All Posts by MaeEye

Originally posted by Vallend

Today the 25th of September Ultima Online turned 11 years old.  There is no game like it and many have tried over the years. So lets see the milestones the game has set:

Ultima Online's success resulted in Guinness World Records awarding the game 8 world records in the Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008. These records include "First MMORPG to Reach 100,000 Players", "Longest Running MMORPG".

It seems crazy.  I remember when we were celebrating it's 5 and 6th birthday.  And I've only been playing the game since 1999.

Happy Birthday UO!  Your getting old ;)

Just thought some of you UOers would like to see this.

http://www.uoherald.com/stygianabyss/

It's still alive and going strong.

What does age even mean?

I've met more fun, mature people in WoW than on Xbox Live or PSN.

WoW is not for kids, whoever says that anyways? 

You know as well as I know you never beta tested anything.  Worst beta?

What kind of MMO crack are you smoking?  Does Vanguard, Age of Conan, SWG, D&L ring a bell?

get the fuck outta here

Originally posted by Lazer7

Originally posted by MaeEye

Honestly man, if you want people to read your rant.  Please don't bring up MMORPGs and Resturants up in the same topic.

 

It's old and cliche just like the MMO market.  Anyways, sorry to be rude.

 

The MMO market is new.  Unlike other plateform of gaming (and no MUDs don't count as a MMO, they are MUDS).

 

Remember back when gaming was new?  Everything was about running and jumping on things and basically the same 'mario' game over and over again.  This is what MMO's are in right now.  You can slowly see that some companies are actually taking chances and doing something that has not been done before.  Give the genre time.  It's new and it's almost not fair to call MMORPG's gaming.  It's more of a social event so I like to say.  Within the next 10-15 years I'm sure we will see something come along that will help push along creativity like WoW pushed along the genre.  Without WoW, MMO's would be in a far worst position than they are in now.

 

You give a lot of credit to WoW, but remember, it was only a large step. I personaly give credit for the biggest step to Ultima Online (UO). Then I would say Everquest (EQ). Then World of Warcraft (WoW). The question is, what comes next?

I give huge credit to Ultima Online, as I played the games for at least 8 years.  The game is for a niche crowd that more than likely would not succeed like companies would want it to today.  Everquest, yes.  While I don't like the game, it is the reason why we have all the MMO's that we have today.  The only reason why I talked about WoW is because it brought the money to the MMO genre.  It set a new height for some developing companies to show what people expect in a MMO.

Basically all we need now is a company that is willing to take what WoW did best and turn it into something new.  No, Age of Conan, Warhammer, or Tabula Rasa don't do that.

I'm talking about a game that will change how we battle AI's, change the way we interact with each other in the game and change the way we craft our own items.  We need a game that will take the best of every game and think outside of the box. 

I think a good way to do this is for MMO's to start looking at other genres for help, more so than what Tabula Rasa did.  Take a look at how Spore made a game out of cell mutation, take a look at how LittleBigPlanet and Gary'sMod did custom user created contents etc.... You get the picture?  We have seen quite a few game start looking at this and many have failed.

The problem is that we need the ideas in the right hands.

Honestly man, if you want people to read your rant.  Please don't bring up MMORPGs and Resturants up in the same topic.

It's old and cliche just like the MMO market.  Anyways, sorry to be rude.

The MMO market is new.  Unlike other plateform of gaming (and no MUDs don't count as a MMO, they are MUDS).

Remember back when gaming was new?  Everything was about running and jumping on things and basically the same 'mario' game over and over again.  This is what MMO's are in right now.  You can slowly see that some companies are actually taking chances and doing something that has not been done before.  Give the genre time.  It's new and it's almost not fair to call MMORPG's gaming.  It's more of a social event so I like to say.  Within the next 10-15 years I'm sure we will see something come along that will help push along creativity like WoW pushed along the genre.  Without WoW, MMO's would be in a far worst position than they are in now.

Originally posted by peteski123

Unless you are planning on playing with friends What differnce does it make

And mmorpg.com forum users can't become friends?

What server is everyone planning on rolling on?

 North American servers

Unless stated otherwise, servers are assumed to be located very close to one of the MAE-East [Wikipedia] Internet Exchange Points in Virginia, USA.

