Age of Conan

Originally posted by jy88902

 

 

Well that kind of explains why they restricted even forum viewing privileges to people who already bought the box.

 

 

jy88902

Here's another thing you can do (if you have the game)

Go to a post 20 lvl zone and ask everyone to instanced to the beta instance and meet you all in one particular spot.  Thats another way to tell how many people a zone can hold. We did this yesterday. Kinda confirmed our suspicions.

Originally posted by Enigma

 

jy88902

Here's another thing you can do (if you have the game)

Go to a post 20 lvl zone and ask everyone to instanced to the beta instance and meet you all in one particular spot.  Thats another way to tell how many people a zone can hold. We did this yesterday. Kinda confirmed our suspicions.

48 players max per instance per zone might have done it.

Originally posted by pigfist

 If you only eat cheddar cheese please stay off this forum. You're not 1337 like me and have no idea as to what you speak... nooB! Being as such you've no mind or opinion worthy of spit... so SILENCE!!! You only hurt my feelings and self image if you dont like the way my new favorite food taste. You are all fools if you dont agree with me!!!

 

 Alright well now... as for EQ2 instants, WoW, and AoC I don't really care, as I don't play any of them. For my own good reasons of course. But if anyone else has anything to say about them feel free to do so. I'm not one to bring down the hammer of silencing upon anyone. Hell I may actually try to understand what your gripe is about.

I..for one..LOVE cheddar cheese....just LOOOOVE it.

If someone has played WOW, he knows most mmorpgs out there, he will maybe even come back to wow since the standard of qualitiy is quiete high in wow ...thats the truth. The differences between the average mmorpgs are only tiny to wow doesnt matter if you play cash shop mmos or traditional mmos. the only difference is that traditional older mmos have more freedom i.e. you decide the stats of your character. but all in all its always very similar, except that wow offers a well developed game and easy usage as well more content to most mmos, excluding the major ones.

There is only a handfull mmos out there which are totally difference i.e. planetside/ww2online, daoc with realm vs realm, eve online with his huge world and rich economical content..just to mention the main ones.

Originally posted by Deviate

Originally posted by mcharj11

Can't see where Blizzard took anything from Anarchy Online, WoW's gameplay is a mix of Everquest and Dark Age of Camelot. The WarCraft IP is mainly taken from Warhammer Fantasy Battles which in turn was influenced in part by Dungeons and Dragons and the writings of J.R.R Tolkien.

Seriously. J.R.R. Tolkien got ideas from R.E.H. Read up on it, he was the pioneer.

Bullshit mate, Howard and Tolkiens works differ greatly...

Tolkien was a Professor that whos work concerned European mythology, specializing in Norse mythology. His most famous books (The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings) are heavily based on Norse mythology, the language the Elves use is based on Finnish. There ia also a heavy Catholic influence as Tolkien was Roman Catholic.

Howard wrote short stories and while they were good they were never of the same scope or depth as Tolkien's work. The world Howard writes about is meant to be Earth 10,000 years ago, CImmerians are based on Celts (Scots, Irish, Welsh) and Stygians are based on Egyptians ect ect. Hyboria has always had a more realistic feel where Tolkien's work was high fantasy.

Originally posted by Wrender

If you have only played WoW  please stay off this forum cause you're ruining it with your incessant posts. Not all games are like WoW. Hell not any are actually. If the "zones" you all are refferring to are like EQ2 then sign me up!!!! A seamless world is all well and good but by no means "nessassary"!

funny but AoC reminds me exactly of a cross between WoW and EQII. Just with more bugs and less content.

Originally posted by Servase

You do realize that Blizzard didn't do anything on their own. World of Warcraft is just like all other games. Blizzard stole ideas from LOTR, Warhammer, Anarachy Online and Dungeons and Dragons. All they changed was limiting the requirements so that even the poorest of the poor could afford too play the game by not needing too upgrade their PC. Then changing the difficulty of the game so no matter howdumbtarded stupid you are, you can still wake up and even if you can't dress yourself, you can play WoW. Look at EQ, that game took a lot more skill too play. Every race had a sub race and there were sub classes and attributes. In WoW, everything is set and done for you. Every priest in the game essentially is the same. The only difference is the gear. The game is soo easy it's incredible. That's why 80% of the WoW population is either dumb 12yr olds or retarded 40yr olds who dropped out of highschool and work for Wal-Mart. It was meant too be simply and easy. It's an item grind type of game, since the PVP is terrible, all you do is log on and grind for items.

