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All Posts by Stormwind - 18 found
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3/07/08 8:42 AM
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Other features we are planning include Command Opportunity, where players will get the ability to summon entire squads of upgradeable NPCs to fight for them. One class in the came can now revive a host of Dead enemies .. but they are zombies who only stand around and clutter the screen .. the Ai of NPC summon characters is pittyful at best .. most will use abilitys that enemy is totally immune to .. NO HELP THERE ... I would not expect any better from the NEW concept.
Clans will be able to battle over control points, which we are building specifically for clan versus clan gameplay.
Do not be fooled .. this has been talked about from before launch during the early Beta stages .. players would ask about these additions and were told maybe one day ... The only new thing I see in the report is the flash point missions ... and those seem pretty lame. You kill the Queen bee and poof you got a radio Transmission that sends you to go find the Honey jar .. YES FOR REAL that would be a mission in TR .. The missions are lame and only a few show any real imagination .
and we’re working on tons of exciting content, such as Personal Armor Units (mechs and mini-vehicles that players can use and will grant them new abilities).
Once again 3 or 4 ideas do NOT constitue TONS of content in development .. The Mechs were spoken of again way back in BETA as the Carrot to keep people coming back .. and it is getting Pretty rotten by now. The game is addictive in the first few months ... and if your looking for something DIfferent then the WOW grind give it a try ... but it has no and I mean NO lasting power to keep large numbers of players interested much past the few month line ...
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1/23/06 12:29 AM
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When is the Player base gonna learn ??? They tell you what a great NEW expansion they have planned and then procede to ASK you what you want to see ??? They NEVER even once mention what THEY are going to give you .... it is all Vague - non-commital - Possible going to go this way --- yada yada yada (my fav saying now) Like the others have said -- FIX WHAT YOU HAVE - MAKE the game FUN once again - I WILL NEVER go back to SWG ever .... YOU got my money for way to long - promise after Broken promise of FIXING BROKEN Class skills .... After 4 overhauls / patches / Tune ups - all you ever did was NERF __ NERF __ NERF every single FUN part of EVERY Class you started out with .... Then You went after CRAFTING - HARVESTING - Nothing was sacred to you - NERF NERF NERF - HAD I the power to rename you guys I would Hang the title of NERF's all over you .... Rant off -- I still hate that I waited so long to leave that game ... |
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10/17/05 10:20 AM
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Nothing Here is NEW - sheesh people .... Instancing where when you come out of the instance and the world has changed ??? Can you say GUILD WARS ?? DONE THAT ... Been there ... Beat em to it .... We got plans for PVP but it is hush hush ?? GUILD WARS PvP ..... Clone on the way ... mark my words .. Sorry NO CRAFTING .... if, and when, they do ?? Guild wars crafting style here they come .... Everything I Have heard, and read about this game Stinks of, , BEEN THERE, , DONE THAT. It feels like they have taken the AC2 Engine and Game and all along they have just been tweeking the artwork to reflect a Tolken world from the one they had, called AC2 ... No mounts - no housing - no crafting - no PvP - No Guilds - No Clans - I am shocked they left in the Party system and did not just opt for SOLO play ?? They will have NON kill Quests --- OH LIKE THAT IS A NEW CONCEPT ?? Can you say Gather/collection Quest ? Escort Quest ? Hunt and Fetch Quest ? Once again ! ! Been there Done That .... Old as the First pencil to hit Paper Quest .... Go down to the next town and get MR. Ruperts Scroll and Bring it back to me ... yada yada yada ... OH HOW interesting ..... Glad we had something other then Fighting to do -- OH HOW ABOUT the Combat system ??? HEY maybe here we have INNOVATION ??? They tell us there will be Combo's that the whole party can pull off ---- OOPS ??? ! ! ! ! ONCE AGAIN they are Beat to the Punch -- EQ2 has been there Done that long before they did ..... IT SUCKS ... So what is goint to be new for us ? Nothing I have seen or Read is NEW Or Innovative about this game so far .. Other companies have done it already - instances are not new - world changes are not new - AC1 did it constantly and well I might add .. Player respawn is NOT NEW - Party exp for instance is NOT NEW - EQ has had it for years What we get here is AC2 with a LOTR overcoat -- pretty sad if you ask me ... Maybe I will be proven wrong when the game hits the Retail shelves - My hunch is - I won't
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10/06/05 9:13 AM
