2008-09-02, 11:03 PM
I made an angry commentary about these a while back and referred to the patch that spawned this evil creation 'the worst patch ever'. I stand by that notion.
There is no reason or necessity to have some moron pop up in your face talking about their drama or who they want you to spam, etc. Your buffs usually cover up 80+% of the text and usually a similar amount of the character anyway. So.. what's the point of the avatar megaphone? It lags people.
My computer is pretty decent (built almost 2-ish years ago with upgrades every now and then), but there's still a very detectable frame skip when they show up. Granted, it's only for 150-200ms or so. Doesn't make it any less noticeable for me though.
It's a lot more noticeable than that in places such as Zakum as well. Cough cough.
In short, it was an "interesting" experiment, but in practice, there is no reason for these to exist in the first place. They do nothing useful and many things harmful. That makes them bad. They were a bad idea and they should not exist. We should not be forced to pay for a solution for fixing a bad idea.
So I guess my vote is no, they shouldn't sell a fix to these megaphones. They should destroy them.
What other company could make profit by annoying the majority of their users? Linux geeks, don't answer that. It's rhetoric.
There is no reason or necessity to have some moron pop up in your face talking about their drama or who they want you to spam, etc. Your buffs usually cover up 80+% of the text and usually a similar amount of the character anyway. So.. what's the point of the avatar megaphone? It lags people.
My computer is pretty decent (built almost 2-ish years ago with upgrades every now and then), but there's still a very detectable frame skip when they show up. Granted, it's only for 150-200ms or so. Doesn't make it any less noticeable for me though.
It's a lot more noticeable than that in places such as Zakum as well. Cough cough.
In short, it was an "interesting" experiment, but in practice, there is no reason for these to exist in the first place. They do nothing useful and many things harmful. That makes them bad. They were a bad idea and they should not exist. We should not be forced to pay for a solution for fixing a bad idea.
So I guess my vote is no, they shouldn't sell a fix to these megaphones. They should destroy them.
What other company could make profit by annoying the majority of their users? Linux geeks, don't answer that. It's rhetoric.