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Re: AoC Character Art, etc
on: July 20, 2008, 01:38:17 AM
Not the greatest helm ever, but I was just glad to finally see a different kind of color scheme/texture on it. It's from about an L71 quest in Atzel involving a big Ape.
While I'd like to see more variety in armor of all types, I think just varying the color schemes and textures a little bit more often would do a lot to help differentiate the look of players in the game. Maybe as a stopgap measure until an expansion does a more wholesale improvement in actual armor type variety.
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Re: AoC Patch Notes July 17
on: July 19, 2008, 10:37:38 PM
Oh, in case anyone missed these 'qualify of life' improvements in the notes:
We have added more travel NPCs to the capital cities that
allow travel to more locations in the game world
. [NOTE: This is a great addition. It's *not* more "Wayfarers." What they mean is that if you click on a "Wagoneer" or a "Ship captain," you (at least in some areas) will now get a menu of various locations in that region (Stygia or Cimmeria), and the travel NPC will zip you directly to the map (Field of Dead, Atzel's Approach, Eiglophian Mountains etc.) with a click. Definitely reduces a lot of unnecessary hoofing/horseback riding once you realize the feature is there. -BJ
-The price of the basic mounts has been reduced from 2 gold to 75 silver.
The price of additional bags has been reduced by between 20% and 50%
-It should no longer be possible to accidentally sell your mount
A teleport item, the Totem of Origins is now dropping from boss encounters in group instances
. You will be able to acquire it from locations throughout the game starting in the Black Castle. This totem teleports y ou to your home city once a day (i.e., 24 hours cooldown time), and can be used in addition to your path of Asura.
This was the perk in the last issue of PC Gamer. So by popular demand, they're making it available as a loot drop.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: (Hellgate: London) Who's in?
on: July 19, 2008, 05:06:24 PM
Ha. Now they say the forums aren't going down just yet afterall.
I am happy to announce that the forums will not be going down tonight.
Re: First review of 'The Dark Knight'
on: July 19, 2008, 05:04:38 PM
If she's squeamish about violence (even implied), then she may be like my sister-in-law who walked out during the Afghanistan "hot poker" sequence in Iron Man (even though she also loved Die Hard 2 almost 20 years, ago, which includes a scene of Bruce Williis driving an icicle though a bad guy's eyeball, graphically
) There are a lot of tough-to-watch scenes in this but imho Nolan's pretty much a master about making you think you've seen more violence than was actually shown on screen.
My hope is she would get so ensconsced in the settings, characters and storylines, that she'll get wrapped up in it and won't ruin it for you at all. I hope she's able to enjoy it.
My retired mom wants to see it, based on the trailers. She had watched Batman Begins on cable a couple times recently, so I think she's "ready" for it.
Multiplayer Madness (MMO or otherwise)
Re: AoC Patch Notes July 17
on: July 18, 2008, 07:00:30 PM
Here's a few pics of the "quality of life" improvements:
Emotes GUI
You can right click any of the icons for a list of emotes in that category, and then just choose one; or you can use a drop down menu at the bottom of it. You can leave the emotes GUI on in a corner somewhere or just enable it when you want it.
Tabbed contacts list.
I think maybe I'm running into the "dark color text" problem here. The new checkboxes for inventory seem to toggle on/off items you can't equip or use from the inventory list.
I'd still like the option LOTORO has to simply "lock" an item in inventory so you don't worry about accidentally selling it, and having to fetch it back from a merchant when you realize it.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: (Hellgate: London) Who's in?
on: July 18, 2008, 05:06:42 PM
Flagship (well, a Ping0 employee I guess, technically) is closing The Hellgate (and Mythos) forums at midnight tonight, so presumably Hellgate's servers are also getting unplugged (if not tonight, at some point):
[presumably this link won't work after midnight tonight, Friday]
Quote from: Tiggs, Ping0 rep
On Friday, July 18th at 11:59 PM(CST) the forums will be shutting down. We would like to thank everyone for being a part of this wonderful community and we hope to see you all again soon.
I always though a dev that did so many things wrong that an "anti-fan site" (Flagshipped) would never run out of material to write about, was a bad sign.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Flagship Disintegrating? - closing Hellgate/Mythos forums
on: July 18, 2008, 04:56:19 PM
Flagship (what's left of it) is closing down both the Hellgate and Mythos official forums at the end of the day today (most of the forum sections have already been removed):
[referring to Blues News item since, well, there'll be no board links working after midnight tonight]
On Friday, July 18th at 11:59 PM(CST) the forums will be shutting down. We would like to thank everyone for being a part of this wonderful community and we hope to see you all again soon.
I don't know what the "soon" means other than that Travis (the Mythos/Fate designer) talked about trying to keep his team together, presumably to work on something else.
I gotta assume the Hellgate and Mythos servers will shut down shortly too, if they haven't already. Talk about a fast exit!
I feel bad for the few "lifetime subscribers" in particular. The TOS spells out what you're getting into of course (I don't think players will have any case for a class action suit). But with LOTORO, lifetime was probably a fine deal and that game seems like it'll have a looong life ahead of this -- with this, well, it's really unfair.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Forget Diablo III, Dragon Age is coming.
on: July 18, 2008, 03:54:37 PM
Penny Arcade mentioned Tiscali's video of that same-as-Shack's gameplay footage, but it is larger so I thought it was worth sharing:
Re: First review of 'The Dark Knight'
on: July 18, 2008, 03:45:27 PM
Now that I'm not delirious from lack of sleep:
-I think the ending is perfect and poetic.
And dammit I wish I could say more but even if I used the Spoiler code, I would feel bad so I won't. It did keep reminding me of - not a Batman comic - but a novel I loved that ended almost, sort of in a similar way.
-They opened the theaters earlier than usual so people seemed to be getting seated a little after 11 p.m. or so. I got in around 11:20. The problem when you go to a flick that early by yourself is just what the hell to do with yourself? (I don't have a fancy cellphone). I brought the newspaper but the lights were too dim to read.
-There were quite a few men and women wearing Batman or Batgirl outfits. There was a guy in the front row who seemed to be struggling a bit with pulling his "Batman ears" on his costume low so they wouldn't obstruct audience views.
-Very quiet, absorbed audience. If I had concerns about people talking, or kicking my seat, there was none of that.
-I had a hot dog, a medium Diet Coke and a large bag of Twizzlers. That proved plenty to get me from about 11:20 to 2:45. Ohmigod, I haven't eaten Twizzlers in years. If I ever read the ingredients, I'll never eat them again.
-I hadn't seen the "Watchmen" trailer on yet. Visually very impressive. I don't think most of the Audience had heard of mid 1980s graphic novel.
-Audience was pretty gripped by the new trailer for the Keanu Reeves sci-fi movie remake, "The Day the Earth Stood Still." Apparently he's Klaatu. Most of the special effects are, well, of some giant Alien spaceship obliterating the entire earth. I assume though he's just trying to "show" the planet what will happen to it if we don't change our violent ways.
Re: We are in this generation... WATCHMEN on the walls of world freedom...
on: July 18, 2008, 03:30:44 PM
Apparently Alan Moore is also into "Duck Porn," which doesn't surprise me. Anyone who writes the kind of graphic novels he does must be seriously, wonderfully warped in general.
Re: We are in this generation... WATCHMEN on the walls of world freedom...
on: July 18, 2008, 03:07:36 PM
The Watchmen trailer was the first one showed before The Dark Knight at the midnight show I went to last night. While I'm excited about it -- I was really into comics collecting in the mid-late 1980s, and Watchmen was all the buzz -- I think the challenge is getting non-comics aficionados to understand what the story is and movie is. The graphic novel's more than 20 years old and while it continues to sell (you can probably still find it at your local Borders today), younger folks today probably have little awareness today of what it was and the very adult themes Alan Moore was trying to tackle. I heard much "What's Watchmen? I never heard of it" while the trailer played.
The sad thing about Moore is he's basically now disgusted with the whole mainstream comics industry (and as folks said League was awful, and he's apparently still upset about that).
And while his resonating work is really helping drive today's comic book films (see his The Killing Joke's often nasty take on The Joker, and Watchmen, and the mostly terrible adaptation of his League of Extraorindary Gentlemen), he has sounded downright hostile in attemped interviews with him about Watchmen.
From what I could see in the trailer in theaters, Snyder's being true to Watchmen and isn't watering it down into a lame-brained Fantastic Four type flick. I'm sure Warners/Paramount (it's a joint production) want to see a PG-13 rating, but the source material is so adult in nature, that might be hard to pull off (even more so than The Dark Knight).
I think if TDK pushes the envelope of what audiences can expect from a comic book movie, Watchmen will push it even further, esp. if it end up getting an R-rating.
Don't know if anyone noticed, but the co-screenplay-writer is David Hayter, better known as the voice of Snake in the Metal Gear games. They should let him do some sort of voiceover for the movie.
Multiplayer Madness (MMO or otherwise)
Re: Bioware KOTOR MMO "confirmed"
on: July 18, 2008, 08:04:07 AM
The sort-of-story is based on an EA CEO babbling at E3 (perhaps after lunch martinis?), and it sounds like he's so impressed with himself ("Yeah we wanted to buy WoW!") that he can talk about anything he wants. I wouldn't be surprised if the Bioware guys were upset about him mouthing off out of turn. Presumably they want to do a formal announcement of their own, and they're trying hard to hype up Dragon Age: Origins.
