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Placing bets on running time til "I feel the need! The Need For Speed!"

The reason they made it HD only is all of the text for the inventory system. As someone who tried to play two player co-op Borderlands on a SD screen and nearly went blind, just thinking about four player Minecraft on a tube TV is making my eyesight worse.

I am so stoked to get my friends drunk and mess around with this.

My account had 6000 MSP purchased out of nowhere in the middle of the night about 3 months ago. Fortunately, I had email notification enabled, so when I woke up, I got the email saying the points had been purchased. I then immediately ran to my computer, was able to log in to my Windows Live account, and changed my password. I then called MS support later that day. They shut down my gamertag's purchasing ability for about a week, but I was still able to log in and play without issue. They also removed the points from my account and refunded my money - fortunately, it had been using an older debit card that I don't use much any more, and they cleaned out the minimal amount I had left in that bank account and the bank bounced the transactions, which is likely why the phisher didn't bother changing my password or buying FIFA cards with the points.

After about a week, MS support called me back, asking me to call back. I did call back, and the agent I got seemed semi-clueless as to what was going on. I told her I was now fully in control of my account, I had changed my password immediately, there had been no further unusual activity, and I had gotten my money back, and I convinced her to unlock my purchasing ability. My account is now fully active, and I haven't seen any further issues.

Now, I will note my XBL account info had been the same info as my PSN account as of the big hacking and I had been too lazy to change it, so I'm guessing that's where they got the info. I think the reason I was able to keep my account active and get it back to full status so quickly was because I changed my password immediately. I recommend people pay attention to the email receipts MS sends out and if you see an unusual one, run, don't walk, to live.com and change your password if you still can. Then you can call MS to report the fraud, but as long as you remain in control of the account, I think things will work out better for you.

If they just did a Classic pack with only COD4 maps (and maybe a couple of MW2, I did enjoy Scrapyard and Highrise), that's the one pack I'd gladly buy day one for $15. Any new maps though don't interest me, cause the new maps in this game have been rather meh.

All I want is Vacant from COD4, which is probably my favorite map for any multiplayer game ever. I think they re-released it in one of the MW2 packs, but I had stopped playing seriously by then. I'd be more willing to entertain it this time around, although I'd prefer it not be locked away in a $15 bundle with four other maps I don't care about.

I was surprised that I had a token from my COD4 prestige, I thought I had read somewhere they weren't counting that far back. Given that I'm no longer hardcore enough/have enough of an outside life that another prestige is unlikely, I'm happy with that. What Unlock did everyone go with? I barely use the custom classes I have, so I want to see what the custom call sign stuff looks like before I decide if I go with that or double XP.

Ral Zarek's deck looks like it's pretty good, I need to unlock more stuff on it because the base deck is kinda gimped but it's promising. Ajani's deck is going to make me need to sideboard in more enchantment removal. And Lilliana's deck is just annoying. Personally, the additions to the old decks are the best improvements. Cumber Stone + Mirrorworks on Tezz's deck is nearly broken, especially as Archenemy since you very quickly have a ridiculous amount of mana available. I just enjoy that the final Archenemy battle is three Jaces. Even Stainless can admit that that deck is kinda fucked, especially in multiples. Biggest disappointment? No Karn deck. I want my banned Mox Sapphire and Show and Tell into Darksteel Colossus damnit!

I've come to the conclusion that DotP is designed purely as an introductory tool. It's meant to be Magic boiled down to a pure essence that people can pick up and within 15 minutes understand the basics of Magic. I've watched no less than five of my friends, three of whom haven't played since high school and two who never played, pick up DotP and in less than an hour, they're getting up to speed and diving into the more nuanced parts of the game. Speaking as someone who tried no less than three times to get into the game in my earlier days, with friends trying to teach me but failing miserably, I picked up the original DotP, and within a week, I had gotten the cardboard crack bug and ran down to my local card shop and bought a deck. That's the point of this game - to be a super cheap, super forgiving way for novices to learn the rules of the game, and once they hit the built-in limits of the game, they've been sucked into MTG enough that they will branch into the real game, either in card form or via MTGO. WotC is a very talented pusher of cardboard crack, this is the infamous first hit.

On the server right now, might as well get a couple rounds in before TNT.