Originally posted by Wyntermute

Originally posted by popinjay

 

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War is stupid in this regard. Run to zerg a keep, die. Meh, I'll just run back again. Dead. Dang, Ill just run back again right away. (or did they change this now?) On both sides this is the case. It's really a no brainer. The game is built on PvP, yet they can't get the basic idea that there should be some consequence to your lack of playing skill or teamwork. This is another reason people leave. It gets so old doing this over/over and no challenge to die and run back. Read around.. biggest complaint about the fighting.

If you are correct, then EvE is stupid in this regard as well. You die, reclone and run back in a new ship. People do it all the time.

Umm... Wow...

That is so far from the truth, I...
Assuming you've played it, have you ever actually died... at *all* in EvE?

You stand to lose any, or all, of the following:
- Your ship, which can cost millions of isk by itself.
- Your arsenal - weapons, shields, etc... which can also be quite a lot of isk.
- Your payload, if any... also possibly worth a pretty penny.
- If you're *really* unlucky... you can be pod killed, in which case, if your insurance isn't up to date... you lose potentially millions of SP.

So... the loss of potentially millions of isk and possibly accrued SP in EvE which all has to be replaced...

...compared to...

... the slight inconvenience of having to run back to where you died and jump back into the battle in WAR.

Someone who hasn't even played either game would see the difference there.

I was a Mythic fanboi myself. With the release of  Warhammer they made do a complete 360...I dislike the company for good now.

Originally posted by Tyvolus1

I love how the wow fanbois are always here on the WAR forums and not playing wow.  Really shows how fun wow must be.  And before anyone says anything stupid, I play WAR.  Blizz lost my $15 a month and Mythic is now getting it.  I will never sub to wow again (havent for months and months).  cookie cutter classes, scripted dungeons, raids raids and more raids, nerfed world pvp, horrible childish community, TUESDAY PATCHES that cost you a whole day of gaming, pvp sucks, you can run right through other PCS -- LOL !! --  hey for you guys who like world of kiddie-craft, have at it, you and the 10 million asian gold farmers go knock yourselves out.  I know you feel threatened about WAR, but thats what happens when your lives revolve around world of warcraft -- if anything comes along to threaten your game (your life) you get scared and defensive.  its just a game, and WAR is better.

but.... your always on the war forums and not playing war yourself???   duh?

Came across this thread while perusing the sight, and i have to admit, it's been entertaining.

And maybe throwing my 2 cents in makes me a troll or whatever, but i just figure I'd share my opinion.

Yes, I play WoW. Not my first MMO (that was FFOnline for Xbox360.) and yeah, I'm not an "old school" MMO gamer  as i think I've only really been playing MMO's for about 3 years now. But this is my take on the whole thing.

WoW I've found is if nothing else, solid. It's established. I'm pretty sure that I fall into the catagory of average WoW gamer because I have a couple of level 80's that have sub-perfect gear for raids as well as several alts I mess with from time to time.

I had the opportunity to run through the beta of WAR  toward the end of it's beta days and while I thought PQ's were pretty clever and the RvR had potential, it wasn't enough to take me away from what I had already invested in WoW.  And it wasn't bugs or lag or anything that irked me about it, it was just not different ENOUGH from WoW to tear me away from it. Yeah it's prettier...although i can't really appreciate it because my comp is crap, so I only saw the good graphics in screenshots. But the gameplay alone just didn't do it for me. I've already got WoW and I'm invested in it, so why would I just start over? And who knows maybe someday Mythic will do something with WAR that will revolutionize it's game, really set it apart from the crowd, but I can't imagine it's a terribly different game now from what I messed with in the beta.

Now on the flip side of things, back in WOW, I'll admit i was excited about the WotLK expansion. Yeah, I stood in line for it at midnight like 2 million other players. And after seeing all the big-badass gear and stuff from the BC xpac, my expectations were higher than ever. But then I came into WoW about 6 months after the release of BC, so all of it was new to me at that time. I'd be one of the pioneers this time, one of the guys everyone turns to with their questions about what they're about to run into. The guy everyone stands around in the public hubs, checking out my gear and asking where i got it.