There have been so many bad and/or unmemorable games with the Star Wars label plastered on it that I've grown pretty cynical about it. Yes it's exciting to have Bioware involved, but given they have no track record in MMOs to this point (though you could say the same about Blizzard pre-WoW certainly), and EA has little track record aside from canceled MMOs and now jettisoning features from Warhammer Online, that might explain why folks aren't quite as hyped up as Mr. EA Exec might want us to be.
Multiplayer Madness (MMO or otherwise)
Re: AoC Patch Notes July 17
on: July 18, 2008, 07:52:10 AM
They hotfixed the two most critical new bugs introduced, already today:
We are bringing down the live servers for a small update to address a couple of important issues that have cropped up in today's update. We felt these were important to address before the weekend so that it didn't effect people's weekend play. The following issues have been resolved:
* Players would appear invisible on occasion
* Certain actions would still fire their effect but not trigger the correct cool-down if interrupted¨
Re: First review of 'The Dark Knight'
on: July 18, 2008, 07:35:15 AM
I just got back from seeing TDK at an AMC theater complex in Virginia. Crazy. They sold out 5 midnight shows, so apparently just today they started adding 3 a.m. shows and I did see a que forming up as I left the theater. Fer crying out loud people, get some sleep!
A few quick thoughts (and I won't spoil anything, the plot has so much you really should stop reading reviews at this point to avoid spoiling the various developments):
* I thought it was awesome, and the cast was tremendous. That said, I really had more "fun" with Iron Man and the Indiana Jones movies earlier. That doesn't make them better in my eyes, just different.
The Dark Knight touches on themes those movies couldn't hope to even think about. But I guess it comes down to whether you want a tough, often grisly summer movie that pulls no punches, avoids easy answers, puts all of its characters through the wringer, and tries to make you forget that it's a comic book movie at all... or if you just want a fun movie that sends you out the door feeling happier than when you went in. Iron Man and Indy were more the latter for me, fwiw. I was both gripped by TDK all the way, and unsure that I could sit through the movie a second time. It's a tough, tough, tough movie -- and I think a lot of the writers of the edgier Batman graphic novels and storylines would heartily approve. It's almost like an uncompromising arthouse-film take on Batman.
* Certainly not all the critics agree with me, but I just felt like every cast member (including Eckhardt, who some reviewers are decrying as the movie's too-vanilla weak spot) inhabited their roles so thoroughly that I just got completely immersed and didn't really see the actors anymore. Just saw their characters. I love that.
* Ledger's every bit as electrifying as everyone is saying. Nolan likes to really stick the camera in people's faces (which makes his flicks work really well on DVD/TV imho)
* Unless you include Sin City, it "felt" like the most violent comic book movie I ever saw (stabbings, bombings, shootings, etc. etc.), but must of it occurs off screen. Still, do not take a kid to it unless you want said kid to have nightmares. I know my squeamish sister-in-law would probably walk out during the Joker's debut scenes. That said, I can see how it got a PG-13 rating because there's no cussing whatsoever, obviously no nudity, and most of the more grisly violence occurs off screen or through quick takes.
* I really do dig Nolan's emphasis on real stunts and explosions (there's very little CGI to speak of).
* It's kind of a shame they put the "dedicated to Heath Ledger and Conway Wickliffe" (killed while trying to help film a driving sequence for the movie) so far back in the credits, that most of the audience is gone by the time it appears.
I don't know if I can say much more without veering into spoilers. I heard nobody saying anything negative while I left fwiw. A few "awesomes" and a couple guys disagreeing over whether they were "blown away by it" or not.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Flagship Disintegrating?
on: July 17, 2008, 09:53:16 PM
Apparently Handbitsoft is pretty much stomping on Flagship's rep (management/founders) in the Korean trade publications:
HanbitSoft does not expect to have any difficulty in securing the exclusive intellectual property rights related to Mythos. HanbitSoft is prepared to deal with Comerica bank in a local visit [Comerica's in Dallas, Texas] to them next week in order to secure and acquire the intellectual property rights of Hellgate: London. HanbitSoft believes that the game has nothing to do with the aforementioned bank as HanbitSoft already holds the rights to the game in Asia. HanbitSoft believes it has a strong possibility of acquiring the intellectual property of Hellgate: London in the United States and the rest of the world.
Flagship's side so far seems to be along the lines of, "We've fired everybody but us, but we own the IPs lock, stock and barrel."
Although I can't help thinking that some of this is getting poorly translated into English.
I'm trying to dig up something fresh (OK, it's old crap, long forgotten
). Who knows? Maybe all the gaming news aggregators will frantically quote the Gaming Trend forums if I find something juicy enough.
Unless you're a biz news geek, the below shall bore you. You've been warned.
Bandied about in the various reports is Comerica. Flagship outlined Comerica's financing involvment back in March:
March 26, 2008 - Flagship Studios, the San Francisco-based creator of both Hellgate: London and Mythos for PC, and
Comerica Bank, a Texas-based regional bank
, today announced that they have closed an innovative finance transaction to support Flagship's continuing development of AAA and online game franchises.
Using an independent film financing model as its basis,
Comerica Bank has created a multi-million dollar facility [Definition: A term used to describe financial assistance programs offered by lending institutions to help companies requiring capital-BJ] backed by the sale and distribution rights to Flagship's game franchise Hellgate: London
"By following a model similar to independent film financing, we are able to directly finance ongoing content for our online games
without relying upon a publisher's investment
," said Steve Goldstein, Director of Business Development and General Counsel, Flagship Studios. "As the PC game business makes the transition from the boxed retail model to the online model, alternative financing will become a cornerstone of expanding the industry."
"We are pleased that Comerica Bank could build on our expertise in financing films to help meet the financial needs of Flagship Studios," said Jeff Colvin, Senior Vice President with Comerica Bank, from its Entertainment Group offices in Century City.
Jeff Colvin and Todd Steiner structured the transaction on behalf of Comerica. Joshua Grode and Sam Kozhaya of Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif, LLP led the legal team on behalf of Comerica. Andrew Katz of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, LLP represented Flagship Studios in the transaction.
People lauded the deal at the time (big game publishers being nasty and all that), but you have to wonder about how patient a bank with no involvement in games at all would have in this situation. They've effectively sank millions of dollars (if I read it right, although maybe they meant millions in the long term) into a dead game and product at this point.
Presumably Flagship saw the Comerica investment as a lifeline of sorts to let them continue updating Hellgate and proceed with Mythos.
If I was a gaming news reporter type, I'd call Comerica's press contacts:
And probably they'd say, "No comment!" or "What the hell is Hellgate: London?" But at least you'd have that much. Sometimes silence speaks volumes.
SEC Filings
Alas, from what I can tell, Flagship's a private company and I haven't found any public filings of note yet. I did find an interesting SEC filing from a Taiwan company called Gigamedia (from Dec. 2006), that was to "offer and operate" Hellgate in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau:
GigaMedia will operate Hellgate: London® in partnership with Cyber Gateway Limited, a leading regional online game operator, pursuant to a strategic joint venture in which GigaMedia holds a 70 percent interest, and Cyber Gateway 30 percent.
For the three-year exclusive operating license, the joint venture will pay an aggregate licensing fee and minimum guarantee of US$9 million
Well, obviously they're not going to get 3 years out of it. I guess the question will be whether their J.V. is going to sue Flagship to get the remainder of the contract back ("guaranteed" or not). If Flagship has a lot of deals like this around the world, their lawyers will be under siege (unless maybe the deals were actually with publisher Namco, or with EA).
GigaMedia has a similar deal concerning Warhammer Online too.
Re: First review of 'The Dark Knight'
on: July 17, 2008, 08:27:26 PM
Woah! After reading the observations here, I checked the theaters where I'm going tonight and they too have 5
midnight shows for The Dark Knight now. Oh well, at least I won't be alone when I walk to my car afterwards.
Multiplayer Madness (MMO or otherwise)
Re: AoC Patch Notes July 17
on: July 17, 2008, 06:36:05 PM
Dev rep's update is that they are "feverishly" working on the "invisible players/enemies bug," and want to get a hotfix out. But the problem isn't proving easy to produce (which is probably why it didn't get weeded out on the test server):
Just wanted to update you with fresh information:
Devs are currently working feverish on the "invisble people" problem and as soon as they are able to fix it they will do so asap.
The problem at the moment is that this bug sometimes seem to be kind of random and that it is not reproducible, so that it is a little bit tricky to isolate the core of the problem.
Re: First review of 'The Dark Knight'
on: July 17, 2008, 06:24:45 PM
I had lunch with an old work friend in D.C. today and now I'm back home. I have to figure out how to waste the next 10 hours or so before heading to my midnight show. Maybe I should go buy a costume?
I have to steel myself to sit between rowdy college students, and teens, probably with some nervous person kicking the back of my seat, and some hyperactive guy in front of me rocking his chair back and forth like a vibrating Brookstone seat. Ah, the movies... Maybe I should just sit in the front row.
Multiplayer Madness (MMO or otherwise)
AoC Patch Notes July 17
on: July 17, 2008, 01:01:34 PM
July 17 Patch Notes:
Fresh Bugs!
