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Originally posted by Freemasons

Originally posted by Death1942

so this game is heading towards its release and its time for me to leave this forum until the release.

 

goodbye everyone and dont get too caught up in the crap that ends up in all forums pre-release

 

Why are you leaving?

take a look at the first 5 or 6 pages in the AoC thread (or any pages 2 months before release) and you will see why

1. the results are based on more than just popularity (like many things in life)

2. the results are based on votes of people on this site (who have tried many other games)

someone above me made the comment that many WoW players don't even know what an MMO is.  they just find that one fun and never (and i mean never) look at any other MMO.  people here are exposed to every MMO out there.

3. being the biggest does not automatically make you the best

4. the list is always skewed when a new release comes out

5.  the one you see on the main page is basically the admins of this site and their views.  it is a good list but again its their list and not everyone will agree.

WoW is a good game don't get me wrong, but it is not one of the best around.

SWG-------------------------Guild wars-----------WoW---------------------(insert really good MMO that you like)

i did not put an MMO into that last slot as i know many would flame me for it

so this game is heading towards its release and its time for me to leave this forum until the release.

goodbye everyone and dont get too caught up in the crap that ends up in all forums pre-release

i played for 2 weeks before the NGE and for 1 week after (lucky me)

population?  it was good (on my old dialup it was killer...the most (on my server) populated city is the start point for all new players...that was murder on my system).  PvP was crazy and was everywhere.  i saw 3 bounty hunters take out targets in the middle of a (packed) Cantina to the shock of everyone inside.   endgame did not exist as the game was basically all about your (everyday) life in the game. 

now for the NGE

very small population,  most people you see are inside cities and they are basically there spamming trade stuff (or have robots doing it for them).  bots are out in the wilderness (but they wont trouble you, there is plenty to kill out there).  Player cities are everywhere (its bloody annoying to try and drive across the planet with cities every 500m or so).  PvP is more focussed (only happens in a few locations).  i never got to the endgame but it was pretty much raids for better gear.

both games (and every game set to come out in the last quarter) will strive (read work their a## off) to be released for the Christmas sales (which are insanely high).  however Blizz is in no real hurry (except to get those sales if possible) and WAR is in a hurry (no game would EVER want to be released next to the biggest and most established game out there).

my prediction:

WAR for a February release

WOTLK for a April/May release

but what would i know?  all i got is their press releases

good combat system and it does not drain your system.

one thing i would want to see is an increase in the world size. (80 people on 1 map is nuts)

i think first we shall see a multiplayer mod (by someone with mad networking skills, really mad skills)

something i just though of.

the world is huge right now...and its only going to get bigger.

google a map of middle earth and see how friggen tiny the area we are currently in...now look at all the areas that they will no doubt add (Rohan, Isenguard, Gondor and Mordor). its gonna increase by well over 20x its size right now.

take the population of your server (how many people do you normally see when your out leveling?) then divide that by the increase in the size of the world (20x (roughly)if they add in all these lands) and its going to be low no matter what.

i think they need to really think hard about how they are going about this and really (and i mean really) think hard about every land they add in.

again day of defeat is small maps.

simulations (google some and see how limited the graphics are) take a hell of a lot out of systems in the first place.  a trade off for the great game play, seamless world and opportunities (like having several battles going on at once that have real time consequences for example) is always the graphics.

what would i love to see in an MMO?

to be honest...i hate player run economies,  the reason?  i love RL economies and i know how they work.  in an MMO where you got pretty much nothing to loose there are far too many retards stuffing up the economies.  when i say stuffed up i dont mean in a WoW like way (twinks and stupid prices) but stupid prices (20c for something that cost 25c to make.  or something that takes forever (effort..a big part of prices) to get and sells for a pathetic amount)

so what i want is a dev controlled/NPC controlled economy.  supply and demand, inflation and changes in the market.  i want wars to start that increase the arms market, celebrations to increase the goods market.  things like that.  SWG had a decent economy (could have been better).

the 2nd thing i want is events that shape the world.  wars, famines, discoveries, advancement.

SWG had a good idea.  random pop ups.  you know when you register for a site and it comes up with the weird text that bots cant read?  put that in random pop ups in the game (every 2 hours or so) and make it worthwhile.

e.g in Star wars it popped up when you were mining for minerals.  it would say that a more concentrated source of the mineral (easier to mine) is located nearby.  ask the player to type in the text he sees (and bots cant) and then give him a waypoint/minimap marker to the location.

as for gold sellers...you cant get rid of them.  what cant discourage them is if crafting is a vital part of the game.  raids and their epic gear only fuel more gold sellers and levellers.  if a crafter (after a lengthy process) can craft (some) of the best items in the game then it would reduce the selling slightly.

you crashed in the middle of a fight?  lame

worst i have had was freezing after i enter an instance (solo one at that) but i can attribute that to my craptacular computer and internet.

new releases always score 8.5+ then eventually drop back down to the low 8.X's

if you bother to look at the ratings of all the games you will see very few under 7.7 and i have seen some really really bad MMO's (FTP of course) getting 7.9.

in short...the rating system is seriously distorted

Originally posted by charris1980

you guys are being very 1 dimentional.  activision is part of blizzard now.  they have a lot of games in their arsonel they could have handed blizzard to do an MMO with.

1.  transformers

2.  x-men

3.  marvel

4.  call of duty 4

just to name a few.

have a more open mind

ok call of duty 4 is ruled out because its an online shooter and could never be an MMO.

Transformers is a tad weak to make a whole MMO out of it (however i do like the idea of giant robots as avatars)

Marvel is still recovering from the 1st failed attempt at a marvel MMO and i doubt blizz will take on the guys who make CoH (and the other super hero MMO...i forget the name)

X-men...same thing as marvel except an MMO has not been attempted yet.

any other Activision titles?

winner of longest thread title ever...

Originally posted by jiveturkey12

Originally posted by huxflux2004

Originally posted by Vansinne

Gonna be fun to see how the trolls turn this out to be bad news.

 

I am usually trolling here. This is something good for Aventurine, altough if you were greek, you would laugh about AV. I really doubt the capacity of AV to publish an MMORPG internationally. What they do up to now is import VHS and DVDs and distribute them to greek video clubs.

 

But, its a sign that Aventurine actually exists :) Which is definitly good news for all of us....

 

I think greece is just a bad place for a mmo to be developed in.

 

What do people do in greece anyways?

 

Fight lions?

 

-jive

because Greek lions are so common

it is.  and if you like WAR then i doubt you will like AoC enough to warrant the $50 ($100 here...damn monopoly in the games market).

all i can suggest is one of the old MMO's ($5-20 usually) but they are a tad old.

Originally posted by sfwtboy

Cant we all just have world peace? =D

hahahahahahahahahahaha....oh wait...you were serious?

Originally posted by Lork

what makes you think that there won't be a diablo MMO? Just because Diablo3 is set like the ones before that doesn't mean Blizzard won't produce it into a MMO. Look at  Warcraft 3, RTS, and now a MMO, maybe diablo3 is setup game for a bigger picture. Maybe its Starcraft Ghost or  Lost Vikings? Maybe its a entirely different ip and we are going to get smacked in the face.  My predictions for WoW are two more Expansions.

may 2010 Diablo 3 is released

march 2010 Diablo the MMO is released.

sorry but to me that is a complete and utter waste of an IP.  starcraft on the other hand is set for an 09 release and this new MMO should roughly be around 2010/11 so thats a good gap between them.  Starcraft 2 will always be popular as long as there is a South Korea (no offence intended).