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I don't know... I don't find it too much to ask that a blog ran by a company and with writers that get paid would have something resembling proper english.

I know it is a requirement they themselves list when looking for new bloggers anyway.

Bellemi: "Believe it or not, BT guilds ARE recruiting!!!"

Joining a guild that already beat BT would not in my opinion really constitute experiencing the content as intended. easy-mode content with people who are already farming it is terribly unexciting...

Basy: "we raid 4 hours a session 4 times a week - although nowadays we managed to shrink it into 2 raids a week - which basically means 8 hrs of raiding per week."

Ah, but that is probably the full extent of your WoW playtime and even 4 out of 7 nights per week is still pretty frequent. Personally I definitely do not see anything wrong with dedicating that much time to a game or any other hobby and lots of people do it but it still is in the range that most people will not be able or willing to do and will therefore be left out.

"I do not hear hardcore raiders complaining about the new casual content, why must you complain about the 25 man?"

Haha, you must have not read the article you're replying to then since it is exactly that.

"I believe the average is 17 hours. Your "hardcore" raider w/ Illidan on farm, however, will raid for 8-10 hours per week. We are not all nerds in the basement, but just players who know how to play the game. The main reason 97% have not seem BT is beacause 97% of the playerbase sucks at videogames. Who needs to go outside now?"

For reference, could you also post your raid & farm times per week before you managed to get BT on farm? It can be skill, it can be being able to gather 25 average skilled people who are willing to expand large amounts of time to the game. Either way the point still stands that 1-5% is an extremely small part of subscribers to have major focus on.

Only in MMORPGs do people apparently expect to be given more if they rush thru what is offered in the game as fast as they can. Any other game and you'll be happily moving on to other games, waiting for the expansion, the sequel etc. I really doubt having the hardcore raiders that cleared the game stop their subscription would actually be any sort of a casualty for Blizzard. Even if these people were quitting temporarily or otherwise for bigger and better things in droves, the big raid content would still be there to dream about for the majority.

Well, the best solution in my mind would be to modify the flag/spell so that the flag does not travel thru a summoning.

If people have been holding out for the Xbox 360 for a whole year with no Wiis or especially Playstations in sight, why would they start their purchasing now of all times when those two systems have finally shipped and can be acquired soon even if the availability is not good for now?

Hmm, am I wrong or didn't Half-Life actually have those ninja chicks they're complaining about?

I do think the Daikatana ad for example would be seen quite differently had the game turned out better too, not all of these are bad ads IMO althought they do most have some poorly thought out elements.

Yeah, just like the mouse was a toy that was not suited for playing games... I'm not saying the Wii controller is guaranteed to be a step forward but it is possible that you'll feel pads are outdated after playing with it.

And as for the Revolution vs. Evolution thing, the revolution referred to a radically different, new and (according to nintendo) better control scheme. That has nothing at all to do with whether the industry is financially healthy or not.

The xbox bikini can also be seen on destructoid in higher res. Plus more pics of the same girl as she found the site a while ago and stopped by the forums :P

Copyrights do not apply to ideas, they apply to a work. Also, game rules can't be copyrighted AFAIK.

If this wasn't the case, we'd have just one company making first person shooters, rtses, mmorpgs etc. Now how many of you'd prefer that?

Patents apply to ideas, copyright doesn't.

It's easy to tell this is just a hoax. An OS absolutely requires a more general purpose processor than an SPE is, they can do nothing but vector math.