Anarchy Online was by far the worst release of the many I have been thru. It was mostly unplayable for the first few months due to EXTREME lag, rubberbanding, disconnections, falling thru the floor, servers being offline etc. I remember it got the tag "Anarchy Offline" pretty quick. All in all Funcom has 2 of the worst launches in history and subsequent loss of huge player base due to imcompetence, but I digress.

found my answer. please delete this thread

Originally posted by jagorhigh

Hey Chainmail wtf is this threat?

first of all your nick look like a true email spammer name...but whatever

What the hell DOA is? Dead or alive? Dead on arrival? Doom Over Asia? ..the game is not here yet..at least in Italy..:(

Is it live n Korea? ..btw i had to check your profile info to understand where are you from, as you faild to share this info in your post. BTW most of the topics you ave started are negative! fail fail fail..i hate this i hate that

Can you please tell me how come you were able to play the game from South Korea in a first place?? proxy?

finaly you ARE torlling, and trolling for the wrong thing...

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Threat? Where did I threaten anyone?

And can you explain to me what an email spammers nick looks like? This coming from a guy with a name of jagorhigh with a total of 5 posts lol.

Anybody knows that DoA in the context in which I have placed it means Dead on Arrival. Everyone else seemed to understand it just fine.

I stated I live in Asia. Why does it matter where? For the purposes of this post, Asia is sufficient. Didn't know I had to give out specific personal information to make a post.

I suggest you dont try to make any more posts attacking someone. You're not very good at it.

Well after last night's maintenance the servers started working again. I am now able to get into the game on the international servers. But for approximately 36 hours the game was down for some people and not others apparently only on 3 of the 6 servers. I asked around in game and some people (of the about 6 or so I saw on lol) said yes they were affectefd while others said they were not. Either way, there was never a peep mentioned by the games devs.

As for you guys saying game not launched yet in UK or NA; where did I say that? I specifically said the EU servers where the game is launched. And from what I have seen on the international pve server, it is pretty much dead. However, I will say that today there were more players on. Maybe its just getting off to a very slow start. I have also admitted that I live in Asia and my hours of playing are probably a bit off the peek hours. But I am on vacation and so playing off and on all day long since there is nothing else to do.

I really hope that when it does finally launch in the English speaking countries, it gets a ton more players. But if the EU servers are any indication of whats to come, I am saying this game will be either 1) made f2p or b) shut down within 6 months.

Now I dont want to see this happen. I think the game is really good and I want to see many players in game. However, unless the devs start making a much, much bigger effort to market this game, it will be in the bargain bin before springtime comes.

Hell if you go to the NA publisher Acclaims TCoS website, it looks like they spent all of about 30 minutes on it. A basic page with no information other than a few links to the forum and registration. Doesnt appear they are about to put any money or effort into marketing the game either. From what I know of Acclaim my guess is that they are hoping the game fails as a P2P model so they can set up their overpriced cash shop and slap in-your-face in game ads into the game. Tell me that wont be a game killer?

These are the cold hard facts, whether fanboys want to admit it or not.

And yes anyone can play the TCoS EU servers with a little intelligence. There is NO IP block on the game itself. The IP block is on the registration website only. This is easily gotten around in about 30 seconds using a proxy.

Well this story gets even stranger yet. Since arrowotwood posted he has been playing I have since gone back and tried to create and log into all the servers.

I can get into the German pve and pvp and the French pvp servers.

I cannot get into the International pvp or pve or the French pve servers.

If the reason I cannot log into the international servers where my characters are is because they all of a sudden decided to IP ban Asia, then why did they only do the ban on half the servers?

I am baffled.

Hmmm, I dont know if you are referring to me, but I am not trolling.

I was able to play for 2 days and then I got kicked out of game yesterday. Since then I have not been able to get back in. I either get an authentication error. Or I can log in, and get to character screen, and can even create new characters. But when I click to enter and play I get an error saying it cannot connect to the Spellborn network.

