WAR (Warhammer Online)

DISCLAIMER: Now, I know that this forum is going to be skewed to WAR, AND I know this is the millionth post about this AND I know that it is silly to compare a released game to a unreleased game.  Also, I have my own opinion aside from the pending results of this post.

But, I want to know what everyone THINKS about this.  I know AOC is having a pretty successful lauch (financially at the very least), so I think it will raise the stakes on WAR to do the same.

I think its ludacris to compare a game geared towards Raiding & Hardcore Guilds against a Community / Co Op geared game like WAR.

I'll be playing WAR but the subjectiveness of which game is better I won't comment on.   I know what I like and what I'm look for and I've chosen the game thats offering the best choices for me.  Nuff Said.

Someone Blogged about this earlier, and I pretty much agreed with him:  AoC failed to meet popular expectations at launch, and many people are unhappy about it.  WoW is getting very old in people's minds now especially from the lack of end-game content.  WAR is poised to make a very large splash in a positive way, provided it can deliver and really make good impressions.

I would say the end of this calendar year is a phenominal time to release a well built MMO that has some heavy PvP and good PvE components to it.  RvR is just the icing on the cake - for people that never played DAoC believe me when I say it was the cat's meow.  I used to spend hundreds of hours just running around the frontiers in anticipation of keep attacks and defenses.

So in my mind, based on global feedback about AoC and how it is being received by the average MMO gamer, I think WAR has an awesome shot to take the rug out from under it.

It's tough to compare.  Definatly not apples to apples here.  I think WAR will be more succesful in the long run if that's what you mean.  Age of Conan appears to have had a good release and has a strong following so it will have it's own success for sure.  But, WAR will probably be a bit more mainstream, like WoW.

Originally posted by Jaga-TAO

So in my mind, based on global feedback about AoC and how it is being received by the average MMO gamer, I think WAR has an awesome shot to take the rug out from under it.

 

Yea right.  AoC will be more polished when WAR comes out.  We'll start the compliants and whinning all over again with WAR.  Just watch!

Originally posted by Blackswordsm

Originally posted by Jaga-TAO

So in my mind, based on global feedback about AoC and how it is being received by the average MMO gamer, I think WAR has an awesome shot to take the rug out from under it.

 

Yea right.  AoC will be more polished when WAR comes out.  We'll start the compliants and whinning all over again with WAR.  Just watch!

Sometimes the taste is so bitter it doesnt matter what happens. If anything, the players who leave now have a few options.

1- they will go back to the game when it is more polished

2- they will go to War and either will be more impressed by its launch compared to AOC that they will stick with it as it shows more promis.

there is more, but the 2nd one is what i feel,  If the game shows promise in the start and it delivers that, then you usualy have a feeling that the game will continue to keep up that quality.

But for the short time i played AOC, and from what i understand the first 20 is the most polished, it still felt buggy and nonresponsive controls

Originally posted by Blackswordsm

Originally posted by Jaga-TAO

So in my mind, based on global feedback about AoC and how it is being received by the average MMO gamer, I think WAR has an awesome shot to take the rug out from under it.

 

Yea right.  AoC will be more polished when WAR comes out.  We'll start the compliants and whinning all over again with WAR.  Just watch!

I'm sure that WAR will have as many problems as AoC did. -_-

NO!  WAR won't be better than AoC!  Everybody knows the upcoming patch for AoC is going to fix all of the problems people are having with it!  A DEV even said so!  The only reason it launched with the problems it did was because they were out of money!  They needed another 500 dollars that they did not have so they HAD to launch and not hold off two weeks to put in these miracle patches.  You will all see!  AoC will be better than WAR, and WoW, and even Hello Kitty Online!  What a stupid question!

No way to tell at this point. WAR isn't even released yet so how can anyone possibly know ? I've heard the strangest things like WAR won't even been finished due to financial issue and people