I think it's mildly comical that no MMO company has ever taken a proactive approach at directly prohibiting and fighting RTM. The flaw lies within the industry who cannot capitalize on a 1 billion/yr market they create. Point the fingers all you want, but here we are again... 3months after a major game release... and the game is almost crippled by RTM. Who's fault is it really? The people who buy gold? Time to shore up some responsibility.

Sanya, It's funny to see someone with a stereotypical attitude about MMO player's opinionate grammer from a 12yr old retard and write a column about it..

The best part is while your snickering and passing CSR tickets to your buddies the customers with real game mechanic issues get stonewalled by what you call "Customer Service"  Would be nice to actually see a CSR fix an issue instead of getting the standard response of "No we can't help you, and Have a Nice Day" but we all know those escalated tickets with REAL problems are a higher paygrade then what you were doing. Everyone knows your Job was a glorified retard filter so I can see why these types of columns probably come up a LOT.

I know after so many years of having prepubescent teens groveling at your feet it's actually hard for you to believe that someone would actually submit a Bug Report and not care what you do with it. But it DOES happen. It happens because unlike the basement dwelers your used to associating with, they probably won't be playing your BUG infested game for longer then 8 months to see it get resolved.

PS. LOTRO community is full of over emotional women/men who need to plug and get laid or  jump off a bridge IRL. and no I didn't submit the ticket incase your wondering :)

Unfortunately it's people like the OP who keep reminding us why company's can't put out a decent game since wow. They simply FAIL at developing innovative game mechanics that WORK..

You think people are playing WOW because it's the only thing their PC can run? When you can pickup a PC that runs AOC,WAR for less then $500? If that's what you think then all I can say is........ WOW.  Consumer's will ALWAYS buy better hardware if they reach a limit with their software/games... It's a proven FACT. The issue is your not convincing them they NEED a upgrade. What makes people buy a Xbox 360 over a Xbox? Can we say.... HALO? Another perfect example was failcom. Most people were on the fence about upgrading until they discovered they produced a turd in a box. Even then 700k players whole heartly bought the game and upgraded their machines for a huge dissapointment.

Originally posted by Dana

And I don’t want to hear “but our graphics scale!” That’s not a valid counter argument. No one has ever successfully made a game that scales visually.

FFXI made their game scale and cross-platform years and years ahead of it's time. So thanks once again for proving you really know nothing about the industry you write columns on. Also Log on to LOTRO instead of writting fail columns and you can see that game also scales DX9--->DX10 Flawlessly and with good performance unlike WAR, AOC.

Don't bother quoting or responding because you've pretty much lost any credibility at posting a valid argument. I understand everyone has their own opinion but this was so far off in left field I had to post.

This scenario already played with the Dark a Light Release....

I expect this game to bomb at release as well, with the limited funding and small staff I expect downtime and patches to come at EQ1 pace.

The game looks good on paper, but when you play it you realize F2P games are better written.

This games concpet will always be what I like to call "Vaporware"

The forum moderators are putting in overtime thats for sure. Granted the game does have some finer points, but as it stands now it's not worth $50 I hope in 2-3 months they can make pvp playable at least.

Those  2 guilds are probably the biggest jokes on the server. I hope they manage to get 80 so I can get more free kills.

I ran into Zoticx from Shadow Consortium just today... he died around 5-6 times and prooved he's under the 18+ requirement. Anyways have a laugh on him I did quite a few times.

Anyone have an extra key? I missed my chance :(

So whats the catch? Restrictions? Limitations?

I'm sure they found some scheme to make money without selling a retail box or monthly fees.