It's actually nicely evened out. Let's say we use a nice round number like; 1000 players

I=296

D=300

T=318

Undecided=86

As far as how the age/maturity/experience group fit's in these numbers will truly determine who will reign supreme. 

I hope its about this at launch.

I've played a few pvp'ish mmo's. My favorite was Vanguard, FFA server. I was really never good at pvp. But it was so much freakin fun. Depend on the guilds and what kind of pvp "ethics" your guild had you just kinda stuck with it. If you were in a guild that ganked  people and I just happen to pass through a city while you were crafting....POW! I hope you lost some rare mats. But for the most part it was a community with it's own set of social rules. 

For TSW, I'm seeing a great deal of parallelism with AO. I just hope these warzones have quests to where everyone has to pass through or accomplish a task in.

I thought it was a good read.

Don't forget, AO is still alive and kicking. So they must have done something right.

Originally posted by Aguitha

Funcom should stop recycling mobs model from their old games.  These mobs on the screenshots are the same exact model to those from Shadowlands.  I dunno be a little more creative maybe......

 

LOL, I noticed the same thing. BUT, I actually like it! I thought that it was maybe to save time for development, who knows. I'll take it a step further, the classless model kinda reminds me of an....Agent in AO. You could be come any class anytime...a weaker one but a useful one.  This whole game reminds me of AO. Hmmm..I can't wait for the engine update. I think I'll be playing both AO&TSW.

I remember hearing about drops that will benifit certain focused rolls, i.e Tank specs. If a drop doesn't work with a build you are focusing on......SELL IT and make some cash.

I like the idea of having focused rolls. I plan on being a great healer. So anything that will up my advantage of healing, I'll take it. I understand that this game will offer limitless directions, but I'm still old school. I just want to heal.

Sorry to hear you had a bad experience Mr Sneakyman. I actually ran AO using Cedega for a years.

My Pic http://cdn.cedega.com/gamesdb/screenshots/images/1066.jpg I took this a long time ago. It worked great!

Most games/publishers don't have a "call-in" customer service. Just an email or an in-game que for help. A lot of my issues were found on troubleshoot on the forums. Most of the times it's the players that help eachother out by posting common problems on forums and sharing solutions.

I'm looking forward to The Secret World, will it be perfect? Bug free, lag free, system incompatabilities? I'm sure they will have some issues, but the game concept alone has me sold to take a risk, yes a risk with Funcom. Good luck on you gaming ventures.

--Highttower 

Yeah, Happy 10th B-Day AO. This was my first MMORPG. Very complicated game even for todays standards. I'm just waiting for the graphics update. I use to co-lead a clan called "Double Helix". back in the day. Great times!

I wish I could be there for the Party. I hear Funcom knows how to throw an awesome RL party. Grats Funcom on keeping such a classic game in service!

One thing that is/was popular in Anarchy Online was the social expression to dress, look the way you want to look. The choice of all the clothes! The social events & parties run by the people/gamers are/were always epic!

I'm hoping that TSW and the players embrace this same tradition.

Great interview! 

Originally posted by jpnole

Originally posted by TSWBETAROGS

After TSW is lanched they will have 3 AAA MMORPG running on same gameengine (after AO get its engine uppdate).

What if they offered all three games at 15dollars a month. You would get all the main MMORPG types. AO(Sci-Fi), AoC(Fantesy) and TSW(RL). A few months after TSW Lanch there will be less pressure on servers and this kind of offer could be attractive for alot of players. You can checkout all the games, and when there is new uppdates in one game, there will be more comming to one of the other games before you run out of quests/tasks. Guilds could forme in all games.  Sorry for any type errors ;)

First off, you should not have "RL" as your descriptor of TSW. It will be anything but real life. AO is far too old to appeal to the sci fi player base even with a graphics update. AoC has a special place in my heart but is still paying for it's bad launch. Overall I see nothing for Funcom to gain by doing something like this. If they are lucky, TSW will be a hit and completely consume their previous failures.

In regards to AO, it will be more than just a graphics update. It's a total intergration of the same engine used for AoC with some artwork enhancments as well. In addition, there will be the long awaited, dev intended, balance completion of all the classes. If they were to bundle all three Funcom games with a reasonable monthly flat rate, I'd sub.  

 I was excited when I read the topic. I slowly scrolled down from number 5 to number 1. I honestly thought AO was going to take number 1. AO was my first mmorpg. I've played several mmo's after...including EVE. AO hands down needed to be listed. One post mentioned something about a freakin spreadsheet to choose which implants to use and what to stack what in order to get the stats you want. That was kinda how you had to plan the progression. Several programs were written by fans to help out with this. That game had so much. I'd drop all my games in a heart beat if they came out with an AO'2 or something. 

Disappointed in the round-up. AO for number 1, the steepest learning curve. EVE a real close second.

It has been awhile since some news. Thanks for posting.

For the life of me I can't remember where I read it., I recall the statement of having a  FFA server. But, this was pre-En Masse intervention.

Hey all!

On Sartok (FFA Server)

The Guild "Covenant of the Phoenix" would like to invite you to our very own community sponsored .....event. We are calling it the "Dawnstar Festival."

The Festival is two fold. First, to promote a community involvement on the server outside the usual level, raid, and faction grind. Secondly, to celebrate our final brick laying for our ((((((<<<LARGE GUILD HALL>>>)))))

So please come and join us! For more info click............HERE.

For several years I've been hearing the whispers of Darkfall. To my shame, I just registered today with the official forums and been reading hundreds of posts....I'M SOLD!

I am so impressed with the degrees of freedoms this game will have to offer. Graphics, shmantics. It's content that lives on through the people. Heck! one of my favorite game of all time which I still PAY for is Anarchy Online. I'm not a big FFA PVP player but this game is on the edge and I want to be part of the history that this game will make. I don't know much about the company/producers, but I am glad they stuck it our with there dreams of creating this seemless word they will be sharing with us. On that note, I am HYPED!  See you soon or my blade will!