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Sounds to me like another Richard Garret Fiasco .... We will probably never see this game hit the market .... OR if we do .... It will be a dumb down version of the game, and Garret will claim he was forced to make it that way, and probably go back into seclusion and pout. They have had a playable version of that game for over 3 YEARS now ... and NOW they are making a whole new engine over haul ? This sounds like The Same wind I have had blown up my Kilt many times before by games that are about to go BELLY UP .... Over 2 Months without ANY news on the offical Website ?? OH that is never a good thing .... A company that HAD a end of 2005 Ship Date that NOW can not even begin to Guess WHEN their Game will hit the MARKET ???? HOW CAN THAT BE GOOD ?? Good Bye Tabula Rasa -- and I say Good for us ... That game IF it comes out will be hacked and slashed and Shoved together so baddly to get it out that it will take years for it to be patched into something playable ..... When I see this type of Delays in Games I always find that on Release the game is Patched and "Balanced" for a good Year after it makes Retail -- The Result ?? Your game play is changed so much while you play, That before long you no longer even know your own characters .... When it happens we all call it NERF - You have seen it before --- EXpect it if this game goes retail ... |
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9/15/05 11:24 PM
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If you bought the expansion you should all get your money back ... They just sold you a PIG in a Poke -- the oldest trick in the books .... Sorry, but, NERF NERF NERF and you will eventually NERF your player base enough, that you have nobody left who gives a crap what you do to the characters.... You want to pick up on some Customers ?? world of warcraft is starting to swing the NERF bat also ... and, they are taking some Mighty Big swings at the characters PEOPLE LOVE .... Droves are leaving, and not looking back ... In my small world I have seen 8 people drop accounts in wow just this week... Nerf the Hunters .. nerf the rogues .. Nerf the warlocks ... Nerf the mage -- Nerf the Paladin ... horray smart WOW -- keep up the Nerfing you flaggin Nerfs ... Are You Ready to pick up on the flow ?? HAVE you Listened to ANYTHING YOUR players have told you ?? SWG - - - NERF ,NERF, NERF, --- players flood away from the game, they knew and loved --- STOP NERFING THE CHARACTERS ! ! GIVE better stats to the Weaker Characters to compensate for THE percieved weakness .... THERE I SAID IT ! ! ! ! DID YOU READ IT ??? Did IT SINK IN ??? STOP NERF -- ADD to the WEAKNESS - DO NOT TAKE AWAY, but, ADD ! ! ! ! IT is such a simple concept for sucess, that I should charge you a few million dollars for that advice ---- and it would have been cheap at that .... 4 million monthly subscriptions and box sales -- you do the math -- BUT .... THEY Have started to NERF -- and when they do it more and more as they WILL ... Good BYE WOW millions of subscriptions --- HELLO new game waiting in the wings ... Will it be DDO ?? MEO ? IT could be .... BUT YOU BETTER have your characters where you want them at release or start tweeking to the positive end if need be ....
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10/29/04 9:18 PM
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Viewed 567, Replies 17
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I agree the game feels Lost . I wander thru missions also with my NPC team . They run and attack anything and everything - no control over them - When I get into a group the Classes are so intermixed that there is no clear plan of attack - everyone just runs up and around looking for the Red dots on the screen - yelling GET UP HERE AND HELP ME KILL THIS -- or HEAL ME NOW .. Some points in a mission I just get lost as to where and what I am to do next ? There is very little to No NPC interaction - On one mission I talk to this guy who says he does not have time to compete my quest as HE has monsters to kill .... Then Wave after wave after wave of monsters do come - After each wave I talk to him again and he says the same frikken line -- maybe some more text would have helped me understand this is how IT is supposed to go ?? Like "Stay close More are on the way" or 'We still have more to Kill" ... but NO -- he just blurts out the very first line he spoke when I first talked to him... So I figure the Quest / Mission is screw up -- run all over the place kill a few more waves -- talk to him and finally stumble on him after the last wave... I know some of this confusion is probably my stupidity ... But I feel like there is NO direction -- NO Plot -- NO story ... No Reason to keep moving on in this game ... If the servers Ever let me back in I will Try the crafting options -- I found some stuff on kills that says it is Salvagable what ever that will mean to me ... I would like to have seen some small Crafting Tutorial maybe ? ONE of the NPC's that would explain how to craft and do other things in the game to us ? All in all I am glad to have anything fill the time till World of Warcraft hits the Retail shelves. |
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10/29/04 9:05 PM
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Not a very good first impression when the servers go down the First hours they have the Free Days up and running. I got to play the game a few hours after Midnight and when I got home from work tried to get back into the game ................ NOT = The Servers are not able to handle the load it appears - How Sad .... |
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6/15/04 8:48 PM
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Viewed 1003, Replies 51
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MY only hope is if I am ONE of the lucky 20 and then 10 others go to people who really do not care if they beta this game or not - there-by leaving me plenty of time to get my name in ... IF I happen to get ONE of the 20 that is ... you realize it is like a 1 in 3500 chance to get invite ? give or take a few hundred .... Good Luck YOu all and IF you get an invite I hope YOU are one of the first 10 to respond ...
