Recent content by HobbesMkii

Maybe it's just fatigue? You know how a lot of movie reviewers have cooled towards comic book movies? Maybe it's a lot like that.

You might want to mention somewhere in the article that Paul Trowe is the head of Replay Games. That's the first mention of him in this article, and it's just his last name.

That doesn't follow from the previous statements at all, unless you have more information than was in that Korea Times story. It doesn't say that the developers/publishers themselves will be restricted from selling in-game items, it says that players or third-party distributors selling items is...

Wow, no. Did you read Schilling's interview in the Providence Journal the whole way through a couple of weeks ago, or whenever it came out? Unless you have a hard copy of the paper, it's unlikely, thanks to the ProJo's payway. But I do and I did. In it, he's quite clear that the governor tried...

I think they had more than a cash flow issue. Schilling says they weren't ever going to get money from EA for Kingdoms of Amalur. He also hadn't paid his employees for weeks before the loan was due. That seems to me to indicate a severe problem with ever having money to pay back the RI Economic...

No one "called in all the chips on the loan." 38 Studios couldn't make the FIRST payment of the loan. For a payment schedule they agreed upon. If you skip your mortgage payments, the bank takes your house. If you skip your car loan payments, they repossess your car. If you skip your economic...

Screw that noise. The majority of us Rhode Islanders didn't want the deal in the first place, either. Schilling even says in the Providence Journal article that Chafee was amenable to them getting another tax credit (for film, if you can believe it), but the RIEDC dragged its feet and torpedoed...

Governor. Not Mayor. Two different levels of state government. Also, his adviser for making that statement was Providence Equity Partners, one of the largest investment firms in the world, with a focus on entertainment and technology. So, yeah, you're right, he's probably not very well versed on...

The article clearly says that they're in talks to sell it first thing, just that their price is overblown.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion_cavalry The traditional "thrusting spear" lance has been around since at least Alexander the Great. The couched lance required stirrups, but if your intent is to take a long pole with a spear point and jam it at high speed into your enemy, you only...

You said the lesson was not to take money from a state who could "yoink" (you'll have to correct me on how to spell that word) it away. But as I said above, RI didn't "yoink" any money. So that would be an unrelated (though possibly still valid) lesson to learn. If that's a misunderstanding I...

Wow, what the hell are you guys talking about? The 38 Studios story is totally different if you don't live in Rhode Island, it seems. Susan's so absurdly off. I don't where she got the idea from, or how none of the others called her on it, but Rhode Island didn't take away any money from 38...

Won't they need to introduce some freaking lances? What's the point of being mounted if you're not able to take the same advantage of it that people took for thousands of years?

It's not really that far of a stretch to say they'd need 3 million. They're (at least) $50 million in the hole. Let's be generous to the Governor and say that's what he means by "cost of development" (i.e. having a company with people and a building). The game sold at $60. So, if they sold 3...

M:tGO has a slightly less user-friendly/polished client than Duels, though. Plus, Duels isn't charging you per card. My sense of the Duels design philosophy is to be a hook, like a playable demo that hints at the intricacies of the full game but doesn't provide every nuance of gameplay. Like...