All Posts by shad0w99

I was contemplating what game to buy next. I've lost faith in MMOs for... oh... a few months haha. I always come back :-P

I was looking at Left For Dead, the new Call of Duty and maybe Far Cry 2 or the Crysis expansion / sequel / whatever-it-is

I think I might go with Left For Dead ;-)

World of Warcraft attracts people from all walks of life... So there's a good range of different types of people on the game.

Unfortunately most people ARE morons.

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Originally posted by xiukwai
wow get a life

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Oh come on... You're trolling an MMO forum...

Oh wait... now I am too...

Oh well, none of us have lives.

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Originally posted by Sidereus

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Originally posted by 4Renziks

Itemazation: If they want to compete with WoW they Need more Armor graphics, simple folks we like the eye candy.

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totally agree ... I wunt Aiye kendy !

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On that note, I have to say I'd rather see that implemented more like Guild Wars than WoW. If you want the awesome looking armour, you can get it. But it doesn't give you a HUGE advantage stat-wise. That way skill is still the main factor in winning. But the people who want to look amazing can still get to look great.

Favourite Aspects:

- The variety of playstyles within each class. The range of tactics, morale abilities and specs allow for some seriously unique ways of playing. At a glance it seems like a simplified version of WoW's talent system but on closer inspection it is actually vastly more complicated and versatile. You can change your tactics on-the-fly which means if you're not prepared for a situation but your opponent is: You will lose.

- Keep Sieges. Absolutely amazing. I play on a well balanced and well populated server (In fact, Order seem to out number Destruction a lot in T3, contrary to many other peoples' experiences on other servers).

Least Favourite Aspects:

- Healers are all supposed to be "hybrid" yet Shaman/Archmage and Zealot/Runepriest do shockingly bad damage even when spec'd for it. We have to have better gear to do less damage. Zealots also can't spec for pure healing OR damage, only hybrid specs. If our damage was good this would be fine. But it's not. It's the worst on the game. Period. Our healing spells are great but seen as we can't boost all of them with one spec like the other healers, we are a lot less versatile as healers. So both our heals and damage fall below par.

- As someone said before, the community. It really is quite bad. But once you find the right Guild that helps. My guild are very friendly and always want to quest and RvR together.

I have to agree... while I love the game, the performance is subpar for the way it looks.

If the graphics were absolutely dazzling you would understand the lag. But the graphics aren't honestly that spectacular yet lag is still quite a problem on a high end computer.

Awesome :-P

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Originally posted by templarga
Yes but see the problem that and your group of X-fire fans do not get is that while the sample from X-fire is large, it is NOT random. The fact that people have to download and USE X-fire and choose to use it and install it and let it run on their computer totally negates ANY and all randomness to the sample. That is the issue.

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Ok, this person obviously knows their stuff. I'm not going to try an expand on anything else templarga said, but I will expand on the quoted paragraph.

So if the X-Fire sample is indeed not random, what kind of people DOES it sample?

Someone else in this thread mentioned that X-Fire is of most use to an FPS player, as not all FPS games have an in-built chat system. So this sample shows mostly FPS gamers. Now, of course you do see a lot of MMO players on X-Fire too (Mostly WoW players), but if you look at their play statistics a large number of them (Or certainly on my X-Fire friends and "friends of friends" list) have a large amount of hours playing big FPS games such as Counter-Strike: Source and the Call of Duty series.

What I am trying to say is a huge number of X-Fire users are primarily FPS gamers and FPS gamers who have converted to MMO players. FPS gamers and coverts have a slightly different mindset to pure MMO gamers or strategy gamers. This surely affects the quality and "randomness" of the sample.

I'm not arguing whether or not the WAR numbers have gone down. There are certainly less people on my server, however, I do play on what was once the busiest European server. So the smaller numbers could be due to Mythics efforts to move people to Order and lesser populated servers. However, I do believe X-Fire is not necessarily a reliable sample for MMOs.

I didn't play the beta, although I was invited. However, I've found the developers to be very responsive to feedback since release. Almost every big issue has been resolved or at the very least, we've been told it's being worked on. They actually seem to listen to what the majority of the player base are saying. I have to say, I haven't seen this on any other game before. You see many games like AoC and WoW where there is overwhelming feedback about a certain issue on the forums and nothing is done for months, if ever. In WAR, this doesn't seem to be the case.

