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• • Did Waaaagh! prove the common knowledge wrong?

  •  This is mostly a difference of playstyles, I suppose. I came from EQ and played WoW and was unimpressed. I found the game to be incredibly easy, the graphics childish, and the gameplay mimicking everything that came before it with no innovation. Not to mention that my class choice, Hunter, was bugged and broken for a while. But I think we can both agree that PvE is not the main focus in War and it merely does the job of offering an alternative means of progression to PvP, which will be the focus of the end game.
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    You find WOW childish and easy yet WAR PvE is the same thing, only less varied and interesting, with 2X as much hand holding.  Gear is given to you on a silver platter also.  The death penalty is even less harsh than WOW's which says a lot.  The PvE problems stem mostly from a very unorganized world that doesn't really connect or make sense.  Its just a bunch of big square leveling areas.   I've yet to see how WAR is any more "grown up" than WOW.   The quest text is just as humorous, just as goofy.   WOW has themes just as gritty and mature as any in WAR.   From someone who came from EQ, the jump to WOW should've been astounding to say the least.  Besides hitting buttons the battle system in WOW is 10X more refined, intuitive and varied than EQ ever was.  You had autoattack and taunt in EQ and that was about it.   WOW is about as similar to EQ as Crysis is to Doom. 

    I'm enjoying WAR, but the PvE issues and lack of strategy needed in PvP is dissapointing.  Of course it might get better in T4, but T2 has been a zerg fest, much like DAOC as when I played.

    By the way, Blizzard already proved you can have a great MMO launch.  DAOC was considered the smoothest before that, but take a look at what DAOC actually launched with.  It would be considered a joke now.

  • Posted: 10/01/08 3:15 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • they've got a whole lot of work to do on this game.

  • Originally posted by Haelix
    

      WoW is organic and intuitive? Lol, maybe after you've played it a few years and installed half a dozen mods from curse. Show me one person who hasn't felt the need after playing wow for a while to install 3rd party mods to improve the game. WoW is not intuitive or organic, it's just the "norm" that people are comfortable with cause it's been around for so long.

      Not bashing WoW here, blizz did a great job in crafting the game, they stole all the right ideas from other games and added their own batch of innovations as well. Kudos, but organic and intuitive, it is not.

      As for being a WoW killer, who said it was? WoW will be around for a long time if for no other reason that alot of people are so "invested" into it. All that time, effort, and money spent buying gold to get your toons to the point you want them binds people to the game. That "investment" guarantees WoW will have a following for a long time to come. People fear change. There's an analogy that would work great here about a freezing day and a warm pile of feces but its too long to type out. Anyone who knows the one will see what I mean.

    
     

    You might be the first person that thinks WOW isn't intutive.   How low can they go=)

  • Posted: 9/19/08 10:18 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Why don't developers give us options?

  • 
    Also add in that you're hardly looking at anyone face to face, zoomed in to notice minor differences.  You're certainly not looking at your own face, considering you play with the camera 20 ft up in the air behind your character.  Its a combination of need, usefullness and more importantly, performance.  I don't recall SWG, Conan, COH or EQ2 running all too well with 100s of players on screen at once.  So do the math.  Its not lazyness, its necessity.  Anyone who doesn't understand that doesn't understand basic design.

    Are people NOT going to buy WAR or WOW because they can't adjust their ear length?  Are millions of new players going to buy either game BECAUSE you can give yourself a pointy nose?  No.  Once you start thinking like a developer and not just a gamer sitting on your behind, you'll understand why decisions are made.

  • Posted: 9/15/08 10:47 AM
    General Discussion
• • Did David get Goliaths attention?

  •  What?  you mean Mythic is copying Blizzard queues exactly?  Yup they got Blizzard attention, because Mythic apparently couldn't figure out a better way to launch a game after 4 years=)  Although, theres really nothing that can be done with this issue.  You either make a queue, block people out completely or let the server crash due to overpopulation, ALL which will piss people off.

    So, all the idiots who mocked Blizzard's launch for the past 4 years need to pop a cork in it.

    Also, considering how inferior WAR's PvE game is to WOW's, Blizzard isn't exactly worried.  Yes, I'm playing WAR by the way...right now exactly.  Waiting in a que though=)

  • Posted: 9/14/08 4:37 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • WAR currently #1 selling VIDEO GAME on Amazon.com

  • Originally posted by severity3
    

    Originally posted by hitec7
    

    Can u say AoC?

     

    Comparing these two game is assinine. At launch, the general public had NO IDEA  what lay in store for them after tortage. nda was still up, beta was capped at level 13...etc. Aoc still had people snowballed at launch.

     War is not hiding behind nda's etc. We know what we are buying.

    Your comparison fails miserably.

     

    WAR is well ahead of AOC at this point in both their life times, however very few people have any clue about the end game of WAR either.  T4 NDA is still up buddy boy.  We don't have much of a clue how its going to play outsid of what we've been told by Mythic staff.  

    What we do know right now is that the queues are horrendous, so any Mythic fanboy(not you) that's mocked Blizzard in the past might have to eat some crow right now.  But I'm sure its OK when it happens to a game they like, right?

     

  • Posted: 9/14/08 4:33 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)