All Posts by mportela

Greetings,

I usually read all articles featured on MMORPG.com but rarely comment on them because they are often from passable to good. This time I cannot vent my frustration enough after reading such load of pure absurdities.

The article starts with an explanation to itself: "Is it me or once you hit level 70 do you feel trapped in Outland?". Of course your level 70 and his quests and 'stuff' are trapped in something that is called "Burning Crusade Expansion to the game World of Warcraft". This is an industry! And of course that every 70's quests and 'stuff' are dependant to the fact of you having bought the Burning Crusade or not... Have you noticed how travelling between the original game world bits and the 'old world' parts from the expansion you need to pass through a loading screen disguised as a portal or as a translocation device in-game? I'm sure you did because you did mention that "The upcoming Zul’Aman will take you to the Ghostlands, but that is still a Burning Crusade zone"... of course it does. You have to be a proud (or not) owner of the expansion to experience it! This is the gaming industry at its best.

It's important to let you know that I am a player of many MMO's, including WoW, and I really think that the MMORPG.com portal should have read your article before making it a featured one. It's not just the overal idea that is wrong it's most of the article.

Don't believe me? Here are the alleged solutions to the problem that is not a problem at all:

1. Auction House: "One way Blizzard has forced level 70s back to original cities is by not having an Auction House in Shattrath. That’s blackmail, pure and simple"

- This is plain stupid. How can one travel back in time and still be able to negotiate trades taking place in the future? It's just as stupid as Marty Mc.Fly from Back to the Future opening a store in the present days to sell compact discs to everyone in the past.

2. Discounts and Money: "Maybe huge discounts for being exalted. Hell I’m exalted, prove it to me. As my co-worker Thunderballz said “even when you work at a department store you get 30% off” These NPCs should be begging to fix my armor."  or "Make Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdom questing worth more gold. Would it really hurt the in game “economy” so much to throw players an extra couple of gold a day?"

- Are these solutions for anything than your own self wishes to have an immense stack of gold just to say you do? Everyone knows that unfortunately in any game you make tons of money as you reach the high levels and stick playing those high levels. It's things like creating even more powerful items and more powerful thingies so players can spend their money that really ruin the balancing of a game. And OF COURSE that the in game economy would be hurt, and a lot if you ask me, and we don't have to be financial geeks to know it!

3. More Faction Quests or Daily Quests

- I am unsure of what you mean really but do you have the slighest idea of howhard it is to code and playtest a new quest? Let alone a new faction!? Not to mention the fact that Blizzard is developing a lot more features to come if you take the time to get informed (even if the choice is not good... it's theirs to make)

I could go on making this autopsy to the article at hand but I fear that you would think that I am defending Blizzard which at all I am NOT! I'm just defending logic and the need of us MMORPG.com users to read something that REALLY is a constructive article with constructive criticism.

Want a valid and mature way to bring your high levels home? Learn how to Roleplay and try that.

Originally posted by TwwIX

The game is a disaster.

It went pretty much downhill after the beta.

As a Matrix fan, i am very disappointed.I can't believe that the Wachowski brothers still let this thing tarnish their creation.

First they started removing the content from the beta,then the iconic characters from the movie(either by changing their appearance or altogether).The only reason why i continued to play the game is because of the events and their continuation of the storyline but mainly because of the great guild that i was a part of (CoZ).It all started off good.From voice actors to cinematics to the epic story driven events.

Now, they have replaced the in game cinematics with pencil drivel slideshows and pretty much killed all of the main cast from the movies.The epic events are gone as well and now we're stuck with a half assed player operated events team.

The developers have not improved nor introduced any real new content to the game.

It took these morons years just to remove a (the) sound looping bug.They never should've let SONY get their hands on this at all.

They've managed to ruin SWG and now this too.

All in all,it's an insult to all Matrix fans.

I just simply don't understand why this game is still around.It makes no profit whatsoever nor does it contribute anything positive to the franchise.

Allow me to express my complete sympathy on the opinion you gave on this one. You completely summarized what I think as well (except for the guild part since mine was kind of crappy even).

It would really be so simple to try and revive this dying game. Give it back it's REAL MATRIX content, give it back what was taken (after balancing tests), offer a BIG SPECIAL EVENT FREE TRIAL thingy... but alas 'It's a Sony'... which means: 'it's ruined'