Now, I will admit that I do live in Asia. So, it may very well be they implemented and IP ban for us yesterday. But, it is strange that I a) got kicked from the game and b) I can still create characters and save them and c) why would they IP ban Asia? It is not part of the Acclaim territory and d) if they did finally IP ban Asia, why would they do it on Christmas Day ? This has really left a bad taste in my mouth about the competency of the dev team. Its amazing that they created and coded this seemingly great game, but cannot manage it properly.

Anyways, I do want to say that the 2 days I played the game, it was very good. It is definitely a game anyone who plays mmos should check out. I think it could be a big hit, if the devs market it properly and stop crippling it with the stupid IP bans.

I mean, from my understanding, they are IP banning the UK portugal and I think Spain from the rest of the EU because Acclaim has those territories. So they are going to force those countries to basically play on American servers. Heads up! The last time I looked at the world map, these countries are part of the EU and not NA. This is very retarded imo and I dont know why they would ever agree to this.

Well, heres to hoping that TCoS somehow outlives the devs stupidity and lives up to the potential it seems to have. I hope they do succeed in spite of themselves and get tons of subs because I really want to play!

Well Spellborn's EU servers went down yesterday over 24 hours ago. There seems to be an authentication error or you can log on and create new characters but cannot log into the game.

Sure, I know its Christmas and its a small dev team but there are paying customers. The game has been down and there is nothing. No post by any dev explaining anything.

Also, funny enough there is only 1 small post about it in the players forum with only a few replies. Now if this was WoW or WAR or AoC or any other mmo there would be a deafening uproar. But for TCoS nobody seems to care. Not the devs nor the players.

Its sad too because from the small amount of time I got to play, it really did seem like a good game. Better than alot out now. But there are hardly any players on any of the EU servers. I have seen crappy 2d Asian mmos launch with many more players than this. (To give you some indication from what I saw in the day or two I was playing Tabula Rasa had 10 times the number of players right before they pulled the plug. I dont think I saw more than 5 people max in the starter area at a time. Mostly just 1 or 2 or 0!).

I dont understand why, because this game truly seems to be good, but this game will be gone in less than 6 months unless the game devs pull their heads out of their arses and start giving a damn.

Hello,

Can anyone tell me if you can dual wield in this game? the website is worthless for information.

Particularly if rogues can duel wield and how? I see no skill for it.

Also what do shields do exactly? They dont seem to block and dont have any stats. So why would you use one?

Personally I hope they don't put the other 4 cities in or at least delay them a long while.

Now I am not trying to piss you Warhammer fans off. Let me first say I am not a Warhammer fan per se. I have never played the tabletop version and don't really care about the lore. (Been playing mmos and rpgs and reading fantasy novels for 30 years, and after all this time its all pretty much the same anyways). What I am is an mmorpg player and I enjoy the RvR. I want a good, fun game to play. That is all. And WAR is filling this role for me currently.

My reason for not wanting the other 4 cities is because the 1 city each side has already seems large and empty. I hardly see any players there. Like someone previously said, people just go there to use the bank and guild vaults. For the most part its empty even on full servers during prime time.

So why would Mythic put in 4 more cities? So we can then have 6 totally empty desolate cities instead of the 2 almost empty cities we have now?

And there seems to be areas of the city (Destruction side anyways) That have large areas with no content. (I'm talking about the big areas in the back with npcs fighting each other. I have no idea what these big areas are for). Also, the main city we do have seems to still be not working correctly? Portals that go nowhere. Also the city does not seem to be raising levels yet to supposedly open some of this stuff up.

I want them to add more content and purpose to the 2 cities that are already there. Mythic needs to add something to make players want to go and hang out there. Cities in other games are trading and crafting meccas. But in WAR they dont seem to have that function.

