I got the email today saying that the time expired, but never got the email that the free period was starting.  I had no idea it was even going on until I got the cancel notice today.  It didn't end up in spam either.  

I checked at another forum and the same thing happened to four others there.  I asked Trion if they could extend it for me so that I could see the changes, their response was pretty much "No."  I complained again and they are sending the whole issue up to Tier 3 support, at which point I just told them not to bother.  

If getting me to see your game is that difficult that it takes four separate tickets, it's just not worth my time.  Or Trion's, evidently.  

It's Nordenwatch from WAR.

Not exactly sure how to relay them info, but I'd be willing to give NCSoft $14.99 for at least a few months if they would drop the box cost a bit.  The game is nearing what, one year old and it's still $50?

I liked the video.  I hope the game gets a real shot because this genre needs some new blood.  Hopefully they won't launch too close to either WoW xpac or WAR, I honestly think that would be disasterous. 

As far as all the hype mongering above, remember... In mid-2004 EQ2 was going to be the game to end all games.  WoW wasn't really even being talked about.  It wasn't until WoW did their open beta that everyone made the shift.  WoW *is* the exception to almost everything, sure.  But it really didn't have the hype. 

As mentioned above - if you launch a solid, fun game that is content complete and functional, you will almost surely generate hype.

Originally posted by RedwoodSap

The #1 complaint from players is overinstancing yet nothing about removing it. Embrace that.

How would you go about fixing it?  From what I saw, the instances are so small that they needed to make multiple copies just to support the population.  Crappy design?  Yup.  But I don't see a way to fix it at this point.   Maybe in the future they can make bigger zones or something, but at this point they're looking at redesigning the game to fix it.

Don't get me wrong... I made it to lvl 45 in about 2 weeks and called it quits.  They pissed me off by releasing the framework of a game, not an actual game.  I'll check it out when they get things in order, maybe. 

I anticipated this one for more than a year.  I was as excited as any other person waiting for this game.

My Guardian made it to the 40s until I realized it was the most shallow game I've ever played.  Even the meatier stuff that would have kept me busy (player cities, gathering, crafting, theorycrafting) is either broken or NYI.  So last night I canceled and uninstalled.  Fastest $50 game I ever went through. 

If you like this game, awesome.  I'm glad you found enjoyment out of it.  But I am very disappointed.  To me, Funcom really dropped the ball on getting this world ready.   Hopefully in six months they'll have a great game going for you guys.  I might check back then.  But patching in the game months after you sold us the framework is unacceptable.  Shame on you, Funcom. 

Nothing has been officially stated, but I've heard 8 characters per account tossed around for nearly a year.  Of course, that's got people pissed because there's 12 classes in game.  But w/e.  It's not in stone yet.

I spend $40 a week in gas.  So $50 bucks really doesn't seem like much anymore.  :(  Even if it sucks, it's not like I'm out much.

Originally posted by adrianemery

I spot a trend here/

Open Beta - pay to get in

Early entry - pay to get in

 

I wonder what other micro transactions are waiting for us?

Although if it is a true "open" beta the NDA will be lifyed on May 1st and if it really that bad people will be able to post on here.If the NDA is still in place then it isn't open at all.

As far as the open beta issue, that's still a bunch of garbage.  And yes, I'm concerned that they might wind up going RMT at some point.  They don't seem to have any issues changing the rules halfway through. 

Originally posted by Gidion

 

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Originally posted by Greek_Matt

 

Course it is. Can you imagine trying to download a beta client as huge as AoC through anyhting less than a dedication professional download site?

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Torrent?!?

To clarify:  This is not an open beta.  It is, in fact, a closed beta whereby one needs to subscribe to a service to apply.  There's nothing "open" about it. 

I'm not really happy with Funcom's choice, but w/e.  It just frustrates me that they told us all along there would be an open beta, when there's really not.

Lol

I read the title as "Adventure into the Glitch".

No joke.

