lol it seems every forum has them
 

Apparently this is the world we live in today.

While reading my Principles of Management book, in the section on Customer Satisfaction i came across this "The online forums for Activision-Blizzards World of Warcraft, the most popular web-based role playing game, are infamous for trolls- users who take advantage of the anonymous nature of forums to post insulting and hateful messages for no reason." Did my business book really just define trolling haha ??

How much did you pay for that book/class? :/

lol it went on to say that Activision was going to make members use their real names when posting, but that violated privacy rights and people didnt want to get hacked or get their information stolen yada yada so Activision repealed the rule to "satisfy their customers." Was still just funny to see though.

Yeah I remember when they were going to make you use your real name on the forums.

But yeah, game that popular they have a million or so trolls.

On this forum they make us mods.

Well Activision is a horrid company anyway. I mean, they arent as bad as Electronic Arts, but they are in close running. Their early disaster of the Battlefield series really put them up there in hate land.

For those who don't know.. both Electronic Arts and Activision as the only companies to make it out of the 80s gaming dev world in one piece.

My buddy is a video game designer for ubisoft. I know nothing about gaming of any sort, but he seems to have a pretty good gig.

I loved ea games because the controls all functioned the same. I could pick up any game and understand the basic control functions in two minutes.

Probably sent from a toilet

I'm sure that 80% of that forums troll problem has to do with their 80% underage population.

I thought Battlefield Up until Vietnam sold well? Either way EA and Activision are the devil. If not for the fact they keep recycling the same game ideas and stuff over and over again. It was like they bought up any good innovative game studios and turn them into DLC Makers.

I havent seen any real good innovative game ideas as of late.. Maybe its just because i'm getting older and "Get off my lawn!" is kicking in. It just seems like ive seen everything before..

EA shut down the most legit game dev companies when they bought em and fucked up their history with releasing updated titles that werent even ready with tons or bugs and issues.

Activision began to do the same thing. Even BF3 had its compatibility issues.

I wish I was a game developer. Epic games is down the street from me and all the big guys there drive supercars....daily.

Step 1: big turbo/tune
Step 2: race said super cars
Step 3: ???
Step 4: profit!

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that book just defined MSF.

Pussy troll?

lol...no. 911 turbo, gallardo, 458, r8s, gtrs...no way I'm gonna take any of them

Real deal big turbo and plenty of extra fueling and you can take at least some of them from a roll. Specially since they're probably all stock.

Well not with that attitude!:yup:

Haha optimism, always point the gopro back never forward haha

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For the most part yes.

Activision was founded in the early 80s by former Atari employees. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs worked at Atari for 4 days and wrote Breakout, before going on to design the Apple II. Woz said that the Atari programmers back then were paid very well (200k USD yearly) but were not allowed to put their names anywhere in the software, manuals, box, etc. Thus the invention of the "easter egg." The Atari 2600 is notoriously difficult to program and to this day is still considered one of the hardest consoles to program. You had just 128 bytes of RAM, 4096 bytes of ROM, and no screen memory. You had to draw each frame (screen) in real-time; you couldn't "persist" a picture in memory because there virtually was none! So the programming wasn't just writing the graphics, sounds, and game logic like today's games, but also involved being "cycle exact" with the processor and television; the CPU was constantly busy drawing the screen (except during Vblank when you could do a bit of game logic) and the programmer had to do all of this to mere cycle (hz) precision. One mistake and you were "racing the beam," a condition where you spent too much time setting up the next line for the television and it just draws black ewww. Anyway...

The very high salaries were not the issue; it was the pride part. So a subgroup of programmers left Atari to form Activision including someone you may have heard of; David Crane who today is regarded as one of the true pioneers of video gaming. He designed and wrote Pitfall. Anyways, the rest is history...