Originally posted by Psychow

Originally posted by OgreRaper

Originally posted by Praetalus

Originally posted by Mischiff

If Blizzard hosted Vanilla WoW servers, how many of you would play on them ?

I miss the old game.  Maybe Vanilla WoW with flying mounts ..  that would be sweet ...  

anyways .. i just think the old game was the best game .. and I'd probably play if they had 

a Vanilla server ......

I wouldn't. I really think a lot of you are looking back more foundly then you should... I'm not down for getting groups together for 45 mins, running all the way there and having some bastard drop out.. or drop out while in a dungeon and ruin the whole deal lol. 

 

I'll take that any day, instead of being able to insta dungeon through the LFD with random people who never talk to each other. Plus running to the dungeons meant a lot of world PvP happened around instances. I cannot say how long I would play on an official Vanilla server. But I would definitely resub on day 1 for such a server. MoP, however, I have ZERO interest in resubbing for.

 

You do realize that you can still create your own groups and run dungeons and chit chat with your party just like in the old days right? Nothing is stopping you. You can even use the LFD tool while in your pre-made group to receive the VP/gold rewards.

 

Not eveyone is a socal butterfly like yourself and have a bunch of friends playing WoW. For them, the LFD tool is the only way they can enjoy doing dungeons because EVERYONE is a stranger to them. Why would you want to take that away from them?

 

 

A friend and I leveled in the original wow through dungeons only and got pick up members along the way. We did no quest and had a blast. You are exagerating on how hard it was to find groups, we leveled really fast without dungeon finder.

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Originally posted by Whitebeards
Indie game just get by  and this one will also just get by or shut down like other sandboxes. Time will tell.

Minecraft just gets by ... I guess.

To the original poster:

I may take your post serious when you stop trying to form arguments with "herp/derp", "EPIC Fail", and "Terribad".

Originally posted by Ozivois
They need to slow down level progression - that will add more time to subs.  Lower experience gain to a minimum so that players have to spend inordinate amounts of time in every area of the world. Offer raids for every ten levels. Limit daily experience gain.  Make it so that rare level 20 armor is worth looking for because you will be able to use it for another month as you work your way to level 30...

This is the formula that made Everquest so popular. Now days, the games are too fast. The player gets the carrot too fast and then is bored.

Great, they are making all multiplayer LAN games to be played online only now and adding cheesy item shops and/or subs. Gamers need to stop falling for this garbage.

Games like Diablo 3 and sounds like this one too use to be buy the multiplayer game and you also can play online for free. I doubt this will be a persistant world to this game.

Best game of the year. This is what games are about not digital item sales .... This game is pure fun and fun was the goal. I hope everyone gives it a chance and makes the 20 dollar purchase. Much cheaper than Diablo 3 which is inferior to Torchlight 2.

Torchlight 2 gives you freedom to play the game you bought however you like to! I would never pay for Diablo 3 and be unable to play offline and also get a cash grab item shop for real life money thrown in my face. YUCK! Buy this game you won't regret it and you will be support game developers who make games to be fun, not solely for money grabs.

10+

1. Original WoW

2. Burning Crusade

rest are poop (I quit when the money grab started with digital items being sold)

World of Warcraft Mists of Pandaria .. here we go again with the stolen features from other games. The never ending copycat of other games features and smashing them into another bothers me. This comes in part from MMOs never ending development. It also comes from fear that if X game doesn't have the same features as Y game, then they will lose subs.

I can play numerous single player games that feel unique and fun in their own right. Did they borrow features from other games when being developed, sure. Though since they do not have an unending development cycle, I can play Zelda 3 link to the past today and it is still the great game it was when I played it before. You do not get this option with MMOs. They evolve for better or worse into something they were not. World of Warcraft, Everquest, etc are not the original games that made them the hits they were.

They are now different games riding on the success of their previous designs. It is sad they are gone forever. You can still play this new game I guess with the same name as previous. Just my thoughts.

Originally posted by fivoroth

Offline solo is beyond retarded. Why anyone would want to play offline where none of your progress/items matters is beyond me.... The major thing which will break or make this game for me is whether they system is similar to Bnet. If it is open Bnet style/Lan game modes, I am going to play through it once and stop. There will be just too much cheating. People who hate on Bnet are not real ARPG fans and should go play singleplayer games imo.

Also from what I have heard Runic Games are releasing TL2 to raise enough funds for their MMO which makes me wonder if this game will receive a lot of new expansions/content. This is where Diablo 3 will shine imo.

You can keep Diablo 3. I am not paying for a single player game with multiplay option and not really own the game. 60 dollars for the privliledge to access their servers? No thanks.

It's going F2P because it is too crappy of a game to make money. F2P allows you to have less people playing but with a greater income due to the fact F2P play isn't free at all. The people that do play and buy digital garbage spend much more than the average sub per month.

Face the facts. They are making games too linear, too easy, to instanced, and too solo without hardly any need to play with others now days. You mind as well labeled this garbage of a game, a single player game with a multiplayer component. No one wants to pay monthly for that. Maybe F2P will keep this garbage can rolling just like the other MMOs that use this scam of a model to keep their garbage rolling (looking at you SOE and Turbine).

Originally posted by bookworm438

Originally posted by Sebber

 Diablo 3 wasn't a failure by any means. Don't think your represent "the players." It has two more expansions in the works.

The game launched with minium content, no PvP, major server issues and a P2W AH. how was that not a failure?

Can you please tell me what a failure is then?

 

Technically, a failure is a game that fails to make money or sell. Diablo 3 sold over 7 mil copies at release. I consider that far from failure.

Yes it's a shame people will pay for garbage because of the Blizzard name. People are sheep.

When I read about this game all I can think is why are we now having to play all of our single player with multiplayer option games online now? Correct me if I am wrong but I do not see this game having MMO depth. Are there any raids? Can you complete all content by yourself? Is the world persistant?

The way it works is, you can have a smaller paying player base with a lot of free players. The smaller base they are relying on are the obsessive type that get addicted to the game to the point they are willing to pay more per month than they would have for a sub based.

Works well, a lot of people have addiction problems.