Well--the zombies won!! And killed TOR. TOR has been offline more than online since the patch.

Apparently EA does not want BW doing any testing on their patches before release.

Reading the news stories on GamesRadar.com you would think every thing was hunky dorey in TORland. Unfortunately, TOR has been a huge disappointment for most folks that bought the game. Would love to see how many of the box sales stay on and pay $15.

Fond memories of playing Choplifter back on my Apple II. Heck that is where I learned what the word sortie meant...

Lord of the Rings and Star Trek were some pretty strong brands...

Pick me!

Strange--I see all the ;line breaks and formatting. Using Firefox.

Activision would have to do something actionable. All Activision has done so far is generate a bit of negative press.

MW1 and MW2--both great games. MW3 is not by Infinity Ward. The BF3 multiplayer is pretty darn good. Be interesting to see how the shrt campaign of MW3 and multiplayer stack up. Something tells me a bunch of folks are about to feel let down....

Arkham City is looking pretty good for GOY.

Looks like one of the classic cars will be the 57 Thunderbird--seen in the line of cars with the day laborers.

Another Easter egg? Google does know the answer to: "what is the answer to life the universe and everything" **Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Wasn't the plan originally to have the large scale testing weekends begin in September? I know when they offered the initial pre-order sign ups the offer read that all that pre-ordered would have beta weekends and there wouldn't be a non-disclosure agreement. Then as September approached the wording changed. When it was well in September and folks started flipping on the EA forums it was said that only limited players that pre-ordered would be invited to test. As September ended, it seemed there was no one talking about their testing experience. Hmmm--makes one wonder how many pre-ordering folks actually got into a September Beta test weekend---a dozen?

Sure doesn't give me much hope that what we'll see on 12/20 will be polished.

One little difference--GamesRadar doesn't crawl my hard drive, I don't keep my financial and tax records on my cellphone, nor does my bank have anything to do with my computer.

It is a big deal when large corporations start to ram Orwellian crap down your throat. Personally, I'll stay away from BF3, pirate ME3, and sit on the sidelines for the release of SWOR.

When the game is really good and has that special addictive quality, you don't need any help staying awake. Dawn just naturally comes and you realize you've been having way, way too much fun.

WWIIOnline is still kicking around: http://www.battlegroundeurope.com/ Was always better then Planetside. Planetside couldn't touch the visual ranges in WWIIOnline. The graphics in WWIIOnline are crap--but the fights can be like none other.

My biggest gripe with F2P--way, way too many kiddies. I don't spend my lunch hour socializing with kids, I don't seek out groups of children to romp around the park with in afternoons, and I sure don't want to play computer games with a bunch of kiddies.

P2P presents a certain barrier to entry that helps to skew the gamer population of the game toward a more mature segment.

Now maybe if the F2P publishers figured out a way to partition off the game so I don't have to play with a bunch of 8 to 14yro kids I'd have a little more interest.

SOE? Suckers Online Everywhere?

The petition collected a whole 2,500 signatures!! That should be enough subscribers to keep SWG from going under...

I agree about non-subscription. Not a fan of seeing things like CoD and Halo turning toward subscription. A bunch of monthly payments to play the games I want would suck.

With that said, I've not been able to finish any of the single player RPGs because they feel a little lonely after getting used to MMOs.

Playstyles vary. Leveling to me is a solo grind. It is the end game content that requires co-op--think 10 and 25 player raids. Raids are instanced--so technically when raiding, your playing a game tailored for 10/25 folks. The MMO part is simply a fancy match-making service.

On a last note--Neverwinter Nights were both a co-op non-subscription model. Neverwinter Nights is being relaunched as a MMO. But Guild Wars 2 is sticking to the non-subscription model. We'll see how they do....

Not enough co-op RPGs? Are you kidding me? World of Warcraft, Rift, et al... Or are you talking without a subscription fee? The non-subscription games don't have much a market now due to the readily available new content that comes from subscription based games.

Call of Duty is even moving into the subscription world...

Anyone else get the hypocrisy? One guy didn't like the game so he had no problem attacking the livelihood of the developers. Yet, when the reviewer gets a stream of bad reviews he feel put out?

Sony is a nit-wit of a company. Anything beyond tic-tac-toe, and they seem to screw it up. Star Wars Galaxies, Planetside, PSN, and the list goes on... I have learned my lesson--never again will anything associated with Sony ever get my credit card number.