To some of the other posters here.. I can't imagine your suggestions were reasonable from what I gather. One of you said you disagreed with Public Quests. That's ridiculous to even think they would respond to that. It's a core feature of the game and the developers aren't going to change something as big as that. It's worse than asking to remove a class, in fact.

Disclaimer: No, I'm not a fanboi. I actually had very low expectations of WAR. I played AoC with high hopes and it was awful, so I didn't get my hopes up for this one. I reluctantly bought the game a days after release (I'm an MMO addict :D ) and I think the game is extremely well polished.

Ah that kinda sucks then!

To be honest, most RvR zones are empty. There's usually something going on in at least one zone, it's just finding out where!

I found out about these 2 from my 2 guilds on my characters. I reckon guilds are pretty important for finding RvR. Both my guilds participate in a lot of Open RvR.

I play on EU Eltharion (Open RvR) and there's always something going on. Each public quest has a constant rolling population, there's almost always 3-7 people doing the PQs. I'm basing this on the first 20 levels to be fair, but so far I haven't had any problems.

Earlier today there were 2 busy World RvR areas at the same time as each other (Maybe more, but 2 for sure).... One was the low rank area in the Chaos/Empire zone which was about 50-60 people (20-30 a side) The other was the mid-rank area in Elf territories with close to 150 people all fighting over keeps. This is on a Tuesday evening!

Scenarios don't seem to ruin my server! But I can understand a low population server having problems :-( I'm not sure if that's purely thanks to scenarios or not!

Some of the roleplay tools don't seem fully implemented yet, for example the emotes are incomplete. However I wouldn't give it 1/10 just because I haven't seen roleplaying. If the potential is there, roleplaying will happen! I gave it an average rating because the game is not the perfect environment for roleplaying (however, much much better than a game like Guild Wars) however I think the back story is incredible and sooner or later some great roleplaying communities will emerge. 1/10 would imply, there will never be roleplaying in this game... EVER... And that, I KNOW, is not true.

As for the community, I give it an average mark because... No, they're aren't the most friendly bunch. But when people do talk, they're usually pretty sound. In Age of Conan there is a LOT of talking, but a lot of the big mouths are morons. In Warhammer, people don't talk a lot but when they do, it's usually spelled well and put across in a mature manner.

Well there are two sides of "Fun" in MMOs:

1. Sandbox fun, where you make you're own fun with the tools you are given. A good example being SWG and UO. A bad example being Roma Victor, if anyone played it!

2. Theme park fun, where you are given specific things to do. Sometimes it can just end up like a treadmill. Sometimes it can end up very fun with great story telling and twists and turns. Some good examples of fun theme park games being; Guild Wars and City of Heroes. A bad example being a lot of these Asian grind MMOs like Hero Online and what have you.

Warhammer falls into the Theme Park category without a doubt, there's no arguing that. But with there being 4 distinct areas of the game (5 if you include mindless grinding) you're not going to get bored of doing quest after quest after quest, that's for sure!

Hi guys! I wrote a rather in depth bit of feedback for WAR (Relatively speaking). It came out a little like a brief review, so for those are reluctant to try WAR (As I was), here's the lowdown!

The game is not perfect in every way but I honestly think it's the best MMO out there at the moment! Let's have a run down of what I thought:

Graphics (8.0) - The graphics are pretty good, not as good as Age of Conan. The art style is similar to World of Warcraft but is more realistic as opposed to "cartoony"

Sound (8.0) - The music is pretty good, as you come to expect from a high budget MMO, as are the sound effects. The voices are MUCH better done than on WoW. Some of the remarks are extremely funny. In particular, the Greenskins and Dwarfs

Roleplay (5.0) - I think the potential for roleplay is there, there's an extremely good backstory with each of the races. However, I think the roleplaying tools are limited and I am yet to see any roleplaying on my server.

Value (9.0) - No explanation needed for this really. It's just good value.

Fun (10.0) - The game is extremely fun, there are 4 main parts to the game; Questing, Public Quests (Google it if you don't know what they are), Scenarios (ie Battlegrounds to the WoW-minded) and World RvR. The first 3 each give good experience. In fact, scenarios probably give the best experience/hour. Which is incredibly refreshing!! Public quests have some of the best rewards and solo quests are somewhere in between. World RvR is just that.... World RvR and the experience and rewards are inconsistent.

Community (6.0) - Not the most friendly bunch! Luckily, thanks to public quests, there is a lot of grouping involved if you chose to!

