Originally posted by emperorhades1

Square Enix has been known to try to turn a quick buck, mislead and put out terrible games.  FFXIV failed the first go after being told in beta that the game sucked. 

The original roadmap for ARR put the downtime of servers and the transition from 1.0 to 2.0 to 3months, basically getting the original player base back in the game by March at the most, the game is now looking at pushing july/august before turning on the switch according to Yoshida at Nico Nico.  Granted things happen that are uncontrollable but this is a pretty big gap.

According to Yoshida the games combat was a driving factor in pushing the game back.  This is after admitting testers have only seen a small portion of the game.

In 1.0, I got the opportunity to test the game in beta.  The game was extremely unplayable and the forums were livid.  The white knights and the devs at the time were adamant that the beta was not representative of the game.  It was.

I am not saying this game is bad or good.  Please do not take this post that way. 

DO NOT PURCHASE THIS GAME until the nda is fully lifted and you can get a true preview from the media and players.

Square enix has proved itself as the only trustworthy company in the group, the fact that you wont even acknowledge that shows just how gross you are, coming in here and creating a buyers beware. 

Lets state facts, the game was released in a shitty state, the devs acknowledged this, and what did they do? They let EVERYONE who bought the game, play for free for close to a year. to get the game to a state where it was worthy of a sub then they started charging. With a realm reborn they admitted the game was subpar, they admitted they couldve done much better and thats what they are doing. The game producer has written a letter and detailed every step the game is taking and has stuck too it. 

The ARR beta forums are amazing, the devs are having conversations, listening to feedback and explaining why features are the way they are, or agreeing with testers and letting us know if they are going to implement a suggestion made by the community. 

They want this game to succeed even more then the fans that are supporting it.

Name one company american or otherwise that took a released game offline and went back to the drawing board? EA gams blamed us when star wars failed, neverwinter is incomplete and barely playable without investing 50 to 100 bucks a week.

Square enix has proved they deserve some loyalty, that alone is reason enough for me to play this game.

Originally posted by Ikeda

So what you're saying is...

PWE is banning people...

For playing missions...

That have no story line...

So basically, people are creating missions exploiting the drops/foundry system.  And PWE is banning the people (who I'm sure are doing so egregiously and not just a couple of times).   And you're against the company?

Are you kidding me?  You actually would prefer the people exploit this system?!?

 

P.S.  Thanks for creating an account just to point out the PWE is wrangling in exploiters.  You should post on your perm account here instead of hiding behind a facade.

You people who are +1 this post are idiots.

There is a review process, any mission that makes it past that review process should be playable, if ti makes it past the fucking review process how exactly is it OK TO BE BANNED for playing it.

The review process is in place to say this mission is acceptable, and this mission isnt, if it isnt an acceptable mission then IT SHOULDNT BE PLAYABLE by anyone who isnt volunteering to review unfinished content. Simple as that.

Originally posted by Fendel84M
AD isn't bought with real money. So it's not asking you to pay real money.

Sigh.

You buy zen, zen buys ad, explain to me how ad isnt bought with money again, please.

Originally posted by Oceanhawk

Maybe it's because this is touted as a MMO when in fact in it's current form it is a single player game played online. There are co-op maps but so far I have only gotten thru one completely due to crashes for me or some of my friends. It was so bad we stopped trying. The chat system is horribly broken and they should be ashamed that a big part of what makes MMO's atttractive, doesn't work. I will give you the fact that the game is original and can be fun at first but later on after you complete the main storyline quest (which is horribly short) the game turns into ai repetitive monster where you play the same missions over and over killing the same 5 mobs scattered over a pretty small map. 

Don't even get me going on how many clicks the UI forces you to use just to get most things done, the limited character customization, the limited and poorly implemented inventory system and worst of all how you have to keep changing weapons because they stop earning experience after only a few hours of play. I had to stop using a Legenday weapon because using it cost me the ability to continue leveling my weapon skills. Oh and there isn't any difference in a EGO 10 wepoan and an EGO 1000 weapon. 

People are so stupid, this game checks more boxes then most of the other shit that has come out, it is definitetly an mmo.

The game has a giant open world.

Open world ORGANIZED pvp.

Instanced pvp.

Instanced dungeons.

Quests.

Really well done story.

WHAT THE FUCK ELSE DO YOU WANT?

Vp

Originally posted by Gravarg
People have some notion that pretty graphics will make a game great...roflmao...I wonder why it is that all the "Great" MMOs had horrible graphics...coincidence?

All the old MMO were created with no "Right way" in mind. 

Every MMO created today follows some made up formula that devolopers and producers seem to think is the "right way" to make an mmo, and they end up with WoW, version 1214515145523 because they keep makign the same fucking game over and over again.

All the great MMO have horrible graphics because they are old, that has nothing to do with anything.