Already seen player complaints that other players and teammates are now sometimes invisible even when you're next to them, horses with invisible riders [maybe that should be a new mob type -- the Tale of the Riderless Horse], and players getting attacked by characters and players they can't see at all:
There's a new bug
causing all text to turn black in color
(workaround for now is to delete a certain hidden folder, explained below:
The first phase of balancing the attack animations between genders is in, and so far nobody's happy about it and everybody's convinced it's just nerfed attack speeds for weapons left and right:
Lot of others problems cropping up. If it wasn't an MMO, I'd tell people not to install the patch until they figure out all the new bugs.
I saw this happen more and more in City of Heroes where they'd roll so many fixes into an update that it inevitably caused problems and bugs they just didn't see while it was on the test server. Someday people will learn to do a few things well instead of a lot of things poorly.
Player Character
* Dead team members will now get quest kill credit if they are within range.
* You now only prohibited from entering stealth mode if team members are in combat nearby.
* All your team members and their pets will now get the fatality buff when a team member performs a fatality.
* The mentor and apprentice will see an onscreen message regarding confirmation or declining of pending apprenticeship requests.
* Mesh effects during spellweaving should no longer rotate with the character.
* Shield of the Risen will only display particle effects on hidden players if they are on your team.
* Animations for the 'grin', 'laugh' and 'laughheartily' emotes have been tweaked for both male and female characters.
* Emote 'squirm_on_ground' has been renamed to 'lounge', to better fit the animation.
* The following abilities now have new effects: Cat's Paw, Opportunistic Strike, Kidney Shots, Avatar of Death, Lotus Overdose, Necrotic Leech, Corrupting Strikes, and Lunge.
* Feats "Eyes of Madness", "Rampaging Horde", "Welcoming Death", and "Too Many To Count" now have visuals associated with them.
* Earth Recharge ability will have a better visual indicator of activation.
* Let Them Burn should now have the correct cooldown.
* Let Them Burn will now properly increase in damage the longer it is channeled.
* Shockblast (Rank 1) and Inferno of Amher (Rank 1) will now scale correctly when compared to Rank 2. The additional splash damage of Shockblast now scales correctly, as it dealt more damage than intended previously.
* Frostblast now has a visual cone of frost.
* Ice Shackle spell is now less invasive and more optimized.
* The tooltip for Malefic Chant now shows up as intended.
* Night of the Harvester should now correctly increase the effect of the Harvester mana/stamina heal by 15/30%.
* To offset the change to Void causing the pet no longer to be rooted, the drain effect of Void has been reduced and now scales more consistently based on level.
* Spell "Siphon Unlife" now has visuals and sound.
* The casting time of Set's Ruin, Set's Cold Hatred, and Blasphemy have been reduced from 4 seconds to 2 seconds.
* Parasitic Soul Swarm is now less invasive and should take up less screenspace.
Priest of Mitra
* The Spellweaving animation has been tweaked.
* The ranger's tracking list can now be sorted by distance.
* Dead NPCs and players will now longer appear when using the tracking ability.
Tempest of Set
* Set's Life Spark should now trigger a resurrection prompt instantly after dying.
* Puppets of Set should now draw the attention of nearby NPCs if you attempt to cast it on a group of NPCs.
* Combos and all other actions will be aborted when you start to charge.
* The combo chain will now be stopped when you begin a charge.
* You can no longer start combos in the middle of a charge.
* Dismembering fatalities should now show appropriate visual effects.
* You can now abort multihit combos without all the damage being rolled back.
* Aborting multihit combos will not make the target's health become desynced from the client/server anymore.
* Fizzle and immunity rolls have been moved to the end of your spellcast. If your target becomes immune after you start your spellcast but before it deals damage, your target will resist the spell.
* Stealth is checked again at the end of your spellcast. If your target hides before you land the spell, your spellcast will fail.
* The distance to your target while casting a spell is checked again at the end of your spellcast, with a 25% bonus to your range.
* If your target is behind an obstacle when you've finished casting your spell, the spell will fail
* Combo finishers (the last attack in the combo chain) now have 25% extra range, making them easier to land in PvP.
* Mobs will keep you in combat from further away now.
* Aborting unarmed attacks (using a knockback, for example) will now properly cause the damage not to be dealt.
* Clickable abilities with instant effects will not be queued after your attack anymore, but executed right away.
* You cannot use abilities while jumping or falling anymore.
* Dying while knockbacking NPCs will not cause the npc to become stuck in combat mode anymore.
* Attack animation speed should be more balanced between genders (note: this does not yet include the combo animations).
* Combat music has been tweaked so that tension music will be area specific, rather than random.
* Massive PvP: Mercenary players in a team with a guild member should no longer be hostile-flagged during battle.
* You will no longer be able to attack guild members on PvP servers.
* The Massive PVP gui will show up on a separate tab than Minigame PvP.
* If your pet does the most damage to a target in a minigame, you will now get credited for the kill instead of the pet.
* Ground targeting AOEs should now only be allowed if the player has line of sight to the target.
* The siege camps will now give a message when they are clicked on and the city is not vulnerable.
* You should no longer be able to damage your raid members on Culture PvP servers.
Player Cities
* The player cities and Battlekeeps now have various NPCs living in them.
* Buildings should now show the proper damage states when the building gets damaged or repaired.
Grey quests will now award XP again
* (Atzel's Approach) Kidnapping and Torture ; Diversionary Tactics Inner West - It should now be possible to ignite all palisades.
* (Atzel's Approach) Revenge of the Ape God - Location of this quest is now marked in the journal.
* (Black Ring Citadel) Bowls of Set, The Hunt - Quest will now complete when you speak to Kalanthes about it.
* (Conall's Valley) An Impending Attack - The location marker for Torin has been changed.
* (Field of the Dead) The Honored Dead - This is now a solo quest.
* (Kheshatta) Den of Evil Perversions - Has been fixed. Go find the Onyx Chambers, retrieve Hakar Tep's head, then return it to Zane.
* If you currently have this quest, you MUST delete the quest and go pick it up again from Zane.
* (Kheshatta) Mouth Of Darkness - Journal text has been updated. The Marker Rune is found near the entrance, rather than within it.
* (Kheshatta) Markers of the Lost Tomb - A goal marker has been added for the third objective.
* (Khopshef) Yipping Hyenas - Changed quest waypoint radius, to cover a larger area and more hyenas.
* (Khopshef) Usurping the Power - Now marked as a group quest.
* (Khopshef) Emerald Eyes - It should no longer be possible to walk through the door to the Emerald Guardians without first getting the quest.
* (Khopshef) Trapped by Lions - Timer has been changed to 10 minutes, instead of 10 hours.
* (Khopshef) The Swindler's Game, Shedding Torment, Stygian Superstitions, The Forgotten Temple, Fascinating Faces, Conflicting Interests - An item reward has been added to these quests.
* (Khopshef) Lusts of the Flesh - Alekeep in Caravansrai will now ask you for tin, not copper.
* (Tarantia Noble) Paetus & The Nemedian Crown - Coordinates have been updated within the Villa. The map item will now have a particle effect when you have the quest.
* (Tarantia Noble) Rahim and Lord Camillus - Rahim's dialog should now work properly when you tell him "Then this madman must be stopped". Player will receive a quest.
* (Tarantia Noble) Obtaining the Arena Key Quest should now be completable.
* Several typos corrected in many quests worldwide.
NPCs / Mobs
* Charmed NPCs will now be able to attack and perform actions while charmed.
* More NPCs should now be visible in the vicinity for several raid dungeons.
* NPCs wielding two handed weapons will now attack correctly.
* Knockback animations (the landing-animations in particular) will now be smoother for many creatures.
* Raid bosses should now be visible from further away, in most cases.
* Black Ring Citadel: Incubus and Succubus are now strong enough to knockback all players. Swamp demon's swamp has become increasingly more dangerous.
* Black Ring Citadel: Seruha will wait a little before closing the door.
* Conall's Valley: Wounded Vanir in Conall's Valley will no longer execute the same identical movements at the same time.
* Field of the Dead: Lieutenant Rhor has learned some new skills, and should no longer be so easy to defeat.
* Field of the Dead: The Lupine Superior boss has lost his floating wig. He will also spawn minions in a more correct manner.
* Khemi: Rhino name-plates should now be displayed properly and will no longer clip into the rhino.
* Kheshatta: Scorpion Archers should now attack more consistently at range.
* Kheshatta: Several NPCs with equipped weapons have been corrected.
* Tarantia Noble: Astrologer will no longer send you into a dialog loop.
* Tortage: Renton should no longer make strange sounds during the Destiny Mage quest.
* Underhalls: Litharia's patrol has been adjusted a bit, to end her walking through walls or pillars.
* Vistrix: All players that participate in the fight against Vistrix should now get his tooth.
* White Sands: Thrall Warrior armor has been tweaked so as to not clip anymore.
* Wild Lands: Oris should no longer send you into a dialog loop.
* Certain bosses were using combos they weren't supposed to. This has been fixed.
The special offer from Venes Venele, the Custom-made Saddle, is now unveiled and for sale!
