All Posts by SagaBoy

Yeah man it was the BestBuy on freaking Cobb Parkway.  That's one of their busiest locations which is why I was so dumbfounded when I saw it.  I mean the thought of buying a CE didn't even enter my mind because I was so sure only SE's were left.

I've put in the codes in Account manager and sure enough it's a valid CE pre-order.

Terribly sorry, didn't even think to tell ya that (must have been my excitment).  He offered to buy me the standard edition and comp me 20 bucks cash right there.  (So basically buy what equaled to two CEs) Negating the fact that it was a pre-order and I had no assurances that he would/could actually buy me the SE in full (today), I just wasn't interested.  If I needed the extra cash I would have gone for it but why slap lady luck in the face like that.  She might not be so kind next go round.

I decide to go ahead and pre-order the game.  I jump in my car head to BestBuy and start my search for the SE pre-order box.  But what is this?!?!  Doth mine eyes deceive me!!!  Is that "one" CE Pre-order box sitting there lonely and forgotten?  Surely I'm seeing things, and it's simply a mirage.  I reach for it and...OMG... it's a tangible object!  The icing on the cake is that some 15 seconds later I hear some random guy shout "f*ck," and I turn to inspect only to see the guy looking at me.  He then tries to barter with me to trade an SE for a CE.

Not that grand of a tale I know, but I thought that literally all the CE's were gone especially this late in the season.  To get the last one at a BestBuy in the greater Atlanta area just seems so serendipitous.  See you all in WAR!!!

Originally posted by tvalentine

was the pot ok!!?!?!?!?

Man I feel absolutely terrible for laughing.  How many hail mary(s) does it take to clean the slate on this one?

From my own experience a game typically gives out a free trial with one of three distinct marketing circumstances.

1.)  The game is a smashing success and the hype associated with such a game has slowly subsided.  I think we can safely X this one off in relation to Conan.

2.)  The game has been going for a while as has peaked, causing a steady pilgrimage away from the game.  The free trial will then be used as a tool to draw back old players while simultaneously attracting new ones.  Again, I feel we can X AoC out here too.

3.)  The game has settled at its niche point; meaning, everyone who is gonna stay is staying and all those who would/wanted to leave have done so.  The hype surrounding the game would no longer exist at this point and a free trial would more or less be a shot in the dark in hopes of snagging the random, completely bored, jaded mmo player.  Now, usually this happens at the end of a game's golden era - like 2-4 years or so.  Oddly enough if AoC was to give a free trial I feel it would already be at stage three, and that's just from reading reviews across the net.

So while I haven't actually told you if there is or isn't a free trial - I feel I've given you a bit of food for thought as to why or why not, that may be.

Originally posted by Ascension08

Originally posted by Joliust

 

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Originally posted by anubisss

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Originally posted by Lobotomist

 

Let see....
Empire is based on medieval europe , so i guess not.

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At this present moment in time you cant play a black person in WAR, that`s not to say it wont happen in the future.
Now to your comment about medievil europe? are you educated or did`nt you learn anything in your history class? Half of europe was ruled by black moors until the 1500s their have been black people in Europe since the Roman times so perhaps you need to go search some history books or perhaps ask your history teacher why they never mentioned it to you in the first place?
I could teach you myself but i have not the time or will to teach you something that you history teacher should of told you.

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Are you educated? Unless you consider Europe being just the Iberian Peninsula and France, the moors never controlled half of Europe. Not to mention the Moors aren't what we consider black today, they were Arabian and Berber, whose skin tones aren't much different than the Italians or Greeks.

Go Charlemagne.

Anyways, I'm not sure if you can be 'black' in WAR -but- there's alot of customization options so I wouldn't say it's out of the question.

Though, they seem to want to stick to the lore as well...you might be able to be a black Warrior Priest but you're gonna be a bald black Warrior Priest (just an example).

A black warrior priest was actually what I was hoping to roll come launch.

Originally posted by Psiho246

Originally posted by SagaBoy

Originally posted by ZoMBiEXxX

Originally posted by Zorvan

Originally posted by SagaBoy 

Originally posted by TheSheikh

Most likely not, but you can always be a Greenskin.

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What the hell is your problem? He didn't say a damn thing wrong and you come out insulting him? I suppose your lack of WAR knowledge means you don't know there are orcs, which happen to be GREEN? And with your attitude you think you deserve any kind of answer? Grow the fuck up. Oh, and reported for personal attacks against TheSheikh. Feel free to edit, as the system keeps the original handy.

 

I second that, greenskin is not and insult its a race in the game your so nicely asking questions about. Why do you need to throw out personal attacks when all people are trying to do is answer your rediculous question?

 

What about my question is ridiculous?  I'm actually dumbfounded by this statement.  I ask about an aesthetically themed option as it relates to character creation and it's ridiculous?  I didn't demand the option be put in mind you, I simply asked if it were in or if the possibility existed that it may be in, in the future.  So exactly what was so ridiculous about the question again?

Well the game is under NDA, so your question is ridiculous and pointless as well as any of your posts in this thread.

So I should assume that the game has not been demo'ed in any way.  No one has had a chance to play it and give detailed interviews on it within the bounds of the NDA.  I mean there hasn't been an article specifically written pertaining ONLY to the topic of character creation.  Apparently NDA just means that nothing is ever written or recorded about the game until launch so any question about the game is ridiculous until that point in time.  So maybe if I shared in such short sidedness in relation to the circulation of hype/ information about a game I too would deem the question ridiculous and any related posts that'd follow.

