All Posts by altairzq

What on earth are you talking about.

Only?

Well if they can keep 500.000 players it will be a success. That will bring more theme parks to the market. Guess we can say good bye to any possibility that big companies will attempt to create something remotely sandbox or ressembling a living world.

Originally posted by noblot

I have played healing classes in MMO for about five year now; and I'm suprised that I very rarely get people complaining about not getting healed -just lucky I guess.

Somebody had a go at me for stupid play the other day, basically I ended up having a one-one with my Priest and a Chosen. It was a good fight, right until the assist train ran over me :) Now tactically, the guy was right, fall back and protect the objective - however I was having fun. One of the things I love about this game is that you can be a healing class but you have other options and thing to do.

I suspect that this game is going to liberate "career" healers from their narrow box of life bars to the greater MMO world. Expect less heals :)

Why do you say expect less heals, are you healing less? Doing more DPS and forgetting about others bars? Is a dedicated healer worth playing in WAR? I have been a healer for the last 5 years or so too, in EQ and WOW.

Runescape quests. (some years ago, don't know now)

Altairzq = altair zero quatre = altair zero four = fourth planet in Altair system where a kid sends his brother through a magic trick in Stephen King's novel The Tommyknockers.

Stephen King

Originally posted by Keeper2000

Originally posted by altairzq

Originally posted by Keeper2000

Originally posted by altairzq

Originally posted by Keeper2000

Originally posted by NoodleS117

ive been waiting for this moment for 3 years!

I have been waiting this game since 2001.  Get in line :P 

 Then you already had this moment in 2005.

I had this moment several times.

This moment seems much more real than the others for several reasons but, as I said before in other threads, I am giving Aventurine the benefit of the doubt until the end of the year.  If they cant even start a beta by then, then I will stop following the game.

 

Sorry I meant Noodle, was lazy to look for his message alone. It woud be interesting to know those reasons though.

Well, Tasos and Co. only openly promised one date before this time... I think it was in 2003 (I am sure is in the Theo's post).  All the others were missinformation, hints or just... how to say if in english?  Missleading?  Not fully openly promises?  This time they promised 2008 several times.  There is not discussion here if it's the community that "missunderstood".  They were clear when they said they will release the game in 2008.

They had been saying the game is featured complete since last year.  They spoke about having professional testing the game.

As time pass, they didn't announce any delay... as a fact the few info says almost "all is going good".  We know they have a distributor (for EU, at least) and they announce they made an agreement with a datacenter provider.  Beta registration was open.

All the info... all the announcements... are on the line of "all is going good'.  These are all the reasons why I think this time the promise seem more real.

So, now, with less than 3 months for this release... they have no went back... I think they passed the point of no return.  If they fail to deliver, the last few credibility they have for me will die.

If they now come and say something like "Houston, we have a problem", that will destroy his credibility for me because if all is going well and if 2008 is the date and there is only the last Q... well, you cant suddenly have a problem... unless we taking about a natural disaster or something.

So for me this time feels much more real than the others and is like Aventurine is in a position where they deliver or they lose the last credibility.  Of course, this is for me... my opinions.  Others will think this is even more real or this is just the same lies as in the past... each person will have his/her own opinion on the matter, obviously.

 

I hope you are right.  But a release in 80 days seems to be too much. Guess a delay until Q1 2009 is expected for many people, a poll I created here showed that too. And it will give time for WOWers to get bored ot Lich King and maybe want to try something different (I include myself here, I know I will want to at least try the expansion for a while).

Originally posted by Shadowoak

Originally posted by altairzq

And just think of the fanataics they will pick up to beta test their game. They will find everything "awsome". It will be fun to see what comes out of that

 

On the other hand, you yourself would be objective, right?

No.

Originally posted by Keeper2000

Originally posted by altairzq

Originally posted by Keeper2000

Originally posted by NoodleS117

ive been waiting for this moment for 3 years!

I have been waiting this game since 2001.  Get in line :P 

 Then you already had this moment in 2005.

I had this moment several times.

This moment seems much more real than the others for several reasons but, as I said before in other threads, I am giving Aventurine the benefit of the doubt until the end of the year.  If they cant even start a beta by then, then I will stop following the game.

 

Sorry I meant Noodle, was lazy to look for his message alone. It woud be interesting to know those reasons though.

Originally posted by KHAAAN!

I must agree that the game lacks in one big and important thing: It doesn't make you care. You dont care about your people, your faction or the world. It feels like a competitive sports game. You fight out fair matches (even in open RvR it is mostly fair fights). And this is where I disagree with the OP. Warhammer is actually really good in this sportgame like pvp. The pvp requires skill, but not only individual skill but skill as a group.

In this matter it works perfectly and thus its a direct challenger to Guild Wars, which is great in this field too.

What Warhammer, just like Guildwars is not, is an MMORPG. The World is bland, difficult to connect to or to like or dislike. The Mobs are dumb grindmobs that dont make you use different skills to kill them. The bossmobs are every single one just Tank & Spank. The quests are ... boring like hell.

So I see Warhammer as a competitive Match game. You hop in and try to win the match (scenario or RvR Objective). But you don't really develop a character but rather more a sportsplayer.

It is Battlefield the MMO

This is exactly my feeling about WAR.

Originally posted by Souvec

Originally posted by altairzq

Well, he lied to thousands of people. That should be reason enough.

 

Ummm... what did they lie to us about?  If anything they have been as upfront and honest about everything I have seen and heard.

God, no.

He promised WAR would release when it was great, and it obviously it is not a great game, and he knew it, he lied to all of you. Not to talk about the mess he made when announcing the cuts in content, which I won't go into because I forgot the details, but he contradicted himself in a couple of times and in others what he said was so confusing it could be understood both ways. DO NOT trust this guy.

Ask him why he wasn't tanking your mobs then.

I won't be disappointed I expect another WOW wanabe.

Truth is, WOW is an amazing game. I'm still playing it, not much but I really enjoy doing an instance now and then, healing with my priest in a good group. And questing with my brother.

Originally posted by Xenduli

Merry Christmas random people!

LOL that was the best one.

If God is almighty, can he create something so heavy he can't lift?

lol The Bait and the AHHHHH are fun

Well, classic EQ was nothing like WOW. It wasn't even near to what EQ is now.

About Blizzard not doing another WOW, I don't know what is your reasoning, but If I was Blizzard I'd create WOW2. With all the knowledge and experience I have with this historically succesful game, I would try to improve it, with a better graphics engine, and, well hopefully, adding a bit more of a challenge and logic to the game. And I would release it when WOW started showing a clear drecrease in population. Maybe 5 years from now so yes I'd be working on it already.

Originally posted by Vyeth

People will always call for heads and blood.. Even when there is really nothing wrong, we make things wrong just to watch someone hang... Majority of people have minor gripes about this game that can be fixed easily.. But of course, some people have to demand the guys job for a few population issues that will be addressed when people actually start paying to play (which hasn't happened yet for most) which will weed out the people who do not wish to continue playing..

Its okay to dislike a game but why want to destroy a company or demand a guys job because YOU don't like the game?

Well, he lied to thousands of people. That should be reason enough.

And about population issues, WAR will lose about 30% according to a poll here. Yes there are many trolls that probably voted cancel, but also a bigger concentration of fans of the game than the average player I guess, so it kind of compensates, it will be around that figure maybe. That's fewer people around, unless they merge servers of course.

You are right, it PWNS, this is precisely the problem.