* The names of some sets of armor have been changed to be easier to discern what class they are intended for. Some visual looks of these armor sets have been tweaked.
* The Heart of the Earth weapon will now work for 2 handed blunt combos.
* Handguards of Ardent Fire now give 2handed Edge bonuses.
* Fine Steelsilk Leggings should now display its name properly
* Non-casters should now be able to see the effect of mana potions, even though they can't use them.
* Girdle of Clawing Might now properly gives Max Health and Max Stamina, as intended, instead of Max Health twice.
* Inventory bags have all had their prices reduced by 20%-50%.
* The 'Totem of Origins' may now be found on select bosses.
* Disabled ability to mount while charging.
* The tooltip for horses will no longer say "CANNOT USE" when the horse is usable.
* The price of regular mounts have been reduced to 75 silver, down from 2 gold.
* Mounts can no longer be sold.
* Reduced Damage caused by Rhinos/Mammoths charging.
* Decreased Rhino/Mammoth collision radius.
* You can now sort items for sale on the Tradepost by "Show Can Use Only" and "Show Can Buy Only".
* Powerful items (blue and green) for sale on the Tradepost will now list in color text.
* Items of a level you cannot use will be listed in red.
* It should now be possible to search for necklaces, rings, gems, and consumables.
* Cotton and Cottonwisp have been fixed, and will be the correct level.
* Any player who speaks to a crafter trainer and doesn't get the quest because he has a full quest journal will now be able to speak to the trainer again and get the quests at a later stage.
* The items you hand in to the Crafter Trainers will from now on be returned to you. This change applies to the Weaponsmith, Armorsmith, Alchemist, and Architect classes.
* Trainer dialog was updated to reflect current names of buildings in Architect quest line.
* The Weaponsmith Trainer's dialog no longer references Glaive, but Awl Pike.
World Design
* Various visual fixes and improvements made in Khemi and Kheshatta.
* Adjusted several areas with added collision, where players previously could become stuck on terrain.
* Pyramid of Lord Atum-Keket: Door collision has been adjusted here.
* Underhalls: The rez point in the "Uptown Sewer" should now be fully visible.
* Underhalls: The upper climbing point on the right ladder for the Harbor entrance has been tweaked.
* Underhalls: The zone called "Askia" is now renamed "Askia's Domain".
* Underhalls: The lost jewel is now placed on the ground, and the respawn timer has changed from 60 to 30 seconds.
* Wild Lands of Zelata: Collision on the stairs inside the Mayor's building has been adjusted.
* Kheshatta: Fixed several spots where you could fall through the world.
* An emote gui has been added. Press Y to access this window.
* An option to disable on-screen messages has been introduced. It can be found in Options > Interface > HUD.
* A chat command that allows reloading the GUI was added. The command is '/reloadui'
* Attackable players should now always have a red nametag, regardless of their level. Players that were 8 levels or more below the player previously had a gray nametag.
* Combo-triggered flying texts should no longer appear for combos that are not caused or directed at the client character any more.
* Defensive flying texts (i.e. parry) should now always appear above the correct character - the defender (not the attacker).
* Players should now be able to open the main options menu using "F10" while the rez window is up.
* Right-clicking inside active GUI elements should not reorient your character any more.
* Fixed a case of a stuck command progress bar.
* Effects that replenish stamina should now produce correctly signed flying texts (+XX Stamina).
* Added a visual and textual notification for attacks that are completely absorbed.
* Nametags should now be visible even if the character meshes have not completed loading.
* Spell damage to destructibles will now appear in the combat log.
* The mouse pointer will now always default to the arrow.
* Mousing over an NPC's corpse will not produce the sword icon any more.
* The Power session indicator and tooltip will now only appear when applicable, i.e. after level 5.
* Shift-clicking on a lootbag to autoloot everything should clear the target correctly once finished.
* Ranged combos will now appear red on your shortcutbar when your target is out of range, similar to spells.
* When attempting to share a quest, you will get feedback stating how many players in your team were too far away to receive it (if any).
* The quest journal will now show the money rewards divided by each type of currency.
* The Friends/Guild Members window has been changed. It now works with tabs that sort friends by type: Guild Members, Friends, Offline members, and Ignored characters.
* Floating/movable character portraits were added. They can be enabled from Interface > HUD options menu.
* The tooltip for spellweaving will no longer go outside of the screen.
* Fixed a GUI related crash.
* Implemented GUI Modifications on the skill window as support for the upcoming PvP Consequence System. PvE skills will be listed separate from PvP skills.
* Clicking on the active tab on the Friends View should now move the window. Clicking on disable tabs should also move the window.
* The healing modifier debuff for Active Blocking should now display correctly as -50%
* Made the middle action button (between Q and E) mappable. It is called Action Button 12. E is now called Action Button 13.
* Quest indicators should no longer appear on the ground.
* Added a PvP xp bar to the bottom of the screen as support for upcoming PvP changes. This will be enabled and disabled via the Interface options > HUD menu.
* The item links on the chat window will now show the proper item 'level color' (blue, green, etc).
* Remapping hotkeys for movement works again.
* Player search should now work correctly.
* The Fresh Kill indicator now correctly shows only after level 5.
* Resolved an issue which was causing players to receive a message stating that a spell was on cooldown and be unable to cast even though the cooldown had finished in the GUI.
* Instancing/Zoning: Removed the shift-right click "Enter heroic version" option from doors.
* You can now use '<' in chat messages.
* The Combo Sequence Indicator should no longer get stuck when failing to complete a combo.
* A new level up animation with sound should now occur for all players who level, while in or out of combat.
* Lootbags and other non-moving objects will no longer affect how many NPCs/players are visible in the vicinity.
* Fixed several causes of crashes and instability.
* Particle effects will no longer be played on the character selection screen.
* Returning to non-combat state from a PvP fight will now take 10 seconds (instead of 5). Mana and health regen will only start then.
* Mobs will now become unlocked to a player after 90 seconds, once the locked attacker stops attacking. This will allow other attackers to benefit from killing the mob.
* The loot bag target bar should no longer become 'stuck' onscreen.
* You will no longer lose your helmet when fatalitied.
* The looting need-greed duration was increased to 1 minute.
* Gemmed items should now work as intended and give their effect after teleports.
* Team buffs should now only refresh when necessary, and be properly canceled for members who leave.
* Leaving sneak or crouch will not slide your character around anymore.
* Tattoos are again being deleted when cycling through in character creation so only the current one shows.
* Logging into the game after logging out to the login screen will no longer cause the client to crash.
* The group looting is once again working as intended.
* Select captains and wagoners in Old Tarantia, Khemi and Conarch Village have opened up traveling routes deeper into the wilderness!
* Shield of the Risen no longer silences the player.
Some day devs will learn that the more things you try to glom up in one update, the more unintended changes you make.
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Re: AoC official forum Dev Postings of note
on: July 17, 2008, 01:56:56 AM
The July 17 patch got the go-ahead so that should go in tomorrow morning, according to the EU forums. A player posted some test server patch notes, but they don't reflect the July 17 patch note (which the moderator emphasized sometimes has *more* fixes than what's on test, and sometimes *less*). Still maybe worth a peek if you want some insight into future changes, fixes and improvements:
Preliminary Update Notes
[Test Server, as of July 16]
A few interface things caught my eye (most of these probably *not* in the July 17 update):
* The Friends/Guild Members window has been changed. It now works with tabs that sort friends by type: Guild Members, Friends, Offline members, and Ignored characters.
* An emote gui has been added. Press Y to access this window.
* Implemented GUI Modifications on the skill window as support for the upcoming PvP Consequence System. PvE skills will be listed separate from PvP skills.
A few quality of life things seemed promising:
* Dead team members will now get quest kill credit if they are within range.
*All your team members and their pets will now get the fatality buff when a team member performs a fatality
[Some tradepost tweaks]
* You can now sort items for sale on the Tradepost by "Show Can Use Only" and "Show Can Buy Only".
* Powerful items (blue and green) for sale on the Tradepost will now list in color text.
* Items of a level you cannot use will be listed in red.
* It should now be possible to search for necklaces, rings, gems, and consumables.
Re: First review of 'The Dark Knight'
on: July 16, 2008, 10:16:46 PM
I wasn't exactly a Winner in high school. At the military base in Seoul, Korea I spent a lot of my summer hours at theaters watching classic stuff I loved over and over (VCRs were still new, and the idea of renting videos hadn't even been concocted). I can't count how many times I saw the Star Wars flicks, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Trek II, Super Man II and Blade Runner among others, along with an endless stream of slasher movies.
I was terribly lonely (the only thing worse than suffering through puberty is suffering through puberty in a place you felt you didn't belong), I missed friends and my brother in Virginia, etc. etc., and really video game arcades, movies and bowling were my solace. In a way, all that seemingly frivolous stuff (yes, even bowling) helped save my life as a sad teen, and probably kept me out of trouble too.
So, what I'm saying is I much prefer seeing movies with friends and family. But I'm fine with catching an occasional flick by myself, especially summer flicks on opening day.
Sometimes I'll be sitting there flashing back to my sad, scrawny 16 year old self, and while yes I'm still sitting in a theater solo 27 years later, I feel a little better about my life now.
Yada yada yada. I'm turning into Stuart Smiley. Sorry.
