All Posts by Praxus

What moron designs a 'shooter' ish game with no first person mode!

Good review. I lasted about 5 minutes in beta. The controls suck; like the reviewer said - if its not broken, don't fix it.

What a crappy update. Everything is now BoE and equipment has fixed level requirements. A huge step away from EQ and towards EQ2 and WoW.  Basically abandoning interesting mechanics like optional BoE and Equipment Expertise that made Vanguard unique.

I'm pretty sure I'm done here. Been quite the ride since beta.  Heck what can I say, haven't really played in 2 months anways.

I think its only third person view. Totally retarded design for something shooter-like. Also the graphics in the screenshots look like three year old tech.

Wow I haven't looked in these forums for a month and what a change! 6 weeks ago everyone was saying LOTR was the second coming of mmorpgs, now all I see is 'bored this, bored that'.  Which funnily enough was what the few naysayers were saying in the first place!

What can ya do, I guess people have to find out for themselves. Personally I was bored after playing a few hours in beta.

Give us a break already, the whole perma death thing is just a ridiculous idea. The vast majority of people do not want to spend days, maybe weeks  working up a character only to lose all that work because of one death.

It actually astounds me that some people can't seem to understand that concept; and keep posting these type of threads.

Agreed. No interiors, no play

Lol whatever happened to the Massive mag beta invites. Guess I won't hold my breath!

Wow no player ship interiors? I just lost interest in this game. How can the devs make such a retarded decision? I don't think people want another Earth and Beyond. And of course we know how well that game did....

I think you're mixing up two very different things.

Merge - yes !

Wipe? that's just ridiculous. Is that a joke? Would be a nice way to lose any remaining subscribers.

They need to do this ASAP. I've stopped logging on much because there is no one around to group with. Last night at midnight EST there was 10 people LFG on Shidreth. TEN people LFG on the entire server!

If they don't merge servers quick, the game will die. Its pretty bad when even fans like me aren't logging on because there isn't enough people.

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Here we go...

I went with 50/50, since to me the game is boring and shallow;  yet a a lot of people do enjoy it... so 50/50 it is.

Face it this game sucked from day one. I actually enjoyed about 2 weeks in beta..until it became obvious that there was no usable loot dropping and no dungeons. NO DUNGEONS in a fantasy mmorpg - brilliant!

Plus no dropped loot was lame as heck for adventurers. People who didn't craft dropped the game like a hot potato. I remember all the adventurer vs crafter posts on the forums...good times lol.

Of course adventurers far outnumber crafters, so after they left the game was meagre shell of crafting fans and people who realllllly wanted to play dragons.

I did like the UI and the fact that everyone could port to bind. But its failure was no surprise.

I agree that first person is more immersive...but I still use third person about 20% of the time.

If this game is third person only, PnC only then screw it. We'll see soon enough I guess. But I like having options..in movement and view.

Point and Click sucks hard. Actually I can't believe that anyone would bring out an mmorpg without the option of keyboard control; that is just stupidity.

It reminds me of Wish beta...most people didn't like the PnC...the devs basically said tough..and look what happened.

I agree with the OP. Haven't seen much to recommend this game except as a very, very  limited VR experience for Tolkien fans. It will be interesting to see what even they are saying after a couple of months.

Welcome back. Now is a good time to play, since most of the unhappy people should have quit by now.  Also a good time join a guild that has lots of people logging on currently.

Joining a guild seems particularly important, since PUGS are a pain to come by in Vanguard. Too much land mass, people all spread out and no easy way to get together. After being guilded from the start in EQ2 I figured I'd wait till high levels to join a guild this time - but I think the time has come since getting groups is very tough on shidreth at level 30.

I've been having fun soloing lately since there's quite a bit of solo content...but more grouping would be better.

Well I can certainly understand the OP. I don't play primarily to socialize, and I only have a BA in nerdiness and not a PhD so I'm not into roleplaying. I like to achieve and raid....so yes I don't like LOTR.

However the OP's post is also totally unnecessary. I've stayed away from it since I got bored quickly in beta. I think its kind of a foregone conclusion that people who don't like it will stay away from it!