It breaks up the gameplay differently, but effectively players can have more margin for error.

Because an extra dollar or three per unit when you're building tens of millions of them adds up.

Finish the game, read some of the critiques on the ending (like this one [www.gamefront.com]), and reconsider your position.

You don't have the option to just use the desktop and not Metro. Not really. Anything you would have used the Start menu/window for before is now in Metro. As of the Public Preview, the registry key to flip to not use Metro isn't there.

Have you played the first Guild Wars?

The first game isn't really an MMO. It falls more into the co-op RPG type range, as nearly all actual gameplay occurs in instances (there are a couple missions where you're potentially dropped in with a second player/group of players if you happen to enter around the same time). The town hubs are public, so you can…

You can't bypass Metro. In the Developer Preview you could disable it in the registry, but that option is gone in the Public Preview. It's the new "Start Menu", so while the desktop is still present, we now have a Start "screen" with UI cues that make little sense outside of a touch interface, if at all. It relies a…

Eh, the character in general is stylized, as is most all the art for the game from what I've seen. I doubt it's the appearance they're talking about so much though.

I don't mean that it's supposed to be kid per se, or trying to defend it in general - just that it could be a deliberate reason they went for it.

It's not at all uncommon to see, too large or too small.

Yet, working at Software Etc for the PS2 launch, I saw ones that stopped reading CDs or DVDs (usually not both) within a few months of it coming out.

I tend to make female characters as well. My femshep is named Rhynn, which is the name I tend to use for more sci-fi style stuff (ME, Fallout, etc).

Don't look at me, I didn't buy any DLC for their previous titles, and I've chosen not to buy some games based on their DLC model (Marvel vs Capcom 3 for example).

I already canceled my subscription, and really so did most of the people I started playing with.

I'd cut him, but, I don't have a knife...

Seems kinda silly to make her a scapegoat when we all know EA is the cancer killing Bioware.

Because many of us simply don't want to be required to run yet another client just to play a title or three. Admittedly, Steam did this first - from Half Life 2 on, if you wanted to play a Valve game, it was going to be through Steam. However, that was years ago, and now Steam is entrenched.

The mentality is somewhat understandable. FFXI copied a lot of Everquest n' such - older MMOs. At U.S. launch, it was rather unforgiving and very group/grind centric. Some of us still stuck with it, but a lot of people got a bad taste in their mouth and have yet to shut up about it.

XI has the benefit of years more development, but XIV is where SE is dumping the majority of their efforts these days.

Expansion packs were usually just a case by case basis. Plenty of older games really were like 1/3-1/2 of a new game, for half the price (or less). Still some new-er ones too, Mask of the Betrayer for NWN2, as an example.