Planetside Update

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• I could live with that easy. I play Counterstrike with an average ping of 500. : seemlar
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  the machines running these games arent some 333mhz running Redhat sitting in some college dorm somewhere... : Ryo Hazukyi
  • I don't think the systems running EQ are either. Yet look at pings there.. I don't want to get into ... : cannelbrae

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  the developers would take up the same issue as Adobe and Microsoft: they'd say that a price drop is too ... : the archvile
  • Then I say Fuck them and thier monthly fees. What if AOL charged $50 for thier CD's and then charged a ... : GravyBoat
• Here's the problem. That $50 you pay in the store pays for the DEVELOPMENT of the game. Creating the e... : Vantage

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  Don't like DNF? : SlimJim
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    but it's not coming out ever for awhile : hawkeye
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      And Doom 3 and Planetside are? : seemlar
      • hmmmm good point : hawkeye
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        #55, Doom 3's production will probably be 1/3 if not 1/4 of DNF... : indeego
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          And it will be 1/3 if not 1/4 as good a game : seemlar
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            but the engine will kick 2x the ass : hawkeye
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              Er, so? I wouldn't care if the engine was 20x as good, let alone 2x. Engine is a small, small part of... : seemlar
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                I agree with you there id has never had any gameplay what so ever altho I admidt Wolf3d and doom we... : Ryo Hazukyi
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                  Quake. : SlimJim
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                    oh wow doom in 3d its still just shooting and strafing. System Shock 1 owns quake. : Ryo Hazukyi
                    • as did Duke Nukem 3D : Ryo Hazukyi
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                      Quake is the best game I've ever played. Doom is second. Doom2 is 3rd. All rated in how many hours I ... : SlimJim
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                        dude you gotta try dues ex or Vampire. You are missing out on a whole lot man : Ryo Hazukyi
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                          Does Vampire have decent multiplayer now? It sucked last time I tried it. The Single player game rocked ... : GravyBoat
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                            it would be great if there were decent story tellers, all it is, is people coming in and asking for shit... : Ryo Hazukyi
                            • And if there was a dedicated server mode. : GravyBoat
                • Wolf, Doom and the original Quake did. It was downhill from there. : seemlar
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                yeah, but that means the liscensed games will be better as well, I don't expect gameplay from id, Carmac... : hawkeye
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                  so he makes engines they arent that great The Vampire The Masqurade:Redemption engine owns the qua... : Ryo Hazukyi
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                    actually, the UT engine and the Q3 engine are 'different'.. Q3 engine is faster, has curve support UT... : Toraz Chryx
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                      its faster I admidt but thats cuz everything is a closed-in box Try making a level like Lberty Island... : Ryo Hazukyi
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                        The UT engine is slower when running a closed in box level :) You did see the part about UT coping bett... : Toraz Chryx
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                          slower or not as long as it doesnt drop below 30FPS its fine with me : Ryo Hazukyi
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                            So, your a 30FPS man?.. I prefer 50fps + :) : Toraz Chryx
                            • I keep my refresh rate at 75 with V-sync on(tearing sux) and most everything stays with it. but 30FPS... : Ryo Hazukyi
                    • UT has better textures too yeah, the Serious Sam engine is awesome : hawkeye
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                    holy shit, we have a new candidate for Daggah's replacement as King Troll. What happened dude, did the a... : .spanky.
                    • time for your happy pills too : Ryo Hazukyi
          • #64, DNF looks like the last one. Good. I'm ten years older now and that shit doesn't amuse as easily. : indeego
    • It will be out sooner then DOOM will. : SlimJim

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• Exactly. Flagrant homosexuality + Halo = Planetside. : Poor Yurik

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  They don't 'owe' us a free demo. But if they actually expect us to buy their products, its a way to s... : seemlar
  • hey, I go to the store, look for something that seems like it might entertain me and buy it its jsu... : Ryo Hazukyi
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  Look what happened with Unreal and Tribes2. No demo. Had there been, I bet they would have only sold h : SlimJim
  • #73, Demos are what lead me to Q3, Rune, WoT, SS2, NOLF. It's hugely important in my buying decisions. : indeego
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    shit happens, thats life get over it : Ryo Hazukyi
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      #78, Tell us more about this "life" thing, this "shit" thing and what exactly does it all mean? : indeego
      • youll find out when you get outta high school : Ryo Hazukyi
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      no how about you get the fuck over it. Some of these guys want a demo to try the game out before they bl... : Old_Fart
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        its called "reviews" look it up err, avoid IGN reviews tho : Ryo Hazukyi
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          I have yet to read a review that I agree with for any game by any magazine out there. : Old_Fart
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            well aint that just too bad Guess youll just have to stop depending on mommy and daddy to buy your vi... : Ryo Hazukyi
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              umm, I'm 38 years old guy, I don't like pay-to-play and the idea behind it. I have plenty of money, I ju... : Old_Fart
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                wow you put a geforce 3 in your system, wtfg. When the Geforce3 ultra comes out ill email you by benchm... : Ryo Hazukyi
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                  wow, what a fucking dumbass statement, when the GF3 Ultra's come out, you won't be bragging about your s... : Old_Fart
                  • hey kid, I think its time for your ritaline : Ryo Hazukyi
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  Ryo, shouldn't you be off feeding a kitten or drinking a Coke or something? : afty
  • ehk, i cant stand Coke. Pepsi is alot better : Ryo Hazukyi

