All Posts by Zarraa

I have to go with Fanbois / Fangirls on this one since Trolls are easily identifiable and summarily dismissed.

Fanbois are infinitely more dangerous since they usually latch onto the current FOTM  or whatever's the most popular. What's worse is there's usually hundreds of them on the same message board. Mistakenly they think numbers lend credibility to their outlandish claims.

Honestly..blind loyalty of anything is both foolish and counter productive. No one title is the best at everything ( you're favorite included) or we'd ALL be playing it.

If you'd ever tried EQ1's raid game you wouldn't be asking this question.

Pre Burnning Crusade I did every raid encounter save Naxx in WOW. Everything to that point was about Scars of Velious difficulty level in EQ1.

While I've not played AOC personaly  I'm wondering where the Vitriol is comming from.

If these figures are in fact true this is a huge milestone for Funcom. It's almost like people are scared of something. At anyrate congrats are in order. You don't reach that many sales by producing garbage.

ZV

Originally posted by declaredemer

In my view, it is not true.

 

1. Complex games are more complex to make.  WoW's success.
2. Blizzard is a good company.  WoW's success.
3. SIGIL was a bad company.  Vanguard's failure.
4. SWG was unfortunately, and unwisely, butchered by SOE.  SWG's failure.
5. EQ was unfortunately, and unwisely, made into a raid game by SOE.  EQ's failure.
6. EQ 2 was unwisely called EQ 2; if it had a different name, different lore, a different launch, and different marketing ... probably would be much more successful.  EQ 2's failure.
7. People want features, not graphics.  Failure of graphics; success of features.

 

No company has been managed well to produce a good complex MMORPG. 

 

1) Disagree, people are ready for more than candy store fare, give people more credit.

2) Agreed, but it was equal parts right place right time.

3) Agreed

4) Agreed

5) Disagree, raiding wasn't the problem, SOE forgot 90% didn't raid and had no alternate plan for quality gear.

6) Conjecture.

7) Disagree: people want features & graphics... we can have both.

Originally posted by lkavadas

Goddam forum writhers!

I want to personally thank the OP for this post. This ranks right up there with those CoX "Gone to the Americans threads.

I always knew UniqueDragon would resurface one day..

Originally posted by Kanubis

If they both turn out to be awesome games in their own right, will the universe implode?

I'm sorry if the mere revelation that two competing games can both rock has caused fits and dribbling in some of the people who frequent these threads....

Best Post in this thread both of these games have the potential to either be huge hits or complete flops.

I for one hope both become huge hits. Anything beats the tired WOW vs XXX threads.

My favs are Need for Speed Most Wanted & Carbon on the 360 good fun racing fun.

Originally posted by iwantmyswg

i think fc went to the $OE school of how to rip your players off.

If so then some of you went to the school of Hyperbole. You're getting a head start for a nominal fee I don't see this as being sneaky.

BTW the abligatory SOE dig no longer nets brownie points, time for a new poster child.

Originally posted by goneglockin

Boo' F'ing Hoo.  You knew this game had PvP.  You knew something lame like this could happen.  Now you're bitching about it?  It's the people like you who ruined this entire genre before it barely got started.  People thinking their sub money gives them the right to influence design doctrine, and spineless developers caving into them.

This is why all MMORPGs suck.  They try to be everything to everyone and end up being nothing. 

Hyperbole for the win...

No All MMORPG's don't suck it's the childish brats that make them suck as you say. Ever heard of the word honor? Back in the day griefers were hunted down and slaughtered like game and rightfully so. The problem is as society has taken a down turn MMO behavior has followed suit. Look I love PVP but other than a few titles like DAOC & GW for instance by and large it's been handled quite poorly.

Take some lawless brat who can play for hours accumulating high end PVE gear. Next put Him / Her in a guild with like minded dopes= bad news. I agree with a previous posters idea of NPC squads that actively hunt down these deviants. Towns where these types are KOS heck even bounties on their heads.

While Anarchy sounds cool in theory it can never be. Remember pure lawlessness = Chaos and action without consiquence is completely at odds with the concept of MMO's. Old school tactics that rely on honor mean nothing to this new generation of players hence stronger deterents are in order.

Originally posted by rikilii

Can I have your stuff?

Thanks allot!!!

Originally posted by SonofSeth

Originally posted by Vincenz

 

 

This comment gets so tiresome.  WoW, in of itself, is a "copy" of other games.  They didn't do anything groundbreaking, they simply combined the elements of other successful MMOs into a smooth release with low requirements a childlike learning curve and good advertising.

This comment too gets so tiresome.

#1 WOW doesn't suck ...actually it's fun and great for those new to MMO's

#2 WOW isn't the greatest MMO ever made...most subscribers doesn't = best.

Now..I don't know if this is still the case but at one time WOW offered a 14 day trial available..I mean what better way to decide for oneself than that.

I'l' give 3 a whirl for sure..

Aion, TCOS & Jumpgate Evo. However I'm still on the fence regarding AOC. I was reading something about allot of zonning in AOC and if that's true i'll likely pass. 

Originally posted by Wicoa

Lotro and city of heroes have fairly nice communities.

A) If you're a dope in either you'll end up pretty lonely since groups will drop you like a rock. Translation act a jerk you'll see little progress and no AV battles.

B) The communities of both titles established pretty early that type of behavior wasn't gonna fly.

Yes there are still plenty of decent / mature people who play MMO's young and old alike.

No doubt that I'll give JE a shot. I've been waiting forever for a faster paced Sci Fi MMO.

While I liked EVE it's pace was just to slow and plodding for my tastes.

My problem with POTBS was two fold and I stand by my opinions..

A) The Swashbuckling was clunky and odd.

B) The Avator models looked like crap.

To be fair I found the ship battles fun, but that's besides the point. In short never take anyone's word here or anywhere else as law. Always..ALWAYS give a title you're curious about a fair shot.

Originally posted by nariusseldon

I really don't know the value of  a comic book based super hero MMORPG. They are NOT going to let you play spiderman or any famous heroes. So what is the point?

All you get is to have them as NPCs and look at them from time to time.

 

If done correctly a Marvel MMO could be huge. Imagine comic flashback story arcs like the Infinity Gauntlet or Weapon X origins. Heck even ties to current comic story arcs woud be nifty.

ZV.