All Posts by Aethios

Originally posted by BiggusRiggus

I don't disagree with you at all. All I am saying is that it has given an opportunity for people who choose to RvR... all we get in WAR is instances... well all you get cuz my sub ended yesterday.

All you get in WAR is instances because you're ignoring 90% of the game. Step outside of the quest hubs and actually do stuff.

Where's the achievement for *defending* your capitol city?

All Blizzard has done is encourage what amounts to kill-trading for raid bosses that are open to griefing by the opposing side. There is no benefit in preventing the opposing team from completing the kill, and there is no penalty for allowing them to. "Kill X for a special mount" is about all Blizzard can come up with for "content" these days.

Originally posted by coffee

Originally posted by Aethios

Based on what I've heard, this is a small reflection of the larger state of the game as well. All reports point to Wrath being a massive disaster in every respect. I've already cancelled my pre-order and bought WAR instead, and I'm enjoying it more than I had expected. Blizzard won't be getting any more of my money until they quit trying to force Arenas and 25-man raids.

 

Obviously you know nothing about wrath.

In wrath ALL 25man raids will have a 10man version. 

Also if your worried about PvP gear ( and you dont like or jsut not skilled enough for areans) you can buy PvP gear thats around the same lvl as the best arena gear with PvE tokens that drop from bosses.

Just thought Id put that out there.

"Obviously you know nothing about Wrath."

I hate it when people say shit like this. Do you even know what you're talking about? Do you really think that I know absolutely NOTHING about the game I played (admittedly on-and-off) for 4 years just because I don't agree with your narrow little viewpoint?

In wrath ALL 10-man raid loot is inferior to 25-man raid loot. Every review of the beta has said this is the case, and Blizzard devs themselves have said this is the case. If you can prove otherwise, please do, otherwise keep your smart-ass comments to yourself.

Also, using "Arena" and "skills" in the same sentence is a joke. Not that Battlegrounds are any better, but at least they are entertaining and give the illusion of balance. The Arena just rewards those who happen to have rolled the "flavor of the month" class.

Based on what I've heard, this is a small reflection of the larger state of the game as well. All reports point to Wrath being a massive disaster in every respect. I've already cancelled my pre-order and bought WAR instead, and I'm enjoying it more than I had expected. Blizzard won't be getting any more of my money until they quit trying to force Arenas and 25-man raids.

Originally posted by CobraSolidus

I am not the best guy to comment on WAR as I have not played it as much as many other players. I just want to let you know that there are a lot of people having problems with performance issues and bugs. I for one have not played as much as I want because mu FPS is really low. This happens even though I have Geforece 8800 and play AoC on 30-40 FPS (high). There is horrendous lag and finally the killer which is random crash to desktop. I have all of these issues and for some reason it just seems like it's getting worse with the patches. I know many people run the game reasonably well (but very few perfect), but I would still recommend you to wait a good 3 months time before joining in on this game.

I had this issue myself for a while, and it has to do with the drivers. I was using custom Omega drivers instead of the standard ATI drivers (mostly to improve performance) and they didn't agree at all with the game. It's possible that all these issues are caused by the 8800 drivers being "too new" for the game and Mythic hasn't managed to fix it yet. I'm sure it's no big deal.

Loaded the website in the default IE 6.0 and it worked like a dream. Seems like EA/Mythic needs to get with the times and be a little more flexible, especially with how popular Firefox is among the Internet and gaming communities.

Originally posted by EvolvedMonky

Originally posted by Aethios

No, it's the activation key from the box kit. As far as I can tell, it's the only key in the box. I had the "O = Q" problem with my pre-order a few months ago, but this particular key has no Os or 0s in it at all.

 

Take it back. Ive had a few games throught the years that keys dont work.

That always solved em.  But the reg key support cant be as bad as Micro$ofts. I always cuss at it or add comments when it asks yes or no. Makes me feel good inside.

This is what I've been trying to say though; the key itself seems to work fine. I just can't get through to the next page. If the key were broken, it would pop up on the page and say "that key doesn't work" or whatever, but it goes through just fine. I don't know if it's latency or they just don't like Firefox or what, but the site is slower than dirt.

No, it's the activation key from the box kit. As far as I can tell, it's the only key in the box. I had the "O = Q" problem with my pre-order a few months ago, but this particular key has no Os or 0s in it at all.

So I've been hearing good things about Warhammer and have been very impressed with the fixes so far, so I decided to buy a copy. I even sprung for the Collector's Edition after discovering my local game store had a few left. So I take the box home, pry it open and dig out the CDs. Game installs smoothly, no problems there, but I get to the website to register my key and...

... what a nightmare. I've been sitting here for the last 3 hours trying to register the game with zero success. I managed to make it to the subscription options screen one time, but it seems to time out every time I try to do anything. Most of the time I don't even make it to choose whether I want the 1-month or 3-month. If there's an issue with my CD key, it hasn't said anything so far. The error I receive is very vague and non-descriptive, and kicks me back to the homepage (which ironically takes 20 mins to load and even that one sometimes times out). Did I choose a bad time to sign up, or is this a pretty common issue?