Oh, Roger Ebert is agog about The Dark Knight but his review is terribly spoiler-filled. So I only give you his lead paragraph
Quote from: Rober Ebert
Batman isnt a comic book anymore. Christopher Nolans The Dark Knight is a haunted film that leaps beyond its origins and becomes an engrossing tragedy. It creates characters we come to care about. Thats because of the performances, because of the direction, because of the writing, and because of the superlative technical quality of the entire production.
This film, and to a lesser degree Iron Man, redefine the possibilities of the comic-book movie
Music to my ears, as I do get tired of "mainstream critics" using "comic-book movie" as some sort of shorthand for "sux."
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Dawn of War 2 - First detailed info?
on: July 16, 2008, 09:12:15 PM
As a brief Company of Heroes freak (late 2006, early 2007) who also bought Dawn of War (but not its expansions), I guess my only concern is that the system requirements will remain more like what you'd expect for Crysis and that might make it end up a relative sales disappointment like COH. Now that I can run COH like a dream, I'm just not as interested in playing it as I was around the time it launched. It would kill me if Relic's latest requires $700 in dual SLI Crossfired gobblydegook to be playable.
I still have a hard time envisioning Relic doing a completely "non base building" RTS. Base building is just embedded in their DNA as a dev. I've read some UK magazine articles on the game, and like the IGN piece they say there doesn't seem to be base-building, "based on what we saw." So I'll be curious if it really is a non-base building game like Ground Control and World in Conflict, or if it just doesn't emphasize base building much in its early missions.
My favorite Company of Heroes missions had little or no base building involved, which is why I lost interest as the campaign moved more deeply into "build a gigantic base and rush everything you have at the enemy" RTS stereotypes). Another decent military RTS, Act of War, had some really fun, no-base-building missions early on but once it slipped into base-building overdrive, it simply lost me.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Flagship Disintegrating?
on: July 16, 2008, 09:02:37 PM
They have a sort of dev tracker thread (it lets you click on various dev/community advocate volunteer names to see their latest posts). It's worth combing through a bit if you're curious about their ongoing posts on the situation though a lot of it is just banter and saying good bye:
Flagship Studios Employees & Team Advocate Tracker
Taylor Balbi (community/PR), Scapes-Flagship (community manager) and Tiggs (Ping0) are probably the most active. They really don't seem to know when/if Hellgate's servers plugs will get pulled.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Flagship Disintegrating?
on: July 16, 2008, 03:46:05 PM
I'll buy it! I just have to cash in my IRA and 401K, and maybe use the coin counting machine at my bank a little bit.
I'd forgotten that the Mythos team was actually up in Seattle (Flagship itself is in San Francisco), and was called Flagship Studios Seattle. I always assumed Flagship was trying to emulate Blizzard's acquisition of them (Condor) and what became Diablo. So presumably he's hoping to keep some of the Mythos team in touch (if not employed) and see how they can round up the wagons and get another project going.
btw, when I did some Googling on Travis's name, it seemed like he was alternately referred to in some comments as "a loving genius" and as "a **cking genius". I guess those are both meant as a compliment.
I don't know if making a solid Diablo clone (Fate) on a low budget makes you a genius or just "competent."
I actually had more fun with the screwy Hellgate than I did in my brief time in Mythos. Buds of mine raved about Mythos though, so what do I know? Many thought Mythos was more the kind of game they expected from a group of former Diablo/Diablo II team members, and the one Flagship should've pinned its hopes on (Hellgate obviously came first), while that Hellgate was to them more of a screwed up experiment that should've been stifled in the test tube.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Flagship Disintegrating?
on: July 16, 2008, 01:35:40 PM
Travis Baldtree (who created the well regarded Diablo clone Fate, and then joined Flagship for Mythos) finally posted in their Mythos forums yesterday. Saw this noted at Massively.com.
A fond farewell- at Mythos beta forums
Quote from: Travis Baldtree
Well, it's an interesting few days here for all of us. It's just been killing me not to post until now, but I really needed to wait until some things were settled and announced. As you may or may not know Flagship Studios laid off almost all employees effective friday - you should be able to see the press release in the Announcements. Now, on the face of it, that really does sound like the end of Mythos as we know it - but we have a tight-knit team that feels like family and hopes to stick together.
Unfortunately, I can't speak at any real length about our immediate plans just yet - but let's say that we hope to have you back up and Beta testing for us in one way or another sometime soon.
You've been an incredible community that we've all felt priveleged to be a part of, and we're not quite ready to let go of that little family just yet. No matter the outcome, this has been a fantastic experience, and I and the team would like to thank each and every one of you for the tireless hours of testing and discussion you've undergone, and the uniquely friendly community spirit that you all helped foster. It's been a treat every step of the way.
So, I'm not exactly sure how long Mythos in its current form will remain up, since it is effectively a testing server. I'll try to get you that information as soon as I can.
In the meantime, I know the rest of the team would love to post their farewells and thanks to all of you. We'll try to keep you as up to date as we can in one way or another.
Thanks again to all of you - and I hope to be seeing all of you online again very, very soon.
It's kind of a riddle, but perhaps he's trying to pull the Mythos property out of this mess (see underlined above).
Or maybe he'll do another Fate.
I agree the payment scheme seemed like an unwise idea. I felt they either should've gone whole hog and tried their hands at an MMO with a full fee (which has the advantage of pulling in revenue consistently, and long after the initial launch sales rush is over); or not at all.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Flagship Disintegrating?
on: July 16, 2008, 05:21:42 AM
It does read more like a farewell card than anything else. It doesn't really answer any questions, as the confused players at the forums attest:
I guess the real question is whether they have to eventually file for a Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy, and sell off everything to pay off their creditors (including the IP, technology, foosball tables and luxury reclining executive chairs); or if there's still any chance they can pare down to the bare bones (maybe similar to the tiny company they were as Condor Games), do a Chapter 11 reorganization, and somehow survive.
While Googling, I came upon this Gamespot historical feature on Blizzard:
Gamespot Presents: Eye of the Storm - Behind Closed Doors at Blizzard
While the team at Condor in San Francisco had programmed games for everything from the Atari Lynx to 3DO's never-released M2, the PC remained an elusive platform. "Back in 1995," explains Max Schaefer, "it wasn't clear what was going to happen screenshot. "We thought doing a PC game was more stable," says Max Schaefer. "It wasn't clear what was going to happen to the next generation of consoles. We were working payroll to payroll - on the ragged edge of economic viability - and we didn't want to risk another console game. We thought doing a PC game was more stable."
Ironic, eh? I think now some people would tell them they'd have a better chance of survival in consoles, perhaps an XBLA version of Mythos or something.
After a few months of initial design work, the three cofounders of Condor came up with an idea for an action-RPG inspired by the old UNIX ASCII game Moria, where an "@" attacked a "k." Updating this
simple kill/reward concept
to '90s standards proved to be a tough sell to publishers.
"Some companies wouldn't even talk to us," admits Dave Brevik. "We were three jokers with a radical idea for a game. People literally laughed at us because we had no PC experience and wanted to do an RPG." In total, ten major publishers turned down the pitch for this turn-based DOS RPG. Then it dawned on Brevik to call up his friend Adham and see if Blizzard would be interested in publishing the game.
There we go again. "Keep it simple, stupid." I'll always say Hellgate's failure to follow that motto did it in, right from the start.
Thought it worth digging up here because afterall they're the Flagship guys now. And probably they forgot how it was to just be 3-4 guys in a room trying to design a cool game based on a fairly simple premise. Maybe Hellgate became too much about too many cooks in the kitchen trying to overcomplicate the game and do too many things.
Re: First review of 'The Dark Knight'
on: July 16, 2008, 02:55:43 AM
So the theater in Virginia I want to see it at has already sold out of two midnight shows, and added a third. I'm still debating if I want to inflict a midnight show on myself or not. I probably need to decide pretty fast though. At the least, I won't have to worry too much about walking to the parking garage at 3 a.m. alone. There'll be a few hundred people doing the same.
Unlike some of the nutzo theaters, I don't think this one was willing to add 3 a.m. and 6 a.m.
shows to satiate demand.
Ah hell, I went ahead and bought a ticket. I took some time off just so I could do that, so I can't cop out now. Alas, my moviegoing friends can't do a midnight show on a Thursday, and most folks my age can't hardly stay awake until midnight much less watch a movie til 3 a.m.
I didn't realize the AMC Movie Watcher card I finally got lets you buy tickets online without the $1 service charge. Doh.
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Re: AoC official forum Dev Postings of note
on: July 16, 2008, 01:33:39 AM
I think the fact that I've never seen anyone on a Swift or Armored Horse so far (whether Level 80, or level 1 character) says it all. The other day I was surrounded by L75-80 players, no signs of any mount upgrades at all. That's all I have to say on the matter. Except: "Dear Funcom, don't put *bleep* in the game that nobody can ever afford because what the heck is the point? You're just wasting your animators' and artwork team's work for nothing."
Not to mention all the people who've quit this game who never even got within a sniff of seeing one of these mounts in action much less getting to try one.
Anyway, my point was that my vote's to lower costs some on the high end, non-preorder mounts. Even without my ex-guildmate's help I would've been able to afford the starter mount soon enough, even with my apparent stupidity when it comes to piling up money. Obviously I'm the Worse Case Scenario, a Drooling Imbecile Incapable of Profiteering, but I was still going to get a starter horse at a reasonable level.
