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But remember , WoW started it all......

Sarcasm

*Sigh* is right. How about this...

WoW is soooooo good you should stay there! Do not go out and buy Warhammer, do not TRY the advanced RVR style of fighting and do not , please, of god, do not try something other then WoW, the first mmorpg ever made in the history of game and humankind. Please, my friend , stay with WoW, and keep your game alive.

"Never underestimate the predictability of stupiditiy." - Bullet Tooth Tony, "Snatch"

Well i did not want to come across as totally incompetent towards the game, so i did the most basic search .. Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Galaxies

The "Controversies" section pretty well seems to sum up the chonological series of events for me...

So sad for such great potential in the SCi-Fi MMO's..

Been back to Dark Age on my laptop with Vista and it works flawlessly. There were a few uploading errors at first , but the support site fixed them all for me.

I have never played SWG.

I have had a few friends who tried it , left for other games, i have never asked why.  Reading these boards, i have tried to find a summary for what happened to SWG.... could someone either explaing (briefly) or post a link for me regarding the events that have lead to the demise of SWG? I am asking  from the most neutral postion. I am under the impression a game was realeased, then re-vamped (with a expansion?)with out community approval 3 years ago?

I am just curious.

DAoC.

Baldurs Gate 1 and 2

Icewind Dale 1 and 2

Good Call on the Golden Eye.... Hrs of multiplayer fun.

Favs in that order.

I already play, but i would drop everything i am doing to join this server. No TOA, old emain and if they figure a way to deny buff bots? Sure, seems applealing. Would more folks return? Hard to say. There are so many choices for games out there now, it almost seems that those who would have 'come back' are back and playing by now. For the amount of players in the game now, is it fair to say that this is the true community?

I recall a progame a buddy downloaded, where you roll a 50, any gear and deke around in Emain what ever race u want. We played for hours , then it got old.... hope a new server is not another flavor of the month.

/agree

/WB

Cheers!!

on my laptop. We'll see how it goes, but it has me pumped to play this again. Heading to a classic server and i am planning on playing until something new comes along. WoW was just not giving me my "fix"...

oh and i got 5 buddies to re-active thier accounts.

Long Live Dark Age

2.  magic items - Another failed attempt at recreating PnP.  Crafters should supply most of the gear, with the exception of those extremely rare magic drops.  And I do mean extremely rare.

-I like it. Although maybe not 100% crafters, there should be more emphasis on crafting due to the fact that Plate mail + whatever enhance did not just fall off a piece of crap lvl * mob who had no skill wearing it. Kill a skilled mob via group solo etc then it is a bit more ligit. I remember when a drop of 95% durability in Dark Age used to be a great piece of gear.

-As for a leveling system.. i like it for the fact that there is a end in sight to grinding in some older games, but i would love a skill based system. If i wanna learn to ride a horse at the beginning of a game, skill should matter , not lvl. Level is a summed up base for all my skills.  I want a game where I skill up to get good, not Level up. Skills can be potentially endless. Dishng out skills over time may be the problem though. But...if i have to kill mobs to ride a horse, it does not really make sense.

A world storyline? Yes. Do I want to be 100% directly involed all the time? Optional.

If WAR is total rvr environment, will it not make it a bit more difficult to "harvest for gold" ... and a bit more fun to harrass and slaughter these farmers? Or am i just over simplifing things but not understanding the WAR currency system yet?

I have a hard time thinking of a successful group without any healing in a rvr situation. Norse Pac Healer ftw.

I hope for the love of the gaming gods WoW does not die, but rather, give us back the players it stole. Give me back my Dark Age community when it was nothing to log on any evening and roll into Emain for a epic 8v8 battle... or even post emain days in Frontiers where siege warefare in gaming was still being experimented with and ppl would do anything for a keep door...

Give me those players back in WAR, Dark Age or where ever. I don't want to be part of a ten ton gorilla named wow, i just want my rvr back!

I for one would like to see at least 2 things happen:

1. Make a decent Sci-Fi MMO that will satisfy the tastes of those who dealerly love that genre. Even if it means making a couple before "the WoW" of sci-fi comes out, i would love to have that drawn line. Let people who want to play sci-fis play them and the ones who want the fantasy genre play them. IMO it would be  healthier for each community.

2. That said i am not sure how much flaming i'll get, but i would love a Dark Age 2. The whole Arthurian/Viking/Celtic world mix was my fav when it was in its glory days. WAR is just not doing it for me yet...

This is my first New Topic and i'm going to throw one out in the dark. I am not sure if this topic has been discussed much in the past, if so i apologize.

With all the MMO's out there , and all the games that are to be released in the next year and 2009, there are more games then i care to try. I just cannot put money , time and patience down to all these new releases. I would love to get WAR for a year as well as AoC and lets not forget Aion or CoS. If these 4 games alone came out this year, I, the average gamer could not do all 4. Even two of these games are pushing it. I just don't have the time now i had eight years ago.

With that said, I for one have the assumption that sooner or later, like the movie industy, think that some gamers may not want to try a new game but rather just move into a upgraded version of one. The 2 most notable MMO's to do this are the obvious EQ/EQ2 and Lineage/Lineage2. Lineage,out in 1998 and EQ out in 1999 have sucessfully produced sequels in 2003 and 2004 (US) respectively. Not much real time between but in this day and age , 5 years is all the difference in technology.

My small point is, now, when the time arrives 5-10 years down the road , perhaps would it make more sense for a company to release a sequel to franchises , like Guild Wars, Warcraft, Dark Age or whatever?

I think there is still tons of potential to come out in the field of Sci-Fi and even the Fantasy genre but i would not deny i would drop everything i was doing to hit a out right sequel to my favorite MMO (that would be my retired Dark Age days. No WAR does not count).

Just curious as to who would play a new version of an old favorite down the road.

Thanks for your time!

Originally posted by DeaconX

 

Originally posted by Scorchien

   Again this is really old news....

What do you want a f****g cookie? Give yourself a pat on the back mate.  As I posted, some may have heard of it but it was news to me, so some may have not.  Thanks for contributing absolutely nothing useful to the discussion.

 

... as for the 60 mil, damn.  These games are getting more and more costly... that's even more than BioWare's supposed 50 mil [just for game development but not including marketing, distribution etc.]  Didn't the company who owns Bethesda throw like 300mil at an MMORPG project? Major motion picture budget right there...

Thanks for posting this , DeaconX, it is news to me since i am only online on weekends. Thanks as well for a decent wtfpwnd reply too that made me chuckle... hehe

What  would I like to see?

Fantasy Genre : Forgotton Realms

Sci Fi: Any new Star Wars title

Originally posted by Dahal

The web browsed internet game? :P

http://games.swirve.com/utopia/

I played it for the first 2 years when it came out, then some friends led me to Ultima. I know it is not really that old (1999 i think is when i got into it?) and by no means is it a MMO , but at the time it was a great social network that sparked my interest in the Online world.

Is WoW not supposed to hit consoles (360 , PS3) at some point? Perhaps i have mis-remembered this information.....

Does Utopia Count?