For the life of me I don't understand why people would come on a forum simply to trash a game or the players who play it. My guess is that they want to see the game fail. I know if I didn't like a game I might make one post on what I thought of it and move on. Truthfully there aren't many games I've played that I didn't like the game to some degree. And I definitely didn't degrade those who do enjoy a game.

To each his own. 

Originally posted by namelessbob

 

Originally posted by TotalPSA

The website saying nothing is stupid i could build a website in 5 mins that gave an explaination and i am an internet moron.

 

The website did explain everything. I don't know what you are talking about. Everything from it going gold and patch 0, to them pulling down the servers till release, to them explaining they were taking servers down to patch content for all.

What have they failed to inform us about? if anything their blog says more than I care about. I mean wtf, who cares about the hg:l jeep and where it is.

I am sorry you were so busy trying to make me and not the company making cash look foolish you missed the point r'tard. I am aware the website was gonna be down for the week prior i was on about this evenings downtime. There was no notice on the website (actually thats not true some one wrote there was a message up for 10 mins b4 the server went down) WoW sorry i was too stupid to get that brief message cause instead of checking the website every 30 seconds i was playing that damn game that shut down with NO warning. As a said a message explaining this will it was down was not hard to hard. Anyone who thinks otherwise is like yourself a busy bodying moron.

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Originally posted by blix2006

i have no sympathy for anyone who bought this game lol.it sucked in beta not because of servers.because it was an awful game.that would bore any real mmo or hack and slasher in 2 weeks. flame on fan bois flame on.

Nor should you have sympathy, this is your personal bias opinion which means absolutely nothing here, Just some bored lonely person out there behind a keyboard, looking at a monitor and trying to figure out how to kill some time on mmorpg.com. You know you love HGL my friend, just admit it!

... I had to, it was just too unresistable not to reply to this message.. Man did I take the bait or what!?!? LOL

Originally posted by HiGHPLaiNS

Just some bored lonely person out there behind a keyboard, looking at a monitor and trying to figure out how to kill some time on mmorpg.com.

Hey... you're describing Me...! Uncanny resemblence... at any rate, my personal opinion is that HGL is a fun game and even was in beta despite the performance issues and bugs (which usually acompany games in beta), though it's not my style. Just not compelling enough.

That said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I'm glad many people enjoy this game. ^^

I don't hate the company or anything, but I strongly, strongly advise people to NOT use the ea digital download, it is utter shite!!

I should have waited until I could go to the store to buy a copy, I'd be playing already instead of screwing around with tech support that is ill equipped to actually help anyone.

Most likely I'll be demanding my money back from them so I can go buy the damn disks. Not to mention they double billed me.

D.

Update to my situation...

They don't know why their stuff doesn't work.

I cancelled and made them give my money back (which they did, thank god. Their disclaimer says they don't do refunds for online purchases.)

I guess I'll have to wait a couple days and go buy it in the store.

D.

Funny thing is, its not even an MMO.. There is no HUGE server load to worry about.  There are maybe max 100 people who can login to any one server.  These same servers runs tons of battlenet type games.  And this is just one of them.  To be caught so ineptly with there pants down is another example of how unfinished this game is, and why they cover over the unfinished aspects with promises for Subscriber content over time.  Its a freebie excuse to develope things for a complete game slowly after already getting paid up front $50. 

But maybe you can enjoy the $20 aspects of the game that you have right now and make the most of it.

Ill be happy to hold out for Crysis and happily play The Witcher for the moment. 

I don't know about some of you but other than not being able to subscribe at the moment I been having a good time. Ok not the best of starts i'll admit but they will get the subscriptions working soon and all will be fine. So no worries , all will be fine and just ignore the nay sayers who seem to be trolling the Hellgate forums looking for an excuse to insult a great game.

I was there for WoW on opening day and that was tough.    I think the way LoTRO launched is the best way because you avoid everyone logging in at once.   They had the pre order players that logged in a few days earlier and then the regular players trickle in without as much of a stampede like it sounds here.

  I was in the WOW launch and it was not ROUGH by any means.  It had the typeical Lag Issues occasional, but a far sight from being a constant issue.  People were having a blast through all of public beta and couldnt wait for opening day starting at Midnight the night before.  It was a blast all through opening day, and other than the infrequent freezes during looting, and a few other lag issues.  It was awesome. 

