9th July 2010, 8:42 PM
You used the word not at "Activision" in general but aimed just at the map thing. Honestly I preserve the word for, say, gutting kittens on live television, but that's just me. The movie "Despicable Me" probably wouldn't be as effectively titled if people thought something like not using a coaster justified using the word. Never mind, it's just one of those personal language pet peeves I guess.
Yeah it seems they've been making one bad decision after another with this. I've kinda been outside the "Blizzard" loop for a while, what with WC3 being the latest in my collection from them (and some Wow I tried way back when). I do read up on it every now and then. The writing's on the wall when Blizzard goes back on their word they'd never do micro transactions, and then I read they're selling in-game mounts (which admittedly look awesome) on their online store. So either you do a lot of work in the game to attain one, or you have a lot of disposable cash and just reach that same level using that. How exploitative...
While the article is rather "doom and gloom", there's some interesting points. Didn't read that you can't customize your maps however you like though. Did they specifically say you can't still trade maps the old fashioned way, via a custom game? I do like the cloud uploading option, so long as it's an option. Didn't like that their terms were the same as Sony's ill begotten terms with Mod Racers and LittleBigPlanet (Mod Racers is awesome by the way).
There's something to be said for this being the age of the internet where removing user's freedoms will be labelled as "adding value".
Yeah it seems they've been making one bad decision after another with this. I've kinda been outside the "Blizzard" loop for a while, what with WC3 being the latest in my collection from them (and some Wow I tried way back when). I do read up on it every now and then. The writing's on the wall when Blizzard goes back on their word they'd never do micro transactions, and then I read they're selling in-game mounts (which admittedly look awesome) on their online store. So either you do a lot of work in the game to attain one, or you have a lot of disposable cash and just reach that same level using that. How exploitative...
While the article is rather "doom and gloom", there's some interesting points. Didn't read that you can't customize your maps however you like though. Did they specifically say you can't still trade maps the old fashioned way, via a custom game? I do like the cloud uploading option, so long as it's an option. Didn't like that their terms were the same as Sony's ill begotten terms with Mod Racers and LittleBigPlanet (Mod Racers is awesome by the way).
There's something to be said for this being the age of the internet where removing user's freedoms will be labelled as "adding value".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)