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The hikers' favorite, Grand Etang preserves the nutmeg groves and tropical rainforest of Grenada's central highland. At the park's heart is the crater lake ...
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El Yunque Rainforest is the only tropical rainforest under the protection of the US Forest Service and also the largest nature reserve in densely-populated ...
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The sandy beaches of Saona island are a highlight of a visit to Parque Nacional del Este, along with the tropical moist forest and limestone karst landscape ...
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The majority of St. John is covered by the Virgin Islands National Park, a stretch of preserved wilderness all the more remarkable when you consider how ...
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The U.S. Postal Service put it on a stamp, Condé Nast Traveler called it one of the top 10 beaches in the world, National Geographic declared it ...
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Don't be scared away by its rather ominous name. Devil's Bridge National Park is one of the most unique natural sites that you can see, not just in Antigua, ...
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This incredible 40-acre park has some of the most spectacular secluded beaches in all of the Bahamas. Filled with mangrove, pine, and palm trees, Lucayan ...
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Curacao's largest nature reserve is Christoffel National Park, the ideal place on the island to see the rare Curacao white-tailed deer, native barn owl and ...
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Want to get away from it all? Once you get to Buck Island, there is no more "all" to get away from – this is about as secluded as the Caribbean gets ...
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Morne Trois Pitons National Park
UNESCO World Heritage-listed Morne Trois Pitons National Park surrounds Dominica's second highest mountain, Morne Trois Pitons. The lush 6,857-hectare ...
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Peterson Cay, a tiny island off the south shore of Grand Bahama, is home to Peterson Cay National Park, the smallest national park in the Bahamas, covering ...
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St. Lucia's swaying palms and easygoing pace belie its often tempestuous history. Head to Pigeon Island National Park where traces of the island nation's ...
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News Update
School district expands app's reach, services
By Chris Beattie,
Published: Friday, August 31, 2012 1:33 PM CDT
As the world goes mobile, McKinney ISD is determined to keep up.
Since releasing its misdGO application last fall, nearly 13,000 people have downloaded it. The app's next version is already in the works - with the same goal: a one-stop shop for information.
"Overall feedback has been extremely positive," Cody Cunningham, McKinney ISD chief communications officer, said of misdGO. "There are still things we don't have, things we're working on."
About 70 percent of misdGO downloads have been by iPhone users, about 25 percent by Android users, and the rest by Blackberry users. Cunningham said that, having talked to other area school districts with similar apps, few, if any, have seen as high a download rate.
The misdGO app provides users - parents and students - with district news alerts, school dining options, district maps and just about everything McKinney ISD. Users most frequently take advantage of misdGO's Home Access Center (HAC) icon, which leads them to student grades, progress reports, attendance records and class assignments.
This year's HAC will go live this week, as the school district spent the first week of the school year updating new student information. The HAC includes such information only for secondary students, but the district plans to soon expand it to all elementary students and parents.
App users regularly look at district news and campus lunch menus from their smart phones. The misdGO employment section, which lists McKinney ISD job openings, also experiences "quite a lot of traffic," Cunningham said.
Other app icons give users access to a staff directory, library book status and upcoming sports events and fine arts performances. Officials are looking to add a Get Help icon that would provide in one section the top 10 to 15 numbers parents and students contact, such as those for curriculum and instruction, fine arts, main administration and student services.
The app's latest version uses push notifications to send out alerts related to bad weather, school closings and other critical information users need to know immediately. The next misdGO version is set to include a designated area for such alerts, so users can view them continuously.
"We're working on the next iteration of the misdGO app, it's just not completed at this time," said Allen McDaniel, McKinney ISD chief information officer. "We're talking with our vendors about further integration so parents continue to have just one place to go."
McKinney ISD last year partnered with WillowTree Apps, a mobile app development company based in Virginia, to launch the first version of misdGO. The school district works with separate vendors for different services accessed through the app, such as student information systems, online payments and library services.
For several years, the district has used Horizon Software International's MyPaymentsPlus (previously MealpayPlus) program to facilitate online payments for students' on-campus meals. Through MyPaymentsPlus, which is used by more than 13,000 schools in 600 school districts nationwide, parents with children at different schools within a school district can make one payment that disperses automatically.
MyPaymentsPlus funds the students' accounts and tracks the funds, removing the need for separate checks sent to separate schools.
"It's just making it easier for them to do everything," said Tina Bennett, vice president of online payments systems for Horizon. "It simplifies the entire process and really takes the paper piece out."
Horizon recently launched an app that allows users to make on-the-go meal payments straight from their iPhones and iPads, a process McKinney ISD is hoping to integrate into the misdGO app.
