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• • Anyone lose a lot of money trying to get a loot card?

  • Buying TCG cards isn't gambling for the same reason buying a large fry with a Monopoly game piece from McDonald's isn't gambling.  You pay for a product and you get said product.  The product simply has a chance to be worth more than you paid via an in-game item or an HDTV or what-have-you.

    
    
  • Posted: 12/01/08 12:42 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Xfire!!!

  • Originally posted by plaxidia
    

    Basically these forums have become a flame fest.. Most of the up-and-coming games are.. It seems like a bunch of really bored negative people who just cant find anything constructive to do..

    I have been a member of this site for years.. It used to be full of constructive threads and usefull info.. But now I tend to glance at the forums of the game I am currently playing.. Think "Meh" and ignore most topics.  DOnt get me wrong. If someone does not like a game and constructivly posts why its great.. But alot of thes threads arn't even worth my time..  Its sad.

     

    QFT.

  • Posted: 11/04/08 4:19 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Its empty...

  • Originally posted by Zayne3145
    

    I wouldn't say that is common for all games at all.

    Surely the fact that there aren't many people in the lower tiers a sign that new people aren't joining?

     

    On Red Eye Mountain, I'm seeing many more people in tier 1 than I have in a couple weeks.  Could just be 40s rolling a new character but the few I've talked to are new players.

  • Posted: 10/30/08 11:45 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Record Low activity on WAR servers

  • Originally posted by Blodpls
    

    It doesn't matter if 1%, 20% or 99% of pc gamers use xfire.

    People use it to show a general trend and no reasonable person can says it does not provide useful information.

     

    Note:  This reply is not about whether or not WARs subs are increasing/decreasing or whatever, it's just about X-Fire.

    X-fire provides information about a specific segment of a gaming population, not about the population as a whole.  For example, which game sees more players according to X-fire, Counter-Strike 1.6 or Counter-Strike: Source?  Source does by a wide margin.  However, Valve's numbers from Steam, which tracks all players connected, show that 1.6 has twice as many players that Source does.  Why is that?  I believe it's because X-fire users are a specific segment of a population.  Perhaps they are people that believe having more play time in a game means having a bigger ePeen. I don't know.  What I do know is that X-fire is not providing any information that can be attributed to any population other than the population of X-fire users.

  • Posted: 10/24/08 2:18 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Where lightsabers always so enormous?

  • Lightsabers used to be attached to battery packs on the belt of the user and a cable would connect the pack to the hilt.  Yeah.  They used to be bigger and more archaic.

  • Posted: 10/22/08 6:08 PM
    Star Wars: The Old Republic