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Quote:Hiding isn't the same thing as ashamed.Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
Not to take this off topic too much, but if there's a 'but' coming after a statement like that, then you are ashamed to a certain degree. If you think it's a negative to bring up the fact that you are an online gamer, then at some point you're hiding that fact.
Ashamed is if you think something is wrong or bad. Hiding might mean that you think other people think it's bad, and you think they're wrong, but you recognize that they have real-world power of some sort.
For an example, one of my friends is transgendered, and is still several years out from a legal name change. I'm not sure I think it's accurate to say that she's "ashamed" of her current legal name, but she's certainly hiding it. (Doesn't make much sense to talk about being "ashamed of" something you had no control over, does it?) -
Quote:Oh, no. That's not what I mean by "goofy", that's just "non-RP". Names like that usually annoy me.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
As for myself, I'm decidedly in the "serious" camp, and I simply don't take goofy characters seriously, no pun intended. I don't roleplay, but I'll always roll my eyes at characters like "Tanks Alot" or "iPwn" or "Hertz Donit." No offence meant to the people who play them, I just HATE characters like that.
Goofy would be "The Chaste Avenger", whose origin is that she was originally going to develop the world's best high-tech chastity belt, but feature creep left her with a general-purpose armored power suit. She fights crime, and aims to promote responsible choices in promotional relationships.
It's an in-character story, the name fits the background, and in-character, she might well act in ways that fit her background, whether or not these were entirely normal for heroes. It's just a bit silly.
As an example from another game, one of my WoW toons is named "Merisioux", and (using an addon, since the game itself doesn't have descriptions) her character background is long, ludicrously overdetailed, has amusingly improbable typos ("... has left an indelible mark on Meri's gentile soul."), and the like. Silly. Rich with character background detail, which is consistent with how she's played, just... silly. -
Yeah, agreed. That said, every source I've seen suggests strongly that Blizzard knows full well what we want, and why, and that Activision was trying to push this. There is some hope that the degree of pushback now experienced may be enough to erode Kotick's influence a bit.
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For me, toggling to windowed mode fixed it, and toggling back left it fixed.
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Okay, the following advice is at the level of "if you have ANY DOUBTS AT ALL, do not try this".
I poked around a bit. The symptom seems to be that a particular machine that is used to check for updates was not responding. So. I firewalled it, and then once the game was past that stage, unfirewalled it.
In my case, that was:
"ipfw add 02070 deny tcp from any to 216.207.250.196 any out"
If you don't know what that means without even checking the manual, or you aren't sure why that command doesn't work, or where to enter it, PLEASE IGNORE THIS POST. This is in the "things you should only do if you are an experienced sysadmin" category. -
This is happening to me right now. It wasn't earlier today, and my spouse is logged in successfully, but I can't connect. Pinging the server in question does indeed show it to be non-responsive. It's 216.107.250.196, or at least, that's the server I've got an open connection to in SYN_SENT, and it has the plausible name "216-107-250-196.plaync.com". So if that's the machine, well, it's offline. I'm assuming I don't actually need any updates, having updated an hour ago.
ETA: Set firewall to reject packets to that host, updater failed gracefully and now I'm playing. Removed firewall rule in case of future updates. -
I'm guessing that they'll actually implement the requested alias thing and go with that. Not totally sure, but that was the impression I got from a note I got from my queries to privacy@.
If they do the alias thing, that'll make Real ID suddenly usable to a lot of people. -
Quote:I trust them... up to a point. Mostly to behave like a large corporation.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
IMHO anyone who ever trusts them again is a fool.
If Blizz ever spins off from Activision again, I might trust them a little more. Or if Activision fired Kotick. -
Hi, I'm new to the game. I've been roleplaying in various games for a long time, but I like to try to be good about suiting the style of the RP community. I'm told a lot of RP players are on Virtue, so I'm planning to play there. Here's my big question:
Do people tend to be really serious, or really silly, or what, in their RP and character backgrounds? I haven't been playing long enough to see enough to imagine that I've got a general feel for the community. I tend to come up with silly character concepts more often than not, and clearly, superhero and supervillain roleplaying invites a certain amount of silliness, just because, well, honestly an awful lot of real superheroes and supervillains are pretty silly. More so the more you try to actually think about them.
If I have a ridiculous character background, will people feel like they're being griefed or harassed, or will it be contributing to the fun? -
Quote:The two big problems:Originally Posted by Test_Rat
I don't see why this is a big deal.
Just set up a proxy identity, and pay for your account using gamecards/Giftcards.
Easily done.
1. Doesn't do you much good if you have existing accounts.
2. If your account gets compromised, you can't do anything to get it back.
More generally, any time the natural result of a policy is "you must lie about who you are", something is wrong with that policy.
I did notice CoH's aliases, and I like it a lot. I like that I can have "global friends" without having to use my real name (even though, obviously enough, I actually don't care who knows who I am). -
Quote:New to CoH, but what I learned after a few years of WoW was this:Originally Posted by Smurphy
Just play Bad Team Bingo.