A lot of what he said is true about the game, but I'm actually having fun with it regardless.  Ever since I've been into MORGs, I have a hard time getting into single player games... they just don't feel dynamic enough.  But with the Witcher I'm actually having fun.  It might be the first game in years outside of MORGs I've had a decent time with.  Then again, like he said... it's a lot like a MMORPGER.  :)

After the BS they pulled with stealing my $50 on Hellgate, they can shove Mythos where the sun don't shine.  Won't even play it free.

Due to a work schedule change, I can't raid with my WoW guild for at least the next 6 months... so I decided earlier today to reup my LotRO account and casual play for a month or two. 

L O L  I have the worst (or maybe best) luck. 

Originally posted by Haradeas

People that buy 1 addon on the site of NC gets the bonus. I bought all 3 parrts for a totale of 100 euro and ya think we get the bonus ? It just bothers me that they say it like " you invested in GW now you get a reward"

I've got all four boxes that I bought retail.  I simply prefer hard copies of everything I buy.  I've been a faithful customer, yet I'm left in the cold on this.  It's poor form on Arena.net's part.  They really need to look at anyone who has all the games/xpacs on an account and just let them have it. 

Originally posted by BeowulfAgate

I want to point out that a "huge" (the dev's word) content patch is scheduled for the 9/25, this review should have waited till then.  Crafting is reportedly getting a huge face lift, so any discussion about that needs to wait till we see what they are installing.  I just hope the memory leak gets fixed, I'm tired of seeing my ram usage go from 30% to 98% over 2 hours of play time.  I am personally on the fence about this game, I enjoy it but have reservations about it's long term ability to keep my interest, but I'll wait on this up coming patch to see what changes they have actually added.

Every single one of them has failed; I've learned that lesson.  A 'huge' patch isn't going to fix a poorly designed game that is going to wind up going the way of  Auto Assault in a year.  I *still* can't believe that RG spent seven years with the TR concept only to come up with this pile of code. 

Good luck to those who enjoy the game - I wish you well.  Just don't expect a long life from TR. 

As far as she could tell, that life and the people who were in it were gone forever. Today, not even two years later, Sarah Morrison was a Sergeant in the AFS, on her way to infiltrate a Bane outpost.

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She's roughly 21.  19 at the attack, not even two years later. 

But yeah, the story is meh.  I'd love more detail to the carnage the Bane left behind and her experience in being transferred into another world.  This story's like the game:  Bland, unpolished and lacking depth.  RG's cashing a paycheck and has lost touch.  How long has this game been in development and the best he can do is a half-assed WoW?

If you've bought everything you can buy through their store, they better just give you the damn thing. 

I've got all three games but not the PvP versions, and frankly I'm a little peeved they're not giving it away either. 

Well, I really enjoyed BC quite a bit.  But I burned through the solo grind to 70 within a few weeks and now I'm back to logging only on raid nights.  You can tell when they need to release more content when you start seeing funny named corpses show up in front of the banks... now they're in Shat rather than IF.  People are bored.

The biggest negative change was that it caused our 2 1/2 year old guild to fracture.  Not so much because of the drop from 40 to 25 players, rather they upped the basic skill level needed for progression.  My previous guild that I played with since WoW's launch was a casual raiding guild.  In that two year span we put MC and BWL on farm and were starting to make progress in AQ40, all while not being 'hardcore'.   Pre-BC, we could take 10-15 people with us who simply weren't very good, but wanted to see the content. 

Post-BC, we found that there really was no room for people that can't perform at standard levels of class abilities.  We found ourselves stuck at Aran for months, literally, because DPS sucked and we couldn't get players to consistently show up.  So those of us who wanted to be more serious about it left...  and took the dark path down into elitism. 

It sucks... some of those we left behind weren't very good players, but they were friends.  Now a lot of them we can't even talk to because they feel slighted because we left them.  Sad part is, the content now is no different than the content then. 

I know it's been said 100 times before, but if they released a server with only EQ, Kunark and Velious I would subscribe for life.  It really is the game I hold all others to.  So many good memories.