Originally posted by ariboersma

why are people so anti voice chat? it really helps when you are trying to learn a game.

While I totally agree with you, to each their own :) some people are just shy I guess or may have medical reasons or just don't have the gear.  *shrug*

No matter, there's always in game guild chat as well.

Originally posted by Bizurk

Count me in, should be a blast.

Deacon - this is the name I will be using if you could add it to the list

Is there going to be an age restriction on the vent server? Nothing ruins games for me faster than kids with high pitched voices that talk way to much.

No age restrictions but it does belong to Star, so you can see her rules in the first post of this thread :) doesn't sound like she'll take any bs ;)

Best way to make the community great is by example and not letting jerks get away with being jerks.  I think Star will be all over that.

Thanks for posting :)

Originally posted by atticusbc

i'm assuming vent isn't required. if it isn't sign me up! if it is... oh well.

I've actually been considering us using C3 for voice chat, because it's free-- including servers.  However, voice chat is totally not required, it's just something that'll make things easy for people to meet up.

Originally posted by k1klass

im up for meeting the EU side for sure, should be fun

Just need a name from you which you will use in game ;) and I'll add you right away.  Name can't have numbers.  Cheers!

Originally posted by xholyacc

are you sure there will be asia server?

but setting guild in 3 different servers?

so we will all meet each other in WVWVW?

We honestly have no idea if there will or won't be an Asia server - just trying to cover bases.  If there are 3 different servers, than ALL of us might not be able to meet up but anyone in the MMORPG.COM guild would be meet up with each other on their respective servers.

Originally posted by joocheese

Originally posted by DeaconX

 

VOICE CHAT

Ventrilo Information from community member Star

Ensure you have Ventrilo installed.  Download it here for free:

http://www.instantventrilo.com/get-ventrilo-server.php?OKEY=google_ivt_ventrilo-b

 

Vent Information:

deliciouslytrashy.darkstarkvent.com

11698

There's no password for now, but if I feel it needs one, I'll slap one on and we'll communicate what it is via gchat in game.

I tried connecting to the vent server but it wasn't working. I'll join the mmorpg group for the gw2 beta weekend. Though I normally roll with other names for my characters, for this event I'll just stick to my mmorpg.com name - joocheese

Added :) and ditto, I've let star know about it!

Originally posted by Fir3line

Fireline

Done :)

Originally posted by MangaMaiden

Please sign me up for the EU server ^^

My character will be....

Vixen Valentine : Mesmer.

Doing so now :) Welcome MangaMaiden :)

Originally posted by Fir3line

sign me up DeaconX.

Will do! Character name?  I'm guessing Fir3line won't work because of the 3.

MAGUUMA has been chosen for now as the NA server which should be in the list - if people are already on another server from previous beta's and can't get there, that sucks but not much we can do I think.

Originally posted by k-damage

This is a great idea ! I'm interested to join the EU guild :)

I'll edit this very line 6 hours before beta start to tell my ingame nickname : k-damage (temporary).

 

small presentation : 33y.o, 8 years of experience in all known MMOs, raid leader for 2 years, and kind of hardcore gamer type (seeking for performances and skill playing). Sidenote : also an indie gamedev, so I may have some moments where I'll try to beta test some specific things, out of "just having fun with the game".

Hey dude - please don't update a specific line as I doubt anyone will be scanning back through the thread.  Just be sure to keep an eye on the first post in this thread for info and if you want to leave your character's name, post it as a new post ;) thanks.

Originally posted by star

Updated the guild list.

Thank you Star.  Updated the vent info in the original post.

I ran a table top adventure a while back and the group was just such a perfect balance and the characters turned out to have such incredible chemistry, the game has become a 'legend' amongst my friends... I made this little image using their characters -- or rather how they described their characters, for them as a bit of a gift.

Not sure if anyone here will care, but it doesn't matter.  It makes us smile big time as we recall the epic advenutre and great times...

Originally posted by Artist17

Originally posted by DeaconX

Originally posted by thedealerx

Reporting for Duty, Who is my commanding officer? or guildleader :)

Depends on what server you'll be on, EU NA or ASIA :)

No real guild leaders/commanders but I'll be setting up the NA one as soon as I can.

I still need volunteers in the EU / ASIA areas to set up the guild on those servers.

Hmm, are there Asian servers in the first place?

If there are, I might be able to assist you to set up the guild for Asian servers.

Can also keep you updated of the Server's name and stuff.

However, I don't hear anything about Asian Servers so far, it has been EU / NA all these while.

 

I'll hop over to the NA server if there're no Asian servers!

To be honest I had no idea there wasn't already a server list for Asia.  But thank you for volunteering :) we'll consider you the organizer for the Asian server and if there isn't one, we'll see you on the NA server :)

Originally posted by MikeB

We've started an official MMORPG.com guild for this (on the site). We'll add more games to this as we go along so you can find each other in different games and such. Unfortunately, the system only seems to support showing handles for one game at a time. So, for Guild Wars 2 if everyone interested in this guild could specify their character name DeaconX (you have admin permission) and I can begin adding you to the site guild roster here.

Awesoeme - Star, I've added your character name as requested @ http://www.mmorpg.com/guilds.cfm/guild/3149 and made you an officer as well :) so if anyone else needs their name added and I'm not available, you could also take care of it.

If anyone else would like me to add them please post either your future character name or if you'd like to be added using your forum handle.

Cheers!