Update from the EU forums is tomorrow's update was pushed to Wednesday to deal with yet another unintended bug:
Quote from: Tarib
We postpone the update from tomorrow Wednesday to Thursday, 17th of July, 4 am GMT. One fix concerning equipment that are 'Bind on Equip' lead to an issue which would have made those items not equipable at all. This has of course to be resolved and then tested again before we can bring the update to the live servers.
So if no other issues are found and the one mentioned above is resolved, we will update on Thursday. We will of course keep you up to date about any news.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Flagship Disintegrating?
on: July 15, 2008, 06:40:12 PM
Facts are kind of hard to come by right now, esp. with the gaming news sites frantically quoting *each other* to the point you can't tell if anyone actually has any factual information or not. To me it's the Achille's Heel of the world fixating on News on the Internet. It gets easier to just paste in what some other site did and refer to it as "news" rather than look into it oneself. Heck, I'm guilty of that myself in my flurries of postings at message boards about "news." Is there a hypocrite icon?
There are actually more Gaming News Aggregator sites out there than there are News Gathering sites, and some day, all people will get on the Internet are Aggregates of Non News and Gossip.
I would've felt better if some of the sites just said, "we called Flagship, and nobody's answering the phones there, but they never answered the phones to begin with."
Or "we e-mailed the usually easy-to-reach Bill Roper and now we get an auto-responder."
I'm going through that myself today at my newsletter job. I reached a company president about a merger (e-mail, was getting runaround by phone), and basically it was, "I can't comment until it's approved, and then we'll put out a press release" and "we're a private company so I can't tell you how many employees we have etc." Frustrating. But sometimes just confirming you can't get any more information from "official channels" is useful in itself.
I understand if Flagship is in some sort of legal bind where it can't make an official announcement, but it's really not reflecting well on them to not put out *something.* Even if it's vague.
It does seem true that the Subscriptions option has been disabled for Hellgate, and for now you have to call that 1-800 number to cancel your subscription (or you can ask your credit card provider to stop payments).
Also, I noticed that Flagship apparently on
July 9
updated its Privacy Policy at its site:
Purchase or Sale of Businesses
From time to time, we may purchase a business or sell one or more of our businesses and your personal information may be transferred as a part of the purchase or sale. If we purchase a business, the personal information received with that business would be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy, if it is practicable and permissible to do so. If we sell a business or if we go through a business transition, such as a merger, are acquired by another company, or sell a portion of our assets, account holders' information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.
The provisions of this paragraph will also apply if we are sold as part of bankruptcy proceedings
I dunno though. I have no idea what they updated there, it might have had nothing to do with that passage.
I just found it interesting that the section was updated July 9 given what we're all hearing about.
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Re: Major feature cuts from Warhammer Online
on: July 15, 2008, 05:32:00 PM
Tentonhammer had a 2 part interview with Mythic's Mark Jacobs about all this:
Part 1
Part 2
Although he comes across as, uh, maybe a bit impatient at times (it's in a way impressive they don't filter his answers through a PR flack), I had a much better understanding of their reasons after reading. Also, I have a former newspaper copy editor friend who works at NRA, and Mythic is right across the street from them. Maybe I'll take a photo next time I'm in the area.
I think the thing with MMOs, is if you have features in that are broken and bugged and don't work as promised, the players are reminded of it every day they log in and try said features. If the features and characters aren't there at all, it might bother someone initially but they won't be visually reminded of them all the time.
That said, there have been cases like Tabula Rasa where long-promised stuff like Personal Armored Units sat and molted in the back of my brain, and *did* bother me even if I didn't see them malfunctioning in-game. The latest interviews suggest those are nowhere near going into that game, which still bothers me today.
So, I guess missing features can in fact bother you, in some cases.
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Re: AoC official forum Dev Postings of note
on: July 15, 2008, 05:27:25 PM
I wish they'd make the Swift Horses and/or Armored Horses something you could reasonably afford. I can maybe understand the pre-order mounts (Rhini, Mammoth) being priced outrageously, but it would be nice for the Swift/Armored to be something you might aspire to. I'm at 70 now and I can vouch that unless you're a trading house/crafting junkie, or a member of a crazy rich guild, or a gold farmer, the Swift/Armored horses aren't really something that you can reasonably ever hope to try. I don't think I've ever had more than 2 gold or so, and I was only able to afford a horse fairly early because of a member of my ex-guild donating to me out of pity.
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Re: AoC official forum Dev Postings of note
on: July 15, 2008, 01:12:20 PM
Saw a post by the German forum moderator about a recent change in the degree of slope players can traverse (45 degrees from an unintended 60 degrees):
Glass Walls: A bug or intentional?
Some changes to the movement code in the last update did indeed cause players to no longer be able to traverse terrain at the angles they were before. This was actually caused by fixing a bug with the game code as it was allowing players to travel over angles that by the original design parameters was too high. (
to be specific the bug caused people to be able to travel over 60 degree angles when the code called for 45 degrees
However it is obvious that in fact the 60 degree angle was probably more optimal for 'logical' movement and certainly what ended up in last weeks update does feel like you come across barriers where they just don't feel right. Obviously that isn't good, and we want to correct it! We will be looking to reverse this fix is an update as soon as we can, it won't be in the next update unfortunately as the bug itself had a few more implications that we need to iron out first. It is one of the things though that is a priority for the next available update.
Not sure this will remedy the various areas where it feels like you *should* be able to keep moving in an area, or use it as a shortocut, but the game seems to want to channel you back towards a main path or different route.
Usually, if you walk backwards, you can scale back down vertical ridges safely. This doesn't always work -- I've stumbled, twisted and fell to my doom numerous times -- but it is something a teammate taught me one day that can help in a jam.
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Re: AoC Character Art, etc
on: July 15, 2008, 04:01:28 AM
Hit 70 tonight. It really unlocks quite an avalanche of new quests in both Atzel's Approach and Khesatta.
The mighty Claymore...
I'm hoping my Guardian bud can make me one that has a Health tap + a couple of damage gems in it.
I helped a 75-ish team that was calling for help on an elite 75 boss in Atzel, though they eventually added upper 70s types for apprenticing purposes.
You can't swing a dead rat by the tail on Thog server without hitting a member of The Old Timer's guild. One was on our team, and a full Old Timer's group ended up helping us with said Elite (waiting until we tagged it before they chipped in). They seem like an all right bunch mostly.
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Re: AoC official forum Dev Postings of note
on: July 14, 2008, 09:52:53 PM
Funcom hired some moderation help (a German biz called Two Pi), which has made it a little tougher to comb through the Dev tracker (they are closing flame war type threads and the like, so a lot of Dev Tracker posts now are moderation-related).
However, a Two Pi guy posted a pretty helpful Official technical faq Post. You may want to bookmark this one.
Official technical FAQ - Crashes, Errors? Read this, first!
I'll go ahead and paste it in for GT posterity:
#1 Most actual informations (July 13th)
Bad performance in Villas?
For users of NVidia GPUs (excluding the 260/280 series) it may help to use the old driver 169.21, and / or to switch to Shader 2.0. It's a known problem and has been forwarded.
Authentication Failure Error FAQ
- You can't log in? Follow this link:
No magic effects / bad performance
(NVidia GPUs)?
Try to download RivaTuner 2.09 and use the option to revert all driver settings to it's default values.
Black screen while running the game on Windows Vista?
Put this into a .txt file, and save this text-file as conan.reg (all files)
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\GraphicsDrivers]
If you should encounter any problems, you can easily undo this changings by creating another .reg file with it's following content:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\GraphicsDrivers]
The patcher hangs / the game or the patcher won't even start?
The game should be properly uninstalled. Please do exactly as mentioned below:
- Deinstall AoC using the "Add or Remove Programs"-Software located in the Control Panel
- Delete the following (hidden) folder:
Vista: C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Local\Funcom
XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[User]\Application Data\Funcom
- Open the registry by running regedit and delete all entries that refer to Funcom by searching for them (F3 key)
Please stop your antivirus program and, even more important, your firewall while reinstalling and patching the game. Just closing the GUI (usually a "Firewall"-Symbol in the system tray) sometimes won't suffice, so you'll have to manually shut down the services (Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> Administrative Tools -> Services). In some rare cases it might be necessary to temporarily uninstall the antivirus program if you can't stop it by other means.
#2a Workarounds for known errors:
Crashes, "Updating Content", Errors and so on
Quite often the "Verify"-tool works wonders. Open your AoC-folder, start "simpleconfig.exe" and click on "Verify/Repair". When the verification / repair is completed, start AoC as usual - the patcher will now automatically replace defective files.
Bad graphical / general performance
You can find a seperate guide here: (currently in translation, coming soon) [no link yet-BJ]
Assertion Failed - Out of Memory
If you've got more than 2GB RAM, the following might help.
Open the hidden boot.ini file found in the root system directory (C:\). The easiest way to do so is clicking on Start -> Run..., entering "notepad C:\boot.ini" without the quotation marks and hitting enter. Look for the [operation systems] part and add the following line to the end of it:
To open the Run... menu, use Win+R (Win = the windows key on your keyboard), type in "bcedit /set IncreaseUserVA 3072" without the quotation marks and hit the enter key.