There is no such thing as a bad pug. There are two types of pugs: Good ones and funny ones.
... This may rely in part on WoW's very small penalty for dying repeatedly. -
Quote:I have a dedicated source of a very small team, because I'm playing with my spouse. We've been facerolling through newbie content despite not knowing how to play, but we're getting better.Originally Posted by je_saist
A quick note: many servers have dedicated Badge or Teaming global channels. Joining your server's global channel community will aid in finding a continuous source of teams.
I may be forced to tone down my roleplaying instincts, though. Normally, if I'm playing "a hero", I can't just ignore someone being mugged, but I seem to get slowed down a lot by this attitude... -
I pretty much agree, although I have gotten the impression from a couple of comments (including an email I got back from privacy@) that they may actually add an "alias" feature to Real ID. At which point it would, *poof*, instantly turn into a feature I could almost use -- and could use, if they let you use the alias for invites.
FWIW, I had two key arguments against Real ID forums. One, though much more emotionally persuasive to me, was irrelevant to most people; I have a transgendered friend who would, for a number of fairly obvious reasons, be unable to use any game feature that involves displaying your current legal name.
The one that I have found really effective, though, for arguing with people who think all you have to do is not troll and there's no risk to you for posting on forums, is this:
We had a trade channel troll in our guild for a while. We try to be cool about giving people second chances as long as they don't bring drama to the guild, but it was not a great fit. This guy was a legend on the server in terms of how many people had him on ignore, would drop group instantly if they saw him, and so on. Anyway, he got to be enough of a problem that he got kicked out of the guild. He responded by starting a thread in the forums accusing one of the guild officers of ninjaing some loot which, in fact, had never dropped. (A few weeks later, he transferred to a different faction so people wouldn't know him, which lasted a good three or four weeks, now he's got the same reputation again.)
Here's the thing. This guy holds grudges like you wouldn't believe. He says, quite often, that it is his duty to retaliate when people disrespect him or injure him.
What do you think would happen if any officer of the guild that kicked him ever posted in the guild recruitment forum under their real name?
This is why the whole notion was stupid.
Thanks for the welcome. CoH is a pretty big shift from what I'm used to, and I'm still finding the interface a bit confusing, but I think I'll keep a subscription. Even if I don't play it all the time, it looks pretty fun, and the community and developers seem pretty awesome compared to the cesspits of the Blizz forums. (To be fair, there's some awesome people in WoW. They're just spread a little thin among all the nutjobs.) -
Quote:I have two objections to this argument.Originally Posted by LiquidX
Except you would have STILL had controll over your name and identity, BY NOT POSTING ON THEIR FORUMS. Keep in mind, forums are no way essential to a game. Look at CoH/V: It's widely been known that only around 1% of the playerbase is active on the forums.
The first is that, for WoW, the forums are perhaps a bit more essential, in that if you want technical support, and it becomes non-trivial, you are nearly always advised to post in the forums. I've used the tech support forums, and they really are pretty good -- I've gotten correct answers to fairly tricky questions, quite quickly, when I've tried those forums. The same thing goes for customer service. With many requests, a post in the customer service forum will be resolved before you would have been done hitting redial if you were trying to call in. Now, it's true that most people aren't active in the forums, but it can be awfully useful to have the option.
The second is a more fundamental thing. If someone were to say "the forums are too busy, so we're instituting a new policy, women can't use the forums", no one would tolerate it for a second. No one would say "oh, it's okay, you can play the game, just don't use the forums." That the exact group of people who can't use the forums under that policy isn't as clearly a single well-defined protected class does not, IMHO, change the substance of the problem. There are people whose jobs require them not to post on forums under their own names, there are people trying to avoid stalkers, and there are women who don't really want to pick up that much harassment.
Honestly, though, I'm more offended by the dishonesty than I am by the details of the proposed change. Think about how much time Blizzard had spent explaining that Real ID was only for use with people you knew in real life. FWIW, in defense of Blizzard as such, there's multiple reports suggesting that the actual Blizzard employees hated this, and that it was a policy imposed/defined by Activision. Which, you know, totally makes a huge difference, right? :P
Still, if I went around expecting megacorps to be ethical or honest, I'd starve. I try to maintain reasonably low expectations of humanity. -
Mysterious coincidences!
Shortly after Blizzard announced this, I was asking a friend who plays CoH for information, and he pointed me at this thread. By a further amazing coincidence, a couple of hours later I had a trial account.
I may well end up resubbing to WoW, depending on how the rest of this plays out, but I am thus far finding CoH an interesting change. It's a hard sell for me, though, because fundamentally I want to kill internet dragons.
Still, CoH seems pretty friendly. Also, Levelling Pact, best idea ever. Awesome.
BTW, I am totally aware of the irony in posting by the name I'm most widely known by in order to gripe about how stupid it is to make people post under their "real names". Back in the late 80s, I mistakenly concluded that there was no need to worry much about privacy, and at this point, well, it's a bit late to change my mind.