Samuel_Tow

Well, crap. Why? 3D sound was functioning on Live with Windows 7 x64 before I18. Was it somehow buggy or something? Well, at least that explains what the problem is. Guess I'll just have to boost the volume of my centre speaker. Thanks for letting me know.

Not anywhere near brave enough to fiddle with registry. I try to never touch things I don't understand without a responsible adult supervising me, and registry I do not understand. Nevertheless, thank you for the link.

Better safe than sorry is what made the Market essentially shut down for a week. I've never been an opponent of safety, outside of cases where it's hugely detrimental to my enjoyment, as well as that of other people.

One of the bad things about having an economy - it takes players to run it, and if players get spooked with irrational fear, it dies. And then we can't blame the developers for it. We can only blame the players.

See, this is what I've failed to wrap my head around all week. Why take down your bids? Did they not say everything was going to be dropped in your transaction inventory with the listing fee returned? Why pull them down, then? Fear that they'll "disappear?"

I've had it up to here with doomsaying about a future of missing items. That same fear is why the market's been up a creek all last week. Everyone's bids will be waiting for them when the servers launch back up.

Pretty much.

But let me explain why I keep harping on this. Most of the time I will simply ignore suggestions for features I don't want. This one, however, I've made a point to speak up on every time I see it, and for one simple reason. I hate 3D in every incarnation, and I intend to do everything I can to not only avoid it, but prevent it form catching on any more than it has. I hate this concept so much that not only do I not want to experience it, I do not want it to exist.

Not just in this game, not just in movies I want to see. AT ALL. Doing nothing is not an option in this case, because I am not indifferent to it. I am not simply grumpy. I do not want this added in such a way that it doesn't affect me. I do not want it added AT ALL, because I hate the concept just so much. I reserve this kind of hatred of 3D and 3D alone. Not PvP, not loot, not raids, not economies, not any of the other MMO traditions that I've spent so long badmouthing. Them I'd be happy if I could just avoid. This I reserve my most extreme hatred for, because I despise the concept. It ruins my game and my entertainment in general merely by existing. The very thought that someone could go "Hmm... 3D works in that game. Maybe I'll add it to my game, too!" makes my hair stand up on end.

Yes, I realise I'm probably alone in this, which is why it's good I'm not in charge, isn't it? I also realise that my stance is neither profound nor very intelligent, but we all have our pet peeves, and this just happens to be mine. I will continue to campaign against the addition of ANY kind of 3D into this game, and ultimately, I'll let the developers decide.

Define "a lot." Because "a lot" of people pre-purchased Going Rogue and, technically, already own it. A lot of people would, therefore, be very happy if it launched today, rather than tomorrow. And why would anyone be unhappy, really? Because other people got to try the game first when they bought first? Are we back to happiness being drawn from other people NOT having stuff?

When I preordered City of Villains, I got a three-day head start. For the entire game, I might add. I fail to see why those who pre-purchased can't get a head start today. Not to mention the fact that they could simply list Going Rogue on the PlayNC store as they said they would either way.

At the end of the day, I'd rather have it all done today, than having to sit on my hands all day tomorrow, too. I'm off work, people!

I remember seeing these arguments, actually. At one point, there were perfectly valid, back when Jack expected that OBVIOUSLY we'd be on a team. I remember someone complaining about Tanker performance, detailing what he'd done, only to have Jack post saying "And what was the rest of your team doing?" I laughed at the time, but it's giving me cold chills now.

I don't know when it happened, but the game just stopped sending you to Perez Park at low levels. I know people still like to complain about the forest maze now, to which I tend to respond with "grow up." Unless you're sent there below level 10, the "maze" is nothing special. Do what everyone does in a maze and hold the left wall (or the right wall, either works as long as you don't switch) and you'll either come out another entrance (where you can go back in and keep on going), loop back out the way you come in (where you need to look for another entrance) or find your mission. The Perez Park forest is not complex enough for this method to fail, and it hasn't failed me yet. As long as you don't miss a side path somewhere, you WILL find your mission.