EDIT: I forgot to mention I even tried calling "support" which is actually just a recorded voice who reads a list of options, asks you to say one out loud, then discards all information, says "I can't help you" and hangs up. What a joke.

Originally posted by Frobner

These issues are GAMEBREAKING exactly at this point in time after LATEST HOTTFIX and MANY servers are hit by it.  This is a FACT.

Can you prove it? So far, nobody seems to have experienced or even heard of any of these bugs, although if they are true then they would indeed be gamebreaking. I would be pretty upset if my character just up and disappeared on me, gone forever.

Originally posted by lordlapse

Correction mate. That's 2-3 days. If you're not one of the people who sell gold for a living, then you will be pretty much get hooked and you would rather not sell your account. This just shows how serious NDOORS is in just making the people to try the game. They are convinced the new players would get hooked.

Maybe, but it seems more likely they are convinced that nobody who doesn't like the game would be willing to tolerate it all the way to level 50 for a measly $20, which seems far more likely.

It is partly the people that visit it, but I think it's largely the moderation practices as well. Some forums come down hard on negative comments, others let them go, and there are varying degrees in between. The attitude of the forum threads influence the attitudes of the posters, who are of course making the threads, so once the forum as a whole has developed a general "feel" across the board, the posters tend to take that into consideration when making threads/posts.

A cleaner board makes for cleaner threads and posts all around. At least, this is what I've seen in my experience. The same goes for chats, both public and private, including in-game chats and guild chats as well.

EDIT: The phrase "lowest common denominator" comes to mind.

Statistically speaking, WAR is still in its first month.

Stop trolling, seriously.

Originally posted by erandur

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Well your complaint lacks any kind of definition.   There are too many mediocre games out there in this genre who deserve any criticism directed to them.  If you can't stand the critics, go find another board to post on.  Many of us like to know both good and bad points in a game, that is the idea of a forum.

As to some games not out yet, saying a game is not even in beta yet is a pretty telling fact.  Too many of these games rely on the hype meter to stir up fans and then don't deliver on release.  If a game is not in beta yet, citing a feature set listed on a website is just ludicrous because everyone knows it is a wish list rather than a feature set.  That also tends to draw the criticism.  Then you have developers that continually lie about their products with multiple announced beta announcements.  The skepticism directed their way is well deserved.

So if you can't stand the critics, too bad, that is what a forum is all about.

You obviously missed the point... He/She said PLAYING the game was a waste of her time, while he/she couldn't even have played it...

The whole point of a troll is to make you angry, not prove your game sucks.

Originally posted by skeaser

Dungeon Runner's wins in this category. Cute, cartoony, crude humor.

The ranger class starts with a fart ability, 'tis great.

Dungeon Runners for sure. I mean, you have:

The Bling Gnome that poops out gold and items.

Rangers with various farting or vomiting abilities, including "Montezuma's Revenge."

An entire class of leather armor labeled "Baby Seal Skin of the...."

The first dungeon littered with sub-dungeons, labeled with a play-on-words of Speakeasy, filled with drunken rats, and the bosses are named after Mafia mob-bosses.

Plenty of NPC comments or references to "l33t-speak" and "pwning," even in the names of some items.

These are just a few examples. Seriously, that game is sick and twisted in the best way.

Did they keep the changes made to Renown gear, making it weaker than PvE gear? If so, what kind of activites are involved in getting the "best" gear and how much effort does it require? How much better is the "best" gear than the more easily obtained "next best" gear?

I played in the pre-order beta and frankly felt the game was a joke, but I have been impressed with the huge number of improvements they have made to the game in the short time it's been out, and am considering buying it.

Project Entropia prides itself on being an open real-world-trading economy, where you can buy and sell currency to/from other players at whatever exchange rate.

Be sure to check these games out thoroughly though and do your research, because they aren't at all what they sound like. Project Entropia in particular seems to like throwing out a lot of hints about your "potential to make real money" but the game itself focuses a lot on making you SPEND real money in order to get anything done.

It reminds me a lot of those commercials you see on TV for the "get rich quick schemes" that require you to buy DVDs and books and things like that. Sure, they CAN help you make money, but if thats the only reason you were buying the stuff then you were better off without it anyways.

I think the bigger question is what exactly the purpose of PvP is supposed to be in this game. Is it Arena-style? Is it Battlegrounds style? I think it's pretty obvious that it's not sandbox style, since the game is not designed for it at all. I haven't seen a single feature in this game that makes it sound fun, and the sole reason most people are interested in trying it is, like vesavius said above, "it's not gear based."

If that's the case, what makes it different from your standard FPS game? If it is in fact gear-based after all, then what was the point of them flaunting and touting "it's not gear based" all these years if they were lying the whole time?

This is not intended as a troll but I really think this game is going to die before it's even released.

Originally posted by Blissey

Their rate of loss is ever increasing, yet they cannot even make a decent update...are they even aware of their losses?

They are aware, but are determined to write the losses off as "casualties of necessary change" or as people who ultimately left for other games. I don't think they have any idea how many of those people actually left over the direct actions of Jagex themselves.

Bump, in hopes of catching the attention of people who only read the most recent posts.