So,  when and if Mythic adds in a purpose and reason for spending more than a few minutes into the 2 main existing cities to the point they are really being used and seem alilve, then and only then should they add the other 4 cities.

To simply add the other 4 cities just to have them will just spread out the already thin city population.

I would rather they take the time to add more content, put in the missing classes, fix the bugs (guild functions are somewhat borked atm still), and concentrate on the areas where people spend 99% of thier time (ie rvr scenarios, PQs, doing quests etc, etc).

Nobody can decide for you. Only you know what you like and don't like.

But honestly you only got to rank 3? as in level 3? and only played 1 character. That must of took all of about 15 minutes?

Personally I did not like tanks. I find them boring. But once I started playing a DoK and shaman I loved them and they are my main characters now.

You don't really start getting skills and a feel for how the character plays until about level 8-10.

IMO WAR is the best mmo to come out in a long time. And if you like pvp or rvr it is a must play. Heck, even if you didn't like pvp in other games, WAR might convert you.

I dunno seems like a different game you guys are playing lol.

As far as the un-install. I DLed the trial by first DLing the Sony launch pad. From there I DLed the trial.

The launch pad showed up in my windows menu and I could un-install it. However the Vanguard did not show up anywhere. I am guessing because I DLed it thru the launchpad. There were no problems with either the DL or running the game client.

Wasnt really planning on writing a review since I only spent a few hours in the game, but as some of you have made comments I will try to reply.

The game for the most part ran like crap on my computer is one reason I did not like it. It was choppy and the best frame rate I could get was around 20 fps. I had to turn down the graphics to balanced and medium for the most part to achieve this.

My computer is custom built with very good quality parts and I could run AOC (when it worked) and most other games at high graphics settings and get good fps.

Q6600, 8800gt, 4 gig heatsink ram, gigabyte mobo, etc etc.

The game looked flat or something. It reminded me of DAOC graphics heh. It was like there wes no depth perception or something. And the colors were off...like the trees were too green or something.

Now maybe it does look "amazing" as some of you have suggested on the highest settings but you would need a $3000 dollar computer to run it. Sorry, but its not worth building a new computer of those specs to get this game to look nice. I did turn the graphics all the way up to high and took a peek but didnt see that much of a difference. It still looked flat with no depth perception to my eyes.

The avatars, especially the males looked just out of proportion and had this moon looking Shrek type face lol.

Animations were a real turn off. Running with arms straight down at the sides. Jumping is just a little up movement. Spell attacks you just raise your arms a little bit.

Finally, I could not find any quests or any helpful information on figuring out the game on the trial isle. There is only one tutorial that I found about diplomacy. And the diplomacy system seemed really stupid to me. Like a mini card game. That turned me off as well. The trial isle seems to just leave you to figure stuff out all by yourself. Hell I couldnt even figure out how to talk in the global chat to ask questions. The game is just not very intuitive at all.

I could see playing it if it were a free game or a reduced fee or if you already have the Sony pass but I don't think its worth $14.99 per month in any shape or form when you consider there are much better quality games out for that price.

Again I only spent a few hours in the game so probably didnt get to see many of the gameplay features. But based on what I saw on the trial isle its just not worth it. The trial isle was boring.

Anyways, the game was just not to my tastes. To each their own.

So I have a few days before my new game starts and I decided to check out the free isle trial for Vanguard.

Sorry, but I did not like the graphics at all... It looks really old or flat or something and the avatars look like really bad animated cartoons.

Anyways the game is not for me.

So I went to un-install it and can find nowhere to do it.

I cannot even un-install it thru the control panel.

I even went to the Vanguard forums and help support and searched and cannot find instructions on how to get this game off my computer.
 

Why wouldn't SOE give you an option to un-install it?

So the only way to remove it I guess is to search for the files and manually delete them and then run a registry cleaner?

Actually it was Oceanic so US version...

Even now after they brought the servers back I keep getting the same authentication/patcher errors and login timeouts.