The enemies there are dangerous, and they come in large spawns, but these days, I've not been sent to a mission in the forest at any level where the things will even aggro on me. And with critters taken out of the equation, all that's left is navigation which, again, is not that complicated. Worse come to worst, you can always grab the modded map of Perez Park from VidiotMaps that shows the internal space in the forest. I never needed it, myself. Then again, I never needed a teleport to get up to the Terra Volta reactor complex, so I may be biassed.

So, yeah. Perez Park was very hard to SURVIVE in, but really isn't hard to get around once survival is no longer a concern.

Huh... So it did. I fixed it back, though. I wonder why that happened?

Mine doesn't have a version at all.

Freem already feels viral. A lot like herpes, actually. So I think I'll pass.

In my entire time playing video games, and I've been playing them for the past 20 years, I only got sick enough to bother me once, and that was running around in Tomb Raider 2, for some odd reason. I've felt "off" a few times since, especially when I haven't played shooters proper for some time (City of Heroes isn't anywhere near as nauseating as FPS games), but at the worst of time, it's a slight discomfort, and far less prominent than the "sick to my stomach" feeling I get when I wake up hungry. And even at the worst of times, it passes if I so much as get off the PC for five minutes, not that I do.

Your "3D" gave me a headache that STILL hasn't fully subsided. It's worse than the horror show I was after watching all of Avatar in accursed 3D. It made me feel rotten enough to where I was barely able to play anything for the rest of the day.

I've experienced 3D proper, with the glasses and the lenses and all. I saw the illusion of 3D. Clear as day. I didn't buy it. Not for a moment. I knew I was supposed to see things as 3D, but it just felt like my eyes were out of focus and out of alignment. It didn't look 3D. It looked fake. Occasionally, I'll see "ghosts" like that just looking at normal stuff when my eyes are tired or out of focus, so this didn't feel like genuine 3D. It felt like the emulation of an illusion of something that didn't even resemble 3D. The experience was only ever "special," in the sense that, to quote Yahtzee: "I'm sorry my son ate your shoes. He's a bit special."

I HATE 3D. Of any kind. It physically hurts me to experience it, and it throws me into fits of rage when people praise it. Because I know what it means - more exposure, more publicity, more fame, more movies in 3D and 3D only that I have to pay more for and leave the theatre with my head in my hands, not only having had the movie ruined for me, but feeling like I'm about to return my lunch. The less this exists, the better. I can deal with it existing somewhere out there where I don't have to run into it, but I do not want it anywhere near anything I enjoy to look upon, such as this game.

I know some people can't see flat-drawn 3D like it is in most contemporary games. I don't know if it's a lack of ability to actually "see" it or lack of an ability to manoeuvre around it, but there it is. I know my mother is TERRIBLE at it, but that's to be expected. But that's mostly because of how I play, as I have a rather higher tolerance for nausea than most people, at least when it comes to visuals. But even at the best of times, flat-drawn 3D is not attempting to fool our EYES, only our minds. It's a 2D picture that I can "read" in the exact same manner as I can read the words off a page. I do not have to refocus my eyes in order to see it. All I have to do is focus them on the screen, and everything else is visible.

The moment you start asking people to focus on imaginary centres out in space, you're going to cause headaches, because in my experience, eye focus is the primary cause of general headaches that I'm aware of. I don't want to focus on thin air so I can see images off to the side. It's the same with filter lens 3D. I'm trying to focus on where the image "feels" like it is, only there's no image there, just empty air, so my eyes blur. But I can't focus on the screen, because though the image IS there, it doesn't "feel" like it's there. And so my eyes are constantly focusing and refocusing and refocusing until it feels like someone took a bicycle pump and inflated my face.

Mess with the picture the eye can see all you want, but don't try to make the eye see like the eye is not designed to see. That HURTS.

Oh, yeah, and then there was that. At one point I thought the game really was in trouble because the forums were DEAD. Then I got invited to Beta, and I realised that everyone was there

Oh, that's something I wanted to comment on, too. People keep saying "It's odd to hear a male voice coming out of a lady." and my question to that is "how can you tell?" I NEVER know which character the person I'm speaking with "is." Can not sort it out. I chat with people, not their characters, mostly because I CAN'T do it the other way around.

