Once a long time ago I thought Mythic had a plan. DAoC was enjoyable at first. Yes, it did turn into a horrible game, but thats because they lost sight of what made it a fun game. Its just like with Warcraft. I enjoyed getting all my characters to South Shore and engaging in all the PvP it had to offer. Yes, there was no point. There were no goals. I simply enjoyed the combat. Usually it would start small, then end up with 30v30 madness. Following in DAoC's footsteps, Blizzard released content that simply ruined this form of combat.
Just for the fun of it, I hit up the classic servers on DAoC once again. I have every class for each realm parked in thid. I realized very fast why War plays so poorly. Right off, bone dancer pets were running through keep doors and killing people. Right off, shrooms were shooting people through walls and killing them. Man, this is sounding awfully familiar. Pet AI is simply a nightmare. I walked across a bridge, where the fuck did my pet go. Did mythic use the exact same engine for War?
I expect DAoC to have these kinds of problems. I dont expect War to. Oh well, I was in a decent group for a bit. I started off playing my cabalist. 8 of us walking over a bridge when I notice a stealther and send my pet to pop him when, poof, dead in one hit. One single hit through my bubble, insta dead. Every caster in the group damn near insta died to a group of 6 luri nightshades. This left a paladin and an a merc to die to the 6 remaining stealthers. We didnt kill a single one of them. Obviously, this left a bad taste in my mouth. I realized at any one time, there were more stealthers on the map than all other classes combined. You might think this would wake mythic up a bit.
The fanbois will yell, oh that doesnt count, only end game counts. I thought the journey was supposed to be fun. My bad. So i leave to go play a bit of War. After nearly dieing to the combination of a squig that walked through the door and 4 magus pets fireballing me through the walls, i bounced from that game as well. I would think, before you release a game, before you take the time to design all these classes, you might want the simple things to work, like line of sight and shit walking through walls.
So I decide to say fuck MMO's for a bit and play an RTS. I pick up Red Alert 3. Right off the bat, the DRM made me want to break the fucking game. Your going to tell me that I have to have an internet connection to activate the fucking game. I also have to de-activate the game online or I lose an install credit. Am I fucking renting this game that I paid 50$ for. I slip the dvd in the drive and it wont fucking read. I take the game back and get a new copy. I slip the dvd in the drive. Sweet, it reads the damn dvd. I start to enter the key code when I notice its missing a fucking character. 19 out of 20 fucking characters. So I have to guess what this last character is. After my third guess the game boots me out of the install and you have to start over by typing in all 19 other characters. You have to be kidding me. By this time, id rather get my money back than play this fucking game.
So to shorten this rant post...
Fuck DRM, fuck EA, and fuck Mythic
