All Posts by Hyperboy01

Originally posted by Stradden

The best solution for the game would have been a publisher who is not solely interested in making quick money.

Yeah, that wasn't a swipe at their current publisher, was it? lol. Sounds like there is some bitterness there. Anyhow, I beta tested FoM way back when, and I wasn't too eager to play it when I saw what it was. It seemed to not really have a nitch.

Best of luck to these guys, MMOs really are the future and now of gaming, I hope to see them pull away from this with the knowledge they need to complete a truly spectacular MMO.

Originally posted by greymann

Yep.  I'm looking forward to a more gothic fantasy feel finally in wow.  Also can't wait to see the graphical enhancements planned that were mentioned in another article.

I hope they update the graphics with the lich king, while they are still decent, they are aging.

I have to agree that it would be nice to see things like:

(for the evil cities... chaos)

-impaled bodies of the enemies as a representation of the power of the ruling elite outside the city walls (to scare enemies).

-many more banners

-piles of bones and body parts at "dumping stations" where they get burned periodically (plaguesque)

-packs of dingy dogs that attack anybody, maybe rabid.

-squads of soldiers walking around as a show of force (possibly harrasing citizens at times).

(for the good cities....order)

 -villages outside the castle with thatch roofs, chickens here and there.

-Squads of knights on horses parading around the town

-anyhow, I imagine these are still taken at low-resolution, and it is nice of them to continue to put them out, unfortunately, I don't feel like they are building hype any longer, they are just making people worry about how old the graphic technology is.

Graphics aren't the only thing in MMORPGs, so lets hope the rest of it turns out awesome!

To me, this brings up one topic that has nagged me for awhile. I am very active at emailing and calling my representatives when I see something that should or should not go through (at least, that is how I feel about it). Governments in a democratic or open society can only do what their people will allow them to do. Put enough political pressure (ie emails, calls, marches, protests) on an official and they will back down, go forward with, or rethink their strategy (depending on what the masses are saying). It seems that across the globe, people feel disenfranchised.

Speak out when you know something is wrong. Tell your officials you will not tolerate it and ask everyone within earshot to talk to their politicians too.

On another note, I am not sure that I care about in game advertising IF it is on a billboard (as NCSoft suggested with CoH) or blended in with the environment (on a wall, glass, whatever).

I love the idea about PSAs.

Originally posted by vickypollard

shame the graphix suck

I do hope the graphics live up to my thoughts about how they should be in a next generation game as well. I just bought a 22" monitor for my home office, and I would love to see how it performs on Warhammer

Originally posted by todeswulf

Here's the sad shit.....

There are the Trailer Park morons  on the official forums that buy the BS every year....and  the folks on this thread that have to vocalize that it is an April fools joke.

That's why I stopped playing WoW I was afraid I was going to catch the communities Stupid.

World of Warcraft; dumbest ....players...ever.

I would agree that the trollers are a bunch of idiots, for sure. As far as this page was concerned, I thought the bard thing was hilarious. Yes, we knew it, yes people were stating it here that they did... big deal... doesn't make them the dumbest people ever (or most stupid).

Originally posted by Ikonic

The ones on the herald are a lot better.

 

http://warherald.warhammeronline.com/warherald/NewsArticle.war?id=107

Although, I really would like to see a little bit stronger graphics as the beta continues to progress. I understand what they are going for, but I think a lot of people are trying to justify a reason to move away from their current game, and, although a few people say otherwise, graphics ARE a big factor when they are looking to invest their money elsewhere.

I truly hope Warhammer turns out to be awesome, I would love to launch myself into a new world.

Originally posted by Kanuvani

IMO i think Blizzard is trying very hard to abolish gold buying, if you think about it, alot of good gear and other stuff must be faction grinded, BG's Arena's too name a few which do not require money and faction stuff  which does not cost  that much gold, all the bop and boe. Like some other had mention i think most gold is bought for the big expensive mount, so i say make it a faction grind of some sort. 

  I'm sure some one will say PLZ NO MORE faction grind, well no matter what you either grind faction or gold, what's the diff.  My 2 cents

 

At least faction grind there is more than a singular benefit from getting it up there. I agree with your post. I would also like to note that, when there was the indication that a faction grind (wild hammer to be exact) might provide you with a greatly cheaper mount, blizzard REMOVED the faction from the table (I was revered.... so much for that grind). 5k... thats it, pay it or don't, you can be raising money AND raising rep so that you can get it cheaper... that would just be horrible (even though it would probably take just about the same amount of time, but have a larger overall potential benefit).

I agree with Blizzard and their statement in it's entirety.

