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Post by cathedralmaster on Oct 11, 2007 22:02:36 GMT
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Post by Bakchuda on Oct 11, 2007 22:40:54 GMT
Well you can kiss that 1.69 patch goodbye....
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Post by mubu on Oct 11, 2007 23:01:29 GMT
Hehehe you should be happy, because if you have played their games you would know that as far as multiplayer games go their server backbones and flow of gameplay is far superior to most. I see nothing but great things in the future for Bioware with EA's budget and gaming genious to help them maybe make NWN2 way more playable in the near future online. I am an avid fan of EA's and own a lot of their titles including games like Battlefield 2, and Battlefield 2142 along with several others. As for NWN1 goes, you got Acaos, and Funky who probally have done more for the game than bioware anyhow so not like you need a 1.69 patch the game is stoneage compared to whats out there anymore except to those with ancient pc's. -p.s. Mask of the Betrayer has been quite awesome i definately recommend it to any and all who love the single player campaigns.
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Post by Acaos on Oct 11, 2007 23:45:54 GMT
Hehehe you should be happy, because if you have played their games you would know that as far as multiplayer games go their server backbones and flow of gameplay is far superior to most. You mean their habit of shutting down official online support for many games after 2-3 years and often providing no free alternative, so players of those games are unable to continue playing online? Acaos
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Post by ocath on Oct 11, 2007 23:49:36 GMT
The concern isn't so much just for NWN, but for any possible release Bioware might have produced. Though the budget is bigger, the EA is frankly one of the worst gaming companies out there.
They have a tendency to push out products well before they should be out, they take their sweet time for patching and basically work their programmers to death in the process.
Then, as their console model shows, they love to produce a game and then in order to get the "secrets" you need to pay for them.
I truly hope I am wrong and they are able to continue to put out products that consumers will enjoy (read NWN) for years.
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Post by the1kobra on Oct 12, 2007 0:38:11 GMT
Admins!!! Delete the link and all of these posts before the panic spreads!!! On a serious note, I can't really say that this change is for the better. The way I see it, EA is a juggernaught of many video games, and i'm very skeptical of any large company that has a lot to keep track of. Take the collegeboard for example, they control the whole area of college applications, and the amount of red tape they have to go through is enormous. It eventually gets so bad that they can't get anything useful done anymore, all they're doing is sifting through piles of paperwork and not doing anything except being caught in a limitless void of beurocratic web. I can't really say bigger is better, EA just absorbed two companies and now is going to be larger and less efficient. I really hope that Higher Ground does not have to pay the price for it.
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Post by johannhowitzer on Oct 12, 2007 0:51:11 GMT
Is EA capable now of shutting down the online capability of NWN as a whole? Or is our ability to tap into servers like Higher Ground independent of their control?
And if they do control it and they do eventually shut NWN online down, would it be possible for Acaos and his minions to hack NWN in such a way that the servers around the globe can be reached without Bioware/EA's online support?
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Post by chirikov on Oct 12, 2007 2:35:49 GMT
nwn is perfectly capable of connecting to servers without using the gamespy server listings; the problem is that youll see the servers die damn fast as people wont bother looking for servers outside of the ingame browser. (perhaps not so fast with a more dedicated playerbase, but its still not getting any new players to make up for those who leave)
cant say im happy with this development. ea's track record is pretty poor over the last few years, and bioware was one of the few good rpg developers left
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Post by dodrudon on Oct 12, 2007 2:50:18 GMT
Arrrrrggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!
"You want levels 20-30? $10." "You want Red Dragon Disciple? $10." "You want epic feats? $10."
AOWJEPOAJWGEPOJAWEPGJO
Good thing it's not during the development of Mass Effect.
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Post by Acaos on Oct 12, 2007 3:10:27 GMT
"You want epic feats? $10." Special deal, just for today - three epic feats for $33.99! Acaos
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Post by guidedseraphim on Oct 12, 2007 5:50:08 GMT
Back in 1997 a game named Legends of Kesmai was closed down by EA when Gamestorm/Fasa was bought out by them. This community involved 8 more games all at 10 dollars a month. That was for the whole of the titles not just 1. Each game had as many as 800 people online at any given time. Our consolation prize? A one month free trial to their online games if we bought the title....
Refused to release the source codes....
Wanted an outrageous amount for the coding to run it ourselves....
End result?
EA wins, gaming community loses.
The end is nigh.
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Post by illandous on Oct 12, 2007 12:12:02 GMT
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Post by johannhowitzer on Oct 13, 2007 0:51:31 GMT
Or Tactics Arena Online. Honestly, though, with this dedicated a playerbase we may not die so easily, even over the long-term. Word of mouth does wonders. I can see fansites going up all over the net, maybe even a few directories that will of course list OUR servers at the top!! NWVault comes to mind. Let's give 'em a good fight, shall we?
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Post by niarte1 on Oct 13, 2007 0:53:14 GMT
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Post by mishimayukio on Oct 13, 2007 2:06:19 GMT
Woot.
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