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Originally posted by candygirl6

 

Originally posted by Ephimero

Originally posted by Zodan

If you like asian mmo's with candy graphics then Aion is for you. Then again if you like blood and not so high-fantasy setting, then AoC is for you.

There is so little information about Aion available, I cannot understand why people are jumping to greet it like it is second coming of Jesus. :D

Aion has more than 300 player-made videos out of beta footage, how the hell can you say theres so little information about aion lol. You just need to research a bit, though, since MMORPG.com won't put it in the front page for you.

Yes, there's tons of info about the game.

 

I mean this in a non-sarcastic tone, there just is.

NC soft is not really famous for groundbreaking games, most of its games (except for Tabula Rasa perhaps) feature a lot of grind. I doubt Aion will be hugely different from their previous games.

Vanguard has one of the best looking graphics out there (minus the character models). VG and Eve are the only games that I put in-game screen-shots as desktop wallpaper. However, graphics arent everything, they are just part of immersion, a smaller part for that matter. And thats where VG fails consistently.

When I burn out on modern games I like and there are no new games to replace it, I go back to old time classics like Colonization, Transport Tycoon Deluxe or UFO Enemy unknown.

Originally posted by Renoaku

- You enable Data Execution Prevention, a rigorous security measure employed by Microsoft

 

- Eve Online gets blocked by the said security measure because DEP thinks it's going to do bad things in the internets.

What, exactly, would you propose CCP does about being blocked by Microsoft's security measure? And why not turn off DEP so it doesn't block Eve?

Those where rhetorical questions, don't bother answering.

 I have tried Turning off Data Execution Prevention for ccpexefile, but it sitll does it anyways, I have also tried UAC thing, still does it, therefore its something with the file  that is causing, my guess would be because it launches from one icon, into another which loads into ccpexefile, and ect, which they could correct.

 

As for fury, I was told when I beta tested it on vista, that it was compatable with fury, and it patched ok during beta, but after that I dont know what happend...

No vista does not suck, its great, it has already prevented a few attacks alone with just dep working and functioning properly, its just game companies that make games arent doing their jobs and slacking down.

Those who say vista suck obviously have ran out and bought a cheap computer that has vista on it, and it is not custom built with vista certified hardware that explains it all..

Anything with under 4 gigs ram, and Quad core CPU, I would not recomdend vista on personally, althoguh you can run it on a dual core on a single core well, thats your choice, but people a lot complain about lag in vista, because it uses 1 gig of ram, and yeah it might lag  if you dont got enough, and stuff.

Look at all the other mmorpg's out there that have upgraded their games to work on vista, and compare eve to them, and fury untill the patcher is fixed.

Are you crazy? Do I need to throw my current hardware and buy NEW one (if it even exists since a LOT of hardware still is not supported by vista) just so that I can run an over-bloated inbred bastard Vista is? What are you, mini Bill Gates?

FYI: You dont need DEP to protect your computer. One of the reasons why people get infected by trojans is becuase they open emails with a  "IncreasePenisSizegiantSchlong" as its subject AND they are using MS (thats Microsoft) Outlook that will quietly run whatever nasty attachment is there.

Dont use Outlook, dont use Internet Explorer, dont use Windows (if you can). Use your browser to read emails (firefox2) and to browse inet, use a good firewall (Sygate, outdated yet functional) and supplement it with anti-virus program. However, all that is for nothing if you dont use your common sense and open attachments of funny emails or browse through dangerous/illegal sites.

Vista is completely pointless from the user perspective. Instead of spending all those billions on making Vista, MS should of spent it on fixing XP or if they want to save money, make it open source so that others would fix it for them.

Each individual defines content to his/hers own specification. For me, content is NOT "few but big", rather "small but many". What do I mean? EQ1 has very little content because you cant really do much there. Sure, it has a large world, but you cant do much other then fight, collect items and do a little bit of primitive crafting. There are very few quests out there in EQ1, but most of them are useless, and the ones that aren't, force you to have at least a group (usually 2-3 groups). Big world, very limited options.