The issue is not solely with the gold buyers though, it is also with blizzard and how much it costs to buy stuff from vendors (such as food, mounts, etc). To some, gaining 5k is an achievement, to most it is a burden. Yes, if you do all of the daily quests every day you will soon be there, but that isn't the point. Before daily quests were ever around in the game, epic mounts were still 1k. Giving 1k to another player in exchange for an awesome piece of gear is one thing, but giving 1k to a vendor, of which that money will not be redistributed back into the economy, is just downright idiotic. Blizzard says that they are not the ones messing up the economy, but the reality is, they are. The structure of their NPC to PC economy is horrible, and very one-sided. Hell, even in EQ 1 vendors could sometimes run out of money, or have that item that you sold to them buried in their inventory somewhere. You could vendor mine sometimes for some pretty decent pieces of gear.

Anyhow, I got slightly off topic. Blizzard needs to restructure the high priced vendor purchased items. I like... maybe even love what they did with Ogri'la gear. Things like that make sense. Money doesn't just disappear from the economy to never be seen again.

I agree that we need a re-review. I have heard about Vanguard from certain people, yet they have never given me a full review, nor listed what lvl they were at the time of telling me about it.

Even if a user wants to break down the current review and let us know how things have changed since launch. (I see a lot of  "VANGUARD GREATEST GAME EVER"... but then they rarely qualify that opinion with facts or points of reference)

Anyhow, I am eager to read about it more.

Originally posted by kxmode

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@heeroya -- Plain english - Only active subscribers, game room players (pay by hour) who have logged in the last 30 days, and those still currently on free trial.

Yes to all. No to "logged in the last 30 days." My account was active, and I was paying every month, but I hadn't logged in until only recently. Even though I didn't log into the game my account was still active and paying. Regardless Blizzard counts that as an active account regardless of whether I log in or not.

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Just a little note that you missed the phrasing on what was said. He stated that GAME ROOM players are the ones that need to have logged on within the last 30 days. The rest of your post is pretty much spot on though.

(*note: after some further reading I withdraw my comment that I thought to be fact based in regard to Asia*)

Originally posted by shakey2005

However, this recent post makes it sound like there will be quite a bit of time (maybe even days) for the opposing faction to galavant through the town.

The interview says a couple of hours.

Not exactly, it stated:

• Destruction will then have several hours of uninterrupted time to loot, pillage, quest, fight the king, etc.
• After this period of time has ended, the Outer City will re-open for RvR combat and the forces of Order may attempt to retake this area
• Should Order succeed, they can then enter the Inner City to clear out the forces of Destruction (who will no longer respawn in this area once killed)
• The city will then revert to its original state of peace.

Which means that they seem to have eliminated the overpowered NPC spawns (post city-siege).  There seems to now be the potential (although highly unlikely I assume) that the city can remain in the hands of the enemy indefinitely. Although, with the fact that after a few hours the enemy will no longer respawn in the city, they will probably find themselves removed post-haste!

Originally posted by butters88

I enjoyed reading the description on city sieges. There was some stuff I never heard of. Like the defending faction doesn't respawn in the city when they die and are being invaded. You know what that means? No turtling! w00t! I think the best part will of course be the initial fight in the outer city and seeing the Order (or Dectruction) try to take it back afterwards.

I am curious about the retaking of the city too. It would interest me to see if that is able to be accomplished. The original early discussions by the devs mentioned that the city would be taken, then the opposing faction of that city would have time to revel in their success, and play, and then the devs would make it VERY hard for that opposing faction to remain in the city after a certain amount of time. (I assume this means that they would spawn extremely hard bosses of the city's faction to retake the city and eject out all opposing faction members).

However, this recent post makes it sound like there will be quite a bit of time (maybe even days) for the opposing faction to galavant through the town.

Originally posted by Scorn_Arkane

No group rewards, and raids are 24 man, eh?

Lets break this down, as when I first read that, this is what I thought. Upon rereading it though, I discovered that it was not at all what was said in regard to group rewards.

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The group-based lack of rewards is only referring to RVR scenarios (otherwise known as battlegrounds in Warcraft)., not to group based dungeon diving or other scenarios not directly related to RvR. You do however get renown points upon completion of the scenario.

Originally posted by evilastro

Originally posted by eric_w66

Paying to play Quake w/Swords & Spells just doesn't sound like a winning combo to me.

Did they patch in PvE at the end? Just grinding the PvP missions in beta was so boring it made me think it was 1995 with the silly run-over-the-powerups gameplay.

Its free to play after the initial game purchase. The game was never going to be PvE, if thats what you want then you should move on. I find it a fun diversion from EQ2 (the best PvE MMO out there right now) to get my PvP fix.

I do agree, however, that if you are looking for PvE with a PvP game, then you are probably in the wrong place!