World of Warcraft

Originally posted by Demz2

They are most likely smoking the failure of Failcom.  They must be woundering what all the hype was about infact I doubt it even bothered them lol.  Another 1 bites the dust lol.

Wow you can call a race before it even starts, that is amazing.  Gonna call you the Great Demz2BamBinni!!!  Also Fox News is looking for people like you, you sir have a future!!!!!

Note:  I don't believe AOC will be a WoW killer.  WoW is like a war experienced general, it will never die, it will just faaaaaaaddddddddeeeeee away.  More people will eventually move to other mediums, MMO's are becoming varied and we actually have choice today.  And each one of those "other" MMO's will have WoW to thank for introducing new people to the genre and then boring them to tears allowing them to experience variety. 

Thank you Blizzard!!!

No You pay $20 to make a instant level 70 toon and they give you 5,000 gold to buy gear (season 2 gear atm) and some other gear and weapons from pve stuff, THEN you pvp  for Real money..SO..if you are good they have $200k this round to give out in cash prizes..

Originally posted by DragonOak

 

Originally posted by Demz2

They are most likely smoking the failure of Failcom.  They must be woundering what all the hype was about infact I doubt it even bothered them lol.  Another 1 bites the dust lol.

 

Wow you can call a race before it even starts, that is amazing.  Gonna call you the Great Demz2BamBinni!!!  Also Fox News is looking for people like you, you sir have a future!!!!!

Note:  I don't believe AOC will be a WoW killer.  WoW is like a war experienced general, it will never die, it will just faaaaaaaddddddddeeeeee away.  More people will eventually move to other mediums, MMO's are becoming varied and we actually have choice today.  And each one of those "other" MMO's will have WoW to thank for introducing new people to the genre and then boring them to tears allowing them to experience variety. 

Thank you Blizzard!!!

It might be a bit premature, but you have to be worried about the recent beta.  There's a lot more negative reviews coming out of it than positive ones and what's more it's the same type of negativity that preceeded the launch of Vanguard (low frame rates, buggy, quests that aren't quite finished or not enough of them etc) and fans were just brushing that off too.  Seems AoC still has a lot of warts and we are getting very close to launch.  You see more and more talk from people who had hoped AoC would be great saying after the beta they have decided instead to re-up to WoW.  That's not good news for AoC.  If they can't even get those who've already left WoW to sub to AoC, there's very little chance they'll get anyone who's still playing WoW to switch.  The one thing that really set it apart, the combat system, has seen a lot of criticism.  Perhaps you're right and it's all just talk, but I wouldn't be too sure about that.

And I also disagree a bit with those folks who say that you don't have to have a milion subscribers.  While I think you don't have to have WoW like numbers, I think the days of getting by with a hundred thousand subscriptions are gone.  These games require a lot of development costs and unless you get a fairly substantial amount of subscriptions, like maybe close to half a million, it's just not going to look like a very good long term investment.  We've already seen a few development projects cancelled.  I think the industry is starting to realize that unless you have something that the other MMO's already out don't have, you don't stand to make a lot of profit.  The risk vs reward factor is starting to lean more toward the risk side.

Originally posted by Pappy13

 

Sounds to me like you haven't played in a while.  What you said above was true about a year ago.  Then they started making the previous season's Arena gear available with BG tokens. 

Originally posted by Pappy13

 

First off, Durn the Hungerer is not summoned, he freely walks around and all you have to do is find him and kill him so if he evades, you're not out anything except the chance to kill him right then.  If you submit a ticket, they'll fix him or you can just wait till he resets on his own.  Not sure about Netherwing Patriarch.

/facepalm

Durn the Hungerer is a mob that is prone to Evade bugging, the dragon to start the NW rep grind had an almost hidden center of gravity.

As far as the problem you had, I don't understand why you didn't just take the limited account restoration option and be happy about it.

Reading comments like these are scary. I didn't take it because:

1) Limited account restorations are supposed to be there for client-side error, hence being limited, to say otherwise would be claiming that they will only ever correct X many grievances that the game (not yourself) have caused you. Even farther down the line, should you accept that, they can choose to not help you because you have agreed to those terms. Understand the depth of that.


The fact that they even offered it to you tells me they were trying to help but apparently you didn't appreciate the help they were trying to offer.

2) If they wanted to help me, all they could have done was simply restore the quest item. What was going on, imo, is that they didn't understand the rules and/or item restorations were under tighter scrutiny. An example of where they restored items (many), after a bug in a game caused them to disappear/become inaccessible is when my bank bags disappeared and they merely sent all of my stuff in the mail and my bags.

When Blizz says "oops we made a mistake we'll give you a do over only this is the last one your gonna get", the correct response is "Thank you very much"

3) Wrong. When there is a problem like this, they are supposed to solve it. Not just help themselves in the form of removing a potentially greater issue ahead for themselves and giving YOU an ultimatum. When you order something at a restaurant, and they give you something else, they say they're sorry and give you the right order.