Elleon

The genres I prefer are platformers and jrpgs. I have a soft spot for both Final Fantasy (FFVII) & the Tomb Raider (TRIII) series. They were the two that really introduced me to gaming.

Another little social experiment concerning the young and female? How many times is this now? This for another HS essay or did you read an article on yahoo and think you just had to walk in their shoes yourself to figure out whether or not activity on SG was like every other place on the internet and gaming? Could have just asked instead of wasting your time, or well... just payed attention while in-game any other time I suppose. Yeah, there's a disparity concerning the treatment and interactions between the young, gay, high voiced, and perceived female population. Welcome to the internet.

After seeing more footage and having them explain more in-depth on pieces of the game (plenty of information is still being withheld for the time being), who knows how well EQN will do. I think that Forced Strategy Gaming is along the right lines in saying that EQN may be the next great RPG experience based on the formula that they are building this world from. An example would of course be WOW (World of Warcraft) in the sense that although that nothing that they did was necessarily new, except in their own space, they brought together all of these great concepts and put them into a single package. For the same reasons that WOW became successful, EQN might rise to be a real contender. Even though quite a few of these titles that they are taking from haven't been as widely accepted such as WOW, there is no denying that each one does have or has had something unique or approached a specific area in their gameplay that stood out from the others.

It's probably not going to be the "WOW Killer". People have been wanting that for years but...why? It doesn't make any sense. If nothing beats WOW, that just means games aren't as good as it. If the games aren't as good as WOW, why are you even playing them? Just ask that the game is good.

https://www.everquestnext.com/about-eqn Twitch Everquest Next & Everquest Next: Landmark worldwide debut happened a couple days ago on Aug. 2nd. I'm not sure if anyone has been looking into this or not but I thought I may as well bring it up on the forums. Considering this is a debut there doesn't appear to be a whole lot out there, but here is what's known so far. 1: Everquest Next is the next MMORPG game to be released in the Everquest franchise. It's still in development and has been for about 1.5 years at the least. Ignore the any promises and the flash and check out the videos on Twitch and keep your eye on future developments and news. 2: Everquest Next: Landmark is suppose to launch this December if I heard correctly. Or the Beta at any rate. This will be the start of Next project. It's another complete "game" in itself. It's a Next Generation Sandbox. Think Minecraft and or Second Life. I like the concept and am interested in what they are doing. I actually enjoy this particular side of games. It's not going to be everyone's cup of tea and I assume that it won't be quite as groundbreaking as they want to make it out as, but it's definitely a step in the direction that MMORPGS and developers have been putting into recent titles. Involving the players more, embracing the modding communities, etc.. Anyways, give it a look, tell me what you think, discuss.

Isn't this an old concept? Didn't they already make something very similar? Seems like it is. Maybe they just brought a bunch of ideas together or something. I know the eroge and dating sims are pretty big over in that part of the world so I'm not hugely surprised. The final product looks a bit rough but I can see them evolving over the next few years or so. Or not, idk. Considering it's along the same lines though, I expect they will definitely try to expand in this field.

LOL alright alright. You joke but it'll happen though. Mark my words.

My bad, I was thinking about like stuff that could seriously take over the servers such as that TTT instance. Closing doors, blowing up a bridge...after a few months. I means it's like 1 round you know. They can do it over and over but...is it a serious issue? When I was in a lot of admins didn't care. I assumed the players just adapted or whatever. EDIT: Not to change the subject since i just dawned on me that it may be related...but what's up with Afamad? Kinda seems like a prime example. Hasn't he been permed a couple times? I've never had any real issues with him but it's not like he's disrespectful or anything. He brings people in and when he screws up he gets banned....then comes back. Idk, maybe he doesn't try anything with me because I was always more of a hardass when it came to enforcing the rules. Or maybe he just doesn't care since he seems to be able to avoid our bans anyways. Anyone know about that? And yeah, permed for a year but he is still kicking around the servers. That voice is hard to forget.

Yeah i definitely thought about the players and that is kinda the priority, but idk man. I have also seen servers empty but I wouldn't worry too much myself about the CSS servers. It's not like it use to be in my opinion. We don't really have any maps on ZE that can kill loads of people anymore, MG is kinda, well very safe. Only ones I would be a little worried about is JB but i always see a couple admins in there any time of the day and I hear TTT was dead anyways. Leniency sure. I don't know much about them so *shrug* I have always been for it but unless it's all in or not, it never passes. What do you mean by afamad? He was playing in MG or ZE last night or the day before. Is he suppose to be banned again? EDIT: Sorry Xeno, I just skimmed your initial post. Positives would be along the lines of what Nasu was talking about. Leniency i guess. We change things all of the time. I don't particularly care if we lose face in the eyes of the other communities. Hell I don't even know them. It's already been pointed out that the number i am talking about is small, but whatever it is, generally there are handfuls of players that bring in other. Yeah they get a little rowdy but...we make exceptions all of the time. It's not new. If you are worried about that kind of thing...well I'm not sure how to respond to that. I really just think you are worrying too much about issues coming up. I've never seen anything substantial happen. Of all the problems that keep popping up like weeds, I have never seen the higherups deal with it differently in the end. It's just the posts and threads, and all the shit in between that seems to get people really pissed off and stuck on the same thing.

I'm not really trying at all man lol I'm not joking. I really think this is that insignificant of an issue that opposition always bugs me. Bug hey, it's a public forum and it's not my decision. Not like a rejection would hurt me in anyway and I'd rather be shut down with logic than just a blank closed thread. Good to get some clarification on things from the higher ups at times. Just took a look at the ban list and was like wtf...huh, never even wondered why we even bothered until now.

Bullshit. We aren't getting thousands of anything coming back to break our rules and they sure as hell wouldn't do so intentionally. You couldn't tell jackshit apart from anything and our days wouldn't be anything different. Oh the unbearable hassle of spending 1 second it takes to press a button, mute, or kick. Just trying to blow this shit out of proportion. Hassle? Lol like admins are ever going to be overwhelmed. If every single one of those 22k appealed we would let 99% of them through based on the exact same standards we have let the other dozens and hundreds get by. Just wasting time by having people sit in appeals for days so someone can go search up their steam ids, say imported you pass or well it's been so and so long, so you are on thin ice mister.

But hey I'm just tossing it out there for others to mull over. I just don't think it's necessary is all. It's not like these guys fucked your girl while you were out on a business trip or something. On that huge "Things to care about" list, I really believe this shouldn't be on it. I know it's a small number, but it seems like even that is wanted. Why not? I can't see anything actually happening that would negatively effect SG any real way.

Don't tell me that just about every single one of us can name off handfuls of players that have been perma banned, have come back from being banned for something never to do it again, changed their colors, or have just let time get them through. Don't throw that around when we have admins that were those exact positions. Having any number of players continue to fill our servers is a good thing, not a bad. More players will always make them more enjoyable. I'm not sure how that isn't a good enough reason. The appeals is a joke man. It doesn't give us some magical insight into a personal soul, mind or thoughts. We let just about everyone in these days. Why not just make it official? The whole unknown thing...idk what your point was suppose to be there. Any server is filled with the unknown. That's the majority and always has been. We aren't a clan but a community remember. If you knowns is what this is suppose to be about, some things should have been changed a long time ago.