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Originally Posted by UberGuy
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Fair enough, and it does indeed all depend on how much stuff you are including. Continuing education is important, especially as new technologies/advancements in current tech arises. Need to stay on the ball here (hell going from OpenGL 2 to OpenGL 4 requires a bit re-education).
And chances are that there are also similar things for Nvidia and ATI to attend as well. |
I'd actually agree if I was talking base salary. That was employee cost. Everything you need to have someone working in an office doing that kind of job. For tech companies that includes things like employers contribution to taxes, continuing education benefits, health plan, etc, etc, etc.
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Here's a question for the number crunchers in this thread: It's been stated repeatedly that Paragon Studios had 80 people working for them. What's not clear to me is; were these 80 people all working on City of Heroes, or did that number include the folks that were working on the other projects?
80 total staff. That's been made clear many times.
That's intended to be an "all-in" number. Dental, 401k, AD&D, Life, Health and whatever else is part of their benefits package. Add to that real estate, desktop hardware, software, energy bill, pens and whatever else is part of their operating expenses.
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You're ignorant. Literally. You don't know me, clearly. The vast majority of my posts on these forums over the years have been to help people with game mechanical information. I have a particular enmity with A_F, (which sprung largely from that thread) and I find it instructive that you judge everything based on my interactions with him. |
Is this one of those things where you expect that you're "blowing my mind"? My best RL friend plays this game, and has been farming like that for ... ever. These days he uses, I kid you not, 12 accounts to do it with. (Well, he did, he stopped after the announcement.) So yeah, I know how that works, and have all along. Guess what? That ability of players like him to farm them has always been baked into the market prices. Do you know when the prices on the high-end ones crashed, and finally dipped under the 1-2B mark? When converters came out, and allowed the massive stockpiles of low-value PvPOs those farmers all had created to be converted into the valuable ones. |
Then why the F**K did you make stuff up. Hero Merits weren't the only way to get PvP IOs and the bulk of what you got farming were trash. |
Readers should bear in mind that this discussion was posted during I18, so the only way to get purples was as drops or with Hero/Villain Merits.
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I wonder where you learned what they're like?
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FWIW (and I am assuming that isn't much), I have three forum users on ignore. One was put there very recently (post-announcement trolling), another has been there a few months to maybe a year.
Another_Fan was the first user I ignored, and has been the list for a few years following any number of posts tilting at blasters, the market, etc. Jackasses may look different to different people. |
Yeah, tell it to someone a little more gullible and didn't see you post deceptive pictures of what pricing was like.
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Ironically, what you are doing here is exactly the kind of response behavior that gets people into fights with Another_Fan. You moved the goal posts completely here. You accused me of "making **** up", and when I pointed you at what I said and showed that was a load of hooey, you deflect and make a different claim all together.
Look, anyone who knows me knows I'll gladly argue this ancient history with you till the sun goes out. I mean it, I'm happy to keep going, because I think you're living in a wrong tree in the valley of wrong, and someone is wrong on the internet. If you really want to keep responding to it here, I'll keep responding back. But I know that it's completely off the original topic of this thread, continuing to derail the living hell out of it, and believe it or not, I'd rather do it somewhere else. I'm not completely sure why you've decided to make me a target of your flailing, but I can guess. I think you don't like the way I responded to you earlier, calling into question the whole "failure" thing, and a couple of times now digging you for your claims of "blowing our mind". Do I need to point out that leading in with that how your insights will "blow our minds") is exceptionally condescending? That suggesting that you know stuff that everyone else is apparently too stupid or emotional to have figured out? And you have the temerity to get on a soap box about how you've avoided the forums because of nasty posters? You need to invest in a mirror, dude. |