* Abhorash
* Alaric
* Arbaal
* Avelorn
* Averheim
* Azazel
* Barak Varr
* Blood Keep
* Forest of Shadows
* Gorfang
* Isle of the Dead
* Kraka Drak
* Mad Dog Pass
* Mount Gunbad
* Pits of Zardok
* Red Eye Mountain
* Skull Throne
* Todbringer
* Tyrion
* Vortex

European servers

Unless stated otherwise, all European servers are assumed to be located in Lille, France.

...
Oceanic servers

Unless otherwise stated, all Oceanic servers are assumed to be located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

* Darklands
* Ironclaw
* Runefang
* Sea of Malice
* Straits of Lothern

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I'm planning on rolling on Barak Varr, that could change though.

Originally posted by kingofnothin

Originally posted by MaeEye

Originally posted by AndrewGoat

Originally posted by MaeEye

You guys are getting the 'wrong username/password' error after 3 attempts, correct?

 

Yeah. Every time I enter my username and pw, it goes like its going to patch, then doesnt, and blinks back to the login box.

 

Alright.  I just want to make sure I have the right log in information.

 

I'm so confused about the WAR beta center and the actual EA Mythic account page.  I guess we will be logging in with the EA Mythic account information, correct?

 

I would say go with the log in you made the keys active for. Which is the Account Management link at top of the Warhammer web page. I made both of mine the same, so I only have to worry about one.

Yeah mine are the same too.  The only different one is the main Warhammer Online Beta Center login, which is my e-mail address (because they required that).

Thanks for the helps, I understand it all now.

Originally posted by AndrewGoat

Originally posted by MaeEye

You guys are getting the 'wrong username/password' error after 3 attempts, correct?

 

Yeah. Every time I enter my username and pw, it goes like its going to patch, then doesnt, and blinks back to the login box.

Alright.  I just want to make sure I have the right log in information.

I'm so confused about the WAR beta center and the actual EA Mythic account page.  I guess we will be logging in with the EA Mythic account information, correct?

You guys are getting the 'wrong username/password' error after 3 attempts, correct?

Tomorrow can't come fast enough.  But it'll be here in no time.

Then before you know it, release will be here.

Then 1 year anniversary

Then the 3 years anniversary with a new expansion or something.  LOL

I hope this game is as fun as everyone says :)

Originally posted by nash50

ok so i pre-ordered war from target and got a game case, with a peice of paper inside that says this:

 

visit https://betacenter.eamythic.com/login.php to create your beta center account. then add the code below to your new or exsisting beta center account to register for the open beta.

 

so i do that, login, and try to enter it, and everytime it says invalid code. i was able to enter my ring/camp code fine and it accepted it.

 

i can read the numbers/letters fine too. no question.

 

im guessing perhaps they havent started taking the codes?

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ALSO

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Is there a place where i can download the client for the game, and patch it up and such? that way i have it all ready to go?

 

thanks for the help!

go to fileplanet.com, they should have the beta up.  Just enter your key in and you can download the client.

Not sure about the rest.

It takes 3 - 10 days.  I got mine on the 4th.

I don't see why you should complain...why did you wait so long to pre-order?  If you wanted a beta key earlier you should have ordered it earlier.

Read the fine print too.  If you knew D2D would have given it to you in 5 mintues, why did you go with EAstore?

Sounds like you weren't thinking.

Originally posted by vardar

ya, you have to wait till the 7th to patch, make sure you use your gaming username and password that you made at the warhammer site, not the account info, but you should be go to go come the 7th

This is confusing.

Basically whatever your 'Game Account' is.  It's what you used to register your beta key.

Yeah man, don't sweat it.  You will be fine.

I plan on running mine pretty high, with 2 gigs of ram and a 8600gt, 4.0ghz as well.  This game was ment to run on lower computers.

Go ahead and answer.  Give a reason or don't...up to you really

I'll be rolling a Witch Elf, because I love the poison daggers.  Unfortunetely they can only be females though :(  Oh well, They sound fun.

:(

That is me with a sad face.  I suppose I could wait until Sunday though.

Originally posted by Djfusion

So wait, Open Beta codes will get us in tomorrow? I keep hearing only people that got invited to last PW will get in before Sunday? Please tell me im wrong so i can join everyone tomorrow!

Hey!

So why should I get the beta key?  Because I have a very nice looking young lady sitting next to me that would love to try WAR out before purchasing it.  She started with WoW as her first MMO and to be honest needs a wake up call with a cup of WAAAAAAAAGH!!!!    So, please, think of the girls!  Think of my awesome girlfriend!  ;)

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