Actually I am making it past the authentication a bit more but getting timeouts on the server screen now...If its not one thing its another.

So, I basically give up on the OB and hope they get the problems fixed before the game goes live.

During this OB I have spent more time watching/trying to log in than actually playing and thats no lie.

I must say that the little time I was able to get in the game it looks and plays fantastic.

Originally posted by Jackthecat

Lucky. I wish NA only had 1 open RvR server. It would make for such good rivalries.

Not really as I predict it will be the more popular server which means its gonna be full and have long ques.

Heres the revised list:

Oceanic Server List

Collector's Edition Head Start

Darklands-Core
Ironclaw-Core

Anlec-Open RvR

Lustria-Roleplay
 

Standard Edition Head Start

Lucan-Core

Marius-Core

I wanted to have both Order and Destruction toons on an open RvR server which means there needs to be at least 2 of each.  I wish they would make either Lucan or Marius open RvR as well which would give us 3 core and 2 open rvr.

Not only that but the 1 open RvR server (Anlec) is a CE server which means everyone else is gonna be behind the 8 ball the first few weeks. And I also bet that Anlec is gonna be Full/Full before SE head start begins which means ques.

Well heres to hoping that if Anlec server becomes full they will add more open RvR servers (preferably 2)like they promised.

As a side note there's only 1 RP server as well (I'm not an RPer though) and no RP RvR server at all. Guess they don't think Oceanic players want one of those hehe.

 

Yeah there seems to be alot of people who think they are gonna solo play this game even in the rvr....

Soon they will learn. Fight together or die apart.

Well the game looks great and I think the graphics are really starting to shine. It would be nice if I could actually play the game.

In the past OB week I think I have gotten to play only 1 night. Other than that I am lucky to get 30 minutes in. In the last 3 days I havent gotten on at all for more than a few minutes.

For the most part I haven't even been able to get into the game with the patcher and authentication errors.

Then if I somehow manage to squeek by the patcher, once in game I get booted out again within minutes.

And finally all the maintenance downtime. Damn I think this game should be renamed AGE OF MAINTENANCE.

hehe, I know this is beta and I am glad Mythic seems to be doing a great job. But this open beta has been a bust for me personally.

At least I was able to get half a dozen chars up to lvl 3 or so and now able to decide what Im gonna play upon release.

DOK or Sorc and Engineer or War Priest

Well, here's to hoping that come wednesday, they got all the connection problems ironed out. Its shaping up to become a great game!

(PS. the last few patches and the graphics look better, especially the tank spell effects).

I also agree that while the graphics are decent and I am happy with them, the animations are terrible. I have played crappy asian f2p games with better animation. Especially the ranged bow, gun, and spell attacks....absolutely terrible. I originally was planning on playing a shadow warrior but couldnt stand the arrow animations for more than a few minutes.

I guess my main will be a melee character in hopes they fix the ranged animations soon after release.

Also OP whats up with the neon yellow text? It hurts my eyes.

Originally posted by gamerman98

and there has been people visiting the studios that are making Duke Nukem Forever and theres a vid too...and like DF im sure its going to release sometime this year too /sarcasm

I agree here. Even though there are a few people who have gone to the studio and seen portions of the game on a closed in-house system doesn't mean it will play well with thousands of people over the internet. I too am skeptical because it has been too long with very little solid information other than sketchy videos.

If I were a betting man, I would lay odds that this game will either never come out, or probably more likely be a real mess with lots of broken features and bugs when it does.

I can't exactly put my finger on it, but something is just not right.

I also have been getting DCed but not to desktop.

While trying to play on the Oceanic servers I get booted to the character login screen about 3-5 times an hour.

Last night I noticed when the servers went down for maintenance the Oceanic servers and a few others did not come back up and had extended maintenance.

Hopefully it was to address this booting to login screen problem as I dont see how it could be my computer since I am not getting booted out of the game to desktop, only to the char screen.