IF there are stability issues after trying this, you can revert to the standard values by following the same steps and just changing the number to 2048 (so it's /USERVA=2048 or bcedit /set IncreaseUserVA 2048, respectively)
Caused by defective rdbdata files.
Simply delete all rdbdata-files that are smaller than 1GB. They're located on the AoC -> RDB folder.
Textures lose detail while playing and won't show as detailed again
Go into your AoC-folder (also works while the game is running) und delete the following files:
faultrep.dll can't be found
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The minimap is black
In this case, you'll need to delete the "GUI"-folder inside your AoC-folder. The patcher will load about 170MB of files after the next start.
I can hear the game sounds, but have a black screen
Open simpleconfig.exe, disable the Fullscreen-option and start the game. You can switch back to Fullscreen again after that.
My chat window shows a chequered pattern
In the NVidia Panel Options, you'll find a slider that regulates Quality and Performance. If it's at Quality, switch to Performance. If it's at Performance, switch it to Quality.
If this won't help, make sure that the mip-mapping option inside the NVidia Panel is controlled by the application, or reinstall the drivers and reset them to standard values (should be in the function-part in the lower right).
Although the game looks demonstrably better for me in shader 3.0, certain special effects (like Necromancer pets that do magic attacks) drag my frame rate pretty much to zero unless I switch back to 2.0 or 2X shaders.
And I still have lousy performance in the Villas. I haven't encountered most of the other problems mentioned.
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Re: (Hellgate: London) Who's in?
on: July 14, 2008, 09:29:22 PM
I saw a useful post at the official forums on a 1-800 # to call to cancel your subscription (it seems legit, but certainly I can't personally vouch for it):
afik, the Flagship official community coordinator's trying to clean up the forums a bit, but his or her posts are so strange I can't really tell if she's confirming/not confirming what various places are reporting. The more I read the various news posts, the more it seems like three sites (Hellgate Guru, VE3D and Gamasutra) all breathlessly quoting and cutting and pasting from each other to the point you can't tell if anyone bothered to verify any of the information.
Some of the stuff taken from Korean articles seems to be suffering poor translations.
AFIK the servers are still running (did see a couple posts about some server update problems, though given the game always had some problems, that might not be meaningful), and my wild guess is they would continue through at least this month, and maybe next.
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Re: Any interest in Diablo II multi?
on: July 14, 2008, 05:17:49 PM
Nobody has. Well, one L4 guy did join a game of mine, realized I was 14, and started a different game. That was about it.
The game still felt fun, and as I blabbed, after maybe 5-10 minutes, the 800X600 (expansion) rez didn't bother me at all. Of course, if you then boot up the higher rezzed, higher detailed Titan Quest, your eyes will go upside down. But then again TQ had all sorts of technical and video driver problems for many players, who no doubt weren't expecting to grapple with the kind of tech troubles you might expect on a system-pushing shooter or mmorpg, on a hack-n-slash. D2 will pretty much run like a peach on anything.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Forget Dragon Age, Diablo III at least exists
on: July 14, 2008, 05:06:19 PM
Lets retitle the thread, "Forget Dragon Age, Diablo III at least has something to show."
Which doesn't mean Dragon Age won't be something special, but this really seems like a premature Public Relationculation...
Other than the isometric viewpoint, I never found much in common between Baldur's Gate (which I bought, but never much got into), and Diablo. They catered to pretty different audiences. I'm pretty sure it'll still be the case between these two now. I'm just not into bashign one in favor of the other, because I'd feel like I was saying apples taste better than oranges. Or, how about wine tastes better than beer. No, that's no good. Well, use whatever metaphor you prefer.
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Re: AoC Character Art, etc
on: July 14, 2008, 01:17:15 PM
Because it's cold, and that armor's drafty.
Did the Oasis group instance upper 60s, off of Purple Lotus Swamp, last night. Rewards are meager (exp/cash, but no items at all), and it's fairly grueling, but not unfairly so, imho. Got me from about 69.4 to 69.9, so I should hit 70 tonight.
A little refreshing because it's an outdoor private group instance, not a dungeon.
The finale boss had this propensity for dashing away when his health meter goes down, so far away that we lost him twice before we finally found him at a different camp then where he's supposed to be, and finished him off.
A few decent loot items came off of regular mobs inside, but nothing remotely interesting to a Conq. Tolten is a weaponsmith/armoror type and offered to try to make me some decent things to use at 70.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Flagship Disintegrating?
on: July 14, 2008, 01:05:47 PM
Hellgate Guru has been updating here and there:
They mentioned various Flagship-Ping0 employees updated their online resumes to reflect a July 2008 termination.
Update: Diane Tiggs Migliaccio claims that Hellgate players wont be charged even if they are unable to unsubscribe due to the features removal from account pages and is locking discussions related to the very subject, subsequently directing them to a main thread, in which she allows spam and posts her own [posts her own spam?
]; preventing any serious discussion from taking place.
Maybe in retrospect, as soon as they got Fate creator Travis Baldtree aboard, they shoulda thrown all their bets behind that horse instead.
The sad thing is, because everyone's already out the door (it seems), the Hellgate forums are devoid of any official remarks on this, and players are left referring back to that early June, "everything's fine" official post for hope that this is all a practical joke.
Comments are generally pretty ugly, but if in fact things shut down so quickly, that would probably be why nobody official is denying it or even telling current players what to do.
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Re: Age of Conan Impressions
on: July 13, 2008, 01:36:31 PM
The Guardian bud I mentioned suggested I move on to Khesatta (I might be spelling wrong), meant for roughly Level 70-80 (entrance is in the SW corner of the Purple Lotus Swamp). There are tons of quests there (though I imagine I'll burn through all of them quickly enough), including a couple delivery quests that send you all the way back to Atzel. So, if you're "binded" (Wayfarer) to Atzel, and travel to Khesatta, *don't* bind in Khesatta is my advice. That way you can quickly blink back to Atzel to complete the two delivery quests that take you back there. It was a real "doh" moment for me because I had chosen to bind to Khesatta.
It's a very rocky, cavern-type environment with lots of rocky hills. It seems heavier on animal enemies than humans. I was constantly seeing L75-80 characters popping out of the resurrection platform near the entrance so I don't imagine the zone gets very easy.
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Travelled with kids, and they simply loved it, lots to see and learn, a must see attraction if you going to Christchurch
Diane C USA
The Antartic Center is a definite must - loved every aspect of that part of the tour. The Kiwi tour was a little disappointing but the meal they served was sensational, would do again.
Interesting exhibits, with penguin feeding and commentary especially enjoyed. Ride on Hagglund altogether too wild for over 70's like ourselves - threw us around too violently to be appreciated. Wildlife Centre guided visit to native bird section was enthralling, close proximity to native and rare birds a real privilege.Dinner at the Casino was lovely.
Michael B Australia
It was a quiet day, so not all of the attractions were running as scheduled - except our tour guide made sure they did. The snow room and hagglund ride are a must - the 4D adventure comprised of getting squirted in the face with water (that was the 4th D)
Though the earthquake closed the Antartic Center, the tour operator did a great job of providing alternative arrangements. Our driver, Ross, was outstanding -- friendly and personable.
Graeme S Australia
Great trip. Was ideal time as we flew in late night before was perfect timing, pick up in afternoon as it gave us the morning to get ourselves together and have a lazy morning. A quick look around, get our bearings before we started on the serious stuff. The driver was great and very helpful. We had a wonderful time.
The Antarctic Centre was very informative. The Blizzard Room was great - if you closed your eyes you certainly felt as though you were at the South Pole in the middle of a blizzard with temperature of minus 18 Celsius! We then travelled to the Willowbank Wildlife Reserve for a meal and escorted tour of the Reserve. The meal was excellent, promptly served, and the guided evening tour was great. Our guide was very knowledgeable, and I would definitely recommend Willowbank as an outing - particularly the range of wildlife on display including a nocturnal house that displayed the kiwi. Great fun. The entire excursion was well organised; all staff at both locations were friendly and helpful.
the tour was ok as I was with teenager children. But the city is still not alive because of earthquake. So my group was me and my children only.
Mark W Australia
The Antarctic Centre is alot of fun for kids and has some very interesting information for adults. We enjoyed the penguins, the Ice Storm room and reading about life in the Antarctic. The Haggalund is definitely worth doing. Willowbank was ok but wouldn't rave about it. We did get to see our first KIwi though. We had a bit of spare time before dinner so our driver took us on a little tour of the city and showed us some of the devastation caused by the Earthquake which we wouldn't have seen otherwise. We had dinner at the Casino which was really nice.
The Antarctic Centre and Willowbank Wildlife Centre are both great sights, but this tour was unfortunately somewhat disappointing. While we arrived at the Antarctic Centre before the 3pm departure time stated on the website, we barely had an hour there, missing out on some of the key attractions, before having to depart for the Wildlife Centre. The tour at the Wildlife centre began at 4:30pm for an hour, by which time the Reserve had closed (winter hours), and our driver was ready us rush off to the dinner destination. Dinner was fine, although in keeping with the rest of the tour, rather hurried. Again we were only allotted about an hour, and had only just got our mains when our driver returned to take us back to our hotel. Even though we would have made it back to our accommodation well before the 8:30pm finish time, only a small extension was offered, as the driver had another job to attend. We decided to make alternative arrangements.
