General Discussion

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Originally posted by transitbus
Do not bother with this game. The graphics aer still stiff and bug ridden. quests are dull and the world is flat (meaning nothing grabs you and holds on).
there is nothing improved enough to play this game. It is still as pointless as ever

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Troll much? obviously haven't ever played this game.

 This announcement came out a while ago. Trust me, just because you are hearing about it now does not mean that it is "late."

 Beau

Originally posted by RedwoodSap

The marketing ploy of releasing this information late is obvious. The game is still crap and has been dummied down by SOE but 6 days playtime won't be enough time to truly get your feet wet so they are hoping to sucker people for a one month subscription until they realize that the game is still unplayable.

I take it you've played the game for more than 5 minutes? If so you're completely entitled to your opinion, otherwise not.

shame soe only let mmorpg know about it when the free months about to end .... i proberly would have given it a try and maybe would ve got back into it .still thier loss .

 It's always funny when someone posts something that they want us to believe they know as fact, when it is glaringly wrong.

 In fact, not only do I have the original emails, community announcements, but also the interviews with the dev's done on my show that told me about this, the shows that I announce on here every week.

 Heck, here's one of the original posts by Ellyra, announcing it.

http://forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m?topic_id=34290

 This just goes to show you that most posts in most forums (ESPECIALLY on these forums, which are almost nothing but ranting and raving) that contain "facts" are the result of what some "heard" from someone else in some other post, or what the poster claims as "fact."

 The only fact is, unless you are involved within a community, meaning that you ACTUALLY play the game, then you will miss so many announcements, updates and improvements.

 My feeling is that some people tried Vanguard once 8 months ago, or won't try it because SOE is connected with it. Which is at best, juvenile.

 Oh well, the game is great, the community is great, and the team making it is great! See you at Fan Faire!

 Beau

sounds like you need a better pc as on mine it looks great

 Googa: please man, don't think that because SOE and MMORPG are reminding players about the last few days in their special that somehow they forgot to tell players.

 To you players thinking that: do you REALLY believe that SOE sat on this and hid it, just so that they could tell you last minute, to "rip you off?"

 Just search on THIS website and you'll see the original announcement.

 Just check the VG players site, you'll see the original announcement.

 Just try to not be sooooooo empty headed.

 Beau

Quite honestly I left AoC to go to Vanguard why..

Vanguard is 20-30 times the size easily. It has 5 or more dungeons at ANY given level range over 5.

The "zoning" lasts a couple of seconds on the lowest end pcs that can really play it, and is near instant on high end rigs now.

Quests can range from run over to this person, to a multi-week journey across half of the game with very little camp time anywhere along the way.

Crafting is among the best I've seen. Diplomacy is a nice side game (some play it as I do the adventuring portion).

Raiding is fun, engaging, and has tons of promise.  Classes each have a roll and a need, there are a few balance issues, but nothing compared to most mmo's.

After the completly shitty launch and the straight out lies from McQuack. Sony really has turned this into the gem that it promised to be two years ago. There really is no way to explain how far above the rest of the MMOs including WoW, EQ2, and EQ it is at the moment. VG you can log on for an hour and get something done, or log on for twelve hours straight for months and never run out of things to. It truely is deserving of the word massive. It is truly beautiful.

My only current complaint is the amount of END END game content. Right now there is about three months of lvl 50 hardcore raiding five days a week content. However this is about to expand in august. Then expand again every couple of months for the forseeable future.

McQuack promised a lot and never delivered, the current team however is rapidly delivering on all of his failed promises. Brad is an excellent idea person, but should never ever be allowed to manage ANYTHING ever again.

What I find interesting is that people are moaning over the fact that they didn't know about it, yet don't stop to think logically for a second. Say that SOE did deliberately not send it to this site. It's ONE website! There are many others out there that had this information ages ago.

Relying on website for all your information is rather...juvenile. This is a great site but (like everything) it isn't perfect. There are bound to be news articles on other websites that aren't on here and vice versa. The point is that I really don't think that you guys are as important as you're making yourselves out to be. I doubt SOE will have *special* rules just for you guys so as to make more money (there really isn't that many of you anyway).