IN contrast, I find Eve to have most content. It has HUGE world, bigger then EQ1. It has a lot of things to do: OK combat, awesome (and dynamic!!!) economy, private property/corporations, awesome crafting, harvesting - which may even be qualified as a content separate from manufacturing, OKeish PvP (the only reason i marked it OK and not great, is because approximately half of Eve's PvP and content is restricted to corps (extremely hard to solo since you lose everything if you get destroyed in an open PvP area)), researching, skills, items, mediocre quests (too generic and repetitive to be great in my book), politics. Compared to EQ1 (or any other current MMO), Eve has a HUGE amount of content.

The only reason Im not playing it is because I have work and real life, I play irregular days and may spend months without logging in. No corp would want a person like me, and without a good corp, you are limited to approximately half the content. If eve had single player version, id be all over it. Not worth a monthly fee with my style of play.

Originally posted by ramearess

 

Originally posted by gillvane1

Beta is to see if the features function as intended, not necessarily to see if you like them or not .

 

MMORPG Maker

Exactly what betas are for the only information the company wants is bugs/issues such as crashing, freezing or terminating. Other problems may be no exp from a action or can't talk to this storyline npc ......

 

suggestions may be welcomed but don't expect to see them in the game at release.

Originally posted by Fateus

Hello Everyone!

Yet another looknig for a new MMORPG thread.

Im wondering which main stream mmorpg has a different game model that doesn't rigidly require a tank and healer. For example not World of Warcraft.

A better example would be COH.  I loved City of heroes. Even though it had clear cut tank and healer classes, none are required for most mission to succeed or any of the major big instances. Any combination of classes works very well. If you have no tank, its made up with having a debuffing or buffing class, or extra DPS or extra healing. 

Im having a hard time thinkign of any other game like that besides older ones such as Ultima or non traditional non fantasy games such as EVE. Is EQ2 or Vanguard any diffrent?

Thanks

 

This is hard...Prety much all MMOs will require some sort of healer on high end level raiding. Even Eve. GW is a bit more flexible (you can pick your skills for your monk so you become less of a healer, but still a healer), but, from my experience, pretty much every single MMO with PvE qill require some kind of healer at high end.

After so many years they have a teaser and a screenie? WOOOT im confident that somewhere in 2050 Duke forever will be released!

Looks like L2 with a different name. or, there is only one 3d graphics artist for the whole of Asia. While I love some of the wallpaper art (have it on desktop), I dont have any high hopes for this game. Eastern games tend to be heavy on the grind side and I doubt this game will break the mold.

Originally posted by Bane82

OK, I know this is stupid, and it might even be out of date. But I just found out today and I couldn't help but laugh.

I was reading a thread earlier about dumb e-mail scams and I started looking on Youtube for that commercial where a bald guy tries to pull off the nigerian e-mail scam in person to a woman in a bus (it was pretty funny) then I saw on the related topics that there were some videos on scamming and hacking WoW accounts.

Well the curiosity got the best of me and I saw these videos. At first I thought it was real and I was about to report it to Blizzard (I hadn't finished watching the whole video at the time). But then I watched it again and I ended up laughing when I saw that the e-mail that the scammer was asking you to send your account information. (it was usually something like BlizzardRetrieval@HOTMAIL.com)

/sarcasm
I didn't know that Blizzard used hotmail, yahoo or gmail accounts to retrieve sensitive information lol!
/sarcasm off

But you know what was even sadder than these idiots trying to scam you out of your account information? the fact that there were idiots who fell for it. Some of the comments saying the scame worked were obviously fake (friends, double accounts etc.) but some of them seemed genuine because they said "I've been waiting for X amount of days, when will I get my free account?" or (and this one made me laugh) "I haven't gotten it yet, man blizzard e-mail is so slow"

None of these so called "hacks" work and there are videos on youtube proving it. Oh sure, they work for the guy posting the video, but that's just because he scammed YOU out of YOUR account information.

Funny thign to note, when people asked the person who posted the youtube video if the scam would work on a trial account, they always said no... wouldn't that be a very clear sign that it was a scam? oh well, as a famous american entrepeneur said "There's one born every minute"

HEH, im sure "BlizzardRetrieval@HOTMAIL.com" will get spammed by retrieval requests now.

