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Maybe, I don't know.  I only tried it to level 5 I think and it appeared fantasy to me.  Maybe the lore was more  like it.  It it had been playable, it could have been fun.  hehe

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I would like to see an angels and demons mmo where you start as a lesser angel and try to become a lesser god and then a real god.  Panthons are filled with wars among gods so it would give some nice pvp.

They would have to do something about the gear though.  An angel in plate would look weird.

Quest would have to be different too.  I don't really think that killing boars as an angel would be nice.

There's place for development.  Quest could make peoples from lesser plans believe in us and these beliefs could be spent in abilities.  It could be different.

Blackraist

Thanks everybody for the great thread.  I would never have thought that we could have this discussion at thismaturity level!

From what I read, there are two school of thinking.  Those who think that a game should be pure straight to the point fun, and those who think that straight to the point is a shortcut when the journey is the goal.

I know it's not exactly that and I saw the subtelty (sp? French as first language here!), but here's how I explain why I still play WoW.

First, I'm a casual gamer with job, girlfriend and two kids.  I play from 9 to 11 maybe 3 or 4 times a week for a total between 5 and 10 hours a week.

I played a lot of mmos from Muds to Tabula Rasa and every major games in between and I had a lot of discussions about all this with a RL friend.

Why do I play WoW?  Not because I think it's the best game, I'm too emotional to cut straight on this.  Not because I like pastel colored armors or because I have a 5 years old computer.  I play WoW because everybody I know play WoW.  Plain simple.  /defensive stance, potions readied.

I used to play pen&paper D&D and WoW in a guild with Ventrilo or TeamSpeak is like a D&D session with all the jokes, the dumb saying, and the fun.  (I'm a D&D purist so it's not quite that, but you get the point!)  While I was playing Vanguard lastly, I just felt like when I used to play Asheron's call.  I felt alone, in a guild using a foreign language (Not that foreign to you, I know!) using chat because I don't use voice chat when I pog.  Everybody in RL was asking me to come in their guild in WoW.  I tried to convince some of them to play Vanguard or EQ2, but it was like I had asked "Let's move to Groenland!"

Finally, WoW may or may not be the greatest game of all, but one thing I'm quite sure about, it attracted a very large population and this critical mass is not about to change to another game.  I hope a lot for Age of Conan or Warhammer, but how many of the millions of WoW players will migrate?  200 000?  500 000?  And How many of my RL friends will try one of them? I don't know.

I spent 10 years playing mmos, a weird game that you have to pay each month to play! 10 years alone and then WoW came and brought this genre to the masses.  I'm alone no more, but I'm stuck with WoW, being for the better or the worse.

So, the engine in Vanguard may be better, the PvP in DaoC may have been better, the commitment in EQ may have been better, but ...

Am I to play a multiplayer role playing game with my friends? 

Blackraist

 P.S.  The switch from grinding levels to grinding gear is clever.  It changes the buzz so that the addiction persist.

Hi Everybody,

  I need some input from those hardcore gamers who maxed their char on some games mentionned in title.

We always hear that WoW is an easy game made for fanboys and casual gamers, but what is the main differences between high-end instances in WoW and in the other games.

Are Karazan, Zul'Aman, Mount Hyjal, etc that easy compared to end-game raid from EQ, EQ2, vanguard, etc.

Why is WoW that easy and why do everybody trash WoW.

I'm not harcore gamer so I don't know myself, but I have a lot of friends who are and they all tell me that WoW is quite challenging at the end.

Any input that could help me?  You can still bash any game, but don't wait for a reply.  And try to be constructive in you answers so that I can understand something.

"Wow is for noob!", "EQ pwns" and that kind of answers won't help.

Thanks

Blackraist

First of all, you clone before training to level 15.  So your cloned character will have the choice to select his class.  The skill points will also be resetted so that you can change how it was raised.

See ya.

Blackraist

Hi Everybody,

First of all, Webzen is not rich at all.  They've been in development phase for a few game for a few time only on revenues from MU.  I own shares of Webzen and they fell from around 10$ to 4$ because of this development phase taking more time than planned so let me tell you that it will cost something to have all the content of the games.

Of what I heard, there will be no subscription, but you'll pay many small fees for many small things.  I don't know how you call this in english (I speak french), but it's the way it's gonna be.

See ya.

Blackraist

Thanks guys!  Now I really wish they market the game in a good way so we won't be alone in there.  It would be sad if a good looking game like that pass under the rug!

Blackraist

  I hope what I'm gonna write is wrong, but I think that developers know that 14 years old and less have limited play time.  That means that with an account at 15.95$ and only 2 hours of play a night between 18h and 20h, the servers can hold more accounts.  Aiming these guys worth a lot.

  But as I said, I hope I'm wrong and that some passion still resides in some developers.

Thanks.

Blackraist

Hi Everybody,

  Who among you did notice SUN?  I think this will be a great game but I'd like to have your input on PC/Console games.  How did it go with Final Fantasy Online?  Does it give rounded down games or can we hope for a great game.

  Also it looks like it will be "Asian" a lot.  I'm a fan of manga-like concepts, but how does it go in online games?

  Just want to have inputs to help me make my mind.

Thanks a lot.

Blackraist