Originally posted by Rockniss
Some people enjoy the reward of a good grind and some don't. I'm not much for grinding out faction rep, but I will stick around long enough for enchanted or gems or even gear so long as I'm not needing to rep to much.

Suprises me Blizzard haven't rolled faction rewards into cash shop yet. 

Originally posted by Weretigar

Originally posted by Revnik

Kung Fu Panda - 2008

First Official Appearance of Pandaren - 2003 (Warcraft III: Frozen Throne)

I'm sick of the Kung Fu Panda nonsense. Pandaren have been around longer. Plus, there is nothing kiddie about them. They love to get drunk. 

If we are going to complain about Kung Fu Pandas, we should complain about Orcs and Humans. They have been used in other places too, except Blizzard used someone else's idea for them. Pandaren were actually Samwise Didier's creation, not Hollywood's.

Pandas in wc3 wern't monks and couldn't be monks 

Also yes I think it was dumbed down in Cata I used to roll a pally/Shockadin which doesn't exist anymore. To me I lost intrest then.

It's also important to point out that pandaren in warcraft 3 were barely in the game at all. No, that race has been fleshed out much later by Blizzard, so it is in fact right to state that the Panda Monk race/class bares a striking resemblance to Kung Fu Panda.

Originally posted by roo67

Originally posted by Faelar86
Lol how do you call the game dead......

 

Try playing on one of the low servers . These really need to be merged . I play on one low sever Deathwing because its the first server I played on in 2005 I still know people there . Its  good community there but we all agree Blizzard needs to merge servers now . There never going to be much of a bounce on these servers because what new player whats to join a low one . MoP wont change that .

I also play alts on medium and high ones .

 

Blizzard invested a lot in game and game community server infrastructure a few years ago when WoW was in expansion phase. Reality is it probably doesn't cost them anything to keep low pop servers open, and they can nickle and dime you when you finally want to pay for transfer in the end.

Originally posted by NightCloak
I recently went back to WoW. Started on a new server with some friends. Began to level all over again and found the experience quite enjoyable and fun. The game has so much to offer for those that dont just consume content as fast as they can click.

If Blizz put out a couple of new servers I might be tempted to try Panda. Sure there is a lot of game there, but without a fresh perspective it would get stale very fast.

Originally posted by gervaise1

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by vorpal28
I don't think anyone's here anymore, they all seem to be playing GW2...

Only till the 25th then half will go back to WoW and GW2 will be like SWToR...

Why the 25th?  No subscription fee. Sure that some people will play through the game and eventually get bored but there is no financial reason why they should drop the game.

GW1 sold tens of millions. No reason why GW2 won't. 

GW1 didn't sell tens of millions of copies though. 

Originally posted by Gravarg

Originally posted by BillMurphy

Originally posted by Tanemund

Pokket,

 

Usually I find your stuff entertaining.  Lately, however, I'm getting distracted by a word you repeat over and over.  It reminds me of the line from The Princess Bride; "You use that word a lot.  I do not think it means what you think it means."  Its also starting to make me wonder about your objectivity when it comes to your reviews.

 

I'm not a hater and I'm no English teacher, but you've used the word "amazing" enough.  It seems like you use that word to describe everything.  While you did throw in an "astounding" for spice, after reading your article all I got was everything at PAX was "amazing".  In the end your use of "amazing" distracted me from the theme of  your article and I simply started counting the number of times you wrote "amazing".  "Amazing" is on the verge of becoming your catch phrase.  It has become like that Seinfeld episode where the doctor describes everything as "Breathtaking". 

 

In the future please try to use an "astonishing" or an "impressive" or an "electrifying" or an "extraordinary" or an "absorbing" or an "arresting" or an "exciting".  A quick flip through the thesaurus (that's not a type of dinosaur, kids) would make your writing much more "engrossing".

 

Glad you had an amazing time at PAX.

 

To be fair to Pokket, it's my fault for not replacing those. :)

next raid wipe I'm going to yell out it's all Bill's fault XDXDXDXD

 

It was funny back when WoW first came out, everyone always said, "It's the mage's fault" no matter what it was.

Talk to the hand, because the Pokket's not listening ;-)

GW2 does have some problems....

-Exploits and hackers

-There isn't much new to do at 80

-WvWvW doesn't work

-PvP has class imbalance problems

-Bugs

-Launch bubble effect. Lots of players arround playing my main, but my alt sees much more quieter zones on server.

-ArenaNet don't handle customer complaints well. Forums are full of angry mobs.

-Graphics, sound,  and gameplay aren't really anything new or out of this world. It's good, but it isn't anyhting that hasn't been done before.

Originally posted by SwampRob

It all sounds very promising.   My real concern is how we will be charged for this.   It has the potential to nickel and dime us to death.

I totally love D&D, but whether or not I will play this is very dependent upon their cash shop system.   I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Unfortunately although playable demos might look fun the real problem will be how Cryptic do nickle-and-dime players on the actual game release. I am betting at least a buy-to-win cash shop, and who knows maybe even a cash auction house. Cryptic are briliant at taking a game with potenital, putting it through the Cryptic blender, and, hey presto, it becomes a shadow of itself as you have to play arround cash shop and advertising.

Originally posted by Reas43

Originally posted by Aeolron
Sorry to see it go but when you have games like gw2 these sub based games are in trouble, my guess is that future mmorpgs will follow in gw2 footsteps

Sorry to harsh your moment of GW2 fanboy gloat but, CoH was F2P.
 

You're a shining example for your peers.

CoH has been free to play model for a while. More a case of NCsoft having too many games in its stable and shuting one down.

Originally posted by Syno23

Originally posted by teotius
Best troll of the day <3

yeah there you go. How do you cancell your sub?

I guess you could stop buying xp buf from the buy to win cash shop?

Originally posted by Vesavius

Originally posted by Rabenwolf

I hate to say it, but Arena Net has utterly failed with this launch. Still love the game, but it is clear the game should not have launched until... the services were ready

 

I agree, it hasn't been smooth, buuuut...like I said before;

 

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/5260347#5260347

There have been problems, but you have to remember GW2 is ultimately run by NCsoft...NCsoft keep their games on tight budgets and deadlines, heck the just closed down City of Heros!