All Posts by Xasapis

I've seen a lot of things in these forums, but this is the first tme somebody seriously attempts to convince people that WoW is a sandbox game. Hilarious. WoW is anything but sandbox. And that's probably the main reason it's so popular. The game offers a lot of things, sandbox elements is not one of them.

If you believe this you might as well believe anything. hehe.

As far as I know, buddy passes have not been activated yet.

Originally posted by Delanor

Originally posted by -Zeno-

Name a game that doesn't require a healer type to do epic level stuff?

 

The Chronicles of Spellborn.

Commenting on games in development features is either:

1. Educated guess or
2. Expectations

Both can be proven wrong.

To the OP:

Taking the viewing angle of your original post, I think that you will never be satisfied with any MMO ever released, for a couple of reasons.

• The main reason is that you have idolised the times you had in UO. The first MMO we play usually defines our expectations and needs for anything we play after that. Like the first love, impossible to forget and defining of what we are to expect from that point on.

• There is a lot of nostalgia involved with the games of the past. Time tends to make us forget all the bad things and remember the good things. A month going back to UO will be enough to remind you the reason(s) that made you leave the game.

Regarding the thread title, I don't think that any evolution is present in the gender. In fact, it's more akin to time-jumps. You get one game with innovations, that then spawns imitators. Then you have your next innovation jump, which again is followed by more imitators. The last jump was done by WoW. I don't believe we have gone past the imitators phase, not yet.

As for MMOs and graphics, there is art and there is graphics engine. Those two need to complement each other. When one is bad or outdated, the other suffers. And when those two suffer, the immersion suffer. I sense a trend in these boards lately that suggests that a good MMO should have an outdated graphics engine. The people who say that, are still stuck with the imitators. Sometime, hopefully in the near future, we'll see a new innovator coming along.

I don't think you'll find a good representation of any game in any forum if you're looking for an equilibrium between the people that have good experiences and those that have bad ones. For the most part, people don't come to forums such as this to present a positive aspect, but they rather tend to vent frustration. That's part of the official forums funcion as well.

As long as you don't expect these forums to be something they are not, the situation is really not that bad.

It really helps to cut the noise down if:

1. People don't respond to obvious troll posts, and
2. People stop quoting them, making them visible again.

Thank you for your consideration.

Thank you for confirming my point. (blocked btw, so don't bother replying to me)

To Zorndorf:

You need to re-evaluate your approach towards argumentation over a game's flaws. It seems that you have the opposite effect of what you are trying to achieve. Even if your points are valid, you present them in such an obnoxious way, that it doesn't do them credit.

The fact that you're heavily biased towards another game doesn't help with either credibility or objectivity.

All in all, I am not looking forward seeing the same situation repeating itself when WAR launches.

What I find dishearting is that SOE is clearly promoting EQ2 and neglecting Vanguard beyond the bare basics. There is no other way to describe the two months free time given to the veterans of EQ2, as opposed to the silence regarding Vanguard.

The game has indeed come a long way in the year it launched, but unfortunately it still doesn't receive the attention it deserves from SOE. It's as if SOE would have liked it dead instead of growing.

There is constructive criticism and there is hate mongering. Take your pick on what you read and what you answer.

What do you mean it's not the theme?

I don't think it will ever happen as long as Turbine has the LOTRO rights.

Originally posted by Douhk

It's an unacceptable launch, yes, but if you haven't noticed lately, it's sadly become the norm for MMORPGs. It's not perfect but it definitely isn't the worst launch... people are overexaggerating to that extent.

But like I did say, it's still unacceptable when a company promises something at launch then says, "Well yeah... we just said that so you'd buy it... but we'll add it, eventually...".

I wouldn't be surprised if WAR's launch is just as bad even with this extra given amount of time. Companies are too obsessed with making sure they're the winners, not the customers.

Actually it's been the norm since ... always. The MMOs that launched properly were the exception rather than the rule.

To altairzq :

You're right. My apologies for a post written rather hastily.

World of Warcraft Priest class mind controlling people off cliffs and elevators comes to mind as an alternative game that something similar was possible.

To andrelle:

Please don't bother with the "If you can't do the time, don't do the MMO." There are two things that this argument refuses to acknowledge.

1. You can make an MMO that caters to people with limited play time. The people with tons of free time will run through the content and quit fast, the rest will keep on playing and enjoying their time.
2. The generation that played UO, EQ etc are the generation that now requests the only fun, no grind MMOs. Waiting for a mob to respawn a couple of hours may have been ok-ish in the past, but it just won't do today.

Bottom line, the MMO players of the past have grown up, their lives became more complicated and filled with more stuff to do. This did not diminish their love for the gender, just the free time available.

Sorry for my pointless reply, but this video (or similar) has already been posted 6 or 7 times already.

When somebody posts a favourable review, he's bought out. When he posts a bad review, he's being professional? Nice logic there. Lets only believe the bad reviews from now on, since good reviewers are obviously on the payroll.

I have a better solution. Wait until trials are available and use them. The best reviewer in the world is each one of us.

While I think the review is fair regarding the current state of the game, I would like to point out an inconsistency.

• When a game gets good reviews for whatever reason, people cry murder and claim the reviewer was paid by the publisher (possible but unlikely, I'm more inclined to believe that they are more lenient to advertisers than they are straigh-out bought out)
• When a game gets average or bad reviews, stop the press! The professionals have spoken about the state of the game.

Don't you think that there is something hypocritical about the whole situation?