"McKinney has been with us for quite some time, and they use us for everything from inventory order processing to the point of sale and everything they do in their cafeteria," Bennett said. "We kind of help them with the software that runs their organization."
But McKinney ISD officials were just made aware of Horizon's new meal-pay app, and are open to its service only if they can incorporate it into misdGO.
"We're not engaging parents if they're asked to download 20 different apps for 20 different things, and it's not reasonable to expect parents to do that," Cunningham said. "Our goal is to work with vendors so [users] have a single source for information."
The school district prints publications with information found on misdGO for parents and students without access to a computer or smart phone. Such a population is vastly dwindling, though, so McKinney ISD remains app-ready.
"We know most parents spend more time on their phones than their computer," Cunningham said. "We're committed to providing a mobile solution for them."
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So…is no one else walking down the street mildly paranoid that any random crazed-looking citizen might attack their face at any given moment? Cause…yeah. Hi.
Truth is, I know this zombie shit has been going on forever. One man finally had the heart to do it publicly (although I personally thought the nudity x expressway combo seemed a little dramatic. Why not choose one?) and now all the face-eaters of the world will reveal themselves with pride. Leaving us less cannibalistic citizens in fear.
The moment I heard the zombie news, I had an instant flashback to a moment in my chaotic life. It was a dreary morning only a month ago. I was walking along Eastern Parkway on my way to my new job. It was my first day so I'm anxious excited nervous happy…feeling every emotion when BAM, something hits me. Literally. A wad of spit landed right on my collar. Within two seconds I realized what had happened; I noticed an unstable looking gentleman walking in my direction. When he got close enough, he looked me up and down and attempted to spit in my face. Guess he didn't like what he saw? He never even stopped walking. It wasn't until I heard him giggling that I came to, completely shocked, and managed to let out a helpless "oh my God…"
Not wanting to be late for my first day of work, I had to keep it moving. Wiped my collar clean and proceeded with my day. In retrospect, I'm glad he spat on me. Imagine he would've tried to eat my face? Man, listen.


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H+ The Digital Series — A Review
The first six episodes of the much anticipated transhumanist apocalyptic micro-drama H+ The Digital Series are now out. This is a brief review and set of initial impressions.
Warning: It includes spoilers for all six episodes out so far.
H+ The Digital Series is directed by Bryan Singer (X-men) and distributed online by Warner Brothers in a novel short episode format via YouTube. The series tells the story of a near future world where an Irish corporation known as H+ (H plus) Nano Teoranta has developed a neural implant technology used to link humanity into a global real-time augmented reality.
The short YouTube video format is probably as controversial as the content of the program. Can a 140 character culture relate to characters in 4 minute segments?
The series consists of short YouTube videos lasting about six minutes and each featuring something like 2-3 minutes of time in the fictional world. I found it hard to relate to the characters in this short format especially when you consider that only about four minutes and 30 seconds is the actual programming and the rest is just the intro and outro title sequences.
The first two episodes, "Driving Under" and "On Their Level", were released first, and these consist of what is essentially the first five minutes of the story. The second batch of episodes, 3-6, were released initially only to subscribers to the program's YouTube channel. A new episode is to be released every Wednesday.
Episode 1 is set "five minutes before it happened". We are introduced to the H+ Nano medical implant technology and HPlus Nano Teoranta the company that has developed it. The H+ interface is a sort of real time connected augmented reality system that employs a neural implant rather than glasses. The system creates a personal interface only the user can see and is controlled by hand movements. In addition, the system provides real-time monitoring and feedback of the user's own biological functions.
The first episode also introduces us to the concept of transhumansim, which in case you weren't aware is an "international movement that supports the transforming of the human body and thereby the human condition through advanced technologies".
Singer clearly lines the series up with the cyberpunk tradition, presenting a dystopian near future where tech stocks have tumbled, cybercrime is on the rise, and people are protesting being used in scientific experiments against their will despite the amazing technological advances.
Cut to a couple parking their car in an underground garage at the airport. The wife is interacting with her H+ system via her neural implant as they look for parking. The husband is covertly watching a sporting event via his interface, a fact that upsets his wife and causes an argument between them.
It is, of course, traditional for a geeky review of any new science fiction film or TV program to locate and dissect minute technical flaws in any science or technology described. This review will be no exception.
Not even five minutes in o the series and there is already some problematic stuff. In the H+ series future, we've got magical nanotech implants but the cars don't have autopilot. In fact any sort of AI, a central theme of modern transhumanism, seems to be entirely absent from this H+ world so far.
