[cod] Need to know

[Jay Vasallo]

Wow is kewl. Don't play it like these wow cultist do but I get in and kill "Flyin Dragon" ever once ina w while =o).

I read the mailing list for ranked and unranked bf2 servers. Even thou I do not share your enthusiam about BF-II, I feel that COD II will rock as you do. But no details. This is killing me. The demo was great but release some news on the server for crying out loud.

But as Ryan mentioned, "Good things come to those who wait".....

I am going to take that as Golden and believe that Activision has something sweet planned for us. But then again, I hold that faith as long as they didn't intergrate the GM programmers into this new game. Ha!

BTW, DM is way Kewl man. We should play one day . lol 


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark J. DeFilippis 
  To: cod at icculus.org 
  Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 7:08 AM
  Subject: Re: [cod] Need to know


  At 03:17 PM 10/6/2005, you wrote:

    So you're thinking the whole model of WoW??   Meaning an open world  
    where you wonder around looking for something to kill? 


  He he...  Gee...  that sounds like a FPS to me...
  We wonder around in DM looking for something to kill. ;-))

  Jay, that response was reserved.  I saw WOW model and
  I admit, I freaked.  I have seen my sons play WOW, less now
  that I turned them on to "The Guild", and I suspect way less
  when COD2 is out. (I am so anti-WOW, I refused to open
  the account and give Blizzard MY CC#.  I make my sons use
  the 60 day cards (I pay for them). 

  Now it may just be that I am outside the mean with a
  significant std. deviation since each time I looked over their
  shoulders, they were running.. and running... and running...
  with their pets.. looking for items to pick up, and flying fairies
  to shoot at", I never saw anything that made me say "WOW"!
  How someone can go from playing COD, COD:UO and move
  to the mundane existence of running and running (with Lag even!),
  I have no idea.  It is so boring to me.  If they wanted to torture
  the Al Quida prisoners they should make them sit down in front
  of WOW for a week straight! How Inhumane, sorry. 

  Fun aside... WOW is made up of little realms.  A realm is
  the maximum world they can run on a server.  Really, that
  is what it is... :)   When the realm is busy, I noticed it is Laggy
  which as we all know is very desirable for a FPS like COD2. NOT.

  If games continue to move towards the WOW model, or
  the "Ranked" vs "Unranked" model, I am quitting
  and going back my old Atari 800.  Basic stuff, but at
  least the old stuff had some entertainment value.... :)

  Based on the demo... it don't look like they plan to fit
  either of those models, Thank God the stupidity virus
  effecting EA has not spread. 

  Also, addressing the stmt: "WOW's user base is growing but their
  revenue has dropped 90%".

  YES.  That is called "People that used to play WOW
  and have a dormant account since they no longer play".
  From the purely business and financial/investor
  perspective,  no doubt they made money, but they
  are hemorrhaging now. 

  Dr. D

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