I will restrain myself and not comment on your usage of the word 'failure'. But! I'll happily answer your question as to why CoX did/has done so well and CO, maybe, not so much(maybe).

CoX was the first comic/super hero MMO to market and it was a niche that enough people desperately wanted filled that they would've accepted virtually anything thrown their way. As such, CoX was successful in spite of Jack Emmert/Cryptic, not because of them. Evidence can be seen in the increase in both the size of CoX's playerbase and their general happiness with the game since it was turned over to NCSoft(pvpers don't count).

I think you're being far too negative. I started two-boxing over a week ago and have already 'soloed' the first limit break quest(I'm addicted). The hardest part was the liches, but they weren't too bad-- fortunately I chose /nin as my tank's subjob.

Now, the second(level 55) limit break quest is impossible, as you have to be near a NM when it is killed... You don't actually have to kill it though. Once it's killed, if someone else kills it, you can just click on an object and you're done. But unless you have some phobia about asking for any help what-so-ever; you can just ask some people for help. As many level 75 jobs could solo the NM to clear the way for you.

The third quest is soloable with some items and luck.

The fourth quest is easily soloable.

The fifth quest is solo only.

Whether you can play this game solo or with a multibox depends on your mindset. If you must be able to do absolutely everything while never, ever, ever asking anyone for the slightest aid, then you will hit some very big walls. If, however, you don't mind asking for the occasional hand, it becomes quite a fun challenge...

What if it is a newly created character? Could you still get it?

I just started playing last week, after having tried it when it first came out in NA(Most of my complaints have been addressed, which I'm going to post about).

I've tried Phoenix, Shiva and Titan and all three had very good population. As far as S/E and the likelihood of them ever closing FFXI down... Well, they still milk FFI. Hell, they just did a reprint of the PS1 FFs(7, 8 and 9), which you can buy one their website now. I'm sure they'll be porting FFXI to the Xbox 3 and PS4 in a few years.

I have an E8400 and it's well over a year old at this point... I still play everything that comes out maxed out.

CPU isn't my limiting factor, it's GPU, and I don't see that changing any time soon. Unless money is totally not an issue, take the extra money you would've put into a quad-core and put it toward a slightly better GPU.

My recommondations for someone building a computer these days are:

First and most important! 4GB, minimum. I'd skimp on GPU before memory, now that I've experienced the glory of 8GB...

Second. GPU is the main factor in performance for games, don't  be cheap with it.

Thirdly, Get at least two hard drives. One for Windows, your music, photos, porn, ect. The other for your games. Size them proportionately depending on what you have more of.

Forth Froth Fourth. Multithreading an application like a game is very difficult and time consuming to do well enough to justify being done at all. So, it seems, developers have taken the 'not bother' route. It'll take OS advances to make utilizing multiple cores in a single application, on a PC, viable. Does Windows 7 do or even begin to do this? I haven't the slightest clue. All I know about odd numbered Windows releases is that they are the ones you wanted the previous release to be. So Windows 7 is more like Vista 1.5.

In other words, number of cores are less important than speed and effciency.

Originally posted by S1GNAL

It seems like a hardware problem. Most likely your hard drive that has some bad sectors. However AoC could have messed up your computer, cos I have a friend of mine that had similar problems after launching the game. Dont listen to all the fanbois in here, just stay away from AoC and play some game that actually works like most game should do.

I had my comupter freeze while playing a Youtube clip. After restarting the BIOS complained that the CMOS failed it's checksum so it reset everything to the presets that I saved in configuration 1. After rebooting it complained that the BIOS failed it's checksum and that it would attempt to reflash itself from backup... It did this 3 times before it actually booted. Then the BIOS crashed several times while I tried to access it to see/fix what was going on.

Moral of the story? Never go to Youtube! And don't let the fanboys tell you otherwise!!!!!!11one!!1

Or... I had accidently saved a BIOS configuration in which I had doubled the memory's speed(oops)...

PS: Don't try to run 400Mhz DDR3 memory at 800Mhz.

Why does it matter? Sometimes coming the right conclusion for the wrong reason is an important distinction and matters. This is not one of those times.

I'm going to give the people who are defending tasos a little hint. Your arguments fly a huge flag which says either 'I'm in school' or 'I live in my mothers' basement'.

I love being pedantic, so I'm going to. This is why these types of games won't be made in the future. Hardcore PVPers are in the same situation republicans are in. Their base is old, shrinking and xenophobic. The majority of gamers brought up on anything post WoW don't care about 'HardCore PVP'.  And behavior like this tells the money people in a publisher/developer that the community a 'HC PVP' game would attract would be very difficult to manage. Since in an open PVP system you always need a victim and preptual losers tend to quit...

It doesn't matter what the intent is; it looks bad.

I've made some negative posts regarding darkfall. And I can tell you why, but I'd warn you that my reason is probably not most peoples' reason.

