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Smed: Grind these useless collection rewards and be happy!

players: Yes Lord Smed! We obey.

Originally posted by adderworks

Cool... I am merely curious about the reasons.

To me, it seems that the devs can not win. People want them to be both original and clone systems from other games. *shrug*

Originally posted by adderworks

 

Originally posted by Darth_Pete

Originally posted by Ginaz

The things that drove me away from this game was the combat, lame crafting system, combat animations, lack of diversity in classes, lack of real meaningful pvp and the clunky interface.  Also, it seems like the devs have more control over how you play your character than you do.  LOTRO is a good game and I can see how people like it though.  It had a fairly smooth release and from what I've heard still runs pretty well with substantial free content updates.  Still, from my experience and from what I've heard from others its just not good enough or different enough to take me away from WoW. 

Added crafting on the list but other than that I agree 100% with what you said.

 

What are you expecting from the crafting system? Straight up question here...

Have you ever played Star Wars Galaxies? That game has the best crafting I have ever seen.

The boats/ships were in UO, but not in any of the new games.. why ??

I support this idea

Originally posted by AbIeL

Originally posted by pandakoda

There is a bear shaman class, which is a healer, and it can also turn into a bear where he deals a significant amount more damage.

like druid? :)

Check this out

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Originally posted by Ginaz

The things that drove me away from this game was the combat, lame crafting system, combat animations, lack of diversity in classes, lack of real meaningful pvp and the clunky interface.  Also, it seems like the devs have more control over how you play your character than you do.  LOTRO is a good game and I can see how people like it though.  It had a fairly smooth release and from what I've heard still runs pretty well with substantial free content updates.  Still, from my experience and from what I've heard from others its just not good enough or different enough to take me away from WoW. 

Added crafting on the list but other than that I agree 100% with what you said.

all the jumping makes it look stupid

Originally posted by Horkathane

It cant be bargained with...  It can't be found even from bargain bin anymore

It cant be reasoned with...  yes its that horrible

It doesn't feel pity, pain, remorse or fear...  correction! SOE won't feel any pity, pain, remorse or fear when they remove your class and whatever else they please

And it absolutely will not stop EVER!  yes it will go on as long as theres enough stupid people on the internet that actually pay to play this crap

Till you are one with the force!

 - Im lv 56 now, still having the most fun ever and I see more and more people join BRIA daily. Galaxies is the Matrix, no one can be told what it is, it exist's forever!

Your matrix quote doesn't make any sense but whatever floats your boat

Originally posted by SioBabble

SWG: "Apology accepted, Captain Needa"

oh yeah! Smed strikes again!

SWG belongs to the failures list (IMO)

Thats the part I hate in some RPG games, guy with a sword is more deadly than guy with a sword and shield.

Nice! Like the characters didn't already feel like whimpy little girls and here comes more nerfs

I wouldn't go as far as saying: It simply is the best Mmo ever created!

Its "ok-ish" game, but the combat system bores me to tears and crafting is nothing special. Copy paste of WoW (or whatever game had that kind of crafting first) and just crit added(shard-camping). Don't know if all the animations are fixed yet (last played 1-2 months ago and cancelled).

Nice videos!

I wonder what specs the PC have? Looked like the FPS was low, around 15-25 I bet

Originally posted by Horkathane

Originally posted by salvaje

If you mean:

Does it still have only 9 static professions,
Since when has a game had professions that could be changed into others? Get over it the Skill system was a failure and introduced the most Henious unbalanced gameplay in history...mind shot / disease FTW!!!11!1!

Jedi still available on character creation,

So? Its a class and is inline with the Star Wars 1 - 3. Stop Identifying Jedi with Luke Invincible Sywalker and Darth death choke across video screen miles away Vader please.

no meaningfully unique skill templates,

LoL, there is more to a game than crunching skill points ftw

    I think most people like to crunch skillpoints/tallents and choose style how their character fights

Benny Hill movement,  no animations, Batman particle effects,

The Engine is 2003 and as we all know by a majority of the Game community, Gameplay Trumphs Graphics...you want graphics? go play Tabula and good luck with gameplay lol!

    Old engine is no excuse for the horrible animations or lack of them. The game used to have good animations

 horrid UI,

It takes skill to use the UI and once you L2P its not an issue

pseudo FPS by default,

Again, Skill

    Skill? The game has autotargeting or has that been removed?

lag despite few players due to a combat system that runs several times faster than the internet can handle,

That is not lag, thats an issue with the database thats going to be fixed in CH 8

crafted items still suck compared to looted,

Not True anymore, this was fixed by the collection system additions

etc, etc...

Ran outta propaganda eh'?

Then your answer is NO. 

Actually yes, the game is a heck of allot better and has a growing playerbase, right now galaxies just passed 100k players as of the first of the year.

It hasn't changed fundamentally from what we were forced to accept on 11/15/2005.  They've put some new coats of lipstick on it, but it's still the same pig.

Wrong Answer! In its current state the game is the best MMO out right now.

 About all that has changed is that it has even less subscribers than a year ago.

Yep, the subscription base has increased!

 

 - SWG The WOW KILLER!!!!!!!!!!

LMAO

Originally posted by malachidark

It's not dying, it's just being mutilated into commercialism. Everything is being dumbed down and made completely linear. There's more and more gamers coming to MMORPGs every day, but the majority of them are teenagers and preteens who have to have their games catered to their IQ level, which is incredibly low The Era of GOOD MMOs is dying, but the Era of Crappy and Simple MMOs is just starting.

 

Hopefully, one or some of the games in 2008 (WAR, AoC, Aion, TCoS, etc) will breathe new life into the MMORPG world, but don't count on it. If none of the games in '08 are any good, then the era of good MMOs will officially be over, and we should all just quit playing MMOs because nothing better will ever come along, only worse things will come along.

Whatever IP Bioware is making into a MMO will be level based I'm sure of it.

Originally posted by openedge1

I guess I am the hater here...

And it boiled down to the fact that Turbine took a loved license, and turned it into a boring WoW clone..

The crafting is more boring to me than WoW or EQ2

The landscapes are beautiful, but the character models are bland and tasteless to me..

The interface does not size with higher resolutions, and does not adapt well to modding (you cannot change a lot of the fonts for example...and makes my old eyes hurt with the squinting on my 24" monitor and 56" HD-ILA HDTV)

The quests are inundated with the kill 10x variety...as most MMO's are, but they prove to be more boring to me.

And overall the world felt lackluster, with NPC's spouting "Woe is me..." when you talk to them...Less than adequate animations, forced grouping to complete full questlines (I mean the end of a major story quest...for those nitpicking words) unless the quest turns grey...

But, this is all opinion, so, yes, there are those of us who hate it, and those that like it...just trial it...and make sure to play to at least level 30...as the first levels are actually not too bad...then it just turns into Lord of the Bore!

Later

Specials skills/moves/spells are also mostly weak and make combat long (+2 damage to hit and enemy will bleed for 1% health every 1 minute and target has 1000 hp. )

KotOR also has "stuck on the ground" problems even with the newest patch, not sure if those have anything to do with Xbox too. Can't remember what bugs NWN had but there was few.