So now the question is pointless too?  I thought the point of a question that required a yes or no answer would become undeniably transparent, but I guess I hoped for too much.  If you missed it, the point of the question was to see if you could be black in WAR, to which I have been told is not possible.

Originally posted by ZoMBiEXxX

Originally posted by Zorvan

Originally posted by SagaBoy 

Originally posted by TheSheikh

Most likely not, but you can always be a Greenskin.

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What the hell is your problem? He didn't say a damn thing wrong and you come out insulting him? I suppose your lack of WAR knowledge means you don't know there are orcs, which happen to be GREEN? And with your attitude you think you deserve any kind of answer? Grow the fuck up. Oh, and reported for personal attacks against TheSheikh. Feel free to edit, as the system keeps the original handy.

 

I second that, greenskin is not and insult its a race in the game your so nicely asking questions about. Why do you need to throw out personal attacks when all people are trying to do is answer your rediculous question?

What about my question is ridiculous?  I'm actually dumbfounded by this statement.  I ask about an aesthetically themed option as it relates to character creation and it's ridiculous?  I didn't demand the option be put in mind you, I simply asked if it were in or if the possibility existed that it may be in, in the future.  So exactly what was so ridiculous about the question again?

Originally posted by Zorvan

Originally posted by SagaBoy 

Originally posted by TheSheikh

Most likely not, but you can always be a Greenskin.

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What the hell is your problem? He didn't say a damn thing wrong and you come out insulting him? I suppose your lack of WAR knowledge means you don't know there are orcs, which happen to be GREEN? And with your attitude you think you deserve any kind of answer? Grow the fuck up. Oh, and reported for personal attacks against TheSheikh. Feel free to edit, as the system keeps the original handy.

If you can't tell from his statement OR the replies to his post what was intended by his comment then you are either naive enough not to warrant a response or simply playing at that very same naivety.  *EDIT* below I'll provide the statement and responses I speak of.  If you still don't understand it then we'll just have to assume we've had different life experiences and pick up on things differently.

What attitude?  I replied to each and every post with as much respect as was tendered originally. 

Why would I edit?  I, unlike most people, stand by what I type.  If you so desire I'll go show it to a mod myself.

Originally posted by Lonesamurai1

Originally posted by N3oN667

Originally posted by TheSheikh

Most likely not, but you can always be a Greenskin.

 

Is it terrible that I lol'd?

 

I Lol'd, so don't worry... 

 

besides...  apparently its warm down in that special place in hell

Originally posted by Zorvan

Why does it matter what skin color you can be in a game? And I imagine if the color is not part of the lore regarding races in WAR, then it won't be available.

 

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The same question you pose initially can be used in my defense.  If it doesn't matter, then it's not that big of a deal to make possible that which I'm inquiring about.  And it doesn't necessarily matter; however, it's a nice OPTION to have.  It's a fantasy based game true, but maybe one can immerse him/herself more deeply in a game when a very insignificant feature is made possible.

As to the second point, let's assume that the OP (me) doesn't know every single piece of lore regarding WAR.  Should I go now and read every piece of printed literature pertaining to WAR, as well as buy every single game ever made in an attempt to see if there were black people anywhere throughout the whole of WAR history, OR could I plainly ask a very simple question on a forum directly associated with the game?  One of the three previously mentioned choices just seems to require so much less commitment.

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Originally posted by Unicorns_Pwn

Can I be a yellow person?

 

 

For that matter can I make my character a fatass?

 

 

um 2?..

 

 

 

 

 

Actually if the options of past games hold true, you can.  The usual tendency is to make possible a lot of caucasian shades which tend to include a color which you or I would certify as yellow or fair skinned.  To your second question, I would answer it by posing another question.  Were there fat asses in WAR lore?  If the Gods of future WAR lore are any indication then maybe you can be.

Don't know if this falls under the NDA.  I'd just like to know if it's possible to set skin tone in WAR when playing "The order," to a level that one would discern the character as being black.

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I was initially hesitant to even make the post and all the smart remarks and sly attempts at stereotypical humor show that perhaps I was right to give pause.  Not everyone knows WAR lore from A-Z.  When I asked the question, I was thinking only of "The Librarian," from War 20k: Dawn of War.  He's was black and a member of the The Empire *gasp*.  I just figured that maybe if it were possible for someone to be black and Empire in the future then there was a chance that such a thing was possible in the past.  This too assumes that one set of lore is merely an extension of the other.

Originally posted by hazmats

The thing that almost blows away Obama to mean is when he says "I'm for an individual right to bear arms" then says "I agree with the DC handgun ban."

One cancels out the other mmmkay (IMO)

I'm against abortion; however, I understand and support women that use it as a means to stop a rape induced pregnancy.  The point I'm trying to make is that some issues are not as black and white as we'd like them to be.  I don't know what brought about a push for handgun bans in D.C. but I have to believe that at the core of the issue stands a point with some degree of validity.

This is why I hate the term flip-flopper.  In a world with so much gray, we demand black and white clarification.  What most people call flip-flopping, I term good intellectual prowess.

Originally posted by Enigma

 indeed

Now I see the point the nay-sayers are trying to make, and I mean they have a point I suppose.  Humorously enough, the thought that kept looping through my head was, "couldn't they just cut down the gamma?"  Not being serious just my sad attempt at humor.  As unrealistic as that suggestion is in fixing things...I just can't stop it from playing back through my mind.

Originally posted by Smilex0311

I dont think this one will be very good.... I think they are stretching now.... For god sakes.  Asian mummy armys?

Don't forget that made of stone part, unless mine eyes doth protest too much!