Originally posted by Gaborik
First come, First serve...pretty fair if you ask me. Preorders started July 21st. Please stop these post of whining and crying!

Actually no, a lot of people didnt get their ea codes from the shops they ordered the game till well into november/december. Zaavi being one of those shops.

And they found about the preorder numbers just 3 days ago?

The point made is knowing or at least estimating the mumber of people per wave it was quite logical to make an estimated timeline of the dates they  were letting in.

But apparently they opted for covering their asses 100% 

the bare minimum amount of communication with their playerbase just proves that.

So the big shots in bioware decided to close off the EA invites for today with just one week left.

Like seriously?

This entire "staggering"early access was a mess from the start making people wait like idiots on a possiblity of a invitation mail instead of making an estimatad schedule of the access dates.

Leaving the smallest group out at the end of the day after all this wait is just not cool, not cool at all.

I really hope you get some seriously bad press for this.

DCUO is quite a different experience from your standard MMO and not everybodys cup of tea because of that.

I wasnt even going to try it out, seeing i am not that into superheroes, especially not the DC ones, but a friend litteraly twisted my arm into getting the game. She just wouldnt stop talking about how much fun she had in the beta so i said, heck it is just 50$, i spend more on a decent dinner out so let's give it a shot.

And she was quite right- although i hate console style games- DCUO is just so damn fun. It is like a breath of fresh air i needed after realizing how horribly same-ish to all standard MMOs Rift was after one boring as heck beta weekend.

After 6 years in MMOs i needed a jolt from the staleness of the genre , and i guess DCUO was that for me.

But i dont expect everybody to feel the same and go into a mass frenzy about it and start hyping it to heavens. Time will show just how good of a game DCUO is and first two weeks of hype or no hype wont change that much.

The latest expansion is always bundled with all the previous ones- so just get Sentinel's Fate and you get TSO for free ;)

I just hope that the bunch of clueless monkeys SoE has put in charge of their marketing for EQ2, will be demoted to flipping burgers at their local fast food joint after this "long live the USA, lets screw the rest of the world" fiasco.

EQ2 is a great game, but sadly people running it are complete and utter idiots.

Having a 50 page thread about it on the official forums and basically no communication for anyone responsible for this mess in over 8 weeks is proof enough of that.

Bah.

I found DA:O to be the only thing that completely removed any desire to log into an MMO ever since i got it. No single player RPG (apart to some extent Mass Effect for the first couple of days) has managed to do so.

So kudos to Bioware :D

Errr... EQ2 has 24 different classes to chose from, not 13... even with the grayed out options for an evil character it is quite plain to see from the class select screen.

I guess noob in case of this writer means he is really bad at counting?

@,@ 

bah typo

Eh? the population is perfectly fine on Splitpaw, but dont expect to see a lot of people running around the starting areas.

If you are feeling lonely join the norrathtrade channel and listen in on all the chatter. 

Chek if you are running EQ2 as the administrator if you are using vista or win7 , usually those OS' can cause the client shutdown on launch if you dont give EQ2 the privileges it requires. 

bruisers are nowhere near the top of the dps list nowdays.

Assasins are waaaaay up there, with rogues and rangers sharing the second plce of melee dps depending on skill/gear. 

Sadly i had a similar experience with another turbine game DnD online.
They seem to have a rather big issue with the EU billing being handled by a third party.
After i got tired of the game i used the game launcher to cancel my account, a month later i noticed that my CC got billed for the ongoing subscription. Thinking it was my fault, that i skiped a yes or a chekbox somewhere, i didnt create a fuss,I went to the launcher and cancelled again, taking special care to get the confirmation that my account was cancelled this time.
Suprise, suprise... next month my CC was charged again.
Apparently as i found out- cancelling your game subscription via the game launcher itself does NOTHING if you are in the EU.
You have to go to the third party site that handles the CC charging, and do it manually there- wich would be fine if it was mentioned anywhere after the so called "official" cncelation.
As it isnt- it is more or less highway robbery and a piss poor way of hanling bussiness.
After being charged for 2 months i didnt want nor have spent playing their product i filed a complaint with my CC company.
I dont expect to get my money back, but hopefully, if the complaints from other users continue the company Turbine uses for their money grabbing scheme will be blacklisted.

<blockquote><i>Originally posted by Exar_Kun</i>
<br><b><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><em><strong><span style=""><span style="font-size: medium">IT'S A TRICK...SEND NO REPLY!</span></span></strong></em></span></p>

Have a Prosac?
You sound like you could pop a blood vessel any second now...

The option to send tells from trial accounts was removed to prevent gold sellers to abuse those trials for advertising their gold selling services.
;)

Let's see:
1) Tits- chek
2) Gore- chek
3) Getting drunk- chek
4) Mature rating- chek

The game has all the baits to atract the under 15 crowd of horny leet teen geeks that are getting bullied at school and now want to vent.
Somehow i have the feeling comunity will be the worst part of the game :(

Ahm... dont want to burst the bubble of turbine's super creativity, BUT...
Barbershops were introduced to EQ2 well over a year ago- they allow you to recustomise your charater appearance with new hairstyles, hair colours and various facial options- things like jewlery for some races, and glassess and whatnot for the other).
Appearance tabs (or how imaginatively turbine has called them "Outfits"), have been in EQ2 for little less then half a year i believe- opening up a seperate appearance tabs to put on top of your "stated gear' with the motto: Look as you like, while keeping the gear bonuses you want.

Anyway, both systems are incredibly fun, and i believe should be a part of any standard MMO- so i am glad LOTRO players got a chance to experience it.
Just dont forget- Turbine didnt think of those- they recyled them from other games just like most of the LOTRO mechanics anyway ;)