Originally posted by Polarization

The reason why the mini map is blocked out is because it would be obvious that all of the screen shots are still only coming from around the small starting areas.

You guess much ( a nicer expression of you made up much)..no fact

The reason why the chat and group member window is blocked out is people would keep seeing the same few names and it would be obvious they only have a few testers online at a time, and those testers are still talking about the basics and its bugs.

Guess. no fact. Even if..Gianna may has limited time to progress further , but others did  like she mentions.

Good to see some nice screens shots of the barren lifeless world the beta testers were talking about.

Preview part 5 shows a whole fort build by goblins..doesn't sound like barren or lifeless.

Interesting to see that even after 5 parts the preview has still not covered anything new that was not already mentioned in the beta report 1 weeks ago.

The are new details in it someone who hate the game will easily mis.

Looks like after a month they are still only in the very early stages of beta testing, makes the new release date look as unrealistic as the last one in my opinion, unless of course they are actually intending to launch with this, if so good luck.

Gianna said she could write more (for example the screenshots of magic schools and spell lists  but.... NDA )

I think there pretty good previews (previews not in-depth reviews) and devlopment stage is done and there just polishing it up. Reminds me of how releases use to be when the genre was crawling.

You dont need to do all the things big companys do before release.  They give you loads of info for advertising.  And large closed betas is more for customer feedback then bug testing. But why not kill two birds with one stone so they have em look for bugs also. Except some devs rely to much on closed beta bug crunching then wonder why there so many exploits and bugs on release (You get what you pay for).

getting in on this one a little late.....but wow another very good review from Gianna.

I am torn on what combat skills to go for, and hell i could eve go full crafter who knows....but with the description of magic splash down it makes magic that much more exciting than mage classes in other mmos that are just so easymode.  No doubt that people are going to not like this game due to it actually challenging you....while other who may not have liked it will be thrilled to see that player skill is bring brought back into the equation.

Was also nice to see some clarification on components needed for spells...should make for a great economy and fullfilling crafting professions if it works out  like it sounds.

Nice to see a clarification on her overall state of mind towards the game and how she is trying to be objective.  To the common sense crowd, this means a lot.  To the tinfoilers...it of course is all just a ploy and she is only saying that to try to disguise that she is in bed with Tasos.

Originally posted by Rastical

I trust Tasos!

I trust Tasos!

I trust Tasos!

I trust Tasos!

But I don't trust Aventurine!

Which means I don't trust Tasos!!

 

you are so clever

I cant wait for part 6...

To me, these previews are bittersweet.

It's not so much that I don't like them, or what she's saying.  It's that when I look at the game, and what is being mentioned, it really doesn't seem polished at all.  I could be entirely wrong here, in that a game of this genre doesn't need to look or feel great, it just needs players.  But yeah, some of the images and Gianna's mentionings of the lack of players...I don't know

...I just don't see a January of '09 release date.  But I do see a game, so that's a positive

Originally posted by Crashloop

Originally posted by DarthRaiden

Originally posted by Consensus

I think she makes a v ery valid point most of the fanbois choose to ignore.

she is playeding with 4-5 people max. there are only, what 180 people in beta I read somewhere, either way not alot.

of course the game is smooth now, it has not been stress tested. they want to put 10k people in one instance at the same time, they need to test this. If they don't the game will just crash and epically fail when everyone trys to log on at the same time.

at the moment its a good ORPG, who knows if its a good MMORPG until alot more people are playing it at the same time.

 

It has been tested before with professional testers for over a year...You don't know to what degree so yellow  part in your post is your speculation and not fact.

If they feel more testers are needed in this phase they will add them...

 

 

The only way you can stress test servers are by allowing thousands of players to log on and try it. GOA on the EU launch of Warhammer claimed they had stresstested their account system, guess what it failed horribly.  The second worst thing that can happen to a game at launch beside the game failing badly is the servers not handling the stress they get. GOA ruined a lot of players first impression of WAR with showing they even failed at letting people log on, Funcom had hyped the game and while the servers performed close to perfect technically, the game itself had bugs. AoC is one of the launches where the servers actually have worked more or less perfect, too bad the game had some pretty bad bugs that put a lot of people off playing it.

 

exactly. author of the noob obviously knows this also. shes not a blind fanboi, shes shows signs of logic and skeptism.

Originally posted by Polarization

Looks like after a month they are still only in the very early stages of beta testing, makes the new release date look as unrealistic as the last one in my opinion, unless of course they are actually intending to launch with this next month, if so good luck.

Seeing as you've been wrong in every one of your predictions in the last 12 months, i think we'll all just trust our own judgement, thanks.

Originally posted by Soundbyte

Originally posted by Polarization

Looks like after a month they are still only in the very early stages of beta testing, makes the new release date look as unrealistic as the last one in my opinion, unless of course they are actually intending to launch with this next month, if so good luck.

 

Seeing as you've been wrong in every one of your predictions in the last 12 months, i think we'll all just trust our own judgement, thanks.

Just expressin his oppinion?

Originally posted by altairzq

Just expressin his oppinion?

Opinions are fine but when someone says the same damn thing over and over then is proved wrong a month later over the course of 12 months, it gets old.

Originally posted by EvilGargamel

Proven wrong? How has anyone who doubts the validity of this nonsense ever been proven wrong?

Here we are a month before launch and this sorry excuse for a game STILL has no real Beta going on with people from the general public able to login.

This game is trash. Pure junk. After 7 years the most they have ever been able to show publically are some shit looking screenshots with outdated graphics, and a handful of videos showing what looks like nothing more than some half assed generic combat system with horrid animations and mindless hack and slash action.

Ah the tears of blizzard fanbois feeling threatened are so sweet.