In reality the husband Lee would just switch on the car's autopilot and crack open a beer. Yes, in the future it will be legal to drink in a vehicle if you aren't driving and the cars will be designed such that they won't let you drive if you do drink.
The H+ implant itself is some sort of near magical nanotechnology allowing direct neural interface without invasive surgery. You simply inject this thing and you become connected to the global hive mind via a neural augmented reality interface. The notion is well beyond the current state of the art. Implantation for example with cochlear implants involves actually cutting open someone's head and wiring a jack into their skull.
More silliness, the neural interface requires you to move your hands and talk in order to use it. A direct neural interface of this sort will allow thought to be directly transformed into action. That is, you won't actually need to reach out and touch the imaginary interface, you will simply imagine touching it and the system will sense and respond to the pattern of activity in your brain. Imagine if everyone was waving their hands around in this way. Not only does this look ridiculous, people would slap each other in the face accidentally while using it.
Five minutes and six seconds in, something goes very wrong. People exiting the elevator start collapsing like ragdolls. Someone is running, a car crashes and then an out of control airplane smashes directly into the garage. It's The Event, a sort of digital viral apocalypse that is going to be the focus of the series.
It is good to get this sort of thing out of the way up front. Singer has an axe to grind. In this vision of H+, transhumanism is bad… really bad. In fact it is the cause of the collapse of civilization and the deaths of millions of people. We can't have something like direct universal access to the sum total of human knowledge turn out to be a good thing, now can we? It must be dangerous.
Episode 2 expands on the immediate after effects of The Event and introduces us to a few survivors including (naturally) a mysterious man who seems to know more than he should about what is happening.
Episode 3, "The Prophetess", is a flashback to seven years prior to The Event. We get to play voyeur on a first date that ends badly between Manta and Topi. For a minute I thought this was going to veer into WTF territory, but it turns out that Topi is some sort of future cop who is collecting information on Manta. Perhaps Manta is one of those cyber criminals we heard about in episode one? It's the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo moved to Finland. I wonder if they will include a tango.
Episode 4, "Airport Security", takes us back to the original timeline and group of survivors, to just 1 minute after The Event. Does anything really happen in this episode? It turns out that the mysterious stranger is (surprise) one of the developers of the H+ technology.
Episode 5, "A Large Family", is another flashback this time to just seven months before The Event. This seems like it will be a pivotal episode going forward. We meet Breanna, a high powered executive with H+ Nano and and her husband Connal. Breanna is set up to be the evil transhumanist bitch queen, but perhaps they will humanize her later. Or maybe not.
Breanna and her husband meet a young Indian woman Leena to arrange a surrogate pregnancy. But as part of the deal they want Leena implanted with H+ so she can be monitored until the birth. When things get complicated, Breanna ends the conversation and enters a teleconference via her H+ device. Connal and Leena leave to have a more human conversation. I am assuming the baby is modified in some way, possibly to include the H+ interface in the womb or perhaps it will be genetically enhanced in some other way.
Episode 6, "Voci Dal Sud," Voices from the South, takes us to Italy two years after The Event. Things have gone from bad to worse, and we're given a picture of a world in collapse with no access to modern medicine or doctors.
It will be interesting to see if there will be additional transhumanist elements beyond those included in the opening few episodes. Covered so far: neural implants, the hive mind and global 24/7 Internet connectivity, augmented reality, computer viruses, apocalypse or singularity — The Event.
Notably absent from the series so far is any appearance of Artificial Intelligence or General Artificial Intelligence, and, in particular, the favorite theme of transhumanists everywhere — the self improving superintelligent AI — is no where to be seen in H+. Ray Solomonoff must be rolling in his grave.
The short format is problematic. About 25-30% of each video is simply the title sequences, which I have now seen six times. This is too much and it is distracting. The total program length of all six videos so far is just about 30 minutes. As a result the majority of the characters haven't been developed and they are not relatable or interesting, at least not quite yet. I think a somewhat longer length for each program would work better.
Even so, the show is worth watching. The Event and the H+ device are an obvious analogy to our existing world of connected mobile devices, networked economic systems and eCommerce, real time social media, and so on. We don't have neural implants yet, but we're already susceptible to infectious viral agents passed by social media. The Event could happen to us.


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AOC 23" 1080p LED Monitor for $119.99 + $5.00 shipping
These little tiny armies are actually moving around and stuff.
Didnt they have these on the Woot-off like a couple hours ago?
That was a 20" and it wasn't 1080p
No Vesa mounts... just saying
I'd be curious to know if anyone has any experience with this model of monitor. The price is certainly nice for 23" 1080P (other models I've looked at went as high as $200), but the couple of AOC monitors at that size and aspect ratio on Amazon either have no reviews or a single negative review reporting it essentially DOA.
