Originally posted by Zefire

Personally after trying the whole crap companion system of swtor i m glad they have removed companions.

Crap companions in SWTOR? You've got to be kidding, did you even play the game?



 I never felt so "attached" to a "pet" in any other game.

I wouldn't trust Brad to create anything these days. After the mess he made of VG and how he handled everything after that...

He had a hand in EQ and at the time it was a great game. That type of game would be dead on arrival if it released today and I am certain that's the type of game he'd re-create.

The whole "we made things hard because we remembered those games" ... well that's not what I like. I remember games I have fun in, not ones that are pointlessly a pain in the ass.

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Originally posted by Anthur
The asian girl looks and behaves like a human. But the others... they are zombies right ? At least they speak and look like zombies.

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I found her just as "odd" as the rest. She mentioned being in beta since friends and family but had never seen/gained a companion? Huh?

Game music these days really amazes me.

Disappointing, I thought this was about the MMO.

Won't bother buying the game.  They can promote hackers, credit card fraud and spammers all they like w/o me.

The only thing on that list that actually deserves to be there is AO. Based on your scale I am surprised you left off EQ if you have WoW on there. EQ was far wrose than WoW. EQ's problems lasted much longer as well. Anytime a patch went live it would go back to being crap for days.

Needless to say I think your list is off.

Originally posted by Wycliffe

Poor Salvatore, working on an MMO that has a chance of being successful while his literature in Forgotten Realms IP gets desecrated by another developer for third cashgrab. Please let Atari go bankrupt before this game is pushed out the door.

 

You do realize Ed Greenwood is the one that created FR right? Salvatore only wrote in the realms, Ed created it.

As to the moaning about Cryptic, /yawn. If you guys don't like them don't buy it. Jumping on the I hate Cryptic bandwagon before the game is even in beta just makes you look dumb.

Keeping the DM tools in this game is definitely required. Simply slapping MMO on the thing wouldn't work.

They did a DAoC2, it was called Warhammer.

Did WISH even make it out to be cancelled? I thought it died in production stage. I played the beta so I knew it was going to die either way.

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Originally posted by Bannne
My wish for EQ3
1. No instances.
2. Vast open world like Vanguard.
3. The world to be made whole again.
4. The Moon aka Luclin to be made whole again.
5. I want my freaking Val Shar Beastlord Back.
6. I want my Black Skinned Erudite back.
7. Yup i know people will say "what" well i want the Bazzaar back without the lag.
9. Mid to top end graphics, let WOW and SWTOR have the low end graphics, EQ3 will be a niche game.
10. I want community to be bought back into mmorpg, if it means mana breaks and corpse runs then so be it.
11. I want instant travel to be wiped out, yes let a Wizard or a Druid provide those services it brings community together.
12. It can't get here quick enough.

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Yeah um, Vanguard tried all that and flooperoonies.

I seriously hope SoE has a better plan than most of you guys do.

I guess this really does qualify as the best of the worst category.

Turbine should be counter sued for the travesty they subjected us to with DD0. It's the worst thing they could have done for a D&D MMO.

All that's wrong with MMOs? Seriously? The game is quick to get into, not bogged down in minutiae which gives you more time to focus on story, characters and fun. Some might find charts and wheels and all other of manner of ways to organize things fun to deal with but I'd imagine most people don't.

I've been playing D&D for a very long time and until 4e came out I was a stanch 1st ed AD&Der. 4e streamlined the play in the areas it needed to and I've since switched to it. The game play sessions are much more playing now than trying to figure out if you hit or not or crit or any manner of thing that requires rolls and charts.

Frankly I think the game has more of a board game mechanic than mmo though it has a mix of some of the terminology of each.

No it's not the original D&D but people said the same thing when they came out with Unearthed Arcana back in the 1e days.

Classless games have less variety than classed games. Why? Because people do what is easiest and once a "best path" is figured out they all do it. Tank-mage, yehaw.

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Originally posted by Pyrostasis
Dont forget EvE online, its surpassed WAR back in january with 300,000 active subs. Not sure if that puts them at #2 or #3 all depends on LOTRO's sub numbers.

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Surpassed Warhammer with 300k subs in January? Eh? In January Warhammer had like 750k players. It wasn't till after that it went DOWN to 300k (I am one of those people that left).

I know EvE guys like to preach about how great it is but seriously.

As to Aion, I've enjoyed what I've seen so far but it's a PVP game, it won't be remotely near the scale of WoW. I'll be playing it. It might put the nail in Warhammer and it might be 2nd place but I just can't imagine it'll be very popular for long due to the PVP focus.

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Originally posted by Kyleran
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LOL, 10 years, 2 spin-offs and all of the shows were crap spin-offs of a cheap movie.  IP had fail all over it from the get-go.
Couldn't hold a candle to more interesting IP's like Farscape, Dr. Who, Lexx and a few others.
 

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Stargate has great potential as an MMO. It could be a Scifi and Fantasy MMO all in one from the simple fact that once you hit the gate you can go anywhere. Not sure how that is a "fail". The series on TV were good as were the spin-offs, all of which got good ratings for their markets.

Farscape as a MMO, now there is your so called "fail". Other than running away from the galactic police what else is there to do. Lexx? Seriously? Just name it Star Trek and don't make it silly. Doctor Who? I am the biggest Doctor Who fan... seriously. The similarities between Stargate and Doctor Who are very nearly the same except for one big problem... the Doctor wouldn't be into fighting. Name an MMO w/o fighting that's worth a crap. Please don't say webkinz ;)

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Originally posted by Kris.Kringle

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Originally posted by fiontar

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Originally posted by Xasapis

I don't think that's what he means. Yes, you can level to max via PvE only in PvE "mostly" territories. You can't avoid PvP entirely, since rifts are random. You do get forewarning about a rift opening in you area though, so you should be able to plan accordingly.

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The problem is that the game world isn't that large and there is no redundant PvE content. If your zone is invaded, that's going to be the only zone for your level range. Your choice will be to log off.

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Or we could go the way of a nice large world like 'Warhammer',  where you can choose to avoid the main purpose of the game. 

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That's gotta be a joke.

Warhammer's main purpose was suppose to be RVR but even in end game it's mostly PVE keep swaps or PVE in their new LoTD zone.

Don't use Warhammer as a example of good gaming to hold up to others. They got some good things in the game but end game RVR is not one of them.

Aion would do well to not force PVP on people in PVE zones specially when it's the only place you can go to level. Give people options... not giving it to them will just drive people away when they get tired of being ganked by higher level people while they are simply trying to level up.

Like his former game "Wish" this article is a flop. It's like he's making it up as he writes. Why he has to project his experiences on everyone else is beyond me.

RP servers exist, for a reason. People want an environment more conducive to RPing. I dunno what game Dana played on that ruined his RP experience but whatever it was it left a massive scar as anyone can easily tell by reading this article.

People role-play. Whether you consider is RP or not doesn't matter.

Sorry for the "Wish" jab but that game was seriously a train wreck.

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Originally posted by senadin
I checked on their help section on their website but cant find anything.
 
Short of me calling my credit card company is there an easier way to cancel this game? It's nice but frankly i dont need another WoW.
  
Thanks for the help, if any.
  

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I smell a fat greezy troll.