I work in PR and am a gamer. I see the gaming industry, as a whole, fail horribly at PR, brand management and customer support every day and it drives me crazy. darkfall and tasos' antics are an extreme example of how a company should not relate to its customers. And if I were teaching one of classes I took in college, I would use this* situation as a perfect example of what not to do.

Basically. It's a train wreck and I can't stop watching.

*If the class were oriented toward those entering the gaming industry, I would also point to Positrons(CoX) anti-farming announcement yesterday as an example of how to say the right thing in the very wrong way.

I can't decide which is the bigger PR blunder. tasos flaming a reviewer or Positrons statement about farming in MA in CoX. Then his silence, in the face of confusion about his statement... I'll go with Positron, since that could've been avoided. While tasos is tasos...

In before the nerdgasms(probably not, by the time I finish writing it)!

Um... I lov-- erm. I hate to point this out. But this looks horrible, from a PR perspective. It looks petty and gives potential customers a poor impression of the games player-base. It reflects very poorly on the developer(you do not, publicly, respond to reviews except to say 'we're working on it'-- even indie developers know that). And while the review is bad and contains factual errors, it is publicity. All publicity can be turned to good use... Which this isn't.

Anyway. Enough musing.

You've got to be joking! This community is the only reason I come to this site. How else am I supposed to perfect my superiority complex?

But seriously. Don't take anything you read here, or at any gaming forum seriously-- seriously.

Depends on who you ask and what your initial opinion is. It ranges from 'never having actually played it' to 'until stockholm syndrome sets in'.

I don't know why I'm asking this, since I really don't care. But I just can't resist: Why make an account here just to randomly shit on this game? It's not like it's having some major revival at the moment. It is having a 'welcome back' period, but everyone who's eleigable has already played it and knows about what you're warning of.

Personally, I want to like this game for two reasons; I like the art aesthetic and there's something about the grinding I occasionally find addictive in short bursts. But inane design and an excessively steep exp curve keep me from playing it much.

You're half right about the PVP. The PVP is actually very good, if you play it the way it is intended and it definitely wasn't intended to be a kill anyone, anywhere, anytime for any reason type game. So if that's what you're looking for, don't bother.

Anyway, I've gone on long enough about something I don't care about. :)

Because if you're stupid enough to find a way to die by playing a game you're stupid enough to find a way to die by doing any inane task. And, no. I don't buy the argument that they can't control themselves. They just convince themselves that the rules(of reality) don't apply to them.

If anything should be done; a window should pop up at 18 consecutive hours played saying 'Go to sleep you fucking idiot.' and disconnect them for at least 6 hours.

Originally posted by veritas_X

Originally posted by ianubisi

How novel...cynics on a forum.

 

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

George Bernard Shaw

 

"Those who see only failure have looked deeply within themselves."

Me

Only two things make me run screaming, with my arms flailing, from an RPG: aging and random stats. And, as a noob, upon first glance, this appears to have both?

I noticed there is an age stat for main characters and mercs. and checked the in-game help to see if it explained it. But it just confused and worried me more by bringing up the idea of retirement... The reason I hate aging in RPGs is because I hate arbitrary time limits-- but I'm rambling to ask a very simple question:

What does the age stat do or mean?

The other thing is about those potions you get that allow you to use the bonus stat points you get from leveling-- but the stat they raise is random... How arbitrary can you get?

Is there any reason not to use them? Like a reason you might want to wait?

Thanks.

You didn't say what you like in MMOs, so I'll mention what I like about WAR.

It's great/horrible for altoholics; there are 24 classes after all. And while the 12 for each side are mirrored on the other-- with a few exceptions. Their mirrors do feel different enough, to me, to justify playing both sides-- Slayer/Choppa, for example.

Kind of related to the number of classes is the character art and overall art style. I absolutely love the character art for ALL of the classes, even the greenskins and low level knights of the blazing sun(which most people hate). I also love the ability animations for most classes-- I've always been big on spell/particle effects-- and the ones in WAR are effctive and not overdone. They have also done a lot since release to fix weaknesses in the character and ability animations. But the world art is... Not quite as good, in my opinion.

The combat and character development system seems a little shallow at first-- especially in PVE, but gets a lot more varied at higher levels. The development system is a little shallow, but not much worse than WoW's since in WoW there are really only a few 'acceptable' specs. But WoW at least gives you the illusion of choice.

PVP... Normally I hate PVP, but for some reason I love it in WAR. The only reason I can think of is because it's so accessible. One thing I don't like, though, is always winning... So, depending on your taste for always winning/losing(at least at the low levels) be mindful of which server you choose.

They patch like crazy. There are large, effective(per dictionary meaning #6), patches all the time...

That's all I can think of for now.

Because, as long as you don't get caught up in it, it's very entertaining...