IF for some odd reason I do not make it into this round - I have applied on the offical website LONG ago for an EQII beta spot ... there is still hope if this fails .............
I hope more chance then I have had so far with WOW beta ... that one I put in also the day it was available .. still no word .... lot and lots of my friends have there wow beta and All I can do is go over to their house and watch them play ... sigh ...
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6/03/04 9:35 PM
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One more reason to sell my xbox and go with sony .... This is the last straw - I bought my xbox the first day it hit retail stores -- They promised a 3 year growth patter the likes that had never been seen before ... What we got is sports games and FPS ... period -- One rpg that took 4 days to complete .... And now the best Idea they had going for their LAME console they SCRAP ? ! ! ! I think I can get 50 bucks for the xbox now -- and maybe 5 bucks per game I have - They are almost worthless in resale market .... KNOCK KNOCK .... Hello Sony ?? I am here to Buy a new Game Console from you ...
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5/22/04 8:25 PM
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Yep that did it -- much better - Thanks -- |
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5/20/04 9:56 AM
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Have we all gone nuts ?? Take a look at the Game List ..... I was blown away at the number of RELEASED games that scored 7.8 or higher scores ..... Of all the games on the store shelves now only ONE ! ! ! yes I say ONE ! ! scored 7.8 or better and that one is ??? well ............ you are just gonna have to look ... I can tell you it has just gone retail in the last few weeks .... NOW - go look at the beta and development section of games ...... 9 (NINE) games score a 7.8 or better from the folks playing those beta or just hyped about the possible outcome ... IT says something about expectation and actual experiance I guess -- or that game companys begin to Develop a game in the right direction, only to fail Utterly to deliver upon Release ?? What are your thoughts to the Huge Disparity of high rated games in Beta/development vs Release ?? |
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5/15/04 12:13 AM
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Hello anyone... I played EQ when it first came out for a couple years - been hopping around to all the new games and ran accross this Package deal in the comp store - Evolution .. 5 in one expansions -- The problem comes when I go to play ... the graphics are worse then the old Ultima 3 games .. (little exageration) but really .. no way people are playing this game in the millions with the graphics I am seeing on my screen .. It is as if My color palate is set to 16 colors and everything in the game is 3 sided .. I remember being blown away when eq first came out - now my character looks like a TOON and the world looks worse ... Is there something I have done wrong in loading up the game ? I know in UO if you load in the new 3d uo you get the lame new graphics but can play in the original version ... I just hope there is a way for me to get the original graphics to load up for me ... OR i am going to drop EQ like a hot potato -- Any suggestions are welcome ... I just know I have done something terrible wrong on this one ... maybe I have to purchase the 4.99 basic game and reload ?? |
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3/17/04 9:30 AM
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Teodric -- I have to agree 100% with you -- IN Fact,, if you read the intro Hype, it starts out IMAGINE a world, where you can Blah blah blah ... I thought to myself, YES ?? I have played in those worlds for 15 years now -- Tell me something about your new world that I have not seen or done ?? They make it seem like they are the first people to develop treasure -- classes - races -- monsters -- Classes who use monsters as pets or charm them .. Craft people -- hoooo hummm -- yawn - If what you say is True, about the people behind the scenes .... YUK ! ! I hated Corpse Retrieval in ANY game ... I hate death penalties ... it is bad enough to have to be sent back to a bind location ... that is enough penalty --- I WANT TO take chances -- I want to Push the envelope -- I want to see how much I can take -- that is the part of Fantasy Worlds that are fun .... having to lose everything I worked for at death is NOT FUN ... These are Fantasy Games -- THERE does NOT have to be a huge death penalty .... Oops I am digressing .... I Will have to wait on this game -- there are 2 or 3 very, very, good games soon to hit the market with much, much more thought behind them then what Vanguard seems to have .... I am not sure Vanguard will pull anyone unless they take 3 or 4 years to release it ... in which case there will probably be better ideas out by then also ...
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2/13/04 8:52 PM
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I say good riddens to bad rubbish ... 20 million is pocket change to Microsoft ... I thought I read someplace that Mythic was gonna sue Microsoft for name infringement ?? seems odd A big company Like microsoft would take a name very simular to another companies name ?? I believe Mythic runs or is part of Dark age of Camelot ?? I thing Microsoft jumped down on that poor kid who's Real name is Mike Row and called his website MikeRowsoft .... Not the same spelling but close enough for Microsoft to Bounce on him pretty hard ... Now they Pull a thing Like naming thier game Mythica when Mythic already has games out .... Maybe Microsoft wanted to run on the coat tails of Mythic's hard earned Reputation of a great game ... They Had ONE of the BEST first day MMORPG release the world had ever seen .... I KNOW ... Because I was there .... IT WAS awsome ... With WoW and UXO ... not to mention Middle Earth all comming out -- Hero's I am sure Microsoft just looked hard into thier game and saw it was not going to cut the mustard .... so they canned it ... I say Smart Move ... keep out of the MMORPG realms If you are only going to imitate others out there already .... We got enough hum drum MMORPG's already ....