That says LCD, woot says LED, same model number though
20 reviews, 5 eggs
@davearnold731: I think the mount is on the bottom of the base.
I really want one of these, but my Samsung 2494SW monitor is still good.. only reason why I'd like this one is because it's white, LED and sleek.
Okay, can we not ever differentiate between LED and LCD, because the "LED" is just describing the backlight, not the display panel. LCD = Liquid Crystal Display, and when you're comparing them to another type, you're thinking plasma and OLED panels. LCDs are usually lit by CCFL (Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps) or LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes). LED lights up LCD, but could not replace LCD (unless you're talking a jumbotron at a sports stadium, where you're sitting about a billion feet away and can't tell the pixels are individual LEDs).
@mikeeyram: LCD is the technology used to form the pictures and words, LED is the type of lighting behind the LCD to make it glow. The older type of back-lighting is florescent which uses more energy, gets hotter, and usually doesn't last as long as LED.
Edit: I was beaten to it. Well I tried...
Don't get confused, all monitors are LCD - LED on the name is a sales and marketing tactic and nothing else. Although they can provide a more uniform picture(LED) brightness and color over traditional LCD that tends to seep a little more.
Or so I've been told.
Hey look two other people that replied essentially the same answer, derp!
Newegg has a 23" Asus LED monitor for $150 after MIR. For $25 more, I'd personally go with the Asus. AOC isn't a bad brand, but they're definitely a "budget brand," and usually Asus is just higher quality.
Plus, the Asus is new so you get a 3 yr warranty vs this 90 day warranty. The Asus also has a 2ms response time (difference between 5ms and 2ms is nothing though), and it has an HDMI input which I personally like. And the Asus has speakers, which is awesome because with HDMI, you can hook a console video game system up and get sound without any problems.
Can I hook my laptop up to this and watch DVDs?
This has Smart Wall Mount. To me VESA mount would be smart wall mount. This is, to my way of thinking, the opposite.
I saw the description and thought it was a black and white monitor... Sometimes I need one.
I bought two of this exact model on Moofi a month or two ago..
Let me just say it bluntly.
The reason why they were refurbished is easy to tell. The base is so thin from the stand and what attaches to the monitor that it is easy to snap off. One of the two I ordered sits at an unfix able pivot (a couple degrees from being perfectly horizontal), and they are so ridiculously wobbly I am afraid to even move them..
While the picture isn't bad, I would personally have gotten something with a decent warranty, because one bad bump, or move, and these things are toast..
Oh, and the VESA mounting and ports are in the STAND. which you have to awkwardly fold up for you to use.. (if you want to mount) And the same monitor that has the unfixable pivot I CANNOT UNLOCK THE BASE to fold it up, it's just broken. So it's permanently locked in its stand. If I didn't live overseas I would have instantly returned them because they are not built to last, at all.
@bmason3604: You can get the same monitor from amazon for cheaper then newegg after all the taxes newegg adds.
I got three of these for my office when they were up a few months ago. I think they are great. The picture is teriffic and they must weigh half as much as the smaller LCD monitors they replaced. The people who actually use these on a daily basis also think they're great (and we all love things that are great). Because of the short warranty, I wanted to put them in use immediately to give them a chance to fail--all of them worked flawlessly. One of my better purchases.
No comments about the only DVI and VGA? Cause for me, that's kind of a deal breaker.
The connectors are at the back of the base. When something is plugged into them, the whole unit has to be a couple inches forward so there is space for those cables. This would not work well for me the way my desk at work is arranged. Wouldn't be a problem at home.
This is a personal preference, but I like to have the power supplies built into the monitor, not as a separate brick.
Since the power supply is separate, it means the rest of the unit is lighter, so they could use a less robust stand. Many reviews say that they went overboard, and the stand is too wimpy.
Most reviews say the screen part works just fine. This may be the cheapest way to get a reasonable 1080P 23 inch LED back lit screen (this week), if you think you can tolerate the stand. I don't think I can tolerate the stand, so I will sit this deal out.
Note: I have a slightly older monitor, same brand, also 1080P, but smaller screen, with built in power supply, different base. I'm happy with that.
@thirstybob: you don't need hdmi, it doesn't have speakers.
I wouldn't buy an AOC monitor for $5. Had two, they were both terrible and died shortly after the warranty period. We got a bunch at work and people hated them so much the company replaced them all - the whole batch - within a year with Dells. No complaints since.