Originally posted by PyrateLV

Originally posted by Rthuth434

...OR...

 

because for the millionth time a shot caller who use to be at Mythic did what Mythic does best, rehash their old work.

^^^^^

THIS

As they say in the courtroom, Res Ipsa loquitur.

Everyone likes to act like their is some grand reason behind why the devs do what they do, the truth is fairly simple, sandbox isa  risk, could fall flat on its face, something they have done before but deviates slightly from the beaten path is safe, and could make a quick cash grab in sales.

Yep, took this game righ toff my radar, It will have to do something really amazing in the game play streams for me to pick it up.

Otherwise this is star wars 2.0

Originally posted by Aeonblades
5 classes? Really? I will withhold judgement until I play it as far as gameplay goes, but by what I have read and seen it looks pretty bad. Especially since they added the D&D name to it as so far I have to see how it relates.

I guess we will just ignore the fact that they said they will be adding more classes including hero classes and more races after launch.

5 classes only!? Grrr...

Originally posted by azzamasin

Originally posted by cura
Nope. Lack of open world pvp, housing and sand box features did.

Cyrodill is open and housing is first priority on the list after release.  Sandboxes suck ass and are a niche sub-genre.

 

As to answer the OP's question.........HELL YES.  I get the following:

• Spiritual Successor to DAoC.  The best PvP game of all time
• Open world exploration across vast swathes of Tamriel
• open ended class bas system that lets me wear any armor and wiled any weapon I want plus I get to customize my skills and pick and choose which skills suit me more.
• A return to non-Instanced dungeons

 

 

 

If devs always try to follow the path blazed for them by their predecessors they will never create their own path. 

Elder scrols has a chance to truly breakt eh mold, but they have made it clear that they dont want to risk it, this is star wars the old republic all over again.

Faction locked races - this comes from wow, its not an elder scroll thing, because there are no faction locks on races.

faction locked territory - i am alright with faction owning territory, but to be completely banned from entering it? thats a terrible idea.

I have no fuckng faith in this game, i expect it to go the route of swtor, flash in the pan, awesome for about 2 weeks, then who gives a fuck come end game.

Elder scrolls, a game known for its unbound unlimited freedom and exploration, is making an MMo which restricts both freedom and exploration.

Sounds like star wars all over again, these devs need to stop riding on the fucking names of popular games and actually take the time to play the fucking game, that way thye dont bastardize any adaptation they decide to make.

Ill just play neverwinter.

Originally posted by Smoey

Originally posted by exile01
Wow my teachers would kill me if i would present them such a weak Projectplan. Very weak planned.

Dumbed down for the masses

His teacher didnt teach him that in his high school class.

Yeah i stopped playing the day after open beta started bcause i seen how pay to win it was in the item mall, if you have the silver you can max out one of your internal skills in the matter of  hours.

Game is a joke.

age of wushu really captures that world feel. Everything about it feels like what mmos should be striving for. 

-hybrid sandbox / thempark

-open world pvp

-built in bounty, police and jail system

- player made economy and run economy.

Everything about the game while playing it feels like your character is apart of a living world and not just another number. Hell even when you log your character off he becomes part of the world, hes now the blacksmith, or a peddler or the innkeeper, or the town guard, making money, and experience for you while youre sleeping.

The game has a lot of featuress that should be in other games.

This game will really make you apprecieate the fact that time and dedication matters once again.

All the new games have this trend where you can play 2 hours a day and be as awesome as the dude who plays 18 hours a day. i personally hate that mentality and i think hard work should be reward.

This game rewards hard work thats for sure. And there are so manyt hings to do, its not just about the combat, its not just about the crafting or pvp, its about living a life in game, you can only make one character, and youa re playing that character story, and the offline training really adds life to the world, when you log off your character doesnt just dissapear, now hes the town guard, now hes the local blacksmith the chef, etc etc.

It is really amazing for a free to play game.

A lot fo people are going to be turned off by this game because of a few things.

First they wont understand the Exp/ cultivation system, its poorly expained and it will frustrate people who arent paitent.

Second, the experience cap on life skills.

Third, the combat system isnt cut and dry, takes a lot of learning to figure out what youre supposed to do and when.

forth this new generation of ADD gamers are going to get a bit of a shock when they realize leveling takes time, theres no super grind to max level, because there is no max level. progression is based on both time spend in game and time spent waiting for your character to grow.

This game is great so far, i plan on playing it until elderscrolls/neverwinter online and as a free to play game, i think it could be top 10.

Originally posted by Cetra

Originally posted by st4t1ck
got any solid info, i dunno if there's a nda or not. but are you guys enjoying it

not really tat good. Chinese mmo still have a long way to go to compete with the production quality of western mmo.

what quality western mmos are you refering to?