All Posts by fyerwall
All Posts by fyerwall - 794 found
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8/19/08 7:40 PM
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Originally posted by XoREHABoX Do I have access to it? Do any of those enabled things give me access.
If you have the war preview enabled on your account, you should have recieved an email with the new download location. I think the preview begins friday (ill have to look again) |
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8/19/08 7:36 PM
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I tried apoth and made it to 4th skill before giving up on it. It made some decent potions, but it was the cost of the ingredients that stopped me. Sure they are not all that expensive, but I ended up blowing 2 levels worth of skill funds on it :P Other than that its fairly easy to understand and follow. At most it will take you 2 seconds to figure it out (hardest part was finding the apoth skill in my abilities :P) |
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8/19/08 7:31 PM
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Normal movement speed does feel a tad slow especially while running from one end of the map to another. Flee feels just a little bit faster. There are flight paths from zone to zone, which makes travel a bit easier. |
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8/19/08 7:22 PM
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Originally posted by XoREHABoX
Think of it like a weekend long demo of the game. |
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8/19/08 6:55 PM
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Originally posted by ApsPlace
The Witch Hunter is a fun class to play. You can do really well in PvE going solo. In RvR its a bit harder seeing as for some reason I think destruction likes to gang up on our class :( The problem with RvR atm is the whole WoW-Blitz way of thinking. Squishies seem to run out past the tanks and end up getting spanked hard. I was in a really great team while in a scenario. I stayed behind the tanks with our healer and nukes. When the tanks cornered someone I would swoop in, nail them a few times and fall back. We managed to hold our position for the length of battle with only 2 deaths for myself. Most annoying thing in RvR is when you try to fall back to healers only to run into a wall of on coming players. It was like when you are in a narrow hall way and you walk into someone. You both end up moving the same direction a few times and then you get killed by the squig you were trying to run from :P |
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7/17/08 5:51 PM
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Originally posted by huxflux2004 City Siege is not the only RvR combat in WAR Every race has 4 tiers of battlegrounds (keeps and siege) as well as scenarios, even the ones who had thier capital city postponed. Cities are the final stage of the RvR campaign against your foes and only occur on a monthly basis. The only letdown is that you have to attack either Altdorf or The Inevitable City now until they remake the Orc, HE, DE, and Dwarven cities into something on the same scale.
Whatever
lol... research ftw! |
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7/17/08 5:02 PM
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Originally posted by huxflux2004 AOCs numbers are down almost 50% in the past 2 months though and it has been a steady downward trend for almost 3 months now. The game is bleeding subscriptions rapidly. You used to be able to confirm it by watching primetime server populations but they nerfed that to hide the problem and put all servers at medium population all the time to further hide it. I'm sure at the end of the month they'll release some bogus statement saying the game has shipped X accounts or some other vague meaningless number to try to trick people into thinking that is the subscription base.
Dude, what are you smoking? The game been out less than 2 months. How the heck do you have data for 3 months?
I think that this say it all, about the cretibility of all the trolls here.
The downward trend is still there, and its mainly due to Funcom not being truthful. There are still cryptic press releases, undocumented changes and more bugs added than repaired. Top that off with a very edited official forum where they try to keep everything appearing to be sunshine and roses. They would probably retain more users if they would just open up and say "Yes, we screwed up a lot..." and test thier patches before dumping a few dozen new bugs into the game. |
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7/17/08 1:52 AM
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Take it like Hollywood productions; What we are getting for games these days are the big name summer blockbuster movies. Sure they have big budgets and loads of special effects, but the story stinks and you end up leaving the theater thinking "Meh." There are not many companies willing to attempt to take chances on an original idea. Nor are they willing to make something that strays from the new improved Coke 2 MMO formula. Add to that companies who begin hyping games a week before they begin alpha testing and then start stripping the game down, changing things and not being truthful to gamers. Instead they keep hyping the same game concepts and denying any problems. Then we end up buying the game and get hit with the classic "We had to change this, remove that and totally decided not to do this."
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7/16/08 7:25 PM
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Originally posted by Gurtelrose
You should read this entire thread before posting any more. http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/186168 Originally posted by Battlekruse You should also take notics on this post too.