Originally posted by forest-nl

First of all nobody have any saying in what brain he wants when you are born you have to do with it untill you die so when your not so smart its NOT YOUR FOLD you think your so superior to others hey.

Well get this the way you talk about this or reply say more about you guys, in a way your the stupid ones:P

Instead of helping that kind peeps with your socalled supperior intellect only thing you can come up with is calling them retards or dumbs or laugh becouse there not so smart your pathetic try not to make offspring world would be going down the drain:P

There are plenty of guys on net who try scam peeps they should be called retards not the ones who are not smart enough or just cant resist to take offers they cant refuse.

While there is some logic to you post, some people are just so dumb, you wish there was a force sterilization law to stop them from spreading the stupid gene on earth. I work as a CSR, and I deal with stupid people everyday. Sometimes it gets so depressing that I lose hope for the humankind altogether. I mean, why would any1 pour hot oil into floppy drive A to get the floppy disk out??? Explain that?

Originally posted by Netzoko

This has been bugging the crap out of me. This is the only video game genre where companies are starting to get off on thinking they can charge a monthly fee for a game in beta still. It makes me absolutely sick.

They know damn well it isn't near a finished product, yet they say to themselves, "Hey, we might as well get paid 15 a month while we make the game, eh?" Under no circumstance should a company think they can sell a half-assed product and get paid while they fix it. To be honest, monthly fees are a rip-off anyway. Multiplayer games like GW, Diablo 2, and tons of FPS games profit who provide dedicated servers for FREE. Yet, games like Tabula Rasa charge an initial fee, plus a monthly fee for a game that should still be in alpha? Its an utter insult to all gamers that some people actually pay for this garbage. At least garbage is what it says it is. Half the features on the boxes of MMOs arn't even in the game when you get home and start playing, they add them months later, maybe never. False advertising anyone? Oh, well as long as they add "Game Experience May Change During Online Play" they can do whatever they bloody want (different rant, maybe later =/).

I'm using TR as my example because it demonstrates this well. The graphics and UI could have well been pulled off in 2003, and the end-game content is, well, non-existent completely, plus the current game has the depth of a spoon. All things are relative, so let's look at other games. It takes just as long and just as much effort to create an MMO as it does to make an in-depth FPS like, say, BioShock, or even a giant RPG like Oblivion or Mass Effect.  A game like that is developed thoroughly until it is almost totally perfect. In this case, 60 bucks seems fair. Yet, a game with equally as much development effort/money, and 1/10th the quality thinks they can charge 15 a month when they game isn't even close to finished. It's unacceptable. I hate to say it, but WoW is an example of a great MMO. Want to know why? Well, they released a finished friggin game. I know that should be a given, but  in this abomination of a genre, it really is not always expected. WoW released a finished game, and added on to it continuously for a long time simply on monthly fees. The amount of added content was beautiful. Even though they did add a dreaded expansion, they waited a good while.
 

Then, on TOP of that, they add some minor addtions and charge $50 and call it a bloody expansion pack. (Cough, EQ2). So, we pay an intitial fee for the development, 15 a month for new additions, then, wait, what? 50 more a year for some new quests and zones? I'm not sure what's more pathetic; people who actually pay for this monkey business, or the game companies who act like its okay to conduct business in this manor.

MMO's have gone down the john, and my rant is over. I, and others, are refusing to pay money for incomplete products.

Fear stupidity of the people.

Originally posted by Taera

I have noticed this as well, and I don't think it's just games.  The internet in general (and emails and text messages, anything you write with a keyboard really) has a lot of shortcuts.  As much as it sometimes gets on my nerves, though, I have to wonder: is it really a horrible thing?  It's really hard to say - I think languages evolve naturally to be easier to master and more efficient; the whole idea of language is communication, and if "u" is easier than "you" well...why not?

In contrast, take <insert righteous English speaking person's name here>'s English, then transport him/her to lets say 15th century England, and see for how long would that person speak before being quartered for "foul mouth witch language".

Modern English is what it is today because somone, sometime ago, thought: "hmm, saying 'you'  is a tad shorter then saying 'thou' ".

Prepare for the inevitable, people. Soon we shall be speaking Binary. 0101110210110101