (probably 90+% of the people who read this) aren't representative of the bulk of players no matter how vocal they are, or how important they think they are. If you cater to those players, and "being the next WoW" (in terms of paying playerbase) is your goal, you will fail.
You don't know what you are talking about quite honestly. Warhammer is very social, the social element comes into play in a very obvious way, the big difference is you are fighting other people not some cheesy AI. In addition the game appears to have a lot of framework to ensure no abuse of other faction. This is definitely not warcraft and from a game play. socio-political perspective is very much deeper and better.
Vista vs. XP Game Stability and Performance 114
boyko.at.netqos writes "HardOCP does a side-by side comparison with a battery of games to check stability and framerates in Windows XP and Windows Vista. In addition to the lowered framerates in Vista, they had stability issues in Need for Speed: Carbon and Prey. From the article: 'For some titles, especially Company of Heroes and Need for Speed, we saw dramatic framerate discrepancies. What's more, both of these titles have recently released patches! Other titles showed a slight, but essentially negligible difference, such as BF2142, World of Warcraft, and Prey. Really, there was only one instance where Vista was able to pick up a few more frames than XP — World of Warcraft at greater than 90fps, where the human eye can't even see the difference. To see this overall trend against Vista is very interesting and makes us wonder as to the cause.'"
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