A pic of Pure Win \o/
Posted by Daniel in Uncategorized on January 18, 2012
Star Wars: The Old Republic is granted Grace Period
Well, in direct response to my earlier post (yes, I’m that important) Bioware and EA have decided to actually give a grace period on the game Star Wars: The Old Republic. There will be two days in which people can play for free and register their key. In good faith, if I receive my copy prior to the two days being up I will register earlier – however the chances are pretty damn slim, even though it shipped today.
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=28618
This means that my previous post on this topic has been nullified by this recent news. Originally I intended to just update it, but as at the time it was true and Bioware/EA had reneged on a promise I have decided to leave it up until Bioware/EA/Stephen Reid press charges, at which point I’ll transform into a giant sea eagle and throw them into the ocean.
Star Wars: The Old Republic grace period
Heh, so I thought I could do a mini rant here about a lie by Stephen Reid about the grace period.
See, I don’t fall for the “Head of customer relations doesn’t know about grace period” gag. Doesn’t make sense, he had to know or he’s definitely a bad employee. So what’s the issue, you ask? In a post in August he stated, no ambiguity, that there was a grace period where people could play temporarily while they wait for their physical game box to arrive.
As of today, grace period is no more! Those people who bought physical editions won’t be able to play after the 20th December until their boxes arrive (providing they get to play prior to the 20th December at all). Ah, the rage was tremendous – roughly two pages of posts every 30 seconds, it hit 4000 posts in about an hour and a half.
Of course, there were the defenders who tried deflecting the blame to EA, and others who deflected the blame to Bioware, and even others who said there were no lies and things change. Since this is the XD Project where we are right and the world is wrong I’m going to go ahead and state categorically that those people are morons. That is all.
Oh, and the accent…
I was reading a forum post today and it went along the lines of “People should be nice to Aussies, their accents are entertaining”. I thought to myself, “What accent, american drawler?” and decided that if my accent was entertaining then every other accent in the world must be awfully grating – russian accents excepted, there’s just no way a russian accent can be bad in any way.
I’ve heard before the ‘myth’ about our accent – I work with Australians, talk with Australians every day, grew up in Australia, have given and heard speeches in Australia, and I can verify we do not have an accent – unless you come from Darwin in which case I guess it’s a fair cop.
Anyway, it’s the rest of the world that have accents, all us Aussies have no accent at all.
ATI loses again
Posted by Daniel in Uncategorized on December 5, 2011
Yes, I admit I am a total Nvidia fanboy. ATI sucks and I know it.
Yet another example of ATI’s continued inability to put out a decent product is their graphics cards not working with Star Wars: The Old Republic. A real sock in the eye for all those people who thought, “ATI will be great!”. Yeah, it’ll be great for watching YouTube.
Just to make sure I’m not misrepresenting anything here, let me put it out there in bullet point form:
- ATI
- Sucks
- A
- Lot
I hope that helps clarify things. I have never installed an ATI in any of my machines and if Nvidia keeps up their awesome track record I never will.
NVIDIA4LIFE!
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