New Roadmap and FFXI's direction

[Atomic_Skull]

Given the emo THF routine and eerily similar arguments I've seen between here, Alla, and BG, I imagine they go by Lobivopis on the second and the handle here on the third.

Well you're half right. One is, one isn't.

I'm sure we'll be lectured on how the Skinner Box is the bestest thing for MMOs ever

No they're exploitative, and eventually some senator's kid is going to drop out of college because of WoW or whatever and he'll investigate Blizzard and find out how they deliberately design their game mechanics to be as addictive as possible. And then laws banning skinnerian methods in video games will get passed because of it. (same reason Nintendo got pwnt back in the early 90's, some senator couldn't find a copy of Super Mario 3 and wanted to know why, and uncovered that Nintendo was deliberately restricting supplies to increase demand) Eventually, laws are going to be passed over this I guarantee it, they'll probably use phrases like "dangerous virtual drugs" and get the DEA involved somehow. Abuse of skinnerian game mechanics by the industry is going to get them slapped with restrictive laws governing game design and all it will take is moral panic to get the ball rolling.

[Leonlionheart]

I won't drop FFXI for FFXIV because I can only play via dialup. Satellite stinks for FFXI and it won't be any better for FFXIV.

I've been wanting to play FFXIV, but they're retarded and don't have it via steam/downloadable.

Could obtain it other ways... but I don't like buying registration codes from RMT sites.

[Spiritreaver]

Given the emo THF routine and eerily similar arguments I've seen between here, Alla, and BG, I imagine they go by Lobivopis on the second and the handle here on the third. Give him enough time and I'm sure we'll be lectured on how the Skinner Box is the bestest thing for MMOs ever if his like of the Heavy Metal Plate system at current isn't any indication already. Also, Thief's Knife.

I was thinking something along those lines.

[Atomic_Skull]

I was thinking something along those lines.

I post on BG, I don't post on lolallakhazam.