Still groovin' with the beautiful 27" famous maker I got off woot 6 months ago. I'd probably go with one of the Asus on newegg sale like someone else said over this one. Also No vesa mounts? that's whack. Gotta mount my monitor to the wall, I like having a clean desktop
i bought 3 of the smaller ones they had a few weeks ago. they are not the greatest monitors, far from it. but i needed a triple monitor setup and the price was right. one of these days i might get better ones, like some nice samsungs. the colors are off between the three monitors. and the stand is super flimsy. almost broke one just setting it up. and they dont seem to sit at the same heights. pretty sure its not my desk either. i am seriously thinking about removing the stand and base and replacing it with my own custom made ones.
@davearnold731: Thank you! I was about to pull the trigger on 2 of these until I read your post. Saved me a LOT of trouble.
We bought three of these from Moofi for our office a few months back.
Honestly: we're pretty happy with them.
The display is very clear; colors aren't bad; nice, crisp text; takes up a lot less desk than the old CRTs and older non-LED-backlit 19" LCDs we had.
The base, yes, is a bad design. There are VESA-pattern holes on the bottom of it, but the hinge/arm just isn't stable enough to make it a usable feature (plus, the monitor sits up VERY high since most VESA-mount stands assume a mount point roughly in the center of the display).
Would I buy them again? At that price: yes - the 3 we got work beautifully.
Would I buy them if I wanted to use the VESA mount as designed: NO.
Do I think you could get creative with some sheet metal and some industrial velcro and make a VESA-mount work by force? Heck yeah - the monitor doesn't weigh hardly anything and 3M's industrial mushroom-head velcro rocks.
I have an AOC and am very pleased with it. Have had it for about a year. I'm actually getting a little bit of screen flicker for about 5 seconds after I change video modes, but it is functioning fine beyond that.
FABULOUS deal for the price.
@davearnold731: There ARE VESA-compliant holes on the bottom of the base, so your comment is incorrect.
...however, due to the rather weak design of the hinge/armature they're not super useful.
@malkav11: I have this exact monitor and it's worked great for me. I actually also have another smaller AOC as my second monitor.
Just to reinforce what others have said: there IS such a thing as an LED display panel, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT THESE ARE.
These are LCD panels with LED back-lighting.
Downvoting ONLY because the world needs to rise up and protest until this deceptive marketing practice is wiped from the face of the Earth!
Picked up a couple from Best Buys' daily deal for 109$, just got em today. Large, cheap, no dead pixels. Only complaint is that it can't be wall-mounted, but I knew that going in.
I bought one of these a month ago and had problems from the start. First the transformer did not power on. The custormer service was great from their end, I got a new transformer. During that week the sensor was having issues and it kept acting like I was touching the base to adjust the screen. It is really hard to work with an adjustment box popping up in the middle of the screen. I tried getting a replacement from AOC but they would only repair not replace. I just feared the same problem would happen again and didn't have 2 weeks to wait for repair. Woot took it back no problems. Thanks Woot for allowing me to buy without worry!!


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A Baltimore man faces up to five years in federal prison and millions of dollars in fines after pleading guilty Monday to distributing 1,000 copyrighted software programs, federal officials announced.
In the plea agreement, Naveed Sheikh admitted conspiring to distribute more than 1,000 copies of software like Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, Quicken and various operating systems using several websites, server space in Scranton, PA and at a Bel Air home between February 2003 and April 2008.
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$4,000,000!?!?! How much was he making doing this?!?
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That's crazy. With his "business expertise," couldn't he have created a website selling legitimate software and avoided this entire lawsuit?
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that's too bad.
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Historically speaking, have you ever noticed that on some games, the reviewer consensus is much higher than the player consensus? And other times, the reviewer consensus is much lower than the player consensus. What do you think causes this?
Square really has declined in quality since the merger. Then again, most Japanese companies have really declined. Even Capcom has in my eyes, though I've heard good about DR2.
I was going to write a post just like this, but i dont have to.
Probably beating a dead horse here, but there has been discussions and issues for years surrounding these beta's, and what it means to be in a beta and players using them to test the game. I admit, I am trying out the game too but I can ignore things that are prone in betas like falling through the world, crashing (crashed a couple times in FFXIV myself), and sometimes missing features though it sounds like all those missing features in beta were still missing on release. Still, SE throws out a beta, doesn't given English speaking players a forum or any means to whatsoever to provide feedback and still call it a beta. There was no way that game was going to change the way it needed to be changed when they only took the feedback from FFXI fans who got in on the beta early and worship the ground SE stands on.