But again.  STOP REFERRING HELLGATE TO MMOS!   Refer to Guildwars if you must, or just refer to other multiplayer games like Battlefield, Diablo, or even an RTS game, this is no different in regards to the multiplayer aspects.  NO DIFFERENT.  Almost every game thats released today has online multiplayer with a Lobby to login to and find other players.  Thats all you got in Hellgate.  Hellgate's is a 3D graphical lobby.. ooooh.. its suddenly an MMO now because I can see a bunch of player characters in the lobby!  *blissful confusion*

Originally posted by Odysses

I was there for WoW on opening day and that was tough.    I think the way LoTRO launched is the best way because you avoid everyone logging in at once.   They had the pre order players that logged in a few days earlier and then the regular players trickle in without as much of a stampede like it sounds here.

Those who said that WoW launch was smooth must have some very tolerant limits.  WoW started out with huge lags and constant linkdeads for many.  Eventually Bliz has to take off all worlds (for a few days? I do not remember, it was so frustrated back then, we have to go to the web continuously to see when the game can be played) and refit the whole line of servers.  After that things were suddenly much smoother.

In contrast. DAoC can be seen as a classic example of success.  Unlike LoTRO, they do not carry over the open beta, but the launch was smooth.  All the starter zones were working.  Bugs found in slightly higher tier zones were fixed immediately when they are reported.  The servers never went down.

But back to topic.  It is ridiculous to call HGL a disaster.  What is a disaster? something that caused huge damage and sometimes irreparable damage.  What damage has HGL brought to the OP?  A couple days of playing solo instead of online?  That is irreparable damage?

Originally posted by Wolfsheim

 

 

Funny thing is, its not even an MMO.. There is no HUGE server load to worry about.  There are maybe max 100 people who can login to any one server.  These same servers runs tons of battlenet type games.  And this is just one of them.  To be caught so ineptly with there pants down is another example of how unfinished this game is, and why they cover over the unfinished aspects with promises for Subscriber content over time.  Its a freebie excuse to develope things for a complete game slowly after already getting paid up front $50. 

But maybe you can enjoy the $20 aspects of the game that you have right now and make the most of it.

Ill be happy to hold out for Crysis and happily play The Witcher for the moment. 

 

The tilde key "~" brings up the console.  If you do this, when you log in you can see the current user count.

On Shulgoth, the US server, there was over 14k people playing tonight.  At its peak, I saw 15,300+ people logged in.  I know this because I had the console up and I kept re-rolling.  I happened to notice this number popping up as I logged in.

so, what were you saying about servers.. and a max of 100?  elaborate because I only know of one server and it handles over 15k at one time and did so tonight very well.

troll much?

During the  launch week of WoW, my server not only had constant lag issues, but we had frequent rollbacks for a few days. I would not classify it as smooth. LOTRO was very smooth.

Yes the server that i was on also experienced the same thing. Its a big flop this game. Could be another vanguard in the making. This game could do much better and im hoping it improves in at least 3-4months

Originally posted by xIaOBaKa

Could be another vanguard in the making.

Hellgate runs just fine. It had a few hitches the first day, but it's far from a 'disaster'.

Originally posted by Ruthgar

During the  launch week of WoW, my server not only had constant lag issues, but we had frequent rollbacks for a few days. I would not classify it as smooth. LOTRO was very smooth.

I got a free 2 months of play due to the WoW launch. I enjoyed the free time, but yeah it was an absolute failure of a launch.

So far HG:L has been superb. They took down the servers for 2 hours to update the content to be allowable for everyone due to a billing issue with credit cards and subscriptions, and has been great since.

Hopefully a 2 hours patch didn't turn anyone off because I loved making my zombot =)

Originally posted by ethion

  If you can't understand it then vote with your dollars and return the software and move on.

I don't know of one store that allows you to return Software so that point is null and void so he does have a reason to be a bit upset due to the fact that he can not move on as he no longer has the 50 buck to move on with.

Originally posted by Rayana

 

Originally posted by xIaOBaKa

Could be another vanguard in the making.

You probably mean: they didn't make Vanguard :D

 

Hellgate runs just fine. It had a few hitches the first day, but it's far from a 'disaster'.

so far i got stucked   10 times in liek 4 hours gaming.. forcing me to restart the game and therefore redo the area again

disconnected from server  a douzain of times ( and nope its not  my conenction). Again  back to the "town" very funny when you jsut went though 2 zones and its happen right before you are about to open a new  station.

its defenitly a disaster for the online part of the game.. honnestly it couldnt have been worse. guess the other half of the diablo team, the one that KNOWS how to handle the servers went to Arena net ?

i wanted to give them a chance even with their subscription crap but i guess i was wrong.. maybe i ll try in a few monthes .

i don't even play HGL and i want you to stop bitching, damn WoW had a very shaky start but it turned out great!