I'm going to keep being a "negative Nancy" as long as people keep suggesting technology and techniques that GIVE ME A HEADACHE! I tried to view the 3D perspective in the link you provided, and it makes my eyes HURT. I can't cross my eyes consistently, because it hurts the muscles in my eyes, and when anything inside my skull hurts, my head begins throbbing. Not only that, but after trying to see your 3D for a while, I managed to unfocus my idle vision and needed some rest time just to be able to see straight again.

I don't want technology which requires me to suffer through pain, possibly incur permanent damage as I already have from forcing my eyes too far to the side one too many times, and fight through "training" just to be able to see the god damn thing. I would sooner take filter lens 3D over this crap, because while filter lens 3D gives me headaches, at least it doesn't damage my eyes as far as I can tell, and I'm able to see normally just as soon as I take off the glasses.

And I HATE filter lens 3D. My eyes are very capable of telling the difference between actual depth perception and optical illusion, which is what gives me headaches. I'd much sooner deal with flat 3D or Lisar's cheating flat 3D technology than anything which tries to fool my brain into seeing depth that isn't there.

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Yeah, I'll admit. Your link giving me a headache that lasted me THAT ENTIRE DAY may have coloured the tone of my reply.

Why do so many the "back in my day" posts talk about the Hollows and how people were Newbs then? That thing came out in I2, which was, what, half a year after release? I mean, I get that every person who joined was a newb once, but why the propensity of the Hollows horror stories and so few of the Perez Park stories? I mean, that used to be where everyone hung out before.

Ah, BI, I missed your rants so much...

This is not a Vent issue. This is a people issue. If you feel that you can be friends with people by virtue of avoiding their bad sides, then I guess more power to you, but I prefer to see the worst my friends have to offer, and I prefer to see it up-front. And I say this, because I don't put up with things like that. If something people do bugs you, address it with them. If they keep doing it anyway, walk. Simple as that.

However, what I quoted is pure paranoia at work. I don't make a habit of wondering if people aren't talking about me behind my back, because it makes no difference. You can't be everywhere all the time, you can't observe what people are saying every waking minute, and chances are they WILL talk about you behind your back some of the time, simply because you're not omnipresent. In fact, I had a spot of fun on OK's Paragon Unleashed when I was suddenly given access to a forum AFTER people had discussed my pros and cons. Didn't really bother me, and I doubt it COULD have bothered me regardless of what had been said.

I enjoy joining my friends on Ventrillo when I can, which is to say when I feel like it, don't have guests over, am not watching TV and am not listening to music. However, when I DO join Vent, there are two things I CANNOT stand:

1. Dead air. Nothing is more depressing than joining a voice chat server and being met with deafening silence for fifteen minutes thereafter, a few customary "hellos" notwithstanding. If I join a voice chat server, it's because I want to chat via the medium of voice. If I didn't, I wouldn't.

2. Dry, boring organisational chatter. "Next mob to the left." "We're stealthing this one." "OK, pull to here." This! Is! BORING!!! *kicks microphone into a pit* I thought I joined voice CHAT, not voice mission control. Not only is that kind of organisation detrimental to the game in general, it also puts me to sleep and doesn't need voice chat at all. If I can type out messages fast enough to not die in Alien Swarm, I can more than manage in City of Heroes.

I've said it before - if I ever play (and, by extension, chat) with other people, it's because I want to be in the company of other people, not because I want more warm bodies or because I want an easier way to spoil my suspense of disbelief. It's the same as when I was a kid, and me and my friends would go out to arcades or to Internet cafes to play games together and basically hang out. That's what I want out of Ventrillo (and Skype, and MSN, and Team Speak), and it really kills me when spoilsports try to turn it into some kind of minimalist despotic game-only, instruction-only soulless comm channel.

If I go to chat with people, I want to chat with people, whether we're playing the same game or not.

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And English isn't even my native language.