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Comment on Evony’s best banner yet by James

James — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:31:25 +0000

I only played it for a while, to be honest it just didn’t entice me to put much effort in. And I also suspected that no matter how much skill or strategy I had, anyone who paid into the game would always have the upperhand. And from what you’ve said, I was right. I think there’s a balance between free to play and buying extra items, but Evony is obviously geared towards getting people to buy as much as possible.

Comment on Evony’s best banner yet by Scott

Scott — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:03:54 +0000

Just wanted to say I played this game when it “was released”.

It was originally called Civony. Lawsuit by Civilization (whoever it’s owned by now).

The graphics the game uses were pirated from Age of Empires. I’m sure Microsoft has filed legal suit for THAT as well, though I quit the game before that happened. But the building graphics *now* in the game have been changed.

The game was interesting to play, but unlike “good” banner/web games, it HEAVILY rewarded players who were willing to play the game 24/7. I worked with my roommate to do such a feat, but joined a smaller guild to have fun chatting.
4-5 weeks into the game, and our entire guild got steamrolled by one guy who had started (or had friends start) over 50 accounts to “feed” him, and then he began obliterating other players with several “cheap tricks”.

Within 2 days my empire had been reduced from top 50 (out of over 20,000) to rubble.

I vehemently do NOT recommend this game to anyone seeing the banner ads – as the graphics ingame don’t even have hot alluring women. Only the banners.

Comment on Accessibility guideline #1: Don’t claim it if you’re not by Darrell Shandrow

Darrell Shandrow — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:25:25 +0000

Even more disturbing is that I’ve received a report from a blind person who experienced a CAPTCHA he had to solve in order to perform a simple search at Google.com. In contrast with all the other CAPTCHAs, which are indeed now available with audio playback alternatives, this one did not feature such an accomodation!

Comment on 44.0 KBPS by Dad

Dad — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:14:54 +0000

Hi how’s it all going??

Long time no hear!!

Come on the Eagles!!

Best wishes :-)

Comment on Disconnection by Mike

Mike — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 04:22:13 +0000

Tag!

Comment on Flash Video: Where’s the Remote? by James

James — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 15:45:03 +0000

Definitely a standard — the more differing interfaces there are on the likes of YouTube, Google Video etc., the worse things are likely to get. Sure, you should be able to develop your own interface, but it’s really important to provide a usable and standard set of controls for anyone to use — so conventions can be developed, and hopefully followed.

Comment on Flash Video: Where’s the Remote? by Dafin

Dafin — Fri, 19 May 2006 13:25:34 +0000

The video controls on PRO 8, albeit primitive, are skinnable and hence customisable and extendable;

Now the question is should onus be laid on the designer / programmer to create movie player controls or should there be a standard?

Comment on Yahoo! My Web 2.0 — Flog those buzzwords by Mike

Mike — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:43:42 +0000

I dunno, I can’t even be bothered trying it out.

The last thing I want on my browser is a Yahoo! toolbar.

There is only one place that an exclamation mark belongs and that is at the end of the title of a broadway show.

Comment on Yahoo! My Web 2.0 — Flog those buzzwords by James

James — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:02:35 +0000

Nonsense, if I wanted to lower the tone of this blog I’d approve those spam comments.

I wonder if this My Web service is using an del.icio.us code? Yahoo! recently bought it, yet it doesn’t really appear to be utilising it, although I really can’t see what’s happening behind the scenes.

Comment on Yahoo! My Web 2.0 — Flog those buzzwords by Mike

Mike — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:00:47 +0000

My Web 2.0? Whatever happened to My Web 1.0? I must have missed it.

Buzzword? marketing? I don’t think so.

I think they are ripping off the name of Garbage’s second album.

Sorry, have I brought down the tone of your blog. That’ll teach you for syndicating!