I've been waiting for WAR for years and I was really excited when I was able to get into the open beta.  After downloading 10gb's and installing the game, I have to say it F**cking sucks.

WAR is a WoW clone and a bad one at that, the combat is slower, looting is a pain, the graphics/UI are the same and it's just plain boring.  I'm not a big fan of WoW either, but I would much rather play it than spend anymore time in an unimaginative clone MMO with no innovation. 

I quit AoC in preperation for WAR, that was a bad move, even with all it's flaws AoC is still much better than WAR.  I'm going to resub to AoC and just wait for all the people who jumped to WAR to come back after their 30 day sub is up. 

Seriously, did you even play the game?

Looting is a pain? WHAT?

Wow, trolls are really scared of WAR I guess.

This post gets a 10 for most un-imaginative troll post today. Congrats!!

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But to address your points:

1. Not a WOW clone. This has been debated time and time again and I am not going to rehash the argument. if you think its a WOW clone, then you are simply blind and so short-sighted that you cannot see the differences.

2. Combat is slower but it is strategic and requires tactics. Sorry I guess you are better suited for a game where you just spam attacks. Combat in Age of Conan was boring as hell - it was reduced to one of about 6 buttons, you just mix up the order.

3.Looting is a pain? Um, I have no idea what you mean...clicking your mouse is a pain?

4. Graphics are the same as to what? WOW? Not that is funny. If you say they are the same, you need to compare it to SOMETHING.

Fine go back to Funcom and continue to be lied too and play a game full of half-fulfilled promises.

*bangs head on desk*

Let me guess played till level 5 right?  I agree its like wow in the fact that it has improved everything linear mmos offer. i think alot of people think its such a wow clone because the UI looks the same.

People didn't leave AoC for WAR, they just left AoC.

The question still remains..

Why to most ppl go thru the hassle of creating a new account on mmorpg.com to vent their frustations?

I could never figure this out...

What?

WaR is going to be a bigger failure than Hellgate London.  Imagine all the mindless idiots out there that play WoW, do you think they are going to leave to play a game that is just a shittier version of the game they currently play?  Why leave WoW to play WoW 2.0 when WoW 2.0 is worse than the original?  Face it WaR is going to be a flop just like EA's other MMO Hellgate London. 

Originally posted by HiGHPLaiNS

The question still remains..

Why to most ppl go thru the hassle of creating a new account on mmorpg.com to vent their frustations?

I could never figure this out...

 

It's just one of those great mysteries of life.

Originally posted by HiGHPLaiNS

The question still remains..

Why to most ppl go thru the hassle of creating a new account on mmorpg.com to vent their frustations?

I could never figure this out...

 

It's not a hassle when I think of the people my comments will help. If just one person doesn't waste $50 dollars on this game because of something I said, it'll be worth it.

Someone obviously didn't RvR much, if at all...

bad troll is BAD! ! I created an account to participate in the raffles and beta invite sweepstakes :P

CAUTION!!!

Anyone who listens to anything Driezack has said about WAR will become dumber.  Thats all.

Originally posted by Dreizack1

WaR is going to be a bigger failure than Hellgate London.  Imagine all the mindless idiots out there that play WoW, do you think they are going to leave to play a game that is just a shittier version of the game they currently play?  Why leave WoW to play WoW 2.0 when WoW 2.0 is worse than the original?  Face it WaR is going to be a flop just like EA's other MMO Hellgate London. 

You know posts like these only make your argument seem dumber. Seriously, provide reasons or arguments as to why it will fail and people might listen. But propaganda crap like this only proves the opposite as true.

 

I do not understand why people say the graphics are not the same as in wow. Do you people even look at the game you are playing? Seriously warhammer graphics are a tad better then wow. Anyone else who disagrees does not want to face the facts.

i thought the combat in warcraft was slow. If this game is even slower i do not even want to bother with it. Conans combat was fun swinging your sword in different directions and doing combos was awesome. Anyone who thinks otherwise are just too use to the point and click and fear change.

Originally posted by Dreizack1

WaR is going to be a bigger failure than Hellgate London.  Imagine all the mindless idiots out there that play WoW, do you think they are going to leave to play a game that is just a shittier version of the game they currently play?  Why leave WoW to play WoW 2.0 when WoW 2.0 is worse than the original?  Face it WaR is going to be a flop just like EA's other MMO Hellgate London. 

wow so much anger ?  Anger leads to the dark side..  :)

It be ok, just relax..  While we playing war, have some Coffee.  breath in out, realx. it be ok..

Originally posted by Dreizack1

 I'm going to resub to AoC and just wait for all the people who jumped to WAR to come back after their 30 day sub is up. 

Please go back to AoC and stay there.  You doing so will mean more bandwidth for me and one less whiner on a server.

Originally posted by ASmith84

I do not understand why people say the graphics are not the same as in wow. Do you people even look at the game you are playing? Seriously warhammer graphics are a tad better then wow. Anyone else who disagrees does not want to face the facts.

i thought the combat in warcraft was slow. If this game is even slower i do not even want to bother with it. Conans combat was fun swinging your sword in different directions and doing combos was awesome. Anyone who thinks otherwise are just too use to the point and click and fear change.

 

Well said my friend.

I would have agreed with the OP if I'd stopped playing my Witch Hunter (or just about any other class in the game) before level 5.  During the earliest levels, combat feels very much like WoW except with fewer abilities and so a slower pace.

Making things worse with the Witch Hunter was that your attacks each generate an accusation (the game's term for a combo point), and these open up executions (the game's term for finishing blows).  On the surface, the mechanic seemed identical to WoW.  By level 8, that had changed.  Yes, the mechanic is the same on the surface, but the actual play of the character ends up being very different.  For one thing, accusations/combos apply to YOU rather than your enemy.  That means you can switch targets at any time without penalty.  For onother, you start getting tactics and morale abilities.  This means that there's a lot more potential for strategy.  Is an enemy almost dead right when you get 5 accusation built up?  Don't waste that execution!  Finish him off with regular attacks, then start off against your new foe with a really deadly attack!  If you've also been on a kill streak you could even have enough morale built up to use one of those abilities.  If you work the combat so that both execution and morale become available at the same time, you can take out an equal level enemy in two hits.  It's brutal.

Then there's also the business of tactics.  And when you finally get stealth at level 10 that requires a lot more skill than WoW's stealth system.  For one thing, it slowly drains your action points.  Which means that the longer you spend in stealth the weaker you become.  You cannot afford to just prowl the battlefield with impunity.  You have to be quick and smart.

That's just the Witch Hunter.  Every single class I've progressed to level 10 has proven to have surprising depth that could not be anticipated from the first 4 or 5 levels.  All of them have proven to have very engaging combat that feels more strategic and less twitchy than WoW.  HOWEVER, the classes only work well if you truly understand your abilities and the synergies between them.  I think this is why WAR took the approach of granting only one or two abilities at each level, but also giving you something new at almost EVERY level.  This gives you time to figure out the secrets of each new ability before it dumps something else on you. 

There really is a lot of depth for those who bother to give it a chance.

OP, every one of the posts you have made with that account have been WAR bashing, OK we get it, you like AOC. Now head on back there and go gank lowbies in whitesands with all the other good trolls.