All Posts by Sweede

Originally posted by muggermadiso

It is a nice stable beta at the very best.  I have played a solid two weeks.  I have seen many technical issues as well as creative short cuts.  Look at the models.  Most look similar or near alike.   As far as a ton of people having a good time so far I see most people in chat complaining about getting ganked repeatedly.  I love PVP but this is P-PVP, "P" is for pointless.  Being camped my a player 10 levels above my own on the resurection pad is just pointless in my book.

One my pet peeves in wow pvp to, being corpse camped by a lvl 70 when you are 30 are so much fun, what sucks is they risk nothing doing it, bit sad that AoC is taking the same approach at least in a game like eve going ganking the newbies in secure space had a risk, you where likely to loose your ship and take a sec rating hit, do it enough and the police force will attack on sight.

There will always be people who like to level to the highest level in shortest possible time, people claim they can get to 220 in anarchy online in a few weeks and here i haven't even made it to 180 playing on and off since  2001 :) then again i'm not in any rush and by leveling slow i take time to see the world around me not just the zones that let me level the fastest.

I remember when sony released the planes of power expansion for everquest and the hardcore raiders could not get to the end zone(plane of time) cause it was not ready, that to me is even worse since it was an expansion.

Disturbs me a bit that tradeskills seems bad in AoC i have started to like doing tradeskills in other games, but hopefully they will fix it up to VG level (and yes i think Vanguard have super crafting reminds me of Horizons)

Haven't played AoC much yet but it looks fantastic and i bet it will get better when more dx10 stuff is added.

Wonder if soe ever met a deadline when patching everquest, likely not.

Well i know anarchy online have the professional program, this includes 2 people for each profession in game that is choosen by the community to be the link between player <-> developer, hopefully CCP will listen more to the feedback given, but i think the idea behind it is great.

Originally posted by Hugahay

 

Please, cut the sarcasm. It is unwarranted.

 

Yes MMOs are a time sink, but like anything in life, you shouldn't be getting something for nothing and buying gold is just that. You think you have to buy gold to stay competitive. Why should you have the same gear, rep, etc. etc as other people who have put more time in? You shouldn't. That is like saying a new hire at your job should be making the same amount as someone who has been with the company for a few years.

Awards come with time, that is where the dedication and patience comes into play.

Like I said, find a game where you can achieve more with the time you do have to spend gaming instead of adding problems to the game for others just cause you want to play too!!

I feel no compassion, sorry.

Well if i take a game like everquest even if you buy platinum there you will never be as good or have the gear the raiders do(people that spend 5-6 days 4+ hours a day online), just for the simple fact it is nodrop, even when i bought some of the best stuff in the bazaar for my shaman and i felt i did a nice upgrade on him i was not even close to the raiders, they where supreme to me in areas like hp/mana/ac they had more then twice of it.

And you can't buy the flags/keys needed to enter said raid zones either, having money makes the low level game a lot more fun, especially in eq where the lowlevels are lonely to say the least, the few lowlevels around are mostly twinks of higher level people and they tend to not need groups of similar level players cause they have a lvl 70 in tow.

As for wow i can see why people buy gold, right now after i restarted i make just enough cash to buy the next set of spells haven't bought anything from AH yet since everything is just to expensive or nothing availible below lvl 10, i do miss my lvl 60 hunter that i deleted in anger, guess you should not do that kind of stuff when angry :)

Considering many game companys today seem hell bent on driving the player insane no wonder you enable cheat modes, having to redo the same thing for 20+ times is not even remotely fun, Tomb raider was a good example where you can't even enable cheats without a time trial, that i for one never managed to complete

Well people being able to buy gold/platinum/credits or whatever might be as you say gaining an unfair advantage but then you might as well say people being able to play 6 hours a day everyday is gaining an unfair advantage over the ones that can play 2 hours a week, life is unfair get over it :)

I see it was mentioned about eq2's rmt servers, not sure the one i play on is one but i think it is a good thing, if you like to spend real cash you can do so "legaly", even funcom has put in paid points in anarchy online that you then can use for flying vehicles for instance.

I like to play a lot of different chars in a game, i mean why pay for wow and only play one class on one side, so with like all classes on 2 servers grinding cash is getting really nasty, sure now you might say stop playing many and only play one single toon, would love to but that burns me out fast leading me to stop playing all together.

I do agree that some of the sellers i noticed in game some time ago was really nasty spamming you but the service i used a few times never did any in game advertising what so ever, to me the spamming is more anoying then the fact that people buy cash/items/chars.

I wonder how many people in wow share account info which is also against the rules, but many do cause they might need that priest for a raid or tank, don't see many people complain about that even though the owner of that char might gain items he should not have cause he/she was not playing.

I played on a pvp server and well even standing a chance you needed some good stuff, and while stuff in the outlands are rather good even quest rewards the 50+ levels before that is not as good, not that it matters much if you have great gear when the attacker almost always was 30+ levels above you.

Opps sorry :)

Well i like to think that they do what they can, but maybe i'm just showing to much faith in there abilities, but i still think it was a good call to shut it down to find the hack, not like soe after they accidently put beta merchants on live servers and then not taking them down instantly to fix it, people got rolled back days/weeks after that incident and lost xp/flags/raid loot, and that from buying a legit item from a player merchant that might have been made with items from the beta vendors.

Originally posted by Pyrostasis

 

Originally posted by Sweede

Why don't you ask the guy/girl hacking for a reimbursement, there the ones causing problems

True cause this being the second major hacking issue CCP has had doesnt mean there is any form of a security issue.

 

 

/sarcasm off

So what, people hacking are scum plain and simple, just because you can does not mean you should now does it?

Why don't you ask the guy/girl hacking for a reimbursement, there the ones causing problems