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Thread: Friday with Means - December 17th, 2010 - Incoming Holiday and Moving News

  1. #81
    Quote Originally Posted by protozo View Post
    Yet another excuse why content is being delayed.

    *sigh*
    Quote Originally Posted by Regidoc View Post
    There's a difference between excuse and reason.
    Quote Originally Posted by -Klod- View Post
    Yeah, they sound quite differently when you pronounce them out loud.
    Now that was funny.
    Maybe™ is the new Soon™.
    Quote Originally Posted by Means View Post
    At heart I am a vindictive, heartless, ruthless bastard and behaving in any other way is an effort for me.™
    Quote Originally Posted by Means View Post
    Our goal is to have a closed Beta running this year.™

  2. #82
    Quote Originally Posted by Berinda View Post
    What about the tractor?
    Damn, I was gonna say dibs on that.

    Quote Originally Posted by Means View Post
    I think you mean this one: canadian anthem :P
    Quote Originally Posted by SoulTarder View Post
    You're all wrong, its actually this song
    No, the true Canadian anthem is this one.

    Quote Originally Posted by tasker_healer View Post
    I am Canadian and im now insulted:P will be heading to Montreal to show you the damage a sharpend hockey stick can do to a office next time you guys invite players:P
    A hockey stick does not have a sharp end

    Anyhow, so long and thanks for the fish. Would have been fun to visit the Oslo office while it lasted. Hope Montreal is gonna be good for you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Siahanor View Post
    Complaining about the realism of height changing mechanics in a game that has people who can channel their anger to make huge killer meatballs.

  3. #83
    Is hot bar scroll issue being fixed?
    Renowned jester of the double AS Tigress

    MP in sneak eNSDed me and did about 20k damage in 10-12 seconds

  4. #84
    CANADA KICKS ASS!

    er so, are you going to miss norway?

  5. #85
    Oh sweet, I'm in New York; much more reasonable to harass you now!
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  6. #86
    Canadian anthem is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWX8uWf2LhQ

    I lived in BC for 3 months!! I know these things!
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  7. #87
    Hey Means,

    Thanks a lot to you and the the AO team on all their hard work this past year. Anarchy Online has provided me with 7 or so years of fun and entertainment and I hope it continues for another 7.

    Goodluck with the move to Montreal, planning & preparation are key to making sure you dont gain too many grey hairs during the relocation.

    I hope everyone at Funcom has both a fantastic Christmas and a phenominal New Year.

    Best wishes,

    Everyone in Komodo.

  8. #88

    Why move bodies?

    What I don't understand:
    Funcom is a company selling virtual goods over internet. The goods are created in Norway and China and maybe elsewhere. The customers can be all over the world, if they have fast internet.
    But the developers, who create something very virtual (code), have to move their bodies and families to another continent.
    Does it really matter, where they are? Would it be a problem, if one of them would work in a high bandwidth igloo with video conference screens in antarctica?

    And, Means, don't tell me that you TOUCH your developers

  9. #89
    Quote Originally Posted by Orby View Post
    What I don't understand:
    Funcom is a company selling virtual goods over internet. The goods are created in Norway and China and maybe elsewhere. The customers can be all over the world, if they have fast internet.
    But the developers, who create something very virtual (code), have to move their bodies and families to another continent.
    Does it really matter, where they are? Would it be a problem, if one of them would work in a high bandwidth igloo with video conference screens in antarctica?

    And, Means, don't tell me that you TOUCH your developers
    Countries are different. Some have higher corporate taxes, some have lower, some have higher living costs, some have lower, some have different laws for company taxation and tax exemption, some countries subsidise businesses. Funcom moves to Canada because Canada has lower living costs than Norway and they get subsidies from the government to pay for their workers, effectively reducing costs for development heavily. Taxes might also be lower, and likely it's also cheaper to rent officespace.
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  10. #90
    Quote Originally Posted by Mastablasta View Post
    Countries are different. Some have higher corporate taxes, some have lower, some have higher living costs, some have lower, some have different laws for company taxation and tax exemption, some countries subsidise businesses. Funcom moves to Canada because Canada has lower living costs than Norway and they get subsidies from the government to pay for their workers, effectively reducing costs for development heavily. Taxes might also be lower, and likely it's also cheaper to rent officespace.
    hehe was just thinking the same thing. Also looked up car prices:

    Checked the price on Volvo XC70 2011 and first that hit me was the engine. Smallest engine and trim they had started at 240 hp and up to 300 hp and price went from ~53000$ to 64320$ with every option I could click on. Same car inn Norway cost 1178000NOK - or about 199525 CAD, needless to say out of our league. And smallest engine inn Norway is 163 hp... thats still a big engine inn norwegian standards and still with a totally stripped car of any options it's twice as expensive as the 304 hp AWD with everything inn Montreal.

    Have fun inn Canada
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  11. #91
    Quote Originally Posted by McKnuckleSamwich View Post
    CANADA KICKS ASS!

    er so, are you going to miss norway?
    Miss Norway?
    Eroz, finally 220/26/70 Adventurer & proud General of Regulators on ex-RK2 (outdated) equip
    Rokroland, 170 Engineer No more crab for j00 Northern Front on ex-RK2
    Ranged roxxorz!
    Sig last updated properly when West Athens still had people sitting about the subway.
    Quote Originally Posted by Siahanor View Post
    Complaining about the realism of height changing mechanics in a game that has people who can channel their anger to make huge killer meatballs.

  12. #92
    Don't click on that, it's porn.

  13. #93
    Quote Originally Posted by protozo View Post
    Don't click on that, it's porn.
    Miss Norway is porn now?
    Veteran of Equilibrium

  14. #94
    Quote Originally Posted by Wrangeline View Post
    Miss Norway is porn now?
    Depending on person... it might be wishful thinking.

  15. #95
    Two beavers are better than one.
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  16. #96
    Quote Originally Posted by protozo View Post
    Don't click on that, it's porn.
    Even more reason to click on it

  17. #97
    I say, now we got a reason to blame the Canadians

  18. #98
    Quote Originally Posted by -Klod- View Post
    Yay! Finally! Only 14.95 Canadian Dollars per month.

    Wait? Still not?
    Canadians have dollars? I thought they bartered with canadian leafs and bits of broken hockey sticks?

    Prouver que j'ai raison serait accorder que je puisse avoir tort.

  19. #99
    Quote Originally Posted by Maofex View Post
    At least now we can blame Canada
    reminded me of the lyric:

    Blame Canada, Blame Canada.. They're not even a real country anyway...

  20. #100
    Quote Originally Posted by protozo View Post
    Don't click on that, it's porn.
    Oh my virgin eyes!!!!1111!11!!!!
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    There is literally nothing wrong with {Shutdown Skills} in it's current incarnation. What should be being looked at is the reason why it's needed so much. E.g, the incredible amount of Alpha being thrown around and the fickleness of Evade profs.
    Quote Originally Posted by Cratertina View Post
    I walk in to BS... could not perk people... with 3704 AR and 300 AAD drain... NT facerolled me, shade instagibbed me, after a few minutes I just decided not gonna bother.

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