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  yup that may be problematic even if they do LOD on network traffic (if LOD on network traffic is possibl... : BadRespawn
  • maybe its a server cluster or something, one for each "battlefield" : Raziel
• you can do load balancing across a network at the switch level and the server level... i dont see this a... : OverBurN

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  Perhaps you should stop living in the parents basement and get a job :) : andyp
  • That's what I was thinking. : Topaz
  • I've turned in about 5 applications recently and I'm waiting on them to call me up so I can start to wor... : SlimJim
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  From what I've heard abotu a game like UO they only make $3/$10 profit. The rest goes into server and ga... : Topaz
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    "From what I've heard about a game like UO they only make $3/$10 profit. The rest goes into server and g : SlimJim
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      you obviously dont know much about running a buisness I think you should stop posting on the subjec... : Ryo Hazukyi
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        oh shit thats supposed to be "yew" what a shitty typo Sorry : Ryo Hazukyi
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          #46, What is a "yew," and how is it different? You were derogatory without defining your position. : indeego
          • its like a llama, only not besides, everyone knows jewish people know how to run a buisness Its ... : Ryo Hazukyi
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      I find your arguement flawed. Server and game maintenance doesn't cost a penny when your own employee : seemlar
      • They pay those people year round anyways. It doesn't cost them anymore money then any other year they'v... : SlimJim
    • the only reason I would pay for play on a monthly basis was if there was a continuous stream of new and ... : Torias
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  #31, More to the point, why pay for a game continuously if you can't try it out first for free? I wo... : indeego
  • Thats a problem. I dropped $50 on Everquest, and all it game me was one months play and a coaster for af... : seemlar
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    every online game comes with a month for free if you get WWII Online from EBonline you get 2 months : Ryo Hazukyi
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      The problem is, thats a lie. It is not free. You pay for that month or two when you buy the core of t... : seemlar
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        oh well get over it Get a new job if $50-60 is so demanding on your budget or jsut get the hel... : Ryo Hazukyi
        • #70, That's the American spirit! It may have worked for UO and Everquack, but 2nd time gamers won't put... : indeego
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          maybe you don't realize it but a lot of PC gamers are college students without a lot of money to blow on : Old_Fart
          • Im a college student, full time worker and have my own place. Im paying for my schooling, my car insura... : Ryo Hazukyi
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          Ahaha, the old get a job arguement. I have a very nice job that pays me well. I can afford to buy any ga... : seemlar
          • hey, no one is forcing you to buy anything : Ryo Hazukyi

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• I don't know. I've seen people playing EQ (a LOT of my friends/coworkers do), and maybe it's me, and I'... : dognose
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  i don't understand that viewpoint at all. : Sexpansion Pack
  • for an rpg, I can see how a well supported online world could be worth a monthly fee... unless planetsi... : Torias

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  I keep meaning to try the operation flashpoint demo someone got a link? i'm lazy : hawkeye
  • http://www.fileplanet.com/index.asp?scope=0&submit.x=18&submit.y=2&sort=filedt&order=desc&file=57593 : SlimJim
  • http://www.google.com/search?q=operation+flashpoint+demo : seemlar
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  oh OFP will be great, too bad it only supports 8 human players as with WWIIOL supports 10,000 OFP wil... : Ryo Hazukyi
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    Your computer has problems. My is slightly less powerful, but OpFlash purrs like a kitten on my computer... : seemlar
    • well, I guess I should admidt I run it at 32bit color, 4x FSAA and 1024x768 screen rez, hehe i get ab... : Ryo Hazukyi
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    Helza: WeÂ’ve heard all kind of different rumors about the Maximum number of players in Multiplayer : Icedfusion
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      hmmm, guess I should ahve checked that out first. Still tho, there no way its gonna support 10,000 an... : Ryo Hazukyi
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        Have you played WWII Online? : SlimJim
        • no comment : Ryo Hazukyi
    • the bots in the demo may be just bots but they seem to be able to kill me just fine. : Raziel
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  Would it be a bad time to point out that Operation Flashpoint isn't a massively multiplayer game? : seemlar
  • http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=1301595 No software limit. But for sanity reasons, they say 6 per... : Raziel

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• It's games like Unreal and Tribes2 though... Who knew? : SlimJim

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• Yup. When EQ came out it had pretty darn good graphics. Screenshots don't convey how good the spells and... : Topaz
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  It was blurry as hell from day one. No detail. Just big, stretched, blurry textures. : SlimJim
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    Just like most everything else at the time. : Vantage
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      But it didn't have too be that way. : SlimJim
      • but it was get over it Voodoo2s were the shiznat when that was new. anything that wsnt software r... : Ryo Hazukyi

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• * D U M B A S S E D * : hawkeye

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  #42, The other day I rockey jumped to avoid some dog shit through the park. I grunted and taunted the on... : indeego
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    lol Rockey jumping owns j00! : Ryo Hazukyi
    • #51, You said it. I follow your kind. : indeego

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• oops, doubleclicked the Post button twice :( my bad : Gimik
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  I'd pay $9.95/month to play UT if I had to. The fact that I don't have to makes me suspicious of this. ... : dognose
  • that's just the thing, they'll probably bring a larger crowd over from the EQ-type players. who knows, b... : Gimik

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• I didnt do it. : johnny rotten

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• looking more that way everytime i hear about it : Sexpansion Pack

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• Timbuk 3 : Cygnus X-1

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• Here is a Planetside in-game clip! (3.3M mpg) http://www.badmovies.org/movies/megaforce/megaforce1.mpg ... : Dread Pirate Roberts

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• pay to play, most likely. that's what turns me off anyways. the graphics and the gameplay are intr... : |hawkeye|