Basically, yeah. They do have significant deposits, but the real thing is that they have the facilities in place to mine/refine them, which is no small thing. Basically, they undercut other suppliers back in the day, resulting in U.S. operations shutting down - and now the time/cost of starting them back up is high…

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I don't think the negativity was undeserved per se, due to the "2" in the title.

It's not necessarily a stupid invention. While it might be easy to make the assumption that women could just buy a more modest version of a top or something, it may not be the case. Stores only have so much floor space, usually dedicated to what's considered fashionable at the time, which is something the average…

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.