Yesterday they asked me to fix 3 computers that had all the same symptoms. The computers immediatly rebooted after start at the point where the startup screen normally dissapears.
December 10th, 2008
You really don’t want this client
Jeffrey Zeldman wrote an excellent article on clients signs that tell you that you don’t really want to work with them.
December 5th, 2008
The Big Ask - act now!
Normally I have mixed feelings when it comes to the global warming debate. But a few months ago, Nic Balthazar shot the clip for ‘The Big Ask’ in Ostend. At that point I just went to watch the project. But now the clip is finished and it got my attention again …
November 15th, 2008
Adding Sitepoint References to Coda
November 13th, 2008
AVG False / Positive
October 7th, 2008
conference
I couldn’t help my self subscribing and micro-sponsoring the <head>conference (used to be ‘Singularity ‘08). It will be one of the best conferences of this year imho!!!!
June 13th, 2008
Reasons why I don’t like Age of Conan
My second AoC post and probably my last one as well.
This is not going to be a review of Age of Conan as there are plenty already. Also, I’m not going to do a comparison as there are probably plenty already to. These are just my thoughts after playing Age of Conan for a few hours.
June 6th, 2008
Age of Conan - about buddy invites and things …
Ok I don’t really get it but I don’t think Funcom is doing a great job at the moment.
Since a few days the game is live and publicly available. Now … I would really like to try out the game as it looks promising, but I really want to experience this myself for a couple of days to be sure my investment is worth it.
They don’t have a trial version, I can understand that, no problem as they have a buddy invite program. I have few friends playing AoC and asked if they could share me a key. In the mean while I download the client (about 12GB!!). Now I just got word from my buddies: “Sorry mate, the server gives me this in reply:The buddy key program will open as soon as server capacity allows. Please check back later.
I immediatly hit the Funcom forums for some more info and all I read was complaints. Collectors edition that promisis 5 extra codes but are not included, Age of Conan experiences startup troubles, the game is not actually finished, … hmmm wonder why they did go live then!
Common Funcom, let’s be serious, for a company that announces it’s new mmorpg as worlds biggest beta program:
Durham, USA – May 13, 2008 – Funcom and Eidos are proud to confirm some of the impressive figures powering the Age of Conan launch, and the two companies are happy to reveal that the Age of Conan Beta has passed 1 million sign-ups! As one of the most anticipated MMO’s ever, the 1 million mark confirms the amazing interest in the game.
“Funcom has not been able to find any higher beta numbers for MMOs in the western world,” said Morten Larssen, VP of Funcom Sales and Marketing. “We believe it represents the largest ever beta sign-up figure in the history of the genre.”
Having the largest beta program and not being ready for the launch? C’mon. On top of this, if there’s no capacity for buddies (and probably potential players) why should I believe the servers will be ready to take on a payed account? Or do I have to pay now and wait a month before I can get in to?
I know, I’ve could’ve joined the beta program, but why join the beta program if you know you won’t have the time to contribute and bughunt (as that’s what the beta is for). And I tried to get into the early joiners program but had no luck at that.
Well … guess the only solution is buying the game. So let’s head of to the www.ageofconan.com site, click the ‘buy now’ button. Have to click the ‘buy from a retailer’ before I can continue (like wtf?, there’s no other possibility and in the mean while I have all sorts of music and speech mixed through each other aaaaarghhh) and then I look for an appropriate online store, as Belgium is not listed (!). So I guess it will be ‘internation’ and I choose the Funcom Online shop. Ok let’s see … Dreamfall, Dreamfall Limited edition … NO I want AoC … Anarchy online (wasn’t that made free btw?), The Longest Journey, The Longest Journey Soundtrack. What? There’s no AoC on there????
So my only option is going to the store (and it’s raining cats and dogs for the moment) and pay for media I don’t need just to be able to play a game, that’s not finished and that isn’t capable of taking extra accounts as the servers are not ready for it. I don’t even want to go into the pricing issue which ranges from 15€ to 40€ per month depending in what country you live!
You know what … I’ll stick to Eve Online, and maybe … just maybe I’ll try this procedure again in a few years from now.
May 17th, 2008
Follow up on the blog-tag post.
It seems like the blog-tag game has a bigger impact than I expected (see the original thread here).
It’s funny to follow the trails and to see how deep the threads go. To make it easier for you I deciced to try and follow the links as far as I can and put them in this post.
In addition, if the poster of the blog-tag game links back to this blog, I’ll active backlink to that blog in this list.
My wishlist
Some things that I want in 2009 (or will keep dreaming about):