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Zan Shiro
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Posted - 2015.04.19 13:07:01 -
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Ned Thomas wrote:Infinity Ziona wrote:The game is old, its older than my kid and he's driving around in a car now. I'm drawing a blank.....what country has a legal driving age of 11?
Now his kid could be driving illegally. Now what happens if/when the kid hits someone/something is the fun part. Cops will love the write up as they whip out codes they don't use much. So will the party's who was hit lawyers. We know insurance is out of the question....its straight to civil court there.
Rest of this....ccp is not deviating from any industry trend here. Only companies who truly embrace new tech are start ups (as they have no old product to work from). The old dogs....rehash old code for years. Maybe some improvements in X+1 over X, a lot of that core X lives on. For many X+1's even. Hell we can argue the old dogs to look new and fresh buy out the start ups. Then do whatever they can to slap the new stuff into the old code. Symantec says hi here, I don't think they even write new code anymore, they just buy out people and assimilate their work. |
Zan Shiro
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Posted - 2015.04.21 04:24:28 -
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Nevyn Auscent wrote:Infinity Ziona wrote:
Except we're not talking about a office suite or program used for commercial application. Thats an entirely seperate problem.
Gamers typically stay up to date with their gaming systems with even the laziest lagging by only a few years. Now businesses will run their systems for as long as possible only upgrading when it's absolutely necessary. I know of some major organizations still running 1970s software.
CCP's data does not support your claims. If you are talking FPS twitch gamers then 'maybe'. Most gamers however do not upgrade every two years.
Especially mmo's. they know a decent chunk of business can be laptop users. Road warriors and the like. Or in my case I once ran a laptop and a tower. Tower died, I said well I am the laptop away from desk most of the time anyway. And made laptop use permanent (edit: just added an external monitor for desk use is all when there). Laptops don't do leaps and bounds hardware wise by and large.
Home "tower" use ccp knows they have a fair bit of family type players. They don't chase that bleeding edge dragon as much. One if both of the adults in the house is going "didn't we just pay for that?". |
Zan Shiro
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Posted - 2015.04.21 14:55:38 -
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Infinity Ziona wrote:Mag's wrote:Infinity Ziona wrote:This sounds like simple whinging because you're too poor or tight to upgrade your stupidly slow computers. And this is a strawman, because you're losing the argument. Now please leave already. Hardly straw man. The idea that a games developer should hold off developing a new version of its flagship game because some of its current subscribers run turds for PCs is ludicrous. There are literally millions of former EvE players that would likely resub just to try out a new EvE, hundreds of millions of potential new customers with decent rigs who may and a few hundred thousand current subs with only a % with crap pcs. I know who I'd be developing for. Hint - not you poor unemployed people :)
This is industry standard chief. Even AAA does it. They have minimals that go back quite a few years. You see...till little 14 year old Johnny or Sarah gets a job to buy their dream machine AAA knows they will be kicking it on the rents PC in the house that probably is a few years old. And the rents may not be down for upgrades. EA and other AAA knows this and they don't cut off this market. Start em young...sort of like the tobacco industry lol.
Johnny and Sarah are good money around the X-mas timeframe market release flood. If a good boy or girl santa may leave them an EA present under the tree. If the old man (can be the mother as well) likes it too....some DLC sales later on too. Example my son picked up dragon age inquisition to give rpg a go (not his usual genre). I got my time on it too and picked up the dlc's.
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Zan Shiro
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Posted - 2015.04.21 17:08:50 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:Leto Aramaus wrote:
It really, really saddens me. Since I first subbed to EVE, I've always been hoping it would evolve past "Spheres in Space", but you people literally want it to stay the same... so, SO sad.
Cry more about how there's an MMO out there that's actually accessible for older hardware. If you want a flight sim, go play a goddamned flight sim. Stop asking to have what I like taken away from me because you can't figure out that you're playing the wrong game.
I'd recommend Kerbel Space program. Want simulation its got simulation.
Well that and worth noting no real simulator I have played had truly impressive earth shattering graphics. Emphasis usually on the flight sim mechanics really. The meat and potatoes for it I find.
Sims I have played in the past if you crank up the realism real high....you should be focused more on not flying the plane wrong and not pixel peeping to borrow the term from photography. Mix a few high risk moves, exceed tolerance of the plane in real life simulated in a game, see what fun things can go wrong. I know in mid air stalls I wasn't going you know...they really need to make the ground more realistic. I was thinking man this falcon (one of my all time fave sims) is doing a really good impersonation of a lawn dart and I need to change that fast. |
Zan Shiro
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Posted - 2015.04.22 06:48:12 -
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Infinity Ziona wrote:Iyacia Cyric'ai wrote:Believe it or not, removing local does not require Eve Online II. Don't be so sure about that. Remove local and watch the exodus begin.
How so.
Local is by and large useless for empire. 50 people in local, you are 1 of them, rest are grey. So 49 players are ignored anyway. Or yellow (I tend to ignore them). Or flagged but again...I ignore that too. Empire I have always been low key. I got my fights out of empire I go on the dl in empire to get my isk and call it a day. Someone was a bad boy but not to me...not my problem. Killing that bad boy, then getting the attention of his 20 fiends after....is my problem lol.
Low sec is not the most jumping spot in the game as is now. And this would benefit carebears to change that I predict. I have a hard to probe tengu setup to be the ghost in the machine. That setup tbh is ruined by local. 6 man local, 5 are blue in pirate corp, I am not and nice and grey to them. They will after running the scrub prober come to the conclusion they need to up the probing game a bit.
Put another way...local announces me in low sec, if pirates want me bad enough knowing I am there....they will find me. I don't see every low grade scrub pirate crew having a virtued, sisters gear fit, max skilled prober on every roam launched that night if local removed. Their scrub can't find me in 2 passes they will hit next system. Or find easier targets if in my system.
0.0 with several adjustments is less concerned about the hot drop from out of nowhere. PL want to dynamite fish halfway across the map....well its gonna take a few days to do that lol. that final hot drop pegged the fatigue.. you have a captive cap audience. Wait them out and it may get some revenge kills.
That and if the bitters leave 0.0...it could be a very good thing. If say goons rage quits en masse if local meant that much to them we'd have a power vacuum. It actually make 0.0 interesting for a change as people fight to fill that void. And the game would be goon (as we know it) free. Win win really. |
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