This tour had a lot of potential, but perhaps the description needs updating, or additional information to let people that activities in the winter or off season (if that was the reason) are different to those stated. For example, the dinner wasn't at the Wildlife Reserve, as described on the website. If you have very limited time in Christchurch, this tour might be worth considering. However, if you're less restricted, neither of the sights are too difficult to get to on your own and there's a free shuttle to the Antarctic Centre from the center of town.
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Kajang, Malaysia
#1 Jan 15, 2013
Russia is the main backer of the Syrian regime. They should pull out altogether from Syria not just Allepo. Nobody wants them in Syria except the murderers and killers of women and children.
#2 Jan 15, 2013
The murderers of women and children would be the paid killers who are in Syria and are funded by the american government and israel as the world knows.
Red Deer, Canada
#3 Jan 15, 2013
Yup same shit new page, come on now, say something original and with some spirit, you are putting the last few followers of yours, to sleep
#4 Jan 15, 2013
I see the terrorist supporting paid hasbarat george is repeating itself as usual.Sad to see a paid liar like that!
#5 Jan 16, 2013
George is a Lunatic pro devil
#6 Jan 16, 2013
You just stick to your BLUES and sleep over it. ADVICE: do not interfere in matters that does not concern you
Sherwood Park, Canada
#7 Jan 16, 2013
Syrai war? What keeps it going.
The war in Syria sickens me. But more relevantly, the behavior of the participants disgusts me and revolts me. Were this merely a popular revolution, Bashar al-Assad and his government of thugs in Syria should have been defeated and expelled from Syria by the Syrian people months ago. This is not merely a popular revolution. The war did indeed start out as a popular revolution, but now that is not what is causing the war to continue. This present Syrian war has nothing to do with what is represented as the Arab Spring. Money on both sides is all that keeps this war going.
The participants are not just the combatants fighting Syria itself, but also the countries behind the scene â Russia, Qatar, and Europe - who in this competition both continue to orchestrate with other countries the continuation of this human slaughter. The war in Syria is not merely a civil revolution, but a proxy war between competing financial interests; between countries and groups of countries.
How long will the war go on? The war will likely continue so long as the competing financial interests have money to finance it. That could be then until ever living Syrian is dead. The Syrian people who are being slaughter are irrelevant to the warâs continuation. The more Syrians die actually works to the interest of these competing financial interests.
Competing natural gas sources are keeping this war going: One source from Russia and Iran, and the other source from Qatar. The customer for this natural gas is Europe. Both these competitors want to build their own gas pipeline to feed Europeâs unquenchable demand for energy. Both competing gas pipelines have to go through Syria. This is a war then for nothing more than for a gas pipeline right-of-way. The death of the Syrian people -both Sunni and Shea- in this war are merely the consequences of this proxy war; not ethics, not issues of bad government, not religion, but greed.
#8 Jan 16, 2013
Another post of lies,disinformation and double speak from a jewish terrorist supporting hasbarat I see.The world knows very well who is behind the created terrorist proxie war in Syria and it is the american government and israel the same 2 terrorist who created the current hell that is Libya.
#9 Jan 16, 2013
A person would have to be deaf dumb and blind not to see that.
Red Deer, Canada
#10 Jan 16, 2013
Glad you realize that, and everyone on here probably agrees that you would have to be deaf dumb and blind not to see that Assad is a butcher.
Red Deer, Canada
#11 Jan 16, 2013
did you even read why he had to say, of course not, you are such a simpleton with a huge inferiority complex you just cut and paste you useless comments, very pathetic
#12 Jan 16, 2013
The butchers would be the american government and israel the same 2 that are funding the terrorist activity in Syria.
#13 Jan 16, 2013
I never read your large paragraphs of lies,disinformation and double speak.I skim over them seeing the same lies and scripted propaganda and thats enough for me.
Sherwood Park, Canada
#14 Jan 17, 2013
Another clown with no facts. Explain an Israeli link or American link in Syria. I see Russian soldiers boots on the ground not Americans you propaganda spewing bottom feeder. Facts, facts, facts, you have none zero zip.
Toronto, Canada
#15 Jan 17, 2013
No Russian soldiers boots on the ground! In Afghanistan Russians learned the lessons; they do not send their soldiers anywhere. Americans are training Syrian fighters on their NATO bases in Turkey. Also, CIA organized this conflict, as it does all similar conflicts around the world. American politicians are openly talking about that; as they consider themselves exceptional, and think that they have rights to destabilize the Countries, and change the Governments, which they do not like. It would be very unusual if there would not be CIA covert operators on the ground in Syria.
Sherwood Park, Canada
#17 Jan 17, 2013
Sherwood Park, Canada
#16 Jan 17, 2013
Advisors from Russia and Iran are scattered all over embedded with Assads forces. The prisoner exchange had 2000 for 50 Iranians. Every newly purchased radar station and air defense system has been manned by Russian flag soldiers. You bet your ass Americans are in Turkey as well as German and Dutch forces manning Patriot missile systems. CIA again eh, how would you know? You think every uprising and conflict starts by an American. Assads police chopped the dick off a child, tortured then killed him dumping his body in front of the parents residence, the whole neighborhood freaked out with protests of outrage first step in this conflict, Sooner or later people have enough of the bullshit and take a stand, why are troops deserting and refusing to shoot civilians? Lessons from Afghanistan? I had to work beside Russian soldiers in Yugoslavia for a short time, Georgia was invaded by Russians not the CIA, Chechnya was a battlefield with Russian troops not American. The arctic has over 10,000 Russian troops present...... They don't go anywhere my ass. Don't even get me started on the Cold War....
Kitchener, Canada
#18 Jan 17, 2013
Chrisy despises Canada and the west you would wonder why he is not living in a dictatorship he loves. lol
Sherwood Park, Canada
#19 Jan 17, 2013
I peg him as a Sunni Muslim who's very sympathetic for some of these extreme actions globally. He carries a true distaste for our ideology but enjoys the perks of this nation. He's probably a student or dreamer who one day will wake up to realize there is a time to stop dark minded people from stealing the freedoms of others. Hopefully his religion hasn't brain washed him to such an extent he values death over life.
Kitchener, Canada
#20 Jan 17, 2013
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The Gods of Olympus Though long abandoned they still live on, The Olympian Gods, their reign was long. Olympus was their palace of choice, There they ruled the ancient world with one voice.
Zeus, Lord of the skies was then the king, Mighty thunderbolts in his hand took wing. The seven seas were Poseidon's domain, Girded with a Trident, rivers his train.
The rich one, the ruler of the dead, Who wished to rule in his brothers' stead. The Underworld was ever his throne, Hades, living in his kingdom of stone.
Of prophesy and twisting Fate long, Apollo's trades were of music and song. Hermes, the god of merchants and thieves, A gift from Hermes cautiously receive. Of Arts and Crafts in the time before, Noble Athena, goddess of just war. Ore women and marriage Hera reigns, Her husband Zeus she jealously restrains. Hephaestus was the god of smiths, Thrown from Olympus in the myths. Ares was the God of bloody war, His sacred symbol was a bloody boar.
The beautiful deity, the dove, Aphrodite was the goddess of love. Artemis the Huntress, the unwed, Never to marry, she'd rather be dead.
Laughing and Frolicking, god of wine, Merry Dionysus, god of the vine. Last, Hestia, goddess of home life, She helps with the tasks of a good home wife. But never does their legacy end, Even to this day on them we depend. So listen to the voice in your mind, It may be the divine aiding mankind.
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Marketing Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, November 9, 2010
The commercials feature Thomas reminiscing about her father, his philosophy and his ...
Fast-Food Industry Serves Up Warmed-Over Responses
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Maureen Morrison reports that fast food companies are offering "canned responses" in ...
Say Cheese! Domino's Front Page Exposure May Prove Ephemeral
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Perhaps what's most fascinating about Todd Wasserman's story about Domino's being "collateral ...
Dunkin', Detroit Auto Dealers Help Exceptional Families
Marketing Daily, - Friday, November 5, 2010
Starting this week, metro Detroit area residents 18 and older can pick ...
Starbucks Baristas Say The Culture Is Changing
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Thom Forbes - Friday, November 5, 2010
Treat yourself to a Caramel Macchiato or a Chai Latte with Soy ...
Starbucks Tells Kraft: 'Thanks, Pal, We'll Take It From Here'
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Thom Forbes - Friday, November 5, 2010
After a 12-year partnership in the grocery aisles, Starbucks is telling Kraft ...
Starbucks Leaves Many Stores Untouched As McDonald's Perks Up
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Thom Forbes - Thursday, November 4, 2010
San Francisco Bans Happy Meals
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Thom Forbes - Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Wendy's Launches Hispanic Campaign
Marketing Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, November 1, 2010
Timed to coincide with Wendy's expansion of its 99-cent Everyday Value Menu ...
McDonald's Invites Fans To Create McRib Legends
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Thom Forbes - Monday, November 1, 2010
As McDonald's "The Legends of McRib" national campaign rolls out tomorrow, McDonald's ...
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