Originally posted by Nadia

WOW did not have housing or dyed armor

 

and none of the questions asked about what players can do at endgame

"...with different instanced features tacked onto it"

endgame = 20/40 man raids, long since confirmed.

game = pve questing, dungeons and battlegrounds structured exactly like WoW's. endgame = raiding. lots of phasing and instancing used.

Much like Rift, this game is sounding more and more like World of Warcraft with a slightly different set of instanced features tacked onto it.

http://www.gamebreaker.tv/mmorpg/wildstar-arkship-answers-community-questions/

many "really" quit WoW. most who stop playing it do. their churn rate is probably the highest ever. that's why all but some casual guilds and a few hardcore ones that started there remain, everyone else is new. WoW would have huge bumps in subs after major content releases id no one really quit, and they'd have maybe 20m subs right now.

what you're talking about, is that there are people who cut their teeth on the game and are disappointed when a WoW clone does not match the content and playability, or when a non-WoW clone launches imperfect and you don't have the patience to stick with it more than a month or two so you go back to WoW.

TSW, AoW and GW2 do not actually lead your character around the world much(in Aow/gw2 case not at all really) but people still say that they do. my guess is unless it's a sandbox people will jsut call them all guided even if they aren't. for laughs though, archeage is more guided than half the themparks that have come out in the last half a year.

can't wait to see how that goes over with this tough guy me love snadbox crowd.

Originally posted by Alberel
I see these becoming stale and repetitive very quickly...

much less so than FFXIV.

another heartbroken mmorpg.com poster making a mountain out a a mole hill. you sure want all those missions unlocked for your teeny guild immediately right? jesus.

since no proper poll options exist:

- Wheel is a decent idea. it doesn't really offer the synergy or variety of a game like the first guild wars, even though GW had classes.

- Animations are quite bad overall, distractingly so.

- Builder/finisher system is lazy(wouldn't be if it were exclusive to one "deck"), and gets old right away because most people have probably played a rogue in WoW for an hour in their lifetime.

- Combat overall not confusing at all, just very boring.

http://dragonseason.com/Front/tabid/124/EntryId/210/Lunch-with-Colin-Johanson.aspx

will be further updated over time.

Originally posted by Torvaldr

Yep, global is bad and I do wish they would take a harder line about the vulgarity and racism.

I turn global off and /ignore those who spam Area and LFG.

Outside of those few loudmouths the community is actually really nice.  I've met some friendly people that pugged with me for overland group quests.

I guess there are some perverts with an agenda to be loud.  There also seems, by the reaction, some people with an axe to grind from the other side of the coin.

same old rationlization. "some" perverts, "some" loudmouths, my ass. it's MOST of the TERA players. MOST of you are doing this shit all the time. it's completely saturated throughout the playerbase and those who do not engage in this shitty behavior are the "some", the exceptions.

there's no vocal minority for this game, it is a collection of assholes, with a few normals sprinkled about. everyone else fled tha game after being hammered enough by the boring game design once combat fades in conjunction with being surrounded by scum.

Originally posted by Tayah

Originally posted by GwapoJosh

...actually ok in this game.. Mind boggled!  I've reported several people for absolutely disturbing things and the GMs have said it's ok as long as they change one word in the spelling.  I had a guy tell me in global chat that if I had a 5 year old daughter he would rape her while I slept.. I reported him and received an email that a punishment has been given.. He is still playing today!  This company is truly pathetic..  Just my two cents of course..  It's very messed up the way this genre is heading.

 

Edit:  Please don't ban me for this post just because I don't agree with the company.. Maybe it's because of the way I was raised  /shrug

That's pretty awful. Being a free to play game though, I wouldn't expect much from it. F2P & B2P attract the worse kind of people, not saying everyone that plays them are bad, just that since they don't have to pay a sub fee they could care less about their actions, so the worse kind of people are attracted to those games.

I had heard lots of bad stuff about Tera from friends that have tried it too, so I never bothered with it.

It was like this way before it went F2P. besides the combat, the horrible community is the game's second most outsatanding feature.

Originally posted by Scalpless

It's like 4Chan online.

Originally posted by Reas43

As for some responders . . . wait till you get a load of Blade and Soul . . .  but maybe they won't cry because it comes from NCSoft . . .

B&S has a surprisingly tasteful anthropomorphic race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnWu_zIGmlU

Besides, adults seem to be the focus of its sex appeal and there's nothing wrong with sexy adults, especially when males are just as sexy as females.

yea, B&S is far more tasteful with it's sex appeal than TERA is. and the people in chat in TERA have been awful from day 1.

Originally posted by ShakyMo
Because tes is a single player game, if they made the mmo exactly like tes.
1 it would be a shit mmo, swtor level of shit.
2 there would be no point bethseda working on tes6 which I really really want them to do, I enjoy skyrim because IT ISN'T A MMO, the things I like about it are decidedly un mmo like, the things I like about it are all about getting lost in an imersive world, that will be lost in ANY mmo implementation, just having chat, lfg etc.. would stop it feeling like tes to me.

it's already going to be extremely similar to SWOTR outside of RvR. massive use of phasing for PVE, massive use of instancing for PVE, solo only story(i believe as a multiplayer game even swtor beats this). TBH, they could have made a MMO TES title, instead the lead on the prjoect chose to regurgitate an old game and slap TES coating onto it.

it will probably still be a good game of course.

in order(specualtion):

Defiance

Neverwinter

Wildstar

TESO

Blade & Soul and ArcheAge localized in the west

Originally posted by CaptShatner

There are so many big MMORPG's coming out this year, it's crazy.

Just a lot of MMORPG news in general. What are you looking forward to this year?

• Tera went free to play for those of you who don't know. (http://tera.enmasse.com/)
• EQNext was said to have "something" this year. 
• Elder Scrolls Online is supposed to be released later this year. Beta sign ups are going on now.  (http://elderscrollsonline.com/en/)
• Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is coming out this year. Beta sign ups are going on now. (http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/)
• Path of Exile is in the open beta. (http://www.pathofexile.com/)
• Runescape is considering bringing back 2007 servers. (http://services.runescape.com/m=news/2007---old-school-runescape-you-vote)
• D&D: Neverwinter is going into beta, you can buy your way in. (http://nw.perfectworld.com/)

With so much happening just in the first month and a half of 2013, what are you looking forward to playing?

(I'm personally excited about FFXIV just because I love player housing and the Final Fantasy series.)

- lol @ tera

- wait and see mode teso(counts as a big release thoguh)

- lol @ FFXIV

- rest are not mmo's.

- list lacks wildstar

Originally posted by Cothor

Originally posted by Aerowyn

TSW uses a lot of the newest graphic tricks from DX11 like  tesselation and nvidias new AA form TXAA but unfortunatly the characters all left something to be desired(for me at least)

But there really is no point to push the limits with a MMO when you are trying to get a very large playerbase and need to display tons of people in screen at once.. it just isn't practical

TSW is probably the ugliest MMO to come out in years. The graphics are simply horrific

yea, for a game that supports real AA, DX11, etc. it sure looks like shit.

Originally posted by Yamota

Originally posted by Aerowyn

Originally posted by Yamota
*milk* *milk* *milk* 

this is milking how exactly?

First make something free, then when people are used to it, charge for it. Not talking about GW 2 specificall but F2P models in general. That entire model is based on squeezing as much money as possible from you. Hence by principle I dont spend a dime in cash shops.

it was always going to be paid when guesting was implemented. publicly announced before the game even came out, and several times after.