I don't have time for this, Square Enix! I'm already playing through DQ4 again on the DS, my guild in Warhammer Online is outleveling me, I've barely scratched the surface of Rock Band 2, and I've got Disgaea 3 and Disgaea DS sitting on the shelf in shrinkwrap.

I don't have time for another game!

It's worth it just for the excuse to break out the flight stick again.

My wallet weeps.

Go somewhere else, troll.

Saturday: NHL 09 during the day, then watch my Buckeyes at 8:00

Sunday: Warhammer Online CE head-start, all day, fueled by Monster

On-topic, I agree completely. It's a game that every gamer needs to play at least once to experience it but it's got some flaws. It's fun, it's engaging, and it's well worth the DRM headaches. But (despite what I hyped myself up for when it was first announced) it's not the end-all be-all game that I'll be playing for years. Months, maybe, but not years.

You can't fault Blizzard for being shrewd, but it's really indicative of their feelings towards Warhammer that they're willing to make such sweeping changes to policy and their game just to out-trump Warhammer.

Lesson learned, I hope.

I wonder how long it actually takes to load up some areas...

This year the simulated rounds are much better and the AI doesn't cheat - this means a 4-day tourney can now be simulated for the first 3 days (putting a high-stat golfer within a few shots of the lead) and then play the final round on Sunday to leap ahead of the other golfers. This makes it much easier to get money and much more fun to play through an entire season of golf.

Internally I'm sure it does - September 16th, 2 days before Warhammer launches.

Blizzard aren't stupid. They know that Warhammer will at least temporarily eat into their subscription numbers and are doing what they can to make sure people have something "new" to come back to if they only partially like WAR.

Blasphemy. Blades of Steel is the only true Hockey game.

F this guy.

He knew what he was doing when he created it. He knew it would stir controversy and that people would be offended. He knew exactly what he was doing and he enjoyed it. And now he hides behind the "Don't censor art" crap.

There's a reason nobody makes video games about the Holocaust, you know.

The Dwarf was an Engineer - they're ranged DPS and can create stationary turrets to help keep DPS up and guard important points. The turrets die pretty quickly though, so it's not too imbalanced. There are several types of turrets to deploy, including flamethrowers.

The goblin was a Squig Herder, also ranged DPS - essentially a WoW Hunter, except with the Warhammer beasts called Squigs. Squigs come in all shapes and colors but don't "level up" like pets in WoW. Squigs can be direct damage or AOE poison, or several others too. They're especially annoying when they get on your healers.

WAR is worth a look, everybody, if only to see how PvP can be done right.

It's the policy of the company that I work for that we never sign our names to the source code we write - the code is created by the company, not by a particular person.

I'm with you - I don't see why having your name in the credits is such a big deal. If you left Mythic in the middle of developing Warhammer, odds are it's because you picked up another job doing something else so the issue of "Were you really working for Mythic?" becomes completely moot. And if they really did wonder, that's why Mythic has an HR department.

Well, for one, they didn't see it through to the end. Whether by their own choice or circumstances out of their control, they left the job. That can and does affect schedules, morale, general cohesiveness, and on top of it all now they have to recruit, hire, and train a new person to take over the job that is now vacant.

This smells like a corporate policy from EA that if you left the company before a certain date, you don't get credit. Rather than open up the company to lawsuits for "I worked for X years, but person Y worked for fewer years, yet he's in the credits and I'm not". So instead there is a single cut-off date which I'm sure is spelled out in the company policy.

That sounds about right. I'm not a game developer but I do work in software, and I know that even people who leave amicably (whatever that can mean) always, always, always leave work unfinished at best and completely wrong at worst.

I'm not saying that this particular developer did or did not do that, but there's no way for us to know what really happened inside Mythic.

Only kiddie Alliance Pally-lovers like chocolate. Vanilla is the grown-up choice. L2Drink imo.

:)

He was the Producer (big-think type stuff, like Shiggy or Kojima) and he left because he and his wife just adopted two Russian children.

But whatever. If the NDA does drop tomorrow there will be plenty of screenshots, videos, and testimonials to praise WAR - and there will also be plenty of gripes and detractors too. Figure out who's the fanboys and who's not, then go from there.

That interests me - what MMOs have you played that you kept playing until the endgame? WoW? Everquest? DAoC? None of the above?

Mythic doesn't get that money. EBGames/BestBuy/whoever does.

So your brother, judging by 5 hours of low-level PvP (he couldn't have gone beyond rank 6) has already decided that the game is broken and cannot be fixed.

I don't think the problem is in the game.

And don't bother arguing with fdisk. He's clearly already made up his mind.