DragonSworne
Banned
Verifying millions of online sessions are still connected to origin every 20 minutes is significant
SimCity modded so it can be played offline indefinitely + editing of highways
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Verifying millions of online sessions are still connected to origin every 20 minutes is significant
Let's not get carried away. I think no significant changes under other lead dev than Jay Wilson have made it to the game yet.
Damn... damn. It's Spore but 10000 times worse. It seems that EA likes to interfere and bomb Maxis' work after the ambitious but unfinished Spore and then, this... Hope it doesn't finish with Maxis' restructuring... nope, cannot happen because people are still buying this piece of ...
Damn.
Damn.
I don't think we should assume the Gies is shilling for anyone or sacrificing his own credibility for some kind of corporate sponsorship.
People do stupid things for much less devious and evil reasons. It's usually because they're stupid.
DragonSworne
Banned
Well, the new lead is going to change the item randomization, so items will no longer roll 1-100 on main stats, but 75-100, etc.
Also, ilvl restriction on legendaries are being removed so cookie cutter gear will be gone. Legendaries that use to be ilvl 10 will roll ilvl63.
These are big changes to itemization. These were design flaws that had nothing to do with the RMAH.
But the amount of stupid..!
Sometimes you wish someone couldn't be that arrogant, is all
Sometimes you wish someone couldn't be that arrogant, is all
Trumpet909
Member
Blizzard has admitted though that they are trying to refocus people away from the auction house and back to the actual monsters.
Which does not prove in any way that they intentionally gimped looting for the benefit of the RMAH.
I'm not sure what you're getting at...
famousmortimer
Banned
Bingo. No need for tinfoil hats. The most obvious reason is usually the correct one.
PotatoeMasher
Member
No need to get swept up in this mob mentality guys. This is getting ugly with all of the misery being imparted on people. Just check the @mentions of any Maxis person (and probably Arthur) and realize these are humans.
Be upset, but don't be dicks. The goal isn't to get someone at Maxis to kill themselves, it's to hopefully end up with a much better game that we'll feel less robbed for giving our $60+ bucks.
Be upset, but don't be dicks. The goal isn't to get someone at Maxis to kill themselves, it's to hopefully end up with a much better game that we'll feel less robbed for giving our $60+ bucks.
jakonovski
Member
The worst thing about Gies is that he should be paid money by EA. But he's not. Because he'll do it for free.
DragonSworne
Banned
Blizzard was able to handle the heat, why can't EA and Maxis?
Edit - maybe because blizzard actually engaged with the customers, unlike EA and Maxis. Relying on media to lie and obfuscate is scummy.
It's nobody's fault but their own if they would rather commit suicide than simply saying sorry and admitting they lied.
Also as far as Gies goes he told people they know nothing if they think SC could be played offline. I would say thats a pretty dick thing to say.
TheLegendOfMart
Banned
Tough titties, maybe they shouldn't come up with outright lies and proclaim that they know more than you do just because they are in the "industry".
You can imagine anything you want, but that doesn't make any sense at all.
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
Ironically, I bet EA does wish Valve didn't exist.
Half-Life?
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
Not only there is no ETA for those changes yet, but those arent real fixes.
There is nothing wrong with ilvl10 legendaries as long as they are meaningful, but Diablo 3 scaling prevents that to be the case. Even if they design extraordinary legendary item for lvl 15, You will be in disadvantage by using it, because it wont have 500 armor and +150 to vitality and 70+ resists ;\
Fixing rolls from 1-100 is not really big change, because it changes only quality of drops, but the problem with badly designed affixes stays.
Those changes basically will help to get same gear with higher stats, but do not change item system at all.
Honestly, they only thing I want from Polygon and Arthur is:
1.) A post on Polygon saying, that the early review was a mistake and that they make sure that something like that won't happen again.
2.) A tweet from Arthur, that he was wrong as far as the offline mode is concerned.
Pretty sure that's not gonna happen though.
1.) A post on Polygon saying, that the early review was a mistake and that they make sure that something like that won't happen again.
2.) A tweet from Arthur, that he was wrong as far as the offline mode is concerned.
Pretty sure that's not gonna happen though.
Syphon Filter
Member
How come no one did this for Diablo 3?
They (modders ect.) did, people just don't play that version as much for some reason.