While I don't necesarily think that many of the things you talk about Civ 5 are as big a deal as your making them out to be (other then the AI, which is a big deal but many people don't care about AI as can be seen by the love for MoM or MoO 2) I do agree with your general point that reviewers often don't get that deep into a game before they give it a good review. The most infamous example of that might be Black and White, a game that was released to much hype where you played a god raising a giant pet who helped you rule your kingdom, kind of part god game, part pet game. The first few hours of the game were incredibly interesting and original so initial reviews were glowing. At least a few reviewers were later forced to apologize for their A+ score when they realized that the game wasn't very deep, had poorly designed mechanics, and got boring pretty quickly once you got past all the cool stuff.
Most of the time though you don't get to see apologies for overhyped games, people just disagree and move on.
I'd always put more weight with player reviews, since people generally buy the type of games they like (i.e. TB strategy game lovers will buy TBS games, FPS shooter lovers will buy shooter type games, etc), and give more accurate (practical) info about the game itself. Whereas, formal reviewers are more than likely "paid professionals" who are likely just looking to rate the game by rankings as to certain categories of which the categories are themselves weighted. For example, "reviewers" probably over-rank or over-weight "graphics" as to TB games which, frankly, are not as important to TB type games, and should probably be 4th or 5th as far as weighted categories. In any TB game the AI should always be #1. Graphics would be more important in a FPS game.
Also, I wouldn't be surprised if larger, well known companies, put more pressure on or "lean on" reviewers more than smaller indy companies do. A reviewer would likely be afraid of the 900 pound gorilla but not the 90 pound weakling in the room. So, "politics" most likely plays a part in "paid reviewer" ratings.
Game reviewing is much like other media. They crave access. They crave dev interviews before release. They crave priority notice on what's going on. They crave early preview builds, exclusive interviews, and all that stuff.
Sure, they can just report what is out there....but that's not what media perceives as a competitive edge.
At best, gaming media tones down the criticism where a fan would call it like they see it. (And probably exaggerate a great deal.)
At worst, gaming media speaks highly of average quality and treats serious short comings as minor failures.
Fans have the luxury of being as negative, judgmental, honest, ect.... as they want. People in the business world, be they developers or gaming journalists, have to deal with reality as much as they would like to otherwise.
So I generally use gaming reviews as news announcements, because someone gets paid to spend all their time on the internet seeing what's out there, that I don't necessarily have the time or desire to spend doing. In that sense, they're helpful. They're also more condensed than player reviews by far, and are generally in the ball park of what fans are thinking about a product.
So that's what I use them for; to gauge whether or not I should even get interested. Then I go to player reviews to decide if I want to buy.
It's hard to take the 'professional' reviewers seriously these days when the average score of games seems to be an 8. It's very rare to see anything score lower than a 6.5 or so. It's gone on for so long like this that most people just mentally subtract 2 or 3 points from any professional review score to get the real rating. They're obviously not allowed to rate games any lower for fear of the publisher pulling advertising in retaliation. I generally wait a week or two on any game these days and look at the Gamefaqs user reviews to get a better idea of how good the game actually is. As others have mentioned in the thread, user reviews are generally written by people who really wanted to play the game and will not hesitate to trash a game if it was really disappointing. Official forums for a particular game are a good way to evaluate games as well. If there are huge threads complaining about serious issues, it might be a good idea to wait a few months for a patch before you spend any money on it. I was saved from buying Master of Orion 3 by doing this.
The exception here is Metacritic user reviews, which has become little more than a popularity poll due to lack of quality control. It's to the point where anyone citing Metacritic user reviews as a valid game measurement should be shot.
What do you mean, "wouldn't be surprised?" It's been flat out proven that these 'professional' review sites will bend over if the publisher leans on them. Gamespot fired a reviewer after he gave a game that had been heavily advertised on the site (Kane and Lynch) a bad review. While they claimed it was due to other reasons, they accidentally admitted the publisher had 'called them' immediately after the review went live. It's really no secret what the conversation was about. Around the same time, Gamespy posted a review from a freelance writer for some 1st party Nintendo game that gave it a 1.5/5 or such. Within a couple hours, the review had been pulled, rewritten, and reposted with a new score of 4/5. It was so blatant Penny-Arcade did a comic mocking them.
I've pretty much stopped reading written reviews in favor of Gametrailers' video reviews. They tend to lean more towards console games, and they don't do as many reviews total because they're exclusively video, but they do get the "big name" PC games in there. Their scoring system ends up with the same kinds of quirks as most others', where they might sound like they're slamming the game but it ends up getting a fairly high overall score, but overall they aren't afraid to point out game faults and actually show them to you in the video. As Tridus pointed out, in the case of Civ5 nobody really got "great" at the game to start seeing scaling issues and AI flaws, but it wasn't a willful act of deception on the part of the reviewers, it's just how the system is set up.