Boy, was I surprised. After the first few quest rewards in WotLK I started to realize all this crap looked the same. Oh, different from the BC gear, sure, but in stead of a big-honkin' glowy sword, I had a big-honkin' Stone sword.  Wait....I went from glowy-shiny-alien looking gear.....to rocks and leathery looking stuff? As if the gnome plate wearers didn't look enough like footballs, now they were the same color too! They just had spikes! People didn't ask me about my gear because they were all wearing it too! And how can you "pioneer" or forge ahead when half your server is on the same quest you are and they're all trying to ninja one another!

And then the biggest shocker of all hit me...something I'm surprised hasn't been brought up in here, or if it did I missed it.

WotLK looked an awful lot....amazingly so....like the WAR beta I played but a few months earlier! Some people think that WAR ripped off WoW, but I think WoW ripped WAR right back. Visually anyway.

So, do I feel cheated? Not really. I'm aware it's all marketing. And besides I'm one of those people, as mentioned earlier in the thread, that's looking for a new game. But come on, seriously, who here really thinks that 10 years, ...hell, 5 years down the road you're going to be playing the same games you are today? None of us are truely LOYAL to any game, otherwise we'd all still be playing Mario and Sonic and arguing about Sega vs. Nintendo. 

I expect that eventually Blizzard is going to make a major bonehead  move and screw things up in WoW so completely that yes, half their fanbase will cancel their subs and run screaming for the hills, or a new game will come out that wil be so revolutionary that WoW gamers like me will ditch it like an ugly prom date. Or Armageddon will occur. But until such a time as that I still play WoW.

And if you play WAR awesome. If you play EVE, or AoC, or DAoC, EQ, SWG, hell....if you play Dofus, rock on. I hope you're having a good time, and those games continue to live up to the standards you expect of them.

Except FF11. People who play that are a bunch of asspipes. j/k

Crap, I went rambling there, didn't I? Meh, oh well. Laters!

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Originally posted by izzy80
I wish I could read one post on this freakin forum where some WOW fanboi doesnt come in trying to hype up and defend Wowcrap as some incredible game.

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I agree. War is a great game and what needs to be fixed gets fixed in time. It seems Mythic is listening to its player base which is a good thing and they seem to know the difference between kids screaming that one class is overpowered (WOW) and then getting the nerf bat and then making that class worthless. I am not a WAR fan boy, just an avid gamer and have played 100's of MMO's including WOW (4 yrs). War has its faults as well. My real problem with WOW is that they made it so that every retard or 12yr old can play it and they do. I enjoy game that take skill and not as gear based. WAR has better PVP (scaling lvls so that people have a fighting chance in the RvR is a brilliant idea). Also the abilty not to twink in pvp is awesome (If you need to spend a ton of time and money on getting one toon to X lvl and all the best gear for the lvl just to make up for your lack of being able to pwn someone with your skill of playing alone). WOW Fan boys are around because they love there "I hit 1 button and I own all" mentality. Just cause a game doesn't have 20+ raid end game (thank god) doesn't mean its a bad game.

The Guild progression system in WAR is great to. The more xp you gain the more it helps the guild (not just how much dick waving you can do for downing some raid boss). I think I have said enough (I could do this all day, but I am at work and must earn my pay).

"and remember kids, Don't be afraid to get killed in PVP (twinks this is for you), it isn't real life you do respawn".

for those who still belive wow is dying

source: www.kotaku.com

Two months after announcing the jump to 11 million subscribers, Blizzard has decided to start incrementing its milestones, announcing that the tally is now up to 11.5.

That extra .5 million is the focus of Blizzard's press release today, earning top billing over the much more impressive news that the Wrath of the Lich King sold 4 million copies in the first month, breaking the monthly PC sales record previously held by The Burning Crusade. Barring some sort of global awakening I suspect we can just save these press releases and change out the names and numbers once the next WoW expansion hits.

Sales of the core game and the World of Warcraft Burning Crusade Battle Chest also jumped during the month as Lich King mania drove more holdouts over the edge, helping bring in those extra 500 thousand subscribers so that Blizz could issue the press release version of a 6-month anniversary.

World of Warcraft® Subscriber Base Reaches 11.5 Million Worldwide
Wrath of the Lich King™ expansion fuels growth with record first-month sales of more than 4 million

IRVINE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that World of Warcraft®, its award-winning subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game, is now played by more than 11.5 million subscribers worldwide. This new high was reached following the November 13 release of the game’s second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King™.