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2/11/04 10:37 AM
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Fun keeps me In the games --- I work for a living -- I do NOT want to WORK in my Games .. I do not want to spend 10 hours a day in a game to make it meet its ends .... I do not want to spend a whole Day gathering up the supplies to make a weapon ... only to have that weapon be one nobody wants anyway and I am just making it to get better at it .... THE game has to be fun .... not Tedium and NOT Time consuming ..... Sitting down to rest to recover hit points -- mana (magic) is Tedium - give me potions .. spells ... something... Anything to let me keep going ... DO NOT give me Time Sinks -- Waiting for hours for something to appear that I need to continue game Play is not my idea of FUN -- So do not put stuff like that into MY perfect Game... DO not take abilitys or anything AWAY from my characters ... IF you feel I have some gift or attribute that is to good then GIVE all the rest of the players something to compensate - or EVery single MOB something to compensate --- WHEN WILL COMPANIES learn that Takeing AWAY is BAD BAD BAD mojo for thier Paying Customers ?? |
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2/11/04 10:30 AM
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SOE = Sucks Out Entertainment ..... What ever is fun for you in thier games will sooner or later be Nerfed ... they only know how to Take Away ... and when they Give it is a double edge sword .. beware it cuts you from Both sides ... |
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2/11/04 10:19 AM
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ARE YOU CRAZY ??? SOE is the worst company for Giving a RIP about what thier customer base would like ..... HOW many games do you want to play that get totally nerfed every single patch and are constantly takeing AWAY Characters abilitys ??? I have played EQ from day one -- and Swg from Day one -- I can tell you SOE's Mind set is WE ARE IN CHARGE AND WILL TELL YOU what you will like and play ..... piss on you if you do not like it ... your puney 12 bucks a month will not make a dent in our megga millions we get each month from our other players ..... AND saddly they are RIGHT ... We as Gamers are so frikken up SOE's butt we can no longer see what is happening to US ..... They make statements on how it will get better and we hang in thier believing in them like we all did about Santa Clause .... ONE DAY you will realize you were Duped by your parents or others when they had you believe some jolly man in a red suit brought you presents each year .. (insert your own countries gift giver here) ....... SOE wants you to BELIEVE they have your best interest in mind ... BUT ! ! if you look at what they do each patch to your characters you will see that the EVIDENCE is overwhelming that they are in fact DOWN grading your fun through NERFING your characters and its Class and abilities ..... NOT TO MENTION they are the Worst TIME SINK inventors ON the Planet .... Half hour waits for Boats ?? 10 min waits for shuttles ?? mulitple ship transfers all with 10 min waits between trips ..... HOW about MONEY SINKS ?? do not even get me started on those......... NO THANK YOU .... This person here will NEVER play another game with SOE attached to it ... Even if they took control of every single MMORPG out there -- I would then become a single player RPG fan once again ... or even back to Pen and Paper ... and once again my life would be fun again .... SOE ... I want as far away from you as I can get -- When I see SOE on anything from now ON it will Signal to me .... NO FUN waiting here... This product Has SOE only in mind .. |
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2/11/04 9:52 AM
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I feel you are most correct in your assumption of WOW -- they have had a working, playable game, for many, many years already - I believe it was shown at a 2000 or 2001 convention as a playable demo, and it looked and played fantastic, at that time ... SO,, they have had Years of in house testing working on it ..... A friend of mine is in the Alpha of the game, and playing it smoothly and perfectly -- all that is missing (or was) is a few races -- My hunch is they just have them turned off ... a flip of a program switch and poof they are in ..... The alpha testers are able to do quests - and anything else the released version will do,(with very few exceptions) and they claim this is ALPHA ? Bahhh ... I remember when and Alpha was mostly a small fragment of the play given to players to see if they could find problems .... and example would be they just finished the coding for running lets say .. then the Alpha testers tried out Running with their characters -- running up hills down hills - around rocks over rocks - into water -- up over houses -- or any structures in the game -- watched the animations of how the different characters ran - did it look choppy -- dumpy ..... ect ... It seems today that companies are going to put out alpha of a completely polished game and just hold back some minor aspects of the game for final release ... it builds hipe ... anticipation ... and word of mouth about how beautiful the game will be when it is released .... Fooling us into thinking that if this is ALPHA how much better will Release be ??? when in fact they are finished with the majority of the game and only tweeking bits and pieces ........... |
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