Why don't people call games like Modern Warfare 3 "WoW killers" it's sold something like 7 million copies, which is better than any MMO has done in the past 6 years. Why do people hold onto this idea that eventually something will take all of WoW's players? WoW players want to play WoW, to have any chance of drawing WoW players to play a new game... it would have to just be a better version of WoW... Which is still WoW :/

In the end, who cares????

I was so hyped over swtor, i was talking all my friends into playing it, i had like 5 accounts signed up for their beta testing... and then the worst thing that could have happened, happened... i was accepted into beta. Create character (not happy about how i hate how everyone looks) ... first thing i do in the game pick up quest, kill 10 bad guys... Turned it off and never played it again.

Originally posted by grimal

What's the differences between themepark and linear?  Isn't a themepark linear by nature?

Themepark implies that you can choose which attractions to visit, and re-visit. like a Zoo.. "oooh i wanna go see the lions next and then the hippo's again". Linear to me says there is a start and a finish.

Of course by its nature, a themepark could contain several micro-linear attractions, like a rollercoaster is linear, but it is part of a themepark.

Originally posted by Carilli

Mine only listes the preorder item

Thats your game key as well, add it to your Station account and it will list DC Universe as one of your games.

Guildwars 2 will attract Guildwars 1 fans and Weeaboo's

SWTOR will attract Bioware fans and Starwars Fans (a lot larger audience), Casuals and kids ("styalized"/low requirments), BIoware, LA, and EA have a lot more marketing power.

Pretty easy to determin who will grab more players, Fansites like this just carry the vocal minorities. When EQ2 and WoW were competing, you would have thought WoW was going to die before it even released based on the negative hype from the pre-existing EQ fanbase, same situation.

DCUO is to button mashing, as SSF4 is to button mashing.

Preordered

Pre-Loaded

Client Patched

Key Registered

Just waiting to subscribe!

I know they have a server farm in Amsterdam that they use for French and German servers, but other than that as far as im aware if you want to speak English then all the servers are in the U.S. I believe Washington DC is where they have their international server farm.

But this is all based on past events from EQ2 and Vanguard, DCUO could be completely different.

You can choose which version to use.

Glad all the digital vendors are making pre-loading avalible, just a few days ago it was pretty scarey to think they were going to make everyone wait till launch day.

On a related note, I think i've still got traces of Oblivion hidding on my PC somewhere...bastard game. :/

I'm betting all they'll report is their boxes shipped, not how many are actually playing.

Yea steam pre-load is avalible right now.

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The best thing DCUO has going for it is timing, there is literally nothing new out there right now and theres a good 3-6 months before anything promising hits. Regardless of how hollow it is, im willing to pay for it to stifle my boredom.

Hard to take something from Rift when rift has nothing original.

They've already taken open world "keep" pvp from WAR/DAOC, which was all that was really worth taking and it, and like the aforementioned games, wasnt even that popular. PQ's blow and Blizz already knows its not worth mimicing.

Its too bad anyone with anything remotly interesting to say/ask has been banned from their official forums.

Wait wait wait... So Bioware is a singular autonomous sentient being that has persisted through time since 1995?

Official trailer featuring, Linkin Park: Somewhere I Belong.

nope

Originally posted by Aluvius

Originally posted by ImixZinz

 

No i haven't played Rift, but i have played WAR, probably more WAR in the first 6 months than most people have accumulated in the past 2 years. Screenshots and Video is all i need to see when comparing game mechanics, art and animations. If you cannot see the similarities or even the identicalness, well either you need your eyes checked, or perhaps take a stroll into Warhammer Onlines free trial. I'd suspect you would be captivated by the sheer amount of "Sure is same game in here."

 Good jebus.  This represents about 90% of what is posted in this forum.  Not that it will matter to you but I played WAR from beta to +6 months (and liked it).  No the graphics are not identical.  Yes some of the mechanics are very similiar except they have been vastly improved.  Unless you actually try the RIFT beta you have no idea how fun the rift/foothold invasion mechanics are in practice.  Sure they were adapted from PQ's but there's a large difference between static and dynamic especially when you throw open world pvp into the mix.

Etc, etc.

Must just be my imagination seeing NPC and PC's in Rift use the exact same animations from WAR, and how the wizardy guys have that nifty high popped collar like Brightwizards, or how objects, buildings and ground textures are identical between the 2 games...I really have to play the game to SEE this, am i right?

Seriously people, how delusioned can you be not to see how copied and pasted this game is? Theres a reason it hasnt taken them any time at all to get their game this "polished" already, thats because its already been done for them back in 2008.