Mnemoidian

Canada was first to go for me, not sure if it was first or second month - early enough that I felt I was fumbling in the dark still.

Second was France, 3-4 months after Canada, while I was still ignoring Satelites, and never got any missions to decrease panic in France.

I'm currently at 28th of October, or something, and Mexico is in full panic mode, not had a Mexico-related mission in ages. So that's probably going to happen.

Yeah, I started on Classic (but not Ironman), and up 'till now, I've mostly stayed away from forums to avoid getting outside information - and I messed up real bad. I pretty much forgot about satelites after the tutorial and wound up playing a significant part of the game (some time past the base?) with only the initial 2 satelites. Needless to say, I've been struggling for cash something crazy.

Actually, I am still struggling for cash, but I'm starting to slowly gear up my away team to the point where I believe they are "endgame geared"... though I'm currently trying to train up a group of Psi-soldiers to replace my old team, as I assume that will greatly improve my chances in the long run.

I lost Canada the first month, and France a couple of months later. It looks like Mexico is next to go.

Fortunately, I early on picked up an awesome Sniper who has been the lynchpin of my success, and has kept me from losing any important soldiers so far. Stil... that very large ship I shot down last night nearly had me in panic attacks.

I've contemplated starting over, and putting more effort into the satelites, but... it's actually quite a lot of fun to be struggling through it this way. But so much tension. SO MUCH TENSION.

Klei on twitter (https://twitter.com/klei) seems to think that it's releasing today.

Also says it should be out in all regions, no restrictions - "as far as [they] know"

It's probably roughly as long as the previous Assasssins Creed games?

Seems like a bit of an unrealistic expectation to get these numbers for a game that is not yet released.

DLC tends to expand on the original game, as such, they are by definition "expansions" (Yes, even if it's just cosmetic). If anything, "Expansions" is probably a better name, if we could forget the historical use. While "DLC" is more a descriptor of it's distribution model than what it "contains".

But no, there isn't really. So go with what the developers calls them, I guess?

In case you were still deluded that the Star Wars Franchise could be salvaged.

This.

sigh.

I think that BF3's choice of color saturation looks better. I do like the big blue sky - but I think the darker, grey sky is a lot more suitable for a war game.

And as others have said, they aren't banning for this, specifically. They are banning because people are modifying their clients in a competative game. Competative games need to hava zero tolerance on modifications to stay the least bit relevant.

Speculating about an unannounced game from a developer infamous for taking their time with development and scrapping games that doesn't live up to their expectations seems... silly?

That said,

@GunslingerPanda said:

Considering nothing is known about Titan officially, this is a stupid question. However...

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It's a StarCraft MMO; the leaked Heart of the Swarm ending pretty much confirms it. And yes it should have a monthly fee to keep the kids out.

There has also been speculations that Titan will not compete with exisiting Blizzard products, mentioning things like MMOFPS and other such wild ideas. Who knows? We're unlikely to find out this years, as we aren't getting a BlizzCon, which is the natural place for them to announce such a product. Also, keep in mind that Rob Pardo stated at BlizzCon last year that the game was entering "full production soon".

@WinterSnowblind: That is assuming that Guild Wars 2 has more impact on the rest of the industry than Guild Wars 1 did. Maybe it will? Also depends a lot on what Titan actually is.

Speculation on my part: next year's BlizzCon, or the one after that, is going to be very interesting. (if there is one, and why wouldn't there be?)

Wait. Hang on.

You're saying there is music on MTV? Like the TV channel-MTV?

What is this, the 90's?

This may be slightly tinted from being european (so TNT is forever a "watch afterwards" thing for me), but the "play with the crew" has never really been that much of a pull for me. (edit: meaning that I'd rather have them pick the format week-to-week depending on the game.)

That said, watching, the Borderlands 2/Tokyo Jungle thing was terrible, just felt extremely disjointed. I'd much rather have seen a feature of Tokyo Jungle and a 4-player co-op game with the crew.

Then again, considering how they managed to mess that up with Borderlands (1) and Diablo 3 both, having one out of the four playing a high-level character with three entirely newly created characters... yeah, I don't know. At least the 4-player co-op thing kind of worked with Dead Island? :s