I wouldn't say dumb considering the appeal Bioware and Star Wars have as names.  However current estimates all say spring of 2011. If it was really coming out in a couple months they would be hyping the game more and be showing more in game footage. Currently I think I've seen more cinematics than real game play for the game.

I had a 2ed interview on Thursday. They said I would probably hear back this weekend sometime after all the managers meet and see who they think is best/how many people they are looking to hire. I haven't heard anything back beyond that.

I recently played Dead Space for the first time. Also right before Mass effect 2 came out I played through one. They are all great games.

I'm not joking and I think I have an interview for the same job this Monday. I worked in retail before and it's all about being friendly. They can teach you whatever else you need to know. Appliance shopping/selling is mostly about size and needs. If it will fit , is it big enough, does it do what they need/want. Since appliances aren't really luxury items you have you sell them something to accommodate their lifestyle. That's been my experience talking to people that sold appliances.

What's worse than awful?

Bumping the post. I removed the previous replies to avoid confusion and update the post but I may have missed someone by accident. If you still need something and are not listed for said achievement post what you need. Everyone still needs Portal jockey and Neck-Deep so don't bother posting about those.

I think that's what makes this even worse. The fact that we HAD 10 man specific instances and then they took it away. It wouldn't feel so crappy if we'd never known it to begin with. It makes them look lazier, emphasizes the fact that when you're in a 10 man version of an instance you think "this COULD have been a completely different and new zone but instead bc they're lazy I'm farming the same old content." It makes you feel like they've cut something whereas you wouldn't have noticed a lack of content implementation otherwise.

I wouldn't agree with this. If they went the route your suggesting we wouldn't magically have twice as much content (a whole new 10 man instance as well a whole new 25 every major content patch). In fact I bet there would be fewer 10/25 man raids becuase they have to spend a more time making up two new zones instead of one. Your suggestion would only work if they hired another team of people to work on 10 man raids. That doesn't even take in to account the extra artists they would need to make the art work for 2 separate raids. If you want to argue they have the money for that I'm sure they do but they could easily hire those people to do both 10/25mans.

Going this route kinda sucks for the players that like having better quality items than someone who only does 10 man raids. That's only a small portion of the population though. On blizzards end it must be a nightmare coming up with 4 tiers of loot that are all fully itemized and all have different art work. Instead they will only have to do two tiers of loot with this system. I would almost argue the fact that they can do more content this way.

One last thing to think about is if they did 10 mans separate from 25 mans most people wouldn't see 25 man content. How many people saw more than just the first or second boss in Sunwell. This was a big problem back in the 40 man days. As a developer you don't want to spend months of dev time on something only 2-3% of your population is going to see. Like I said before though it will all come down to their tuning and we'll see how that goes in the beta.

Even though they acknowledged it, 10 mans are exceptionally hard to tune to be as hard as 25 mans. You can have a group with awful synergy but good players and struggle where a better composed group with worse players finds it easier. These changes are interesting but I bet they miss the mark. It also makes 25 man raiding achievements feel cheaper. We do hard modes because it has the best gear in the game. Knowing that we could just do 10s  instead for the same gear feels dumb. I won't miss doing both lock outs during the week though.