The important thing for me is not the overall point score. I look at how much I like the genre and what it's supposed to be, and how well the game implements it. As an example, let's take Alpha Protocol. It was always supposed to be a stat-based shooter, like Deus Ex of Old. You can aim, but your accuracy is greatly determined by how many points you invest into that particular weapon skill. This was never a secret during the game's development, yet it got slammed for it in reviews because games aren't made like this anymore and everyone wants the ME2 treatment (not that there's anything wrong with how ME2 did it). That part of the reviews I basically ignored - I knew what I was getting into and I like that system, so it didn't bother me. In fact, I feel that Alpha Protocol captured the feel of the original Deus Ex quite well, but for a lot of people nostalgia is always deceptively more positive and even though lots of people loved Deus Ex, they hated Alphas Protocol using the same system.
Eh. In Elemental's case, the popular opinion preceded the reviewers opinion. And Elemental was one game I immediately sunk 8 hours into because of things like needing to see the tech and adventure trees maxed out to appreciate everything....So while I know this will be an unpopular opinion, the reviews on Elemental were (generally) on point...even if some reviews went a little farther than just reviewing in the course of being negative.
This is stupid. Assassin's Creed 2 is almost masterpiece in gaming's world. But these kids with unknown stupid principles rate this game very low. That's why I don't trust any reviews.
It's stupid to claim its just kids. Besides, after Spore, I support any reviewers who want to ding a game because of it's DRM so long as they are clear about it.
AC2 is a great game, almost a masterpiece. But the DRM Ubi foisted on legitimate users totally deserved to bring down the game's overall score. You can't separate the game from the DRM when the DRM prevents legitimate users from playing. Ubi earned every lost point AC2 suffered for that decision.
I've played ACII a lot and this DRM hasn't been preventing from playing the game. I've had more problems with SecuROM in GTA IV.
Eh, Elemental pretty much deserved to get slammed by early reviews. Yes, the game will be patched into shape one day. But the fact remains that anyone who bought it day 1 got an early beta clearly rushed out in response to Civ5. All they accomplished was making Civ5 look better while damaging Stardock's reputation. There are many great games out there that started out rough, but why should they get a free pass if you're spending $60 to beta test? Everything I've heard about FF14 screams 'PC gamers are paying to beta test for the PS3 release'. This is wrong, and the more really bad reviews it gets hopefully the more people avoid the game like the plague.
As for DRM and user reviews I agree giving the game a 0/10 or something is childish. However dinging the review a point or two because of terrible DRM (which as Nenjin said is part of game package, like it or not) is completely within reason. Half-Life 2 may have been considered one of, if not THE best, FPS' of all time but I will never forgive the outrageous hoops you had to jump through just to install and play the game. A friend of mine with dial-up at the time took 4 hours to install it! 4! Hours! Valve lost a customer for life because of that, and reviews should be allowed to reflect this regardless of how good the actual gameplay is.
I think it only makes sense for DRM to influence a game's point value if it affects the actual playing of said game. For example, Ubi's always-on connection requirement for Assassin's Creed 2, where if you lose connection you get dropped from the game and have to resume from a previous checkpoint is obviously an issue where I can see the game's score being dinged because the DRM is integrated into the actual gameplay and can easily affect enjoyment/progress.
On the other hand, your example with Steam and HL2 sucks, but ultimately it doesn't impact playing the actual game (once you go through the hoops once on install, you're good to go). In this case I can't see how dinging the game points is really justified, especially for largely temporary issues like the auth servers being slow on Day-1.
I would certainly like for reviewers to mention a game's protection scheme and if they experienced any issues in getting the game installed and running, but I do believe the game review should actually be about the game, not its protection scheme. If the scheme interfered with gameplay (again, as in Assassin's Creed 2 example), then it's fair game to ding points. Otherwise, any initial installation issues should be mentioned, but not impact the ultimate review point score.
Were you there for release? People were locked out of AC2 for several hours at a time because of release and server wonkiness, and some can still be for one reason or another. Ironically, as I was typing my previous post, MY INTERNET cut out. It likes to do that about, oh, once a day. DRM schemes that require an active connection are a real annoyance for me.
It's a bizarre world we live in now, as gamers, where we have to accept the same kind of a release day insanity for a popular SP game as we do a MP game. I'm not even talking the slowdown of digital installs. Just the damn networking that now is a mandatory part of ANY game in the AAA market.