Within its first 24 hours of availability, Wrath of the Lich King sold more than 2.8 million copies, making it the fastest-selling PC game of all time. In addition to winning a number of editor’s choice awards from major gaming publications, the expansion has now gone on to sell more than 4 million copies in its first month, setting a new record for monthly PC-game sales. Both sales records were previously held by World of Warcraft’s first expansion, The Burning Crusade®.*

“We’re pleased to welcome the new and returning players who have helped World of Warcraft reach these new milestones, and we appreciate the enthusiasm and support that the game’s global community has continued to show,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment®. “We look forward to providing all of them with an excellent entertainment experience for a long time to come.”

“Not only is Wrath of the Lich King still doing well, the base World of Warcraft game and the World of Warcraft Battle Chest® are performing better than last year,” said Bob McKenzie, senior vice president of merchandising at GameStop. “That type of traction is very impressive for a game that is going into its fifth holiday season and speaks to the enthusiastic player base Blizzard Entertainment products have.”

To keep pace with the continued growth of World of Warcraft as well as development on other Blizzard Entertainment games, the company is currently hiring for numerous open positions. More information on available career opportunities can be found at www.blizzard.com/jobs. More information about the latest World of Warcraft expansion is available at the official Wrath of the Lich King website: www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath.

World of Warcraft’s Subscriber Definition

World of Warcraft subscribers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access. Internet Game Room players who have accessed the game over the last thirty days are also counted as subscribers. The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards. Subscribers in licensees’ territories are defined along the same rules.

sorry had to agitate the bees *runs away*

Originally posted by popinjay

 

Most of the comparing of Wow honestly, isn't being done by WoW fans. Take a look a the majority of posts on Warhammer forum here and elsewhere, like the OP. He is the one drawing a correlation between the two games and players. He didn't mention any other game other than AoC in passing, and not that AoC fans were flaming War. He's talking about WoW fans. Here, a War fan is doing the comparing.

There are a lot of War people who keep saying they like WAR better than WoW. Now again, that cool. But right there in there posts, THEY are comparing the two. Instead of simply saying "I like War for this/that" they would rather post usually "I like War cause it's not like Wow, it doesn't do this/this". Take a serious read on those posts. You'll see it. Most WoW fans stick to their own forums. Pre-release you had Warheads running into the WoW forums proclaiming gloom and doom with Warhammer's arrival, not the other way around.

 

Again, this is quite a few War fans who continue to draw the comparison. I don't even OWN WoTLK (nor am I buying it), but each time I mention something critical of WAR: "WoWboi, go back to your game" "LOTRO boy" lol. It's really comical that anytime someone says War has a problem, thats the tag. Even Paul Barnett, when you look back at interviews pre and post release, was taking countless shots at Blizzard at every chance. This was done to maximize the pub regarding Warhammer and to build some kind of rivalry, so people would think War was meant to rival Wow. Which is what Mythic intended all along, to rival Wow and steal customers. To not see this is really strange. You can go back and read all Paul Barnett's fighting words. Of course the Warheads (diehards) followed suit as anyone following would. Most Wow fans didn't even know Warhammer was a coming game, so why would they be threatened? They never heard of it or the Warhammer lore. ( I hadn't) I saw games like Warhammer 40k on PC, but never bought it and I certainly never played any of their tabletop dice games.

Warhammer is built around PvP yes. But thats part of the reason over 40% left... the actual fighting is ok, but there is no point to any of it. Just kill for no reason in a big mosh. There's no reason to fear death in this game. And if that's all their is when the PvE is boring and the crafting is a joke... what else would you do when the Pvp is rare and pointless when its actually going on?

In WoW, when you Pvp and die, they attach a death timer to you so you don't just respawn, run back to the battle and die again. Your'e some kind of ghostie thing who can't do anything but sit there. That time penatly increases the MORE you die, making you be more cautious.

War is stupid in this regard. Run to zerg a keep, die. Meh, I'll just run back again. Dead. Dang, Ill just run back again right away. (or did they change this now?) On both sides this is the case. It's really a no brainer. The game is built on PvP, yet they can't get the basic idea that there should be some consequence to your lack of playing skill or teamwork. This is another reason people leave. It gets so old doing this over/over and no challenge to die and run back. Read around.. biggest complaint about the fighting.

