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sounds like they wouldnt release the game on stated timeline, thats why they are cutting some of the fat. Lord Knows fat makes a steak taste better. After the shit Brad fed us with EQ 3 (vanguard) and then the epic failure that is AoC. All I see here is an excuse to not finish what they started and hurry and release the game on time. I hope thats not the case because i really could use something new and fun to play.

No Black Guard = no WaR for me. And punkuster is only nail in the coffin.

Originally posted by KnightTrue

I was really looking forward to this game being Warhammer in a DAOC fashion with great realm vs realm, and you guys couldn't even get the realm vs realm right. So now we only get 2 capital cities instead of 6?! How are the servers going to handle thousands of players in each capital city and continual fights over these very large cities?  They won't be able to handle the lag, nor will many of the playerbase have computers able to handle it. I mean at least give us some fortresses to fight over and claim in the game zones.

 

What happens when a guild of 200 all reach top level and start to continually raid the opposing capital city a few days after launch? Many player won't be able to do any quests in that Capital city.  6 capital cities would have alleviated this issue.

 

I figure EA told you guys to hold off on 4 classes to include in an expansion pack... we're not dumb enough to think you couldn't get them "right."

 

It feels like Mythic is really catering this game to the masses. Turning it into a clone of WoW in attempts to draw more players, while killing off the pvp aspect of realm vs realm, bottlenecking the players in 2 lag filled capital cities, and keeping content out of the game to release in future expansion packs.

You guys really blew it, I was looking forward to an epic game, but I've decided to cancel my CEdition Pre-Order.  Its not worth the price losing 4 cities and 4 classes and who knows what else after the game was already delayed a year. 

of course they cater to the  masses you dont want this game to be another conan do you? and another flaw in your arguement is saying it like a WoW clone.. i mean comeon.. a WoW clone..  oh you mean a successful  game that performs well.. well damn.. these guys made DAOC have faith.
 

Originally posted by wilq

No Black Guard = no WaR for me. And punkuster is only nail in the coffin.

CHEATER! ;)

why cheater? lineage 2 hawe anti cheat program attached called gameguard, he guards nothing as lineage 2 hawe more bots radars and more cheating programs i ever seen in mmo. its a excuse for devs to fight with cheating personally

I'm under NDA so there isn't much I can say other than these couple of things:

1.) This game is not WoW and WoW totally copied Warhammer IP with their game.  The art is no WoW original Warhammer had this artistic style LONG before WoW or Warcraft was invented. 

2.) War is not WoW in any shape form or fashion.

3.) Mythic said from day one if something isn't awesome it's not going in the game, therefore they aren't going back on anything they said previously they are doing the right thing by telling us and holding true to their beliefs.

4.) I will definitely play this game at launch and am even more excited now than I was when I first heard about it.

To everyone whining about PB.  This is simply an added layer of protection.  It's definitely going to be more secure by adding layers or protection than if it didn't have PB. 

This is a simple tennet of network security, the more layers of good security you have the better off you are.

Mythic never once said that they will ONLY have PB for cheat and hack detection.  They will still develop all their own stuf in house, they will simply add PB to the mix.  This should help prevent things that change the game executable by running on the local computer and not getting into a spygate controversy for scanning Memory and stuff.  This is a genius move to adopt and industry standard anti-cheat program and circumvent the crying in forums all over the world about how they shoudln't be allowed to scan resident memory etc. because it's an invasion of privacy.  In this case PB takes care of that in an industry standard way that people have to come to know and expect while keeping a transparent EULA and game client.  This will hopefully mainly stop botters not packet sniffers. 

Also in most modern games things like Odin's Eye aren't necessary since you don't have the need for that type of program.

Yeah you completely missed the point there about PB people dont like it because of the DC it causes, to be honest ive never played an mmo with it so i cant say, but from all the gamers i know it hasn t got positive reviews.

Don't worry.. if it's shit, they'll drop it :)

Mythic said that they were not dead set on PB yet. They were going to try it out in beta and see how it went. If it was crap they were going to drop it. I have never been on a game that uses it so I don't know much about it.