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Originally posted by Stradden

 

Originally posted by Ginaz

 

Originally posted by Stradden

MMORPG.com Community Manager, Laura Genender, takes a look at the world of Telon in her review of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.

Explaining Vanguard inevitably leads to explaining Vanguard's community. So, let's just start with it: yes, the game and the forums/fansites that support it are plagued with 'Fanbois' vs 'Haters' - the most heated faction warfare I have ever witnessed. Here, though, the rule of 'vocal minority' is in effect, and if you stay off of the forums and out of general chat, the majority of players are quiet and friendly (if you're not on a PvP server!).

According to unconfirmed sources like MMOGData.com, the Vanguard community is shrinking: what at launch had featured around 200k subscribers was down below 50k by May of '07. The PvP and Roleplay server populations are still rather steady, but the "normal servers" are practically ghost towns. When I created a character to explore one of those servers, I ran into another newbie who boldly stated "you're the 3rd person I've seen so far!"

Read the whole review here.

This review really doesn't mean much since they've had 6 months to patch and fix it.  Is it this website's policy to only review games after the devs have had a chance to fix their mistakes?  Is that fair to the people that were looking for a review here when VG was released?  Does mmorpg.com have this kind of review policy for other games or was VG treated differently?  Whats the reason you people waited so long to write a review?

 

The most fair way to review and comment on a game is to review it when its released and then write an update of sorts a few months later.  I wonder what VG's rating would have been when it was released?

 

Actually, we have had this assigned to writers a number of times since launch.  Unfortunately,  circumstances beyond our control led to these not being completed. After that, it was assigned to Laura, who ultimately completed it.

Should it have been done sooner? Probably. Mistakes happen.

Hope that clears things up for you.

 

 

seriously  its what um  4 months after release a monkey with mittens could have wrote a review faster.. its not that hard if your understaffed for this crap stop reviewing second, well more second than vanguard hah, games like phylon etc. Vanguard is huge in the mmo world, why?

 

b/c its the biggest failure of a game to hit since the matrix, and probably bigger than that. this review needed to be written up a long time ago, will we see the same lack of  motivation of reviews for large games coming out whether the be vanguard 2.0s or the next WOW?  i hope not, please review the game as it is released

Originally posted by Ozmodan

This game was doomed to failure from the start, even if it did not have launch problems.

Shows that you better do your market survey's before you launch.  Making hardcore MMO's is strictly a niche business, the vast majority of MMO players want nothing to do with them.  Hence you better have something to attract the hardcore players.   This game just goes to show that hardcore pve is a very limited market.

worst game ever and yes there is a huge market for hardcore games, just there's so many noobz out there like yourself who want  the IWIN button that we can't get a real MMO out anytime soon.

btw im playing Project entropia atm and eve. both very good games I doubt you could even begin to understand or make it in. bye bye

yes high end content= raiding

bugs and dupes make the economy worst economy of any mmo besides diablo2

crafting meh, no point when no one in game to buy or sell.

 no economy, no  bug fixes, no players.. why not just play a single player rpg on ps3? seriously vanguard is the exact idea of what NOT to do when making or looking for a mmo. worst mmo in history

• Performance
• Unfinished Gameplay Aspects
• Empty Servers
• No High End Content

CONS HAHAHAHAHAHAHA the best ever