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Well, as you know, Throbble and I are both vehemently against the whole concept of pay-to-play games. We've discussed the issue with gamers and game makers for years and we always came to the same conclusion: We'd rather pay one large, lump sum up front for lifetime access rather than allow our funds to be drained monthly for as long as we want to play the game.

Consider this fictional Diablo 2 scenario. Let's say that when Diablo 2 was announced in the late 90's Blizzard said that it was not financially feasible to host a game as huge and complex as D2 on Battle.net for free. Let's say they decided they would charge $10 a month to play Diablo 2 online.

Now, Throbble and I have been playing D2 online continuously since it was released (2000), for simplicity sake we'll say it's been exactly 7 years to the month. That means each of us would have spent $840 to play Diablo 2 for the past 84 months. Considering this, we would both be happy to slap down $150 a piece up front for lifetime access.

That's the basic argument behind the option of paying the lump sum.

But Hellgate isn't really pay-to-play anyway since the entire single player game is free to play online and there is no restrictions stopping non-subscribers from playing with subscribers.

-420

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Alltough that is a very good explanation and it would come cheaper to you guys if you pay lifesubscription indeed.

But what if the game becomes a dissapointment and you don't play it more then one or two months?
there you paid 200$ for a game that you play for a month or two....
i saw a review today of the game it had a score of 82(while the wicher got close to 90 lol) here they said the quests were too repetive and the storyline sucked, I think the devs of Hellgate London concentrated the most on items and the itemfever then the storyline and the quests, I mean I probably will buy hellgate london but won't pay monthly for it not worth it in my opinion.

I bought the game today and all I can tell you guys it's that it RoCkS!!! i would love to post some screenies but can't lol...

Yes its released in 10 days now, October 31. ^^

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lol didn't know it was that fast...

could you post some screens of the demo tyr i wanna see the graphics and some action of that blademaster...

In the demo are just 5 short quest and like 4-5 areas, and you can only choose blademaster or marksman, i got blademaster to lvl 5 and theres no next area after crovad somethin tunnels so i guess thats about it, you can always replay the other areas just reentering the game but its not likely to lvl much past lvl 5, then i started a marksman and theyre really quite different, and there seems to be only like 3-4 different weapons for each class in the demo, well only 11 days to go xD...

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what you mean hellgate london comes in only 11 days....?

Sounds like a bad mix of Shadows of Angmar and Guild Wars.

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wtf??? ehm.....no lol i highly recomend checking out the website TCOS

This (view attachment) is how it probably will turn out, the evil hellmasterhell from his tower killing you with his appearance.

- Mel

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hehe good one....

Anyway dunno living 400 years might be neat it would be nice to see the world evolving, see the new technologies etc....

on the other hand it would be hard to keep track of everything to remember everything can a human brain retain information for like 200 years??
Overpopulation of the world would also be a problem...


Meh just like Mo said

Screw all of you. I'm living till 600 with or without you all.

I have some intresting questions....

first off what's the difference between HDR and bloom and wich is better in Oblivion to turn on cuz geforce cards can't turn both on.

and second how's the deal now between dual core processors i saw NFS needs a 3Ghz processor now i have a dual core @2Ghz does that mean two processors @2Ghz=4Ghz??

pffft just wait till Chronicles of Spellborn come (it was planed for end december but now somwhere in begin January).........fuckers...

Odd.  Maybe there's no Vista drivers for nvidia mobile...I'm unsure.

Are you sure you have that video card??

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offcourse lol i just checked the hardwaremanager and it says
nvidia geforce 8600M GT

i'm kinda getting the feeling i'm installing it in the wrong folder but dunno...? it's c:\NVIDIA....


EDIT ZOMG what I just read almost gave me a heart attack

check this

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If you try to install any of these drivers without modification , you will most likely get this error:

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well I must say they do their job QUITE good I succesfully installed the new drivers on my geforce and run bioshock in fucking full high quality and it looks freaking great lol!

Don't see why they shouldn't work.  You downloaded for Vista 32-bit?

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yep doesn't work at all i'm quite suprised myself Bioshock crashes after intro movie dammit wtf lol?

Fine.  Never used it though.

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it's pretty good..

Oh by the way. Most modems don't like having new network cards plugged into them.  Turn off your modem and computer for 10 mins then turn your modem back on and then turn your computer back on.  I bet it will work.

If you have a DSL modem remember to configure the Internet Connection inside Windows.

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I think you are right, now posting with my laptop internet works from the moment I installed the drivers of my usb network card and used the card....oh well guess i'll use it for now hehe

BTW Hell yeah I called it "him" cuz it's my precious now and i'll shoot anyone who comes close to HIM!

first of all I don't have any routers i'm the only one in the house with a pc and who uses a pc so the pc is directly connected to the modem.

second of all my laptop doesn't have a firewall (well it had the windows firewall but i disabeled it)

third of all thanks for the advice Tyr i do have a cd with the laptop but didn't used it maybe that'll work...

uuuu maybe the next sports or race game will be from bioware LOL, anyway EA is only good for the NFS underground series......

Are you going to be running Vista?

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Sadly yes the laptop comes with windows vista on him, why?