Originally posted by colddog04

Originally posted by Kakkzooka

It won't take that long. GW2 has a shallow leveling curve after 20, but I agree with your philosophy. A game that you're enjoying should be relished, not rushed through.

I remember really enjoying Azeroth and taking my time. This was back in Vanilla when it took about two or three months to reach level 60. There's nothing like exploring and finding hidden secrets. ArenaNet is packing Tyria full of these things: including large, open-world dungeons (non-instanced) that you can bring large groups of players to.

It's going to be a blast.

I thought GW2 had no leveling curve. Am I incorrect?

This should help explain it :)

One of the main reasons I'll be running a casual RP guild... I want to take my time and just enjoy this game, get as into it as possible through some quality RP.

Originally posted by thedealerx

Reporting for Duty, Who is my commanding officer? or guildleader :)

Depends on what server you'll be on, EU NA or ASIA :)

No real guild leaders/commanders but I'll be setting up the NA one as soon as I can.

I still need volunteers in the EU / ASIA areas to set up the guild on those servers.

I used to work in strategic online marketing for a game company.  My vote is Tuesday for several reasons.

You don't want to bother people on Monday when they just returned to work/school and probably have enough email and other stuff to deal with - you will be ignored.

By Tuesday, they've likely gotten their stuff from Monday sorted out - and if this were a promotion for friday, you'd want to give them enough notice.  In this case, it involves downloading over 20 gigs so people definitely require a decent amount of advance notice.

So yeah, Tuesday makes the most sense to me :)

Originally posted by Wolvards

Originally posted by maskedweasel

   I'm KOS in my own MMORPG.com guild.  I think thats an early achievement.

 

Mike is right though,  we should represent MMORPG.com,  I mean afterall, it IS a beta event. 

After correspondence with MikeB, the guild name has in fact been changed to reflect the the site :) represent!

Guild name will be MMORPG.COM naming conventions allowing, or as a backup, MMORPGCOM.

Cheers!

Originally posted by Zylaxx

From my understanding AA is typical tab target, hotbar combat.  As for being a perfect storm, talk to me when the game actually has a chance to see a North American Publisher.  Something tells me the lack of a publisher in the west to be a serious red flag so I doubt the game will ever live up to any fanboy expectation.

Well if rumors are true, they may have a publisher in NCSoft.

As for the combat, like I stated above it's one of the things that kind of worries me.  I'm just not sure how much fun it will be for anyone who is tired of the traditional MMORPG combat systems.

It means ArenaNet saw through terrible design.

Originally posted by star

Originally posted by MikeB

We're promoing this at the top of the site now. You should see it on refresh! We'll have a graphic to go with it soon, it's currently just text.

Now I'm going to have to reinstall vent! People need to switch over to Mumble! ;)

I was thinking about picking up a mumble server, but this one I've had set up for ages because of my old WoW guild D:

plus it was 9 bucks to reactivate it for the month :P

 

edit: now that this is kinda an official thing, I might bump up the vent capacity to 100. We'll see how Friday goes.

Do you really think we'll have 100 people?  I mean that would be awesome and ensure a lot of people can get into groups and would make for an even more amazing group screenshot :D

Originally posted by MikeB

We're promoing this at the top of the site now. You should see it on refresh! We'll have a graphic to go with it soon, it's currently just text.

Now I'm going to have to reinstall vent! People need to switch over to Mumble! ;)

Totally awesome of you guys to get behind this :) thank you kindly.

Originally posted by jayarte

Very nice idea.  It would be most ... interesting to hear the voices of people who post here.

So, is it definitely a European server we're going with?  If so, I'm in ^^ 

 

Don't fancy running around with my forum name as my char name; I usually pick much more interesting/pleasant looking/decent shounding names for characters.  Since it's only for the beta w/ends, though, I'm sure I'll manage.

Please check the original post for details from time to time :)

There will be EU / ASIAN / NA servers so unfortunately, the community will be split up between three servers it seems.

I'm hoping to get some good screenshots of as many members of the community here together as possible.

Sure there's teleporting, but I think there is definitely room for some mounts considering the size of the world/open areas and who doesn't enjoy a good speed boost, right? :)

I think we'll see mounts, eventually.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if we see mounts with combat capability... technically, one already exists.  The ASURA GOLEM that your character can step inside, control and fight.  It's simply categorized as a siege weapon and moves very slowly.

The Black Citadel has some VERY IMPRESSIVE war machines parked around it.  It would be pretty sad/silly if we never got anything like that to actually use.

But this is all fluff for later on :) the game already seems to have so much for launch.  I can certainly wait for vehicles.

That being said, dream vehicle: Airship .... I know it won't happen but... c'mon! :D

This game has been on my radar for quite sometime, but there are two things I'm yet to be convinced of the game has which I think may be key to it's success in a North American market.

Combat : With games like Guild Wars 2 and TERA coming out featuring much faster, action packed combat than traditional MMORPG's which a large segment of the playerbase seems to have gotten sick of (and I was never a fan), can ArcheAge's combat system impress?

Content : I realize ArcheAge is a sandbox game, but is it a pure sandbox or a hybrid sandpark with actual adventures and questing content for players? NA players especially love story driven content and I think it'll be necessary for success in NA.

Aside from that, this game is quite breath taking. If COMBAT is awesome and exciting, and there are plenty of adventures to have, ArcheAge is THE PERFECT STORM of an MMORPG.