Performance (5.0) - I say this because on a good computer, the performance is perfect. However on less up-to-date computers it's quite choppy and laggy. You expect games like AoC to be laggy on lower end computers, however I don't feel the WAR graphics are so stunning that you should need a high-end computer. Maybe this will be tweaked over time. But make sure you have 1GB RAM MINIMUM. 2GB is much better though.

Customer Service (9.0) - I haven't had personal experience with the customer service, however considering how new the game is and how much feedback they must be getting, I've gathered they're relatively good at responding

Overall (7.5) - A great game, but as it stands, it's not perfect but I think the flaws it DOES have are fixable. The content is great, it's only performance that needs improved and the community needs developed, which will happen over time! I think everyone is just in their own world seen as it's just launched. Do give it a go! If you're PvP minded, you'll love leveling by PvPing!

I honestly don't think it's possible. The only thing that can kill WoW is WoW....

No game is ever going to compete with it now, it's reputation is just too great to ever catch up. Unless they screw it up big time (Which is unlikely as Blizzard tend to play things safe) we'll be seeing WoW for a long time and it will probably just slowly fizzle out.

It would be nice if the game developers realized this and stopped trying to get a slice of the WoW cake, because they're all failing miserably. I'd like to see these companies get their creative hats on. If people want a WoW-clone, they'd just play WoW. Why play a (not so)cheap knock off when you can play the real thing. Make something new dammit!

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Originally posted by Enigma
coming from a broadband company, I can give you some reason why our speed isnt as high as Japan's or South Korea.
In terms of size, Japan and Korea are very small compared to the United States. With similiar level of technology readily available to Japan, South Korea, and the United States it is much more cheaper to replace older antiquated equipment and wiring in a smaller area as compared to the United States.
Japan is a little smaller than the US Eastern coastline and just wide enough to reach the Appalation Mountains from the Atlantic if  you were to lay Japan on US Eastern border. Korea is 1/3 the size of Japan. Korea would only fit in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Newyork, and Virgina.
With that said, it cost them a LOT less to replace their infrastructure with modern equipment and wiring, thus giving a faster access.
I live in Kansas City. Right now Time Warner Cable is replacing much of their cables with fiber optics. This project alone is going to cost them well over 4 billion dollars. And this is just Kansas City and the suburbs.
Imagine the ENTIRE country.  It would be tens of trillions of dollars. Japan would invest about 100 billion and they're done. Unfortunately, for the US a hundred billion will cover 2 to 5 states or just New York alone.

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By this logic... why the hell do we have rubbish speeds in the UK? We're a tiny little island, yet our internet sucks!

I live in a CITY... and the fastest I can get is 512kbps... That's awful! 8mb (and crappy 16mb occasionally) is the most you can hope for over here.

Oh yes... there's also player housing and club houses (guild halls)

Another big plus!

Also crafting is to be added at some point and apparently it's viable to just be a trader

Hi guys :-)

Disclaimer: After reading back what I've written it looks like I'm working for the EoS people :-P I assure you I'm not! I'm just very impressed with the game so far.

I actually found out about this MMO from someone else on these forums, but I'd like to tell you about it in a little more detail! It's a brilliant game and I think it deserves a place on MMORPG.com, I'd love to see it added to the Game List. I feel the game has a lot of the features many people have been asking for from an MMO, even if it isn't packaged in the traditional Goblins and Elves way :-P

First of all, it's skill based. Both in the way that, when you play tennis for example, your tennis skills get better. If you lift dumbbells, you build your arms. And also in the sense that it's about tactics and "real" skill. You can beat someone who is a much higher level than you if you're an amazing player.

Second, it's almost completely competitive and PvP based (As you would expect from a sport game) You play for ranks, both ranks per sport and global rank. And also you make more money if you win. If you like competitive play, this is for you!

There are 2 countries to choose from currently, the UK and France.

The sports include:
Tennis
Football (or Soccer as you yanks call it :-P)
Basketball
Track and Field (Although this hasn't been completely added yet)
Skiing
Bobsleigh

At the moment there is a bit of lag and could do with a few more people playing. But it's still fun regardless!

I'm sure some of you are a little skeptical, and I felt the same before I played. I'm used to playing character building, combative, elves and goblins MMOs as well. But I urged you to give it a try! It's in closed Beta at the moment, but you can find links to get a key on the website.

You have nothing to lose, and you may have a lot of fun :-)

ps: MMORPG.com, add this game to the Game List dammit!!