Gosh I get tired of this shit three months after launch:
Maybe my memory has fogged more than I think, but I could swear that EverQuest-Classic (SIX YEARS AGO) didn’t have this kind of hardware/database/login (whateverthefuck) issues after three months. And I’m only picking on EverQuest because that was SIX YEARS AGO.
Surely there’s been advancements since then.
Wednesday night, one of the guild dudes told us he had a conversation with one of the (alleged!) professional farmers on our server. The shocking news was that she is JAPANESE.
She had interacted with almost all of us at one time or another, we assumed she was cursing at us in Chinese … to American eyes, anglicized Asian languages look virtually identical. (Go ahead, call me a xenophobe or an ignorant American bastard, but hell if I can see the difference.)
Our guild dude took it one step further, however. He copied what she had said to him into an internet translator and determined that it was JAPANESE. So, what did she say? Nosey guildmates want to know!
He didn’t know. His chosen translator was of such poor quality, apparently, that all it could report was that it was Japanese and that it involved tools of some kind.
We wanted to know if maybe she was cursing at him, because that would be hilarious. Describe the context, was he creeping into her farm? Because then, for sure, it was cursing.
One of the guys thought maybe she was asking if the guildie had a large American dick, which launched a five-minute conversation not fit for e-print, even on this blog. The conclusion was that he would definitely need a better translator if he wanted to respond to that. Mixing up his Japanese adjectives would be disastrous.
Seeing as how we’ve run into Chinese pros, Korean pros and now JAPANESE pros … this professional farming gig is starting to sound more and more like a grand conspiracy by the Pacific-rim nations. Are the Vietnamese involved in this as well?
If only we knew of a better translator, we could possibly infiltrate their ranks … befriend them … maybe get free stuff! Epic items all around!
But alas and alack. Four years of high school Spanish and all I know is … en mis pantalones!
On our guild boards, one of the dudes was asking about Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, if we were going to try and worm our way into the beta.
WTF, I thought that was years away, wrote I.
Nah, think it’s soon, wrote he.
I think he’s high because I checked around their site and I can’t find anything other than it will be “some day.” I read the FAQ. Here’s an excerpt:
1.4.1 What do you mean by a ‘third generation MMORPG’?
We usually use the word ‘generation’ more like an ‘era’… when a group of games come out around the same time, were in development mostly around the same time, and therefore couldn’t use each other as reference nearly as much as older games, we call that a generation.
Under that definition, M59, UO, AC, EQ, etc. were all first generation. They pretty much just had MUDs to look back on and be inspired.
When you get to AC 2, SW:G, EQ 2, and WoW, all of the developers are able to look back not only at MUDs but also at what worked and didn’t work with the first generation of MMOGs.
Vanguard will have the advantage of looking back at both generations, learning again from what worked and didn’t work with all of those games. In other words, we will be able to analyze EQ 2, WoW, etc. too.
That doesn’t mean our definition of ‘generation’ is ‘right’ or ‘official’, but that is the rationale we use when we refer to Vanguard as a 3rd generation massively multiplayer role-playing game.
heh. Kinda ballsy.
Seems like they missed a generation there, so they’re probably more like fourth generation, although if they take long enough to give birth to this thing, could be fifth generation. Just saying.