Bill Z Bubba

1: People don't deserve better treatment. If they don't get it, they have ways to even the playing field. Namely, by not allowing any more of their money go to the company in question.

2: Buyer beware. If you trust Anyone trying to sell you Anything, you're a fool.

Wow... I was already filled with schadenfreude today... this added to it nicely.

How cute.

Yup, the itrials were run all day and all night. Even more of a reason not to **** over the soloists over it.

Too bad we had all the whining fanboys bawling their eyes out that fixing the solo path would lead to the itrials never being run by anyone. Again, it was nothing more than a case of self-centered ******* telling us all, "**** you, I got mine."

Aside from that, you might want to read up on the difference between asocial and antisocial.

Whatcha sayin, man?!? That I'm a cheap date?

All it does is clog up my sinuses. I've gotten into the habit of popping allergy pills if I plan to do any serious drinking.

... which also helps me get drunk faster.

Ok, yes, I'm a cheap date.

I'm allergic to hops. This is no way stops me from drinking beer.

I'm not even remotely surprised.

Games, life, how we treat each other here shows how we treat others elsewhere. Forcing anything on anyone when it's neither necessary nor warranted nor even helpful or beneficial is a waste of time and money.

How is knowing that itrials are/were run often contrary to my opinion? They'd be run often even IF the solo path wasn't a screaming pile of ****. That was the point. It was my point back when the first itrial hit beta.

The fact that you know how it feels to be ****** over in real life yet have zero qualms about it happening to the very real people that play this game here says a lot about you. It says a lot about people in general, actually. There's a whole hell of a lot of "I got mine, so screw you" going on in this country. Why should we lay back and take it in ANY area of our lives?

It IS the same mindset behind all of these: "I team so I don't care if soloists get screwed." "I'm straight so I don't care if gays can't get married." "I'm white so I don't care if blacks are mistreated." "I'm male so I don't care if women can't get legal abortions." Again, the mindset, "I got mine, so screw you/them," is the root behind all of these idiotic beliefs.

Is there a real world difference between them? Of course there is. On November 30th, the game dies and our real lives will keep going on. You'll keep struggling against prejudice and I'll keep struggling against religious fascism. Yay for us. Hopefully in the future we can ALL continue thinking about how are beliefs affect others.

It was just brought to my attention that I should reiterate the following: Obviously, getting screwed over by the devs of a game is of VASTLY less importance and weight than getting screwed over by a society and/or government. Anyone thinking otherwise IS delusional. However, the root of the opinion, the base of it all, still comes from the same spot in the human brain.

You mean all those TFs I soloed with the use of a single offline pad?

The big sticking point here is that had the devs not decided to **** over the soloists, you'd have still been able to run all the itrials you wanted.

The mindset of "well, you gotta team to get the incarnate goodies at less than a glacial pace" comes from the same mindset that gives us "gay people have the same right to marry someone of the opposite sex as everyone else!"

Yes, the one component a night thing was bad enough when compared to being able to get a component for every itrial you ran no matter how often. To add on the insult of that contact handing out 2 emps per week no matter how many times per week you could run all 5 arcs + what's-his-face's final mission was downright spiteful.

Having different drop chances for solo arcs versus itrials... total BS.

No, it makes no sense to **** over those that don't wish to team and have avoided doing so for 8 years by time-gating rewards as they chose to do so for this incarnate progress.

No issues getting all your incarnate stuff doing DA arcs? By "getting your incarnate stuff" you are NOT talking about getting fully T4ed. The math has been laid out before and claims to the contrary are ********.

I did care about getting more than one character incarnated out. Attempting to do so with the solo incarnate path as it is now made that impossible.

The devs did a fantastic job of keeping things equitable for soloists for the vast majority of this game's history and then pissed it all away with the incarnate garbage.

My hope for Positron and company as they move on to other games is that they learn from this mistake. They did lose my money over it after all and it certainly didn't bring in more money, did it?

EDIT: Not to mention how ridiculous it was to leave the shard system in place for alpha. Bah, can you tell how absolutely sick I am of running Heather's arc twice a night every night?

POPCORN!


On topic, I'll vote on Tuesday because it's my civic duty. I'll walk out of the voting booth more disgusted with this country than when I walked in to it but it's been that way for the majority of the last 20 years for me.

I don't need it. I'm gifted with a certain moral flexibility that will allow me to survive during any kind of societal collapse.

You're welcome. And ncsoft can go EABOD.

This made me chuckle but only because I'm a damned cynic as well.

I've found that all the SaveCoH stuff, while well meant, has already died. Our game is already on life support and the plug is being pulled in one month.

While it was nice to hear that was kicked to the curb, by the time any emulator hits it will be far too late to get any traction beyond with a handful of nostalgia lovers.

Everything dies. Sometimes before they should, sometimes not nearly damn soon enough. I've loved this game. I'm sad to see it die but you can't have life without death.