I wonder why?
John walkers reply to AG: "this is literally too stupid to cope with." haha.
Yes, Half Life, Valve's First Published game, created using a licensed version of the Quake Engine by iD, paid for by Gabe Newell's fortune made by being an early member of Microsoft.
Fun Fact: EA actually licensed Goldsource for the PC version of 007: Nightfire.
DragonSworne
Banned
Yes, the biggest problem with the itemization in the game is the fact they put main stats on them.
The new changes to the randomization mitigates the affect those stats will have on the quality of items, which is very important in the amount of crappy items that drop.
The point about removing fixed ilvl for legendaries is so those awesome legendaries at lvl 15 can now roll affixes that only appear for ilvl63. Those items are no longer useless and opens up the amount of usable gear at endgame.
Imagine sledgefist with ilvl63 stats.
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
Bingo.
I didn't know that Valve hired modders to work on Half-Life.
The servers are only used for two things, the saves and other regions.
It's likely they disabled cheetah speed because it caused cities to progress faster, therefore more people were saving at a faster rate. Also many people were reporting that city interaction wasn't working at all, because they probably disabled that as well. It all makes sense now.
They also treat the modding community as a farm league and have for quite some time.
Once again, something that is easily fixed with having online only and offline only characters.
From what I can tell your desire for games to be always online is akin to someone complaining that the multiplayer in a game they just bought is dead because it's an old game and people have moved on.
SneakyStephan
Banned
No mods would mean:
-no cs (and all the games derived from its popularity)
-no capture the flag
-no instagib/rocket arena
-no gungame
-no dota
-no day z
-no team fortress
-no natural selection
-no battlefield 2 (bf2 was highly derivative of the DC mod and the mods are what made bf1942 big and put dice on the map, the game had a VERY slow start it took a while before word of mouth made battlefield big)
-no red orchestra
ID, epic, valve, dice, blizzard and many more might not even exist today since the mods for their games made them immensely popular and games would be missing a lot of popular features today since much of what is in gaming today was thought up by small teams of modders.
Has Anyone Posted This?
Maxis Insider Claims Modding SimCity For Off Line PLay Would Not Be Difficult
I'd buy that if the Sims had some level of AI and traffic worked.
Because its not working. There is no proper emulator for Diablo 3 currently.
Its not really achievement to unlock timer in feature provided by developers. In SimCity every inside city calculation is done on player PC and there is function to save it in memory for unlimited/limited time and then send it to EA's cloud, in Diablo 3 many calculations [drop, monster AI, skills] are done on the servers, so hackers have to emulate it to work.
Actually in that chat he's already subtly changed the argument to not be about whether he was talking out of his arse, but whether the DRM was justified as a measure to stop piracy.
Wait, anti-cheat is supposed to be a feature we should be thankful for always-online for? I thought for most SimCity players -having- cheats was a feature.
Amazing.
Hah, looks like he's digging in here.
Amazing.
LOL
...he's being serious, isn't he?
I've played the game for a solid 20 hours and have yet to join a public region, yet I'm still able to build large and prosperous cities in my own region. And I can't do all of that offline because...?
plutoknight
Member
Left 4 Dead is a great example of this, no? Didn't that originally start as a mod for HL2?
Diablo 3 is a special case because a lot of that stuff IS actually done server-side, whereas it seems like in SimCity the "server-side calculations" is pretty much social networking/authentication.
I bet Gearbox is happy SimCity is such a failure! (Took the fire off of them
)
ebullientprism
Member
Air Zombie Meat
Member
Amazing.
For someone with no investment in the Simcity debacle he's really sticking his neck out for it.
Left 4 Dead is a great example of this, no? Didn't that originally start as a mod for HL2?
Diablo 3 is a special case because a lot of that stuff IS actually done server-side, whereas it seems like in SimCity the "server-side calculations" is pretty much social networking/authentication.
I bet Gearbox is happy SimCity is such a failure! (Took the fire off of them
There's an exchange of money going on in some underground parking garage between Gearbox and Maxis right now.
Gearbox: Finally we can get back to embezzling money in peace!
old manatee
Banned
This is exactly like watching the White House and Meet the Press come together to sell the war in Iraq.
DragonSworne
Banned
Someone make regions available over LAN