All Posts by MrGrim

The only thing I see here is 2 different fanbases bashing heads over things that one of them will not understand.

The WoW fanbase is arguably more casual, though I can invest maybe an hour a day in EVE and actually advance somewhere. I have been playing EVE for roughly 2 months and I have about 2m skill points which pretty much makes me a big noob. I have avoided 0.0 space and most systems lower than 0.4 and I have yet to been griefed or podkilled.

Think about it, when living in an area that has lots of armed robberies or crime do you merely just stroll through the area with your wallet out dancing and singing annoying, let alone bad showtunes? No, you probably wouldn't even be going through that area if you had the choice.

EVE brings a certain amount of realism to PvP, it's penalties are harsh, and you have a lot to lose.

It seems that the people spouting WoW PvP is better don't seem to understand that it is there to please the community .

By all means this does not mean WoW PvP is "bad" (Though any game that revolves it's PvP around grinding in my opinion, needs to re-adjust their system.) After play WoW for 2 years, seeing the birth of battlegrounds and the changes in the PvP system is one of the reasons why I quit in the firstplace. Anyone can get GOOD gear, I'm not talking about crappy blues. I'm taking a few pieces of arena gear in a Month, they don't even need to win that often.

I was in a Arena team with a rating of roughly 1600, I was getting 400 points or more a week, in 2 weeks I could easily have any of the cheaper pieces of the corrosponding season. That greatly increased the wins I was recieving and I found PvP wasn't fun anymore, crappy players that just stacked more resilience had a huge upperhand against players who lacked it.

It's not the same in EVE, you can have a great ship, but if you put yourself in a situation that isn't favourable you will pay the price, EVE players probably value that realism.

TL;DR : Splitting the EVE's gamer base would cause it's downfall. Because it would be going against the fundementals that the game was created on. Imagine if Blizzard made it that epics weren't BoP, think about the consequences.

All my points have been said in this thread already pretty much but it seems that the people saying that EVE needs a PVE only server are to ignorant to see or consider anyone elses view point.

I was considering trying this, I might actually go through with it now.

And it is naive to say "unbiased" opinion, we are all biased.

Nice and uplifting, hope Erza gets better, and that he pwns a lot of dragons with that crossbow.

Rather wait till Warhammer:40k Online.

I've never said this about a goblin but: the squig herders actually look kinda cute hahaha.

either Warpriest or Black Orc (maybe) Squig herder.

I would find that being a big piss off, mostly because its recycling, and there's a lot of suspense about what will be announced tomorrow.

However, like I said before it is definitely not beyond blizzard as we have all learned from wow; taking the easy way out.

I will break my Blizzard CD's if it is ghost though, screw that.

Originally posted by Wobblebob

If you go here http://www.blizzard.com/images/

There is a new Starcraft-Ghost logo in the top right corner under Current Projects, and if you click it takes you to a folder /images/ghost which then redirects you to the "?" of the splash screen.

Maybe Ghost is coming back to life...

I only played FFXI for 2 years, yet the 2 years I had I enjoyed made a lot of friends that I ended up meeting in real life.

Though I think it's a lot different then when I left, HAPPY BIRTHDAY YAY.

Edit: Btw; heard rumors of FFXI-2, however how true these are, not sure.

Starcraft is practically a religion in Korea now, however Korea trying to make the game an idol in North America?*. Just because some countries are more serious about certain games does not mean much.

I'd say in order for a game to be truly gaining momentum in the way you're saying we'd have to have a lot more things like that in both the North American Market and the Asian one too.

You could be right though, Starcraft took like 2 years for the Koreans to like make a channel dedicated for it, maybe it will be the same for wow.

Originally posted by Zarraa

*Smile*

Calm down my good man, WOW is not dying in fact it could lose half it's subscriptions and still be on top.
Now will WOW loose some subscriptions with upcoming releases certainly, but rumors of it's death are a quite premature.

Crazy kids...I tell ya.

The expansion ruined a lot of good guilds, the downsizing was probably a horrid idea. Now guilds are more concerned about being Elitists and end up breaking up for dumb reasons, or being stuck on a boss for more than a week.

I'm pretty glad I canceled my subscription.

I'm personally finding more amusement in the name of the thread than the content. I love horrible spelling.

I highly doubt another MMORPG title being released shortly after the Expansion Burning Crusade, It just doesn't seem market "intelligent" per say.

I would think RTS, though I could be wrong

Just don't be surprised if they suddenly mindscrew us all and revive the Ghost Project. If they did, I would probably break all my Blizzard games in half

giant spider people, oh yeah

I hear there might eventually be a WaR:40k Mmo, personally I've always been more of a fan of the 40k than fantasy Warhammer.

If I were you I'd go with Conan till 40k mmo.

Wow really is the cookie cutter mmo, personally, I just use at as a time filler before I move to something interesting, but like all blizzard games it gets its over hype.

I wouldn't say that its awful but I would say its incredably generic.

Personally, I thought the ability to customize your interface and the fact that it gave you a lot of freedom was awesome.

Very few games "encourage" the modifaction of the original UI, or if you do you have the risk of being banned.

FFXI isnt a game that should be done to pass time, even though it's a huge time sink to begin with, most people actually quit before they hit 20, and the game doesn't really pick up till you hit 40.

If you want something casual or to tide you over I wouldn't pick something like Eve or FFXI, they demand a lot of time to get used to and started up.

Honesty, as much as I hate guild wars I'd recommend something like that if you just want to kill time, plus its not that expensive either.

Roar, new member here.

I understand that you feel like WoW has been a shallow and unfufilling experience.

Well, to be truthful the game never really starts till 60, which takes about 2 weeks of playing if you're casual and you know what you're doing.

Thing is, Blizzard has killed most guilds that did any PvE content unless they are 5 or more bosses into Naxx(Nax being the instance with the best loot atm).

Now its just a PvP fest where casuals who are usually just in crappy blue gear now have GM weapons and armor (GM items being almost on par with AQ40 gear).

Honestly you're at a point where WoW is changing, we dont know what the expansion will bring, to be truthful the only thing I can count on is the fact that my friends will stick through it with me.

Maybe you should stop playing wow for now, wait till expansion kicks in and the game has a focus again.

I played FFXI for about 2 years and let me tell you that game is a time sink and a great way to make yourself feel a lot of false accomplishment. Considering you need about 8 hours a day to do anything in the game.