So yeah. I feel people have every right to factor the mandatory BS we have no choice about into their opinion of a game. Particularly when it stops them from even playing, or screws up their play experience. If devs and publishers can lay off their teams, push stuff out faster and less polished and use the crappy economy to justify it, we should be able to use the same rational on our side, who have to shell out $50-$60. It's the only legitimate response gamers have, unless they want to start pirating, which most don't. Ironically though, pirated versions gracefully do what most legitimate gamers want; simply remove all the BS annoyances.
Like I said, it's a bizarre world we live in.
EDIT: After reading the original question again, I realized my answer was commenting on the overall thread without answering the original question.
1. I think professional reviewers are affected by advertising and are also trying to make an educated guess as to how well a game will be received based on graphics, sound / voice-over quality, technical issues, and a set of criteria by which they compare games. User reviews are based purely off of how "fun" the game is to the user and how well it meets their expectations of what the game "should be".
2. Users play the games a lot more in depth and either find them to have a magical "fun factor" despite other flaws, or they find the games "just don't work" despite being very high in quality. These factors make them shift their reviews higher or lower than what a professional reviewer might find who may not truly know the genre.
As far as professional reviews go, I only look at them because they often have a comprehensive breakdown of features and gameplay that a user review might not have. They are good for a quick guideline. I don't read as much into the actual review because the bigger a website / company gets, the more they are affected by advertising dollars, especially around the big name titles.
User reviews are usually a better indicator of game quality, but the caveat is you have to actually read through some of the reviews and make sure the people writing it have the same sensibilities as you. There are so many different types of gamers, so while many may not like a particular strategy game, the only reviews that really matter to you are the ones who like the same kind of things as you. Spore is a good example, the game was dumbed down to have broad appeal. A lot of casual gamers really loved the game for what it was, and a lot of hard core strategy people hated it for what it could have been.
Perception and expectations are another factor. Advertising dollars also play a lot into this....they can build excitement in a product that can translate into good satisfied reviews, or negatively with shattered expectations. I think Civ 5 is getting some of the latter right now, though Firaxis will probably improve the product in an expansion to get it back up to the Civ 4 level of quality.
As far as Elemental goes, I was really disappointed, but I have tremendous faith in Stardock to improve the game, not to mention the Stardock community to make some awesome mods for it eventually.
I don't pay much heed to reviews not in print. I read the Game Informer magazine from GameStop and 360 magazine. I only like a few genres anyway, RPG & TBS. I don't buy something with a low score 6 or below.
Now when it comes to reading reviews from users about say buying Electronics(sites like newegg and amazon). I do take their advice.
Regarding user reviews objectivity, was reading one site recently and saw some 0/10 reviews for E:WoM based on accusations that Brad and his team have right wing political views. Now THATS a way to judge the game
I've found that customer reviews of a product are invaluable,while "official" reviews are totally worthless and not really different from adverts.This goes across the board, not just computer games.
"Regarding user reviews objectivity, was reading one site recently and saw some 0/10 reviews for E:WoM based on accusations that Brad and his team have right wing political views. Now THATS a way to judge the game"
And don't forget the PC Gamer fiasco where a bad review of Elemental was sensationalized by quoting Brad out of context.
Could it just be that for the types of games we are interested in it is the strategic depth and replayablity that we value highest, which is the exact thing that it is difficult to determine after testing the game for however long they are given. That can only be found out after a few hundred hours of play time.
That is also probably why everything is 3d and super graphics as that is easy to see and review rather than concentrating on the gameplay.
customer reviews are worthless because randoms are morons and usually incapable of stringing coherent sentences together. i try and read all reviews that are released for a title im interested in, and im yet to experience this fictitious bribery of professionals. taken as a whole, they are more or less on the money with their praise or criticisim when i finally get to play the title myself.
On another note, some people worry far too much about the score and not the actual review. As many have pointed out, there are a LOT of professional reviews that mostly trash the game but then give the game an 8/10 or something. This to me is the writer desperately trying to tell the audience that they WANTED to give the game a 4 or 5 but company policy won't let them. It happens with user reviews and fanboyism as well; reviews that admit there are far more cons than pros, yet because it's part of a beloved franchise it somehow gets a 7 or 8. Huh? 8? Didn't you just spend three paragraphs telling me how much it sucked?
In a way, I wish they'd remove score summaries entirely so people would actually have to read it.


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Funeral services were held Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, at Wilkesboro Baptist Church with the Rev. Byron Greene and the Rev. Alfred E. Andrews Jr. officiating. Burial was in Mountlawn Memorial Park. The family received at Wilkesboro Baptist Church Fellowship Hall prior to the service.
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