No, not a WoW clone, but FW. Not that it's bad - FW is fun for a while at least. And it's kind of futuristic. Still, a pale clon of another game.

Actualy, I think that was a joke. Though they could make it a bit clear and do not shock public.

http://www.tera-online.com/node/484

Q: Do priests perform marriages or civil unions? How about circumcisions?

A: Each culture in TERA has its own rituals for marriages and civil unions; priests are able to officiate them all. Circumcisions require the assistance of a berserker, slayer, or warrior, whichever the parents prefer.

I am wandering about animation of the process...

Screen is really nice but for some reason the howl designe in Tera makes me puke.

This is how Warhammer had to look - with dinamic content and all.

Well, at least one game got it right. If it is - we will see :)

Did not get the key again

Keys were gon  literaly in 10 sec (mb less). I do begin to believe in bots too :(

Curse my provider anyway.

Key would be great! Thanks!

Not only a great game, but developers manage to keep themself from bragging and trash-talking other games, like many do. Love this attitude.

It's about all of us - old school gamers, started years ago. Great writing.

You can try to find more "fast" game but either they are not interesting or no matter how old you are, your gameplay style does not change.

You know, it's not as bas as you might think. Looks and feels like cute kavay WoW. Do not think raids could be anywhere near that complex like in WoW, but general gameplay - yes.

Originally posted by taus01

I have not seen a MMO that offers that much flexibility in missions.

Then you did not play many. One of the oldest game on the market - Anarchy Online has mach more flexible system for setting missions difficulty. Not to mention that FF14 makes this "flexibility" loughable, when you have to form an epic raid to kill the very same lady-bug just with more HP and higher damage.

Why on earth do you count EVE a a "post-2004" game?! What part of that game reminds you of WoW?!

Amazing column, wrong in every sentence.

It is simple, like many other said here already. Hardcore player is the one, who spends a lot of time in the game - productively spend! (this is important). It means he takes more from the game then any casual player. And it also means he knows the game better. Hence, his characters are better geared and more efficient in any area. Now, who would you prefer to have in your group - a casual, who barely remembers how to play and under-geared, or a hardcore player?

Wrong at every statement. First, about your name revealed. You also have a “portrait” too. And it’s visible you are a white man, I can even add WASP (may be “P” is an extra here but you get my point). All of this reduces any potential thread by much. Now, writing columns and posting on forums – are very different things too. But this is just a note since you are talking about consumers rights.
Your advice “take it or leave it”... It is good for people who simply jump from one game to another. But Blizzard did everything to make WoW a common family entertainment, to actually already establish a social network which they shape now. So your advice is like “you do not like what a government’s doing with your country – then leave it, what’s the big deal?” 
I think from one point consumers do have to have rights to demand attention to their wishes.
From the other hands, even if Blizzard planed it ahead it could not be a better promotion for upcoming titles, like GW2, not to mention SW:ToR...

I wish I could say something about any part of the game. But after a month of attemts to download the game I gave up. Web site of this gave just does not work for me. Not a single time. I managed to create an account (severall to be precise) since it's on the other webpare, but no download or support contact, or forums for me.

For 2 days now my antivirus program (AVG) recognises some virus on mmorpg.com . All I can say it is labeled as “top[1].htm” May be it is false alarm, but so far I cannot read the site without multiple warnings coming out.

I don't really think Anarchy Online belongs on this list. The free gameplay is more like an unlimited trial.

Neither does DDO. For some reason those f2p promoters keep referring to the classical p2p games that have either unlimited trial like AO (I guess next step is indicating WAR or AoC, since both have unlimited trials too) or switched to ADDITIONAL option of limited f2p.

There are no options to choose from at the "Independent game" part.

Originally posted by dave6660

I'd like to add another category that annoys me to no end.  It's probably the extreme opposite of #1.  The guild that talks a big game when trying to recruit you.  After you join you notice that all this guild does is use the game as a fancy chat room.  They barely play the game, instead they stand around in a major hub telling bad jokes.  I'm not the Teamspeak nazi but I do expect the guild to actually do something together.  I had this problem a lot in Lineage 2 and FFXI and once in EvE.

Can you give me the name of that guilds? Seriously, would love to see at least one guild like that. Why can I never find someting like this?