 

It would be better if nobody ever compares a game too WoW... why not chose a game that's actually good? Like comparing AoC to EQ. Comparing AoC too WoW is dumb, since WoW is a horrible game. It's also just a combination of other games. All blizzard did was take ideas for other successful games and combine it all into one. Although they failed and could only get a couple ideas too work. But the game is ok, not amazing, but ok.

Well its hard not to have bias opinions of what makes a good MMORPG but you should definitely stray from thinking they copy each other.  Each game is influenced through others of the same genre, just like an author of a book series having influences on his work.  A good example would be HP Lovecraft being an influence of Steven King, sure they didnt write the same stories but the concept was the same.  The only games that should be compared is remakes.  Blizzard didnt steal anything from anybody, the basic philosophy is that ideas should be spread to better the field as a whole.

Originally posted by mcharj11

 

Originally posted by Deviate

Originally posted by mcharj11

Can't see where Blizzard took anything from Anarchy Online, WoW's gameplay is a mix of Everquest and Dark Age of Camelot. The WarCraft IP is mainly taken from Warhammer Fantasy Battles which in turn was influenced in part by Dungeons and Dragons and the writings of J.R.R Tolkien.

Seriously. J.R.R. Tolkien got ideas from R.E.H. Read up on it, he was the pioneer.

 

Bullshit mate, Howard and Tolkiens works differ greatly...

 

Tolkien was a Professor that whos work concerned European mythology, specializing in Norse mythology. His most famous books (The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings) are heavily based on Norse mythology, the language the Elves use is based on Finnish. There ia also a heavy Catholic influence as Tolkien was Roman Catholic.

Howard wrote short stories and while they were good they were never of the same scope or depth as Tolkien's work. The world Howard writes about is meant to be Earth 10,000 years ago, CImmerians are based on Celts (Scots, Irish, Welsh) and Stygians are based on Egyptians ect ect. Hyboria has always had a more realistic feel where Tolkien's work was high fantasy.

So your saying toliken stole ideas from europena mythology?  Just like everything everybody takes ideas from everywhere.  people saying blizzard stole are pure idiots, its tkaing ideas and refining them, like every story, movie and game has ever done. 

You peopel think star wars is original its based a on abloody 1950s Japanese love story.  Anywhere that can take ideas and try to improve on them or extend them is the way of the world, bloody idiots on this site.  Nothing is original untill its bloody invention.  You people think lotro ddo workshop have the patent or trademark on using elves or anything else.  If that was the case no game would eb made, no movies would be made and no stories would be made.  People on this site need to get a bloody grip on reality.

Originally posted by Jackdog

Originally posted by Wrender

If you have only played WoW  please stay off this forum cause you're ruining it with your incessant posts. Not all games are like WoW. Hell not any are actually. If the "zones" you all are refferring to are like EQ2 then sign me up!!!! A seamless world is all well and good but by no means "nessassary"!

funny but AoC reminds me exactly of a cross between WoW and EQII. Just with more bugs and less content.

As far as content goes, what it took Blizzard how long to make an expansion and when they did the majority of people were disappointed because it was more of the same content they have been playing for years. As stated many times, Funcom will be splitting into 2 groups , one to handle the live content and the other to start working on an expansion. So people like me who play AOC don't have to wait an eternity to actually get more content. There wasn't a ton of content at WOW's launch  because why give customers more content when they can barely play our game at launch as it is.

Well we all know WOW was a copy of Warhammer right from the start. Blizzard wanted to make Warhammer but got shown the door which was Game Workshop's biggest blunder because WOW sold millions over time. So bascially Blizzard said " How dare you shun us! We will clone your game and call it Warcraft and then tell people Tolkien was our inspiration! "