 

 

ok first off stop generalizing... secondly, you really dont know the game that well then, it is quite clear about that.  There is a penalty for dying in Warhammer.  You lose stats everytime you do.  and the concept in Warhammer is to WIN AREAS.  a hell of a lot more then any other game as of now.  so yes there is ton of purpose.
 

so this is where you dont know the game.  yet you keep telling everybody that its pointless.  I play LOTRO, i have a lifetime sub.  I play warhammer.  warhammer has a ton more reason to pvp then LOTRO and WOW.  and its not just personal gain.  Its also for your realm whether it be for your realm or for yourself you gaining on both.  SO the problem like i said for my original reasons still stand... you are a perfect example.

you think you know warhammer but dont.  You get all the info wrong.  I am still playing warhammer.  I know the game.  got questions about it, ask me?  I will tell you.  But for the love of all is holy, dont spread lies about the game and what its mechanics are or its gameplay when you arent even playing it right now.

you said that the OP started this all... actually he didnt if you read his first post again.  he simply was stating that WOW players need to stop bashing on Warhammer is what i read.  go play your WOW game and be happy with it.  There is no reason to come to warhammer threads and do it. 

and another misconception about you saying that warhammer fans start it.  Actually i do read a few forums and usually the Warhammer bashing starts with exWOW players who are unhappy with Warhammer.  THey have to let the world know they dont like WAR and start bashing it then begin to say they are going back to WOW and then the comparisons come out.

you are entitled to your opinions, I am sure you are gonna come back with something smart to say.  But you are wasting your breath.  as far as i can see for a LOTRO player, you are bashing on a game you really dont know what its about.  Since beta Warhammer has changed a LOT. 

again, warhammer is in its early stage.  it had a smooth launch, they have patched it up very well.  cant say it enough.  and the pvp is a neat idea.  it has a chance for you to win specific lands for your side.

and about how you are saying Warhammer was trying to aim at stealing customers from WOW, why not?  whats wrong with that... in our capitalist country we call that competition.  it happens in everyday life.  hell Vanguard once said they were there to challenge WOW and try to get some over to their game.  it happened.  They did.  But problem is we all know what happened to Vanguard. 

why do people feel like omg you cant compete with the giant WOW?  you are one of them too Poppin.  why not?  seriuosly.  who said blizzard shouldnt get some competition?  thats why tehre is more then one MMO out there.  thats like telling me that all other operating systems out there should just give up.  they will never make any money compared to Microsofts windows.  Yet they still seem to pump out different operating systems.  Maybe Mac should just quit because IBM compatible computers are just making more people buy theres instead of a MAC...

makes no sense to say stuff like that.  Its called competion.  you are saying it should be like a monopoly.  And to stick with what the OP said he is right.  There is no need for a WOW player to come to a warhammer forums and say anything.  Why?  you got your WOW game go play it.  I dont see you running over to Vanguard and bashing that game when WOW is mentioned.  hell not too long ago a guy quit stating he was going back to WOW.  hell in LOTRO i heard a guy over raid channel that he was quitting going to WOW because Turbine wont fix the moors.  this happens.  But again dont see other WOW players there willing to run to their forums and do the same they are doing to warhammer forums.

the only conclusion i can come up with is they feel some sort of animosity or threat?  dont know.  nobody will ever know.  Maybe its just people that love WOW so much they want the world to know.  Maybe they just like to argue.  they know WOW so well they feel they can argue anybody into the ground.  DO you truly know this poppin.  No you really dont and neitehr do i.

in anycase, its best for you guys to go back to LOTRO and WOW, or wherever other games you play and enjoy them.  Let the warhammer players enjoy theirs

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you are entitled to your opinions, I am sure you are gonna come back with something smart to say. But you are wasting your breath.

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Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah, willvas!

and a very Merry Christmas to you poppin!

Aw, see? That's sweet. Kinda like the snoopy and the red baron song they play every year until my ears bleed.

A man on the street says "Happy Holidays"

I look at them and say "Screw you, it's Christmas!" 

In all fairness though....Happy Holidays to everyone playing an MMO