Whats funny is he doesnt realize it went from #4 to #13 in 2 months time. That and the curve isnt stablizing, its just gone from a steep drop to a slow and steady drop. |
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7/16/08 6:58 PM
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Originally posted by doromur
WoW killer, lol... You made me choke on my cornflakes and spill milk into my beard.....
lol |
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7/16/08 6:55 PM
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Originally posted by Annekynn
Actually there were quite a few people ready to build battle keeps, judging by the amount of siege wars that happened 1-3 days after they were patched in. |
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7/16/08 6:34 PM
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Originally posted by Annekynn They were added about 1-2 weeks after launch, hence not in at launch. |
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7/15/08 10:19 PM
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Originally posted by rashhero
the US gov is run by corporate interest. |
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7/15/08 10:16 PM
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Originally posted by AmazingAvery Im sorry AA, but AOC graphical engine is not some amazing piece of code.DreamWorld is a horrible engine, has been since AO and still is today. The entire engine is slapstick. The graphical settings are on par with many MMOs out to date. Hell, Vanguard has a larger view distance. Settings mean nothing really when they scale like ass. 2 mile view distance is kinda pointless anyway unless you can see another player clearly from said distance, which you cant. I would rather a less graphically demanding game if it meant I could travel across the world without the help of teleport NPCs and not having to worry about which instance of the zone my friends happen to be in. |
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7/15/08 10:02 PM
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Originally posted by ArcAngel3
Unfortunately I only know about SOE under Smed. I can tell you this though, when I bought a game with Sony on the label I expected to deal with a reputable company. I did not expect misleading marketting, poor development, abysmal customer service and outright hostility. It never entered my mind that any company, let alone Sony, would ever invalidate all the accumulated progress of their entire playerbase in an MMO. It was a real shock. Like you, I can't imagine how Smed has kept his job after all of these problems. The buggy mess at release would have been his call, scrapping the CURB would have been his call, the unwanted CU would have been his call, the NGE bomb would have been his call, the refusal to do classic servers would have involved him and some head honcho at LEC, the promise of server mergers and then failing to follow through was him as well. Now trading cards will sell people loot for real money. Does he con his employers into thinking he's doing a good job somehow? It really makes no sense to me, along with so many of the decisions he has made.
The division of Sony that SOE was under was Sony Pictures. Sony Pictures was a very backward company for the longest time, and Sony HQ never really questioned them or SOE because they expected losses in film/MMOs. That meant Smed could get away with sleeping on the job and not worry. Now SOE is under Sony Games which is controlled in Japan. SCEI took over SOE after the launch of the PS3 because they wanted to use SOE for the platform. Now Smed has to deal with SCEI and wont get away with his usual antics. |
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7/15/08 9:43 PM
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Originally posted by Enigma I had a friend who worked at U-Haul a while back. They were being sued by some guy who tried to pull one of those car transport trailers on the back of his camaro. He went in after hours and hooked it up himself. When he made the rental a few hours before he listed the vehicle that would be towing it as a Ford F350. Its just great that in this country people can sue you for them being stupid. I just wish more states would adopt the frivilous lawsuit laws. I mean if you bought an item and are unhappy with it because it doesnt do what you thought it would do, return it to the store or the company, get your money back and move on. If the item you bought blows up for no reason and causes someone injury, then yeah, sue the company. Seeing as how AOC didnt meet your expectations or didnt meet everything advertised on the box, just send it back and request a refund. If Funcom responds by banning your account and sending you a photocopy of Gautes ass with the words "Kiss it" without giving you a refund, then sue. |
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7/15/08 9:21 PM
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A little off track, but kinda fits the topic... I remember working at a supermarket back in high school. We had this old lady one day who walked over to Ailse 1, where they kept things like pickels, ketchup, etc. She picked up a jar of pickles, looked around and dropped it on the floor. It didnt break and she walked around to the next Ailse. My dept manager and I watched her from behind a display. She did it several times, dropping the jar and walking away when it didnt break. About the 8th time she did it, the jar finally broke. She walked down to the end of the ailse, turned her cart around and started back up the ailse. My manager told us not to clean it up, because he wanted to catch her in the act. As soon as she passed the broken jar, she looked around to make sure no one was there, layed down, kicked her cart forward and used her hand to knock more stuff off the shelf to make it look like she fell. She laid there screaming about her back and her leg, people gathered around and someone called the ambulance. She took the store to court and tried suing for 2 million. She didnt win and was counter sued by the store. *Reason why she lost* My boss and a few other people including loss prevention noticed her doing the same thing a couple of times over the month. At first they messed with her by picking up the jar everytime she went down the other ailse. Loss prevention set up 3 security cameras in that one area. Every time she entered the store, they set the cameras to record. When she brought the store to court, they played the videos from the 3 angles. The store was allowed to file a counter suit and restaining order. The city/state fined her and gave her a couple hundred hours of community service. |
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7/15/08 9:03 PM
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Originally posted by Slampig Aye, the poster you qouted is basing his post off 2 games. MXO was only purchased to help secure the rights to future WB properties (DCU). Vanguard was because Sigil had a somewhat finished game that could have been good but whole mismanaged. SOE bought them out after agreeing to a publishing contract because Sigil was headed down the toilet. As I said before, the only reason for the SOE hate was a few SWG players got burned and felt the need to share thier pain with everyone. When they realized no one really cared, they started in on any game that was mentioned in the same sentance with SOE. |
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